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.

Some of the rounds admittedly do look incredibly suspect like full knife out sprinting haven A long (not even left side but in a position where he would be first contact). But cheating is an incredibly challenging thing to prove so it does seem a little misplaced in the video when there's actual damning evidence in the rest of the video.

I don't think many people are outright blaming the players for playing to their outs in such a mismanaged t2 system. As you said, many people would take those deals, but those players still shouldn't be able to play in a competitive setting again.

He kinda had to release a video now, people were already talking about it on streams so the paper trail was already burned. This is the most he'll be able to get unless somebody royally messes up and even this looks pretty damning.

3 of those teams have been actual dog this split and EDG are lucky to not be classed as such. If you want T1 to be there so they could defend their title than I can sort of see that but their defences already crumbled before anyone put up a fight so better they're not there to stink up the event.
Imagine your viewing experience being solely controlled by name value and not the quality of the games. You are a victim of marketing

That would be a downgrade to each of those teams

The bookies have gotten on the train, ALL THE WAY TO TORONTO BAYBEEE!!
(...Boom clears)

Damn, didn't think of that

No Semphis is crazy

Ardiis. Why? He's Scouse, he just needs to pull out his machete.

And then NaVi, BBL, KC for EMEA prayge. Also gimme Nongshim for the fun of it

Bold of you to assume we will finish the EMEA games today

No cooldown at all is crazy, I think switching to 2 individual salvo abilities and keeping the default initiator cooldown to get only one of them back would have been plenty enough to make people think before they lock him. Would only allow 2 double salvos combos a round. He's fully nerfed into the ground with no cooldown, and thats true even if they didn't mess with prices and decrease his range.

Whichever way they decide would be a bad outcome for one of the teams, it's a no win situation. But I do think if the issues going on with the first map didn't disproportionately effect KC then both teams dealt with the same issues and it's fair to keep the map.
I don't know what the agreement is with the schedule but I would also have let them redo the veto from the TL map pick onwards so Liquid aren't overly prepped for KCs map.

I think he has to go for the region royal flush, get ready to learn Chinese buddy.
But genuinely he's an incredible vibes guy, if he works on his individual form there will always be a team for him if he wants one

They don't play again for 3 months anyway, they have plenty of time to pick someone up during the masters break

high art, you wouldn't get it