C’mon, this is scarz. Their entire shtick is having a non-Japanese Japanese roster

It's a fan probably because on Riens's tracker, it still shows him as TH Riens and he hasn't played breach this act yet

edit: everyone else is probably right about it being an old clip though

bouta be:
yota - french (duelist)
yoshii - filipino (initator)
kyedae??? (idk any jp heritage players that play in other regions) - American (smokes) Alternatively: apparently, GC players don't count towards import so maybe get like shirazi??
suygetsu - russian (sentinel)
ejay - filipino (flex)

Does this mean he has a chance to join ZETA/DFM? Or is this mega bait?

https://x.com/suygetsu/status/1836915227767558569

polvi definitely has the capability to become a top 5 duelist in whatever region he plays in tbh. He looked good at some parts of the season.

Yeah, we've definitely seen T1 teams choke way harder than this. M80 is definitely more experienced and can handle the pressure better than Galorys. I think people are upset because they just want to see NA lose tbh

First of all, he was performing exceptionally well at Valiant (at the beginning of the season, EMEA was hyping him up so much), so he probably got better offers (hell, even if he did stay in t2, he probably would find a place to pay him more). From a career perspective, he was a top tier player at this point in time. Secondly, he probably saw the roster for GE before he joined, and seeing 3 meh shooters in one team is probably a mega red flag. Now, he's stuck in a sort of limbo since teams don't really want to try him out after the absolute stinker his team dropped. If he stayed at Valiant, he probably would have seen more success AND more career opportunities in the long run. Obviously, there is a lot of hindsight bias, but we can definitely say that this was not the play.

Yeah, joining a bottom-of-the-barrel team that designed the worst team known to man is not the play tbh.

GE killed Polvi's career lowkey

yeah, it's a bit rough for RA to be in the exact same situation again

That's the thing, one of them has to get dropped.

I think I would drop udotan for slowly. Slowly looked cracked af, and they do play the same roles (approximately)

Honestly, the hardest part is implementing a routine. Once it has started, it’ll be hard to break. I suffered from procrastination too (still do tbh), but I started going to the library more and hiding my phone deep in my bag.

I think TL should be higher since they're building around nats and keiko and dropping the deadweight.

Team Kobolds was them bro. I have faith.

I mean, I heard hardly any T2 discussion from EMEA as well. I only really heard about it when their ascension started.

I think this might be skewed because T2 EMEA ascension just happened, so obviously EMEA fans will be talking about that. We'll probably see an uptick in PAC T2 discussion starting 2 days from now tbh. Idk why AMER fans don't talk about ascension more, but that might be because it's very stale tbh.

Yeah ik, but Mongolian players are cracked enough to warrant having them on the team if they don't count as an import in t1.

I mean, didn't viper get lobotomized multiple times throughout this year? She went from being meta every map to meta every other map!

aspas - duelist (SA)
forsaken - flex (APAC)
s0m - controller (NA)
nats - flex igl (EMEA)
slowly - initiator (CN)

I think he'll go back to playing sentinel and probably put off igl. He's not a bad igl, but igling in a different language is significantly different from comming in a different language imo. (Comprehension is 80 bajillion times easier than output) They'll probably bring in a t2 igl or put stax/carpe on igl.

I hope the roster looks something like:

izu - duelist/smokes
stax - initiator
xcurrate - sentinel
Akame - duelist/smokes
yoman - initiator igl

Tarik about to show these young'uns who the goat igl is fr

I am praying they -carpe soon. He has his peaks, but he's so inconsistent and there is better T2 talent that are hungry for a team.

Technically, the idea behind the two imports rule is that they would import a player from the same region but not the same country (I think). The one import rule for franchising is to allow for cross-regional imports, such as something to PRX or jemkin to RRQ. Meanwhile, the import rule in T2 would allow for teams to run a more ideal team within the region (obviously, that isn't what happens). I think the best example of this is VCJ with how a lot of teams import two Korean players. In T2 China's case, the 'imports' should ideally be from Taiwan/HK/maybe Mongolia since they do have their own league.

We're Americans. We make EVERYTHING political.

Wait, didn't zombs play back in like 2021-2022? Isn't the "FNC is great" thing due to their 2023 season? idk how zombs matters here

they be looking like me out here

I mean, they did perform well, beating Fennel and Riddle Order later on in the season. Scarz also took it to the extreme, using every loophole in the book in order to build the least Japanese Japanese roster. If b1sk is willing to play a role that doesn't involve comming OR the team is willing to communicate in some English, teams would probably try out b1sk. I mean, in split 2, there were 0 Japanese players (unless you count Yotaa) in the top 5 rated players in the circuit. Clearly, it is not THAT bad of an idea.

