They've been running this comp since the beginning of kickoff and theyve made it to the gf of bangkok, chill out.

Erm akshually both masters are swiss stage while Champs is still group stage🤓

huh?

U sure bout that one chief? Its a very real possibility now.

TBH, I compare the way you should be eating spicy foods to working out, your muscles/nerves are gonna be sore until they adjust to the new conditions you are putting them under, in which case you will have an increased tolerance.

Riddle me this batman, if spicy food is soooo painful why do I feel nothing when I eat moderately spicy foods!?!?!

Benched both

“High intellectuals” we aren’t even trying with the baits anymore😭 2/8
+2 points for niceness instead of being a shitty rage bait

NRG is cursed with roster implosions to make BLG look better ong

Yes because that’s what they practiced. Ofc they are gonna be better at the stuff they are comfortable with, that doesn’t mean its a good way to play if you want to be the best team

They fell off after Shanghai last year due to leaning into less structured and chaotic gameplay in order to surprise their opponents, except they often threw rounds because of it. Now it’s just because they are trying to bounce back. Removing NathanD was honestly a good move imo, they just need time to figure out how to become a more disciplined team.

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0/8, also is this coordinated or just 3 alt accounts?

0/8

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killed 3 by himself on site in a 2v4

Me neither but I think you have to respect that MIBR can in fact be good enough to win events considering they had significantly less prac with 2 rookies compared to the other teams

ngl making this post before this match is ballsy, respect.

Ngl would probably wait for the result of this game before saying that Aspas is a fraud that joined a team that can't contend for anything

the first b is silent

Hallo

not exactly, however the influence has caused their naming conventions to be sanskrit related. Similar to how non Christian or Jewish people name their kids Luke, Isaac, Noah, Jacob etc, it comes down to the influence from the past

Its a very small connection. Basically it is thought that a Korean princess who married a Korean king way back, came from India, specifically the kingdom of Ayodhya, which is an extremely important kingdom to Hinduism at it is considered the birthplace of Ram, an avatar of Vishnu: one of the “Big 3” of the Hindu pantheon.

Indian here. Pretty much all of SEA has a ton of influence from India due to religion. Specifically the spread of Buddhism through merchants and Hinduism through the spread of various empires such as the Chola dynasty. Since naming conventions are derived from religion for those who practice Hinduism. Many SEA people have names originating from Hinduism, which is why you consider their names to sound Indian.

He was, he has said that he wanted qck for Aspas' replacement. In louds videos around the mid season, saadhak even talked about giving more control to coaches for the mid season. It would make no sense for 2 new untested coaches in t1 to have more control over the team than the establish veteran world champion IGL.

my brother in christ, saadhak was the one in control of the roster and many of the meta decisions for the first half of the season, their only good result was a fourth place at madrid because they played both of the CN teams who played INCREDIBLY poorly, and previous to that it was because no one understood the weaknesses of their comps yet in Americas.

"Only reason" lists 2 reasons, doesn't even talk about how LOUD were behind the meta the entire year. LOUD was shit because they lost their identity after Aspas and Frod left, and they didn't do a good job of reinventing themselves.

uhhh... no? I just mean your downfall needs to be studied, u went from being generally ok vlr user to average vlr user in like 2 weeks

I swear kalayavs downfall from being as decent as any vlr user can be to this needs to be studied

multitude of reasons, one being NRGs terrible performances this year, and another being how outclassed it seems he is by other initiator players. C0m, Sacy, Trent, Nzr, Verno, and some other players just seem better than him.

on the contrary, they very much have performed, they won a trophy this year, they are major contenders for champs, all of the players have shown up through various parts of the year.

LEV was not Ass at the start of the season, they had 2 decently close losses during kickoff with SEN(madrid winners), and LOUD(madrid 4th). LEV lost to C9 and then dominated the rest of split 1. They had slow starts, but they werent "ass" they were average.

Thats not a mistake, thats just how map picks work T-T. BLG banned haven(BLGs worst map, also FNCs best) so FNC picked lotus, their second best map. I would say they played better than what most people expected. But as someone who watched all of their games. I think they underperformed, if they can get some of their fundamentals up to speed I think they could make playoffs again

uk I don't understand why people think Aspas being a baiter is a derogatory term. He's one of, if not the best operator players in the world. LEV utilize his op on attack and defense. ofc hes not going to be able to entry or take the first fight if he is forced to reposition with an operator in his hands. The only reason I disagree with Aspas being a baiter is that the stats people pull up to prove it are extremely flimsy, and from what I have seen of his stats, he has the second highest FKPR in stage 2, which is pretty impressive considering he's played a ton of rounds compared to other teams

cope

cope

LEV is at its best when Mazino is performing, because this guy takes so many risks, if hes performing those risks are paying off and winning LEV rounds.

LEV is not an NA team. But yep rest checks out

LEV are not playing to their peak imo. I'm seeing alot of stuff that I don't normally see from them and they are playing their comps fundamentally wrong a couple of rounds. But lets see if they can recover

There are valid reasons for SEN to be performing worse. However a lot of the time I (and probably S0mp4S0m) see SEN fans use them as copium and excuses to say they are still that top team they were at Madrid. This is an issue I see a lot with many teams fans and it is a BS mentality. If you lose, you lose, fans should know the team is capable of more. Just say you played badly and move on for the next match instead of coping about previous losses. ofc S0mp4S0m is a hypocrite and copes for his own team and then flames others for doin the same thing. So the moral of the story is never listen to that guy. And believe in your fuckin team to improve rather than being afraid that them performing poorly is a constant and they need to be excused for it.

I respect the level of hopium I see here, even if I don't like SEN fanbase.

damn didnt think I'd see you around these parts

in b4 Art0m0s comes to say some SENtimental dogshit

Reverie you fool, you lack patience, discipline, resolve. You know not the true ways of hating. You must bide your time, waiting for the right time to strike. Haters go in when a team is brought low. If you do it like S0mp4S0m you only look like a clown. SEN qualifying to champs means nothing except Riot needs to reevaluate the champs points system. Wait for champs, who knows. They might lose 2-0 to a CN team, just like another washed NA team from last year, I can't seem to remember that teams name tho.

Aspas is the best player itw, of all time. I no longer care for others opinions.

Dw guys, Ill take one for the team and hate on all these people instead

Runi did the macro calls, leaf and zellsis did a lot of the mid rounding and micro stuff.

Uk I’m seein a lot of replies that don’t make sense to me, right next to the percentage of first engagement successes there is a X/X number one on left indicates amount of first bloods number on right is total first engagements. Aspas has the most first bloods out of all of the players and is tied with zekken for first engagements. Also you cant get a ton of firstbloods by being a baiter… that’s literally the opposite of being a baiter. So idk some people either need to elaborate or Im not understanding somethin

Muddiest valorant ever is straight copium when TYL vs TEC exists. CN as a region is pretty scrappy, Sunset was definitely a more muddy map, but Icebox was pretty good from BLG, they destroyed JDG when you realize that JDG got both pistols(which basically equates to +2 rounds for them)

I mean the NRG redemption arc goin kinda crazy rn