This is a solid take.

TLDR:
Being good in the off season doesn’t mean you will be good when the season starts because of the large patch that happens before kickoff.

It would be great to see TR win a map. I am rooting for them.

GenG 2-0

Then it should have been cdze

Seems weirdly sketchy to me. Does this mean Sen could send pancada down and then basically not pay him anything but still keep him in contract jail?

I said this when everyone was saying “DRX is playing with subs!!!!!”

They ain’t subs bruh.

No one believed me.

You don’t do two tournaments in a row with “subs”

Pretty much only watch tournament streams and Sliggy da goat.

And wujido( or however it’s spelled.) when a new season of d4 starts.

Mary, theia, katsumi, Mimi

Basically this.

If you see someone with a lot of posts and no stars you know they are worthless.

Anyone who says prx were not trying didn’t see the way the players looked when they lost.

The players looked sad and dejected. It was actually kinda sad. You can tell they tried.

This kid thinks Sen wants to pay him to be bad and ride the bench 😂

Truth is no one wants him so pancada has decided to ride the bench and collect a check instead of taking a pay cut and going to a team to continue his mediocre play.

The real question is why would Sen continue to pay someone they have no intention of using?

You would think Sen would allow him to seek other offers so they are not paying his HUGE salary.

It could very well be that there already isn’t much interest in pancada and he knows he can’t make the same kind of money on another team so he is CHOOSING to stay on Sen and make money riding the bench.

OR

Wild conspiracy theory incoming!! Tenz wife is still very sick and they are doing him right by letting him play as long as he can. He switched to pancadas role, so when the time comes for him to take time for his family, pancada can slot right into the starting 5.

I’m starting to think it’s pancada who is refusing to let them drop him.

He probably knows he won’t get near as much money as he is making now.

I can’t see Sen paying the guy when they know zellsis is better for the team.

It’s Brian that refuses to allow himself to be “Free”

I think Sen lose breeze.

3-1 inc

Huffing str8 copium

Cope and seethe

Spoken like a loser.

Real champions care about winning.

But I wouldn’t expect you to understand that.

In before shot_up talks about how he is playing on a laptop

PRX should be favored.

The fact that if Sen lose it will be a surprise is proof enough to keep this starting 5.

I just wish they would drop pancada already so we don’t have to listen to these idiots anymore. Kid clearly isn’t comfortable in a team from NA. Let him go back to Brazil and strengthen Furia so we have another Americas team that can stomp on EU.

How can shit stains from EU still be yapping after getting dog walked just 8 hours ago by an American team?

Isn’t your favorite Russian packing his bags and crying into his stuffed animal?

Who?

Pizza

Most overrated player I have ever seen.

Not saying he won’t be good it’s just he has been so painfully mediocre, I would even say below average.

Even this tournament he is on the bottom half of the rankings with a sub 1.0 ranking.

Yet he still has people saying “his team is bad and that’s why he’s not top ten in the world”

Holy…..

I have always been a fan of nonstop practice and and tournaments, but I understand it might not be the best for everyone.

I went to college on a gymnastics scholarship and was nationally ranked and I basically never took a break for about 10 years.

However, your point about footage is probably true. Edg plays to much to really bring out something new and maybe a break to reset and come up with some fresh stuff would be good for them.

That is true, but that’s also a mental thing.

I think edg suffers from playing lower level competition so they get a little more complacent.

They don’t have the hunger because they are so used to being the best. Even at champions they over performed.

Hopefully this is a wake up call for them.

Good thing it’s their job and China pays their players really well.

Imagine telling your job “ I can’t work well today because I have had to work all year.”

He wasn’t considered good enough for t1 this year.

And anyone saying Mistic is one of the best players in Europe after 2022 would have been laughed at.

Maybe it’s YOU that doesn’t remember what people were saying about him.

He’ll be good in 3 months.

Youngbasil 🌿 is to cool for stuffed animals.

Boostio

Most improved player without a doubt.

Kid was a laughing stock in 2022 and now he’s back making all his doubters (like me) look dumb.

How inconsiderate

I think the most important thing that most of you are missing is he isn’t playing at all.

Unless you wholeheartedly believe you can’t get ANY better player ranked then not playing will allow other people to “close the gap”

To stay the best in nearly anything you need to CONSISTENTLY improve, because if you’re not improving your competition is.

Mako is still a better controller.

Tenz has always had one of the highest ceilings in Valorant, when he is on fire he is the best in the world, but when he’s cold…

Common zerphyr1 L

You right.

And I just looked, they haven’t picked split once since their new lineup.

I just have ptsd from the past

I cringe every time they play split but they just KEEP PICKING IT!

They played well.

There is an argument for bind being Sens best map.

This game was closer than the score line shows

Sen won both pistols

They mid but not horrible tbh

I didn’t know she was trans 😞

Kinda hard for the “woman are just as good as men” crowd when the two highest rated players in the tournament, and in the finals, were born men.

4? Trans competitors in the whole tournament and 2 of them ended up with the best rating / stats.

Stack them on top of each other and act like an elevator going floor to floor.

Snirot

Imagine making 20 threads for a player that couldn’t figure out how to be relevant on sentinel when they had a year to practice 😂

How does everyone keep missing the opportunity to call him Fartpiss?

Yuk

They have won 7 series in a row.

Clearly doing something right.

But I’m sure swaping out a player for someone who hasn’t been good for a year is the right answer.

Yes.

Let’s bench someone from a team that’s won 7 series in a row.

That’s the play.

We know grandpa…. We know.

Cope and seethe

I heard sliggy was going to release vids on YouTube

Tokyo gave an extra slot for the winning region.

Like it or not, masters events are just build up tournaments for champs.