going into stage 1 more so then any of the previous years teams are making immense roster changes almost as if its a mini rostermania. do you think any of these teams will be successful this split? i personally do for some but its interesting that 20/48 teams are making roster moves and some of them are teams that went to bangkok. Also why do yall think so many teams are making roster changes compared to previous years?

just going to list out the teams

Americas: 5
NRG -bonkar -verno +mikes +brawk
2G -pryze +askia
FURIA -mwzera +pryze
MIBR -nzr +verno
LEV -nataNk +rossy

EMEA: 4
VIT -trexx +CyvOph
FNATIC -elma +d00mbros
TL -kamyk +serial
M8s -robbiebk +kamyk

APAC: 5
GenG -yoman +ash +suggest
RRQ -estrella +crazyguy
TLN -governor -ban +killua +thyy
GE -deryeon +patrickwho
PRX +Patmen

CN: 6
NOVA -swerl +obone
DRG -tvirusluke +cangshu +NathanD
FPX -NathanD -berlin +shr1mp
EDG +Jieni7
AG -nizhaoTZH -bunt +who the fuck knows
TEC +tvirusluke +coco

i agree fnatic will comeback i dont think they are winning an international this year

ok nrg is crazy they have already performed better than nrg by miles we will never see a disaster like that again. but i agree with u on everything else.

yep heretics maybe kcorp are the only chance the region has to win anything this year

do you still believe in vitality after the benching of trexx? i do not personally but to each their own i guess.

CN is pretty much edg and then trace, blg, xlg, drg, and nova all of these teams could make masters it just comes down to form. trace and xlg are more macro based where as blg, nova, and drg are more about player quality. the rest of the teams are pretty ass.

RRQ and PRX are not doing anything imo. prx is basically realizing their roster is no longer the best at shooting so they are trying pivot more into the meta but their players cant play meta agents well. i mean they have jingg on smokes and mindfreak sentinel with a sub ready to replace them at any moment. as for rrq -estrella for +crazyguy might be the biggest troll pacific has seen in awhile.

yes basically maps where they play double duelist look good maps where they dont they look like shit its a very map dependent team but the break kind of worries me for their future this season look at sentinels last year. pacific isnt a walk in the park like china is for edg and all the teams who didnt make bangkok have an advantage going into regular season.

seriously dont see enough discourse about this they just benched their best performing player (besides derke but personally i thought trexx was more impactful) for a tier 2 player. the reason being trexx criticizing sayf's calling after the loss keep in mind these players have had multiple years together and sayf called in guild. as for the replacement natank is avaliable idk if they forgot but hes definitely better lmao. ive lost all faith in this team going forward.

t1 won i do not care we will win the next one

t1 is my 4th the only reason i dont have them top 3 is because they havent been scrimming since their win they all went on vacation and they are only good on 4 maps of which 1 is leaving the pool. and t1 did NOT farm apac they barely got past boom. apac in general is probably the most competitive region i think its very hard to stay on top. as for drx i just think they peaked early with their understanding of tejo i still think they will be good i just dont see them winning their region again and have more hope for global and talon.

apeks is like at best a top 8 team but i respect the loyalty. and prx is cooked fam they dont even know who their starting jingg is on smokes and mindfreak is on sentinel its a mess over there maybe champs but toronto is not for them.

thats c9 and vct korea isnt real just because 3 of the top 4 teams for 1 event happened to be korean doesnt make it vct korea lmao. saying that i do think all of the korean teams will finish top 6

LEV 💔

bro swapped 3 teams for my 4th places lmao

FUCK i thought this would be genius bait but im caught in the first 5 mins

vitality as soon as they lost a game turned into complete ass and then we hear they are trying to bench trexx probably because he doesnt like how the team is being lead. mechanics can only get you so far and im saying this as a fan of the team.

AMERICAS:
G2

MIBR

NRG

EMEA:
Heretics

FNATIC

Liquid

APAC:
GenG

Talon

Global

CN:
EDG

BLG

DRG

Told her im big like bieber she aint believe me SEEYUH 🤯

new post sum bs 3am west? did bro pass geography?

i am music ♥

source?

english?

whos calling do you guys think is better? personally im going with munchkin.

this game is not cs2. yes its not perfectly balanced and never has been but bro its gotten a lot better over time. the players have gotten better but if you compare it to early valorant utility its much better. and what would you have them do? nerf ever single character to have a 8-9 orb ult and 3 ability charges max? like everyone would say how the utility feels watered down and not impactful. its really hard to get the right balance and imo the draw to this game isnt the gun play its the agents.

this is true the map designs on like all but ascent have this problem. haven, lotus, and fracture kind of get around this from having high impact early skirmishes where people dump a lot of util but 100% the map design is a problem when you have maps like abyss and icebox somehow in the map pool which just arent competitive made maps. idk what the map designers are smoking but the benefits of letting the com make maps would be astronomical for the games longevity.

all it comes down to is the games they game they came from have limited utility and as people have gotten better the utility usage is the thing people have improved on the most and yes it can be overwhelming its not perfectly balanced but regardless its just a take that doesnt make a whole lot of sense.

too obvious bro try to sell some believable bait like t1 arent the best team itw

yeah last year it was edg and fpx who were competitive now its just edg but the league actually has competition for the other spots its like blg, trace, xlg, nova, drg are all pretty decent

thank you id be saying this even if i wasnt a g2 fan

wolves is shit bro

this makes sense he had a lot of health problems during kickoff and they performed well with obone so im not surprised hes good but yeah this just makes more sense with coms in mind

macro, consistency, micro, gameplans, meta read. i am not saying t1 is like way worse all im saying is if you played the gf 10 times t1 would win like 4/10

double map ban was barely a disadvantage for them they both are bad at fracture and bind. it only effected them on abyss either then that it would have been the same veto. also they did play better in the bo5 thats not what im saying at all.

stax played a better gf then meteor but yeah

lost to liquid btw

comeback?

if g2 dont make toronto come back to this post and tell me to delete my account

https://www.vlr.gg/348469/g2-esports-vs-team-heretics-champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai-ubsf
https://www.vlr.gg/348457/g2-esports-vs-team-heretics-champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai-r2

when did heretics play at bangkok? i must have missed their games.

this is insane coming from a zeta flair lmfao

the joke that is meteor winning mvp? i mean seriously did the people voting watch the event? izu was robbed. meteor was like the 4th best player on the team for the event.

saying t1 is better than g2. thats not to take anything away from t1 they won they played better in the bo5 they deserve the win. but going forward for the rest of the year g2 will outplace t1 thats pretty obvious from their consistency and read on the meta meanwhile t1 fluctuate drastically depending on map they only have 4 good maps all of which they run double duelist on. also g2 are the biggest chokers i have seen in the game and im saying that as a g2 fan like seriously the grand final debuff for g2 is like 5x what it is for most teams. the t1 win is more of a match up diff then them just being better (g2's worst maps also happen to be t1's). the same thing happened in madrid last year the best team at the event lost and thats okay, results dont tell the whole story thats whats fun about watching esports or sports in general if the best team before the match won every time it would be boring.

when is lukxo able to play?

all good picks besides rrq they lost their igl and still dont have replacement. also kru is destined to qualify to champs but masters is off the table like always.

why does it say that on vlr????

more games when? swiss stage ends today

its impossible now right?

?? what

no

obviously will not win bro

very true as long as vit and heretics are top 3 literally anything else is possible