Ur not deadass about to tell me FNC violently pissing everywhere and putting up zero fight is in any way entertaining to watch. Boring 3-0 stomp is boring and it'd be the same if FNC were doing this to NRG

This shit is so boring to watch

"Um akshually Demon1 was signed in the off season as part of EG's 10 man roster they just subbed him in mid season 🤓"

I think he just really struggled playing against Yoru as well as Tejo in the earlier part of the year. Just meta diffed ig

SheepEsports reported he was gone and they're right like 90% of the time

o7 Boo brothers on the same team but I'm thinking this might be best for MiniBoo's individual form tho cuz I remember when paTiTek was still subbing in for Wo0t he was set up for success and actually a really high fragging duelist who was enabled to take fights, but when Wo0t came in it felt like the dynamic of the team kinda flipped and he turned into the sacrificial human drone type player to enable Wo0t and RieNs to play off him

I'm thinking he can have a massive resurgence if he lands on a team that sets him up to be the star player again like he was pre-Wo0t TH

I mean if FNC don't win Champs then they're probably best team of the year winning an event and coming top 4 in Champs so yh real shit

Yuh unless I'm just getting one guyed but even if there haven't been any actual rumours MiniBoo is gone and Keiko's contract is ending so TH could nab him and have him and Wo0t swap around duelist duties

Keiko reportedly trying out for TH pack it up bro

Does Leo count for this?

Cuz if so

FNS
Leo
TenZ
ardiis
Sayaplayer

OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS I WILL BE THERE NO MATTER WHAT

Do you mean extreme metal like death, black and deathcore? Cuz heavy metal is the subgenre that's closest to just being hard rock and mostly consists of early stuff like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden

LEV have a chance to do the funniest thing

All time it's probably Bring Me the Horizon but rn I'd probably say it's either Megadeth or Necrophagist

Irrational

C9, lil bro's trynna be the MOUZ/GamerLegion/Heroic of Valorant so bad
NRG for similar reasons but more so because it's funny to pray on their downfall
TS Shitcret
FUR making me waste my time and stay up till 2am to watch any half decent Americas games cuz Riot always schedules their matches first and Furia haven't played a match worth watching since LOCK//IN

Rational

SEN, their fanbase is fucking insufferable, with the only reason it wasn't so obnoxious this year being because they didn't do anything of note
VIT cuz they're the closest thing we have to a Falcons type team who just try and buy trophies rather than try and establish a stable core

He was in the top 10 players in the last actual TR split but in the region wide EMEA tourney he was mid as fuck

lover's rock touches them both

Mfw I don't have an igl, give us Jamppi tho ong

DERKE TO HERETICS GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (please)

Yeah the fanbase doesn't help their case either

Or the whole "ritual" shit they do instead of just performing their song. I just find that kinda shit pretentious and weird

Yeah black metal I don't see the appeal for either, but death metal I think is in a different sort of ballpark

Beyond the hurdle of getting used to the vocals, I think death metal is in the same kinda area as thrash where it's fast, technical, aggressive and energetic, which I fuckin love

For me it's Sleep Token, their music is just fuckin boring to me. They're a fusion of rap, pop and metal but they do all 3 elements incredibly generic and mid and they're music is like 50% ambience and buildup for a payoff that's realistically not hype/heavy enough to warrant it, and their vocalists voice is really grating/annoying to me

Bro had a good start, it may not be completely joever

Giga Chad Acend mogs them all

sign a random ahhh team in 2021
win Champions
immediately fall off a cliff
refuse to elaborate
leave the esport

I have zero expectations

I know if I genuinely believe in my heart they'll win they'd get 13-0'd 13-2'd, if I abandon all hope completely Wo0t would drop 90 across the series

TH masters of being unreliable

Hold up, maybe this guy can cook after all

Wait hold up yeah they haven't played Abyss at all so far

Ok we might have a chance

I just got home from work bruh we have to play PRX

Third times the charm right?

