It's bothers me because DRX could be actually good if they had a star firepower ability on the main entry role. The reason why he even can keep up is because the setups of DRX are allowing him to get a lot of those kills. If he can't get his shit together then DRX will never win a international event.

He had an off day in every match they lost in internationals struggling to get over 150 ACS in those matches. He is playing super important roles and he got owned everytime it came down to the important matches.

Accept the truth dude, since you can't argue with actual arguments.

Happens when the region is a one team region since it's very conception. DRX will probably get to playoffs and will get owned there when Rb is bottom fragging again.

Hahaha Rb was bottom fragging in Iceland for the most of the event. The problem with him is that he can't hit any apw shots for life. He is one of the issues from DRX since Champions, there is a reason why they are trying to make him play less Jett.

I swear it feels like nobody saw any JP matches when they did the predictions they just look at the results and say: "haha Zeta fell off cause they lost OMEGALUL".
The region literally improved so much that NTH just beat Zeta because they played insanely well, almost nobody is for some reason considering this??? It just so unreasonable for me.

No, they played two days on LAN infront of a crowd of 13k people. 2 Bo3s and one Bo5

Crazy absolute crazy what Northeption did here. In a single day they managed to completely anti-strat the maps that Zeta had beaten them the day before. Not only were they the first team in JP to get a map against Zeta, they were the first in this stage to beat them.

Whoever is scouting for NTH needs a pay raise, they managed to find 5 absolute insane players that could matchup the super team from JP. Xnfri is somebody to look out for in the future same with the rest of the team.

GG, congrats to Northeption and good luck in Copenhagen!

Let's make JP proud NTH!!!

Just go all five maps for peak viewership

Yeah stop baiting dude you gain nothing from this.

Sehr schwach von dir, geh zurrück zu CS Bruder, wenn du nix aussagekräftiges beitragen kannst, dann solltest du am besten Leise sein. Du hast absolut keine Ahnung von was du redest.

I hate it when people talk shit without knowing anything, NTH is good there was always a possibility for upsets here. Zeta is not even playing bad but NTH is crazy at anti-strating the mappicks from Zeta.

Why are you talking shit when you really seem to don't have any knowledge of them?

wow Zeta lost a map already, ngl this is unexpected :o

I think this tier list will age very badly, Zeta just played Infront of a crowd with 13k people and are playing better than ever before and APAC also is a region not to be underestimated.

• PRX will cause chaos which do work against teams like Guild/FPX/2nd seed NA especially guild who have shown signs of weakness against teams like Navi and BIG where chaos just confused the heck out of them.

I disagree by a lot because the Hopium for the EMEA and NA teams is too high overall despite having the two favorites to win the event.

• FPX will play at least with one sub which will be detrimental to their performance. If they are really unlucky they will have 3 subs and then it's pretty much game over for them.

• FNC and Optic are the clear favorites with Loud also being a tough competition for them.

• DRX is never to be underestimated if they are on form they will do insane damage to any team in this tournament. Only cause of worry is their midrounding which is sometimes very lackluster considering how reliant they are on the set plays.

• The only ones I can see not performing well is KRÜ and the 2nd seed of BR (maybe also 2nd seed APAC) with them just not showcasing previously the lvl of the other regions currently have.

I have watched every region so far in this stage other than Latam.

I don't get the Zeta or #2 seed of Apac pick, it doesn't make sense especially Zeta.

#MARUWIN
I want the impossible to happen, let's make Korea look competitive Maru!!!

I hope this match will be close, both teams rather impressed me in this stage.

• Zeta are still looking good coming back from Masters 1 and now have a even bigger mappool with very cool and interestings comps. Good fundementals that always set up some insane midrounding, not to mention also the talent of the roster being absolute insane, everybody just has the potential to clutch different 1vX scenarios.

• NTH is always atonishing to look at, the org somehow manages to get insane talent on their Valo team every single time, now with Meteor, xnfri, Derialy, JoXJo and Blackwiz although some of them needs polishing, the talent of the roster is definitely visible, especially with Meteor who looks straight up like a demon in game. Good mechanical talent that uses good strats and various interesting set ups.

Zeta is definitely favoured to win this but hopefully this will be a fun match to watch

no, shouldn't be. In the last stage it was a Bo5 in grandfinals

They won that map lol, no need to make fun of it

they legit are making fun of japanese culture, that's so sad. Some of them needs to touch grass

Didn't know 2020 was a century ago

I don't think it was poison dude. lmao 😂

Very important match for Order if they are somehow able to make it close or even win against PRX then they would be very good candidates for the Masters spot.
They played well against Oasis so they might be able to take a map off PRX if they are on again.
I predict a 2-1 for PRX

gl for both teams and may the better team win.

The better Aslan wins

2-0 for BB. After watching both games from BB and SG I can say that BB have good set plays that don't rely on their players to just pop off like Sengoku do. It was really disappointing how one dimensional the strats of SG were against Fav, easy to read and not well thought out.

What a game from BB on Bind, they really pushed Zeta to their absolute limits there. Very happy for them, with a little more time they will become contenders for this region representative. I like how they try to be on meta with their comps, it really is cool. They are kinda like a mini version of FPX, not on their lvl yet but the ideas are great.

That is an interesting opinion, but he still would be better than Obnoks and probably by far, Obnoks really is doing a lot of fundamental mistakes that costs BIG a lot of rounds, the way he just decides to peek things seems weird. I personally think that Magnum could be a good fit for BIG with his expercience in Tier 1 other than that he is also is grinding a lot which could mean that he may be even improving, which I didn't see from Obnoks at all in recent times, that guy is still dry peeking a lot and his utility usage is just not good enough/ or not impressive with the agents he plays.

a super nice match overall, there were a lot of nice ideas by Rig they were just unlucky to face Zeta in the first round here, they got straight up aim diffed by Zeta's attacker rounds. Zeta still looking insane after Iceland I really am hopeful for JP after this match

it did