oh shit wait they're the same ppl??

Do you mean boom?? Tehbotol isn’t even on the team😭

ohh is that why? gotcha. but why is stellar mentioned? is monsi an igl or something

idk i think he's tryna defend his friends or something

idk whats going on but i saw this https://x.com/jakeeVAL/status/1892002109245034886 on twitter and i was wondering if someone could explain what's happening?

he was going to get hated on no matter what he said. if he said he supported taiwan? hate from china. if he said taiwan was part of china? hate from taiwan. if he didn't say anything, he'd still get hate. there's no right answer

i mean players will always say it's not true. we've seen it so many times. wasn't marved's famous "mans just guessing" thing because george geddes said he was joining sen and he was saying it wasn't true and then he ended up joining it?

or was it like he got benched or smth

patrickWHERE

go wolves #wolveswin

i thought he had military service?

not forsaken?? it's not like something is terrible, but like he's not crazy

cut something. he was hyped up to be one of the best players and honestly ever since post tokyo he didn't seem all that crazy and sure he's had some clips but like not THAT many

nah, i agree people may be overestimating them, i'll be the first to admit that, but i don't think they'll be terrible like last year

ahh gotcha

i mean couldn't you say that about any meta? like any team winning in 2022 could just be chalked up to chamber being broken. I think that if we were talking about NS who apparently only ran neon and had a cracked neon player, but I don't associate KK with neon and it def wasn't just the KK show at champs

KK is anything but a neon merchant? sure he was really good on it, but he's also great on jett and raze?

but how much does a regional grand final mean? i feel like i wouldn't be showing TOO much if i know i've already qualified

wdym by team? like coaching or something?

i dont really know much about nongshim besides their t1 games, and they looked pretty good as a whole. does their entire team not really contend?

also wdym eyetest?

but like...TL are supposed to be the one team that always has a good roster on paper but then somehow fail to do anything(nrg). why are they going to bangkok 😭

damn im a TL hater for life

bro i need someone to be honest with me. no bull. no troll. no hating.

did TL fluke their way to bangkok. their first match was fucking horrible and im not even fucking plat. then they somehow get such a nice string of matches, and then somehow fut lose to TL. i get they have pati and nats(ngl idk why people weren't calling him washed before), and keiko had some great performances, but are they really that good?

ALSO WTF I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY PLAYED THE LOWER FINAL AND FUCKING BEAT TEAM HERETICS??? SOMEONE TELL ME IF IM IN A DREAM WHERE FUCKING LULQUID ARE BEATING TEAM FUCKING HERETICS??

Nah he didn’t retire, he has military service

Heavy on k1ng but he’s doing military service I think. But if he comes back to compete I would love to see k1ng back in action

Wait are yoj even talking about k1ng?

Idk if id want to see perdía poached bc I love NS and i feel like the fact they didn’t get picked apart is such a heartwarming story

we have tik tok fym lil bro

no yeah i dont think that's how it'll be by the end, im just saying rn it doesnt feel that great. it could also just be me feeling a bit burnt out from val in general but that's not really related to this

even bang doesnt look happy. dude was always smiling on 100t but now he looks like he's unhappy

ngl americas doesn't seem as good this year. it may just be that it's kickoff and teams will get better by the end of the year, but imo pacific is the region to watch cuz they have lots of good teams(but also a lot of bad ones)

prob the girls kpoping the players

you beat me to it

sen cuz of their fanbase
liquid for somehow making good teams turn to shit
DRX cuz they're no longer the old drx

not a team, but i hate foxy9 cuz i was willing to give him so much bail and stuff and then he still didn't improve and now he's part of one of my favorite teams :(

? im underweight

Brother you have an unknown country as your flag

Bro really used a TSM bang clip😭

they get access to all skins and buddies. that's why some players have masters buddies even though they haven't won a masters

minny

surely he doesn't retire or switch games right? he was seriously so good in the clutch and i'd hate for him to retire

i want him on smokes cuz he just doesn't fit a raze meta and you already have tex who was originally the raze for NRG

bro at least you have talon who can actually be good. india is genuinely fucked even though they have like either the most or second highest population

im glad i can be of help

yeah yoman was a weird pick up to seeing as they already have an igl. geng honestly didn't do a great job of making the right pick ups, but i trust in the core and coaching staff that they'll be able to get something done

yeah k1ng is one of my favorite players. do you know when he's done?

