Gg geng, thank you for lifting the curse

And as the resident TH hater i must say, they fought well

Th will win. Geng choke, it is known

Dont count your chickens yet.

Korean? Try the entire fking continent? The big 3 (sea, kr, and JP) have failed in finals before. GE and skrossi is the Asia's last hope

Imma stop watching this gf, its done. Wake me up when DRX/T1/or even DFM reach another final and crumbles. At this point just send GE to all finals, it will end the same way anyway.

I thought its a prx specific issue (sen were really good, so geng losing is ok) but turns out its a region issue. FPX is getting that trophy before us

Heretic is the weakest opposition to a Pacific team in a bo5 so far. If they lose this they ain't getting a title

Officially yes. But nobody considers screwface or bcj actual champion winners

More like prx singlehandedly skewed the statistic lmao

Lotus is very geng favoured too no?

Tournament held in the Americas are much lower if you count china no? Its very bad for China and Apac viewers and those 2 individually outweigh Emea and equals Americas in view.

Central/east Europe probably have the best time for everyone

Achillios paperthin is right there? Why not them

Geng unlike PRX have a great map pool and good fundamental, and unlike madrid lakia is now carrying his weight, so they should be ok. But then again woot could go absolutely crazy so i dont know.

They get the dragon soul which give them buffs, so teams can force team fights after certain condition. Then Faker joins t1 val and create a dynasty

All jokes about b0tsi aside i don't think he asks to be put in Jett perma OP all the time who also lurks half of the time as the solo duelist. He plays initiators alot now so he's clearly willing to flex.

Sp0n no matter how brain dead he is also wouldn't put the third best duelist as the perma duelist. You know who would? Pushindra. He doesn't care about winning, all he cares about is the marketability of the team and skrossi have alot of brainded fans

He was a good regional player who was carried by zekken and cryo who then decide its time to have a massive ego and claim to be the best initiator in the world. As a result eg dropped him for c0m/demon1 depends on the way you look at it. Both were nobodies at the time. That tells you two things, either he is bad, or he became uncoachable even by the goat potter because he actually thinks he is the best.

Regardless, he was never that good to begin with, definitely not in the level as crashies, sacy and stax (the initiators that he compares himself to) consistently performs.

The truth is, the xset roster was basically zekken and cryo. Deph failed to do anything with a Sen core that later win a master. Ayrin can't shoot even in 2023 2 teams league apac, and BCJ was dropped by EG even though he's the biggest name there. Meanwhile, Zekken won a master and cryo won the most competitive regional and is now top4 on a masters

Shouldn't have lost to G2 then

100t will still win

The easiet fix is just merging CIS (or at least russia) with China. Russians are having a hard time getting visa in the Eu and alot of russian talents plays in JP and CN anyway because they are closer to China and Japan than Moscow. A China+Russia+Mena and Central Asia league will be decently competitive, with Navi, FPX and EDG playing for them in an alternate Shanghai masters for example. (5 cn, 4 cis and 1 mena teams in the league).

Emea will take a hit but they'll be fine. Most of them don't use their import slot anw so having 1 russian import wouldn't change much.

Drg? Yes

FPX? Nah fpx will smoke all 3 maybe except RRQ with monyet.

Edg? Depends on which side of the bed TS wakes up on. But Talon clears. Old rrq not sure

Apac getting their own region? We will be sending Talon, TS and RRQ to masters. It will be the funniest shit ever.

EDG needs to stop pretending they are a western team and just play their own styles. Get new coachs

Which why imo giving them a master next year would be better. I feel bad for the Chinese fans rn, being humiliated in home soil is probably not good for business

They are good , but not enough to make top three in this tourney even if they beat TH. I am very hopeful about them when champs come. But keep in mind this decision was made last year before champs when the only strong Chinese team is EDG

Why did we have a tourney in China this early when most Chinese teams have not caught up yet. Were they betting only on EDG and hoping they are going to be a top team? Did they seriously think China will catch up in the first year of franchising? They lowkey looks like 2021 Asia(both east and south east) with some strong teams but unlikely to make a deep run.

No. 100t will win this with 0 map dropped like Reykjavik.

Thats cheating, skrossi is a God among men

Its a response to the very common hate of people calling boaster trophies flukes because he was carried by a super team. Fns was also carried by the best in the world. Its double standard as FNS is always held up high as the best brain igl(saadhak can shoot so not a pure no aim igl).

Why is it relevant? Go look at the Boaster hate threads and see how many people are comparing him to FNS. Both are the most accomplished igl alongside saadhak, both cant aim. Only one is called a fraud.

Bro did not watch boostio before playoffs

Oh i love FNS. He is the gold standard of a successful IGl, which why boaster is always compared to him. My point is both are equal. And their team will crumble without them.

I don't need to shit on NRG though. Americas teams are already doing it for me

Why would you want this as a navi fan? Imagine 3 DRXs in masters. Navi would get sent home immediately. Atleast navi knows they can beat PRX or other sea teams (except ardiss)

I don't get why people keep calling boaster a shit igl?He won two trophies. The usual boaster hater's goat FNS only have one. Because he's carried by a super team? Did they forget FNS also got his with prime Yay and Marved? Look what happened to th NRG super team without igl. That is fnatic without boaster.

If 100t/geng don't win this is confirmation that's riot actually rigs the tournament. both teams winning will setback riots effort in China for years , but those two teams, especially 100t are the likely grand finalist

PRX should just go home, they are not winning so what's the point? Getting 3-0d by fnatic in lowers?

Edg is going to lowers then they will eliminate prx. Riot really like that script for some reason

Th will drop them in lowers. Its done

Clearly NA is leagues above other regions rn. 100t wont even drop a map

Because G2 is not winning the tourney. This only means 100t is far above other teams.

If prx lose to 100 thieves then yes a lowers run is accepteable? but to G2? Even fnatic looks stronger rn. The only team prx can beat is fut

There is always a "top" Team that completely crumbles in the mid season masters. Usually loud takes that slot. Guess its PRX turn now. Gg, fking frauds

Go to tier 2, fight with some dude, probably Steel and break a promising tier 2 team. Then go to APAC/China and fails miserably.

What upset? G2 is expected to win. Sea is a minor region. Have mercy on us pls

Not that hard when there's only 3 mid teams+ geng coming out of Swiss

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/0c4c547a

Pacific's only change of winning. If this is not achieved 100t or fnc will steal it all

Master tel aviv

The expectation of this team is to atleast make it to playoff of internationals, not go 2-4 in regional league. They underperformed massively.

Change rossy's name to skrossy and give him op, they win champs

They tend to flop though. Izu and foxy9 was the star KR talent in JP and they are inconsistent.

Problem is xcc is their best igl. They lost to dfm with carpe igling. But xcc is not even a good igl so they need an actual igl.

T1 is not going to champions imo(there's drx,rrq, talon waiting) . So probably this is the last time we see them in international this year.

They need an actual igl. Xeta for carpe