WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
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| Registered: | July 29, 2022 |
| Last post: | May 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM |
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Check attack half, he went 9 and 3 with half the ADR of the rest of his team.
Do we still go for a KAY/O comp when keiko has been frying on duelist?
i feel like when we get aim diffed for a couple rounds its hard to climb back
i want to blame trent but we have brawk on our team
yeah wtf bro you could tell by his reaction something was wrong
fsfs
i smell a good series, which sucks cause i have a little bit left of an assignment due at 11 tonight
probably... G2 are undefeated on Haven and that might be our best pick. Maybe we pick Lotus, IDK...
G2:
NRG:
G2 bans Fracture, NRG bans Pearl
G2 picks Breeze, NRG picks Haven
G2 picks Lotus, NRG picks Ascent
Split decider
imo this map pool heavily favors G2, so interesting to see what NRG cook up, I'm not very confident in this pred but we'll see.
RESULTS SO FAR
Asuna - 39%
No One - 27%
bang - 21%
coach - 5%
vora - 4%
Cryo - 3%
Timotino - 2%
i also believe that no changes are necessary
https://strawpoll.com/poy9kLJOAgJ
Interested in your guys's opinion.
4 insane maps, 1 meh map, 1 bad map, 1 untested map.
3-0 on Fracture, winning against EG, SEN, and 100T
2-0 on Haven, winning against FUR, KRU
3-1 on Lotus, winning against 100T, EG, and FUR (lost to KRU)
3-1 on Breeze, winning against 100T twice and KRU (lost to SEN)
1-2 on Pearl (lost to FUR and 100T, won against EG, but they are 7-3 on Pearl in the season)
0-2 on Split (lost to FUR and KRU)
0-0 on Ascent
The fact that teams don't exploit NRG's poor Split and untested Ascent more is kinda crazy. They've ducked ascent this entire playoffs, and when Bind (another really shitty NRG map) was in the pool in the group stage no one picked split after week 2.
This team has an extremely deep map pool and I expect them to match up well against almost every team
was not expecting NRG to pick fracture
for me he was in the 10-15 range iirc
i wonder if the backlash is going to be greater if NRG or 100T loses
on one hand 100T might fail to make an international yet again with the best possible chances, and fans may finally break
on the other hand reigning champs NRG might lose to fucking 100T
the alternative is to let split through tho
its possible we ban ascent but idk, 100T might not even pick it, breeze and fracture are both possible picks for them
eh that's true
keiko has been frying on phoenix though i wouldnt be the most surprised if Ethan went off kayo
keiko Phoenix
mada Waylay
Ethan Omen
skuba Vyse
brawk Sova
100T:
Timotino Jett
Asuna Sage
Cryo Cypher
bang Omen
vora Sova
Currently:
Tier 1: Alfajer, aspas, Chronicle (890+)
Tier 2: Boaster, f0rsaken, Leo, TenZ, Derke (750+)
Tier 3: Ethan, Meteor, nAts, something, d4v41, Jinggg, KK, yay, Sacy, t3xture (600+)
Tier 4: Demon1, brawk, kaajak, cNed (600-)
I'm fine with these tiers, personally I think Ethan should be in the 2nd tier along with nAts, but perhaps that's just bias. I also think Leo should be a tier down but I wasn't really a hardcore watcher in 2023
(edit: With more votes coming in Ethan and Demon1 can each be moved up a tier, I think that's the fairest tiering)
yeah i have brawk below all them for now
yay had a much higher peak over a similar timespan
davai was ultra consistent and has good international results without a huge dropoff in performance
jingg, f0rsaken, something all have had consistent high regional peaks and in f0rsaken's case, an MVP on top of that
texture had a similar best-player-in-the-world peak and extended that over an entire year of good performance
nats has insane longevity, consistent good performance, and also a fragging IGL on top of that
kangkang is the greatest chinese player ever, spearheading china into relevancy, and also consistently shows up at internationals
cned i think is debatable but his legacy pushes him over brawk
if brawk can keep up above average form and win another international he's firmly above some of these guys imo, but rn i just dont see it, his champs run never felt like he was the true best in the world
he has to win something else imo, the other ppl on this list all have something over him
ah, you dont think banking on Ascent as a surprise is better for 100T? Or is it just because picking ascent means the other team gets defense first?
