Derke/Aspas
Leo
Mako
Less/nAts
Chronicle
Boaster

i think Leo is pretty clear of Sacy conversations and pANcada/tenz each only have half the body of work as Mako. Less vs nAts interesting peak vs longevity argument. Derke and Aspas are really hard to differentiate from each other but if I personally had to pick I'd take Derke's longer career. Boaster's made one more LAN and did better with worse players imo than saadhak

Oxy can be there for sure, tough call. Boo is an absolute NO DOUBTER for EMEA smokes, the region is shit at that role

ill be real i forgot about alfajer, other ones i stand by. keznit > demon1 shyy/leaf > tex last year, think it'll stay this year i think lev are gonna have problems without Aspas deadlifting and Flashback totally fine to include but I didn't cause don't know if he's gonna be on that role next year lol

who?

Mazino should be they dont have another smokes player, valyn is a fair shout though for sure. Yetujey is playing duelist cause they have a sub (AtaKaptan military service). Yeah we don't know about Primmie for sure yet. Something has the best aim itw and we know his Gekko is good, Fade looked good last year.

AMERICAS:

DUELIST: ZEKKEN | JAWGEMO | KEZNIT
FLEX: JONAHP | N4RRATE | ETHAN
INITIATOR: CAUANZIN | EEIU | VERNO
SMOKES: BANG | S0M | MAZINO
SENTINEL: LEAF | SHYY | JOHNQT

EMEA:

DUELIST: DERKE | MINIBOO | MARTEEN
FLEX: WO0T | CHRONICLE | PATITEK
INITIATOR: RIENS | LEO | TREXX
SMOKES: BOO | SUYGETSU | RUXIC
SENTINEL: BENJYFISHY | LESS | YETUJEY (this should be Alfajer I'm sorry I forgot about him)

PACIFIC:

DUELIST: T3XTURE | BUZZ | MEIY
FLEX: MUNCHKIN | F0RSAKEN | D4V41
INITIATOR: INVY | SOMETHING | STAX
SMOKES: MAKO | KARON | MINDFREAK
SENTINEL: PRIMMIE | METEOR | XFFERO

CHINA:

DUELIST: ZMJJKK | LIFE | KAI/FENGF
FLEX: S1MON | AUTUMN | RB
INITIATOR: NOBODY | NEPHH | AAAAY
SMOKES: SMOGGY | LUOK1NG | BERLIN
SENTINEL: CHICHOO | KAI/FENGF | VO0KASHU

la ny by sniper2004

you are all weird be fuckin normal

SociablEE is nuts, Sayonara nuts but only 16 so cant join next year, Lauress, SyouTa, rubkkoide, kaajak, BaddyG played at a high level before so idk if he counts, PROFEK and the rest of GoNext, DaviH, Ruxic, Jlerst, most of SAW/NAOS/Oasis, JohnOlsen, Leviathan, N0NGLAZ, DSG/Alterr Ego maybe

people don't know that invy is secretly one of the best flex players in the world

I think it’s very naive to wonder why I might bring up gender scrolling through many vlr/twitter/reddit/whatever threads including this one, if you can’t see the misogyny then you’re choosing to not see it. Anything I’m implying would apply to anyone, regardless of gender, but I’m glad you hold your same opinion for a man.

“As a public figure, not voicing opposition to something means you functionally approve of it.” I don’t even know what to say to this, I think this is ridiculous frankly but I can see I won’t change your mind. You have just decided to think that way without anything concrete to base it off of.

About Sideshow let’s just say it’s very convenient that the US is juuust before his moral boundary line and China is over it. Balla is there for half the time he would’ve had to be otherwise. (Not looking to go further, you just asked about it directly).

"As an employee, you always have the option to say "I'm not comfortable doing this" or "I think doing this thing is wrong". So even if it was pushed by Riot Production overlords, you have the choice to voice opposition. Or if she didn't know and it just happened while she was on the desk, she has the chance afterwards to say "Hey, I thought this segment was too much." But she didn't."
What are you talking about? Why do you think she didn't voice opposition? You have no reason to think she didn't LOL. You cannot claim that she is ENCOURAGING people to shit talk players be serious. You are holding, I'm really hoping coincidentally, two women to a higher standard than you are any of the men on broadcast. If you tell me that you would genuinely demand one of the other men on the EMEA broadcast to tweet out that they didn't like that segment then I'll say fine and move on. Plenty of people on plenty of broadcasts at Riot have just let segments go by that they didn't support. Assuming you think what Sideshow is doing is good and not hypocritical, that would be something worth praising, not that Yinsu should be admonished for not publicly saying she didn't support the segment. Hold the men on broadcast to the same standard. https://x.com/Tombizz/status/1796916721841754177 https://x.com/Tombizz/status/1796932650663285099 Do you not care about Tombizz doing the same thing?
Also about Plat Chat, Sideshow stepped away because of his own, in my opinion, hypocritical beliefs about China (anything you think China is doing the US is doing) so if you care about hypocrisy why don't you call that out? For the rest of Plat Chat, as far as we know Bren didn't go because his casting partner didn't go, Wyatt has never been to a LAN before no reason to think he turned down an invite and Balla turned down an invite for the last LAN cause of his young kid and presumably did that again. Claiming "the entirety of Plat Chat stood up and said we won't go!" is a very slimy way of phrasing it.

What does Steel shittalking his ex teammate have to do with Yinsu or Kaquka AT ALL? They didn't do it LOL, why are you looking for these two to have done something bad? You have no reason to think they agree with him at all. People don't clear every single thing they're gonna say on broadcast to the entirety of the broadcast team. Steel said something inappropriate because it's his own personal brand.

How does Yinsu mentioning it when it's someone close to her mean that she doesn't care if it's happening to someone else? You are holding her to a standard you wouldn't hold yourself to. If you stood up for someone in your life and some dude on the internet asked you "Oh well what about when it happens to other people?" your first thought would be "Of course I don't think it's good when it happens to other people, what does that have to do with anything." Be serious. You've just leapt to the conclusion that she is a hypocrite based off of nothing. I don't love the Kaquka tweet but to call her a hypocrite in anyway is using the same flawed logic. Why are you holding two women accountable for something a man did?

i just wanna let you know that youre an idiot

how

dumbest vlr comment in history

What t2 NA duelist did you think he was better than? I really honestly want to know

having eyes

cut their best player to sign the worst duelist in t2... brutal

this shit is racist

Poland and Spain are both pretty good but I would take France I think. keloqz, kAda, Fearoth, bramz, logannn seem slightly better to me.

I've made a world cup for about 68 teams total, not fully updated but the top 10 teams would be USA, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Russia, UK, Turkey, Korea, Lithuania and then one of France/Thailand/Chile/Finland

Crashies/Xeta/Derrek
Very easily. Trent great aim but not as good of util usage as the other 3.

me when i lie

L + RATIO + SHAHZ IS A BUSTER + OCE SUCKS

GO TO JAIL

yeah maybe the best team on paper drops 2 players and then you cut your IGL for no replacement IGL

yes

FUCK ZOMBS