Pretty easy read, the lost the whole roster including the coach. The only ones left are zeddy and the manager

Really a miscarriage of justice that the OG Bonkers flair hasn't been carried over like Optic and a few others have.

Tyloo vs TEC
Surely not the Toilet Bowl to open the 2025 season

Get on the beers and queue OCE, will you have shit ping yes but so does everyone else. Racial jokes, probably but they'll at least be creative (and the beers will help you give as much as you take).

Probably wouldn't recommend to rank up, but this is a game we play for fun and this will guaranteed be the most fun available on APAC servers

Unlikely, given Overwatch (an FPS) pretty clearly is running EWC as a Lan on its Callender for 2025. Also EWC is pretty face it based so odds are Counter Strike will be their as well.

Mid year is the rough time frame depending on the game. Given the Callender it's probably at best a 1 week event between stage the Toronto Lan and the start of stage 2.

Vlr is its own style of forum (you can trace the history to team fortress tv and over.gg) I can't imagine them changing it drastically to be more the hltv style.

Also the site has tones of development work out into it, the APIs for stats and data collection. Data analytics features like vlr ratings.

Honestly for demon1 pretty sure they're just committed to the meme and leaving it

Ange1 vs BerLIN

I mean at this he probably can't play worse than he has already

https://www.vlr.gg/371266/kr-esports-vs-cloud9-champions-tour-2024-americas-stage-2-ko/?game=178819&tab=overview

Also since you mentioned it, tenz also had a better year on kayo and zellsis played kayo everytime they played Ascent in the regular season what you on about.

Even if you think xeppa wasn't part of the teams environment issues.

Your delusional if you think he had a better year than heat or zellsis did and they all played flash initiator flex (kayo, breach and some flexing) also stats don't tell the full story but results do.

That and bro was a bottom 4 player for his role in Americas last year (and since you ain't looked at this list he was definitely worse than; zellsis, heat, king, johnap, Asuna, saadhak and then you could make an argument for him playing better than Ethan and nature but it's not a strong one either way. With better players on the table in T2

Whether everyone likes him and whether he is good for the culture are mutually exclusive.

Bros a vibes merchant on the team that is making repeated roster moves because of a poor environment.

If that's not grounds for replacement I don't know what is.

They probably don't want to pay for one at this stage.

SPG branding clears tbh, surely they could have been forced to compete as like Sin Prisa Nongshim (like the giant x name) to prevent another boring black and red brand in vct

Bro's takes so hot, its burnt. That or it's a flag check moment

Bros just vibin getting his free degree.
But also wouldn't read into non-collegiate results for collegiate teams. Most of the schools don't really care for the extra curricular event, playing VCT is more of a bonus so the dedications probably not there

Seems like they had pretty high performing rosters in
Warzone, Tekken, Rocket League, Overwatch, Free fire, Dota, mobile legends and seem to have decent enough rosters to make events in most of their other games.

Also it's hard to pick another org to deserve it more, most orgs are really only having good years in 1 or 2 games at most.

My guess is that's primarily based on the esports world cup club championship which they won (granted that's more of a how many teams did you have competing than number of high placing results)

Also Saudi sponsored event so that that how you will

So she's only really being played on haven except for heretic's loss to C9. Like I would assume she will get played on sunset when it's B03 and maybe pearl. But that's like 3 maps of the pool. I was kind of expecting more, maybe bind?

I'll be honest I don't mind the buyout if they're forced to play as like Nongshim Sin Prisa Gaming or Sin Prisa Nongshim. Nongshim Red Force has really boring generic e-sports black and red branding.

Also changing the name removes the spirit and the story of their Ascension run imo

tldr let them buy it but don't let them fuck with it

The didn't buy the spot or the team, they bought the entire organization (which to be fair is probably not the most expensive org to buy out) . Think Giant X but less merger more corporate takeover.

In the same notion, a good hit of the horn goes well with a bit of swearing. Paid for the horn, gotta get your money's worth

Honestly that's not too far off the approach we use in regional Aus.

I feel like swearing at each other should just be the international standard, simple effective, gets the point across.

Autumn*

Honestly not the worst thing I've heard people say about bikers, granted I live in regional Australia so a bikes not exactly getting you far. But also, middle of the road is a pretty dumbass move especially if multiple cars are banked up behind them. Like people will try and pass and being in the middle of the road drastically increases the risk to the bloke on the bike and the drivers.

Imo a lot more people on peddle bikes need to approach the road with the motor bike mindset of "everything here can and will try to kill me any second" instead of assuming in all instances that right of way favours them.

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Idk about that one chief, did he suddenly become God's gift to valorant or is because got Super levels of charisma and would actually make the org likeable?

PGE as in the NRG Shock overwatch player?

Just a heads up, KFC in the US is literally the worst KFC in the world from what I've heard. Like do they even have zinger boxes there? Aus KFC clears

Antarctica 2, it's just penguins lot's and lots of penguins.

Yeah honestly sometimes I'm starting to think this. Like I saw a bogan roll past highway patrol with his roof literally caved in on his rust covered shitbox, ciggie in the hand held out the window. And the cops just couldn't be fucking bothered.

Probably mostly that they needed a sub. Will probably end up as a 2 way player or academy team player next year would be my guess. But of future proofing

Nah, this is OCE's year

Damn, I was really hoping to finally see babybay Jett on lan

but would you swap something for a tier 2 turk?

Do we know who's subbing on for him for the qualifier? Surely one of the pcfic players like LarOk, give some young talent a shot.

That would do it, how long is military service there? I know Korea's is like 2 years, not sure what the Turkish one is.

Surely Giant X Kr1stal

Bros not ready for when Billi Billi sign Ardiss

I was looking at the liquipedia, any reason why fut don't have ata kaptan listed. There's no rumours or announcements he's off the roster right?

Bro on holiday?

I'll be honest I thought it was pretty obvious from them trialing Mada and the way they announced it that they were signing Demon1 to play smokes full time.

My best guess would be the paperwork and discipline process behind the scenes. Likely needing a team or organisation to lodge a complaint (and if it was nrg who lodged it they wouldn't do it until they decided to drop him). Then as stated in the release from riot chet then had the opportunity to give a written statement which is more time plus the decision making on the relevant punishment. Then time to inform relevant parties and prepare a public release.

I meant it broke the record keeping, not the actual record

It broke the round records, there's no graphic for more than 50 rounds

Pretty sure it broke vlr, the site doesn't have a graphic for more than 50 rounds

We go another

Did they even program VLR for 3 rows worth of rounds?

Surely we hit line 3 of the VLR map summary

Maybe old mates just getting a few offers in then telling Geng to price match the highest bidder.

Then again maybe Gen-g just have enough confidence in their talent scouting/development after Karon that they think they can do it again. Given munchkin was a FA for all of about 7 hours it seems likely he's back on Geng so maybe a core around Solo, Munchkin, Karon and Texture to build up some new rookies on sentinel and initiator.