like 4 out of 5 of their players were already in tier 1 and bombed, who cares about seeing them again

agreed

TSM actually had potential to go further, some solid players and Poised has a lot of great ideas, but they're just addicted to throwing.

Oh yeah that was a close game too

I think Poised and Sym will definitely be in tier 1 sooner rather than later. The others probably not.

I think All Knights is the only team capable of beating M80 out of the other 3 teams. All Knights probably should've beat M80 in their previous match.

This is SEN's only hope

If N4rrate goes to NRG does this mean Demon1 is out?

I honestly don't know, maybe because their players are more well known?

This is a great team on paper but Ruxic and Xeus are no doubt being signed by bigger orgs, right?

wardell best awper in the world

After seeing the form of all the teams I'm predicting a Rare Atom win. UdoTan and Free1ng are pretty insane korean players. It's really just which team has the best imports. If you're making a top 10 player list for tier 2 china I don't think a single chinese player would be on it lmao.

this is true

2. jinggg

He has the clout to come back whenever he wants, I think there's a chance he'll be back in a few years but idk he probably wants to focus on family and content

ALG are probably going to get stomped here. China ascension pretty boring so far ngl.

Also did KBG really bring in Wolfen just for him to smurf in ascension then drop him if they win? I doubt they would drop their igl.

Marved might have a way back in with Tenz out, but a tier 2 controller player or even Demon1 is probably more likely for SEN (I don't think Marved even cares if he's a pro or not at this point)

I think Keiko stays in tier 1, he's got potential it just wasn't utilized right because Liquid was trash throughout 2024. The rest I agree.

I said Ardiis because he said he's 60/40 leaning content creation, on his last stream he said he's got 2 offers from tier 1 teams (I'm guessing one of them is Liquid) it's up to him if he wants to play or not

He was holding his own against the best players in EMEA during stage 1, he's definitely still a solid player and could remain in tier 1 if he wants to

Nah even if PRX drop him he's still mechanically better than most players in the pacific region, someone would have to pick him up

He said on stream that he's got offers from 2 EMEA teams, but he's 60/40 leaning content creation

just predictions
ardiis
takas
jampii
vanity

who else?

They've been making him the main character for awhile. Putting him in a lot of promotional material, making Shanghai all about KangKang's story, the main character of the champs theme song, etc. He's able to back it up so he deserve the hype.

It was said at champs that tenz is foxy9s idol so i guess thats its a reference to that

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.

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

Diffed by Texture im afraid

PCF 3-2 APK

W nationalism

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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?

Spectrum
Prelude
Elderflame
Gaia
Neo Frontier
Prelude
Prime
Origin
Glitchpop
Protocol
Sovereign
Recon (Neo underrated but Recon is just aimbot)
Prelude
Neo
Forsaken (no idea how anyone could choose Ion over Forsaken tbh)
Sentinels of Light
Evori
Magepunk butterfly

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