My goat, glad to see another OG guard fan still around. Dude that final fucked me upppp

Yoooooo

I very rarely shittalk players, so go ahead, give it a whirl!

It’s gonna be a good game I hope!

Jawgemo, Trent?

JonahP and Valyn have been criminally underrated mechanically as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re better than Derke or less ofc

Yeah this is an incredible tournament

G2’s players are nearly as good, and they tend to play better together.

IMO EDG, G2, VIT

But anyone can win on the right day

dawg this was posted a year ago......

dude gluretics was right there.....

Nah there were a good few of us, you don’t know the “storytime” mce lore

I’ve literally been a guard fan since the net 5k pistol against FaZe in 2022, so happy to see the core finally getting the success they deserve!

As an individual?? Yeah he’s there. Plus China lowk looks abt as good as pacific this kickoff. EMEA and Americas just each have one team that looks WAYY above.

Pretty good if we consider only recent form. I didn’t watch enough of China but could any of Trace be considered here? Izu’s playing well too.

How tf did he carry T1 to victory last night??? What happened LMFAOOO

Lmfaooo I miss Sushi and Subreezy, my PRX bros. We used to chat on discord

DEFINITELY an upgrade, I think Yoman is good! That being said, genuinely every player on G2 seems ridiculously strong

nah I was here when he showed up that kid had nothing on ShadowIsBad

Nah the roster is just TOO stacked this year. I need the guard core to give me an international win finally PLEASEEE

I really like geng tbh, but aim doesn't matter when foxy9 seems really unflexible in general. Besides that, I'd say the weakest aimer on g2 is maybeee JonahP, and that's insane to say bc he's obviously a fragger (plus I'd say better than Yoman mechanically). Individually, the team is so ridiculously stacked this year.

I've been waiting for days like these for the Guard core since Reykjavik 2022 LETSGOOOOOO

RAHHHH

They did not disappoint! This need to be the year of the guard core.

Please play as well as we know you can

he missed milan and shadowisbad

MITH is fucking GOOD, if I don't see these guys in t1 in the middle of 2025 when teams reshuffle, I'll be disappointed.

agreed

I need this to be true, I’m sick of Japanese teams sucking balls

Ya baldurs gate 3 is goated. Witcher 3 and Fallout 1 (yes the gameplay is VERY outdated but the story holds up) are both very good too

EXACTLY it's a statistics thing, same as with Chess. More people playing something --> greater skill among the top 0.000001%

yeah ok

????

ok so abt this

Yeah thankfully. I have faith in them to carry over their performance from last year and hopefully do even better at internationals

I think this team is actually looking really good, with a lot of potential. They have an experienced IGL, good coaching structure, great comms, and I think this tournament has already shown how impressive mada and Verno's firepower can be. Top 3 in Americas imo along with Sen, G2

Better than V1c, on par with Bang, worse than Zander

You guys forget skuba was putting up numbers in 2022 before bang was even on 100T

I fell off

nah man their players are INSANE, I need sato and lukxo on furia or MIBR this instant

döner kebab

Is this the highest ACS in a 20 round map?

skinny legend

you're so recency bias pilled

???? C9???

He's literally a teenager in HS just guessing for clout. He got a lot of attention because he copied Flynn's spreadsheet format, but he's always sucked.

G2?

They were literally in a group of death. They played two bad games all year internationally, both against SEN. Thats it, so they def deserve first

GenG?

Fr he had a brain unlike rocket whatever his name is

Only problem I see is that Alfa is wayy too high. He had a rough year by his standards.

Nah I've been supporting the Guard core since 2022, I'm not some weird edgelord. Also tenz and zekken are just good.