They are complete trolls, they could five man kill a cornered iron 1 player and still tbag and shoot his body. It doesnt bother me, im used to it, just not my style. On a global stage I wouldn't want to be known as the biggest troll (even if your on the best team). Shooting bodies has much more impact/meaning when done after a crazy shot/clutch., not 50% of your kills.

2 slots would be ok if LATAM is merged with them

That does make sense and is obviously the only logical reason, which is understandable, Riot needs to make money. A balance just needs to be found on making money/regional representation/top global teams

1000000% agree. Some of these challenger finals for stage 3 could be lans which would make it possible to merge some regions like japan and sea, and the best teams comes from there for 2 slots or something like that. Europe minus CIS/TR should get 3 slots, and thats my honest opinion

I somewhat agree...I think if that's their long-term approach it will hinder the esports success. Esports is suppose to be competitive. People expect to see the best in the world when watching a global tournament. I'm ok with fair regional representation throughout this year, to give every region a fair opportunity to display their talent, but think they should steer towards merit after that.

I edited my post should have been clearer in what I meant

just editied my post. I should have been clearer in what I meant

I'm seeing the same slots per region on liquipedia unless I'm missing something...what was changed?

Do you guys think Riot would actually adjust the regional slots for Masters 3? I think everyone's hoping for some sort of adjustment to allow for higher quality play but do you think Riot would actually pull the trigger. And just to clarify I'm all for regional representation for a game so new but would also like to see the actual best teams in the world compete in Berlin.

Should have clarified this originally but I meant the slots per region. I know there's sixteen teams. I'm talking about adjusting the slots per region based on Masters 2 showings to produce the highest quality global competition. Example taking a slot from Japan and giving it to CIS... just an example

yea i dont get it, usually with your duelists your looking for someone with cracked aim/mechanics. It's not like they're even just whiffing, they actually look like they have subpar mechanics compared to other pros

I would really love to know why they are on the duelists role? Was their acs/adr high when playing in their own region? Or can they just say "I'm a raze one trick" and VKS is just like "Okay" your our raze player

Thats fine with me too. Either nerf the price or mechanics, but they need to pick one after Masters and make a move

Riot absolutely needs to nerf the judge. Firing rate at least, the very least, 30% slower. It honestly ruins the game. You can not trade or win a duel against the judge tucked in a corner

I think it all come down to how jampi performs...he does well they win..if not they dont

for sure want liquid to win, i wanna see the best teams in the top 4 a vikings def aint that

when sage is swinging her left hand out, her hand is behind vipers body. You paused before the shot was taken

Thanks for posting a working clip I somehow failed at that

Dont know why it didnt work

Hand counts as a body shot so it wasnt scuffed hitboxes like many want to believe

https://clips.twitch.tv/create

scuffed clip lol....but not scuffed hitboxes

Watched it in slow mo and you can see that the shot penetrated the first body and just barely hit sages hand while she was putting the wall up

well said

what I was tryna say but you said it better

Jimmy Butlers not good enough to build a team around. He's a great player but he shouldnt be the best player on the team if your trying to win a chip. Their other talent is very young and need time to develop. They need to decide before next year if their going for chips in the next 2-3 years or if they want to develop their young talent. If they want chips in the next 2-3 years they need to trade Hero and Bam while their values decently high and get a player at least if not better than Butler. You need at least two star players on your team to win a chip in todays NBA

literally all of them miss if your over 10-15 meters, unless you get extremely extremely lucky

wasn't really a leaked convo, don't know why I called it that since 100t released it, but it was apparently only a portion of that actual discord call

The one when hes talking to the tournament admins about arbitrarily changing the rules regarding what servers to play on. Esports talk youtube channel did a video on it. It was a couple months ago before masters 1

if sentinels were to get a coach it would be a huge mistake, whose the guy walking out on the stage with them in the coaches spot?

In that leaked conversation you can almost feel that he knows hes useless and knew the least he could do for his team is try and get them a ping advantage

ya 100t def over doing it, they have sports phycologists before there's any real big lans or anything, and Frost hasn't done anything close to special imo

ahahaha i feel that i don't mind watching the val stream

I literally dont watch shrouds stream cuz that guy annoys the shit outta me

100%, hes a very solid, consistent, and underrated player

Effys was suspended for a year for betting on his own matches in esea. I think he was banned in 2018 and served his punishment. It's fine with me if you own up to and serve your punishment, then you 100% deserve a secong chance

https://www.hltv.org/news/24534/esea-hands-match-fixing-bans-to-effys-cardiac-cuts-ties-with-strong-legs

ahh my mistake, was def an assumption. I haven't watched ludwig at all except for checking in on his subathon from time to time

reasoning?

exactly what in said in my post

Yea but she has at least played the game a good amount of times in the past year. Ludwig i've never even heard mention anything bout val

Pokimane and ludwigs co-stream were not ideal but think they did it to appeal to their viewership that wouldn't be watching masters otherwise, whick skews the viewship count a lil imo

Having a team flair makes you a fanboy...Guess were all fanboys then. At least you know I'm not being biased in my opinion since I have rooted against Sentinels in every tournament except this one since there representing NA

This is the dumbest thing I ever heard....The pros play against each other.....Your on your mommies lap acting like you know what the hell your saying

If you really think Fnatic can out aim Sentinels your are insane

ask any EU pros if they agree with your opinion, doubt they will. Jampi uses judge all the time more then most jetts I have seen

I agree it can be boring to watch, you just gotta try and not give up sites for free, which I know is hard to do on haven. It is counterable and will be countered easily in the future (once teams plan for it and develpop specific strategies to counter it) you just have to strategically multi-flank than win the gun fights wjile flanking to take out post-plant agents

vipers post plant has been strong for months now....

Watch more of his games and your opinion will change. your saying all 49 of his kills against fnatic were eco, exits, or otherwise non-impact frags. Thats an absolute absurd statement. Think about what your saying, your just hating. I will say he is a bit over-rated and im talking on a miniscule level. I think players like shazam and sick are more valuable to a team, but over time Tenz will mature his gamestyle and jest become more and more valuable.

I think, as of right now, this would be the best option

what happened to hen1?, Im genuinely curious. Only started watching csgo a lil when val came out just to kinda get a feel of the whole tac fps scene. Saw him on furia and thought he was pretty good and a couple months later he was gone.

Of course doubt it'll help your case tho

Your really that mad and spoiled that you can't man up and take a loss on the chin. Bruh that's pathetic...