If everyone is in their prime form, but also comfortably caught up with the meta I'd say

1st 2023 EG
2nd 2023 FNC
3rd 2022 Loud
4th 2023 PRX
5th 2022 FPX
6th 2021 GMB
7th 2022 OpTic
8th Madrid SEN
9th 2021 Acend

Masters Milton Keynes clears

We must manifest the Mazino + tex +c0m double neg game while simultaneously donning our FUT tank tops and screaming really really loud to manifest regular season qRaxs and yetujey. Then for the final step, we must build the biggest cup tower we can manage, have number_1_cNed_fan bless it and pray to it as an idol in order to manifest 2 cNed 50 bombs

Chronicle only ever losing 4 matches internationally despite winning 3 events is genuinely insane

In all seriousness who do they get here? GuhRVN, Askia and then idek any Sentinel players other than xand who's going to Furia and pancc who shouldn't be in Tier 1 regardless. Unless ofc Less actually is getting dropped by Loud and mibr pull an absolute robbery by getting him

Noooo not wrigglemeister

At least try becoming perma Sentinel players? I feel like Sentinel is such an obvious choice for players like them, because it essentially boils down to lurk or be third entry on attack and go for trades, hard anchor and erase people who walk into your crosshair on defense, which seem like yay and Demon1's ultimate strength. It worked for Alfajer and Sentinel didn't even suit his playstyle. I just want to see a yay Cypher masterclass

I doubt Potter wants to make any roster moves right when the current EG roster seems to be hitting their stride and her long term plans for the roster are coming to fruition

And replaced Ethan instead, then in Stage 2 s0m has a second cove incident to toss an 11-3 lead against SEN and gets benched, then they pick up yay, we finally get OpTic reunion and the world heals

Me when never winning a game against someone = clearing them

0/8

Ben 10 was absolute peak icl, Tournament of Elements does clear tho

I want to work out some of the ratings for this tournament so far

qRaxs had an absolute STINKER of a game compared to his usual performance. You could tell he was mega tilted. I believe in the bounce back

Aspas has never won a match in a mid season masters, please let T1 choke

True but then the number of teams at internationals makes formats a bit weird. I'd assume they'd make the first masters event 10 teams in that case, which is workable if you change the swiss format up a bit and keep top 4 make playoffs. Mid season masters get fucky though. 15 teams with 5 automatically in playoffs would be awful so they'd have to run a 20 team event, which would still be difficult to run. And then you get the issue of how many teams you have in champs, because surely they'd want more than the mid season masters event. But 25 is a terrible number and 30 is just ridiculous.

Hence why they should make VCT CIS once all the sanctions are lifted so we have 6 regions

MiniBoo's quite a handsome lad icl

He has yet to win a match in a mid season Masters. Please let the Pacific choke be stronger than the aspas mid season curse

The crowd is gonna be fucking feral watching Gen.G vs FPX

I'd say MiniBoo looks a bit better but Wo0t is still amazing

Please I want to see Heretics vs Gen.G

He is just that guy

Are you my brains? Cuz I wanna blow you against a wall

He's having a field day against the no sentinel

He's been fired up this series and BM'ing like mad. He's looking like cNed1 out there

Babybay yapping about some irrelevant scrim on FaZe so we remember that he was a bum pro player? Holy shit!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

Tell me it isn't so

Please... hold me... whisper sweet copium into my ears

FUTA keep railing them so I can keep my cNedging streak

MISTER NEDDINGTON MY GLORIOUS GOAT

FPX do technically have the Copenhagen trophy in China soooooooo

I give up on FUT so now my hopium lies on Dragon Ranger Gaming

Fuck this, I'm getting therapy to remove my FUT fetish and becoming a dragon (ranger gaming) cock fan

I FELT THAT 4K IN MY PROSTATE

"Oh remember when I used to play this angle back when we scrimmed Brimstone Gaming once"

Got me kinda bricked up I'm ngl

0/8

Tory Slideshow is silently judging the youth right now

xccurate is taking all of f0rsakeN and by extensions PRX's choking energy into his body through and ancient Tibetan rituals in order to give PRX the best chances to win Shanghai. Another Susanto masterclass

FUT and FPX basically play the same style but FUT deffo have higher firepower and don't seem like they'd struggle in the scrappy chaotic rounds that FPX thrive in. I mean qRaxs is literally the king of getting absurd 3k's in muddy rounds

ANGE1

Cuz he lost some of his consistency, which is honestly impressive that he'd kept so consistent for so long. He was near the top of the game for pretty much all of 2021-2023, and only now is showing some cracks

I feel like this line of thinking kind of falls flat when you realise everyone else in 2022 could also pick Chamber and never hit the heights that yay did. Obviously part of his success was down to Chamber but his utter dominance was largely down to his superior mechanical skill

Singular Masters win + never won a regional final despite NA being a 1 team region in 2022

In terms of achievements bro doesn't clear that many people in the goat discussion

I just came a little

I wasn't taking last year into account. This year ardiis has been insane and looks like 2022 ardiis again

1. Leo - Perfect player

2. benjyfishy - Absolutely insane fragging, great decision making, actual untouchable anchor player and a clutch god, best vibes merchant in EMEA

3. cNed - Finally seems to have the confidence and the freedom to take advantage of his insane mechanics

4. ardiis - Incredibly flexible, has very good supportive util on flash initiators and still puts up insane numbers even on support roles

5. Alfajer - Actual inhuman mechanical skill

6. MiniBoo - Absurdly high mechanical skill and insane entry capabilities, plays with negative self preservation and enables Heretics' aggressive playstyle

7. qRaxs - Is good for like 5 free rounds that should've been unwinnable every series. Will frequently 3k from spots that should be at best one and done's and clutches impossible rounds while providing great supportive util

8. Shao - Fairly self explanatory, makes very few mistakes, has insane fragging and has fantastic utility

9. Wo0t - The other enabler of Heretics' aggresive playstyle, he's an insanely good second entry and fills any holes in Heretics' gameplan

10. Chronicle - Puts up insane numbers while playing hard support, insanely good utility usage and maybe has the biggest clutch factor out of anyone in EMEA

Honourable Mentions - RieNs, Sayf, N4RRATE, marteen, tomaszy, yetujey, Elite, SUYGETSU

Honestly I have them as favourites to win Shanghai. PRX have choked too much for me to believe they could beat 100T

Obviously if PRX win Shanghai I'll fucking cum enough to end world hunger but until it happens I will be on the doomer train

RRQ now definitively top 5, possibly top 3-4 depending on how well the team gels

Yoman to RRQ would actually go so hard ngl