PRX massively favoured on Sunset, Bind and Abyss, TH favoured on Haven, Ascent and Corrode, imo it all comes down to Lotus decider

Please for the love of God we can't be fighting G2 for title of most disappointing team of the year

Maybe most disappointing Champs I could see for TL but considering they had zero expectations at the start of the year, were 3rd seed at Toronto and had all the nAts visa issues whilst still just barely missing playoffs and then winning Stage 2, I think TL's year was fine compared to their expectations. They just majorly underdelivered at Champs.

G2 had people unironically thinking they could go 3 for 3 for internationals and they made 1 finals all year which they lost

Most disappointing team of the year?

To not win a single international and only make one final after shit stomping regionally all year has to sting

VIT probably had equal expectations but they at least crumbled early, G2 kept hope alive all year only to progressively get worse and worse international placements

The issue is they have zero upgrades they can make regionally, so it really is just a run it back and fuckin pray kinda deal

I will still stand by the fact that they hyper trolled all year by refusing to run double duellist

0% TH

Coinflip ass team, if people give up on them they look like world beaters but then the second people have expectations they play like SEN against non Chinese or Brazilian teams

Blud was NOT cooking with this one

Ngl tho I think they just sold their whole year by never playing double duelist

It's not like no one else on the team can do it, leaf used to be a top 3 duelist in Americas when he was last playing it, the Jonah can fill senti

I am Lisan Al Gaib

They're a pretty technical band and their mixing is fucking sick, give Magma and The Heaviest Matter In the Universe a listen

Nah let's be fr for a sec it was a signature RieNs carry job last time

MiniBoo still played well in that series tho

Masters Swansea
Masters Pembrey and Burry Port
Champions Newport (in Pill ofc)

Incredibly based taste

You might also enjoy Motionless In White, Ice Nine Kills, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine or Linkin Park

Whilst they're not very similar Slayer, Megadeth, Slipknot, Pantera, Sepultura and Gojira are also insanely good if you like more traditional metal

Metallica is ofc Metallica

Death and Necrophagist are also insanely good if you like death metal

TH MIBR

TH ban Abyss
MIBR ban Lotus
TH pick Sunset
MIBR pick Corrode
TH ban Bind
MIBR ban Ascent
Haven Decider

GX NRG

GX ban Corrode
NRG ban Sunset
GX pick Ascent
NRG pick Abyss
GX ban Bind
NRG ban Haven
Lotus Decider

True but I imagine GX will probably ban Corrode

If PRX win then imo they make a case for best overall year for a team OAT

If FNC win then Boaster Chronicle Alfajer becomes the objectively best core of players OAT

If aspas wins then he probably does cement goat status

If TH wins I become immune to ragebait for approximately 3 months before the coin they flip before every game inevitably lands on shit violently on the stage again

Ik which one I want

Real

The game entirely depends on the 3rd map since GX will get one of Ascent or Sunset through which they're massively favoured on while NRG will guarantee one of Corrode or Lotus which they're massively favoured on

Both are SEN father

False, they will place 5th/6th instead

It's the XLG effect of turn up to knock out Brazil merchants and do absolutely nothing else

TH have an exactly 50/50 rate of bombing out last or making finals

We did not in fact bomb out last

Cinema incoming

5th/6thRX gonna touch G2 to get their fated placement before completely giving up and exiting the tournament in their signature 5th/6th

PRX 2022-mid 2024
TH since EMEA stage 1 last year

If TL did manage to get a hold of Chronicle I could see Derke being willing to follow suit on a new super team with a former team mate

Tho in that scenario I could see them keeping paTiTek and swapping trexx out for Chronicle because pati being a weak shooter really wouldn't matter on a team with Derke Chronicle nAts and Keiko and in that scenario a vibes guy/second caller like pati is probably more valuable than keeping trexx

Ngl if they dropped even more oil money to get Derke then -trexx is also deffo a shout

-paTiTek EU Zellsis
-kamo CounterBlox

+LewN Jamppi and PROFEK are gone so his team is probably getting worse, he'd probably be willing to change to a trophy contender team
+Chronicle his contract ends this year so TL can send big daddy EWC money his way

So the team is Chronicle, nAts, Keiko, LewN and trexx

NAVI could have a team of Cloud, SUYGETSU, Shao, Ruxic and cNed