LG let's gooo!

SMB. S tier Aim. B tier Mental from what I've heard. If things don't go their way early on, they might crumble

True that, I didn't even pay attention to their results. They're actually good

EMEA's Brimstone gaming, how could I forget!

Hello my friends.

So we already know who the 15 invited teams are for the Redbull LAN in November. The 16th slot will be the winner of the open qualifiers which are later this month. I don't know how many teams are going to be in the open qualies, but here are the 10 best EMEA teams (not in order) that are probably going to participate. Who do you guys predict to take the 16th slot? Any team with a good shot that I may have forgot?

One Breath Gaming
Oxygen
Vitality
Finest
NIP
Alliance
Gydom Galva
Rix.GG
Navi
Wave

EDIT: BIG already invited, so I'm adding Gydom Galva to the list

I have no opinion on this. I don't really watch these teams, but what I saw today from both of them was not good.

In all fairness, I'm sure they would if they had events like this organised in NA.

Aside from any licensing beaurocracy between Riot and 3rd party organisers, I can't see why there haven't already been LAN events like this or at least announced on the horizon in NA alone.

Perhaps in 2022 there will be.

And it's LAN. Good times!

Yikes, Shalaby dead bottom in the whole series.

Unlucky but GG Anubis, better luck next time!

Yup! There's no need for fans of both teams to beef. Take Ls or Ws and move on.

Lol, let it go. Berlin was fucking ages ago.

EDIT: The fact that you even made this thread is testament that you are a fucking weirdo hermit.

This game should be an absolute banger. They both appear to be in great form.

He basically said he's a trash Jett who gets nothing done with the Op.

He verbatim said "Toronto has to be my least favourite jett that Ive seen"

Mitch is killing Toronto on commentary, so harsh haha

Bro, the internet and this forum especially is a brutal place mostly full of retards talking shit they wouldn't say in real life. Do not worry about what they are saying or waste your time reading it.

The lower bracket will be tough, GE might not make it, and that's fine, these are the steps teams need to get better. Remember CR Vs gambit in game 1 Vs game 2?

Liquid getting 13-0d by Sen in scrims etc?

It happens, but they'll recover and get better.

A sensible take from a respectable SEA representative.

Unlucky guys, it ain't over yet tho. Lower bracket time

why would i do that?

Feels that way, but fuck it, I'm here for the show

Oooofh

LEOOOOOO

cus aim ain't related to form.

bro, i was about to say. "to anyone unaware of Russ on duelist, watch this game" and you posted it.

In that first map he was totally disgusting haha.

This is the SMB i wanted at Masters 3. They're just scary as hell when they're in this form.

Russz's Aim can just ruin so many teams plans lol

I couldn't agree more. It blows my mind to see teams looking for fair fights in tac shooters like Valorant. I was impressed with the amount of doubling up and combining from GE.

PRO TIP:

Don't take what retards on VLR.GG say seriously (even if they think they're right). Your quality of life will improve massively.

Perhaps. Nukkye on Reyna instead of Skye might work, but his flashes were gaining alot of info in mid during mid rounds.

that's not a good take. Keloqz was clearly having quite bad day with the amount of whiffed Op shots, these things happen from time to time for every single player. And despite that they still won the series 2-0. Not 2-1

it's not, but ty for your input.

Howcome the lack of imminent franchising means more orgs will be leaving? From my understasnding, franchising in TLDR terms is pay to play for orgs and is looked at as a prohibitive thing for "lesser" regions. Can you explain pls?

hahaha xD

yO......you good? :D

I like this take, but the major flaw in it is that none of these teams bar 100T have played any officials in a long time.

So unless 100T are super confident that XSET are running the same stuff from months ago, their prep is void.

All teams are going into this somewhat blind, so really, anything can happen.

This sucks bad.

Champions is in Dec, and there's fuck all happening in November right? Couldn't Riot have opted push this LCQ back by just a few weeks?

While I agree with you on COVID not actually being the real issue here.

You must remember, it's not riot's objective to ensure that they create the most competetive tournament possible by having the best teams in the world. They want viewership and growth, so no matter how weak teams from India, Japan or wherever else may be, their viewer numbers destroy OCE.

It is a shame and RIOT did F up in terms of helping these 2 teams head over to NA. There is probably also some blame to be put on the orgs also, I can't help but think if they took some matters into their own hands (finances permitting of course), that this mess could have been navigated much sooner.

they will be bootcamping somewhere in europe. I heard either somewhere in EU or Turkey.

Not when you factorin riot "talent". I,e the casters and analysts etc who have to break everything down for the viewers in a specific language.

I like all teams and most of you are a bunch of soft, overinvested snowflakes who care too much. /thread

clown lol

haha. some dream team.

Though, i reckon they'll do fine in UCL. they are big game players and their egos won't let them get destroyed by any other top tier team.

Which team are currently the top EMEA female squad? I'm not too familiar with that side of things yet. I'll be paying attention to GC now.

Yeah man, mine too. But unfortunately it's hard to justify him in the current meta. Hopefully they come out with some cool buffs

Yeah, I wouldn't mind that once in a while, start of a new circuit would be the best time to do it. something to really disrupt the scene.

They could drop an epic lore cinematic for both at the grand final of champions.

on an unrelated note. I still can't get over the fact that SMB went to berlin and only played 1 official vs team from another region and played Acend twice who they've probably also scrimmed a bazillion times. what a boring turn of events of them.

regardless of how they played, that's such a shitty draw haha.

2022 will launch with 2 new agents in the first act.

1. Increase flash time by half a second maybe.

2. Allow him to cancel his ult by pressing X again. If you cancel, you keep your current position instead of reverting back to where you first casted it.

This creates a situation where opponents either respect the ult and give up space (which you can keep if you cancel in time without dying)

Or a situation where the opponents decide to not give up space and fight the ult. If they defeat you, you still gain value by having done damage /learned opponent positioning, but with minimal risk because you returned to your original spot which is currently the case.

And maaaybe don't lose all armour after run it back. returning with maybe 25 shield would be cool.

Phoenix is already a great agent, the issue is his competition is tough from jett raze and reyna.

Good stuff. But correction. Russz and Cned are not teammates. They just both happen to be Turkish.

Simple. You handle your commitments first, have fun later. The more experienced you get, you'll know how to balance it better.

Think about the impact of not handling your commitments at the right. Also don't rely on motivation. Motivation gets you started, discipline keeps you going.

You'll have time for both anyway, just stay on top of your commitments.

ignore him. You'll hear alot of people saying that, but don't talk to people about it, you'll just end up with spoilers or unneeded biases. So as a new watcher, just watch it with an open mind and form your own opinion. I personally think it's great start to finish.