to all the people complaining abt getting forced to call clove 'they/them'

grow up? like if you feel that uncomfortable (ignorant) just SAY CLOVE!?!?! no one itw uses he/she for agents 90% of the time, just use the agent name

damage w raze lol

most swiss will just be 2-1 plays 2-0

if they keep doing well - no one.

i watched the defensive half for geng and it honestly was entertaining but this map is like horrible

this shit feels like two teams without a game plan playing ranked or smth,

dry peaks people running around no trading 1 for 1's i dont even blame the casters this shit is TERRRIBLE

like what the fuck is the yoru value?? no set plays at all?

it's hard to say, but I'd say like maybe 10 to ABSOLUTELY guarentee it, given you're given 3 for winning the splits/kickoff/master and 1 for every win during the split. if you get 10, you'd be going 10-0 across the split which would mean if you somehow bomb out at both playoffs you can still qual for champs

sen beating loud isn't as dramatic as tgrd beating optic back then. this is a very established core of players, regardless of last year, loud brought on a completely new duelist, and are still figuring out the entry ideas as it seems, optic back then played pitch perfect gameplay, tgrd winning was a MEGA fluke, sen winning here was a pretty even chance.

i think its 50/50, as much as the trio of nrg has done, I still see a struggle in gelling the team as much as sen has been gelled, just an idea

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25 incoming

yappin contest

tenz clears them all !!!!

pls sen pls sen plssss

whyz is looking fucking MENTALLL HOLY SHITTT BRO

drx literally getting spray transferred aced dying to mollies like bro put foxy9 in atp need aim

WHERE SENTINELSSS

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initiator tenz
sentinel tenz
controller tenz
flex tenz
TENZ #1!!!!!!

not at all? i just explained to you why kru was already good the score didn't show it, they didn't "rebuild" they just figured out what they needed for the 3 more rounds.

look at lev - mediocre regular season towards the end and lcq start was disastrous, pulled it back bc of their core. zeta - mid regular season, insane performance lcq (no roster change), TS - same story. it's not a 20% thing, it's the fact that most teams blow up without giving their teams time.

kru didn't go from 0-9 to winning in the way the score says it.
kru was an insane team regular season, the record didn't show it, insane amounts of close maps and all they needed was that little bit to push them over the edge. there was a world where they beat loud, eg, nrg, sen, c9 and furia during regular season if 3 or so rounds went another way. the score doesn't tell the full picture

w rizz

actually didn't realize i was on vlr sorry y'alls tiktok brains can't absorb more than 4 words

I hope people realize how important a long-standing core is after seeing LCQ in the Pacific and Americas.

Cores that have existed for multiple years such as Zeta, TS, Kru, and Leviathan (yeah adverso and Melser left, but the main three remained), have seen the most success in LCQ. EMEA is weird since everyone came in with a blown-up/new roster to the league. We can also see the seasoned cores who had immense success in the regular season from PRX, DRX, Loud, NRG, and Fnatic. It's so obvious the skill difference between them and the teams who created new systems, and cores, and tried to build anew this year. Time will tell, but I don't think many rosters can justify massive changes (dropping more than one player) other than massive underperformers like DFM and MIBR. Those who are yelling for teams like Sentinels, GE, and 100T to blow up their rosters don't make a bunch of sense. I agree, their performances were mediocre with simple ideas (Sentinels ran exclusively LOUD's mid-takes on Split, and 100T looked too nervy and way too separated for a professional team, GE was a sad result so close but so far, and Rossi failed to compete). But you have to understand, 2 months is time for sure, but for humans 2 months does nothing.

It takes years to build rosters that communicate properly and work together in a cohesive unit. It's pretty stupid to think what wasn't accomplished in a 2-month regular season, will be immediately changed in a 2-month off-season, even C9, a team we applaud for how they looked still is struggling in LCQ to a roster that has had more time than them, plain and simple.

This is just my opinion, but I think the time a core has together as people means more than just the off-season and practice they get in. Until a team VASTLY underperforms like DFM or MIBR, blowing up the roster simply isn't the play. it just jumbles the system and messes up rosters. but that's just me

i predicted china upsets :(

CNED B IS CRIMINAL fuck r u on

NOOOO!!! TENZ BEST NOW FOREVER AND ALWAYS!!
TENZ MY GOAT!!!!

tenz #1

y'all ARE INSANE. d00mbros is one of the most talented coaches in this games history, you're a vlr user with a peabrain. trust me, they're good. fnatic makes the best teams look like they're in t2.

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i find marved and mako to be very difficult to compare players. they both are the people who set the standard for the controller role, the names you think of when you think about great moments. Mako on one hand is super disciplined and plays very safe and very smart, his aim and his talent is combined with his unflinching discipline wherever he is. Marved on the other hand is very aggressive, takes timings on his own, and creates his own plays. He doesn't play the hard anchor, he plays the aggressive. They're so different in playstyles and understandings of the game, respect and appreciate them both!

GE FIGHTING

Fut beating TH today imo was not a surprise at all. Watching heretics at every event they've been to is underwhelming, they're a pretty mediocre team at best. At LOCK//IN, we saw FUT take a map off 100T, and look pretty convincing, while TH did nothing against EG, and looked lackluster every round making super tiny mistakes everytime.

LOTUSSSS

I mean, so what? Like businesses aren't exactly charities, it's delusional to even consider them moral or ethical in the slightest. E-Sports gambling is huge, just like IRL sports (which are also largely watched by kids). It depends on how you consider businesses, as an entity, or as a person.

man has obviously not been on hltv

SEN TENZ BABY

tenz isn't no. 1 L list (based analysis here on vlr)

krishna's the name of a god in hinduism

yes

average forum user

in regular vct, bleed was the only team this season that ever even took a map off of prx in the qualifiers for masters hence this bo1 result isn't surprising.

honestly bleed has some curse over prx lmaoo

i feel that sick, tenz, and dapr would remain as the core, and they'd pick up either zander or if possible fns as an igl, with zellsis as the final player. shahz could stay as the required 6th.

top seed g2 fluked out of playoffs??

bro can't imagine a team is just really good
prx's aggression is insanely powerful, and it's way smarter than most consider.
ascent, 2 set plays with jing's blast packs utilizing tons of cool util plays. the fade + raze was honestly perfection
bind - the amount of support forsaken gets on his yoru from the support players is insane, their TP plays are always backed up, the team gets simple calls and understands how to move. brimstone + yoru ult/molly plays were goated, utilizing fade + tp's also!
within their aggression is an immense amount of coordination and skill, you have to watch the games and the minimap closely to get it, but the narrative that they're simple a team that "run's it down" or is only fueled by aggression is wrong. they're super talented and really smart.

sen 2-0

i heckin love tenz

13 1 LMAOOO

Sen 2-0 with rawkass

both teams that require their main characters to pop off
sen hopium + copium = sen 2-0 faze
fr tho this'll be a banger match