always been

I'm just so happy that they are going English speaking instead of full Turkish. Gives them more flexibility and gives non-Turkish players more opportunities. Not sure how this roster would do, but honestly its nice to see tier 2 IGL given a chance and NINJA is decent and has potential. Also kind of telling that they are actually trying to build something here.

kaajak and its not even close. NRG were only relevant for one event. Unless its Americas only.

Depends on country and also massively depends on the instructor guy. At least here you just drive for 45mins around the town. It has mandatory parking and highway parts, and rest depends on where you drive like here the route usually has one-way section and roundabout. Its pretty much the same to normal driving class but they usually want to bust you and might put you in tricky situations. Also some instructors are just ass and will try their best to fail you, while others might let you pass even though they could have failed you. Overall just drive bit under speed limit, keep safe distance to other cars, check your blind spot well and visibly, stay calm and don't ask questions and act confident.

Android. IOS has its benefits like Apple ecosystem is overall good, but you are kind of forced into it and I think that is big negative. Overall ecosystems that are closed are almost always bad for consumer or at least have the possibility to be. I don't do anything crazy with my phone, but I still don't want to be locked into ecosystem and rather have possibility of freedom. Its about principles.

More that Apple products in general are overpriced. And when you use their devices you are pretty much forced into their ecosystem. So if you don't mind overpaying and are fine being stuck in the ecosystem its fine, but by doing that you limit your options. At least I prefer to have freedom over closed system. And its not really about flexing money wise, but many buy iPhones because they are completely clueless and just follow what's popular. Some claims I've heard from iPhone users is crazy and shows that most of them don't know anything about tech in general and just think Apple = Good, Android = Bad.

Logitech overall, but Razer for mice

Hello! I've been here for a while but didn't go anywhere

Pretty average VCT duelist level. And I don't mean that in bad way. I think in this day he would be in that same tier of duelists who can have carry games, but also lower impact games aka how most duelist are. Lewn comes to mind for example. And this comes from someone who watched Twisten since BIG days and believed in him, I just think that some overrated him bit after what happened.

Liquid finished 1st in EMEA, Sentinels didn't look that good in Stage 2. I mean that Liquid underperformed way more than Sentinels. Also TH literally beat G2 so saying that they were worse is non sense. Literally all G2, MIBR, TH and GX could have won against each other any given day. GX had shit game vs NRG and below their level. Same how Fnatic and NRG would both be 50/50 if they replayed.

Ruxic and Hiro are insanely good, Shao is good when he is on and Sociablee is pretty good as well and flexible. Only question is Filu as I wasn't impressed by him, but tbf NAVI always have bit weaker duelist so maybe its fine. ANGE1 being the HC is big question like what can he do.

BBL underrated. Its core that has been playing with each other for long and have pretty much been the best tier 2 team in EMEA for like 1.5 years. Even when Apeks ascended you could have easily said that PCF was the better team overall. They have no doubt been scrimming VCT teams for long time and have had success considering that they still want to stay together.

Both Americas and EMEA has been very equal international event wise. With mainly G2 carrying Americas and Fnatic EMEA. Even Champions placements were the same for both outside of NRG/Fnatic. But I'm mainly talking about the regional competitiveness. Americas was ran by G2 and SEN for most of the year and even out of those only G2 had any relevancy as SEN were pretty mediocre and beaten by EMEA equivalent. While if you look at EMEA we at least had some competitiveness. It was extremely easy to rate Americas as the 3rd region pre Champs if you followed the regions. And that's my point. Only reason why we even argue about this is because Liquid crumbled to ground for unknown reasons and didn't deliver their regional level performance.

How is that relevant? There is only 3 trophies per year and its everyone's game when we count how teams can peak at right time and win it. Consistency is what matters and that's why we for example saw Fnatic on back to back finals. EMEA as region was very competitive especially towards the end. Even in Champs only difference between Americas and EMEA performance was NRG winning the finals. At least TL just performed way worse to their regional level and imploded while SEN performance was expected.

Americas fans forgetting how bad their region was for most part (outside of Champs playoffs obviously). TH would have stomped Americas outside of G2 and would have done well in Pacific as well.

Still better achievements than majority of the teams in all of VCT. Putting Heretics below A tier would be crazy work. How are Leviatan A tier? MIBR? when on their praised miracle run in Champs they placed 5-6th just like Heretics. Vitality with nothing to show outside of potential on paper? Its proven core, topped their group in Champs, played well regionally especially in groups etc. Everyone knows that they are just inconsistent, but can also play event winning level. There isn't single team on B that would deserve to be rated higher.

Literally made top 6 Champs + qualified for Toronto + EWC victory even if you don't rate it.

literally all the regions look very equal on paper outside of China

If true kinda cool so him in VCT but not so sure of how good of pickup he would be. Like I think there's IGLs I would take over him without obviously knowing how they actually are.

yeah ofc only people who like winter are ones who have never lived in country that has real winters or people who like winter activities like skiing

classic BRA71L and throwing the racist card

Brazilians and victim complexity, tale old as time.

Real life nickname from first name and then just added j to end when I made PS4 account. Not a fan of it but whatever

I havent really followed tier 2 Turkey but why so many people say this or other negative stuff about them? Are they just mid tier 2 players or what?

goat of vlr

Stockholm server is the worst. Full of Russians and everyone plays braindead. Its almost like playing different game.

because they all need to have similar silhouette and size because otherwise some characters would have advantage or disadvantage. Imagine if all LoL characters were same size and shape.

no shit

Because London server players are worse on average compared to Frankfurt. Stereotypes are real for different servers.

"player of the year" = one event in end of the year. Brawk has no place next to players like Zywoo and Chovy.

haha EMEA's regional competition was higher than Americas' especially towards Stage 2. Less' team placed 8th in Stage 2 and barely even made it to playoffs. Multiple EMEA sentinel players would be upgrade to Americas teams.

