This quote is too good lmao

L NRG got double swept by CN's second team lmao

It's actually funny how I literally went to bed right after posting that comment.

Bro thinks PRX flairs care lol. Have fun losing to a no igl team lmao.

lmao, bro believes EMEA is gonna be good soon.

Yeah, but FNC has literally no match experience on the map, and they clearly do not want to play it. If FNC is only perma-banning it, they know it's their weakness.

FNC has legit only first banned Pearl, they clearly do not want to play that map. I'm sure they have some idea of what they want to play in the event they are forced to play it, but they definitely don't want to play it. This is their major weakness and it is not up for debate. They have no map experience on it which is massive, even for FNC.

Ok and? The point could be applied to any scenario, but the likelihood matters here too. FNC just aren't likely to win Pearl against any good pearl team.

Sure it's prepped, but it's their perma-ban for a reason. If they felt like it was a good map for them, it would not be their perma-ban. Also, scrims don't equal match experience, and even if it did, the map still won't be as good as their other maps. Also, FNC only ban Pearl, even against EG they wouldn't ban anything else.

who tf believes that? If anything Loud is favored after their performance against FNC, granted not by much probably, but still.

Map-wise:
PRX bans: Haven Lotus
PRX: Pearl
FNC: Split
PRX: Ascent
FNC: Fracture
PRX: Bind

PRX is favored in the map pool or a similar map pool.

That doesn't really matter because they haven't played it in a match. They have no map experience on it, and if it were really that good, it wouldn't be their perma-ban. They obviously have something planned for it, but it must not be very good.

I agree, but because of the map bans in the grand finals. They'll be forced to play pearl and any good ascent team could be them there. That just leaves one more map needed to win, which any top team could find it.

FNC literally have one of the best Havens wtf

Fax

It's just cope to find a reason why their favorite team didn't win, or why a team they hate, won. Ignore it, every team won fair and square.

Bro stop, I was at the first giants vs edg game, and the crowd was literally just edg fans. It's just NA fans cheering for an NA team, at an event in NA.

? They were literally chanting USA

DRX 2 - 0 BLG
EG 2 - 1 EDG

d4v41 and boostio are deffo not the worst on their team. Also, pancada and buzz are debatable, but pancada is fair ig.

A more accurate team is probably:

Tacolilla
saadhak
C0M
pancada
mindfreak

Feels like it balances out to mid lol

No loud is a South American team. NA and SA are sub-regions of Americas. So for Americas they're together, but otherwise they are different regions.

I don't get what's the big deal, so what people cheer more for fnc than loud? It's really not that deep lol. Maybe people are just excited to see FNC play smh.

The lack of self-awareness is unreal

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cope

Ok and? Any of those teams could pop off and win. PRX placed top 3 with a sub, and DRX placed third at last year's champs. Either of those teams could break through and win.

cap DRX, PRX, EDG. Try again lol

Nah, it's just loud is good lol.

These are some boring ass comps fr, this is why we need PRX to stay good smh.

The fracture hate is crazy, that map is underrated. It's something different, and it's fun to both watch and play.

I don't hate this move. The core is stacked with talent, and if Marved can improve as an IGL, SEN could be dangerous next year.

yeah, DRX just beat LOUD, and peak DRX is better than peak EG.

I never said 13-11 was the same as 13-1, I'm saying close maps don't mean that much if you can't win. You can play a ton of teams close but if you can't win games you lack the ability to finish games, which is what separates good teams from great teams.

LOUD all day, I just wanna see FNC lose and all those EMEA fans cope lol.

So what, TL and NAVI was close and TL couldn't even put up a fight against LOUD. ZETA has a close map against NRG, and EDG second map was close with PRX. But all those teams lost 2 - 0, and that's what matters. NAVI turned out to be a lot better than TL, NRG destroyed ZETA in the next map, and PRX was just better than EDG. Close maps don't mean much if you just can't win.

But this literally proved my point though. Americas has had the most teams in the top 8, making them the best region. And for EMEA they've sent more teams than any region and barely beat out the Pacific and couldn't beat out Americas. Yeah FNC is good but the rest of EMEA isn't and that's literally backed up by how teams have done this year.

They got 2-0'd by EG, wdym almost beat? FUT literally just had to beat T1, who were not playing that well. FUT is mid asf and that has always been the case.

If we get peak LOUD that game will be a gigabanger, but regardless it should be a really good game.

1. FNC
2. PRX
3. DRX
4. LOUD
5. EG
6. EDG
7. BLG
8. FUT

Mid team, T1 just played worse. They're gonna get rocked by PRX and one of FNC/LOUD.

If this is true it just comes down to how much Marved can improve as an IGL.

This isn't about a hypothetical player, this is about the average beginner player. And that player doesn't know how to aim, or can't aim very well, and has to play for a bit to unlock ranked.

Bro, they went from and 0-9 team to winning 5 games in a row and winning LCQ. And tbf to them, their group was kinda hard and they had less time coming from LCQ. They in no way choked IMO.

Why is KRU at 4? They legit did the opposite of choke, they clutched up their season and won LCQ.

But what player is going to practice just aim until their aim is decent enough, and then play? New players are just going to pick an agent and start playing probably long before they get a grasp on how to aim. Reyna is literally the smurf agent for a reason, because it's about how much better at aiming you are than the enemies. She's not good for someone new, because figuring out how to use utility to benefit your team is often times easier than learning how to aim well.

Reyna is like the worst for a beginning player because your aim needs to be good. If you're not fragging with Reyna she's basically useless.

They just choked smh. Like they did all the work of getting into playoffs and getting a good lcq seed, and all they had to do was win a couple of games when it mattered most.

Brim feels easy to me, but maybe it's because I'm a smokes main. Either him or Sage is probably a good stater agent.

C9 really had to choke so now we get this shit smh. 2 NA placed top 4 at Masters Tokyo but ig that's forgotten now.

I'd accept a swap between EMEA and Pacific, but if DRX is good again this is how I see it. Americas has been the best region this year and it's indisputable. At lock-in, while EMEA had two teams in the top 4 (FNC/NAVI), Americas had 4 in the top 8 (Loud, NRG, LEV, 100t). At Masters Tokyo, NRG and EG both made it out of groups and placed top 4, while the best an EMEA team could do besides FNC was TL, who won one game and then bombed out. Tbh idc how you wanna rank them, as long as Americas is number 1.