It's not that deep. Yay is one of vals most popular players and that's why he had a lot of haters/people clowning on him when he fell off. More popularity equals more 'haters' that's pretty much it.

I think the 'he was abusing a broken agent' is a cheap argument, yay was mechanically excellent back then. His game sense was great, his aim was great. But he mechanically fell off and didn't expand his agent pool after the Chamber meta. Hope he can redeem himself when he returns.

I'm one of the biggest KK fans here but how are we scaling popularity? In China it's likely KK, but globally over the last 5 years it's undoubtedly Tenz. Was KK more popular than Tenz in 2021 and 2022? Absolutely not. KK became a major star in 2023 and now Riot has made him the face of VCT.

He's still fairly young, he's rich, he can come back whenever he wants. I'm guessing he just wants to take a break for a year or so. Less traveling, more time with kyedae and streaming. He's got the clout to make a return to the pro scene at a later date.

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Initiator: Zekken
Smokes: Marved
Flex: yay
Sentinel/igl: johnqt
good or no?

Diffed by Texture im afraid

PCF 3-2 APK

W nationalism

b0nn0

Lmao

I'm assuming they'll have to rebuild, there's a ton of Turkish talent out there but I don't know how rich the org is

this is the actual reason

Bait post but it is true. The Americas teams have players with far more tier 1 potential. Apeks is the favorite to win Ascension and they're tier 1 rejects getting carried by Kaajak, who hopefully gets picked up by a different org. Apeks would be on the same level as GentleM8s. Loita, Larok and Comeback all have potential but they can't even play in tier 1.

Pacific ascension should have a quality team winning this year, China's ascension has like 2 imports per team lmao.

is he even a good player like what

Yeah Viva is one of the better igls of the region

Flex1n is going to be on every single tier 1 cn team by the end of next year, isn't this his 5th tier 1 team? I think he's a firepower upgrade over Yhchen but not a huge upgrade, Flex1n is more of an individualistic controller player

I'm guessing he goes to EG, right?

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I genuinely do not think C9 is winning anything with xeppa still on the team. they need a stronger initiator to support oxy

Oxy is up there

Hope to see Sato picked up by LOUD tbh, I think he's good enough for a shot in tier 1

80 replies for a post that put lakia on a GOAT list over leo kek this site is unreal

Apeks are far and above CGN from what we've seen this season, that would be an unbelievable choke (I have CGN beating PCIFIC, if PCIFIC win then Apeks should still be the heavy favorites).

-foxy9 +free1ng would be incredible ngl, free1ng is one of the best korean senti players

I think it's a great bundle aside from the knife, that's probably why most people slept on it

no one remembers second place

W org but their year was awful

Delete that photo of Knight right now

He probably needs to retire too but EMEA is lacking igls, which emea tier 2 igls would get signed over boaster or ange1?

Demon1 does deserve to be in tier 1 but he just doesn't feel right on NRG. The roles just aren't adding up. Oxy, Jawgemo or Derke as duelist passes the eye test.

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I never feel like buying knives by themselves are worth it. A knife skin is what? 40+ dollars? It's a solid bundle with one of the better bulldogs in the game but if you have several other knife/phantom skins I don't think the bundle is a must buy.

CCG's roster is arguably stronger than KBG based off of what we saw in the opening matches, but Wolfen is kind of insane in these lobbies.

You're a chronically online freak.

The c0m/sacy argument is like trying to decide the nicest guy in prison. Both players have good utility but are inconsistent fraggers. Sacy would be like a 10% improvement at best. It would be more beneficial for LEV to sign a player like heat who could actually frag out and trade his teammates.

If Aspas wants to leave that's his choice, but leaving because they won't sign his friend sounds awfully similar to the 'nepotism' that people on vlr constantly complain about.

does yay clear you?

SPG and BOOM should be the favorites imo. Both teams have strong fundamentals.

this was absolutely abysmal from alg lmao

the next big thing

upgrade

I'd like to Less and Pancada stay on LOUD, but I could see Less joining LEV

Which players are likely to move down? I'm guessing some members of C9 and EG off the top of my head

1. babyj
2. ethos
3. rbot

Honestly he deserves another chance in the tier 1 scene, t2 is stacked with so much talent out there waiting to be picked up so I hope sh1n makes it on a team next year somehow

I think the t2 duelist scene is just too stacked right now, there's so many young players that haven't reached their peak yet and could easily prosper on a t1 team. I could see ardiis staying on navi as initiator, if not his career is probably done.

where does ardiis go next?

b0sk

If KC gets rebuilt around N4RRATE I'm fine with that but I feel like his ceiling is much higher than KC

Edit: RA 3-1 CCG

I keep seeing people making a Liquid roster with Hiro, Derke and Patitek and that's way too good to be true. I think they'll sign Derke, maybe Hiro and a tier 2 initiator. (But Nats is a great senti player so maybe Hiro should be picked up by another org?)

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