MiniBoo hasn't been that impressive as of late, especially on Ascension. But he has been doing well in tier 2 for some time. Constantly rating as one of the bests in Spain VRLs and even winning MVP(yeah its only Spain VRL but its still good showing). Also he has been flexing to Raze and Neon as well so decent agent pool. So hes completely logical signing for team looking for tier 2 duelist.

I hated their team building last year. Difference is that they are actually signing young talent with big potential this time around.

What? There's nothing wrong with Heretics team building this year. They got great signings. First game with little practise, young team, against a team that has good core + cNed who is top tier Jett.

Its possible. Fokus has pretty good roster and teams haven't had that much time to practise together.

ANGE1 - decent, but angel would sound weird as ign if we didnt know him
cNed - pretty good
nAts - pretty good
AslanM4Shadow - ....
m1xwell - pretty good, works well for pro and content creator because easy to say and remember
L1NK - meh
ScreaM - kind of like with ANGE1. Made by player
qw1 - I like it
Derke - I don't like it, especially how people pronounce it
Boaster - decent and again memorable and not too agressive or edgy so suits for content as well
sh1n - decent
trexx - decent
Boo - kind of funny but not good
sheydos - pretty good
Chronicle - generic sounding idk
nukkye - not biggest fan because sounds bit like Finnish word for wiener sausage
Sayf - pretty good especially because pretty much his real name with letter change
Alfajer - good and can be shortened
Leo - like it because cool but also just his real name
Shao - cool name
Jamppi - not a fan
SUYGETSU - sounds like anime so ass
Cloud - decent
kamyk - not a fan
QutionerX - I like it kind of
BONECOLD - cool
AvovA - bad
Muj - bad
Harmii - bad
Keloqz - decent
Wolfen - meh
koldamenta - pretty cool
Newzera - bad
ZE1SH - bad
xms - bad
weber - bad
rhyme - decent
zeek - pretty decent

FUT wins. cNed and Reins will be the highlights.

Based on what? On paper? Because last season none of your mentioned teams were close to likes of EG and LOUD. Like you could make same comment about any team pretty much. And how does that make the region better than others? Currently it looks like Fnatic and PRX will be on a island(PRX ofc made a chance) and rest are fighting for 3rd spot.

I don't know EG is likely breaking and LOUD lost their star player (both likely downgrading). Who comes next?

True. Hopefully Apeks stays in Valorant tho. Seems like good org and clearly wants to build winning teams.

Lately mainly CS2, Squad, Apex Legends and Party Animals. And taking some break from Destiny 2 atm.

3rd best NA in 2022 doesn't mean much when its also the exact same core + 1. NRG was only team doing something outside of XSET in Champions. The Guard won stage 1, but flopped in Reykjavik, didn't do anything in stage 2 and then got rolled by 100T in LCQ finals and didnt look good doing it, and after that been playing in tier 2. And where were Valyn and Trent rated as top 3? Americas tier 2? G2 can be good and likely will do fine in Americas, but rating them high high like some people is bit weird to me.

or maybe Fnatic underperformed in Champions
hmmm

Only advantage qw1 has over cNed is his agent pool. cNed overall better and more consistent.

FUT are going to be dangerous heading into next season. Raze is the only clear issue they could face, but outside of that cNed and yetujey are great replacements for qw1 and MOJJ on paper.

Yeah but like guy below said they haven't played in tier 1 for quite some time. Some people are calling them the best Americas team heading into next season but for what? Last time they played in tier 1 was NA LCQ 2022 and they kind of got rolled by 100T in the finals who then ended up getting grouped in Champs. Obviously they did well in tier 2 and would have done decent in Americas VCT league, but its still the same 4 + new guy and placing them into the tier 1 pool is hard.

Kristal + kamo would be cool and pretty exciting. Nivera works as well, even though I would rather see them getting IGL and not just put starxo to do it.

