nothing about his appearance but the image just seems distorted like it was too tall so they shrunk it to fit

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what is this player picture
https://www.vlr.gg/player/41224/tkzin

fun fact about s1mon the only game he went positive in EDG's champs run was their loss against G2. It's almost like support players value isn't drawn from their fragging ability.

I’m not calling it Mickey mouse it’s just not a masters or champs it’s a different tournament with a completely different format. Calling Reykjavik specifically illegitimate doesn’t make sense when 2021 champs had the whole cam bug abuse shaping the tournament. And Reykjavik 2022 had the same format as Copenhagen.

Isn’t it 4-4 it’s only 5-4 if you count lock-in but it wasn’t a masters or a champs.

Thanks for the response I was interested in how you were handling t1 data with sylvan and carpe.

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If only verno made it to bangkok

Wasn’t it racism or sexism? He has Schrödingers discrimination.

Really interesting that g2 is the only team without a confident placement. Can I ask what data the odds were generated off of and what odds you got for the matches in the Swiss stage?

https://www.vlr.gg/369961/everyone-come-serious

how the fuck do you spawn in with a downvote?

not even the strongest team in their own region lmao

Imagine if we get another 2 years of sen shitting the bed after they won a masters just like 2022-23

If sen stays at the same level I think they will struggle domestically, with teams like mibr getting more practice and other teams adapting to the meta better. I don't trust sen to not to troll split 1.

Why would DRX and EDG not watch Sen play, any decent team will look to analyze what they did since they are competing in the same tournament. It's very likely DRX thought that the pearl comp Sen was running was better than their own. I am convinced EDG played old comps in kickoff and was practicing with tejo, their support staff was likely studying other region's implementation and liked sen's implementation of tejo breach.

They qualified because of their read on the meta. They were playing yoru breach tejo before basically everyone else. EDG and DRX copied their pearl comp. EDG copied their split comp but with jett for yoru. Having tejo gave them an edge on SA teams who were generally running older comps and they had the individual fire power to push through teams, but everything was scrappy. This sen roster struggles with the cohesion that allowed 2024 sen to win madrid, thinking of the flood retakes on split and post plants on sunset. Bang and N4rrate are not integrated into the system, and it seems like johnqt's calling is more indecisive than last year. Zekken has no second entry on the team, bang plays very differently from tenz. It seems like they realized this but the only fix was taking zekken off of yoru, but it didn't fix the core issue.

Now to get to the parasocial take, this team has some internal issues. Zellsis seemed to reference it in their interview after their elimination saying that they need to remember to have fun while playing the game. I interpreted this as the team is facing some sort of burnout (unlikely since its the start of the season), more so I think it was pointed towards N4rrates mental, probably that he is too hard on himself during matches. Reminding him that its just a game so his negative mental doesn't boom him or spread to teammates is important to improve the mental resilience of sen. In the most cope take possible I think its good that Sen had an early exit, from Bangkok to try to work on becoming an integrated team, but I do think if they can't figure out their team identity by the end of stage 1 it might be the right call to make changes, either to roles or individuals.

allat: sen has good meta reads and firepower, but bad team cohesion which optimistically can be worked on by stage 1.

First time ever I was hoping something was AI-generated

Have you gotten a single one of these right?

https://www.vlr.gg/453826/how-to-farm-upvotes-a-guide-by-elysxxm/#23

Are they ugly for you or what?

What if KC won Bangkok and we called it bangkokc

1000 posts in a month is crazy work

I can't wait to follow this guide to qualify for vlr monetization!

G2 tend to ban haven and bind, and TL's haven looked like one of their strongest maps domestically.

They probably should, but I have a weird feeling they pick split

prob haven then bind.

I hope that this turns into a g2 Shahzam moment

Both of these books suck ass. Epic of Gilgamesh might be the worst book I’ve ever read.

great showing for t1

I think EDG trolling early made it seem more competitive. EDG barely implemented new comps and still managed to get 1st seed, the early 13-4 13-4 from Trace made people way more confident about the overall level of the region

It might actually just be korea all korean teams this year are undefeated on lotus excluding korea-korea matchups

Both pacific teams picking up 13-3s on this map is crazy. Pacific have to have the best read on this map.

do you know if berlin stepping down has been confirmed and who he's being replaced by?

n1cf 0 accountability user

nice try diddy

Is this you rating t1 as best second seed or just because drx likes to throw leads against them?

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vyse, breach, tejo, jett, omen

i might be stupid

Insane stat from S1mon is that the only time he's gone positive in a match at an international event EDG lost.

Sideshow preemptively calling a team shit and then getting immediately proven wrong will always be funny

first master in 2021 was domestic. No one says sen is the first team to win two masters.

I think nAts beating Tenz for the longest gap between masters wins would be cool. TL or Sen have the best narratives out of the second seeds. Seeing a TL lower run with a EDG TL final would be sick.

fr number 10 is the only reason I need to root for this team

T1 DRX upset has to be super unlikely with how carpe has been playing. TL has an interesting match up with both DRX and G2 based on their map pools. A Cinderella run from TL could be insane, especially with Keiko being the closest to a Thai representative at Bangkok.

does the group-stage buff not counteract it since its technically a swiss stage?