please talk about literally anything else

steel once shaved his head completely live on stream

no

i agree. there are certains maps where i would switch out a couple of these (on split, i would rather have a breach and a raze instead of sova and jett), but across the board i think you are correct.

good for russians.

REFORMED :D

this is good

the third seed for NA is gonna be a toss up for sure, theres like 3-4 teams that are on equal levels of skill that can make it.

North America: (SEN, C9B, and a three way toss up between V1/NV/100T)
EMEA: (FNC, Heretics, FPX, and Acend)
Brazil: i dont know enough about brazilian teams so ill just say sharks and vikings again.
Korea: (VS and Nuturn)
Japan: (CR and AJ)
Southeast Asia: dont know enough about to make a good prediction
Latin America: dont know enough about to make a good prediction

EDIT: forgot about acend lol

maybe one day :(

i am a world class boxer :)

nv wedid or nv thief.

ez4BG

i agree

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Brimstone Gaming

i agree with your NA ranking (maybe 100T/NV are interchangeable), but i would change your world rankings just a little bit
1.SEN
2.FNC
3.Liquid
4.V1
5.Nuturn

edit: the reason i put nuturn below V1 (even though V1 placed lower in the tourney than them) is because i think V1 have a better grasp of the current meta than Nuturn does.

no one cars

i agree, especially when it comes to C9 and Faze

super high action gameplay, enjoyable af. also enjoy the vanitypeek with a judge

sweet

no :)

doesn't help that thief/stellar were linked to some matchfixing stuff.

If V1 were to beat one of the top teams in Iceland, do you think certain NA teams start looking at jammyz as a potential new signing? How deep in the tourney do you think they'd have to go for teams to start looking at him?

so true!

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I'm a redami enjoyer :)

zer0shima is pretty good.

who cars

Looking for a team, main sentinal but can fill every role.

viper nerfs 🙏

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I'll post some interesting facts about the poll tomorrow afternoon, as I'm about to head off to bed. Just wanted to get the stats out there for everyone to enjoy!

Yesterday morning I made a thread linking a poll for people to submit their Masters 2 predictions.

Original Thread: https://www.vlr.gg/18351/masters-2-prediction-poll

I closed the poll at around midnight, with a total of 116 responses!

As I should've expected, about 25% of the responses were considered ineligible. Some of them were completely filled up with every team getting first, others were simply 2 teams getting 6th, 7th, etc.

Even so, I thank everyone who participated, even if you did a little bit of trolling!

I added up all of the placements for each team to find the mean placement of each one. Here are the results:

LIQUID:2.19 AVG
SEN:2.54 AVG
FNATIC:2.91 AVG
BR #1: 4.74 AVG
NUTURN:5.15 AVG
V1:5.99 AVG
BR #2: 6.64 AVG
CRAZY RACCOONS: 7.08 AVG
X10: 8.76 AVG
LATAM: 9.00 AVG

gl king

For sure!

edit: found and edited!

sentinels is currently the team with the most 1st place votes, they'll probably be first when i update my averages

i'm gonna let these responses stew for a little longer, and ill probably post the updated data at the end of the day in a new thread

i believe in oSee supremacy

that eunited team was one of my favourites

im still mad chaos broke up before we got to see them go to lan :(

Some interesting facts about the data so far:

Sentinels had the most 1st place placements of any team with 5.

LATAM had the most 10th place placements of any team with 5.

Every team had at least one person picking them to win the event.

Only one person had Liquid placing outside of the top 4.

Based off of the first 11 responses, I compiled the average placing given to every team, and here are the results:

1.Liquid with an average placement of 2.18
2.Sentinels with an average placement of 3.18
3.Fnatic with an average placement of 3.72
4.BR1 with an average placement of 4
5.NUTURN with an average placement of 4.45
6.BR2 with an average placement of 5.45
7.Crazy Raccoons with an average placement of 5.63
8.X10 with an average placement of 6
9.V1 with an average placement of 6.36
10.LATAM with an average placement of 8.81

+1

i dont see vision strikers completely leaving the scene after the dominance they've shown early on in korea. at most, they overhaul their roster.

I made a google form to predict how each team will do in Iceland!

https://forms.gle/uwqHwguyhn2VECP87

I'll share updates in the thread if there's enough responses!

Most likely Liquid/Fnatic, but im hoping for a NUTURN or Crazy Raccoons victory.

hes definitely one of the best, but its hard to really classify players as the best with their character, especially with the lack of lans.

most likely merch related,

you were talking about you having a high sens, whats ur sens at rn?

this is gonna be such a sick tourney, can't wait!

frag sent!