FakeAnanas

Go to settings and it's right below where you can choose your country flag

Thank you, geo!

can't even argue with this

unlucky

I mean let's go through all the teams that won international tournaments then.

SEN Reykjavík - Obviously TenZ was insane and had a shit ton of impact

GMB Berlin - D3ffo was pretty insane in Berlin, but nAts and Chron had a lot more impact. nAts even had a higher ACS while playing Viper and Cypher.

ACE Berlin - cNed and friends (although zeek had a pretty insane run that tournament -- notably he did play a lot of duelist as well though, both Reyna and Raze)

OPTC Reykjavík - yay was clearly their star player, and he barely played duelist. Victor was a good duelist, but he's not the type of guy you'd have in your top 5

FPX Copenhagen - mostly carried by Shao and Suygetsu. In the grand final, Zyppan was bottom fragging on Raze for two maps, they played no duelist on Icebox, and the last two maps were Zyppan on Raze and ardiis on Jett respectively, none of which had super insane impact (they both performed well though)

Loud Istanbul - While aspas is without a doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, duelist in this game, at that particular tournament, he had the lowest average rating on the team. pANcada was the tournament MVP and each player had insane impact.

FNC LOCK//IN - Derke was very good, had loads of impact. Still outperformed by Leo though

FNC Tokyo - Kind of similar to Loud at Champs, where Derke was good, but Leo, Alfa and Chron were just all better.

EG Champs - I mean the three maps they won in the GF were definitely on the back of insane duelist performances. Jawgemo went ballistic, and Demon1 had an insane Split on Jett. LF was pretty similar with the exception of Bind. The rest of the matches weren't really close and they just hard team diffed everyone else, so overall I'd say it's fair to say that great duelist performances were a big part of their actual win.

So out of the 9 teams that won tournaments, 3 (SEN at Reykjavík, ACE at Champs 21, and EG at Champs 23) were in large part due to great duelist performances, the rest had much higher impact from other parts of the team.

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No no, you don't understand. The 500 people were laid off so Riot can afford doubling Leo Faria's salary

If you have difficulties reading this I think that's on you bro

I'm babysasuke's grandma and I can confirm this

y0y

KD doesn't say everything

Brother that list didn't even mention KD

It's not just Brazilians, but the opinion that TenZ should be benched for pANcada is definitely more prevalent among Brazilian fans. Which makes sense, since Brazilians have probably watched a lot more gameplay from pANcada, watched him win champs, etc. Of course it's weird to see him on the bench for someone who arguably has been struggling a lot in recent years. When one player's famous hero moments are more prevalent in your memories than the other's, of course you're gonna think he's just better.

Brother this was posted in May. They clearly didn't mean "We will not ever change the roster again in the history of the world". This meant that they wouldn't change the roster for LCQ.

Because they tried playing with Pancada for an entire year and it didn't work

I mean CS also has less complexity in terms of theory crafting, which for a lot of pros is a bit part of their daily routine. Like Boaster works 60-80 hours a week, scrimming, vod reviewing, making lineups, etc. I have done 60 hour weeks for uni and tbh more than two weeks in a row of that workload I'd kill myself.

True, the open quals were pretty fun to watch. Akrew beating SEN was legendary.

Edit: This was not supposed to be a dig at your flair btw, the match was just wild.

2022 had two challengers (i.e. the equivalent to the ILs today) splits. Both splits had group stages with 5 matches per team, plus playoffs for the teams that qualified. Then there was LCQ, double elim, i.e. min 2 matches per team.

2024 will have two IL splits. Both splits will give each team 5 matches, plus playoffs for the teams that qualify. Then before the two splits there's kickoff, which has min 2 matches per team (actually there will be only one team that gets 2 matches, most teams will get at least 3).

I don't love the 2024 schedule, but I feel like it's extremely comparable to the 2022 schedule? At least in terms of number of games played, which seems to be most people's issue anyway. I still think they should do two full round robin splits, but it's not like this is breaking some sort of precedent.

Tenz ate my son

Thank you Bing, very cool!

Saying aspas = yay in the Lord's year of 2024 is crazy

Every pro player and coach constantly talks about how important team chemistry and vibes are, we've seen teams with great players fail because the vibes were off (e.g. literally SEN WITH PANCADA for the entirety of 2023), but all those pro players and coaches are wrong, I think we should put our faith in some guy who posts on a brain dead internet forum all day.

y0y

The agent classes just aren't really roles tbh

Why would this not be news?

we love you geospliced, dw

I feel like Demon1 seemed like the more composed and mature player compared to Something. He also made better decisions in crucial moments. But they're definitely both very high up.

I love Boaster but he's not a 10/10.

