NEXT UP, CHAMPION'S LEAGUE FINAL

takej, reita

Ranked player who is a pure aimer archetype. If he were scouted by a proper coach who does player-specific strategies, he could be a Demon1 regen. However, nobody is gonna suddenly pick him up and I don't think he particularly wants to join a team since streaming most likely gets him enough money.

Honestly, it's not too bad if you don't do any random adjustments and mods. It's literally like a puzzle. The cable management isn't too bad and you can be lazy and forget about it until the next time your PC randomly crashes or needs a clean.

Craziest down to That's a little odd:

1. No Korean team at an international - genuinely unusual. T1, KRX and NS fumbled badly whilst GENG is having an insane fall-off.
2. FNC missing 2 internationals in a row - they were actually so close, but let it slip.
3. Aspas and by proxy MIBR missing both Masters - Aspas has attended the second Masters of the year every following year after leaving LOUD. This is the first time he has missed out on attending both Masters. MIBR is meant to be the superteam for the year and they tripped up again.
4. Asuna having a monster performance - he has it in him, but 100T have been so wishy-washy.
5. TH winning a grand final - they really had it in them, but they were basically one missing piece away from getting there. They may have been pants earlier in the year and last year, but they seem to be more tidied up now.

Maximilian Mazanov

Disagree, but this guy died 22/23 rounds. Surely this is not how he should be playing at Masters

Flights coming back as well

Ayanokoji mental game type of smokes

But could Demon1 win it age 16?

Unfortunately Less would have to play agents that aren't Viper/Cypher.

f0rsaken

Wished his (21yo) girlfriend (18yo) a happy 18th birthday and then deleted the tweet when people started accusing him of being a paedo and predator. Some people are witch-hunting him. Some are trying to reason that it is not as bad as people are depiciting it because you can't judge it through the lens of your own regional/country's culture for dating.

Time to bookmark this post

I agree with the vibe, but of all things, pickleball?

For real. I can see a world where he could be like Boo where he can call and have the odd moment of insane individual aim to clutch out a round. However, it would be ideal that he has that free reign to cook. I saw a thread of MIBR Nats and whilst it's clearly a joke, that would hypothetically be insane since Verno would call and nats can lurk on sentinel freely. Big issue would be visas since nats is Russian and would need to play in America.

I think even if SEN had a serious bag contract for TenZ, he would consider the other options to branch out into other fields and network more. T1 as an org is really good in that sense. Plus I imagine he will be living in Korea more often which could even mean he would be tuning in for Pacific matches. T1 now need to make London to make the most of having this massive clout in their arsenal. T1 were big, but now the viewership for their matches if TenZ is watchpartying all of them will be unreal

Spank theory in motion

KRX need Foxy9 back

A little late, but sharing my night market: https://prnt.sc/lK5Pb5QyDpHE

He must be quite happy. Perhaps... on Cloud9

In all brutal honesty, it was one of the biggest Cinderella run flukes. I still love the Wolves Toronto run and respect the effort to nearly reach a Grand Final out of nowhere as a China 3rd Seed. They really had some insane momentum and were only held out by teams with experience and momentum of their own. They went back to China with a lot of their game strats understood and not as much prep time to maintain their ability.

Arsenal were due to get to a Champions League final, but it feels like the second half of the season became a trudge towards that goal rather than a vigorous run. Hopefully Arsenal lock in to give a solid final performance otherwise it will be 05/06 final all over again. Last season, Arsenal looked arguably a bit stronger and only narrowly lost to PSG who still look like the most entertaining team to watch.

Holy fall off. Really and truly, the only bigger downfalls are when someone gets fully cancelled or even arrested. In fairness, he got most of his views whilst being on SEN and is now kind of a drifter with not that much personality or engagement in pro play. He's made his bag to be fair.

RIP, I was thinking about sym and what he was up to in regards to Valorant. Gone too soon.

Gone too soon. I was thinking about sym recently as well since he was scouted for EG at one point and wondered what he was up to recently. RIP

We definitely need some more lively football alongside haramball. Especially if we want to get to a UCL final and face PSG who are looking like their cracked out Blue Lock counterpart. Honestly, I can't handle the thought of facing PSG since we lack that firepower and drive to fight back.

It's barely fingertips. It didn't make a massive change to the outcome of the ball's direction.

4.Tocin
5.Gen

97th minute conceded goal, but points dropped is big anyways. Also, massive how Liverpool lost to Utd yesterday. Proper game that was.

Somehow someway, Villa gave Spurs some life

Doku saved you from embarrassment

97th minute goal from Man City, Everton could have won that. Points dropped is still crucial in the race

Tejo: Ethan probably.
Breach: Francis although this is with very limited use.
Omen: Patmen - he suddenly becomes the GOAT on this agent.

