the flashback situation is from last year, where he had to step down from the starting roster because he was accused of engaging in non consensual sex. however, it turned out that the accuser had consented to the act, but not to him ejaculating within her, which is so silly imo. this caused a lot of issues for the team and flashback too and the whole thing was cleared up. this is not a similar situation at all; here, s1mon is getting trashed on by all his teammates for not trying and wanting to get subbed out, indicating that he was not trying while on EDGs starting roster.

its because invy is the only player on that team that knows how to shoot back.

Ok this singlehandedly ascends him to goat status. I am now an EDG bandwagon fan from this day onwards. W!!!

i do not want to defend NRG. i think that the environment fns and co created was toxic for verno and painted him as a villain when the team didn't perform as expected.

that's interesting. i am not a pc nerd so this may be a silly question, but why has nvidia not released a card as good as the GTX 1080 Ti in 8 years that can compete with it?? what makes this card so special in particular? and how much was it on release?

off topic why is the 1080 Ti so expensive? it came out fucking 8 years ago. almost 600 dollars is way too much for it, right? what could justify that price????

the win matters for EG though. and even if it didnt matter for either of them, not playing a game isnt really an option unless you think forfeiting a game is a good idea. new team with tuyz returning too so could be good prac for stage 2.

patrickwho. he was so overhyped by GE fans only to serve...nothing.

maybe its because snipers work just like any other gun in the game? you know, when 0 movement error means that your shot will hit on your crosshair?

what about XLG? they have looked really good imo, even though they are an ascension team.

It's not just China. Pacific is in disarray too. Boom, the ascension team that only made it in thanks to bleed being removed from franchising, is now top of their group. RRQ just beat the team that won Bangkok. the rest of the region apart from the top 4 in the region seem to be falling behind.

Ok? No one expected T1 to win Bangkok either. And no one expected geng to do so well last year either. Also I think RRQ can do really well.

i think his mental health has been bad; every time he didnt perform well, he said in interviews that he lacked confidence. we know how good he is from 2024 so him having an off game might have put a lot of pressure on him. although i respect that he is putting himself first, i do think that he screwed the team by not informing them earlier. the comps look really off; free1ng should have been on tejo instead of yoru, so these aren't the ideal roles for the team. that should have been the hint for us that this wasn't planned but termi always likes to do strange things so you never know with him.

yes. did i stutter?

I know it's groups but termi needs to stop cooking because he is burning down the kitchen. Call it cope but I don't understand why termi would sub out flashback for beyn here; they could have experimented like this against the farming teams like GE...

i knew termi was going to do something stupid but this is too much. Where is flashback???

same. i genuinely thought it was over for drx. then the tejo meta happened.

it probably wont happen but if it does i get money. its a win win situation.

WHAT? wtf? five guys fries portions are overflowing. how??? its the first time where i haven't finished my meal while eating out. i am not a wasteful person. and it hurt so much because their fries are amazing, like everything there.

a cheeseburger with mayo, pickles, lettuce, onions, grilled onions, jalapeno, green peppers and hot sauce. small normal flavour fries (the portions are too much, i would share a small with someone else because its too much) and then a coke zero. but if its a bottomless cup i might get vanilla coke zero or cherry coke zero first round then a normal one after.
note: this is based on the UK menu, there may be a more extensive list in the US or something.

did he forget that trexx is one of the most flexible players in EMEA? he has played many many roles, from being a straight sentinel main to omen and viper to most of the initiators and even a bit of duelist. trexx started in 2022 as a cypher/kj/raze main and he was really good on it. i have no doubt that trexx could have picked up kayo and iso if he was given the chance. and I am not saying that cyvoph is bad; i actually think he is a very talented rookie with a lot of potential, but switching him off his main roles when trexx is already flexible and very good and has proven his skill at picking up new agents and playing them to a high level just doesnt seem like the right move. and then if next year the team picks up sayonara, are they going to force him to play roles that he isnt comfortable on as a rookie in tier 1? i understand that eventually players will have to abandon their fixed roles on the team, but expecting a rookie to do that when they already have so much to worry about is not right imo.

I do think that mibr is better than c9 but the round and map diff currently clearly says otherwise. But I have to admit I underestimated C9 because they are so good at throwing especially in playoffs but they are doing good for now.

and thats about to change if mibr wins their game this week. thats a crazy stat though.

