He does not worship master nAts. Which is why he finds Gambit BoRiNg. Jett instalock who cries "drop zombs" moment.

Can work. TenZ has the better Jett. Jay has the better Sova and Raze. Dapr on Sova is not working.

But will it happen? Probably not; the players will rather work what went wrong themselves instead of throwing more money for a 6 man which complicates lineups.

As some English footballer said, "chat shit get banged". That obviously doesn't mean get banged with death threats though.

Look up Liquipedia, they have circuit point standings for all the regions.

For EMEA LCQ, 7 EMEA (3rd to 9th) teams from circuit points + 1 from Strike Arabia (MENA qualifiers for LCQ) battle it out for a single slot in Champions.

For NA LCQ, 8 NA teams from CP + 2 from OCE qualifiers battle out for a single slot in Champions.

For LATAM LCQ, 4 teams from LATAM + 4 teams from BR from CP compete for a single slot.

For APAC LCQ, 3 SEA + 2 KR + 2 JP (these three are from circuit points), along with 2 China and 1 South Asia (these two are from qualifier tournaments) compete for a single slot.

TSM cannot qualify for LCQ unless a NA team wins Masters 3, as TSM are currently in 11th place (3rd-10th NA play in LCQ). The winner of Masters 3 qualifies directly to Champions irrespective of the region or their current CP status; circuit points for such a region are ranked excluding the Masters 3 winner.

I just watch along with my friends on Discord. It's as chaotic as Twitch chat but not with the absolute clownfest of neuron destruction that takes place in Twitch chat. And everyone knows each other so we know when someone's trolling and when someone isn't.

Hopefully GE PRX makes it to Champions via LCQ, the fun entries should never stop

Don't forget the unnecessary toxicity and even death threats towards other regions.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ac84e472 Ridiculously hot take, EU/SEN fans be warned.

The Killjoy version of the Icebox comp (Jett, Sova, Viper, Sage, Killjoy) tends to outperform the Reyna version by a large margin though, but it's really a matter of comfortability for the players.

CR redemption arc really drove the point home that JP was worthy of two slots in Masters, when it even made me sceptical. Absolutely stunning performance, you guys we so close. It's not easy to come back so hard after the drubbing in the opener.

I feel people are underestimating KRU. The best team in LATAM and one of the only 3 Iceland teams that made it into Berlin as well, it can go either way. To add on, SMD weren't supposed to drop a map against PRX, and the third map went pretty close as well. It wouldn't be that easy for SMD to beat KRU, had they faced each other in the first place.

No lol, Remember Boaster, i was ur biggest fan. But since u ruined the team by ur 5 head-weirded strats, now im turn to ur biggest hater. And G2 and SMB current state, u cant win them fo sho

NU finished third in the world though in the previous masters so it's not as one sided as we presume it to be. NU's strong performance in IceLAN really set the bar high for the KR region, who were considered to be just VS and nobody else.

I still have the SEA (more like Asian tbh) hopium in me; PRX got really close to going to map 3. SMB vs PRX will be fun.

And it'll be funny for EMEA to lose 2 of their teams in the group stage itself.

Not really the fault of the player though - he himself acknowledges he ain't the level of TenZ/cNed/wardell and other EU/NA Jett mains. The fanbase is too obsessive.

It's not T-sided, it's the 9-3 curse

EU/CIS/TR - 5
MENA - 1
APAC north - 4 (Offline challenger playoffs, like KR challengers)
APAC south - 4 (Offline challenger playoffs)
NA - 4
LATAM/BR - 5 (Offline challengers playoffs, like LATAM playoffs)
Region of winner of previous masters/champions - +1

Breakdown of subregions of the regions:

• APAC north:
  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. Korea
• APAC south:
  1. SA (Mumbai circuit)
  2. TH/MY/SG/ID (Singapore circuit)
  3. VT/HK/TW/PH (Hong Kong circuit)
  4. OCE (Sydney circuit)
• LATAM/BR:
  1. LAN
  2. LAS
  3. BR
• EU/CIS/TR:
  1. EU
  2. CIS
  3. TR

Ideally I'll want MENA to compete in EMEA playoffs and give EMEA 6 slots but idk how strong they are. I've tried to keep the distribution more or less proportional to the current distribution of slots to regions.

...teams who don't run sage on icebox

Team Secret (Bren). It'll be cheating if we don't see the boys on LAN, especially with all the visa issues.

And GE, of course (although the chances are very low, a strong performance in LCQ would be a great achievement in itself, and may make Riot rejig their Champions tour roadmap more.)

