Cool take cam

dos9 is dosЯ and Я is pronounced 'ya'. I dont think he really cares too much about how people pronounce it tho

Surely you root for GX because Vitality is basically Fnatic anyway

hiro, hiro is why it's close

If he ends this series triple negative I dont even know man. How is this close

It's gonna be so funny if C9 is the only partner team in Americas to never make an international lmao. No way Furia gets there first

Weaker than expected but still gapping this performance ngl. Mibr have so much room to grow, we'll see how they look with a week of actually practicing with aspas

Yeah literally nobody in EMEA should be rivaling the top Pacific or Americas teams at masters. BBL and M8s are actually looking really good but it's not close to what we've seen from NRG, mibr, etc. Maybe after the regions play more games we'll see some weaknesses but rn the gap is crazy.

Yeah cause you're thinking over a longer time period. John has easily been a top10 americas player this kickoff

It's in the script, nothing but glue to start kickoff then run it through the lowers like last year (no chance lmao)

Still can't believe LEV picked Bind. It's literally THE 100T map, they're 8-1 in recent history.

'inside of me there is 2 wolves'

I guess most of the best cheap players are on LEV and GX which you already have 2 of so thats fair. If you swap Skuba to Senti it would give you more players to pick from for under 8 to not limit you to just the sentis.
Tex might not be a bad pick but I don't think its impossible MIBR go flawless and he doesn't get the chance to improve his 3 best games, especially if he continues his performance last year.

Actually good mix of players tbf (-nerve), I do think picking a tex or another supportive player from a top team might blow up in your face though, if MIBR go flawless you probably won't get too many points for tex. I'd prefer a fragger from the 4th-6th place teams. Good team tho

Yeah top 3 games for each player no matter the role they are in. No transfers so team of 11 no subs

It's about time they figure something out, mfs been gone 3 times lmao

Oxy and Tenz, keep the ranked stomping identity alive

Obviously would never happen in a million years but it would be so funny if they just kept the 'ranked stompers' thing going and bought out Oxy from C9 and got Tenz back now the game is less util heavy.

Yeah literally lmao. I'd say out of all the ascension teams it was literally only Nongshim who can't be catagorised as just 'the aimers'.

Going egg for Eggster, I like it

Idk about his English level but Meiy would be great for any team, he needs saving from DFM.

Yeah unless he's thinking about being better than Aspas anytime soon he's kind of cooked

In this meta I'm sure you'll see NRG trying out double duelist a good amount, especially with Keiko wanting to play duelist this season anyway. Plus Skuba (and to a lesser extent Ethan) can flex to smoke if they need a Raze masterclass

Nats, Trexx, Kamo, Shao, Ruxic would still be kinda cooking tbh

Ngl they need to be as nice to NaVi as humanly possible otherwise their season is cooked, Ruxic or joever.

1st EMEA kickoff
6th Stage 1
2nd Stage 2
Yeah might be a decent signing I guess..

you mean the make space and freeze the anchor agent so your team can flood site without insta feeding

They wouldn't beat the G2s of the world that we can agree on, but I think you're vastly overestimating the state of Americas right now. Other than the few clearly top teams it was slim pickins last year and I could see any of the bottom say 8 teams getting overwhelmed when their setups get tested, especially with all the roster moves because half of the teams are going back to square one and will be relying alot more on the individuals early in the year while they build up their team identity.
The playstyle won't be the bottleneck next year, it'll be losing the two best players (TSM is obviously gonna be more competative than a team with 2 subs).

Don't you dare

But as a genuine answer I think qRaxs goes hard

Icy

KC better not keep playing to the opponents level because this was the worst game I've ever watched. Making every game a 50/50 even though this should've been done in 30 rounds

The tournament might not have the merit that a VCT tournament has but I don't think you could say the competition element was any different. All vct teams were involved in qualifiers and I think it would be remiss to say that any of the playoff teams weren't trying for the trophy. Props definitely deserved for the win.

Was ewc an 8 team event with top competitors such as Made In Thailand and Rapid Lofi?

One of the Sentis is Alfa on Chamber, he's taking heads off attack side

I'll bet this guy's account

Even from the harshest mindset, you can't determine someone's entire career off a single 1v1 in such a high pressure situation as that.

When he's on my god is he the best but whenever he doesn't get alot of fights early into a game he starts to take atrocious duels to join the rest of the team on kills. Luckily he still has the aim to win a few but he nerfs himself heavy for no reason

TH is better all around, but the map veto leans PRX imo. 55/45 in favour of TH imo, but I wouldn't be suprised by an upset.

Gotta respect the Sen city engagement bait.

Unfortunately PRX exist

That game could go either way. PRX insta ban TH's best map Haven but TH are probably happy playing Sunset so they can do the same thing back for Lotus. It all comes down to who wins Icebox imo. Hoping for a scrappy game and PRX pulling off the upset.

First round matchups are good except MIBR > GENG for me. Would love Wolves to make it through but they'd have to get Liquid in the 0-1 and BLG in 1-1

They definitely can, Idk ifthey'd take the loser of GENG/MIBR tho

If TL had Nats I'd agree but BLG could definitely take the opener

Woah that's a bit harsh, I think the chair would be more reasonable

Let him cook, I want to see how far he's willing to dig

Betting companies are literally built to reduce losses. By definition the payouts come directly from the losers so punting tens of thousands on a rigged outcome will take tens of thousands from the everyday person.

Alot of 'you must do this or else' for a land of the free enjoyer like yourself

That's a very reductive take, sure it hurts the betting companies but also screws over the already vulnerable, gambling addicts who throw money at an outcome they don't know is already fixed.