I thought so too and tbh I still do. It’s just taking them longer to figure out than expected. But the talent is still there obviously

Does that mean an 11% of Leo Faria is gone?

Wtf xDD

What are the rumors

Easiest game of the split today

Before today we thought it was gonna be UCAM vs KPI

Couldn't have explained better. League is super interesting this year

Probably pretty equal. I'd say kamo is better than wolfen, shadow much worse than trexx and grubinho much better than koldamenta. starxo's first season as IGL. Main difference is people place them top 4 last year and now they're probably dead last, so no pressure at all

Lol what is going on xD
Barca does look extremely good, not UCAM's day tho

It's not the players, Guardy's name is Antonio Guardiola, nothing more to say

No, it just hasn't been public, I believe video releases this week or next, ik it's already recorded.

Anyway the roster is starxo, sheydos, kamo, shadow, grubinho. It's been a complicated market for them due to the separation from Rogue and new merger with MAD Lions and MRS, they couldn't operate in the way they wanted. Don't expect much for this year, good thing is it can't be worse than last

Including zekken on the same tier as aspas and demon1 should be a crime

It's stupid to call a new team weak after 3 games

Reminds me of last years runner

Needs to keep it up for the year first, maintain this level a bit longer

Zeta is a great roster they just haven't figured out how to play well yet

All that is cool but what they really really need to add is the polls under every match, that would be amazing

Fair enough

How are you rating current form bro xD

Plenty that I can think of in EMEA for example

That is what sacrificing yourself means, yes

They’re good but I think I like this 2 better, DVM is good too

He sacrificed himself for the team, you don’t win Champs with bots in your team

Valiant roster is very decent, I like Zerance even more. Some good teams is france

First world champion to ever retire

Well I twas thinking about Outsiders that won one even more recently if I am not mistaken, but yes I suppose the NAVI one also counts

It’s not exactly a rebrand tho. Yes, they changed the logo but it’s because they merged with Excel to get into the LEC. Just like KOI with Mad Lions and Movistar Riders

Not sure it's the case here but something that is pretty obvious. It's easier to teach a Jett how to smoke like a smoker than it is to teach a smoker how to shoot like a Jett

I believe they can do that now yes, even tho it is kinda pointless because you can just log out and watch anyway

There is a link to the stream under every game, idk if all of them are updated but most of them should

Someone bring Mazino’s Sage back

Didn't they win a major not so long ago

You’re missing Vici and Suygetsu bro. Riot needs a 5th sentinel asap

Vokashu is not eastern Russian is he?

Bro just invented the triple sentinel meta

Last years seed #1 faces the last seed, both teams are lucky or unlucky depending on what the other team did in the off season, not what they did the season before. The last seed probably has one of the easiest match ups in this case. That is pretty random

FNC sort of tried that a couple years ago with their triple smoker + breach, sova. Not the judge part but the smoking the shit out of everything part. It didn't work very well

As you said the seeding is kinda pointless because teams are different than last year. But what's even more pointless is to complain about it, what's the difference between a pointless seeding and a random draft? Both are random

Idk but someone change that fucking cross, it's the worst logo I've ever seen

What about all 55 players in CN

And most importantly, KPI !!!

I've got 365 vlr pages, it can't be that hard

Format is weird because an 11 team league is complicated. But it's not really a matter of dates because Lock in last year ended early March while Masters Madrid this year ends mid March. So the difference is not very big

Also important to notice that, next season will start at the end of 2024 instead of 2025 to be able to space things out more in the future

It’s not a split. Take it as if instead of the Lock in last year, this year we have masters Madrid, instead of all 30 teams, it’s only 8 teams, but teams have to qualify through kick off.

Basically Kickoff + Madrid = Last years Lock in

We’ll then have 2 splits, another masters and champs
That being said the format is indeed weird, but the with Riot making 11 team tournaments is not easy

Well all I'm saying is they need to be objective things to measure an organization's value to franchising, and that is quite hard to do because I'm also sure orgs demanded guarantees. Ig we do not know and we won't any time soon either

But how does a clause determine if a team is "trying to win" or not? There are minimum salaries, you can't kick someone out for paying them, it wouldn't be the minimum if it wasn't enough. Plus EG isn't the only org paying minimums

There is a minimum salary of something around 40/50k a year for players if I am not mistaken, a coach and someone to post stuff on social media. That's the minimum, other than that I believe teams get more money depending on other factors, but regardless, the minimum is easy to cover

It was just a stand in as sixth for the off season

Fair enough

They can, but why would EG wanna do that