please remove your flair, you bring shame to all prx fans

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every event that has had a bye for playoffs

It has just been a pattern of AM first seed going out immediately in playoffs after getting a bye

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Lowkey Cooked

Americas has to be the bottom feeder region this year not even trying to diss

FUR and MiBR both 0-5 (at least dfm got a win, and mibr did get some wins at kickoff)
NRG gets farmed by any team that shows basic competence
C9 doing some trolling

Apart from the top 4 teams from playoffs (and old SEN) they all just seem not good

Serious Question how important is stage 2 for them, they are tied for first in point with 9 so they should only need a few more wins.
But I saw that the top 3 form playoffs qualify and the 4th team is determined by points. So if they get like 2 more wins they should be good no?

Now if you think about it

GEN G - GeNeRation Gaming
all 3 letters are there

So Gen G = NRG

Gen G wins you sahve

Looking back the thing that made them so good was the consistency that they had and their resilience. They had some bad losses to teams like Rise and Xerxia, and would get farmed by EMEA but would always bounce back. Granted I think they are pretty overrated but its mostly hindsight. You can say they were carried by chamber meta and while that may be true this team just had things work for them.

NRG just does not have what they did and its obvious. You can just say the players fell off or FNS was the true carry or just blame Chet, but its clearly much more than that. Whatever moves they are trying to make with the loud players or with marved will probably just make them worse but we shall see.

Even if the they somehow get the full optic reunion how good can they truly be with the current state of the game?

(inb4 y0y)

And they are not going to be playing it again anytime soon hahaha

A while back I heard 25k a month being on the higher end for val but it was a while ago, maybe franchising gave a salary boost to some. But then that brings up the question of wtf C9 have been doing.

What if everyone reset their rosters. All 44 teams start form scratch

There is no way EG of all orgs was paying that especially to those players

NRG is probably one of the ones that are doing the best in current esports, (financially not results wise) Only one ahead I would say is G2, but they are just making some questionable decisions recently.

Surely you realize typing stuff like this is an open invitation for people to clown on you

Racing is not in your blood clearly

that makes the situation even worse

LOUD, MiBR, C9 - Cant afford top tier players
EG- Can barely afford to stay afloat in esports
100T, SEN - Questionable standing
NRG - They are just stupid not much else to say
G2, Furia, LEV- Good standing for now
KRU - GOAT Kun/Messi support

Seems like half the orgs are in pretty bad financial standing rn, not looking good.

Both are in the same region calm down

idk who that is I meant specific comments made

can you provide specific examples

That makes some sense but shanghai should give points to teams other than first place since they all qualified to it. Maybe the prize pool will be 1 mil just like tokyo, but this whole new point system does not feel like its been fully thought out. Either way there should still be some good matches.

True, but last year was unique as there was no split 2 so regional split mattered a lot, this year it seems like split 2 is everything since lcq got thrown out the window. But you are right with shanghai meaning something in the sense that its still a major, but in terms of points only first place getting them just does not seem right, especially compared to 2021 and 2022 and the way those masters gave points.

How does the point system work, because kickoff gave no points for any place below 1st, same thing for Madrid. Will Shanghai be the same? 1st place gets 3 points while everyone else gets nothing. If so then what even is the point of this tournament? This just means literally everything is on split 2.

NA stay 0 trophy region

I do agree they probably aren't the greatest they have definitely improved and can probably take a map and/or beat some of the other teams if everything goes well. This split has shown that almost all the teams are pretty even more or less.

I would not mind seeing that

With the exception of maybe prx and heretics it looks like every team just kind of sucks

banned for leaving out goat mazino

This team is so infuriating, they show so much excellence and then innovate new ways to throw/choke, actually incredible.

Most of those teams will probably make champs so all good for now probably, still kind of sucks for kru and drx though.

"Look I just need to say this. That shit was not my fault, yall are trash, I mean this from the bottom of my heart yall are trash. I am going to say your name and then call you trash. Zekken you're trash, Sacy you're trash. Zellsis..... Zellsis listen to me when I say this, you are TRASH. Now the only mistake I made was letting you all play for that time, you wasnt doing shit. JohnQT if I ever hear your name compared to FNS again, Imma kill somebody, I don't want nobody mentioning JohnQT and FNS in the same sentence, not in the same paragraph, not in the same article, unless trash comes after JohnQT name. Now we lost to EG, we had a 10-2 lead. I don't even know their names I know all of yours. TenZ you're trash I did not forget about you. This does not make any sense we got grouped, Fuck all of yall, I'm out of here. Sorry ass team."

but why? they already lost to 4 teams within their region

Please stfu

wait I thought you were a supporter of them

Sorry man but that is way too much FNC, dont think anyone wants to see all that

2 more teams will get the drx treatment tomorrow.
Still have no idea why first round is single elim though

What did Chet do for everyone to call him a snake? Its not about their losses as these comments were there before this year even began

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Cloud9 has to have put some sort of dark magic spell on yay, cause ever since he got cut its just been over for him. He has not been shooting well, the util usage isn't there, the positioning is off a lot. Everything that went wrong with started after he got dropped from C9.

Also slightly unrelated but why is everyone doubting C9, they are 5-1 and beat LEV(albeit that game was very shaky from both teams), is it just because they got clapped by 100T and lost to fur on ascent 2-13?

NRG is completely out, they have no chance to make it

Mibr and Furia are both also completely out

G2 just need to get 14 rounds tomorrow and they are in while SEN is out

SEN is in over G2 if G2 get less than 14 rounds

Loud is in if they win

EG is in if G2 win

C9, Kru, Lev, 100T are all locked for playoffs while the latam teams both have first round bye

If koi closed it out against kc, fnc would have been first seed, which is kind of crazy

If both somehow get blown out tomorrow, an investigation must take place

Please drop below any and all drafts you have in preparation for if NRG lose tomorrow

Sen has enough already no?

Does this game matter at all to any team?

Even if Sen 13-0 next map and g2/nrg both lose there is no way they are both gonna get blown out. Actual showmatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMI644170o

Idk who had this idea but they should be paid more money and investigated

Are you from Miami

these t2 players have some very good aim across all the leagues. Hopefully more of them get chances next year.

I am rooting for gen g because I really like their lol team. I meant overall to win the event but you can make fun of eu regardless