i only saw him play once against v1 as girlkissers, if hes as good he should be picked up in no time:)

yes, thats why i added them here, i think cned on chamber is a great idea tho

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check na and eu's pickrates, its a hell of a difference, especially after it was nerfed to 1 trap, cross out weeks 1 and 2. cypher beats chamber in pickrates on ascent split and fracture while 50/50 on breeze, compare this to NA, there's chamber everywhere. and remove these 3 teams, you barely see any chamber

eu really doesnt like chamber, it plays cypher over it most of the time except for bbl, acend and fnatic

i hope its a good map, i really like fracture too unlike most people so im excited

agreed dart monkeys best in the world YAY

sentinels is funny, atleast they own being dogshit

fusion from latam north is looking strong rn, like they could beat kru, they probably wont but theyll definitely beat nip.

optic and xset wont make it (imean they might but my hot take is that they wont)
guild wont make it, liquid look fundamentally strong with dreamas rn and m3c is looking horrible fundamentally rn so unless theyre a brand new team next week, they wont make it.

otherwise solid opinions all these teams have a solid chance of making it so cant rly argue these are just my opinions

wardell, if teams can encorporate him like optic encorporates yay, they can easily be a great team, they just have to make sure the game doesnt revolve around them
babyj-ranked demon sentinel, hes probbaly too aggressive but some teams might like him, i heard hes very arrogant and leads to teams not picking him
ALEKSANDAR- he probably has aim better than yay but he doesnt have the discipline, with a good coach, he will flourish
ANDROID- nrg didnt lose because of him, hes definitely top tier flex and deserves a team
b0i- he was one of the best players and almost got bbg through during the first open qualifiers, deserves a team for sure
jonaa6- great flex player he was rly good on andbox

will the new map be playable in coppenhagen? how long was it before fracture got into pro play

thanks, ill try getting better at the game myself too

i listed why i think they arent top 3, mark this thread and come back when they dont make masters, i mean they might too theyre a great team i never said theyre bad

i care and i posted it coz i felt like it

first, ill start w the teams i think are the top 3.this is my opinion, if you feel like i left a good team, i have my reasons but again, its my opinion.

100t, ghost, eg

100t plays really well as a team, is hard to read, have simple but great strats, a shit ton of potential to improve and if they make coppenhagen and get good experience, theyll be a top team
eg has insane strats for eco rounds and full buy rounds, great comps, get the meta perfectly and have players that can actually fit the roles the comps require, insane util usage , they need to get their fundamentals a little bit better and theyll be a top team too.
ghost is similar to eg, but their fundamentals are way better, they play like the guard used to in stage 1 and nismo is definitely top 3 flex NA.

now ill go to teams that are great but have some flaws
optic, nrg, xset

optic- won masters, deserved it, great team. but they wont make masters 2 in my opinion. they have great comps, great igl, INSANE individual players but so many of their rounds come down to hero plays by yay or marved, i vod reviewed their game with lg yesterday and they failed to convert a LOT of first bloods into round wins and they won so many rounds just coz an individual player clutched up, i feel like teams i mentioned above will punish this.

nrg- great individual players but theyre the team liquid of NA, they try too wacky comps and most of the times it ends up not working coz they dont play to the strengths of it, they play passively with an aggressive comp for example, the only time i saw them play to their comp was vs guard on split (they didnt on bind either), if they fix this i think they can make it but rip lower brackets

xset- the 4th place team, i always wondered why but when i saw their games, it was apparent, they are too readable with strats, basic. zekken cryo and depphh are great players but depphh plays too aggressive with astra and sometimes plays initiator too, which is bad in my opinion because if you keep changing roles, its gonna harm you, as a result ive seen him dry peek w breach a LOT and just dying, if they fix things like this theyll finally break their curse

now, lg and faze

i really dont think these teams are bad by any means btw they qualified for a reason, lg doesnt deserve lower brackets either

lg- great mechanically, but they have fundamental issues, i vod reviewed them yesterday, they couldnt smoke a chamber trap, they couldnt play to the strengths of their double duelist comps, but hey mada is top 3 raze for sure, bdog is insane, moose is a great sentinel, they can make it for sure too but theres so much they need to fix, rn they have the rosterless buff and it would be really funny if they made masters from that pov lmao.

faze- babybay dicey and supamen carry this team im not even kidding, they really really come down to hero plays by them, insane players btw but again as a team theyre just too ranked game rn. supamen is a great smokes player tho, ihave loved him since rise.

