every single caster predicted 3-1 GENG winning lmao

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/d5764fbb

They've been in the grand finals of the Redbull Homeground all 3 years they've attended. 2022-2024

Favorites since they went 5-1 in the regular season of Split 1 in 2024, lost in first round of playoffs.
2023 they were 8-1 in the regular season, lost to EG and NRG to get 4th. Then lost to KRU in LCQ.

They're favored because their regular season performance is way higher then other teams.

Offseason and regular season merchants, really. Whenever it comes to qualifying for internationals, they bomb out in playoffs, against teams they've destroyed before. Two years in a row, C9 was a favorite to make Masters/Champions and lose out.

Are those studies done by Government agencies? Not sure if you remember learning about reliable sources in school but .gov sources and evidence are the most reliable. You are a bigot. Anyone named YourLocalSkibidiSigma has no place in discussing the validity of sources. You are a bigot, stick to things you can comprehend like making burgers at McDonalds.

TLDR;

"i''m a bigot and think that any fact and evidence that doesn't align with my views is fake"

One of them is a government article by the National Library of Medicine. Your opinion is wrong and you're too stupid and ignorant to admit it.

only 2 maps both Giantx and Team Falcons won were against the China seed. No other maps won. Its unfair and embarrassing, really.

this would make sense if all three teams made deep runs, would be huge for views. however, only G2 Gozen does remotely well. the only wins GIANTX and Team Falcons Vega got were against the Chinese team, which as a region is behind.

It would be no different for views if one of those two teams wasn't here. Plus it would bring in the Team Liquid fans, from Brazil and EMEA.

why does EMEA get 3 spots, spite of Brazil. 2/3 of the EMEA teams got knocked out at 7th-8th.
Meanwhile, Team Liquid Brazil nearly won last year, and MIBR is still going strong this year, too.

EMEA should only get 2 spots. It's only fair this way.
EMEA - 2
NA - 2
Brazil -2
Pacific - 2
China - 1
LATAM - 1

he's shooting. highest HS% during the match versus SEN. 37%, and a shit ton of impact

i may be biased, but this should be an incredibly cold take. Rob is by far the most involved ceo, he's very transparent about the organization disclosing financials and decisions about players, etc. plus the sentinels events are incredible.

I really doubt C9 will get dropped from franchising. All the other orgs that could be better then them are already in franchising, as well. If anything, EG would be the only one dropped, replaced by G2.

Pretty sure all of them are citizens in NA but choose to represent the country of their origin.

the mvp winner is asian. Philippines is in Asia.

don't fucking watch then

could be similar to FNS playing initiator in 2023 because he likes to control the pace of the team

This time last year, they released a Banana keyboard content with Cryo and Derrek, and would later go on to drop Derrek from the roster.

This year, they did the same video with Boostio and Bang, 9 days ago, and just dropped Bang.

Next year, who ever plays in the Banana keyboard video is on thin ice. I've figured you out, 100T. Spreadsheets be damned, I'll just watch the banana video.

2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCjH4sueQaE&t=457s
2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tamfq5riG4

they can trial both people, so both are likely. its pretty simple. and it also has the L and C to distinguish who is more likely. read.

there was a leak by someone on twitter recently saying SEN picked up Zander, 100T picked up Skuba, and now Bang is teamless. Not sure how reliable that source was but a very real possibility.

narrate should be a given

https://x.com/erafps/status/1839104491280544142

mada confirmed they have been praccing more then any of the teams here. they have one stand in compared to the original roster

tier 2 bots that have been praccing all summer, this is their world cup.

sen had 4 days of practice and neither of the 2 stand ins will be on the starting roster next year. iron VLR

He should go to SEN because of the chemistry he already has with JohnQT from M80/Ghost Gaming and then Zellsis from V1. It would benefit SEN too, to have another person comfortable of making calls. Only way he's not on SEN is if Bang goes to SEN, in which case Zander should definitely go to 100T.

The people on PlatChat are almost all Analysts/Casters/Coaches. Just because you disagree with their opinion doesn't mean they're wrong. Quite frankly, they know more then the VLR Forums bottom feeders.

I think a lot of people are REALLY overhyping 2G. Sure they beat M80 and qualified for Franchising but the road they took to get here was literally paved by other teams. They qualified for the Ascension league by getting third place in both Brazil VCL splits, did not win a single regional and qualified for Ascension on points alone, and then barely qualified for playoffs because TSM lost to All Knights.

Remember this when they become another bottom-tier Brazil team in Americas. They went on a run and hit form at a good time, but it will not stand when they get pummeled by the top Franchising teams.

I get that, but that was champions format where they lose 2 matches and they're out. M80 in a regular split with time to adjust to the stage and pressure could still easily be top 5 in Americas. And its not like M80 wasn't showing their results, they've gotten second place in Ascension twice now; regardless, we'll never know how this roster could've performed against franchise teams.

Multiple tier 1 players have talked about how M80 was a great team to scrim and how they would get shit on by them. M80 clears most of franchising, especially against the bottom-tier Brazil teams like MIBR and Furia.

Nismo would play raze, but I imagine the Yoru/Jett picks instead of Raze/Neon are coach/igl calls. The Yoru works well with their playstyle. Same as how well the Neon works with 2G and AK playstyles of fast pace shooters when they hit sites.

Americas Ascension is showing how broken this character is. I think they'll nerf her again

This shit happened last year and the top two teams were NA, its all talk.

this would probably happen in any other region but EDG essentially has a monopoly on the chinese community so it'd be sillly for any one of them to leave EDG

verno just single handedly won them a round to keep them in the game