Dont know is he good and who he is even replacing, but I'm happy to see FUT making changes and not just sticking with same core again

Sweden as it feels better than Norway or Denmark even tho those are good as well, but Canada could be interesting.

Canada possibly. Not that there isn't good players from Canada, but often in these world cup posts you see some mentioning Canada and yeah they could perform well but also I think they are more in that group of multiple countries who could do decent but are not clearly above each other. Russia is also bit overrated. They have a lot good players, but how many times I've seen this "CIS would dominate EMEA" talk is crazy and its more about the players outside of the current Russians in VCT.

How? Vitality had struggles, but Less wasn't amazing either, and in terms of sentinel rankings very in the middle IMO. Even players like Magnum had more impact.

EMEA better

i was wondering why some sites weren't opening

Well then that is just too bad. If not them then who?

they will be carrying your ass at internationals anyway

Americas was ass before Champions with only G2 having any real potential of winning events. NRG having miracle run in Champs or MIBR making top 6 won't change that. Most of these rosters are overhyped af like always and will likely end up being mediocre like always. The fact that people hype KRU with Saadhak and Less after this year tells enough. Only teams that have any real hype are G2, NRG and MIBR and even out of those reminds to be seen can NRG and MIBR continue their form or will they fall off. SEN would have been there but even they made big changes that puts them down for now. Thinking that Americas is any more competitive on paper than Pacific or EMEA is non sense. About to get humbled next year.

Less was not very good tho. Last stage EMEA had Magnum, Alfajer, Yetujey, westside, hiro, benjyfishy, nAts, Minny, Olizera, Elite, Monsteerr and out of those I would put him around in the middle. His stats in stage 2 were good but he played like KD player. Less is still good sentinel player, but not some superstar anymore. He might rank higher in AMER tho because EMEA is stacked in terms of sentinels.

saadhak did nothing on KC and Less was mid table sentinel on VIT

MAGNUM was good on BBL and if I'm not wrong did a lot of secondary calling and honestly I think he would even be fine as the IGL if he wants to.

well can't really build PC with one sentence and not sure how much the guy knows

Depends on budget so im not giving exact components but in general for parts in my opinion:

• GPU: Look second hand as you can save quite a lot of money. Just look at general prices and reddit etc for something that fits your budget. Often the most expensive part for PC and very important for gaming performance. Just look for Nvidia RTX 3000/4000/5000 series or AMD Radeon RX 9000/7000 series.

• CPU: Also can save some money second hand. Bit harder because there is so many from Intel and AMD and for different use cases. Just pick one that works with your GPU and doesn't bottleneck it. IMO AMD is better unless you focus on productivity over gaming.

• CPU cooler: Get air cooler. Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 is very affordable and good CPU cooler.

• Motherboard: Choose one that has the socket your CPU requires (like AMD AM5 CPU needs motherboard with AM5 socket etc). And then look at the connectors and other features it has like how many M.2 slots it has and how many USB connectors it has etc and just pick the cheapest with the features you want.

• Power Supply: Use PC Part Picker to determine how much power you need and just buy one with slight extra something like 750W is likely enough for most. Don't buy the cheapest because they can be noisy and fry your PC if some shit one. So look at reviews and list and buy Corsair, Seasonic etc.

• RAM: Make sure the RAM and motherboard are connectable so DDR5 RAM only works on motherboards that are meant for DDR5. I recommend DDR5 as its faster and newer, but DDR4 might be suitable for budget builds. RAM also has speeds, but most should be fine. Go for either 16GB or 32GB.

• Storage: M.2 is fastest in general, then SSD and HDD last. So don't buy HDD as your main drive. M.2 or SSD are better for installing your operating system to. I would recommend at least 1TB of storage because otherwise you run out of it real fast.

• Case/fans: Skip all RGB etc and go for good but affordable options. There's so many cases out there and just pick one that has good reviews and fits budget. Not too important outside of noise and air flow. For fans again go for something simple. Thermalright is good and cheap option for fans.

• Operating system: Don't buy from Windows from Microsoft, but instead just download the Windows installation software to USB and use it as booting drive. And then just buy Windows license code from some site that sell them for like 5$ instead of buying it from Microsoft for 150$

just watch videos

they are playing against some tier 2 team with stand-ins. Any VCT team should win.

They have good and pretty proven coaching staff and IGL so its fine. TL at start of 2025 looked like ass and was mid on paper, but ended up qualifying to every event. Their 5th was always pretty mediocre let it be Kamyk/Serial/Trexx, Kamo stays and still has good mechanics so potential to be good on scan, MiniBoo is underrated af and also played pretty similar role to Kamo (team player), purp0 potential is always so high but at least he should be upgrade/similar to Patitek individually, and I don't know much about Wayne. Losing Keiko is big hit, but I think purp0/Wayne/MiniBoo is completely fine replacement for Trexx/Patitek/Keiko especially considering how Trexx looked on TL.

How did ENVY lose map vs some random t3 EMEA team?

Reminds to be seen how Sayonara does in VCT, but people used to glaze wo0t similarly and look at him now (inconsistent IMO but ín general very good player). But yeah tier 2 purp0 is insane and 100% worth of tier 1, but so far his time in tier 1 has been pretty mid. Hopefully his time in TL will be different and he is finally able to perform.

purp0 likely flex. Like that used to be his role and he has been switching between flex and duelist for most of his career. Kamo very likely initiator considering that he has apparently been grinding Sova/Fade in ranked. Wayne likely smokes as that is the only unclear role. MiniBoo duelist. nAts sentinel IGL. But they have very nice setup if they want double duelist as purp0 is flex that's capable of playing good duelist same as Kamo.