Seeing a lot of confidence behind trace and trust me I love trace but I really think EDG take this one. Trace’s biggest weakness is their map pool, where they have 3 strong maps of bind ascent lotus. EDG ban ascent regularly and have shown a very high level lotus with a competitive bind, especially since there is a decent amount of tape on the deadlock comp. So traces strong maps look like 50/50 meanwhile EDG have shown a better sunset, better haven and better abyss. Trace needs a good veto to win but unless they’ve cooked up EDG map pool is just so much better unfortunately.
EDG 2:1
Trace win bind but lose other maps whatever they may be

Bad but funny. Yk I’m not angry I’m just severely disappointed at my placement

Because it’s a regional matchup we’ve seen many times before. I think it’ll be closer than the obliteration that happened last time they played but EDG have a better map pool which also bans traces best map of ascent. Might go to 3 but I’m confident in edg

Trace don’t beat edg

Yeah you right

no?

yo

I mean I think they’ll both lose personally

Yes people do remember Fnatic

Bro thought it was still the Zeta game 😭😭😭😭😭

EDG twice actually not trace

EDG 2:0 PRX

Lev are beatable

Hi

CG5

It’s not about meowing it’s about trust and integrity

So…

I made it BLG at the start of split 2 but lowkey after tonight’s performance it’s embarrassing bro. Why were they so bad this tourney 😭😭😭😭

3 months is crazy bro

Bouta hit diamond 💎

FNC in my mind but their loss does give me doubts

I used to be so careful about what I said on here but the deeper I go down this rabbit hole the more I’ve begun to just rage bait with the occasional normal stuff. I’m a long way away from full time baiter but I feel like I’m slipping into the dark side

First time making one of these and I’m tearing up man 🥲

I more mean vitality and talon can def beat lev as opposed to lev look bad

FPX?

I’d be happy with this and it definitely seems likely, although lev are a bit suspect atm

Where trace esports levelled up on the international stage, BLG genuinely looked awful today, even compared to how they played regionally. It’s upsetting to see how far they were from their potential, especially considering how crazy the other team people were writing off have been playing. And now all the record level China glaze has backfired into even more China hate. Shameful performance

thats not really how it works

well the americas teams will just go home in a couple days instead

next map should be a 1 site map
who's with me

Yes possibly the 2 best attacking ascent teams oat (ik it’s an early call)

STOP TAKE IT BACK BLG WIN

That is true but I worry KRU have cooked up because they floated sunset against DRX and also BLG have a fair bit of tape on them now

But I want both of us to win 😭😭😭

Surely BLG pick icebox over sunset right. KRU icebox is pretty bad. Also I’d say FPX win haven they’re pretty solid on that map

Their deadlock stuff looks really good as well like they must’ve really been grinding it

Yeah and having icebox as a perma is a little wack cause it’s not many team’s favourite map

BLG flair fs

Spring <3

Ik I’m China glazer but I wanna talk about why I think Trace were able to beat both these teams. Lev and Vit are very much individualistic teams, being uplifted by a couple players with others there to just support and enable the stars. Trace have the best fundamentals and discipline out of any Chinese team, with amazing trades and ability to freeze a round. What this means is that against star players, trace can trade out really well, and against players like c0m or kicks they can just win fights. Trace are amazing obviously but I do think they’re able to beat these teams simply with amazing team play and trading, and I’d love to see play against some less individual teams to test their macro.

No I don’t believe so

Well it’s gotta be 1 team from each region winning in lowers and if we want EMEA vs AMER and CN vs APAC then KRU FPX PRX VIT all win

I think everyone agrees that no team is better than bilibili gaming

KRU are going home tomorrow lil bro

Sooo many games have been so good, no bad teams for the first time ever, all regions look close for the first time I’d argue. Such a good event already even if BLG go home tomorrow 🥺🥺

YOOOOOOOOO TRACE DOUBTER WYA LETS GOOOO

its hard when you play against a team that can trade

WHO CALLED IT LMK DOWN BELOW

I’m seeing record levels of aspas hate rn but they don’t realise trace can just shut individuals down, just like they did sayf

I’ve really gotta start gambling…