Breeze 100T is really good at but NRG could anti them after 3 maps' worth of footage. Fracture has less but NRG has looked pretty comfortable on it too
what do you think the veto will be?
I'd been thinking about it too, I think 100T won't pick Breeze against an anti-strat-heavy team like NRG, Ascent is more probable.
<3 Hopefully we have this one in the bag
if NRG ran jett-phoenix, would mada play phoenix and keiko jett, or vice versa
lowkey I can see yall picking ascent seeing as there's nothing to anti
kaajak primary duelist
kamo Secondary Duelist/Initiator
starxo Initiator/Flex (IGL)
PROFEK Controller
westside Sentinel
Really good and balanced roster in terms of roles, i think profek has been getting underrated, and starxo is a pretty good shooter for an IGL
wow this was exactly my pred but you guys ban pearl instead of fracture.
you'd rather play pearl?
Anything to do with agents, internationals, or nationalities?
xeus: Main Duelist
Alfajer: Sentinel/Second Duelist
Lar0k: Second Inititator/Second Duelist
RieNs: Recon
Ruxic: Smokes
hella well-balanced roster. I would've liked to see woot and sopp for larok and xeus but it is what it is
i think it was him that had a 1v4 or something against KC on Bind
behind something, BcJ, and seven, although the latter two mostly played him in tier 2. so realistically, only behind something.
that makes sense, agreed with your points
Methodology: VLR all time stats, minimum 1700 rating, most rounds, excluding players never in Tier 1
Omen: MaKo (3638 rounds, 1.02 rating)
Viper: nAts (2709 rounds, 1.12 rating)
Astra: Boaster (2408 rounds, 0.91 rating)
Brimstone: valyn (1155 rounds, 1.06 rating)
Harbor: Mazino (1073 rounds, 0.97 rating)
Clove: Smoggy (242 rounds, 1.28 rating)
Miks: Flex1n (41 rounds, 0.61 rating)
Cypher: dapr (3202 rounds, 0.97 rating) (nAts is 2nd with 2480, but I did specify "never played in tier 1" so can't exclude dapr)
Killjoy: Alfajer (2497 rounds, 1.13 rating)
Chamber: yay (2209 rounds, 1.22 rating)
Vyse: d4v41 (1215 rounds, 1.04 rating)
Sage: Turko (1199 rounds, 0.98 rating)
Deadlock: Ivy (316 rounds, 1.03 rating)
Veto: UdoTan (262 rounds, 1.08 rating)
Raze: Jinggg (4750 rounds, 1.11 rating)
Jett: aspas (3787 rounds, 1.21 rating)
Yoru: Eggsterr (2257 rounds, 1.00 rating) (jawgemo has 1767 and really should be first, since Eggsterr has only played a couple games in t1 and most were in t2)
Neon: MiniBoo (1618 rounds, 1.01 rating)
Phoenix: SicK (1253 rounds, 1.13 rating)
Reyna: TenZ (796 rounds, 1.24 rating)
Waylay: HYUNMIN (629 rounds, 1.04 rating)
Iso: Meteor (364 rounds, 1.01 rating)
Sova: crashies (4969 rounds, 1.07 rating)
Skye: Ethan (2112 rounds, 0.97 rating)
Fade: eeiu (1927 rounds, 1.05 rating)
Breach: JonahP (1579 rounds, 0.95 rating)
Tejo: trent (1503 rounds, 1.14 rating)
KAY/O: Ethan (1489 rounds, 1.08 rating) (NiSMO is technically first with 2512 but he's never been in t1)
Gekko: AAAAY (751 rounds, 0.90 rating)
oh are u the guy that did the last one with me? :D
you think 100T will second-ban possibly their best map rn?
I could see NRG picking fracture honestly. Then Haven might be next best for 100T. But NRG is pretty good on Haven, that's the only reason why I had them picking it first.
You don't think NRG bans Ascent over Pearl?
yeah hopefully we can get the clean dub
one thing i saw is that Cryo is in a bad run of form, but bang is in a good one. so it comes down to which one of them regresses to the mean.
the 100T wins map 1 comfortably, gets destroyed map 2, and loses a heartbreaking close map 3 fits in perfectly with NRG's style of winning games. so wouldn't be that surprised
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