To be fair, ask a team if they're satisfied only winning a masters, they will still say no. (Hell most teams probably wouldn't be satisfied in just winning champs)

Idk, kinda sits around the 2022 Reykjavík level in my head. Yes, it is a big lan event. But there's also all the asterisk on it. In this case it's right between a masters event and international play starting again. A couple subs and roster changes.

At the end of the day the grand finals was a 3-2 reverse comeback holding on for dear live. Enjoy it for what it is, a good game. In an overall decent event with pretty interesting results heading into stage 2 and champs.

Actually worse than bad

Starlinks ok where I am in regional Victoria but the main Telecom options are really poor. Before we swapped we had roughly 10-15 mbps download 5 mbps upload

Idk, probably just put on a co-streamer like fns or something. Didn't look like they were blocked when I try them.

Also going to be really weird when my Nan inevitably asks me what this esports world cup thing is when it shows up on her TV guide in Wednesdays paper.

I mean it make sense when you think that EWC was almost definitely already flying AVRL out anyway to cast mid season clash (The Overwatch event at EWC)

Fair cop for the man, interesting to see Valorant start to transition towards its collegiate tier 2 "if I can't get a job I can probably get a degree food and housing" era.

Low-key will never understand how the US college's justify all the money they throw at these programs

It's looking pretty clean tbh.

Good thing paper rex would never lose a grand finals from the upper bracket.

Nah, Billi Billi Gaming were the owners of the Hangzhou Spark

God I hope they don't try and off role him onto smokes to have Veqaj play duelist.

Track pad gaming, I respect it

So not considering the bag / financial stability of signing to gentle mates.

Is it not just in Comeback's best interest to just sit back and watch them burn to guarantee 2 ascension spots and an easier run for BBL Pcific (who are an affiliate not academy team so they can ascend). I mean this team swept Emea once already and swept through their regional league twice.

Is it really worth the reputation damage from losing with gentle mates and the chance of losing a spot on Pcific if they ascend?

They literally are, they're on the partnered teams list

I mean people wanted tier 2 Brazilian talent and they signed 3 players who have never played vct before

Furias management must be malding when they blow up the roster and sign the tier 2 Brazilian players everyone wanted to see and people still ain't happy

So are they going to move Veqaj over to smokes after the EWC qualifiers or are they trying to sign Comeback early and waste it on him being forced to play smokes

Doubt it on the toxicity, could be that their fighting for their life to make playoffs and have a chance to play next year, so making changes in a no brainer. Why not throw new talent at the problem

Imo apex should follow and just sign pcfic and find subs for larok and crewen until they turn 18

Is it just the comeback signing or are more changes on their way?

Just delayed champs roster boomage, they thought they could escape the fate but no one is safe

I mean at some level it's probably riot sanctioned.

They're casting from a clean feed (would normally be used for boring co-streams that don't include the casters). The only way to get access to a clean feed is normally though the tournament organisers.

At the end of the day from a technical perspective it's just a co-stream that happens to have people commentating the gameplay.

Where's old mate Steven Bradbury. Winner of the greatest gold medal in Olympic history. Truly deserving of a spot

No, just buy Bucky every round problem solved. If you can't buy a Bucky, right click people with your classic.

Pretty much entirely because he's to young to play vct matches and will not be 18 until next year. Hence the loan to dwm in challengers France

To be fair, 6 people didn't even finish

I mean a p4 finish for albon ain't that bad for Williams

I think Yuki mainly suffered from some good old RB strategy. Wasn't really that bad to be honest.

What would happen in the case that a roster just happened to be dropped by the org in / right before playoffs. Would they be able to go to ascension as 'free agents'?

I mean, liquid could do the funniest thing and make it a 0 team region

Nah, they don't get to Lan if Sylvan was in vs gen g

Saya and carpe had good English (pretty sure carpe is straight up fluent) don't think izu really had any English though

Really going to depend on where you are in the world and what your doing.

As long as it's not some warm British crap you should be good, but for the hell of it everyone should have a VB long neck at some point in their life.

Sylvan won't be playing, only Carpe now. Carpe is inevitable

Carpe really was that guy, he had the longevity and the impact. He's probably not the aspas of overwatch (that's profit).
The closest player I could compare is probably Derke, legitimately a top player from early organized play who kept up as a star player.

It probably wouldn't work.

Face it really only exists in CS because the official ranked mode and 1st party servers are actually awful (like another level, objectively bad).

Face it have tried expanding into other games but unless it's the only option the player base just isn't there when the official ranked mode works well enough.

And it's not like they need it for their path to pro when they have premier to feed their event qualifiers.

Carpe will always be second

Idk, he seems like a pretty standard Korean eSports Dad coach (kinda rush or moon style if you know much about Overwatch).

Just needs to lean on the assistant coaches more for the play by play and stick to the emotional leadership aspect of coaching.

To be fair, the B03 vs drx was his 1st game this year with qualification pressure. Old mates been cooking since

Nothing confirmed, so who knows

Imo the only Micky mouse event was 2022 Reykjavik.

Every other event had the teams who were good enough qualify Reykjavik was the only time a top just couldn't go through no fault of their own

TH are Carpe 2.0, him and the Philly fusion are the OG perma second place team

Carpe cooked

Truely the personification of 2nd
Gets second in Overwatch
Gets second in Valorant
Man's the 2nd son of T1 (faker obviously being the 1st)

Just making his yearly international lan.

I always found it really funny that the apex match wasn't the 1st time they did this and someone referred to it as a C9

I agree, his raze is awful but everything else might have somehow been worse

To be fair they might be right.

His raze was crap that game on bind. But his Jett in the same series looked real bad -6 for the map, his yoru should never be seen again and his Brim got curb stomped.

That one raze map where he basically didn't use his until is the only map he's gone positive all year.

Honestly could have just asked bonkar to play, bonkar was Mr bottom frag but at least he was a solid IGL. Fns got neither right now

We will need a small miracle for an OCE, either the ascension run of a lifetime or some OCE org to suddenly become relevant enough for a franchise spot after the current ones are reviewed

I mean direct qual to Lan for vct OCE goes hard, let the region exist for more than 1 team to 1 event every year

Get the Macca's sponsor ship going like old OCE Overwatch contenders.

Australian army tactical mi goreng clears

Nah, bro lost the bald buff. Time to shave the head again.