yeah but there will be a maximum of two players

There is no china league for francising and so unless they get picked up by a franchise team or they count as residents for the tw/hk league the roster and many other chinese roster will be forced to separate due to residency rules

fpx vs tl

if they keep last year's format this is very likely the pots

what is bait about it?

Here are the final pots for champions group draw. One team from each pot will be draw into a group creating 4 groups containing 4 teams. Pots range from pot 1 containing the perceived strongest teams down to pot 4 containing the perceived weaker ones (lcq winners).
Pot 1
FPX, Optic, Paper Rex, Leviatan
Pot 2
Fnatic, XSET, DRX, Loud
Pot 3
Zeta Division, Xerxia, Team Liquid, Kru
Pot 4
Edward Gaming, Boom, 100 Theives, Furia

good list

I would be shocked if 100t makes top 4, let alone wins

100t will at best do a c9 (probably get grouped)

they will buy out prx

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

why else would bleed drop their full roster and then make a big offer on a single player, doesn't make any sense

yeah, now you say it maybe I put optic a bit too high

They are buying full prx, quote me on this

everyone expects cned, but buying out prx just before champs would be even more suprising

its full prx

S: FPX,FNC,PRX
A: OPTC,TL,LLL,DRX (in upper bracket)
B: EDG,100T,LEV,ZETA
C:DRX (in elimination matches :P),KRU,XIA,XSET
D: BME,FUR

S: FPX,FNC,PRX
A: OPTC,TL,LLL,DRX (in upper bracket)
B: EDG,100T,LEV,ZETA
C:DRX (in elimination matches :P),KRU,XIA,XSET
D: BME,FUR

100T also have only 1 player remaining from that run

sa slq1 probably pot 3 ahead of na lcq

Its just the obvious choice

bbl vs sentinels

this level of delusion is from you is so funny

Its so horrible actually in league a game which is way less ping-reliant there was a massive controversy about teams playing on a standardized 30 ping at msi that even faker complained about and yet in a match to qualify for champions this shit happens, like its just inexcusable.

civilized response

they also had to play with a 40 ping difference

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

wtf how is this remotely fair

riot was probably afraid by how dominant emea was at champions

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

m3c is just a lan team imo and I think they look less dominant than other teams that make deep runs in lcq because they are playing vs better competition

I WANT YOU IN MY ROOM

nah worst case is best case, best case is worst case

1. FPX
2. PRX
3. EMEA LCQ
4. OPTC
5. FNC
6. DRX
7. LLL
8. EDG
9. LEV
10. NA LCQ
11. ZETA
12. XSET
13. KRU
14. XIA
15. BME
16. SA LCQ

optic is a bit high, they looked pretty bad in copenhagen and got bailed out by a pretty easy bracket

As ea lcq is over I will retire my edg flair and go back to being a delusional fpx flair. Good luck at champs.

honestly not too far from the truth

A draw I simulated with a random number generator
A: PRX, DRX, ZETA,100T
B: OPTC, FNC, XIA,FUR
C: FPX, XSET, KRU,BME
D: LEV, LLL, M3C,EDG

as is tradition

definitely imo

I dont know when the draw will be

Usually placing of latam1 and br1 is based of who wins lcq, in this case lcq 1st seed was kru so lev will probably get the nod for pot 1. As for xset and zeta the second seed from na has historically almost always outperformed the first seed from japan.

2 teams from the same region cant be drawn in the same group

usually only one team per region can end up in a group- the only exception was berlin but that has since been changed

dream draw for drx

by nature of pots each team in pot 1 is strong yes

nah m3c

Here are the pots for champions groups, 1 team from each pot will drawn into a group, creating 4 groups of four.
Pot 1
Fpx, Optic, Paper Rex, Levitan
Pot 2
Fnatic, Xset, Drx, Loud
Pot 3
Zeta, Xerxia, Kru, M3C/TL
Pot 4
EDG, Boom, 100T/TGRD,FUR/TBK
What do you think of the pots and what would be the hardest possible group and easiest possible group in your opinion? For me hardest = PRX,LLL,M3C,100T and easiest = LEV,XSET,XIA,TBK

nah this one was higher level