okay as someone who has a ton of female friends and genuinely relate with you, you just gotta find the right person. I promise it's not anything you do, and i haven't done this, but you could potentially ask one of your friends if they could set you up with someone. there are benefits to having female friends(and no i don't mean sexual) and tbh i value them over male friends cuz they give such good advice

idk i know it's irrational, but last year he didn't look good and i was a really big fan of last years geng(i was a fan of them since they first played in that off season event) and replacing meteor with foxy is such a massive downgrade. i know it's almost impossible to find someone as good as meteor, but idk if k1ng was available, i would have much rather seen him

no i know, it was just an idea that popped into my head. i feel like with the people that are dead, it would be good practice for them to work on their comms, no?

man if foxy9 wasn't on the team, i'd pick geng, but i just can't get behind foxy9(i havent really seen him this year but idk i just dont rly like him as a player)

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who's last then? that's such a stacked tourney

since no one is really giving you a straight answer, i'll tell you how i met my gf

i met her through quick add on snapchat. before you tell me im a degen and that she's probably a bop, let me give you more context. last year, i really wanted a gf so i decided i'd just quick add every girl i saw. I had some talking stages, but tbh it was just very exhausting and i decided i didn't really want to focus on having a gf. i started the snap thing in september and stopped around mid november. fast forward a week or two later, and im at a swim meet, bored out of my mind. im scrolling through snapchat, just snapping everyone, and then i decide i want to snap more people because im still bored so i just quick add some people. little did i know, i'd end up adding my gf. The next day, i was stuck once again at the swim meet, on snapchat. Then, I send a random half snap of my face and my quarterzip. my quarterzip has my school logo and it says "swim and dive". I open up a snap, and surprisingly it said "wait i think we swam against your school the other week". i was honestly really surprised and i was excited cuz i was bored and i could finally talk to someone, and more specifically about swim. I didnt even have the faintest idea of trying to rizz her, i was just genuinely bored. I was like "omg wait really? what school to you go to?" and then she replies with her school, and i realize that she goes to the school basically right next to mine, and then we just start talking about swim. She only swims for school and it's not her main sport so i might have started bragging a bit, but i wasn't trying to get her to like me, i just wanted to keep the convo going since i had finally found someone to talk to. The conversation honestly just went from there. we talked for like two months, and in that time we got to know each other and it was great. then we went on a date, and then another, and then another, and on the third date, i asked her to be my girlfriend.

if you dont want to read all that, here's some pointers:

1. first and foremost, don't try to make it seem like you want to date. my gf at the time we met wasn't really looking for a relationship and that honestly made it so much easier. the convo was fluid and wasn't forced and it felt like friends talking

2. BE RESPECTFUL. do not try and push her to go farther than she wants to. idk your age, but i was 16 and i made sure that she felt comfortable and that she was able to take the relationship at the pace she wanted.

3. dont make it all about yourself. im more of a listener so i love when people are the one telling stories and stuff and i jsut reply and stuff so maybe it's dif for people

4. ask questions. the most important one that lowkey made me land her was "what's your favorite show?" she said gilmore girls and i was like "oh wait some of my friends have seen that. i should start watching it". at that point i was kinda starting to consider having a relationship, so i decided to learn all about her interests and that is so key. i told her about every episode and i'd tell her about all the characters that pissed me off and she loved it. call me a simp, but it worked.

also, my hair was kinda long back then and ngl it was so bad, but she still liked me and liked me for who i am.

the bar is REALLY low, so as long as you look decent, have a good personality, you're kind and respectful, and you show interest in her, you'll be surprised how far that really goes

just dont be a dick

ok rant over. sorry for the yap and you prob won't read this but it's okay

so do teams actually practice man disadvantages or are you talking about working on one specific thing?

why do people read into scrims so much? teams could be specifically working on one thing and dont care if they win or lose

idk if teams do this, but could they potentially try to practice how to work in like man disadvantages