sen - their strategic depth was a bigger issue than their fragging and if you want, you can spend the entire off-season working on mechanics. This was also johnqt's first time IGLing at the international level so let him keep the team he's comfortable with

geng - I know people clown on Lakia but we don't know what he brings to the team outside of what we see. Heavy mid-rounder? Analytics? They have gotten this far, why change it? Run it back on more year.

PRX - controversial take, let jinggg be full time duelist (jett, raze, phoenix, neon). PRX has always played behind jing's pace, if he goes, they go and 'something' was never really a hard entry especially this year. Let 'something' play more of the flex where he runs in second

100t - lots say cut asuna but his problems are fixable. Similar to old tenz, overheating and playing alone is his biggest problem. Look now, no one is saying cut tenz

G2 - icy has been very good for this squad, if you remove his yoru stats, its not bad and his raze was great all year round

There is a saying "Let people do what they need to do to make them happy and do what you need to do to make you happy". Unless you're them, trying to understand is pointless

7-5 going into atk side icebox gave them too much confidence and allowed TH to get super comfortable

I think if a team wins champs, they auto have the best year, no?
FNC won 2 events and all people talk about was EG champs run

that's literally every team,
PRX grouped - party, assific
FNC - party, memea
G2 - Nearest airport

o7

cope? no one had them coming out of groups
no one thought they were beating drx and fnc

i know its hard for you to give credit but they did good

FNC fan doesn't have much ground either

it is what it is, still top 4, we take it

right here, proud of the boys

ggs

From no one thinking theyd get out of groups to top 4, is a great showing

Proud of the boys, from no one thinking they'll get out of groups to top 4. I say its a success of a season with the madrid trophy.

Good Luck to TH in lower finals

#SENWIN

Sen 2-1
EDG 2-0, aspas only one who shows up

Sen 3-1 Lev, mental broken from EDG game

Sen 3-2 EDG, reverse sweep to complete the cinderella story

MEGA HOPIUM #SENWIN

Probably bought this account so he doesn't care about hiding the cheats

GENG yoman? DRX yoman? Both of these go crazy
Or even T1 yoman, since they're going korean comms now

you have 10 seconds left to plant and the new agent just reduces to 0 and you lose

2 years in a row would be rough

all emea right? whos the favorite for emea ascension?

I'm assume M80 wins ascension (I only watch NA T2)

Verno, Mada, skuba, brawk, ......

Idk what Leo was doing for the team before but if he can do a big part of the mid-rounding and just let boaster make the final decision. Similar to sen, sacy and zellsis do most of the mid-rounding and john makes the the final call. It helps john focus in his mechanics and it could help boaster too

Oh shiii, hes cooking

We think with non-bias logic over here

Floating sunset was definitely the biggest mistake, especially when looking at this years sunset stats

Down to experiment but other than that, what other EMEA IGLs are there to replace boaster?

Without the heroics, Fnatic probably start Lotus 6-0 or 5-1

If Leo is willing, you got the whole offseason w/ events to practice. Outside of Boaster, there aren't too many established IGLs in EMEA to my knowledge

Fnatic were better tactically than sen today but sen out aimed them. Get boaster a secondary caller/mid-rounder so he can focus more on himself and not micromanage everyone. Every time we see boaster's POV, always looking at minimap. Boaster has decent enough aim to be in T1, just take the pressure off of him with another caller

the return of the goat senti

I think breach struggles because very niche with what you said, but map is too open. Not enough narrow halls and you can side step stuns, just my take

Sen - Cinema
100T - Boostio
NRG - Puj
c9 - Inspire
G2 - 1leaf
if m80 wins, net > yay

EG? yay > apoth, only option

I'm just sad they cut stax because he was my favorite on the team and on this roster, he would fit perfectly

His mechanical ceiling his high, I'm strictly just talking about util usage compared to stax or zellsis just lacks alittle

Foxy9, a big fan ever since he joined the team, recently impressed in his sentinel play however as a full time initiator I don't think it cuts it on the international level. I think bringing back flashback and beyn with keeping stax, buzz and mako would've been better

DRX vs sen struggled with strategic depth and nerves of too many new players imo

Termi actually decided to coach instead of just letting the players figure it out

With how this year has been scheduled, I can't argue with that

Same group can't be on the same side of the bracket so since trace was in the top bracket, they automatically get pushed to the bottom

Regional matchups

Why the rule of "same group can't be on the same side of the bracket", instead of no regional matchups? I'd much rather watch another G2/EDG and DRX/FNC then G2/Lev and TH/FNC

Has to be 1st seed vs 2nd seed, and same groups can't be on the same side of the bracket

RITO back at it again

yeah :(

:(

Im just a bystander but wouldn't playing into your own strengths like lotus be better? More reps, and easier to call

I've erased that from my memory, we don't need to keep that

We aren't that down bad, righttttt????????????

I mean you fucked the map veto, why pick haven and float lotus when all year, your jett maps have been mediocre. How can you be so confident in a map when the only team you have beaten on it is c9?

The deadlock, yes its good in theory but your team can't play it so why try it. Twice on ascent with only 4 on ct side? At what point do you just say a comp isn't for you?

I just want good valorant, is it so hard to ask for?

Alittle bit. For shanghai, TH hit a high which their current form cant compete with and yet they still barely won against FPX. FPX is getting better and aren't scared of swapping a comp last minute. Obviously at their peak, I'd chose TH but they aren't currently.

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