There's no way Benjy's playing duelist at Shanghai

That's not a good reason.

Pretty reasonable. Do feel like they'd all be 2-1s, though. Most of these teams are a lot closer in skill level than it seems (not in terms of the entire collection, but rather in terms of matchups).

I stopped reading when you said "let's buff Reyna"

Explain to me why G2 is a bad team. Because I can't see it.

RRQ is making Champs now for SURE.

Souvenirs

The better question is, why hate on s0m?

To be fair, though, they are 3-3. So it's not like they have too poor chance of qualifying.

Gotcha

saadhak has no plans to leave LOUD at the moment. I've looked into it and the only two players getting dropped are qck (most likely leaving the org) and potentially Less (benched for "monetary reasons").

Okay, that side of smurfing content could be pretty useful, to be honest. Curry does it but I think a better example is CHARLA7AN, who used to do similar kinds of things (certain agent to Radiant series, where he'd showcase certain strats and playstyles for specific agents). It is still fundamentally wrong to smurf, though. The morally correct way of doing content like that is what royalg does nowadays, for example, where he has several accounts, all with pretty high mmr, so that when he does his placements he ends up high diamond minimum.

Oh, neat. Hope that doesn't take too much energy (CPU + mental power) to maintain.

As a stat nerd, this is great stuff. How did you manage to do it?

No way this is accurate

Didn't see #6

Source?

The vibes of the team are a HUGE problem. It's all work, no play, and it genuinely seems like a mental health problem for all 5 people, plus maybe even the staff e.g. Chet

It's inconsistent at times, but the threat of it is super powerful ngl

s0m would solve at least one problem, which is the vibes of the team

Are you still high, by any chance?

What does this even mean

Yeah, I read the first few and went "wait, this sounds familiar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVB9WlJIGLc

Would love that. Kinda tired of EMEA just being E.

This is gonna age like milk.

Or a worthy replacement of Rb, rather

Dude, what are you talking about? johnqt was M80's sentinel + secondary smokes last year. How in the world is that a role change?

It is unfair he's being dropped. He's a good duelist, but everyone's so blindsided by the fact that he's not aspas, and there's so much pressure built up onto him that it's practically impossible for him to do as well as people are yelling at him to do.

Sure, he's not as good as aspas. But frankly, who is? No one. So do we realistically expect him to be? No. It's an absurd expectation for someone who, mind you, went from being FURIA's Viper player last year to the duelist on one of the most consistently achieving teams of all time with four of the greatest Brazilian talents of all time.

He probably wasn't the best option for duelist in the first place. But that doesn't mean we clown on the guy. He's super nice, he's still young, he has a bright future, and he doesn't deserve all this slander just because he's not a dude who's been playing fps games since he was 3. It's just tough.

That being said, though, hope he finds a comfortable team to join next. Who even knows at this point? It could be the other Brazilian teams, it could be T2, or it could be nothing for the rest of the year. Do wish him the best, though.

I get that a lot

FNATIC dropping mini and bringing in Elmapudd- oh no wait, that already happened

I like Harbor

Hello

Yoru, Gekko, KAY/O, Omen, Harbor

Thank you

paTiTek. It's almost certainly not gonna happen, but just imagine how funny it would be if it did

Can't believe you're dropping these awful takes while he's on the exam grindset. Put some respect on his name

Common side effect of using the SEN classic btw

Bad rng. Really all there is to it

What's your source on pAncada? I thought the rumour was FURIA wanted to pick him up

Seeing them run the NIP Deadlock Ascent comp is really interesting. Feels like it has some untapped potential, crazy as that sounds

What's wrong with qck?

Fair enough, but like... what would you expect from a replacement?

...what...? Dude, that's first person... what are you talking about?

https://i.imgur.com/vGKt0iS.png

Yeah mb, thought you meant they should negotiate with those teams instead of Hero Base

Oh ok

I mean... it's not like he wasn't doing his job. He was entrying. He died on that entry really really often, but it's not like that stat alone can discredit his performance.

Seriously, what do you have against qck?

None of them have Portuguese-speaking players