Also, does it really matter if b1sk can speak good english? Vookashu is doing alright while not knowing Chinese in an arguably harder league. If they put b1sk on perma chamber (or train him up as a senti), b1sk wouldn't need to say anything (and hey, maybe he'll learn JP along the way!) This is especially the case since he probably won't need to say more than "They're here!" or spam pings corner "here!" or "rotate!"

ic, in my case, I've seen the riot message a lot of times (because I'm bad enough to get flamed constantly ig) Idk, the system is weird it seems. I hope you're better now though.

edit: better as in feeling better. I just realized what that sounded like mb

mb I could've sworn I saw something on it, but I'll trust the expert on this.

I wouldn't be shocked if he joins a JP team for stage 3. It would lowkey be easy money since a lot of the competition is pulling out rn

I think Riot punishes both the perpetrator and the victim (if the victim 'fights' back) actually. They don't let the perpetrator off scot-free, but the problem therein lies with how Riot punishes the victim, which is akin to the idea of zero tolerance (to an extent).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Hopefully they decide to resign or smthing because there's no way they're off the team when magnum is still on it :(

Disclaimer: I love overcooking for any region that isn’t CN because I don’t know CN.

CN:
EDG (yeah… this pick is obvious)
FPX (I heard that they were cooking with roster changes, and tbh even if they don’t, they’ll fry the competition after this break if they can return to Masters Shanghai form)

APAC:
PRX (I hope they lock in over this off season)
Riddle Order (Yes, I am predicting an ascension team miracle run. The entire team looks in form and I expect great things from them. Now, if I were a bit more serious, I could see TLN (rumors are that ban is getting the boot) or GENG (yeah… obviously))

AMER:
NRG (The rumors are lowkey going crazy, but even if they don’t get everyone they were hoping for, they still have a bonkers roster. S0m is arguably the best controller NA, Ethan and Demon1 are very good, and FNS is FNS. If they don’t troll, this team is going places (preferably bangkok))
G2 (Regardless if icy gets swapped, they are still probably #1 or #2 in AMER lmao)

EMEA
TH (they cooked this year; they’ll probably do it again)
KC (Even though they are -N4rrate (probably), KC still has a lot of room for improvement imo. I liked what I was seeing during Split 1, so if they get their shit together, they will go crazy)

-Xeppaa +seven could go hard imo.

Polish: pattitek (flex)
Brazilian: aspas (duelist)
American: s0m (smokes)
South Korean: Munchkin (igl)
Turkey: Alfajer (sentinel)

Coach: sliggy

I heard a rumor that they’re changing a rule and letting <18 players play in t1 if they ascend (I think dantedeus said it on stream and someone reported it here but I could just be wrong)

Imma be real, he was crapping on other emea teams during stage 1 lol. He was almost always pos

I think ardiis could stay in t1. His peaks are pretty good; he just needs a coach/team that utilises him properly imo

Idk maybe he was trolling

Tbf it was projected to be that way since T2 SA teams don’t have T1 scrim partners, so it did make sense to assume that T2 SA was weaker than T2 NA initially

Edit: added initially

I think if he manages to keep this showing, he might be brought in as an emergency, similar to primmie.

Money, probably.

Ah, I'm not well versed in the 'funny' (my fault). I've always wanted to know what Europeans think of their micronations (because NA does have the Caribbean countries) Thanks for humoring a lad!

isn't freeing signed to ra rn? Or can they buy him out any time?

Honestly, there are arguments to be made for other players being top 5 as well right now imo, but yeah I agree that it's very healthy for every region to be strong internationally.

Isn't Listenbourg fictional? Also, I would like to mention my geography is decent and that I'm asking the following question because I'm curious. Would you be okay with people not knowing Malta and Luxembourg? They definitely feel irrelevant at times (from an outsider perspective anyway)

I mean, I wouldn't fault people for not knowing Montengro either. Balkan history isn't that well known outside Europe tbh. Not knowing Armenia is a different story though imo.

I could've sworn VLR said that Medusa was igl, but ig I'm going insane. (Is Anthem igl?) Then, TenTen definitely could be going to DFM, since Medusa isn't great frankly.