What people don’t realize is that FNATIC and I believe LOUD have massive fanbases in Japan.

So no, the crowd attendance won’t be a bust.

Dep is feasting.

He’s back to his REJECT form (at least for today)

Keep Anthem, xnfri, and Suggest, replace the rest.

Get JoxJo, bazz, and Zenakukin.

Good head on their shoulders with great young potentials.

Okay yeah. DFM’s not good.

Save Anthem and xnfri.

easy for JJH.

holy keenc going nuts

Icebox was fun. There's a lot of creativity potential with the agents, but the meta loves to shoehorn Viper.

Haven gets very depressing to play. It's more repetitive than Icebox, and there's barely any creativity potential.

I would rather play any other map in the pool than Haven 3 or 4 games a night.

as a raze main, this is quite annoying.

Icebox has a lot of creative potential, but the meta loves to shoehorn Viper.

duelist: EJAY
controller: 2ge
sentinel: benkai
initiator: crow
flex: NagZ

APAC + NagZ

EMEA:
FNATIC
NAVI
KOI
FÜT (giga hot take)

Americas:
LOUD
LEV
NRG

Pacific:
DRX
T1
ZETA (COPIUM take)/TS/Gen.G

xiaonuo and swerl carries fr

https://twitter.com/JamezIRL/status/1643737335350296576

100T internally crumbling? Doesn’t bode too well.

So that’s why Griffin withdrew from VCL Taiwan/Hong Kong

Seems like Ultear gets unlucky everywhere, even in Valorant.

This is actually winnable.... for DFM.

They took Gen.G to 3 and Suggest is an absolute demon.

Bilibili were nice in qualifiers, but losing Bly and Destroyer, and Webb being gone for already three games of BLG’s split hurt them a lot.

Added on by the group they were in with EDG, NTER, and DRG.

TL;DR: BLG got very unlucky.

Second Landing Party arc waiting room.

Can't wait until that gets animated.

Good first episode. But the later chapters gets really good, so peak is coming.

ZETA would win. These guys have played LANs before and know how what do in terms of economy and mid rounding. What can Newzera and XMS do if ScreaM’s calling makes them run around like headless chickens.

Don’t just discredit ZETA because of their current form.

They look scared. They are scared to take duels because they think they’re gonna get traded out. I can describe it like that.

Cause for concern. Like, something needs to change but not the roster because they can’t do that anymore.

All an experiment but I wonder if they tried scrimming Barce on smokes, SugarZ3ro on sentinels, Laz on initiator, TENNN on flex, and Dep, with crow on the bench coaching.

I want to bleach my eyes. I had the miniscule amount of hope in KC, but good god they played unbelievably AWFUL.

I swear DFM, GE, and even RRQ played better than how KC did today.

The 4MshadoW really is a buff.

Nt to BBL.

works fine for me. It's probably your own settings.

1. Ascent. They are very good at it.

2. Aslan changed his name back. The M4shadoW is a buff.

draw on map 1?

It’ll change once the match happens.

Unironically actual mid off.

KC wins 2-0 tho.

TH are not very inspiring aside from Boo and Keloqz.

EG somehow missed out on wippie and dapr.

Tragic.

when?

Sayf’s the problem though right?

big bump

The tweet is Chinese for “Hello” (ni hao)

Chinese team probably? My wild guess is Totoro Gaming for some reason, because Heybay and You were found match fixing before and the Chinese association might not like match fixers representing their league.

So he’ll possibly replace Heybay or You should TTG sign him.

put some respect on boaster's name

Almost was a thing.

TH upped the price and got a net loss.

Who wins?

The viewers sure don’t.

But I genuinely think DFM wins this.

FAV are looking quite good. Phantom has improved drastically from last year, and Jan is a solid piece. However, I do hope that Bazz hasn't switched to being a flex -- he's pretty good on controller, one of Japan's rising controllers IMO.

Insane first map. KOI got a bargain out of him.

FENNEL are going to continue their domination. SyouTa is a beast, hironnn is super solid, and JoxJo has proved he's a great IGL.

CR and SZ are still super solid, no troubles for them.

Sengoku are going to fall off now that the Russian duo left. NORTHEPTION are alright but they aren't going to pose much of a threat to FL, CR, or SZ.

Jadeite and FAV Gaming are two teams that should've been in the last split. Very solid teams and I think they'll overtake both SG and NTH.

KRU should have signed Dobsha and benched NagZ (should they wanted to keep the LATAM trend)

A somewhat decent map for DFM on Lotus but they got a long way to go and it’s not gonna get any easier.

To each their own, but Kaguya-sama and Fruits Basket are miles better still

1. It’s the first week so let’s wait until the “ZETA are not making Masters”
2. Even if ZETA don’t make it, Masters will still have a good crowd because FNATIC and LOUD have big fanbases in Japan.

Not a very good showing.

Even as a ZETA believer, ik they would lose but not THIS badly.

But oh well, only the first week and got —possibly— their hardest opponent out of the way. Let’s see how they do against checks notes … RRQ….

Pros:

• SugarZ3ro is still good
• Laz is still good
• Utility usage is decent
• Got their (arguably) toughest opponent out of the way.
• Pistol rounds are also decent, might be even good.

Cons:

• Dep, TENNN, and Crow mad inconsistent
• Really slow decision making
• Lacking in teamplay synergy (trades, setups)
• Falls apart when they’re under 30s
• Somewhat predictable in executes
• Really bad midrounding
• HORRENDOUS MAP CONTROL

Gets peak later on.

Wo0t
Jlerst
sociablEE
jeyj7y
yetujey

AMERICAS:

The Guard
M80
The Union
HM: G2 Esports

EMEA:

ACEND
APEKS
Fire Flux
HM: Case Esports

Pacific:
BLEED
MiTH
Dplus
HM: Bigetron Arctic

"i ain't reading allat"

DFM are a respected organization in Japan, but their team management could be better.

1. Xnfri, Anthem, (and maybe TakeJ) are great pickups, and they can be crucial to DFM's games.
2. Reita is past his time. There are better IGLs (JoxJo, Neth, oitaN), and I have no idea why DFM didn't bother to give them a shot.
3. Suggest is the one pickup I don't know what to think about because he is quite inconsistent. However, his calling seems to be MARGINALLY better so I believe he should be IGL.
4. Seoldam absolutely deserves a shot after taking a year break. HOWEVER, I don't think straight up throwing him on a partnership team is it. He should've bided his time and took some time to play in Challengers to get back in groove. Maybe we'll all be wrong and he'll come back to his patented Korean Jett form, but, for now, strange pickup.
5. They should've gotten better coaches. I mean even an imported coach would've been good.

ZETA needs better ideas, but I think these moves would have been beneficial for them.

1. Moving crow to coaching. He showed that he has good ideas in the past, but he as a player is unfortunately mid. He can bolster the coaching with his ideas, somewhat like bonkar now.
2. TENNN should've been benched. Sorry to say. If anything, they should've signed Thiefy from IGZIST because he's the closest 1-to-1 player to TENNN.
3. Moving Dep to a flex role. He has good firepower but he overheats a lot. If he's on a passive-ish role, he can pop off -- he has done so in the past.
4. In place of Dep, signing a duelist like Pepper or even CLZ (in case CR doesn't want to cut Meiy loose). They could've been the fresh youngbloods that ZETA needed.