Final bump :)
Thx mods!

Idk much about NRG's internal roles but surely they have at least a couple vocal players

He g'Adam all

Look at artziN, f0rsakeN, nobody, Saadhak (historically), etc. it's definitely possible to be a secondary duelist as igl

This is true, yeah. It's a "technically" situation more than anything. You can definitely say 3 inexperienced 2 experienced and I don't think anyone can argue that

Primary duelist, yes, but secondary duelist has historically been ok to call on, especially if the igl is just flexing onto it

Why not? Ethan's better at Yoru than he is on Omen iirc

All 3 teams were in regional playoffs to make Masters sometime during the year
Luminosity + Knights in Stage 1: https://www.vlr.gg/event/799/champions-tour-north-america-stage-1-challengers
Luminosity + Ghost in Stage 2: https://www.vlr.gg/event/800/champions-tour-north-america-stage-2-challengers/playoffs

Yeah for sure. Even my definition of it is a bit selective tbh because I don't think I'd honestly consider Gamelanders Blue or Liberty tier 1 teams

I think it's fine to have different definitions of what a tier 1 team back in 2022 actually was. Imo though, if you play in both stages of the year, make it to playoffs at least once, come only a couple games away from an international, and consistently face off against teams such as LOUD, MIBR, FURIA, VKS, Keyd, NIP, etc. then you're probably a tier 1 team

True, he was on NIP in 2022. Actually, though, tuyz wasn't a rookie either... he was on TBK the previous year, which was another Masters contending team from Brazil

None of them are

• mada was on Luminosity in 2022
• skuba was on Knights in 2022
• brawk was on Ghost Gaming in 2022

All 3 of those teams played in direct qualifiers for NA to make Masters events

valyn imo

Who, you? Yeah, you're definitely baiting

"He has opinions that aren't mine? Does he even keep up the game?"

https://discord.com/invite/VLR

Ok delighted

So are you just flexing being in a relationship as if it's not a totally normal thing that applies to a lot of people, oooor...?

But again, why would he say that

Why would he want his favourite player to leave his favourite team

wahoo

wahoo

"Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."
— David McCullough Jr.

This is cool but honestly (nitpicking here) I'd rather Mazino Fade and Saadhak Viper

I like valyn but no, my favourite player is Saadhak. Good guess though :)

...yeah no, I don't like this

It's mainly pasta (usually mini shells), yogurt, little bits of ground beef, and a bunch of spices

I'd 100% be for it if not for the potential language barrier

EMEA/AMER, depends tbh
In moderation
LEV 3-2 G2 last year
SEN curry
Unique ideas

What would Saadhak play?

Haven't had lunch yet but I'll probably have some leftover yogurt pasta

As much as I hate Real Madrid, I genuinely hope Marseille never wins another game ever again. This club does not deserve any success, not after they way they've been treating their players for the past several years

He's on lunch break from his job lmao

N4RRATE is another exception ^^

JitBoyS (not my least favourite team, but I don't like any players on those teams so)

Nah, I just kinda groan in annoyance

Nice pick'ems :)

Now show us your Champs ones so far

No. In-game client doesn't use matchups anyway, it uses where teams place in the group

Just did some math with @nobody___100:

• Out of 41,556 pick'ems registered on VLR, only 3 of them are still perfect after 8 games
• If you flipped a coin for every game, you'd have a 1 in 256 chance of getting everything right
• If all 41,556 people chose randomly we'd have 162 perfect pick'ems (54x as many as we have now)

We as a society are horrible at pick'ems

Ok so how did nAts do at Champs 2021?

Oh wait

+1, cheese makes literally everything better

That's true, mb. What I meant to say is that leaf played throughout the entirety of 2 of them

Two of those three trophies were with leaf btw

90% of the time it's either poor chemistry, mental, or errors in coaching

Any of G2/NRG/SEN/MIBR/BLG/DRG/EDG/XLG/TL/GX/FNC/TH/PRX/RRQ/T1/DRX

Upsets happen in sports all the time (e.g. the only reason Venezuela's out of World Cup contention is because Bolivia beat Brazil somehow)

Coping is like the opposite of self reflection

Because they're good or smth idk

Step 1: Get off VLR

Because we're good