People underestimate how much lakia's util set him up last year. He have been underperform (by Texture standard) ever since then. Still top 3 apac duelist though

But papi and kelly got it no problem. The entire TS squad are also in Korea no problem. He must be blacklisted for something to not be able to solve visa issues for months with a clear job and sponsor.

https://x.com/VALO2ASIA/status/1888124061592813675?t=oTB0Abe9_o94Ryw5NdUv-g&s=19

Wtf its months away, what do you mean it won't be resolved. Does he have ties to international cartels or terrorist?

GE destroyed TS when they meet didn't they?

Ok just checked. It wasn't close but wasnt a clean sweep either. But this is GE with a sub

So was sea lol

If your region have Kru in top 4 in the first tournament your region is probably cooked

Then again APAC have Talon and Emea have Fut so its the same everywhere

2023? Hello??? Ok he was benched, but basically the same no?

They were playing with marved and depth????

Sure they bring him back later. But it was because the team become worse

If tenz can be dropped(much bigger name than Jing) when he was under performing then so can Jing

Hence why i said "was" . All the other sea team stood no chance.

It probably will be. The only sea team that stood a chance was RRQ

There's 0 japanese export blud

The last surviving 2022 team has fallen. Its the end of an era

Prx lebron
Prx messi
Prx tenz
Prx simple
Prx Obama

Lock it in.

They will rebound... Some teams like zeta is still worse than them. But at best this roster will max out at Talon last year level (sneaking into champs)... Top teams dont get 11-1d in their best map.

This is like PRX -C9 lock in pearl moment, and this time there's no easy solution like last time(something) . primmie is already taken. Maybe grumble, but he's not a game changer

Surely this time they actually rebuild right? No fking way they run it again after losing to DFM. Its so sad its actually funny

Cn*

Fut is bad.... They are the real all aim no brain team. They can roll over mid team with firepower but when they run into competent teams they get rolled. Do people remember their sage lotus comp?

Wait since when? Cuz last year he was having high school not uni exam. Also i meant none of them comes from a collage team then go pro

Bro , uni in South east asia and east asia is the same. Despite what propaganda tell you. Studying from 7 am to 10 pm is a worldwide phenomenon.(Or atleast east+south east asian phenomenon too)

None of the pros go to uni. None of the players in tier 1 come from collage(iirc for all league). Its really is not a collagiagte problem.

Because you are delusional if you think MIBR or Furia in 2023-2024 would go to internationals in any region(even China).While all 3 koreans team went and did great, decent and bad( Geng , DRX and T1 respectively) . I'll gjve you 2023 loud, probably stronger than all korean team in 2023. Its not a different league problem, your team are just shit

Geng and DRX are proven in the international stage. Even T1 have their wins in the international(against early edg and fpx lul) Your teams are at the 3 bottom teams in Americas.

Apac brazil equivalent is sea, an undeveloped but very talented region with the best aim but 0 structure. Latam is Japan

No they are not wtf? Korea always had drx making deep runs. Latam did it like once back in 2021. They did it once again in 2024 but with only 2 latam players. Even without counting Geng and nuturn. Drx alone have better success than all of latam.

Reminder that latam did not win any international game in 2023 outside of lock in

Big?

Roman*

Didn't naos lose to skrossi?

Warbirds have always been the reason why TS is competitive. Have you seen his anti strats? He's a giant slayer

estrella is not that bad. Better than egg for sure.

Not yet over. Imagine the post plan. If they get site with 2 sentinel alive its over for the defending site

Fr, he's doing skrossi and p0lvi cosplay. 2 years in 1

Z0ta is not even the best jp team anymore

This is why we need a new lock in

We need TL v TS v AG v 2G

Based on their site executions, im in favor of executions

Yes but Trace looks amazing. I wouldn't bet on them this time

Biased how. There wont be any Brazilian team this time.

Secret is an obvious 12th

Zeta,GE,Secret
10,11,12

Oh it's just losing. I thought there's a sex scandal or something.

Rb has been losing since he left drx. that's not new

What did rb do?

Boom has always been in the TS , Ascension Bleed and Talon level since 2022. They are not top 4 contender but they aint DFM 2023. Idk why people seems to think they would 100% finish bottom of the table

T1 overated and people underestimate boom too much.

T1 still winning this though

Realistically I didn't think that's happening, not even close.

But i was hoping it does, the meltdown in vlr would be funny af. Hence the pick

The Apeks pick is trolling yes. Also its 3/4 so far

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/432b404d

Ahead of u all.
Saadhak + Engh seems like an obvious pick

They ran into flors site 3/12 times. with 3 sites thats kinda normal . Sure b is sometimes empty but they also don't spot flor all the time

I love flor but lets not be delusional here.

Their second best player last wear was Soulcas. that should tell you how bad this team is

Yes flor is mid in vct for her first game.

And thats good actually.

All the haters are saying she's a farmer that would get cooked by vct pros. She didn't. She did well in a shit team in her debut.

People who were expecting an Aspas are delusional. But you can't deny she looks like she belongs in T1 when before this match people were saying she's not even T2(except the mentioned glazers)
Stop moving the goalposts

She'll improve. Pair her with Leo and she'll do great(not derke level though).

Funfact: the 65000 prize for the 1st place would put whoever win this tournament above RRQ,NS and DFM in total winnings. In 1 tournament ...

They aint saving strats. TS wont get as much money unless they make it to champs playoff. Trace and G2 got less money for finishing 7/8th in champ 2024

Mako also said foxy9 will be the best duelist in apac though

But getting beyn back is certainly a major boost

Forsaken yoru is washed. The last time prx use yoru as their main comp is early 2024 split and they ended up moving forsaken to raze anyway.

And let's not talk about champs GF. Prx's yoru is still stuck in 2022

They are not on the list on overhyped rookies. And whats with the revisionism, Karon was the piece people want to see in Geng because he is a random ranker, while there are hype around simon because Chinese fans are tired about EDG

And Narrate, Meiy, Yetujey etc were only hyped when they start winning, just like Karon,Riens and S1mon. Before that nobody cares about them. And nobody ranks meiy , Keiko or yetujey as top 10 in the world or even their region. Quit straw manning, the only player rated top 10 in the world were Narrate after arguably being the best player in Emea kickoff

There is only two player that was extremely hyped before they even played this year : Woot and Primmie. Both succeeded in their own ways. Woot carried TH to a second place finish, Primmie brought Talon to an international (before you say he is overhyped, look at the pickems, nobody expected Talon to go through the group and they didn't) though i agree primmie being rated as top in the world is insane, but its a primmie issue, nobody else is as overhyped as him.

And how many established title winners actually did anything internationally? Oh right it was only Tenz and arguably aspas+com. Meanwhile established Eg+optic(NRG) is at the bottom of Americas, Navi won 1 game in split 2, and Fnatic won a total of 1 game in playoffs(same as yetujey btw). Stop overating washed players