I never really watched any of the Faze games last year, but I remember from the clips I saw he looked really good, though there's a selection bias with that.

Ravish is still the goat of casting.

Actually not a bad lineup.

I think EG is really invested in fostering the Boostio, COM, Jawgemo core, so I don't see it ever being a thing.

EG is the only likely one, each other team already has a player that is really good in that role, and doesn't make sense to switch up all the practice that you've had with them. Jawgemo is the only really obvious one Yay could be an upgrade for. I could also see NRG trying to pick him up since it's essentially reuniting 4 out of 5 of the old optic roster, but that wouldn't happen until next year would be my guess. His salary is probably just too high for most teams to justify.

I don't know much about the csgo equivalent of GC. Do you have much opportunity to play against male teams, even if they're t2 or is it completely separate?

Honestly depending on the day it's a tossup between Yay, Derke, Aspas, and cNed imo

Then no, probably not. I don't know for sure, but I would guess the majority of Val's player base at this point didn't come from CS. Don't think they would start playing it now.

FUT also surprised me, it looked like they couldn't win anything in offseason, but looked good against RRQ, and even pushed 100T. Can't tell if that was just 100T underperforming tho.

Based on how good fnatic looked, SEN probably would've gone a little bit further, but probably not anywhere past quarter finals. GenG comes to mind as well.

If the twitch dataleaks are to be believed, didn't he make 8 mil from subscribers alone per year (not including donations and sponsors)?

When I first started learning Japanese I had a similar feeling. It felt like every time I spoke, people were judging me to make sure my grammar was flawless, but the vast majority of people don't do that. Most Americans, and even British people, don't speak "proper" grammatically correct English. If you ever get the opportunity to talk to people, don't worry too much about what you're saying. Outside of that, I can only recommend trying to watch more things like movies or tv shows that you've already watched in your native language in English, and if you're comfortable with it turn off the subtitles. You'll normally be able to piece together words and grammar you don't know.

It still blows my mind that he's only 19.

When I hear him say "police is involved." It makes me think that he's either going for a restraining order, which wouldn't really be affected by this or pursuing damages, which could be. Bro sounds like he's off a perc right now tho.

I don't really know anything about the situation, but if you're going to be suing someone, you really shouldn't be doing a live stream and talking off-script. So many random things you can say can be misconstrued in court by the opposing attorney.

The statements about BR in 2021 were mostly true. In most tourneys, they looked like the worst region except Japan. However, they had a massive power up, and are looking like one of the best subregions in the world. They have the best team in the world, and the rest of their partnered teams look good, although more so Furia then MIBR.

Tons of people that do bad shit don't get taken to trial due to the cost, and how hard crimes can be to prove before a jury. An unfortunate aspect of most judicial systems.

Pretty sure him being blacklisted is just a theory. More likely that there's no reason to really have him on a t1 roster over any player currently in franchising, and t2 rosters don't make enough money to justify the brand risk.

Esports bubble bursting, and we're likely going to see everything become consolidated by the actual companies that make the games soon. Something like the Ludwig x Tarik invitational, or some similar summit-style tournament, can still happen, just going to be hosted by riot would be my guess.

It's worth noting that someone like Tenz who had a huge buyout isn't only because of his skill. Tenz and similar players also have huge content creator revenue that the org can profit off of. I don't watch a lot of EMEA player streams, but I doubt they're as big as NA or other regions.

Unlikely to payoff in terms of an ascension win, but they were easily the best free agent in challengers.

I could be wrong, but I thought Laz igls.

Liquipedia says sugarz3ro but I could've sworn it was Laz at some point, maybe he was just the captain tho.

Pretty sure Zeta really want to keep a full JP roster, but I could be wrong. I think ever since the roster moved from CS to val, they haven't had a single import, but I could be wrong

Tenn has proved in the past that he can pop off on the raze, and did really well on it in Iceland. I think it's worth noting that ever since Reykjavik zeta's only losses have been to what most people would consider best teams in the world in loud, fnc, drx, and Lev who are really good. (Plus two loses to tln and nth). The real issue seems to be that when dep is playing Jett, their duelist isn't as consistent, and their starts don't have a ton of depth to them. My suggestion would be move dep to Perma sentinel role or pick up something or another duelist to replace him.

Open can be healthy, half-open sounds like coping for being down bad for someone that doesnt respect you.

I think I remember him saying that he's still getting used to calling in English. Hopium that's the problem right now.

Redgar's been good imo. Trolling a little bit rn, but his icebox was good.

Redgar calling still just heavy CT-sided I guess.

He's one of the best, but probably not in top 5 imo.

Bro's talking to himself

Kinda, only because their subregions aren't as apparent as the Americas or pacific to most people.

Soulcas 🤝 Seven

Somehow surviving every roster change

Massively increasing my hopium for zeta. Looking like keeping the same roster might give them a buff.

Loud vs Zeta (unlikely as it is) at a reasonable time for Japan would probably be insane.

Probably for 2023. My guess is that it's a combination of his wrist needing time to heal, and the fact that he might not be the most up to date on the meta from his break in OW.

Yeah, but suggest is also Korean. Having three different languages on your team seems like a bad idea.

From what I've read, something's Japanese isnt the best, so the language differences on that team would've been mega fucked.

If you're referring to the no shouting/cheering at sports events due to covid, I believe that was changed recently, but I could be wrong.

You don't realize how bad you smell until you quit. While I've never been addicted to smoking, I'd recommend anyone trying to quit to at least go a few days to see how bad you smell, and hopefully that motivated you.

Both can cause lung cancer, but the proclivity is much higher in cigarettes. Cigarettes have a pretty terrible rap in America with their history, and weed is more of a commonly accepted thing among younger people. You probably shouldn't do either, but one is undeniably worse for you.

I used to have a friend that smoked, and it got so bad to the point when we went on vacation he went around trying to find half used cigarettes to smoke. I've never seen something similar with weed.

Actually difficult, or geng was just really underrated. Probably Loud 2-1

Wait until the weekend to see how bad it will be. Realistically, I don't see either of the Brazilian teams making it to the Grand final. It's possible that this isn't like CS and the crowd will stay after the BR teams are eliminated, but you probably won't know until the weekend.

Fr tho, this knights production has been so bad so far. Constant stream and audio lag + this tech pause.

Teamspeak crashed, they're moving everyone to discord. classic NA Production

I like aspas, and think he's a really good player, but sometimes I just really want to see GenG win to see the absolute chaos in some of the threads that will come out.

Yeah, I just double checked, looked like he played on Icebox v.s. fnatic, and that was it. I just remember finding it funny because he got his own hype video before the event, and they only let him play one map.

Vision strikers used to have a 6 man with Lakia, and I can't even remember if he got to play a single map.

NA never doing something on LAN after NA 2021(?) LCQ, even though that wasn't really even a full LAN.

Bro, who did those photoshops for the roster photos? That was so bad.

Absolute banger, could be 2-1 either way.

2-1 either way. After yesterday, I'm leaning to CGZ.