Serious L Behaviour from him. Such a shame since he was pretty great on LEV Academy. There really aren't too many Brazilian duelists unless LOUD try to trade with LEV and get Sato or Spike.

Damn, that's nuts. How come he's blacklisted?

Ghoul33 would be a shout especially considering he played with Erde on LEV Academy. As for initiator, that's where it's difficult. Sidu is the only fresh option. Beyond that, the current best initiators in T2 Brazil are Tier 1 flops like frz, raafa, etc.

Let's be real. Was FS realistically gonna beat T1? FS have always been shy of that Top 4 quality of teams even though they have insane firepower. T1 seems to be heated now after a fizzle out performance in Santiago.

When LEV acquired Spike, Sato and Neon, I knew there was going to be this type of issue. Spike was meant to be the flex who can play Viper, KAYO, Duelist, whoever needed to be filled (pause). Sato was meant to be the dive duelist, but he has never been too amazing on Neon. Sato has the similar issue to Aspas where he could learn Neon, but he is better off on Jett and Raze. As for Neon, this guy was a Yoru merchant during Tier 2 and now that Yoru is in the bin, it's Chamber's time to shine. But now that Neon is on Jett and Spike is on Neon, Sato basically has very limited options to play aggro agents. Sato is fine on Phoenix, but I think we need Spike on Omen and LEV go against the Neon + 2nd duelist meta. Spike can be great on his day, but Sato is disgusting when he dominates.

ENVY is mainly cooked due to the meta change and them lacking their prodigy duelist and smoke player. Even worse, their prodigy is literally banned for a whole year because he cannot control himself. I would be seriously interested to see if Cane would have performed anywhere close to his Tier 2 capacity.

I've bought a pair from Amazon and they're pretty good. Best to get them on discount.

You can insult a woman without having to resort to insulting their gender. You just have to be quick witted. Even then, you can choose to ignore them. As a side note, depending on the rank, sometimes it's better to mute them given low rank players can sometimes not comm properly or make poor comms. If you're really hung up on comms, just put their volume super low so they're less of a nuisance in your ear.

I won't forget this one time a girl just decided to violate me for my voice. I said nothing prior in the game and decided to comm. She decides to say: "what the fuck even are you?" There are some seriously toxic girls who have no bearing on how to be funny. Just bully for the sake of bullying.

Poor unc. But he definitely needed a proper replacement sooner than later. I can't lie. C0m needs to be taken off IGL and possibly removed entirely if he cannot step up in fragging capability.

C9 and logical roster decisions is like asking water and oil to mix. Granted, notexxd is a solid smokes player with great potential. Jackk seemed to be doing alright as well, but C9 really suffer from turbulent performances.

Insane work that you don't see a Russian, Korean or Chinese roster. Also, the fact that the organisation has a say on the teams and other nonsense is ridiculous. It would be neat if someone else could take over the concept, but no one has money like the Saudis to fund these extravagant esports concept tournaments.

valoplant.gg has some solid line ups although a few of them aren't updated and new line ups aren't added too often. Youtubers like Snapiex, Tseeky have generally good lineups for most use case scenarios. Pro Lineups have some good niche scenario lineups, but you have to test for yourself whether it's something you can remember or if it still works because some line ups get patched or some of the spots to bounce/land the dart are too tricky to consistently hit.

Edit: I would always say take the time to test line ups for yourself and see if there are any new line ups that you can find that you may easily remember and will land in good spots to scan fast. Taking the time to self-test is worthwhile.

The big issue with superteams is how costly it is to even sign the players and pay them. When you become a big name, you usually want a good salary and security as well as other perks.

When yay joined C9 in 2023, they couldn't afford to keep him on and that wasn't even a superteam.

When things don't work out, you need to make change so you end up having to pay an inactive player a large salary whilst hiring in new recruits to fill in the gap and hopefully make way back to the international stage.

Now, we have seen numerous iterations of the "super-team" who were meant to win all 3 trophies with FNC being the closest to that sweep. In terms of longevity, and I know this will garner its own criticism, but how is PRX never considered a super-team given how frequently they attend internationals and have been in numerous grand finals and top positions? Of course, the whole point of super-team claims is you get the best players from multiple franchises and smash them altogether on one roster in a Miami Heat type of way, but PRX have been that strong team similar to FNC where their longevity and consistency is among the best. Yes, the caveat is PRX only have one trophy to their name, but that is more than most of the orgs.

Yuran

Darker is a decent player, but the issue is due to LOUD's past, there are always high expectations for this team. Luk_xo is pretty great, but it feels like his potential may be wasted due to having an incomplete team around him. The main thing the team constantly missed was a solid IGL - someone who could effectively call without tanking on frags. When they still had Saadhak, it was really the duelist they were missing.