i have trace over g2 :)

*1-3, they beat lev (?) in lower finals of stage 1

i havent watched a ton of china but i watched most of the trace and edg games this kickoff, i just tend to value consistent initiator play more than duelists, though yeah kai and fengf have insane mechanics

based on my predictions but i do think that a lot of players who performed in kickoff will also perform at bangkok

Keeping up with the tradition:

Top 20 Masters Bangkok Player Ranking:

1. Meteor
2. leaf
3. Derke
4. ZmjjKK
5. trent
6. free1ng
7. Keiko
8. BuZz
9. zekken
10. nAts
11. CHICHOO
12. Jawgemo
13. HYUNMIN
14. Less
15. johnqt
16. Smoggy
17. MaKo
18. trexx
19. Biank
20. Sayf

I stick with my initial delusion that T1 will win Bangkok over G2, so I kinda have to have a T1 player in first

theyll be back stage 1, they've become the fnatic of last yr
(except hopefully they win an international this yr i beg)

nah issok, heretics played terrible today but they will be back in stage 1
i cope

i believe in the reverse sweep

most bandwagon site in history istg

they looked pretty good after moving away from the no-duelist fracture, i think most people are saying this run has been luck because bbl looked a lot more promising in their first two games and then obv bombed out, and a lot of people predicted fut to be t3 so not getting that feels like its a "fluke" when liquid just outplayed them

lots of good strats from talon but also a little one-dimensional from t1, they're just exec'ing

peak judge gameplay

vitality just insane... fut arent even playing that bad, they just can't do anything about these players

i got some spicy ones (i genuinely believe these)

Bangkok: T1 over G2
Toronto: Heretics over NRG
Paris: Trace over Vitality

i knew this would happen :) https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/8b5f8c05
(pls ignore the terrible kru call, i shot my shot and missed the court)

comes down to 12-team league at the end of the day, this is by far the best format you can do for a 12-team kickoff tournament
whether or not having only 12 teams in the league is a problem is a different issue

gc definitely gave a spotlight for flor to shine, so i would argue that it contributed significantly to her signing to a t1 team this year
if you don't mind me asking, how exactly would riot motivate teams to sign gc players outside of the current method? the company just asking teams to do so would not affect anything, and providing financial motivation for them to do so would likely fall under your self-defined umbrella of "inequity"

trans MTF, vlr is cooked

its pretty decent for the losing team, and speaking as the biggest meiy fan, its not like he was always farming when dfm was losing last year

unironically molsi is hitting the best flashes ive ever seen on kay/o, every one of his flashes is having incredible impact

probably? there wasnt that much reaction to flor's ace today, just like 2-3 posts

if they get to bangkok, unfortunately no team will let them pick haven

emea: 6/8
americas: 5/8 (very cooked tho, i had kru doing rlly well and got bit for that)
pacific: 4/6
china: 7/18 (messed up believing in wolves)

nah im a th fan too

dont flame, mates played good

i take back everything i said, his op is looking nice rn

bro lives rent-free in your head

uh oh

i really hope he plays neon or yoru

nah dont disrespect click, he's goated

real... what about the other 17 kills?

well i more so mean the agent gives the confidence, a lot of players play better when they're on their comfort agents just cuz they're less concerned about when to use their util, they just know the right times

he's wayyy more comfortable on raze, it just adds so much
plus m8s had a much better read on heretics' abyss, they have no clue how to deal with a fracture they've never seen

yeah heretics looked like they had no idea how to deal with him, that round where he ulted into back A site to take out benjy and benjy had no clue what to do felt very planned

i hope so

feel like mates rn are too individualistic to beat heretics (although i'm also a little worried), i'm actually way more terrified that bbl will beat heretics if heretics beats mates

bbl fnatic was scrappy but hella fun to watch

they lost to heretics at champs

so glad his team is better this year, really wanna see dfm qualify for a lan somehow so we get to see this man farming on an international stage

i aint gon lie, i started supporting dfm after that one time sideshow said he would detonate his house if they won the league, havent given up hope since

depends on how the map veto plays out, but i lean nrg

while i agree that tejo needs the nerf (personally i think just making the salvo non-rechargeable is enough), i dont mind cypher and kj having less play than vyse and deadlock, its new and interesting

the recharge is a bit op but also it does force people to play less congested positions on defense/post-plant, which is a fun change of strategy

i mean, sen and nrg are like 100% both making champs though lol

100T have some rlly good protocols, that bonus round on attack where asuna fast satcheled into heaven with the stinger to ensure close-range fights was really well set up

as someone who predicted that c9 would beat nrg... i think they're still going to at least make finals of one lan
team will improve over the course of the tournament imo

i have c9 winning today and then nrg making the full lowers run lol

fun fact all 4 NA appearances in the last two internationals ended by being eliminated by an emea team...

overhyped but they're still a great team, kc always starts out the year hot bc of engh's stratbook

in before kc wins on bind
(this isn't a joke, kc's bind looked insane two days ago even accounting for navi shenanigans)