i heard half of them won't be eligible to play even if they win tooday

dont do this guys he gifted me 100 hentai puzzle games

g2 needs aura and sadly jonahp doesn't have any

oh really how old is he even

would be sick. honestly -icy +mada or +reduxx would be really good too

i was a fnatic fan initially because of the sumn fc underdog story but since masters 2 2021 i've been a fnatic fan for derke if he leaves the team loses its soul imo

no longer a fnatic fan if my goat leaves

derke
chronicle
leo
alfajer
shao

coach: t1 david denis + boaster.

david denis communicates boaster as he igls in real time to one of the players in game chat

what players are either FA rn or on teams without a lot of money who've performed better than derke recently? i think if he leaves the only reasonable choice is to pick up a rookie which is pretty much a confirmed downgrade for fnatic next year.

i think there's much more value to be gained by replacing boaster with a rookie (though this will be hard too).

i really hope fnatic do drop the bag and keep derke

-aspas
+kangkang

LEV make no internationals this year. aspas in americas was literally putting up '21 tenz and '22 yay stats.

aspas is the best player in the world and has been since 2022 at holding angles and getting untraded and unassisted mid round picks. he also gets a shit ton of untraded defense first kills.

he's not the best (though certainly not less than top 10) at getting entries though and i think that's fine.

oxy
marteen
primmie
meiy
i hope reduxx gets picked up but his year was kinda mid sadly

i mean, for most of the time he played duelist / chamber it was really only derke and maybe a one season wonder player who you could put over him. and the difference between them was never that big.

internationally, derke was better than aspas this year (mainly because they both didn't make madrid, when derke was playing like dogshit)

TH is good but it's still too early imo. additionally i think TH is kinda like EG where the quality of the team as a whole is better than the sum of the five players making it. i don't think c0m, jawgemo, or boostio are really s-tier players on their own but 2023 EG was definitely an incredible team. i feel similarly about 2024 Heretics.

i also zekken is def better than jinggg rn but he hasn't been this good for long enough imo. i also think peak jinggg got way more impactful entry kills than zekken has ever done with way less support and setup.

saying kangkang is a better entry pre champs isn't accurate, imo he was always better at holding sites and op-ing than he was at the entry / retake.

aspas does indeed clear jinggg

yeah ngl i forgot DRX didn't win anything, edited my goat in

top 5 players who've never won internationally

1. f0rsaken - been good since 2021, extremely flexible and highly consistent
2. mako - been good since he was picked up, creates insane value from uncommon position
3. jingggg - top 3 entry player of all time
4. keznit - honestly i think he would've won an event already, given a better team
5. sayf - realistically the only reaosn he hasn't won because EMEA outside of FNATIC has been ass for so long. i still think he's top 5 ITW on jett

honorable mentions: d4vai/mindfreak/something/heat/mwzera/stax

lmfao no fucking way i didn't know there was a player named guardiola on barca esports that's such an insane coincidence

based, hate listening is so weird fr

Setoutsumi - comedy / mystery
Annarasumanara - supernatural coming of age with extremely unique art
Ajin - action with incredible paneling

all three are complete

english HL sounds like torture to me (unless its lit and not lang & lit i've heard thats good) i hated lang & lit SL

+1 for the cned thing it has a 99% success rate

oxy reduxx verno zander (igl) trent

reduxx duelist main
oxy flex (second smoke / duelist)
zander smokes
verno initiator
trent sentinel (i think he's a good fit)

coach: Engh (i think he wasn't signed atp)

edit: would crash out at lock in, not qualify for tokyo but get top 4 at champs '23 then win madrid (realistically this team would blow up before that point). also im not sure if all these players met the age requirement then too

fnatic if derke is still fragging

otherwise lev

last time i watched g2 was before shanghai and he was kinda ass ngl. people have been saying g2 is really good so i was just wondering if he's part of that or if its just how good the core of that team is

FNC vs LEV/SEN

derke and aspas/zekken drop 90+ kills in a five map serieis

LMFAO the riot devs just like me fr

but it isn't classic paper rex they're not playing at all like they usually do

wtf are these rounds??? they're not playing their style half of them are wkeying the others are hesitating

emea vs emea
na vs na
apac vs apac / cn vs cn
na vs whoever remains

that way the later matches won't have zzzz same region matchups

yeah, after over three years of competition i think it's not really acceptable for players who've been there for so long to play without maintaining their composure.

i think this is true of every player on fnatic except boaster when they're losing i think it really shows in his playstyle and on his face and they play a lot worse as a team

pause so sayf can gigaint into their spawn without any supporting util?? like couldn't they throw a flash or something

we're still in groups

it's not baiting if ur last alive it's baiting if you choose not to go in when your team needs you to or choose not to swing for a trade

heretics are better than FNC unless derke is fragging

russ and kolda are like human anchors

like 15 kills through smokes and shit from both sides, this is so boring to watch tbh

give me aspas frying people

WHOMEGALUL ^

can you really say EG was the best team of 2023 without a doubt when most would not even call them the best team of their own region before tokyo? Especially when by doing so you place them above Fnatic who lost to exactly two teams (EG is not one of them) in three total series that entire year?

why

is the low skill ceiling or just the fact that the extremely low number of official games leading to inevitably more variable outcomes?

https://www.vlr.gg/535/team-solomid-vs-cloud9-immortals-first-light-gf

the OG c9 roster was pretty similar to LEV earlier this year

esports teams dont have the capital to lose for decades at a time like some traditional sports teams can, they're forced to gamble

2.07 rating is insane bro put up prime tenz stats

i think the last time this happened was like early 2023 lol

sideshow is such a great caster he articulates himself incredibly well

bad start to this year but he's finally starting to frag like he did before

he had a flash too thats a vile way to lose a round