extremely reliable (this is the first time ive seen him)

ahhh thanks for the insight I was clueless about his CS days and only got a briefing from a friend who liked him a lot

I love the kr1stal pick up, and not lets make nats an igl take

can your opinion be wrong next year? would make me feel a lot better

I thought it was because he got banned from his friend cheating on his pc or something

is this good? not really
is this better than last year? yes
is this gonna win anything? no
is this the best they could do with the currently available talent? eh probably

is liquid gonna make a deep run?
i hope the fuck so

I wouldnt disagree that hiro is worse than nats, its just that if you have hiro you wouldnt buy nats because you already have a good enough sentinel player

huh????

eu besides turkey is kinda a dead region for new talent. I mean look at the ascension winner, filled with t1 pros who didnt make tier 1 this year. you have the occasional british or russian player talent pop up but as of right now not enough for 11 teams who wanna perform better

still won emea

you think envy vs gambit is an unfavoured match up? when one of envys favourite maps is a map that gambit has never practiced? Also steel calling was good but gambit just fumbled over for steel in icebox and couldnt mentally recover on split

S1Mon and nobody
I think keiko really has the potential to bloom
kr1stal as an igl
verno and oxy with the correct pieces

im sorry vitality HAVE WHAT????

I remember the good ol days where sentinels had 5 jett players

yeah if sayf had some crazy performances on flex, the decision might make sense but his flex is mediocre at best

just a waste for such a talent to have

his skye during 2023 was kinda crazy no? also jamppis breach isnt great, he performs well but his utility is eh.

HOWEVER dont forget about his AMAZING duelist play!!! :D

sayf just hates duelist

I originally despised liquid for getting rid of sayf but it makes sense, he wants to play every role but duelist

unless his contract expires, vo0kashu is never leaving

sayf is gonna go smokes for 3/4 of the year, realise his team is doing shit, go one duelist does a crazy emea run and then get eliminated in groups.

a title winner isnt even close to being the worst player

crazy statement since gambit massively underpreformed in that series and envy the best NA team at the time couldnt squeek one map past gambit

keloqz is a semi finalist, so he mustve been doing something right

agreed, his vibes and calls were acknowledged by his team and some the coaches even considered him the best igl as of right now. according to chichoo nobody micromanages every action his team does, and if you listen to some of his calls its incredibly detailed. One of the best igls for me without a doubt

pretty awful take

List of players to have if your team wouldnt pick up nAts:
Suygetsu
Alfa
Benjy
hiro

not counting liquid and the three non english teams, thats 4 teams who would buy nats

fpx vs th will be the real match of the year

they removed emil

real real real real real real real real real

MaKo?

I hate that they dropped stax when foxy9 was right there

EDG nobody is the prime candidate
technically nats and scream were an igl
kiNgg is what people think first when it comes to fragging igls
maKo is insane too

Amazing, I uploaded a new video, I ranked up and my holiday work is all done

well wolves technically isnt a chinese org

sen vs edg for clout derby no?, the other guys prx suggestion isnt bad either

koi vs TH for spanish
fur vs loud and mibr vs 2g for brasil
kru vs lev for latam

what happens if a p*** org ascends? does Riot allow them into tier 1?

fpx + gmb in 2022 and pretty much every russian player

mb gang, didnt know it was about franchised teams only

he was also like the second highest rated duelist in tokyo behind kk iirc

look at berlin and champs in 2021 and then look at me and tell me with a straight face that yay was average

they made a deal to sign 3 people from xset no? to ensure they can get zekken

this is a great shout, tbh most of kois roster was dissapointing

"All of old FPX/NAVI in 2024"

if we count that we can surely talk about GMB -> M3C or are the cases different here?
and idk if D3ffo counts but he wasnt doing great in tier 2 china

TL PLEEEEAAAASSEEE PICK UP KR1STAL

What do you think XLGs strongest points are that make them better than 2G and Apeks

1.) Calling it china is the issue, I said mainland china because thats what the region is currently recognised as
2.1) Much easier to drop a korean/jpn team than a chinese team right now
2.2) That is untrue, A TW player assigned to pacific, cannot play in china without being an import vice versa is true
2.3) Which TW player assigned to pacific plays in china tier 1? I genuinely dont know. also are you in support for africa in america then? also india doesnt have a full PC market either, the only real reason we have any tier 1 india players is because there are indian orgs in tier 1 and they dont even have a majority of Indian players.
3.) Changing whether they play in what region shouldnt be for ease of convience but political belief
4.) So a taiwanese player who thinks they are part of the PRC is allowed to be picked up by a taiwanese org but other PRC players are not allowed to play in that same taiwanese org?

When all the tier 1 rosters get announced I think I will make a google form for people to answer to see who people generally think are superstar players or not

may I ask why you dislike 2G

yeah this ranking seems the most consistent out of all the responses ive been getting

Defining a star player is difficult
whats the metric?

• Achievement? Pretty inaccurate overall
• Stats? Very inaccurate
• Eye test? Heavily subjective and will only have arguments the more in the middle a player is
• What about igls? are they measured differently? For example boaster and fns are known to be great igls but frag terribly. (if you say both are star players, how about the IGLS who we dont know how much they help the team? what happens?

so overall I say no to this proposal

1.) The difference in the naming policy is the political aspect, saying a taiwanese org plays in "mainland china" isnt great

2.1) I would rather put an OCE and TW roster in pacific than in china. The unique import rule is way to messy and specific of a system, you pretty much are introducing OCE and TW as a new region that just so happens to have competition against china.
2.2) OCE and TW players would now be the only areas where they are allowed to play in two different regions and not count as import
2.3) If diversity is what you call for does that mean you want an African team in china as well? In my head adding TW and OCE to china makes just as much sense as adding africa to china

3.) All those things about taiwanese orgs and playerbase take place in the pacific region. A taiwanese player register themselves as either part of pacific or china, then they can only partake in that region. So if a taiwanese player chose pacific as the region they count as, they can only play in pacific and if they go into china or any other region they would be an import player. Meaning Riot does have a separation for the ROC and the PRC

4.) Is the taiwanese org in your hypothetical allowed to pick up all taiwanese players? or only the ones who believe taiwan is its own country and pick pacific as their region. Because that would cause massive problems as well

SPG went flawless in ascension uptill the GF where they lost 2 maps. 2G and XLG lost to m80 and RA in the same tournament. Apeks also did hella choking in the EMEA GF and werent dominant in emea t2. so overall, yeah I believe SPG up there in terms of deserving