Either Cryo or something

The once chance you have to make a convincing argument for a 100T player (Cryo) and you glaze Brazil? Did they Clockwork Orange you during your ban? What happened?

After Champs when MiniBoo ends the whole event having only played Neon with a 1.37 rating

Ite nvm he's cursed to be complete dogwater untill Riot hit him with the complete redesign button

Unless of course FNS gives Victor the free reign to bring back the good old 2022 giga int

They lost Sunset once in regular season to fucking BBL of all teams but other than that I think they're undefeated on it

Fr, I feel like he's right on the cusp of being mid, picked one in ten games on Split in double duelist with Raze purely for vulnerable nade combos if they made his vulnerable not affect team mates and made his c ability wider and able to be stopped like Harbour cascades

I can practically FEEL him salivating at the mouth right now, Heretics Sunset may now genuinely be unbeatable with him cooking on Neon

Nah bro have you seen his Skye?

Nah, his time has come. ardiis and benjyfishy have cleared him as the funny British people

I have an awful feeling EG win this

Goonstio will destroy E(d)G(e)

Nah not happening. There's no way we're gettin past 100 Thieves

I would love that, but I know it's just a pipe dream

That's the Fortnite clout

Heretics and Karmine Corp are teams built for the long run. This year is looking like a developmental stage for them and next year I expect them to really contend internationally. And even then Heretics have made top 4 and were 2 rounds away from utterly curbstomping for G2. Feeling quite good about them.

NAVI has been robbed by the format twice. If they were at either Masters I'd expect them to outperform pretty much every EMEA team.

FUT are a weird one, half the time they look incredible the other half they look awful.

FNC need changes imo.

Overall not the worst in the world, next year I think they'll actually be Barack

I think Gen.G deserve to win ngl, partly because of the shit they're getting from Chinese fans and partly because they're fuckin incredible

MY BEAUTIFUL BOY IS WO0TING ALL OVER THEM

Nah Liquid need to give him a starting spot

Difficulty impossible

I don't necessarily want FUT and TH to win, I just want G2 to lose tbh. Boring ahhhh 3 fans total team

I'm still praying my second favourite team Heretics can make it to upper bracket finals and at least give Gen.G or 100T a run for their money, maybe even pull of the upset

Just realised I have an exam on the day of the upper bracket final. God damn it

I genuinely thought this was the official announcement, came, and then clicked on and realised it wasn't. All the cum proceeded to return to it's place of origin, waiting for the day my designated LOUD pANcada nut can finally be released

I think it'll be a giga banger, could go either way. I think it goes all three maps regardless of who wins

I think if you give Valorant a few more years it'll get there. Valorant came out in 2020, CS has been around since the 90's. The fact Valorant has had even slightly comparable crowds up to this point is pretty impressive all things considered

Which players nowadays, if any, will be on the first Astralis of Valorant, aka the first team to go on a super long dominant winstreak where they are completely unchallenged?

It's clear that FNC can't return to their 2023 level of play without some changes. Ever since champs last year they've been in the mud, and haven't shown many signs of improvement. They failed to qualify for Madrid, looked mid in the regular season and just bombed out of Shanghai without winning a match. Even when they won EMEA the only thing that looked somewhat convincing about their whole playoffs run was the lower bracket final against FUT. They dropped a map against fucking Liquid. Then a Karmine Corp roster full of inexperienced rookies choked two massive leads against them, with FNC basically skirting by on experience differential. Then they got manhandled by Heretics. Then had one convincing game against FUT. Then Heretics choked a 2-0 lead in maps against them and once again lost to experience diff, all the while Leo and Alfajer were pulling generational deadlifts to bail them out constantly.

And it's not like we can say let them cook, give them time to improve. Because that's also what everyone else is doing. Heretics and FUT have the chance to massively level up at Shanghai, NAVI were already way better than FNC and have time off to work of themselves, VIT and KC are some of the most dangerous teams with time to cook their strat book, even ass teams like KOI and BBL were improving near the end of the season. The domestic competition is starting to leave FNC in the dust and there's a very real chance that FNC miss out on champs and honestly I don't think they deserve to go.

This roster needs changes to return to their status as the best team in the world. There's no 2 ways about it

Not yet. This year is the development stage. But if they keep the exact same roster and coaching staff for next year then they're going to be world beaters and could contend for trophies

zeddy

whzy saw FNS return to NRG and all of a sudden BLG will return to their 2023 form so he can double blast pack his way over to Seoul, judge in hand ready to give Puchan a dip in the pool

https://x.com/chronicleEZ/status/1796904564681257059

Knows he had an absolute STINKER of a tournament and actively WANTS all the hate for it

I'd say it depends on if 100T beat Gen.G. If they do I can't see anyone but 100T winning, if not I'd favour Gen.G. They're my current top 2 for the event

Absolute turbo banger

Regardless of the result I just hope it's close

FPX are giving me PRX 2021 vibes

I'm just waiting for their breakout year where they crack top 3

I see an easy solution

EDG d00mbr0s

Attempting to expel all the choking energy from his body on the lower bracket run

Another Susanto masterclass

The point I was trynna make is that FNC have been in a slump since champs at this point, and just hoping for a bounce back without any serious changes probably isn't the best thing to do. All in all I think that's fairly reasonable

Vindication for getting robbed by having to play the best team in EMEA in single elim qualifications TWICE

Mr Neddington my goat

Cuz Chronicle never really trash talked like Boaster did after Madrid, and he's been consistently performing for the rest of the year, just had a stinker of an event now while Boaster has been negative almost every series

FNC disappoint at Champs: They're FNC they'll bounce back
FNC don't qualify to Madrid: They're FNC they'll bounce back
FNC bomb out of Shanghai: They're FNC they'll bounce back <-- You are here

It seems like all of their discipline came from mini, and now that he's no longer in charge it's just been slipping

Tbf it was a random ass BBL life 2 weeks in which they also beat Heretics out of nowhere, even beating them on their home map of Sunset

ANGE1 clears Toaster every day of the week, FNC -Boaster +ANGE1 never loses to FUTA

Get zeddy from KPI, they look like the ascension favourites atm

MiniBoo can play a pretty good Kay/o so maybe honestly

If that happens then I give up on PRX ever winning an event, Gen.G are my new Pacific last hope

Didn't Heretics beat SEN 13-5 on Sunset at Madrid?

Heretics look like they could be the best team itw on Sunset ngl