BLG were bad in stage 1 but they've had a glowup since nephh's arrival and played like crazy today. JDG are still recovering from losing yoman and it was very noticeable today. Their discipline and teamplay just broke down.

RyanCentral compared them to GenG and G2, basically saying they're a fundamentally excellent team with teamplay that stands out in China. I think they're missing an extra bit of firepower and their mental/inexperience is definitely noticeable. Their performance today looked very lackluster due to their inexperience in these high pressure situations. I think the tight schedule in the VCT this year stunted China's growth a bit.

more discord drama involving mentally ill people, this shit is like an obscure schizo vs schizo youtube channel rivalry

15-2 in maps is crazy. Feels like EDG causes a mental block whenever other Chinese teams face them. Hope BLG win for once here.

China analysts have all made remarks about FPX doubling down on the silly shit that worked in Shanghai instead of improving what went wrong and that's why they look worse now. Hope they were just taking the season easy and look good in playoffs.

BLG is the ultimate troll team

Unironically what would VLR's reaction be to this match?

They actually looked decent throughout split 2, I think BLG's playstyle completely fucked them up and it felt like both teams were playing for their lives.

This entire series was players taking fights they shouldn't take. They're literally walking into peoples spawn and then get surprised when someone is there. This was basically a dick measuring content and all hope of logic went out the window. Absolute cinema.

12-5

Honestly Trace deserved it a bit more, they really worked their ass off all year to go to an international and JDG really struggled

I think LEV are regular season merchants tbh, they were really underwhelming in playoffs and shanghai. I don't have feeling that will change much this time around but I hope to be proven wrong. I want to see aspas go crazy on an international stage again.

Pretty great first map from Trace. They looked a bit too eager to close it out at points. You could tell they want to go to champs bad. AG have been underwhelming ever since split 2 started and I don't think that's changing here.

I don't think they have a replacement for crashies yet, I'm sure he'll be out soon, no way he would even want to stay on the team now that they cut his duo

I'm assuming crashies is next to go but they just haven't found a replacement yet, it was overdue to release victor, not the worst player in the world but him and crashies aren't going to be winning shit

delbot

To be fair the last C9/LEV game was an absolute disaster, but I think LEV wins that in their current form

We need to see NAVI on abyss

I'm pretty sure most radiant/immo players don't even give a shit at that point. They win games to keep their rank up but most of them are just coasting. Whenever I watch Shanks stream it seems like everybody knows each other and the only enjoyment they get is joking around and trolling.

n0vi keke

It's time for vo0kashu to stop wasting away in China, dude is the arguably the best mechanical player in that region and his team is so bad

bilibili
12-5

I want FNC to do well but I also want KC to be eliminated, but the chances of FNC throwing this after what we saw from their last match with KC is very low

SEN 2-0
100T might be the most overrated team all year

They lost to a washed LOUD, this was their own doing, they're horrible

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/63d85f08

could see G2 or LEV beating SEN but they haven't been very good in bo5 series

autumn
spring

To be fair they are using this 'lesser stakes' match to test out new comps, but they're playing poorly in general this series. Every team has a bad game, not sure why the overreaction. Unless they bomb out in playoffs this is nothing to be worried about. Like GenG losing to Team Secret.

this is severe mental illness

temperature in the arena might be too cold

even I gotta admit you're t0nz this game

Player 1: cauanzin
Player 2: pancada
Player 3: yay
Player 4: ange1
Player 5: Leo

How many times do we gotta teach you this lesson, old man? You're washed. Stop wasting Brazilian talent.

Boostio isn't even top 5 right now lmao, Munchkin is probably the best igl right now. There's also a case for johnqt but I think Munchkin clears atm.

They've had problems all year but I honestly didn't think they could sink any lower. Yeah their season is done so this match is kind of irrelevant but their performance throughout split 2 shows a lot of internal issues. Roles aren't quite right, coaching staff doesn't seem to be cooking and saadhak's calling has dropped off a cliff since we begun split 2 and I think nobody is comfortable on duelist.

So what do you need to place in order to qualify for Ascension? Only the winner qualifies for Ascension? Hope DarkZero wins because they have the coolest name.

Beg ardiis and yay to come back and maybe you'll make an international again
fns sentinel
s0m smokes
ardiis jett
yay chamber
ethan initiator

vlr discord schizo drama

Credit to Potter for dragging this roster nearly to playoffs. It's a miracle they even got the wins that they did. Apoth and Nature are pretty bad and Jawgemo had a very ON/OFF year. When Jawgemo isn't going nuclear the team doesn't have enough firepower to make up for it. Hopefully this roster of leftovers is finished and we get a good EG roster next year.

12-5
whzy judge
cove
cgrs
bilibili

Potter took on the impossible task of bringing Apoth to an international

These players were playing for their tier 1 careers lmao and no team wants to end their season on a loss to the worst team in franchising

Termi?

He is quite literally the worst player in tier 1 right now, dude is a more predictable lurker/flanker than c0m

so how do NRG qualify?

Apoth and Nature are 100% not playing on a tier 1 team next year, their performances have been underwhelming all year but not fragging when you're against MIBR is CRAZY.

What was Shanks ceiling as a pro? Did he really have potential to be the best duelist in america?

Average VLR revisionism thread. FNC was the best team of 2023 and it's not even close. Makes me sad considering how washed they are this year.

x0ppa is beyond washed

Berlin and Cryo play astra