i would agree w this but i vod reviewed optic and lg's split game yesterday and i felt like i was watching ranked, maybe it was just that map but optic failed to convert 5 5v4s and bdog didnt plant thrice costing them rounds (one of them was a 1v2 so ignore that), theyre great players and teams but theres a lot to improve, ghost 100t and eg, (xset has good fundamentals but theyre too readable) even emea except for fnatic fpx and acend(theyve improved a lot) needs to improve a lot

i read about this overwatch coach who was basically silver and it really inspired me, i really think im not full of myself and i really want to try

i feel like i have a good grasp at how the game fundamentally works, im like really really dogshit at aim, but i really feel like i can help a team develop pocket strats and genuine strats good enough for a t4 team atleast, i obviously need experience first and idk where and how to begin so, help?

i think if any team other than optic makes first seed guard go to lcq, but if they're 2nd seed and get grouped, i think guard makes champions

they have the right ideas but they really really need to work on their mentals, that 1v5 shouldve never happened, they dry ran into multikills so many times, i really hope they get better for lcq, its going to be a fun one, heartbreaking that only 1 of c9 and so many teams will make it tho

bruh i fell for it

honestly, mixwell was EU shanks, way too inconsistent to rely on, its better for him to focus on content and better for g2 to hunt for a more reliable player

i know the guard are losing recently but valyn is definitely top 5 smokes NA, his astra util is different

its crazy how anyone from group b can be in the lower bracket rn based on how they're playing, eg or lg being 4th seed is hearbreaking and that really sucks

definitely up there, man's insane w both aim and game sense

yeah lmao they didnt lie tho

for me its ange1, he might not be the best fragger but i think he grasps the game the best rn, yes fpx lost yesterday but ange1 igling is great

tbh he hasnt had the best decision making recently

dont get me wrong marved is a great player and so is yay and yes theyre definitely contenders but derke rivals yay and for smokes there are so many players of the same caliber as marved, the way some people play around their smokes is beautiful and marved is definitely up there

imean everyone can have opinions, of course theres no objective best player, doesnt have to say anything about a persons iq

yeah its like m3c are collectively deciding to throw and forgetting to tell nats, its sad really

for months i considered chronicle the best even tho m3c didnt qualify but after what he did yesterday i seriously doubt it, so who do you think is the best rn?
please dont look at just raw kills and acs tho

aged like milk

both teams played real well, mith had good fundamentals, enigma had great strategies, couldve gone either way tbh

lmao people are screaming at excali when tbh the 1v1 couldve gone either way, the viper held excali for a long time and played it really well too, people forget everything he did all those rounds to even get the team there, i guess theres no satisfying trolls. also enigma looked real good, better than GE or velocity has ever looked, they have another chance

breeze is fucking boring im sorry i agree with everything else (atleast ascent is seeing experimentation w yoru fade and breach now) but breeze is literally the same comp every game the only difference is chamber over cypher sometimes, its boring and one dimensional and i hate watching it, playing it is fun but i wish theyd make mid less attacker sided

optic will get first rounded after being 2nd seed, this isnt because they lost to eg my hot take is independent of that

if nrg beat 100t and lose to the guard and tsm beat xset next week and ghost beats 100t theres a 4 way tie idk how they work but tsm needs to win GOOD

you didnt look at the util eg brought to stop yay from just chamber diffing and being yay, your aim can only get you so far, yay is a great player and he had a great game everyone misses a few shots but he more than made up for it, the util from eg was insane

STATS

well, i did not expect them to get bind from optic fucking gaming but damn

https://youtu.be/LRo9m7oBsCo
him, hes pretty scary

i think they'll definitely put up a fight, but saying this against optic is ballsy, hope it happens tho!

i hope i see a great game, im rooting for eg but ill be happy if optic wins too this is going to be fun!

no one threw, they played as a team, xset was simply better on icebox, split was a great game but the guard looked dominant on haven after a 0-6 start, people on this site have like 5 braincells combined, losing a very back and forth close game doesnt mean a team is washed

no one is mad, it was a great close game came to the last round, your baits are bad also g2 is washed

if valyn had used the suck in that ninja defuse round guard would've won, great game, ggs

holy fucking shit that was nuts

i swear xset will win everything if dephh stops dry peeking, breach util is so good he just doesnt use it for himself when he's alone and it is getting him killed.

hm this clearly aged well