But I want TS to be on BerLAN 2 way more than any other team, they could've had a very strong chance against G2 evenm

I mean I'm still alive for some reason, and my street food quota is... not something to be proud of.

Or merge the JP/CN/KR scene, like how EMEA playoffs work. Increases the quality of the whole region. SEA/SA/OCE should go a similar merger tbh, and give these two bigger regions 3 teams each into Masters, keeping the Asian representation still at 6 total, but much less likely to get steamrolled.

I hate how astonishingly close you are on at least one prediction

come.

-- Viper, circa 2067

Meanwhile UwU:

1. F4Q are the higher seed
2. Map picks will alternate as it's a double round robin group

"The first match was a little boring"

Those two vandals in the TP were the greatest content this game could ever produce.

It's like late in the night in Asia LUL

I've always called for extreme measures for population control, now you understand why.

I don't think you get what I'm trying to say.

It probably doesn't matter as Group D will be double round robin. I assume in their 2nd meeting f4q will be the higher "seed". To add on, this was the seeding for Group D before Bren Team Secret got cucked by their visas -

1. SEN
2. Bren Team Secret
3. F4Q
4. G2

Iceland runners up losing to a team losing to streamers lmfaoe

wait...

I prefer that over some kid swearing in Hindi

Check out the Greek meaning of malakas (μαλακας)

My favourite setup is a retake one at A site, where I can spam through CT (which will be smoked most likely), with trips on the plant area itself, as my team pushes out of B to flank the attackers. This setup is so ridiculously strong as it catches people terribly off guard. My friends tried it, to a high degree of success as well.

However, more often than not I find myself taking space aggressively on defence with the camera (especially on A main and B arcade), and tripping the other end (B main and A dish are great spots to default trip on defence, as those are single chokes taking control of the whole quadrant, plus you can set those in the buy phase itself). My playstyle on Cypher here is very much like an immobile Sova (inspired by master nAts), for a lack of a better word.

Or you can just play the traditional one way setups from site like the other maps - content creators on You Tube already have those.

On attack tho, I use my cam and my trips exclusively to watch the flank (on other maps I usually use the cam for aggressive intel in the execute) - trips cover A main and B main, cam covers the dish/arcade flank (make sure to just tab in and out of the cam frequently to check that flank - the intel is gathered from the minimap in this case). Defenders simply cannot catch us off guard. I'll recommend this attack setup to anyone who wishes to play Cypher on Fracture because it's really very foolproof.

Because flanking is so common on this map, you really wanna stay alive and play for your life as Cypher, at least till the later part of the post plant (more so on this map simply because of the insane value he brings here). Easily his best map so far, and arguably the only map where he's too good to be replacable by Killjoy.

I like how people were being ironic with their Bren pick, then that happened.

I hope they make it to playoffs, consistency needs to be rewarded

Not even a Bengali name, get ratio'd

Same. Cypher's busted on Fracture.

μου malakas μαλακας

(I checked out the meanings of the words, and oh my lord.)

I've always pronounced it like that unknowingly lmao

Based indeed

Rice is the superior grain

Not true. If they can join a new team with at least 3 of the 5 players, the points will be transferred to the new team.

No, they're linked to the players. If 3 of the 5 players join/form a new team, all the points that Bren accomodated will be transferred to the new team.

Follow master nAts' footsteps. Reject Killjoy, return to Cypher.

It's a win-win for both the Raze player and the one facing Raze tbh. Boombot's cheap so Razes can buy it more, but it does less damage which means it isn't as annoying as before, and especially not an instakill on armourless players.

Fuck new act, we count down for BerLAN baby :D

Either way, we'll probably be seeing an increase in the number of Masters participants - which could already be stretching the length of the tournament, and complicates the distribution of Champions slots across regionsas well. The only way I can see a 24 team tournament be wrapped up in around 10 days is if they make eight groups of 3 teams each, where the groups are single round robins, and the 8 group winners progress into a single elimination bracket.

I expect GE to pull off a Stage 2 Gambit in APAC LCQ, and Rito can then provide more slots to SA in LCQ and a Masters slot as well (just one will be pretty big).

For those who don't get the reference, Gambit was the sole CIS represntative in EMEA playoffs challengers 2, against 4 EU and 3 TR teams, and they managed to finish in top 4, ahead of the TR teams. Who did they lose to in the semis? Fnatic. Gambit could've easily be the 2nd EMEA representative had they not faced Fnatic in semis. And now CIS sends 3 teams to playoffs.

I used to have this take ironically, but I'm starting to believe in this take more and more