yeah sure more trash teams, but 7 americas teams here could actually make noise at international events this year.
meanwhile only LOUD, NRG, EG and maybe C9 could make noise last year
the depth this year in teams that could do shit at internationals is greater than any region ever in partnerships

top 3 are definitely interchangable

its one map

americas this year is better than it was last year....

boi u want to get railed by both teams u dont really get a say

#14

i could see dropping KC to 9th, but i don't think they are worse than TL

thats not a group stage, thats like calling the 4 regions of the NCAA march madness groups....

I said MASTERS event, so no champs
Lock\in didn't have a group stage. it either had a bracket stage as VLR has or was 1 whole thing on its own
Tokyo had 1 qualification match that was close(T1 vs NRG, the next closest was a 2-1 with a 13-4 on map 3), and ASE are the worst team among it and even relative to times
Copenhagen is probably above thinking abt it more
the main difference between madrid and shanghai is that china has actually showed up this event, while it was basically not present in 4/5 games they played last time
so shanghai is probably the best of the franchising era (which is only 3 events)

i could see moving talon up to 6

TO should mean tournament organizer, not toronto

note: only uses teams that made playoffs

1. Navi
2. DRX
3. Kru
4. C9
5. LOUD
6. KC
7. Trace
8. Talon
9. Team Secret
10. Team Liquid
11. All Gamers
12. Nova

BC as in british columbia? i fail to understand how it being in british columbia would help people from NY, MI, and PA to cross the border so u must mean a different BC

LMFAO

if there's going to be an event in canda its almost certainly going to be in toronto

you must've just woke up from a coma after gambit went up 2-1 vs Acend in the grand finals.

and nAts is an emu

this has been the best group stage ever at a masters event, we'll have to see how playoffs is though
edit: maybe masters 3 berlin had a better group stage, but it had 16 teams in groups with no auto-byes as opposed to 8 teams with 4 auto-byes

there's like 15 people and a hundred emu's on oce servers though

They would run EMEA ngl. Elite with fns setting him up? Holy fucking shit

Bro how the fuck did you miss the joke…

he's not even G3 anymore he's gold 2 now LMFAO

bro ur favorite is definitely the GUN baton

oooh you only eat ostrich eggs. my bad

even on maps where its relatively the same like bind, raze still plays very differently than yoru and i don't even think wo0t plays neon

He’s not ur being trolled, he’s said he’s Russian American before

You can’t tell me that with a straight face when mfing liquid made play/ins in EMEA. Americas has 7 teams that I think could’ve made it out of groups. EMEA has 4

Be real bro

You eat ostrich?

why is it always holy cow and never holy ostrich

2022 LOUD

nope blaming u and FUT is losing to LEV

BOI

cloudy is going to sense the word gyatness and coming running to this thread to see what its about

its literally just FPX
besides FPX(and matches where its EMEA vs EMEA) EMEA is 2-5 in international events since lower brackets became the norm

average old stinky cat W

no one says this..

wrong thread

because champs was like 9 months ago dude.... you can't value how good a team is using how good they were almost a year ago

boi wtf

Lev is alduin while DRG is mirmulnir
(If anyone doesn’t get that reference play Skyrim u fucks)

by a different dragon

llll

FUT's playstyle gets countered vs any team that is more extreme than them in either direction
G2 for instance would counter them because they play more passive than FUT do aggressive
and the chinese teams play more aggressive

maybe in estonia, its not expensive at all here

bro those are so worth it, you get to go to a circus for so cheap!

regardless of level of opponent the bigger distinction is regional vs international, as the difference between international events and regional events is way bigger than the difference between regions
terms:
2021 international - 2021 EU > 2021 EU - 2022 BR

Acend was much more of a regional farmer than LOUD was....................................
acend played bind 5 times internationally out of 27 games
18%
LOUD played ascent 9 times internationally out of 17 games
53%
edit: made it 28 for acend games to match what dude said

FPX 2-0, 1 close map 1 not close map

2023 does not matter a whole lot. the map pool is different, the meta is different, FNC's players are playing differently, 100T has a different structure than 2023.
100T did not struggle to make playoffs, they were very comfortably the 2nd seed.
FNC has looked middling at best for 2.5 months, they only started to look good vs KC and great vs Fut and TH (2nd time)
100T looked good but not great for 1.5 months (they looked much better than FNC at kickoff, obviously the bot can't replicate this because the results don't match how they looked since its only 2 games)
then since week 2 or 3 of americas, have looked great, and then as of playoffs looked excellent.
Week 2 onward, 100T is 15-4, and FNC is 17-11
people are going to weigh heavier on CURRENT form or RECENT form than form long ago when betting, and since you made the bot for people to bet on, it must reflect this