better than both is a stretch

sinatraa at 2nd, sacy in HM and no mention of crashies 🫩

because prx have always wanted invy since the start, they know what they are capable of now after winning toronto and placing top 4 at champs and they seized their opportunity to get invy since he got benched. also it’s hard to smile when you are playing on team secret

i disagree with cortezia

they have skuba at 10 lmao

the world will not be ready when free1ng wins santiago MVP

cortezia should be lower if you want to base your list off of that then

skuba was in contention for champs MVP while cortezia cannot win a clutch to save his life sadly

whether champs was a fluke or not does not change the fact that skuba was their second best player and has had consistent impact in nearly every one of their games

free1ng clears all of them

skuba 10?? explain

they’d always exit internationals with a 1-2 record and not making playoffs once so i suppose you are right

2nd kickoff
5-6th Bangkok (1-2 record)
3rd stage 1
9-10th Toronto (1-2 record)
1st Stage 2
9-12th Champs Paris (1-2 record)

they are one of the more consistent teams

1st kickoff
2nd bangkok
1st stage 1
4th toronto
1st stage 2
7-8th champs

they only fizzled out at champs otherwise they were consistent

verno is the IGL, not mazino

but i cant see a team that has an ex-flex/duelist player now on smokes as a contender for a trophy no matter HOW mechanically gifted they are

zekken is a very flexible player willing to play whatever the team needs, he even trialed on sen as a controller at some point + chances are they will lean into more double duelist comps

MIBR also added happy to their coaching staff

wolves is reportedly getting rid of their best player, i would be worried about that

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kaajak > derke rn

i could not contain my laughter whenever verno and aspas spoke

W verno and zekken for taking them off

W honorary brazilian verno

Ethan is better individual player

debatable, valyn was the best controller in americas throughout the entire year

who would play sentinel in double controller comps? ethan?

ethan can play second duelist and actually wants to but IGLing on duelist is giga troll

it is a crazy prediction to make lol they will be fine in kickoff

what trophy?

the streets will never forget that disgusting whiff

okay you are going a bit too far with that. sure paris was more competitive i can agree on that, but toronto is nowhere near the least competitive event

map pool architect is a funny term

hi

he’s the only consistent player from heretics and his performances on sova was great in 2025 and 2024, i get that you do not fw him which is fine everyone has their preferences

mada was good but not better than skuba or brawk, though he is very underrated and should be appreciated more

not even close, he was mid throughout the tournament (which is fine since he’s the IGL) while brawk was making big impact with the odin throughout most of the games. if you don’t like the odin then that is fine, but objectively speaking brawk is deserving of the MVP award much more so than ethan is just because he had a good finals performance which even then brawk outperformed him.

the only other player you could argue is skuba since he was their second best player and was a clutch king

somehow that’s not the worst part

what is stax doing above crashies and c0m??

it must have went bad in scrims there is no way they would bench him like that

being sick is not a good excuse to cost your team the toronto trophy by going -30 while all the maps were close

fnc had better chances to win against prx than they did against nrg despite that

also nrg vs fnc was relatively a one sided final with nrg winning 3 maps dominantly, prx vs fnc was 4 maps but all of them could have went fnatics way if boaster didn’t go -30

FNS threw that game not s0m

isn’t it universally agreed upon that fnatic or prx is the team of the year? lots of map rotations and meta changes means that consistency was basically non existent

except EG got 2nd at tokyo while NRG did not make an international appearance with their core roster before champs

3rd Americas + 2nd Tokyo + 1st Champs definitely put EG in contention for being the best team of the year

the only non-fluke is acend

top 4 at tokyo is irrelevant i guess

i definitely do not agree that EDG was the best team of 2024 but it does help that they made both masters events of that year and had good performances before that in contrast to NRG who did virtually nothing

are you trying to anti jinx again?

demon1 might be a bigger fluke than EDG and ACEND combined 🔥

NRG 2-1 C9

that is true it did go to map 5, however 4 out of those 5 maps were one sided with NRG winning 3 of them in convincing fashion. Similar to GENG vs TH at shanghai

It is mainly why I said that FNC was relatively easy for NRG

he will probably only stream the bo3 games

0/8 😭