XSET are a little underrated imo since they almost beat LEV while Melser was playing the game of his life

the MCU has been on a fast decline ever since Endgame (it peaked with Infinity War though)

I’ll save this thread just in case

lemme guess, group C and D are based but A and B are delusional?

exactly!

Group A: 1st Liquid, 2nd Paper Rex
Group B: 1st Loud, 2nd BOOM
Group C: 1st FPX, 2nd KRU
Group D: 1st Fnatic, 2nd 100T

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Thoughts?

my man, Loud and DRX are the definitions of superteams. you can't go 16-0 in your own region and not be a 'super team'

i thought ZmjjKK had watchpartied some matches in the EA LCQ?

I think the opposite actually, KRU 100% make it out of groups but LEV are going to need quite a few Melser clutches to make it out

Nobody
Zest
Surf

All NA/EMEA teams make it out of Groups

Boom and Furia

realistically they lose is groups since they've got the three Reykjavik finalists but they've got some upset potential for sure
they should permanently sign Famouz if they end up making franchising

Group A and Group D are also stacked, Champions just has such a high quality of teams

I just realized that Bleed don’t even exist anymore too

laughs in drx, edg, zeta, nth, and ons

i think i would favor Zeta over XIA if they have Tenn, but I'm one of the people who thinks Zeta are better than NTH, so I'm def biased

I don't think TGrd was ever a fluke. They did well in Stage 1 because they had a good work ethic and were practicing non stop. They did bad in Stage 2 because they couldn't adapt to the new meta in time and never had a strong read on it.

90% chance that FPX are the 1st seed in their group
50% chance DRX get grouped by FNC and 100T
10% chance Zeta Division get out of groups

Aside from Paper Rex, the top three teams from East Asia would 2-0 any APAC team

I don’t know, I don’t really hate players but I guess I like Zekken and Cryo but am not a fan of Ayrin, BCJ, or Syyko

How this list was pretty much created:
Balla, Wyatt, and Mimi hard favor NA.
EMEA tends to be favored by Sideshow.
Wyatt loves Loud.
Balla hates DRX and most KR teams.
All of them love EDG but don’t want to look stupid with predictions.

And boom! You’ve got their top players list!

For DRX on LAN, MaKo/stax > BuZz > Zest > Rb

I went from seeing 10 in every thread to just Shownu and Hasanity alts

Fnatic - I don't mind the team but the fans annoy me. Are we just going to forget that for a solid few months before Copenhagen, Fnatic fans were acting like they had already won Masters? The threads saying that they would own OpTic or Paper Rex during Copenhagen? Half the FNC fans evaporated after Masters and the remainder try to say that FNC are better than OpTic.

JP fans are definitely a lot more well-mannered then APAC fans though, I can respect them for that, just look at the APAC fans that choose to kick down SA even though they already know they aren't good.
Also where are you finding these fans overhyping their team? Most of the fans I've seen on forums don't hype up their region.

Stats are incorrect for Wardell

JUGi (EMEA)
Xeta (NA)
Meteor (JP)
MaKo (KR)
Nobody (CN)

Zeta Win!

I think Heroic/AS Monaco are probably pretty unlikely now with nAts leaving M3C, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them disband

he has an obsession

Sentinels are definitely not one of the teams at champs

you're making a controversy out of nothing. putting gender aside, if they are a good coach, they are a good coach, I'm sure they would've hired a female coach if they were a better option

Who are the first personalities you think of when you think of each region?

NA: yay/TenZ
EMEA: ScreaM/Boaster
BR: Sacy
APAC: f0rsaken
KR: Stax
JP: Laz
LATAM: keznit
CN: ZmjjKK
OCE: Wronski
SA: Skrossi

I know the org performance has nothing to do with anything, I’m just saying that they’ve been shit at managing their team and don’t deserve a slot with how bad they’ve been for two years now

Asia: Talon, Gen.G, PSG (?)
EMEA: KOI, KCorp, Heretics, Rogue (?)
Americas: TSM, T1, Fluxo (?)

Kind of close, it’s Fnatic if I were to pick one

1. Masters Berlin
2. DRX
3. Stax

Keep this thread at exactly 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes

Meteor
JoXJo
k1ng
Sylvan
eKo
Bail

Made the roster out of non DRX/DK players

WHAT A KNOCKOUT

Why do they get a free pass from criticism when they are ‘mid’.

They don’t lol, do you see the threads everyday criticizing them? All I’m saying is that they aren’t that bad and people are trying their hardest to hold onto the narrative that they get overhyped every event, even though most people placed them at 5-6th before Copenhagen. They haven’t been overhyped since losing to OpTic in Reykjavik. I don’t see other teams like XIA or KRU who place ‘mid’ consistently getting this much hate as well.

Smokes: Marved, MaKo, SugarZ3ro, Mindfreak
Sentinel: Suygetsu, yay, nAts, ardiis
Initiator: Shao, Leo, stax, Sacy
Flex: ScreaM, Asuna, keznit, Alfajer
Duelist: Jinggg, Derke, f0rsaken, aspas

I need to see EDG in Champions before judging them

he just told you the truth

You know SEN would still have to beat DRX for the slot right?

completely agree, they're still one of the best teams in the world, so they can't be bad, it's more like they're just disappointing at times

says the one who can't cope with Sentinels losing, weren't you the guy who said they would have won if they had Sick?

XSET < 100T
EDG < DRX
BOOM > Furia

Has it ever dawned upon you that NA has a much larger playerbase then BR/KR and that’s why a super team isn’t as necessary?

Main: Sprouts
Alt: Balls