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

If G2, FNC or PRX win Champs then easily one of those 2

TH or DRX could maybe make a case if they win Champs but it's not a particularly good case over PRX imo cuz it'd be one deep event run vs 2

MIBR NRG and GX I don't think can count regardless of how well they do in playoffs

It feels like this year there hasn't really been a super consistent team. TL SEN and G2 are the only teams to make every event, and TL haven't made one playoffs, SEN have only beat China this year and if G2 don't win Champs they can't be in the running as a trophyless team internationally. Every other team has had one part of the year where they look kinda ass

Average NA smokes player at the time could've done everything he did for SEN

zombs
d3ffo
Kiles
Zellsis

I swear BuZz stood up and yelled across the stage nearly every other round won at Bangkok

Tho maybe I'm under the Mandela effect. The only thing I vividly remember about Bangkok is SEN getting 13-1'd on Bind

I feel like the CN/Pacific players are still willing to shit talk on stage tho

PRX are the prime example, but I remember XLG talking a lot of shit during the SEN match (tho most of it was probably NoMan tbf) and T1 doing a lot of shit talking during their Bangkok run

Is it just me or does it feel like barely actual players or especially orgs from NA or EMEA are willing to shit talking anyone outside of each other's region

Whenever there's an NA vs EU team at an international the orgs social media teams are constantly spamming Nearest Airport or MEMEA and the players will constantly be standing up and giving it to each other on stage, or NA teams will do it to other NA teams or EMEA teams to other EMEA teams

But the picosecond either region goes against a team from South America, Pacific or China it stops

SEN are the perfect example. When they play against other NA teams or EMEA teams the social media guy goes crazy. But the rest of the time it constantly feels like they're walking on eggshells, especially with how desperate they are to appeal to Brazilian fans, or FNC doing the same thing with Chinese fans

G2, whatever team Boostio's on and then the occasional EMEA dark horse/rookie team like GX or KC and TH at Madrid specifically are the only teams that come to mind that are willing to shit talk outside of NA and EMEA

I may be talking absolute wank tho idk

1. Rust In Peace - Megadeth
2. Master of Puppets - Metallica
3. Reign In Blood - Slayer
4. Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
5. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
6. Iowa - Slipknot
7. Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
8. Toxicity - System of a Down
9. Symbolic - Death
10. British Steel - Judas Priest

