once again Sword9 stocks skyrocket with every EDG fumble

gonna hold onto my thoughts because you might be right for once here

I don't see NA leaving their pinnacle for a while. Even if GENG won Madrid NA ALWAYS has a team that develops and eventually just eats everyone alive later on in the year. This'll be the tale til the end of time

they'll probably eviscerate whoever loses the next series but after that there's a chance they lose

Experts and regular folk alike will study this post for eons to come. Your scripture is comparable to the likes of Shakespeare and William Faulkner, never again will a magnum opus such as this be produced on an internet forum

only correct answer

America's 3rd seed is a band of 5 blind chimpanzees with one of them randomly gaining a smidge of sentience per game. At least they have an excuse for LEV not performing while EMEA only has themselves to blame for their subpar performance with some of the best inter-region competition in the world

they might have beaten China but they can sure as hell lose against everyone else

TH is the only non-fraudulent team outside of FNATIC in EMEA this year. They've clearly been able to prove themselves at being able to contend with top teams internationally (almost beat Sentinels & PRX at Madrid) and are a clear tier above every other team in their region apart from FNATIC. EMEA is quite the sleeper region but don't lie to yourself and say that Heretics aren't good even with a stand-in

I wouldn't be surprised if EDG randomly just started shitting on TH out of nowhere and 2-0's. If they actually succeed at solving their basic fucking issues they can go pretty far

all the EU frogs downvoting your truth smh

OCE needs you

CCG, Rare Atom, XLG, NWG, JiJieHao, all of them have chinese teams playing in the tier 2 circuit? Not only that but there's also collegiate integration

China does have a t2 scene wtf are you talking about

ig he was trying to capitalize off of the map control but it was so uncoordinated that it pretty much gave TH separate 2v2 into another 2v1. idk if it's miscommunication with Life or massively mistimed calls but they gotta lock in on actually coordinating their weird shit and not just solo swing/peek whenever their mental is boomed

them losing to a team with a stand-in w/ one day of practice will fuel their improvement more

they keep doing the same flawed strats over and over again & are not trying to deviate their setups at all. I'm all for their craziness but it's appalling that there has been no in-the-moment switchups

lose this so they learn not to throw on defense holy FUCK this is terrible to watch

he's a schrodinger's throw

i'd rather have CN teams focus entirely on their macro and actually know how to play the map than a fucking plant spot ffs

there will def be 1 or 2 more teams that'll be internationally competitive by mid-season next year as more talent filters in

classic FPX panic feed

he's way too fucking good holy shit actual raid boss

this is the first time I agree with someone who says to bench him

hard to say Trace is 'better' than DRG because all of their losses EXCEPT against DRG in the group stage were chokes. That loss was legitimately them just getting shit on

that's why i said 'major'. they look good then they continue their era of disappointment and getting upset by the most wack teams

how does this region have the best structure and proceed to disappoint every single major?

All Gamers also clear when they don't choke

there are a couple of costreams on douyu & bilibili but they're pretty much limited to the bigger tournaments (Rare Atom and CCG seem to be doing well from their weibo posts)

APAC = NA > CN > EMEA

Once all the young crossfire talent sees how this game is popping it's gonna be so fun

with how long of a time FPX have had to cook on their weaker maps I do believe there's a really good chance 2 maps will be close (assuming they made the most out of their time)

b-b-but DRG lost to Heretics!!!!!!!!!!! Surely BLEED clears the region!!!!!!!!

yeah but dw DRG's winning it all tmrw

Vookashu is russian pride & DRG's a likeable meme team

Watch GenG skip TH

the culling games has some banger fights but storytelling-wise yeah i agree

hard to say if vookashu's better than Autumn from the fact that DRG has struggled against FPX and EDG the entirety of the split & scraped by Trace. If DRG actually start to show the results that is expected from all of their player talent then it's more of a fair debate, but that requires them to make leaps & bounds in improving their macro

in China if you can't win a 1v3 w/ a sheriff while tagged by a cypher cam against vandals you are SHIT

this. he was a heavy asset in stage 1 & popping heads

i mean tbf the rest of the region in stage 1 has been slop (except for my GOATS All Gamers) but after Shanghai i definitely think they'll improve by a huge margin by Champs 2024

personally I've been a fan since after they picked up Life and Autumn. They are probably the ONLY team that I can positively say takes every single drop of improvement and gulps that shit down like they're in a drought. Absolute CNEMA

it counts impressions not live viewers but i don't doubt that a FUCK ton of people are watching

FPX losing OR winning here will be good for them. If they win they're gassed and go into the next series heated. If they lose they're gonna be extra motivated to not let it happen again & go into the next series heated.

once again NAVI fans prove why they're the only based EMEA fanbase

you ain't ready for QUAD CONTROLLER

wait a second this shit is a banger

they've been cooking ever since bottoming out in Champs 2023. this truly IS the year of Berlin

"Back when I used to play-"

close but wrong answer buddy 😴