they’re reminding me of champs where they basically rely on alfajer to bail them out against weaker teams, not like lock in/tokyo where they were all in form and tactically top tier

oxy is the most overrated rookie I've seen in a while, this dude cannot play with his team to save his life. If nrg doesn't 2-0 they're not making madrid

oxy is way too undisciplined as of now, if he had a team like nrg last year he'd be known as the na equivalent of foxy9

nrg suck ass if they get 2-0d by the c9 we saw vs mibr

viper

he's the invy of emea

it’s only a 50% chance they play in semis but drx looked better

all I know is I hate the gekko over harbour/sage

no they look ass, only good game today is gonna be geng rrq

so he's eu asuna?

if the best duelist in emea doing 'relatively well' leads to going 1-4 internationally then emea is more dire than I thought

sayf is a regional merchant. always shits the bed in international matches

between them and bleed

50/50

idk about china but for pacific I think the only upgrade prx could make assuming no language barrier is mako over mindfreak

fall off from where?

they wouldn't be losing to asuna, they'd be losing despite of asuna

because before kingg was known for being a fragging igl

if eg beats g2 with this roster potter can prep well enough for a play in winner, if it's g2 then maybe

sen fans bought into the forced rivalry between the orgs because they're mentally 12 years old

lev, loud, nrg, depends who makes it in through winners. Having to play through play ins is way too big of a disadvantage for single elim bo3 playoffs, you just have to show way too much of your stuff

I'm on the 100t train because it'd be funnier, not like either team is making madrid anyway

I mean they objectively were, at least in that match khalil was clutching and mwzera wasn't whiffing all his shots

he was like this on ascent vs nrg too, idk what's wrong with him recently

they literally should've won last time

karmine corp was peak entertainment last year idk what you're talking about

he doesn't have dual nationality he was born in america, he just reps the flag like tex with the german flag

they can't, something is their import and jawg is registered as an americas player despite his flag

they look ok but got aim diffed pretty hard, also it only even got so close because davai won like 4 clutches

they aren't even playing with trexxx, sayf is the leaf of emea, the rookies are less interesting, I don't see it

50/50, if 100t's individuals look like they did on split/icebox I'd say them but if they lost steam they lose

only interesting new roster in that region is kc

didn't fns say he wouldn't join eg because of the org? Maybe if they go bankrupt and get replaced by flyquest next year or something

how are g2 3 places lower than the team they just beat?

in the americas tournament 100%, unless EG look like total ass I have them as bottom 2 in the league right now

kinda mid but better than c9 and mibr for sure

pretty much agreed, one bo3 doesn't really tell us much though, like one of the teams could just end up having a shit map pool or something

zeta look like ass bro

that's why ethan is my goat

sen fans are never gonna stop yapping are they

when playoffs is single elim and you have no idea who you're playing it makes complete sense to save strats, especially when you have an easy group

lol how clueless do you have to be as a team to think that showing off most of your strats in a mickey mouse offseason event is a good idea?

new acegamer alt now that sen lost? Spamming 0/8 threads constantly

they're all really good and they only played 1 match, respect to boostio though for joining by far the weakest team of the 3 on paper and looking like he's basically revived them

yeah since split 100t looked like a different team, if they can keep that confidence they could definitely beat sen

c0m's been great wtf are you talking about

loud nrg and lev all look insane but I'd say they look like the team with the most new shit cooked up which is massive in a format like this. That said it is possible nrg or lev are saving strats for harder matchups

depends on the map pool and what each team has cooking imo, I will say it's scary that loud 2-0d sen with less having only an ok performance

"if the players played better we'd have won" is where we're now at with the sen copium cycle I guess

lol every round sen won on defense side split was off a hero play and they "should've won", honestly pathetic wasting a sacy 20/5 half too