It's Bren. You roll a hundred times, you're gonna get a nat 20 occasionally

He didn't quit, he got sick. He couldn't play in either case but it's very safe to assume he wasn't gonna dip mid-season otherwise. As for the half of the year he did play, he was by far the standout on FNATIC

Compare FNATIC with Derke to FNATIC without Derke

Also Derke's one the main reasons why they were able to come back from 3-11 at LOCK//IN

He was absurd in at LEAST 2022 2023 2024

What if NRG and LEV swapped players

So LEV was kiNgg c0m nataNk FNS tex

I expected more than one 100T player I'm ngl

Also Leo not being top 10 is absurd

Hear me out

Ethan igl

Would you rather have had Verno than N4RRATE? If so, then you're a fake fan because where's the confidence in your team

Yes
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I wouldn't want to but maybe
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Lmao did the baiter just get baited into downvoting his own bait

Intermissions

Ah ok ty

Plat Chat Bren*

No one else agreed with him. In the 2024 awards episode, it was nominated as worst take of the year iirc. Nowadays they just reference it as a joke

Fofuria?

No Harbor?

All g 👍

We know that nataNk is an import, so logically we should know that tex isn't

https://www.vlr.gg/post/4494522/south-asian-come/#14

in doombros chat, I mention how EMEA missed out on kr1stal, at first he looks misinformed/confused/not remember who kr1stal was and when he open kr1stal vlr page he circle mouse hover the russian flag "yer but this an issue". I assume current russian players in VCT EMEA have overcome the VISA issue, but looks like upcoming russian will have complicated VISA issue coming to EMEA

All part of the plan

Actually this is better because now there's a chance HenBabyH just wins it himself

No one else respond to this

I'll win by default, and then decline

Acting like gyen didn't drop 27 on the map they didn't win 13-1

I don't think PRX played much worse than they usually do... I say what happened today is that DFM finally woke up. They've always had potential to be one of the best in Pacific, and I feel they kinda showed that today for the first time during Kickoff

Who expected one of FNC or PRX to win Bangkok?

The crazy thing about the six teams still left in contention is that there's TALON and there's 4 Korean teams and a mixed Korean-Japanese team

Edit: oh right TALON has Koreans as well 😭

I agree. And also KC > TL and 100T > KRU. It's just an unfortunate fact about this bracket... teams that should've gone further than others won't simply because of who they're put against

Is it seriously referring to you as "blah blah blah"

Yup, I think at this stage the 3rd seed from CN will still be the weakest contenders in most scenarios. But the point here is that any team that qualifies can realistically put up a fight—BLG could definitely make other teams struggle, and that's not something that was especially true of DRG last year

The quality of CN is a heck of a lot better this year, though. It'd be EDG TE BLG going in this case, and BLG genuinely look alright even if they're not as good as the other two

That's fair

Stop calling him Techno istg I'm going to go off the rails

Why are you only rating two regions

MISS

Sentinels with no sentinels. I like it

This is always true Harbor is a cheat code fr ong 100% winrate no flaws whatsoever

Last year Kickoff LOUD won 13-11 and then pulled out their Phoenix comp on Ascent

LOUD are playing Sova KAY/O on Pearl this is NOT NEARLY as hype :(

The IRS did WHAT!?

(Nvm)

(He was 23 at the time)

Too bad they don't have a Harbor player :( would've been cool

I think I already acknowledged this but happy existence anniversary regardless :)
Have some cake 🎂

No, not really

EDG vs. PRX has more history tbh

ENGH must be smiling rn

Who knows? Maybe a year from now we'll be seeing Yoru Harbor head-to-heads on Haven

I love nAts but from what I've seen, Kr1stal and Redgar are both better igls

Trust me, you want chiwa. If vakk is what paTiTek was at Kickoff, then chiwa is what Wo0t was at Shanghai

Hi psychedelia

Why are you watching when you're in class

Ok honestly the dumbest nerf in the game has to be the Astra suck nerf in late 2023. She wasn't even that popular at the time but her best ability that isn't her smoke got giga nerfed out of the blue anyway

Viper was fine until they cut one of the mollies and doubled the price and also made it so you can't pick up the orb