lmao
Most popular Japanese player, atleast on the English side of things, is Korean

Good read. I think KR/JP are some of the few countries that can pull off a six man roster, since the players, in general, don't tend to have large egos or care about their individual stats in fear of getting dropped (unlike more competitive regions like NA/EU/BR)

They 100% have a chance to beat a KR team
If I were to rank the teams from these two regions, it would go:

1) Vision Strikers
2) Havan Liberty
3) F4Q
4) Vivo Keyd

I hope that after Champions, Brazil creates a superteam
Maybe if Immortals pull out of NA, Mibr can create one :)

True, expectations are sadly the thief of joy

Yeah, I think their goal for Berlin should be having at least one team place top 8 or above
Breaking past the top 8 will be hard though because of all of the other regions sending 'superteams' to Berlin while Brazil still doesn't really have one

Xeppa looks good and the team is looking better with Vanity IGLing
They did look a bit shaky against EG but did well against IMT

Hard to tell how good they are against T1 teams cause NRG clearly aren't one

That was NRG's map pick ;-;

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c58030e9
VLT revenge tour

Yeah, it 100% was their own fault
Sadge :/

True
But imagine playing a Bo3 and a Bo5 right after because of this shit schedule

i want to hear their comms
it's clear that the synergy of this team just isn't there

Liquid looked better than G2 imo
It's okay for you to have another opinion, but that's what I personally <--- (Key word) think

think about it this way
heat > xand for Jett
heat < xand for skye (cause heat doesn't even play it lmao)

Supercell Pay2win <<<< all

Nuturn - Lost Lakia
V1 - Zellsis couldn't keep his mouth shut, meta caught up
Fnatic - Tried to reinvent themselves, Boaster got in his own head
Liquid - Honestly might have deserved Berlin more than G2, but the who knows
X10 - Lost Patiphan + Didn't make playoffs due to weird format
Sharks/Vikings - Brazil improved a shit ton between Reykjavik and Berlin (like they are noticeably better imo)

Also there's a good chance we get G2 vs SEN and 100T vs Acend before the playoffs

Can't believe Acend or even a single EU team didn't make the grand finals
Crazy 0_0

Read something about that before Iceland
That's sick

Berlin really feels like what we were hoping Iceland would be, it really seems like we have the best of the best this time around.
I mean just look at the teams:

EMEA:
SMB - TR superteam, potentially best team EMEA
Gambit - Best CIS team
Acend - Best EU team along with having #1 Jett EU Cned
G2 - "EU superteam" (they gave themselves that title)

NA:
Sentinels - Current #1 team in the world
100 Thieves - NA team pretty much made for LANS
Envy - Has new addition Yay, can only get better with time

JP:
Zeta - Beat CR in Bo5, team that dominated ignition series is now going international
CR - New rendition of team coming back with experience from iceland

KR:
Vision Strikers - Korean superteam that now has Lakia
F4Q - "content team" with a lot of experienced players from other games

LATAM:
KRU - Consistently the best team in LATAM, now guaranteed champions

SEA:
Paper Rex - Team with 17 year old prodigy, f0rsakeN
SEA 2: Alter Ego/Bren

BR:
Havan Liberty - Insane looking Brazilian team that could do some damage in Berlin, currently destroying the region
BR 2: Vivo Keyd/Vikings/Furia

ok

How big of a prize pool do you guys think Berlin will have?

Personally I'd guess that it would be around 800k-1M based off of Reykjavik's price pool

Map 2 is really glitchy looking

Easily V1 vs Liquid
Hype matchup, especially for NA fans

Better then before, but single elimination is still pretty scuffed
Respect to Riot tho <3

I don't think he meant it as all of them in one group, but rather as those being the four 1 seeds and so on
Still bad seeding since it makes no fucking sense to have BR1 being 1 seed and BR2 being a 4 seed

Don't think this person knows much about seeding in general

OCE doesn't qualify for Berlin...

Makes me wish the entire Moon Racoon squad was just straight up signed by EG
Team looks pretty good now though

Congrats to KRU!
They are the 3rd team from Masters 2 to also make Berlin

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f67b79db
Ez 4 Ninim

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/fdbd3062
Hoping to be wrong about C9 and NRG, but I just think they both look really shaky right now

Would lose my shit if this was the format, though I doubt Riot would do it for Berlin
Maybe it'll be Champions format

Hard to fill the shoes of Lakia, wish him the best
Could definitely see Nuturn imploding after LCQ, once Solo and Peri retire

Honestly can't wait to see Bunny flying with a judge in Berlin

Luck would have to be on their side, but G2 do have some days where they look unstable af

Very large egos on the team (xand and qck)

Definitely better then F4Q (though that's a low bar since they are going for content), but being better then G2 is debatable

Also just wondering, how much Lan experience does this Havan Liberty squad have? Only player that I recognize is krain from Vorax.

Was a win, win situation.
We either got to see probably the best Brazilian team atm go to Berlin or Xand get shit on in Berlin...

That'd be too much firepower for one team

That's true that Futbolist won one regional event
But compare that to FPX who have made all 3 playoffs/regional events and you'll see how unfairly weighted the point system is :/

TR/CIS stage 1 regional masters should've been worth like 75% the amount of points EU's was to avoid this

OXG deserve their slot, Futbolist do not

Fair point, didn't want this to come of as a "hate thread" to the Turkish fans, though I do think Fire Flux > Futbolist

(BTW, this is not a TR hate thread, I'm just mad at the VCT's point system)

How tf does Riot expect us to take their formats seriously when a team like Futbolist is able to qualify for LCQ
They have literally not done anything since flopping in the Stage 2: EMEA playoffs
There are over a dozen teams that deserve the slot more, some of which even come from Turkey (Fire Flux, Digital Athletics)

To add on to this, why isn't the EMEA LCQ (made of 4 regions) not at least 10 teams like NA's

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeadHealthyPuppyBrokeBack-KguhGU3xIfFvyObR

ikr, insane IGLing + Coaching must've led to SEA teams being so good at fully retaking the wrong site

Watch him get poached by TSM in a month

Also this is just a little poke at the fact that EU says "NA <insert bad play here>" whenever someone fucks something up

I wouldn't go as far as to call Shahzam that, but people do have to remember who he was before he found success

Now watching him on stream and hearing the stuff he says to ranked players, I can only imagine what would happen when he is no longer successful and can't say he is on the "best team in the world" when he doesn't want to take the blame

Trash talking makes the games more hype

Cheering for the bald man this weekend :)