Just like Navi frauding their way to international events? Last spots that was won by FNC last year, easiest group this year.

By personal wealth alone? Probably jing. His family is extremely rich even by Singapore standards.

From gaming? Tenz no contest.

Easiest way to determine a region's talent pool is by looking at their tier 2 and ascension.

Korea is still strong for example despite having 3 teams in the league and strong presence in non Korean teams. Indo in Boom, Japan in Scarz and Philippines in Naos all were competitive.

Orangutan did not win a single game. If the best of India can not win a game in ascension, when Bleed, the best ascension team end up as a joke in kick off, they will be worse than DFM in the league. And therefore an all Indian team will be on that level. You might say that will be ok.. But you underestimate how bad it will be. Imagine a team that never get more than 5-6 round a map. Thats how it's going to end up.

Should have went to Bleed.

More money and 0 trophies anyway.

Or Zeta so he can be a weeb there

-19 in t1 game even though PRX was winning and -18 today. I did not expect jing level performance but come on, atleast show us the GE monyet instead of this Shiba cosplay.

Well let's just hope PRX actually grinds in the next 2.5 weeks because surely monyet is not this bad

Monyet consistently goes double negative

Should have gotten texture/izu or even foxy9 instead in hindsight

You will watch as the 0-15(is it 15 at this point) DFM team goes on a run to win Champions because they start feeling confident after beating the best player in the world y0y

Common Bleed flair L

I understand why people say RRQ is better than DRX rn because they got screwed over to be in a group with PRX and GenG.

But TS was forced to face Gen.G because they lost to Talon(which is way weaker than Ts as the rematch shown) and cant win their group. They only have themselves to blame. Until TS can fix their consistency issue DRX is still better.

TS being any higher than 6th is delusional. This is the team that can beat DRX but lose to RRQ/Talon. Until proven otherwise Secret is an inconsistent mid team with some rare streak of brilliance.

Imagine if GE did not play Skrossi in Jett when he's probably the worst Jett out of the starting 5.

But noooo, Indian team must have an Indian star duelist that is allowed to buy OP and lurk as fking Jett.

These kinds of nepotism is why we have 0 trophies smh

EDG and Loud will be there

How df carpe get -22. Bring back xeta

Yes people are overhyping LEV. Its no super team. What have the Lev core done in 2023 apart from losing to Kru in LCQ? Finishing top 8 in lock in? Might as well call Talon a super team then.

Sure Aspas is great, but the rest of the team is nowhere close to Fnatic or NRG. Its third best team in Americas at best, probably fourth

Americas and Emea both have 5 (Fpx is a Chinese org, the trophy is in their Chinese cabinet now) but Americas won more red Bull home ground

Therefore
Americas>EMEA>China>Apac

true, but loud performed really well against sentinels,while PRX was trolling their breeze game against Gen.G. I suppose Jing pretty much define W gaming while Saadhak somehow replaced Aspas in their game plan.

Maybe im just expecting better from PRX cuz im PRX fan idk

Is APAC

PRX downgraded, Monyet is a great duelist, but unless u get Aspas everyone is pretty much a downgrade. The good thing is they are free to play more wonky stuff now that they don't have a perma raze. But they do need more time to cook. Max finish in madrid is probably 3rd. They aint beating Loud , NRG or Fnatic. (Loud might face NRG and one of them in that case wont be in Madrid)

T1 : Looks slightly better than the old T1. More firepower, but not enough to beat any world class team. Max finish 5-6

DRX and GenG : looks promising, but need more time for players like Flashback and Karon to shine. Max finish 5-6

For EMEA :
Fnatic is still Fnatic, one of the favorite to win the tourney.

The second seed doesn't matter. Navi looked shaky, Keiko cant kill 37 every map, Fut lost to heretics. Maybe Vitality idk. Probably will be one of the weakest team in the tourney.

For Americas:
Loud and NRG are the other two favorite to win the event of they make it. If both of them goes to Madrid the top 3 is pretty much sealed.

If Lev or Sen made it, they will probably finish 5-6th

China

Edg might be good, might be bad. Also true for the second Chinese team. They might do good or do worse than APAC. Its more a question mark imo than the guaranteed mid from APAC.

Another L for the 0 trophy region.

Potentially top 20 itw contender (like something or demon1 last year)
Keiko, Flashback

Great players to watch :
Oxy, Karon, Xaccurate

Whodf will come to the matches with 0 ossie players

China otoh... They do have some Australian players

VCT CHINA MELBOURNE 2025. KANG KANG WILL OP A KANGOROO IRL

Geng lost to prx lil bro. They might lose to t1

Objectively? Thai.

This is based on the spread of each cuisine and do they sell in other countries.

French and Italian are great but the reason they are massive is due to the French empire and Americanized Italian food.

Japanese and Chinese cuisines are spread by their diaspora and soft power, Indian cuisines also benefit from their diaspora + British Empire.

But there is not a big Thai diaspora or empire yet there are Thai restaurant everywhere. Surely that means people outside of Thailand loves it simply because how good it ia.

Furia went to 10 playing a 4 v 5. The same Furia lost to GE with a sub.

Therefore GE>NRG . Shame they will never meet cuz one of them is not going to internationals this year.

Both teams were really bad. But Bleed is way worse.