Yea shrouds game sense; specifically his awareness, is better than 80% of pro players in the t1 scene rn. The dude pays so much attention to opponent positioning, team map control, utility, smoke timings, opponent exec util, team econ and opponent econ, and constantly is looking at team and opponent ult points.
Thats the shit that differentiates great aimers from great players

You say they need a new IGL but fuck man all i want is shahz to play and call like he did in stage 1 cause they were no joke actually quite good. Like the V1 match you could see how shahz was calling and how he was at the same time fragging, i wanna see that version of shahz and if thats who shows up at LCQ I dont doubt they could at least win against the guard

no they can definitely hear comms of the opponents if the screams are loud enough. Yay literally mentioned in the previous masters that at some points he heard the opponents' comms and wasnt sure if he should tell the admins or not

Tarik never accused him of doing it, he was just thinking out loud and trying to find reasons as to why a player would do something so suspicious. If you see a person in a store suddenly stuffing shit in his pockets would you also not be suspicious of them?
I understand that 100k people are watching but that doesnt change shit, are you saying that its then tolerable had there not been that many people in his stream?

ah yes of course, tarik shouldve just assumed that its a common thing that this player does because he doesnt watch the guys stream. Honestly he should also just keep his mouth shut if he sees a player suddenly flicking wihtout anyone on the screen cause they might just do it out of habit you know

No troll tho, JP is rlly far from NA

tf thats stupid what are you on??? Shes in japan. What kind of stupid explanation is round earth bro

you literally just proved yourself wrong. No one is getting nitpicky here, the point is more viewers = more money in the scene

Now i understand why theres a minimum age required to get on social media, they should increase it

not mine lol. I was gonna change my loud v kru to kru winning cause i just heard about them never losing to br but then i think the deadline or whatever had already passed. So technically all my pickems are right i just couldnt change the kru v loud in time

marved got that fake ice
Zombs tho... he got that true ice

why is it kinda stupid? If they were in different groups what would that have changed? It mightve just got them both eliminated before playoffs

The problem is yall are thinking to basic, yall think just because a team comes from NA or just because they reached GF that theyre slated to win against anyone who isnt in the top 4 but thats not how it is. We saw at the previous masters that any team could beat any team and it isnt any different here. The weakest team is prob XIA or NTH but i could see them beating most of the teams at this event

sometimes its like people dont know how to read

I definitely predicted Guild to get out of groups tho i was also preding loud, i mean it might still happen so well just have to see

SEN made it to quarters tho so thats at least something tho its looking like optic might not

Link?

It isn't you're just overselling optic and loud, esp when optic literally play like a tier 2 team in groups at every lan

2-0 narrow 💀💀

Already with the excuses

This man is on sum of that PREMIUM ZAZA, bro you gotta pass that shit

OPTIC GOING HOME GG NA
NEAREST AIRPORT AT ITS FINEST

How can both gambit and acend have a regional masters? Did cis have their own masters?

With Sen tho they have the most challengers and masters wins out of any team

That was definitely not prime sen

true true, btw its aging

is it tho?

why do i get this feeling all of a sudden that drx are gonna shit on nth

im telling you Optic is cursed vs Emea, they just cant even get a single map off them. Gambit i can excuse cause that was one of gambits best performances tho Acend wasnt even playing that well in their match

i mean yea looking at how its been going probably tho if shahz does better like he was in the final 2 games of stage 2 SEN will prob go off (assuming it isnt because shroud is getting ass numbers)

With the way they're playing rn that's true

they were thinking about him and were gonna trial him but literally without even thinking 100T immediately signed him no questions asked and so ofc he would just join 100T

I feel like 1st place teams getting to go all the way to playoffs is still a little crazy. I think maybe a slight change should be made to where they are able to get an advantage in groups to where they only need 1 win to make it out. At least then it allows for a lot more exciting matches in the groups and it also allows for a lot more games to be played for big teams like say FNC or last masters Loud wouldve played more matches so that there would be a better gauge of their strength.
Like lets say FNC make the same run loud did last tourney, we'll only be able to see this team play for 4 matches total and if after winning they fall off then we p much dont get to see them in top form again until they slowly rise again. Like imagine if we didnt get to see loud anymore in this tourney cause they got upset. That would suck cause they literally played 4 international matches and then went back to their region which we have literally 0 metrics on how to gauge their strength

You cant count everything a fluke. As much as im against Optic, their run wasnt a fluke, howver the only reason they did win was because on form M3C, FPX, and FNC werent able to play.

if he does SEN will win Champions EZ

I dont think its just work ethic tho cause i feel like JP has had great work ethic for a long time but theyre just shit at the game yknow? It just feels like EMEA is uncontested when it comes to creating unbelievably complex and in depth strategies and plays that even Optic at thier peek didnt match (tho optic id say were still good enough without them to contest for the win)

not just the synergy was off but mental is huge. The team playing in the biggest tourney of the quarter and they cant even use half the shit theyve been prepping for months. They couldve been subbed by players that were the best in the world and it still wouldnt change anything they probably wouldve still gotten 0-2ed

i mean you arent wrong but SEN never really stuck to that rule either so either way it still makes him a hypocrite

its called being a fan. RN I definitely think FNC are gonna win masters, that doesnt make them my favourite team tho. A favourite team sticks with you (as long as the core is intact) no matter how high their peaks and low their dips are. Imma support them till they either rebuild or till val is dead

so the faze match just didnt exist to you?

he isnt in a good place mentally i suspect. Shahz said for sure Sick isnt playing in LCQ

dude stop mentioning streaming its fucking getting old. As long as they put in the prac hours it doesnt matter how much they stream. Fucking V1 doesnt stream but look at what happened to them, from number 1 to the bottom of tier 2.
With sick in the team we didnt really get to see much in the first 2 matches. You could really notice that they made changes in the optic match where they were doing things that they usually would never do. Also in the Faze match i love how they were experimenting with their agents, they had proper set plays, the teamplay was decent, and thje comms were clearly there. If Sick was in this system he wouldve been able to add the firepower that rawkus couldnt (this is just pure speculation extrapolating from his past performances, as long as hes stopped his tendency to make dumb plays on omen he could be a really good smoker)

I mean i havent been watching him on chamber but the thing is other than derke, there hasnt been a jett main that has impressed me on chamber. I feel like its a waste of their raw mechanical skill. Playing chamber restricts them in a lot of ways and forces others on the team to become the entry even if they might not be the most gifted mechanically. I dunno about IGLing but i think if tenz were to take up chamber then i feel like shahz would have to start going crazy on jett again.

LMAO not wrong

I mean if you take away the context like that then sure the narrative becomes crazy

but thats what i mean tho, how are EMEA teams still playing relatively high level compared to the rest of the world even tho theyre dealing with that shit. Theres no excuse for all the other regions ESPECIALLY NA

bro is saying this with a SEN flair...
Dude shittalk is great, thats literally the reason sen have so many fans (had*)
You just dont like it causse you dont like XSet, dont skew the narrative

wait...

They have been practicing a lot more and it was apparent in some of the matches they played but we were never able to see their proper form with Sick in the team. Im just worried that if they have Rawkus on smokes itll make the team far too weak in terms of firepower. Zombs also doesnt provide firepower even if he might be able to glue the team together and hold sites well, I feel like Dapr should be the one taking on that role

Really though? Without Sick? I mean if Dapr plays like he did in stage 2 and Kanpeki and Shahz play at a little higher level, I do see them winning some games but i felt like they really couldve had a shot at winning with sick considering the competition rn in NA