oh heck yeah, glad they get the rematch
the imt players seemed like they genuinely wanted to play out the original match, I hope they put up a good fight

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5fa3b900
#signdartmonkeys

ooooh this is a great rematch, was close before and there was a bit of twitter beef afterwards, so this should be spicy

thanks yep lol

I really think MSF deserves to qualify to playoffs, but they just got unlucky with their lower bracket matchup :/ in series three they're gonna roll everyone that isn't SR and C9, florescent is going to make this team incredible

they were two minutes late because the riot tournament client is awful, and were forced to ff because of it. total bs

lev is the last team yeah, groups are gonna be wild

watching a combination of knights tournies and apex legends

heat? not good with raze

the fact that aproto is on none of these lists is criminal

SF Giants fan here

To be fair, I think NA is in a similar but not exactly the same spot

In EMEA, it seems like it's FNC so far above FPX, and FPX so far above everyone else.
In NA, it feels like Optic is decently far above the rest of the competition, but there are like six teams in the tier directly below them. I think I'd say that there are very few regions that aren't just one team regions, given LOUD, DRX, FNC, NA, KRU. I think APAC and Japan are the only regions that aren't.

Guild underperforms dramatically, and kru does better than expected.
Optic loses early in playoffs but makes a huge lower bracket run
And I don't really think it's a hot take to say that one of LOUD, FNATIC, and OpTic win it, but I do think it's going to be incredibly difficult for anyone else to break top 3

that's basically exactly the comment I was going to leave, I agree with all of your points

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are you saying there's caster bias because they're using more syllables for one team than the other? Because that's absolutely absurd

Banger match. Ghost 2-1 Eg

good kid just has so many excellent songs

Derke
Marved
Stax
Sacy
Laz

as an NA fan, derke better

aproto, cause he's a super chill guy and also pretty entertaining to watch

you're also missing xeppa but I agree otherwise

you were saying?

dd8 ≠ ddk

and ddk isn't a coach anyway

Ghost 2-1 100T

EG's got a chance, jawgemo could just go insane

LG 2-1 SEN

imo people are underrating both ghost and LG, I'd say ghost could beat 100T and TSM, and based on how both LG and SEN played in the open qualis I think LG looked a decent margin better

everyone’s doing it. I’m excited to see people realize that any ghost player can carry the team at any given moment. they’re gonna make it past groups

yeah, they said they were on a timer and the timer was up. no more Nearest Airport, sadly

...tell that to optic?

I feel like soar is the one they snuck in there lol, NYFU did quite a bit better than soar last qualifier

imo ghost still has a decent chance, I think it was koalanoob that posted on twitter that the night before qualifiers the airbnb the team was staying at got robbed, and they were all up until 9AM. given that, I'd guess they were all just exhausted

nah, mel and roy are a couple, not randy and kat as far as I know

maybe a BBG main roster?

wippie, moose

GHOST aproto, but I woulda taken Vanity or Xeta as an answer too

FaZe didn't drop him, Envy bought him I think. He was basically the best player on FaZe, or at least up there with Babybay

this is probably going to be difficult based on my flair, but go for it

I thought they had a chance to qualify for Challengers 1 closed, and now that johnqt is igling and aproto is just excellent, imo they easily make it

agreed, anyone who 13-5s knights on ascent is gonna make a run in the closed qualifiers

it feels like loud and liquid are both doing better with gun disadvantages than they are in their gun rounds

my take is that optic is kinda inconsistent but when they're doing well they're almost impossible to beat

imo bind B site needs a rework, it feels like there aren't very many ways you can actually hold site once you've taken it on attack

I think I vote sideshow

AND THE DUO GETS TO STAY TOGETHER TOO

okay but none of 100T, EG, and SEN are in the top 5 NA teams imo. SEN could be fourth or fifth maybe. the best teams in NA rn are c9, OpTic, the Guard, V1, and then a toss up between XSET and SEN for the fifth and sixth spots, at least from results so far.

jerk
kehmicals
c4Lypso
pr0phie
dawn
the rest of DZ (andersin, ange, KOLER, Harmon)
Cade3k
Temperature
ALEKSANDAR
the rest of ex-Radiance (you have venture, but also FIEND, Rebo, cheatcode, sSef)
pl1xx
dizzyLife
the rest of Bait Academy (geeza already signed, but ZexRow, Trick, Menace, Jangler)

I don't see how BabyJ would ever want to re-sign with 100T though, like how could you trust an org after they drop you after five maps not to just do the same thing again?

without the new patch, I'd put c9 and the guard at almost the same level, but since c9 has actual practice running comps without astra and viper already I'll say they're my pick