it was a strat that they used before and won so maybe that

16.1k viewers btw

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EDG's game plan revolves around creating scenarios to get the most out of Kang Kang; is what I've heard. I haven't watched the games but if that is true then you cannot blame the ability of the team, maybe more strategic depth.

Lock in had a bad format, but it is still the only event similar to Madrid. You can do the regionals and it would still be weaker. But Tokyo would be too far ahead, thats mid season, so unless you really want to cherry pick to make a statement, only Lock in works.

All of these teams are highly clouted?

The first event of the year is usually always weaker when compared to later events. Compare Madrid to Lock in and youll see that the overall ability is pretty much the same, if not a little higher. Compare it with champs and yea its weaker.

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Yoru, Jett on breeze confirmed

True, usually I only watch the games from tournaments where a team I like is playing, but I've watched about all of them excluding some now

its double elim so no it doesnt

REMATCHES HOLYYYYY

Acting like he wasn't the highest rated player from KC lmao

I'd say some but im vary of jinxs too much nowadays

not everything is throwing :)

no first seeds cannot vs first seeds, so Loud cant vs PRX and KC cant vs EDG. During the draw the lady even mentions that the order of picking is important because of the seedings.

Tbh this draw was kind of useless anyways. In a swiss stage, you can't have rematches so that forces PRX vs KC and EDG vs Loud anyways

no its time to play league with my ekitten >.<

sorry im jusst aahh just kind of ahhh mhhmh happy righ aaaa right now aahh now mhmh both teams i love are still in mhmh

not the first time mmhmhmh

MONYETTTTT FINALLY THEYRE AWAKE

PPAERRR REXXX AWAKER RTHEYRR AWAKE AGHGHABSKAS

Still Alive Monyet Sheriff Clutch

respectable emea strong together amirite

BerLin either wins them the round or looses them the round so sad

Im so jobless replying immediately lol but I think you mentioned about putting QCK on viper since Loud runs viper on every map so I was just referencing that

I think FPX could have at least won breeze if autumn was awake

I just dont think its worth removing in form tuyz and less in their roles for QCK to have a chance at a better performance, not right now at least, maybe before split 1 its worth a shot

QCK on viper is aids icl and tuyz is such a good controller than removing him from omen sounds insane. And you are right about lacking individual prowess, that is also why they avoid running him on agents needing that, like jett and raze. That being said, I think he might fit neon pretty well since it will force him to be aggressive and he can really put other teams in an uncomfortable spot, which should give him an edge. The roles cannot be changed imo, just need QCK to lock in really hard.

Honestly speaking, a big factor behind prx winning is the individual form, and rn they look a little worse than last year. They still create the chaos, they just don't thrive in it as much anymore. Not excusing monyet though, but I do think prx will figure it out as they already stated in the interviews that they don't care about winning here as much, and pacific looks considerably more free than other regions except China

Pearl instead PLEASE NO FRACTURE

have something on breach and double stun T_T

Play monyet on neon every map and have him stun every.single.fight and then boom

only zekken for what? Also prx last year had everyone shooting well, especially d4v41

Nah you dont get me either, but its cool have a nice day

why dont you rep fut anymore :(

Ah yes the highest peak for a duelist is not the duelist player with the highest recorded acs in an international tournament

edit: not a nice list :(

vetoes weren't bad at all, both sen and kc have nearly identical maps where they excel at. Kc bans ascent, Sen bans Breeze and everything else is somewhat equal

could have passed to be a fan if he spent more time shitting on the other fans than on the players instead lol

this guys been waffling about how he used to be a sen fan and took his flair off because of the fans lmao

any run compared to sen 21 is gonna fall flat, winning the first masters ever without dropping a single map is ridiculous

simply based on roles, sen is more often to lose a round without tenz than without zekken because omen smokes and he can still entry if zekken is not there

Its mostly baiters, dont worry about it sacy is the goat

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alexa play seasons by wave to earth

Except each teams don't have the same odds, and by such each groups don't either. Champs 2023, group d had 4 teams Navi, liquid (maybe not as much), Loud and DRX, and all 4 were good enough to get through, but because of their groups they didn't qualify over other teams like EDG, Fut, Billi Billi. Now this on paper sounds harder, but is also extremely unfair to the good teams getting grouped with other good teams.

And since we are statistically talking about odds here, then again because the wider the group catalogs get, the worse teams get because usually there are only 2 teams that can hang with each other in a region. Now it doesn't look like that, but in the past it has. Americas last year was Loud and EG; EMEA was just FNC, Pacific was just PRX. So when you add worse teams, you basically get freebies in the system that give an advantage to any top tier team that ends up facing them. So when you do your odds calculation, it is not a simple even odds case, some teams will have higher odds, and others with lower, which will be treated as a free +1

I think your point would be more valid had fpx faced any team except the clear favorites for madrid

You are lowkey really harsh on fpx, they may not have looked strategically deep but individually they are a good team. Really unlucky to have faced KC and compared to the freebies in masters and champs before, they are better imo

heavy cypher meta and Loud hates sentinels too and avoid it as much as possible. If you build your team around what the meta is, and not what the best fit for the team is then you won't go far. Yoru and Neon are not any more meta than last year, jett and raze have not been nerfed, kj's nerf was only the turret mainly and cypher is really strong, but the yoru comps aren't just a way to beat it, otherwise youd see a lot of sovas too. Plus, neon on sunset is such a troll pick on paper but TH make it look like the best comp. These comps rely on individuals thriving and being dominant on a comfort agent, and if for paper rex its 3 duelists no ini, then thats it.

I may not think 3 duelist is the best comp, but that is irrespective of the players themselves. Their phoenix on pearl was also questionable, reyna on ascent and bind, yoru on bind, many comps have been questionable. As long as they as a team think theyre fine balling out with it, I'd much rather see them play well on an off meta team than get smacked around trying too hard to fit the meta imo