I'm here for SEA supremacy. If they don't crumble under pressure, both x10 and secret have an equal chance of winning their matches.

No. PaperRex is actually the best team by far in terms of raw aim.

It was most probably because FNS used an exploit (KJ molly inside that box on site A). They had to reset the round because of that most probably.

Then they will hire both teams for testing bugs and both will take the biggest W with constant prize pool.

The audacity! You lost against a team that WAS punished for the same exploit. VK played well in ascend and they have shown what they are capable of. It was unfortunate that the team didn't knew that camera is an exploit. Just accept the fact and stop being salty! Please!

Exactly.

Sadly they had to FF the map and they excepted it, unlike VK. The players and coach didn't even except the fault that they didn't read the RULE BOOK and then kept asking for support setting brazillian fanbase on fire on twitter and twitch.

Two direct slots. 1 team came from regional LCQ. I honestly feel Chile needs atleast 2 slots at LCQ. Brazil has 4 seats out of 8 in LCQ.

GGs to both teams. Really good matches. Furia played really well. I seriously think Chile is doing amazing and needs an extra spot in LTNAM LCQ.

Absolute shit show on twitter and twitch chat. All this could have been avoided with a simple DQ for VKS instead of a shitty round by round analysis for a convenient 13-9 ruling in favour of Ascend. It's amazing that none of the VKS players and coach knew about the cam bug. What's even more surprising that none of the brazillian pro players even mentioned it once that the cam was illegal and two teams who used it before had to FF the maps in order to calm down the brazillian fans on social media. I mean dude, it's just a game in it's 1st year of existence. Not all the nationalism has to be poured into a game which is just celebrating it's 1st anniversary as an eSports game. Also the victim card played by brazil is too much. The same happened when fallen accused leaf of cheating or when hiko played csgo under liquid. Fans being irrational is still understandable, but even brazillian content creators/influencers and team owners? I used to love brazil as a region and was upset when they underperformed in masters. My opinion is not the same anymore, and I actually don't like them now.

They have better infrastructure than BR and SEA. The limitation lies with the competition within. Even when they have the resources, they are one of the smallest regions to play the game with smallest player base. Japan is a really small country ( population wise ) to be a region, just like South Korea. Apart from that, they really don't play fps games in general.

Exactly. Brazil used the cam exploit. Match should have been FF.

Basically vk won the decider map breeze but used a glitched cypher cam in 6 rounds during defense(they only won 3 out of those 6 rounds). Ultimately riot gave ascend the win with a ruling that they deserve 6 rounds because of the glitch and 1 round for economic impact those 6 rounds would have caused. After the Brazilian region just out-cried their support against the ruling, they agreed for a re-match but with a 7-0 round advantage to ascend. They(VK) played really well and ultimately lost only 10-12 despite the 0-7 disadvantage.

The brazillian logic behind the 1st ruling(handing 7 rounds) was that the referee should have stopped the match in between and/or other teams(dapr from SEN) have used the same cam(which is false, with no evidence) and /or the glitch is not listed to be banned. Unfortunately the whole region is wrong since the ruling said that you can't put a cypher cam at places where it can't be seen and destroyed but shows you the enemy position, which the glitched cam shows. Also there have been two instances previously ( with vodafone giants and x10) using the same cam and teams using it had to forfeit the map later.

TLDR; riot should have just ff the map and gave the victory to ascend instead of changing the ruling two times. They didn't need to give round by round analysis in the 1st ruling. Also they didn't need to bend the rules to give a different ruling 2nd time and replay the match with ascend having an advantage. It should be similar to previous rulings for same incidents instead of it being changed for just this tournament.

I don't know why so much discussion. Riot should have just made them ff the map. All they needed was to not give a round by round based reason and that shit economy reason for declaring VS winner. Vodafone Giants used the SAME camera and they had to ff the map, that was in VCT qualifier too Proof. Even x10 used the same cam and had to ff here. What makes them (riot) look stupid is different ruling for the exact same bug and and then considering a change in ruling after community pressure from one region. Also, how stupid does a player have to be to use a glitch for which there have been repercussions. At least one member or coach should have know about it.
That's not to say match referee isn't at fault. Riot knew and could have stopped the team as well. Both team and riot is at fault equally.

Yeah, already 2 teams had to ff their map wins ( x10 and vodafone giants) because of the SAME cam. Why do you have to go to history? Check the news here. How did teams not know this? At least coaches should know this.

The bigger question is why didn't coach stopped him from using that cam? Coach should be well versed with the rules. He should have known, specially when 2 teams have been penalized for the SAME cam. Weird part is they gave the reason per rounds instead of just ff the map like previous occurrences. And yes, that cam is glitched since you can't see or shoot the cam from a-main and the cam can see the players. don't be irrational. Truth is that specific glitch cam had been penalized. I can understand that furia ruling was unfair(they made them replay a round), but at this point, riot should have just made them ff the map straight up just like previous rulings.

Deathmaker went to his hometown to meet his family during festive season(november). The team has not had any breaks and they are due for it. They will take a break after this season.

Not rossi's mistake by far. Their B site hold was horrendous. I don't remember they successfully held B while on defense. It was incredible that they won the 2nd pistol and even the bonus round, but 5-7 half on bind isn't good enough.

It's not about loser mentality. Both teams are good enough (hence in the tournament) but the server is an issue. Prx has a clear ping advantage on Singapore as well as hongkong servers unlike damwon. Add to that two of the players of prx are mechanically gifted and literal gods in the server. Only thing going for ge is that prx isn't playing their original lineup due to national service call for one of the members. The way GE played today, I myself was impressed and it was different than GE we are used to seeing in India. Of course kappa needs to step up in terms of kills. He is not a good anchor (I feel).

Even if GE plays it's heart out, they will most probably lose. They are not going to Singapore and pings from India to other servers except Singapore are terrible, and they most probably are not going to pick Singapore server for this match.

HK is an option only if GE goes to Singapore. We usually get 40-80 ping depending on region in India, and 80 ping is almost 1 second delay . I recently played in Japan server from india and I was getting 140ms ping and literally like 2 seconds of delay. Since GE isn't going to Singapore, even the team isn't sure which server will be picked.

Certainly a tier 2 team. I just expect a 1 map upset. DILF was just plain bad and could be described as team of radiants and content creators. One of their player was live too. The comms and coordination diff was huge that match.

You never know with these players. They are not just twitch streamers. Their comms were on point. Should be a good match. I expect a 1 map upset.

Well, this didn't age well.

Thanks V1 for ruining my pickems T_T https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ff8ea29c

With 3 slots for NA in next masters, I guess they can make it next time.

I think they peaked against V1. They have still secured 3rd position for their region, which is excellent. Japan and Korea was non-existent in FPS space and the first LAN event they show up in, ends up earning them a 3rd rank and a better result than Japan, SEA and LATAM/Brazil, even when last two regions have been there in CSGO for a long time. I don't think they have a chance against any of the teams they play up against, either Liquid or Fanatic.