True, every time I see a BlastX Phantom on the ground in ranked I think, "damn that's the Elso Phantom"

Yeah I was just going off the top of my head, that one is iconic, idk how I forgot it

For me it's

Snowglobe wand - FNS
Prelude to Chaos Vandal - Suygetsu
Glitchpop Vandal - Derke
Prime Karambit - Less
Minima Operator, G.U.N. baton and Artisan sword (for some reason) - Shao (please, someone stop him)
Default knife - Boaster

Any other pairings that come to mind?

If you do -899,500 pages on the first day, you only need like 30,000 per day for the rest of the month, should be easy

Goaster masterclass incoming

400 words isn't all that much. Break it down into parts, make a structure. Think about what do you want to say, in what order you want say it. Make bullet points right now, ASAP.

Once you have a structure, make sure you have enough points for 400 words. 400 words, that's like 40 sentences, depending on your style of writing. Per bullet point, you can write like 3-5 sentences, depending on the point. If you have an introduction of 3 sentences and a conclusion of like 5, that's only 32 sentences left, which is like 8 bullet points.

Go try that, make 8 bullet points now, try to imagine what the essay could look like, then take a break. After the break, come back to it and just type everything out. You can do this.

How else would you seed it? Just let Rito decide based on vibes? Let the community vote?

UCL also assigns country slots based on performances from the last 5 years, even if the teams rebuild completely. I feel like while it does suck, it's the best way to do it?

bonkar

They might never have been the absolute best, completely unbeatable team at any point in time, but viewed across the whole 2021-2022 seasons, they were clearly the best team overall. They made four top3 placements, three grand finals. No other team came close to that level of consistency.

I love this response, shows that you're completely wrong

Don't forget Suygetsu

I think it makes the game much more interesting to watch. If the game is close enough to go to OT, a lot of it comes down to small details and a ton of luck anyway.

In football/soccer penalty shootouts, if it's still drawn after the first 5, they also do one shot per team until one team scores and the other doesn't. At that point it's just decided by nerves and luck anyway, so why drag it out even longer than it needs to.

Some people shared some clips as "proof" that she was cheating. All those clips were just highlights that pretty much every Radiant player hits like once a week in ranked. But those clips would have never made people think she was cheating, it was just idiots who heard something about competitive integrity, immediately assumed cheating, and then used any clip where she hit a headshot to retroactively justify that.

I don't think anyone with half a brain actually thought she cheated.

Scrim results don't mean much. Micro and macro plays that happen during scrims matter a lot to coaches and players. But we don't see those, so we as uninvolved spectators can't really draw any conclusions from scrim results.

Killjoy and Chamber are so similar in how you play them, how you take gunfights etc. Less and Alfa were both decent Chambers as well. It's crazy how much we associate Chamber and duelists just because Jett and Chamber are both good at oping.

Because some people have them in the top 3 for Americas, which is just delusional. They'll be a solid midtable team, which given the expectations by a large part of this website, would be a major flop.

Swiss with 11 teams?

Surely they don't put #10 and #11 in the same group, especially if it's the 3 team group. That would mean one of them would guarantee playoffs, which seems silly. If #1, #2, #3 headline the three groups, then #9, #10, #11 should all be in different groups. Whether the third team in group C comes from the bottom or the top half of the remaining #4-#8 I don't know, but it should be one of them.

I wouldn't say Stuttgart is dirty, it's just ugly. It's designed around cars way too much for my taste. It's definitely livable, I just think it doesn't compare well to cities like Cologne or Hamburg. The cities in close proximity aren't too bad though, I'll agree with that.

They did make the LOCK//IN semifinals BO5, so I think there's a very good chance they also make these games BO5 as well.

Yeah Düsseldorf is actually not that bad, dw. There's just this rivalry with Cologne, but very few people take it that seriously, it's mostly just banter

Depends a lot on what you like, what your hobbies are etc.

For example if you like not being miserable, don't go to Munich, people there suck (in my experience, and also the experience of all my German and Dutch friends, Munich people are on average less friendly compared to people in other big cities, of course there are friendly and rude people everywhere).

Stuttgart is the ugliest place in Germany and everyone who lives in Frankfurt is either an investment banker or a heroin addict (or both).

So among the big cities, I'd probably recommend Cologne or Hamburg. Cologne people probably have more local pride overall (as in, they all identify with their city a lot, doesn't mean they don't accept outsiders or foreigners, they tend to be very open, unless you're from D*sseldorf), and they are crazy about football and their local football club. While football is also pretty big in Hamburg, if you do like football, Cologne is probably one of the best places to be, because NRW (the state that Cologne is in) has a very high density of fairly successful football clubs. Cologne also has the Gamescom every year, idk if you're into that. I haven't been to Hamburg much at all, so I can't really say much about it tbh.

Do you speak German?