That's the problem of the org. If an org can't make a good roster, why would this org be deemed good enough to have a slot?

IMO that's the fault with franchising at the moment, it's supposed to be a league with all the best teams and all the best teams, and there you see them building shitty roster over and over again. There is no draft like in the nba to get your talent who you can build around

Then it's even more of a waste that they still suck despite the talent pool

Trying isn't enough for me, I like the fact that they are trying, just that they need to pop off completely this year

Only for that core to come back and do nothing this whole year.

Remains to be seen if they work. If they do make it work, then I guess I would put navi on the chopping block, the roster has suffered a consistent decline

Curious, is it this year's result only, or you consider previous years as well?

Americas:
EG
C9
MIBR
Reason: keep making the cheapest possible rosters without any interest in winning
EMEA:
BBL
GiantX
KOI
Reason: BBL are the worse Turkish team, KOI and GiantX are just making mid after mid rosters with 3% chance to pop off
Pacific:
DFM
Global Esports
Zeta/T1
Reason: complete and utter shit
Summary: these teams might still possibly improve but at the moment their stints in franchising have been utter disappointments with little to no hope

Based statement, and this is true for most initial switchers

No way US cannot field a top 3 team

What's even the point of them existing in franchising just to be shit

Average thorin interaction

I mean that's the case with most CS pros who left for valorant. Either not good enough to get the money in cs or too big of a bag in valorant

it is not a complete life changer, just when you get to 144 or 240 hz you just cannot go back to 60

liked the sacy speech, still felt like a huge meme knowing he will then go like 4-17

tier 1 - your majors, Cologne, Katowice, has all of tier 1 teams.
Tier 2 - no tier 1 teams
tier 1.5 - a couple of tier 1 teams mixed in with the best of tier 2, giving you this weird state of the event being somewhat relevant but at the same time being a mickey mouse cup.

I mean I still have cs over valorant, but I enjoy valo as well. RN cs is on tier 1 break, you only got tier 1.5 events but soon it will go with tier 1 event streak before a major in december

ex-teammate of chet in stanislaw, one of the only american talents in JBa, 2 imports from eu in susp and phzy and a south african sonic. IMO it's a solid team who, with tier 1 practice, will be a great representative for NA but I think they need a coach input

ascension, and after that other games. Kinda the reason why I am here, found Champs directly during Cologne Play-In ( tier 2 stage) and got interested in valo

Probably back to CS, a team like Wildcard could really do with a coach like him

the NA teams. even if the talent pool is reset, NA talent get the opportunity to scrim vs tier 1, SA won't have that

Anyone had these games, has this games and will have such games. Those denying this are either delusional, liars or both.

Yet Real still boasts one of the best benches in the world. brahim, guller, endrick, modric, alaba, lunin, are all great players. They have Carlo Ancelotti who is probably the best player manager ever, bro knew how to talk to everyone, from Zlatan and Ronaldo to James and Marcelo.
And losing players is also normal. They lost Ozil and Di Maria in 2014. You know what happened after that? 3 UCLs in 4 years

Worst trend ever, ruined football logos (Juventus as an example). The only esport simplification I liked were Fnatic, Gambit, Navi

I liked their 2018 Logo

I dislike Gentle Mates logo, looks like a fucking NFS Most Wanted spray on Volkswagen Golf

I think it's a promising sight, Sinners have wiped the floor with everyone at those quals, and Eclot with Unity have got a solid 3-1 (with their only losses coming in a bo1 stage). I generally like where cs is heading, Portugal is on the rise, LATAM, Brazil, Mongolia, Czech, hopefully NA, Sweden, France, China to follow

Oskar is the face of the scene, bro is like 32 yet shat on the entire RMR closed qual. And it all happened out of nowhere for everyone, just 3 Czech teams all thru. then you compare it to only one polish, two ukrainian and 4 russian and they seem like a huge outlier

I honestly feel like gege forced himself into the sukuna gauntlet by killing off all the evil except for ken+suk+uraume.

they basically all got washed, now
Snax is IGLing in G2 and TaZ is his coach
papito is a streamer
byali is retired/stremaing
neo is coach on faze
newer generation of players had a flash in the pan performance in Katowice 2024 (with gla1ve on ence), they have got some talent spread out tho, like ultimate making liquid a stronger team, siuhy leading young mouz to new heights, mhl being part of Talon in Oceania. Probably the other scene I think will pop is the czech scene, 3 fucking teams on the rmr is insane for such a small nation

true, but then you get places like Cologne or Katowice where german and polish teams are utter trash yet the fans still turn up.

trick question, fnatic won the two events before that and lost two games in a row in the upper and lower brackets so that makes them the biggest choker

all good brah

there are no stronger words you have ever uttered in your life than those which you meant when making this bet.

mickey mouse event by all standards, wait until Bangkok buddy

probably her and Kashimo are two characters who got completely shat on by the story. Both were hyped to be special grade level, yet both got shat on by a direct counter to them. Also speaking of wasted potential, you are telling me Kashimo, who is probably the fastest in the verse couldn't dodge the slash yet fucking Kusakabe blocked it with a sword and Miguel danced around that shit?

I mean it's quite underwhelming, like seeing 2 guys immediately sending sucker punches in a bar before a drunken ''fuck you'' ''no, fuck YOU'' exchange

it seems so underwhelming... Higuruma, Kusakabe, YutaJo still off-screen btw.
YET THEY SHOW THIS BITCH ASS WITCH GIRL, FUCK YOU GAYGAY

I dunno what the fuck navi are doing in valorant, NGL

entire story went to shit with best girl Yuki dying, she was essential to the plot

uraume thanos snapped. Yuta left lying on a ground like a hobo. Domain Expansion not explained, Heian Era not shown. The only W is Sukuna looking like a slime but other than that it seems like an L

both has been eliminated in groups.
both shat themselves
both haven't made a single international event since.

all it took was one sentence to resort to stfu? damn bro u soft

brazilian crowd is good as long as brazil is winning

why is he a fucking branch now

it's more about TtK or time to kill. If you think it's faster to tap a head than spray, then go for taps. I have seen some pros just intentionally going for body shots

I don't think val can pull it off consistently, probably older esports like LoL and CS will be the first

language, for example. esports is just too far away rn, and also holding more IRL events is just not really viable in big countries like USA imo. Sen fans are all over the world, I really doubt they have a set popularity point. take navi for example, they are an org with fans all over the world, but most of them are in Ukraine, so it's logical for navi to pin themselves down in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, its most populated town. same for vitality and karmine corp in france. That's where I would change the subject a bit, some orgs have a bit more flavour simply to being one of a kind in its region. Navi is the only Ukrainian org out there, karmine corp and vitality usually start off with french rosters and then change depending on success. most NA orgs feel the same for me. like alter the players here and there and strip their jerseys away and they feel the same.

what common ground do they have?

cuz all of them are in LA, except for EG who are in Seattle. It is not Boston vs Philly rivalry, it is not Houston vs Dallas or Chicago vs Detroit. It's just one LA team vs another LA team