EMEA

Team Heretics

RieNs - 1.31
Wo0t - 1.07
MiniBoo - 1.06
Boo - 1.05
benjyfishy - 1.02

Average player rating - 1.102

FNATIC

Chronicle - 1.24
Alfajer - 1.14
Boaster - 1.09
crashies - 0.96
kaajak - 0.88

Average player rating - 1.062

GIANTX

ara - 1.15
Cloud - 1.09
westside - 0.99
Flickless - 0.93
grubinho - 0.83

Average player rating - 0.998

Team Liquid

nAts - 1.02
Keiko 1.00
kamo - 0.93
trexx - 0.87
paTiTek - 0.81

Average player rating - 0.926

Americas

NRG

skuba - 1.10
brawk - 1.03
mada - 1.02
s0m - 1.00
Ethan - 0.96

Average player rating - 1.022

G2

leaf - 1.15
valyn - 1.05
trent - 0.98
jawgemo - 0.97
JonahP - 0.85

Average player rating - 1.00

MIBR

aspas - 1.26
Verno 1.12
artzin - 0.97
cortezia - 0.93
xenom - 0.91

Average player rating - 1.038

Sentinels

johnqt - 1.14
zekken - 0.98
N4RRATE - 0.95
Zellsis - 0.80
bang - 0.79

Average player rating - 0.932

Pacific

Paper Rex

something - 1.39
Jinggg - 1.26
f0rsakeN - 1.04
d4v41 - 1.00
PatMen - 0.84

Average player rating - 1.106

DRX

Flashback - 1.27
HYUNMIN - 1.06
MaKo - 1.05
BeYN - 0.99
free1ng - 0.85

Average player rating - 1.044

RRQ

Kushy - 1.03
Jemkin - 1.02
Monyet - 0.95
crazyguy - 0.89
xffero - 0.87

Average player rating - 0.952

T1

DH - 1.10
Meteor - 1.10
iZu - 1.02
BuZz - 0.96
stax - 0.74

Average player rating - 0.984

China

XLG

NoMan - 1.08
happywei - 1.03
Viva - 1.01
Rarga - 0.96
coconut - 0.77

Average player rating - 0.97

EDG

Smoggy - 1.13
Zmjjkk - 1.04
nobody - 0.99
CHICHOO - 0.89
Jieni7 - 0.82

Average player rating - 0.974

BLG

Knight - 1.10
nephh - 0.94
Levius - 0.93
rushia - 0.72
whzy - 0.63

Average player rating - 0.864

DRG

SpiritZ1 - 1.08
Demon1 - 1.00
Nicc - 0.91
Akeman - 0.84
Flex1n - 0.84

Average player rating - 0.934

Teams ranked by rating

1. PRX
2. TH
3. FNC
4. DRX
5. MIBR
6. NRG
7. G2
8. GX
9. T1
10. EDG
11. XLG
12. RRQ
13. DRG
14. SEN
15. TL
16. BLG

God vo0kashu in EMEA I'm creaming in my jorts just thinking about it

Bruh how we rating FNC 3rd and MIBR 4th

NRG, TH, DRX and GX looked way better imo

Win EMEA only to end up as the only team to get grouped

I forgor

Team Heretics Sunset 7-0 (Ended by EDG at Champions Seoul 2024)

Nocturnum mogs icl

I'm kinda struggling on which team to root for tbh, I used to be a bit of a GX hater cuz I thought they were boring but they've really grown on me, but at the same time XLG are China's last hope and I fuckin love NoMan (goat of Wales)

As absolutely fraudulent as T1 are...

It'd be REALLY funny

All time it's probably Amen by Bring Me the Horizon but rn it's Raining Blood by Slayer

I mean the 2 most glaring issues with SEN this year were a lack of midround adjustments and being too scared to take risks/be aggressive besides zekken

So imo they should get an initiator known for good midrounding and an aggro controller in order to actually properly try and replace TenZ and Sacy 1 to 1

OR transition N4RRATE to playing Omen on more maps and then replace bang with like Rossy or C0M or someone who can try and bring the Sacy effect

Kaplan convinced his ahh that they grew at all this year despite having the exact same issues since Kickoff

https://youtu.be/biimtdyZB9c?si=tz47y4YJsLKP2sGP

Zellsis also called themselves a young team despite bang, zekken and Zellsis having attended events since before franchising as if they're inexperienced

Just worse than every team in their group along with one of the worst map pools in the tourney

Bro's gonna be mad disappointed when they inevitably keep Zellsis

EG actually have a chance to make a decent team

Timotino duelist
Asuna flex
Derrek initiator
zander controller IGL
yay sentinel

Who says no?

Nah bro

Cloud jail for fuckin ages, at the start of the year got stuck with fuckin tomassy, p0rp0 and runneR

runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
runneR? What is bro running from? The dementia? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

They look absolutely fuckin ass even with a superstar rookie in westside

Then halfway through the season they partially rebuild bringing in Flickless who's been bouncing around T2 for ages and a young duelist in ara, as well as grubinho who had an insane debut year despite being on a bad team but then having a bit of a nightmare on KOI for the first half of the year, then after the rebuild they go on an insane run to win Champs with no one believing in them to do anything?

Cinema

Yh cuz XLG are gonna shove them in a locker

Sociablee was an igl in T2 before he went to BBL

I was incredibly sad BBL didn't make it and thought they probably deserved to be there more than GX cuz of their performance through the whole year

I see now that that was absolutely retarded

I was not familiar with your game GX

Damn, we never got m4 on the vlr podcast, truly sad times

That knife looks diabolical

I've done it once before and it worked out

The laws of gambling addiction dictate that I'm on a roll and should once again put the mortgage all on red

If GX beat PRX I'll make a femboy OnlyFans

And EMEA and Pacific are tied for best performance, going 3-1 in opening games

Americas is next going 2-2

China went 0-4 which is a really disappointing step backwards for the region after it looked like they were starting to be truly competitive on the global stage

Leo's presence on the bench was simply absorbing Boaster's latent power

Now that Leo is officially retired Boaster has taken the spirit of Leo inside him and has been unleashed upon the world

There is no mixup, unc still got it

Wo0t Iso

Not even TH on the whole, just Wo0t on his own

0/8

whzy is going to whimsy diff unfortunately

o7 MIBR

Devil May Cry 3

What is the appeal of the genre in terms of actual listenability? Like I stg every fan of black metal just likes it for "the vibe" like you can't convince me people actually genuinely enjoy listening to some guy plucking the same 3 guitar strings in as obnoxious a manner as possible with 50 layers of distortion over it whilst blaring industrial metal shredder noises over some sweaty guy incomprehensibly mumble screaming about how much he hates gay people and how much he wants to fuck his kid sister

I'd say I'm generally a big fan of metal, thrash and nu-metal in particular, but I just don't get why people like black metal so much

https://www.vlr.gg/post/5324606/new-rule-for-ranked

This was the last time I properly put my emotions into words

But the French are fine for you to associate with?

Every time he sees an EMEA player he gets flashbacks to 2023 Tokyo Alfajer and Leo and pees just a little bit