lowel sage is pretty meh rn
Turko sage is best in EU at the moment imo
the other 2 i agree

Man fPX fucked my preds so hard, :(

I would love to say that but after their match agasint SMB, i would like to not be as confident..
My perspective got a lil foggy after getting ass whooped by SMB ngl

its just fun to watch SMB in all honesty and i kinda want turkey to do well in internatinal stage :)

imma be sad if both gambit and g2 lose today and my whole pred is fked..

1. Sen
2. SMB
3. Acend
4. 100T
5. VS
6. Envy
7. Gambit
8. G2

Yeah but that is part of their game plan.
If you think that is an issue then it all leads to the coach right? Cuz the coach and igl must be coming up with a game plan and their main plan is , is to laways get wardell on the awp by round 3 and try n get a pick.

Hard to tell without actually being part of the teams and listening into their comms and shit.
However, from an outside perspective, it does seem like they have a weak IGL. I'm not aying hazed is a bad player but his IGL skills arent tier 1 level yet. They rely too much on individual brilliance imo.

cool

they don't have patiphan for berlin tho right?

It's shaky aim cuz their sens is so damn high. Thats all it is.

true,
mans gonna get 10x more accidentals so a nervous asuna is a good asuna for 100t :)

factuals

im sure the expereince factor doesn't come in nervousness. Every pro feels a lil nervous in every LAN when you get to see your opponent right accross your table. It's more like in the clutches and important round decisions where the experience to think under that pressure comes to play and i think 100T is just better than envy in those situations.
Although, if envy go in with a fearless mindset that yay and food is just gonna crazy and win them every duel, then all that experience isnt gonna do shit. SO for envy is more up in the air btu 100t, im confident they can make a top 4 finish.

Cned is better but not by a lot. Wardell is up there pretty sure.

https://www.hltv.org/events/5469/iem-cologne-2021
something like that,
groups into single elim :)

100T is probably getting a top 4 finish in Berlin imo
Envy is up in the air, they might just win the entire thing or bomb out in the 6-8th position.

I'd like a group format into a SINGLE elim bracket.

Delusional.

Im sure if its groups, then first seed NA and first seed EMEA will not play any EU or NA teams. Their groups will be filled by lower seeds of SEA, Kr, BR and LATAM

bru you just a hater if you think zombs isnt the best astra in NA..no shot vanity is better than him.
The nitro thing can be arguable but vanity? hell no

I only think it is going to be Gambit if they qualify for Berlin.
I feel like they have a good stylistic match up agasint sentinels.

your life must actually be sad

It's 2021, everything is offensive, cant even joke around anymore sadge

Navi is a new roster and they are doing well..
A change is very uncalled for

I'm sure riot has a way to deal with those stuff.
It'll probably be only 6 pcs in the room where the 6th one is for the coach and the other players will just rotate among them.
Don't think they need to clean the pcs everytime if they in the team since they all will be vaxed and pcr tested negative

They are allowed 8 players iirc
5 main roster and 3 subs

agree. Nuturn just had an off day.
If it was double elim, VS and NU would have 100% made it to berlin.

don't they have only 2 players from cis?

They probably did but i do feel like a roster change is inevitable if they don't make lcq

He definitely is
It's kinda sad how riot thinks these are the most important matches so they get their best casters for these and not the games that actually qualifies teams for berlin.
I would love sgares and ddk to cast the Envy vs sentinels game in the upper bracket that decided the berlin qualification

The problem with seeding games is that some teams just can't get into the game. They will be trying to win but they are are unable to focus on it. If they lose a round its like whatever go next type shit. - Dapr (idk exact quote but this is what he meant), he also said that sinatraa and him were unable to get into seeding games at first too but the more they played, they just got used to it.)

thats the worst comback or whatever the fk i've ever read in my entire life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0JgNnqhzI&t=24s
this the one that shaz talks about steel..so yeah, the entrie sentinels team other than sick and tenz dislike steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLgQK9Lwmc

Also Steel was trash taklkign sentinels when they beat them in first strike while knowing the situation about Shahzam and that he couldnt prac for liek 2 weeks or something and then sinatraa was lashing out at steel for saying crap.

Sinatraa and steel have beef. Both of them won't be in a team together 100%

He was average raze? Are you delusional or what..
mans had an ACS of 270+ in over 90 maps...
And the impact he would have in those games are insane

He was average raze? Are you delusional or what..
mans had an ACS of 270+ in over 90 maps...
And the impact he would have in those games are insane

Asuna is a better player mechanically than dicey.
Imo if asuna has a bit more time on jett, he's gonna be absolutely insane on that agent just like his other agents.

If Yay wasn't better than Asuna on the jett, it would've been a bigger problem. They literally bought yay from andbox becuz of his jett and op skills.
Asuna wasn't bought by 100T due to those reasons.

I think the top 4 to Berlin from EMEA is gon be
Acend
G2
SMB
Gambit

Don't quote me on this cuz idk if its even possible for all these 4 teams to qualify but yeah..these my preds c:

Im pretty sure Asuna is more of a raze player than a reyna player.
He used to literally 1 trick raze for the longest time.

Idk why they wouldn't be taking this seriously.
Bottom seed is in same bracket as one of the EU teams and Vision strkers so I'd say it matters imo...they should be looking to play agasint LATAm or SEA no?

They'd need more scenarios than just Eu winning berlin.

is FPX actually overrated? Barely anyone gives them credit anymore. Everyone calls them choker and only a frasction of people actually expected them to qualify for Berlin because they always fall under pressure during those situations.
So i'd say at the moment that FPX are rated perferctly fine.
I expect a 5-6th place by them this challengers.

SMB has really gone above my expectations. I knew turkey is making a super team but damn they actually a top contender.
I expected a 5-8th finish by them but it looks like they can def make it to Berlin.

Mans really said Steel...absolute 1Head.
Steel is undoubtedly one of the best IGLs in NA atm and recently his form has been insane. Please talk with some sense next time.
Even if they were to get another IgL to replace him, there is no one suited for 100T better than him.

Anyone know how the format for berlin is gonna look like?
And what the prize pool gonna be? I'd say around 850k, not sure.
What you guys thoughts?

Envy can definitely win agasint sentinels in the uppers but if they face in the lowers, i don't think sentinels will lose there.
Sentinels are known to take the beginning of the tournament a bit lightly but they always get their sht together as the tournament goes on, so imo if Envy vs Sentinels happens in the second round then envy does have a good chance.
I'd say its a solid 45/55 chance. 45 being envy.

I'd say crashies > levi imo rest all i agree