3 letters: I.G.L.

the pacing of the anime is atrocious. the manga is much better and takes way less time.

YESSSSS MY GOAT TREXX!!!! vitality will now crash and burn for their crimes. sorry cyvoph but you shouldn't have jumped onto a sinking ship. at least derke will prove his worth on this trainwreck of a team well enough to get a decent team next year. but i have no sympathy for vitality. none at all.

No no no. I love sayf but he has been seriously underperforming. Idc if its because he is igl, but he needs to stop igling because it's clearly not working. Derke is the best player on the team. He is why they did so well till now. This roster had no reason to lose and the blame for that has to fall on the coaching and igling. There was not supposed to be a weak link on this team and now we have a new roster and 2 losses in stage 1.

If they really wanted cyvoph, they should have signed him as a 6th or they shouldn't have picked up trexx at all because now vitality has ruined trexx's whole season and made cyvoph look bad when he is already playing roles he is uncomfortable on. That's not fair. This team doesn't deserve to have sayonara for next year if this is how they are treating players, especially cyvoph, right now.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes. Pretty good. I have never agreed to this many takes in one thread before. Even the G2 one could be true, with something like the heretics effect from last year

Deserved for dropping trexx. I dropped all my expectations for this team once he got dropped. Nothing against cyvoph but the team clearly couldn't recognise the potential of trexx.

This is what they get for dropping my russian goat 😌

Watch me, watch me party on you, yeah
You could watch me pull up on your body
Like it's summer, take my clothes off in the water
Splash around and get you blessed like holy water
I don't know what you were waiting for
You know that I've been waiting for you
(I only threw this party for you)
Yeah, if you saw my tears, would you touch me?
Kiss me on the mouth, say you love me?
Leave a message, tell me you're sorry?
Hit me right back, hit me right back
Why you treating me like someone that you never loved?

It's unfair to blame riot for that. You have made good arguments so far about the korea focused league but it isn't riot's fault that the Japanese teams aren't good enough

Yeah we know, because one piece has been airing for decades now.

They aren't even playing today though. Why is heretics rent free in your mind?

Yeah I'm sure that 13-0 felt real good...
Did you get too excited after GX took a map off them? You said it yourself, they took a fluke map off botvi before proving who the bigger bots were.

freeing knows how to play sova. its just that tejo is meta rn so thats all he is playing. he isnt a one trick even though rn it seems like that.

flashback for sure. freeing is too good, mako is a goat controller who is extremely consistent and reliable even if he doesnt put 2022 numbers up anymore, and hyunmin has amazing aim and gamesense. flashback cant lose his confidence that he has rn otherwise he will be chopped on the block. but the thing is as long as they get past 5th 6th, termi shouldnt make any changes.

mako

The real issue here is how embarrassing it is that in both groups, the bottom 3 teams simply don't deserve to make playoffs at all. LEV, 2G, LOUD, EG, FURIA and NRG have played awfully through stage 1. The gap between the top 6 and bottom 6 somehow grew so much, and I can't explain why this is happening. Americas is not in a good state right now if half the region is underperforming this badly.

RRQ is actually surprisingly looking really good. They could come out second in their group with their performances far

I know DRX is just farming low level pacific teams like GE, but estrella putting up prime mako numbers on omen is not reassuring for beyn, who is at risk of being dropped or being benched once again. I know that DRX is only trying to get better and sadly beyn was the weakest link, but his self confidence must be 6 feet under by now, especially after how he was feeling like a burden for the team during kickoff. I wonder what he will do now.

Well being cautious to change hasn't got drx a win in a very long time so I can understand why they would have switched thngs up now

Didn't boom absolutely thrash GE a couple of weeks ago?

yep. watching furia, nrg and lev play makes me want to gouge my eyes out. its a bad sign if C9 is in the top 3 in your group. you have to really suck for that to happen.

can we all agree that it is appalling that at least one of NRG, FURIA and LEV will somehow make it into playoffs? i would rather take 5 teams from the other group than let any of these three teams actually have a shot of making it to toronto because realistically, they are coming 8th even if they do qual to playoffs.

i dont want beyn to be dropped. he has been stepping up since stage 1 started. :(

answer the rest of them.

Ok but do you think he is better than prime mako or prime som or any other of the best initiators at their best? Like pancada, marved, etc etc

Mako because he is still my favourite player after 4 years