Munchkin already said the other teams have the same issue during the Plat Chat interview. But people just assume it was due to the Gen.G-China controversy

He has been streaming recently and every time he does so, he gets bombarded with a lot of toxic chat messages.
So one time he finally lost it when he read yet another 'why havent you be kicked out yet' comment and he went off on that chatter. The part that stood out to fans was him saying: 'I'm not stopping you from supporting other teams. It's not like we're going to be winning anyways'.
Kangkang had to stop him from saying more and tried to calm him down, but the damage has already been done and now fans think that he doesn't have the drive to win and have been trying to get him actually kicked out of EDG. (Source)

When Nobody was streaming, viewers kept asking him in jest when he’s gonna retire, ostensibly owing to their quick elimination from Shanghai. To which a frustrated Nobody replied that he don’t care bout winning internationally; is totally fine with wallowing in CN scene; and that Val meant nothing more than a salary. It came at a time when Chinese fans r generally pissed with edg’s lacklustre performance, with equal part anger and shame at being embarrassed on home grounds. So venting or not, Nobody got immediately flamed. The bilibili clip of him saying that got 2000 comments in 11 hours, most of them calling Edg frauds etc. (Source 2)

Should have went back to Korea way earlier

They have 6 days to prep for the regular season, their best map is going out of the pool.
Plus new map and all the agent changes. Its gonna be rough

No way Babybay gets to cast a grand finals at his first event while Achilios constantly gets snubbed

Is Doug & Babybay gonna be casting the finals? Achilios always done dirty at these events.

The script has already been written. Gen.G is losing the finals

SEN 2-0 NU (Only win)
OPTIC 1-2 LOUD (LOST)
OPTIC 1-2 PRX (LOST)
OPTIC 0-2 LOUD (LOST)
EG 1-2 FNC (LOST)
EG 1-2 PRX (LOST)
SEN 1-2 GEN (LOST)
G2 0-2 GEN (LOST)

*Master Berlin, Champs 2021 & LOCK//IN were single elimination, hence there weren't any Upper Finals

Getting 5-6th is better than not winning a game at masters

Now buy Rb from TEC and Zest from Bleed. Also get k1Ng back

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Well, PRX would have lost the finals if they didn’t have the double map ban. Their map pool just counters Gen.G’s

They wouldn't so thats not a better question

Would Paper Rex and FNATIC have made it out of the swiss stage?

GEN 2-1 G2 (NA can't win Upper Finals)
100T 2-0 TH (EMEA can only win against China and themselves
100T 3-2 G2 (Super close NA civil war)
100T 3-1 GEN (Another Pacific choke, can't win BO5's)

WTF

They would have won this game earlier if they didn't throw the 1v4 or just learnt to play the bomb time

Its not. Idk why so many expect even cheers for both sides. As long as there's no ill intent, there's nothing wrong with bias crowds

lol f0rasaken tapped his headset

Holy toss

Tokyo clears

Whats the point when Jingg is throwing? Something already pushed B and has info, why did he push A?

Gen.G will win the Upper Finals cuz NA always loses Upper Finals
But they'll lose in the Grand Finals cuz Pacific can't win BO5's

They haven't had a podium finish since Tokyo. No Top 3 at Champs since 2021 too

Lost 2 extremely close games to both top 3 teams. Unlucky

China doesn’t hate teams just cuz they beat the CN teams. Heretics has been gaining popularity in China especially woot with his flashy playstyle

EDG would have won this map if PRX didn’t get those lucky spam kills in 2 rounds

stax rb zest k1Ng stew
DRX Revengers

DRX own Navi

Yeah, and the Gen.G players aren't even in good condition. t3xture sounded like his nose was blocked on stream. Meteor and Karon kept coughing too. I hope they do well this tourney

• IGL-ing from Laz is extremely bad. crow probably had a lot more impact in calling than expected.
• The rookies are firepower upgrades but their decision making is really poor.
• They also have pretty poor util usage, like they will never save recon on defense for the site hits, rarely use drone to gather mid round info, etc.

They don't have access to the China API

NAVI & FUT giving China their first wins

That's cause Americas, EMEA, Pacific are made up of multiple countries. China is one country

I swear whenever I watch them play it feels like watching Walmart PRX. Its like they want to play aggresive but they don't have the aim or the coordination or the setplays to do so.
For example, the first pistol against G2, they had the bomb down and man advantage, yet they still continued to push backsite and lost the round

But T1 didn't beat the best of the best to get to Shanghai. That Gen.G game was a huge fluke

The format is shit. But you can't just switch the groups to compare cuz they played different opponents.

No matter how you look they did not play opponents of equal strength. DRX/PRX were the best in the group stage and RRQ didn't play either team

Its not Telecom 1. You search about it, it refers to the starcraft team being the best at that time.

They were called SKT T1 back then. It would make no sense to call them SK Telecom Telecom 1

You can't compare that way. Gen.G had tougher opponents cuz they faced DRX/PRX while RRQ played Bleed/GE. Obviously their record will be better

DRX = Dragon X
Gen.G = Generation Gaming
T1 = The One/Team One/Team 1st
JDG = Jingdong (E-commerce Company)

All this just for PRX & Korea to own Pacific

I swear Rossy is the most consistent whenever I watch T1 play. And Chichoo is like EDG's 2nd best player, at worst 3rd

Why’d they swap roles on the last map?

They could get lucky and draw 2 Chinese teams like Loud did at Madrid

They did a live draw at madrid and people were still complaining

People are gonna claim the swiss stage draw is rigged anyways

13-0

DRX 2-0 26-0 TL

T1 and best performing does not go together

Did you watch the game? Foxy9 has been one of their best players on Sentinel