But went 3-3 in apac. The rest of the world is a farmer's league, only sentinels is better than RRQ . The rest of the world is worse than RRQ

Do americas have better depth? Maybe

Emea? HAHAHHAHAH , no.
Pacific havent lost to emea at all this year iirc in any competition.

Did any non TH emea team even beat any other team from a region not called China?

Also the reason pacific is ahead is because riot doesn't own the arenas in Seoul so they need to pay for each day. This is a finance decision not a competitive one

Surely sooner or later the star might align enough that a team will simply gap the other teams for an event. It almost happened in Tokyo if EG did not have their miracle and FNC ended up facing PRX in the final. That would be a quick and easy 3-0. It certainly is possible if unlikely.

And why would CIS win count for EU? Gambit and NAVI/FPX are CIS not EU. Ukraine and Russia are not in the EU.

And if we are being strict neither is Britain. So EU only have 1 trophy.

Im surprised we haven't had a stomp final yet. Even FNC - EG had Eg reaching double digit in 2 out of the 3 maps. Surely we get a seal clubbing GF ala G2-TH lowers someday

China or apac. Probably to GE or Bleed

I read what you typed. It's just some if jt doesn't make sense.

I missed that Less is back in that case 6 is fair if a bit too high.

Kru is literally just you making excuses on their lost. We can say the same about DRX (they are just unlucky to run into a inform PRX and Geng) or Talon or any other team.

Also im not saying T1 should be higher, I'm saying RRQ despite me being a massive fan of them should not be in top10. RRQ have always been hyped up to be a great team in pacific since the end of last year split but they fail to deliver everytime. (A big part of it is they fail to deliver) so i wouldn't get my hopes up. They are way to unproven to be 8th. Yes they went 3-1, but they 2 of them is bleed and secret. And a top 10 team dont lose to GE even with a sub.

100t and PRX were 1 round away from switching fate. Prx just decided to troll and pick G2, thats why they have a big differential. Round differential is not really a good margin, otherwise T1 would be in the playoff not G2. Regardless the gap between the two of them is way too big.

Drx have better structures than FUT even with no Stax and with the new roster the firepower is almost equal to PRX and Geng. But doubting them makes sense.

Americas biased as expected. Kru is nowhere near that high when they are basically Americas DRX(did well the regular split but lose both qualification game) and where is DRX? 16 even though flashback has shown promise and stax has been under performing.

Both PRX and 100t completely failed to meet expectations and yet only one of them "collapsed" and only one of them (PRX) have a history of one stinker tournament a seasobln. And for the first time i doubt loud. It doesn't matter how good saadhak is, without less and aspas this team is not top 10. FNC still won Emea and they suddenly 13. (Granted the lost to fut was something) and even as i hype RRQ up are we seriously putting them on 8 because they beat Geng? T1 also beat Geng but they are in 20?

I think theres a unconscious bias because you want all the other top team of the other region to collapse so you look for signs of their collapse while ignoring the Americas team that are not doing well with simple "i trust this team"

Geng went 3-3 and lost to T1. Prx being the favorite coming in make sense.

You act like people are not rating geng highly pre madrid and PRX was not seen as the weakest team going into madrid.

FPX*

Im a PRX fan but im very happy for geng. Unlike Americas or to a lesser extend EMEA, pacific team supports each other. I would be as happy as if DRX or T1 or RRQ or even GE won

Both choked on finals though, But Karon got a second chance

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