me when i forget about drx

yeah drx are kinda balling but i still maintain that prx is still fundamentally a level above them right now
i'm so down to eat my words if they make a losers run but considering fnatic will be waiting for them if they lose to eg(which they should in theory, but i said that about them against loud) i dont have high hopes for it

and yeah if you group the americas together they're a two team region but imo there isnt a large gap rn between tier 1 na and tier 2 na teams(especially the top ones like m80, mxm), and i think the story is similar with sa in that regard
so the point of na and sa only having 5 spots therefore not being their own region is kind of ehhh in my mind especially since the guard will almost certainly fit right in with the rest of the teams in americas

thanks!

yeah but it's as chronicle put it, that's true for every region
na - eg
sa - loud
pacific - prx
emea - fnatic

when competition is as fierce as it is that kind of thing becomes an inevitability and considering the alternative is the scene becomes dominated by one region only, which is so much worse, this is probably preferable atp
and tbh to say every other emea team sucks isn't all that true
fut looked pretty solid against eg despite the 2-0
navi performed quite well in their group and really just had a tough group to deal with that they BARELY dropped on all 4 maps they lost
giants probably overperformed expectations(at least mine)
and liqmid are unsurprisingly dogshit!

basically yeah emea is a one team region but a lot of people are overreacting(purely for banters sake which i respect) when it comes to the level of the other teams
and every other region is just like emea so meh this isn't unique, nor is it news

my brother in christ this is an either or question what are you saying yes to

EMEA are unquestionably a one team region but is that so bad? considering fnatic are still the best team in the world who really cares

nt lil bro

but that was in losers finals - i'm talking about grands where one team makes the winner's bracket run, does that team get map advantage? in losers finals there isn't a team that went through winners lmao

If FNATIC makes it to Grands(or whoever in Losers) against a team that isn't LOUD(let's say Bilibili), do the map bans still go: BLG bans two, BLG pick, FNC pick, BLG pick, FNC pick, decider? Or, since FNATIC didn't directly lose to Bilibili(or more applicably, EG/PRX), do they get to ban one of the maps(leaving BLG ban, FNC ban, BLG pick, FNC pick, etc)?

wondering the same thing, is it just because LOUD are really weak on Fracture? strange call tbh esp since FNC's Bind seems more shaky than their Lotus

liqmid fan talking

? split and bind were extremely close lol
granted, bind swings FNATIC's way in a rematch more often than not, but split is definitely winnable for EG and we still haven't seen the ascent(or the haven but FNATIC have the edge in that for sure)...

2/7 maps EG likely win(or at least have above 50% odds in), Split still a tossup(FNATIC edges clearly but the gap is small), bind has a small chance for eg tbh
if the two play in a BO3 the maps probably get picked/banned the exact same(maybe EG bans lotus instead of bind) lol and if EG can take that then playing Pearl, Fracture, Ascent AND Split in a grands match definitely favours EG
FNATIC clearly have a notable edge being the better Split team but you're definitely overstating this one mate
EG can 100% beat this team

they literally took a map off fnatic bro has the memory of a toaster

genuinely kind of surprised people are so mad about his toxicity lmao with storylines and energy like this shit gets WAY more interesting
with no villain it all just becomes much more boring tbh, this way the whole thing is much more approachable for the layperson imo and it's a lot easier to become invested
love him or hate him the kid talking makes this shit so much more fun to watch(he ghosted the everliving fuck out of pearl though lets bffr)

if the dude could do what he did to g2 on a regular basis mxm are probably in t1 NA on their own tbh
has the potential for it though

flyuh deserves to be in a franchised team immediately
brawk and aproto are at least borderline also