Not good IMO. I think kamo could be decent even though I'm not super high on him. But I don't really like Shadow pickup at all. Also no info on who is going to IGL. Sucks that KOI seem really tight on budget otherwise we could have seen like Unfake + ALIVE that would have been good additions.

oh nvm you mean ex-teams not players region

Not the my favorite Vandal skin, but I would likely cop

Difference is that pretty much none of those switches affected the EU CS scene at all while NA switches pretty much killed any scene NA had. Mostly tier 2-3 players who wouldn't have never seen a day of tier 1 CSGO. Let alone the potential talent that decided to focus on CSGO and are doing it rn compared to NA where there's almost 0 up and coming talent.

Overall point is that NA is full into Valorant while CS is still really popular in EU and pretty much most top talent stayed playing it.

Yep not like NA isn't filled with coaches from EU

Is this based on extra information or the picture Fnatic posted? Had to admit that the silhouette is pretty close to Tanizhq's II feel like.

1. FNC
2. NAVI
3. FUT
4. TL
5. VIT
6. GIA
7. TH
8. KC
9. KOI
10. BBL
11. M8

NaVi's placements depends a lot on how much Ardiis changes it. NaVi have everrything to become a champions if they didn't just play shitty comps all the time and focused on actual usable stuff, and I believe in Ardiis addition. But overall on paper EMEA looks really competitive and a lot of questionmarks so impossible to tell

N4rrate isn't even the best duelist on his team

miss her

Don't know. I overall prefer teams sticking with local talent and don't like importing unless there's actually a big reason to import like KR imports in LoL etc. But there's many slots in EMEA and having 1 import is not that bad and pretty cool tbh. Would imagine NA fans not being that happy like many EMEA fans were when Ardiis got imported. Yay is likely going to do well like expected.

Too early to say because they might not perform well in tier 1, but its promising and nice to see EMEA teams looking into tier 2 talent and bringing bunch to tier 1. There's a lot of talent in EMEA tier 2.

Good t2 roster not sure about roles yet.

Yeah. They have marteen, Tomaszy and n4rrate all duelist players (if marteen is still in likely)

What even happened with him? Back when he was in Rebels I was sure he would get to tier 1 in no time and do really well. Didn't he have some toxicity thing?

What? Boo is still solid choice for IGL and can't really blame him for last season. MiniBoo is good. Benjyfishy is bit questionable IMO, but he's still ok and based on streams etc has really good mental and willing to learn. Didn't follow Riens that much but for little I saw his aim was really good and apparently he had interest from other teams as well. And wo0t like you said has bunch of potential.

This team is clearly a project not insta high expectations. This is how you should build a team. Their last season's team was going to fail from the beginning, at least this has potential.

wtf but W pickups

Used to be green, but red ones aren't as sour and are softer so would likely go for them nowadays

W

imagine saying that when Valorant is literally Riot's CS. Valorant as how it is wouldn't even exist if some Riot exec didn't say "let's make our csgo".

true tbh but may not be best opener

hopefully she isnt listening Creep from Radiohead

bad for most part

Yekindar owns nitr0

Doesn't really make any difference unless the shape of mouse is just really bad for you. Also overflicking and underflicking are completely normal and just a skill thing. But overall mousr is more significant than mousepad unless you go from control pad like yours to speed pad etc, but many land on pretty similar area.

Razer Deathadder V3 if it fits in budget. Superlight is fine, but the sidebuttons are trash and legit unusable in some cases.

Wonder if he will still play for Heretics before wo0t turns 18

True, but CS doesn't have league system so that's why theres just many tournaments. In Valorant we watch same 10 team play against each other most of the season and then couple international events.

Porsche 996
knowers know

i will and will build a house

IMO best would be
ALIVE - duelist
trexx - flex
Sheydos - sentinel
Starxo - smokes
YaBoiLewis/Unfake - IGL/initiator (NOT HAPPENING likely)

this roster would have so much firepower if Alive/Lewis(/Unfake) performances didn't drop too much. I think finding a IGL is the biggest problem especially if rumors of Lewis and Unfake buyouts being too high.

No, but still do it

This. I'm usually pretty good at spraying, but spraying feels so off in CS2.

Good pickup. Really nice to see Apeks guys in the league and bringing in core will be beneficial for Liquid.

Its ok. Nothing crazy, but not as bad as some. Video was good luckily.