The only funny comment you've ever made

I think parts of it definitely are, but you'd probably want double controller/sentinel or something.

Guard looked good in their last three games idk what you're talking about. They were one round away from beating XSET who's currently in the upper final, and they sadly ran into EEIU having a life game. I also have hope that they'll do better in LCQ. How's Liquid doing?

NINJAGO

First half of 2022 they were pounding now they're dropping spaghetti all over the place

I liked invincible. Atla is amazing ofc.

Watching them rn, and it's very sad. Just got eco'd on the second round :(

I LOVE MCDONALDS OMG BIG MAC SO GOOD

Done! Do I get a cookie now

Pretty good but I'm not great with my viper setups yet (I think viper and omen are by far the best controllers on the map). I'll have to watch nAts play it or something.

EG in addition to Faze + XSET + C9.

Patently false

READ THE PARAGRAPH THIS IS NOT ABOUT HIM

Only one sadly :(

Hey guys I think Loud is actually really good. Who could've predicted this?

Optic has a shit ton of firepower as well. I mean, yay + marved alone is enough.

C9 academy tho right?

No one gives a shit. Just be excited we have NRG vs Faze and FPX vs M3C to see who moves on PLUS Optic vs XSET and Guild vs Fnatic. They should all be bangers! I’m hoping for Faze, M3C, Optic, and Fnatic to win, who you guys got?

Nah I guarantee this happens all over, the NA ones just blow up more.

Exactly!! Excited for when Guard/C9/100T win LCQ.

Literally just make his tp have a 45 sec cooldown, and reduce the slow duration time (not how much it slows you tho)

Really good article! One tip tho: I think using less dense paragraphs would help you a lot. If you look at some of the news articles on this site like (https://www.vlr.gg/109452/four-remain-after-one-week-of-na-playoffs) for example, it's very clear what grabs your eye and is important information. They use bolding, more line spaces, etc, to do that.

When I see your block of text, it's hard for my brain to instantly pick up on what the main points are. That being said, I agree completely with what you say and I think this is a great piece! You should apply to be a writer for VLR :)

TGRD because I want them to have a LAN redemption arc and also I really like Saya and mce!

How are they boring???? They literally popularized the neon on most maps.

individual --> no
team ---> yes it impacts badly

You're on VLR my dude

Trent’s stage 1 performance was actually better than Alfa statistically. But yeah I think being around more players who’ve been on lan before will help a lot.

NOOOOOOOOO

Nice! Hope they make it :)

You missed the numbers but nice try :)

How tf did you miss the point of the post:
"I would like to say that my purpose of this post was to hopefully stop this criticism of players streaming during their free time. And at the end of the day team success comes down to everyone not just an individual."

There is no correlation with individuals streaming more, only with the team in general.

You do realize C9, TGRD, and 100T will be there, and they'll be fucking prepped

Three things caused that:

1. Meta shift - they swapped roles and it frankly didn't work. JonahP couldn't do what Sayaplayer could on entry, Trent and Valyn weren't as comfortable on new roles, and the whole team cohesiveness was off.
2. Trent. His performance and clutchness just fell of a cliff after iceland and only start approching what it was in stage 1 at the end of the group stage (when it was sadly too late). My best guess is that he got a mental block from always using music to focus, and when that was taken away, he played a lot worse. Now he's practicing without music in general, so it won't be an issue in the future, and I'm sure his performance will start to approach what it used to be (he already had some insane clutches against XSET and NRG).
3. They were never really dominated for a long period of time. They lost a super close game to Optic (the winners of Masters lemme remind you), then got destroyed by Paper Rex. That was all we saw of them at Iceland. Sure it was dissapointing, but they really only lost one match badly. When they came back for stage two, they instantly faced an on fire 100T while having their new roles, and that obviously didn't work out. Then they played Ghost who were on a heater in the groups (while still having the bad new roles), and they still took a map off of them. Those three games were really the only ones they lost badly. Then they had two extremely close games against XSET and NRG, and after they lost, they were out of stage 2 qualification.

Overall: the Guard should've been able to do better in challengers 2, but they're still a very good team, and with time to prepare for LCQ, I expect them to do pretty well and maybe even make it. If they get directly seeded to Istanbul (possible as well), I don't think they'll be an embarrassment to NA at all.

If drx get past 4th place I'll pay attention, till then they'll just be the best looking team that never makes it :(

Ok

Agreed! I want to see good teams play well against each other :)

Nah I'm not gonna bother arguing with this. EMEA teams are not substantially better than Optic, Loud, and PRX and I'm not gonna pretend like they are.

Each map was incredible I just think full 3-2 bo5s take so long people lose interest. I don't think I've watched the whole thing through afterwards since.

The 6 person roster doesn't work too well because it doesn't allow everyone to build synergy as well as if it was just 5 people working with each other all the time in scrims and such.

Yeah exactly lmao. They do rely on winning duels but so does every other good team in a tac FPS. Optic is generally very good about making sure they take duels in their favor tho.

Shownu how on earth are you falling for imperfecto baits you literally spend 22/7 here

Who tf's downvoting my main man OkOkay??

Your team lmfao

M3C vs Fnatic (challengers 1 quals) or Ascend vs Gambit (2021 champs final)

This is so cap they do a lot more than just "win aim duels". Look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQRxQdKalk

Shanks are encouraged

what the fuck is this thread

Whoops I forgot to add latam, thanks for the reminder

bro needed to say it twice ig

Also the M3C players under whatever org they can get