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| Last post: | December 17, 2024 at 6:48 PM |
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In reality there's only three solidly one team regions: Brazil, Korea, and Latam. Loud, DRX, and Kru utterly destroy their regions while in NA, EU, and APAC teams like Optic, Fnatic, and PRX still lose maps to regional competitiors and have closer games.
Zeta have been winning but other teams look much better than in previous years.
If they get Bdog/Ban/Tenz/S1mple/Wardell/Drone/Alexey Yakimenko, it'll all work out!
Do you think PRX or DRX will beat Optic?
Nah -Will + S1mple. Source: trust me bro
You don’t see any world in which fnatic beats optic??? They’re looking really strong rn, I think it would be an even match.
I don’t think they lose to current M3C or guild. Fnatic, definitely maybe.
No lmao even on awful teams like andbox he was shitting on everyone. He’s had one middling series his entire time on optic.
I’d say their fracture isn’t weak at all but I totally agree in general. Teams like Fnatic and Loud are definite competitors and ofc optic could go out by playing two different teams.
Oh man I just realized this is the ultimate jinx.
After looking closer at them, they seem unbeatable right now. They play every single map at an absurdly high level, and they learn extremely fast so they’re almost guaranteed to win any rematch. They have yay and Marved (the best chamber in the world rn and one of the best smokes players and lurkers), Victor, who’s more inconsistent but when he’s popping on neon and other entry agents elevates their performance incredibly. They have crashies who’s insane in the clutch, and FNS, probably the best caller in the world right now. Someone take me down a notch cause I don’t see them losing to ANY team worldwide in a Bo5.
I’m honestly not as convinced by will. And derrek hasn’t been as good recently.
No ofc there's chances for them to go on runs just like any other team, but there's no way you can say with confidence: they'll be top 8/4/2 or whatever. I feel pretty confident in saying Fnatic and Optic will be in the top 4 (obviously anything can happen but just statistically speaking, I think it's likely). I do not feel confident saying XSET/Faze/NRG could even make it out of groups.
Assuming they don't get seeded in the top 8 then instantly play two top 4 teams, yeah.
X factor is right. Sure Cryo and Zekken are really good, I don't deny that, but I can't see them beating top teams (or even upper mid tier international teams like DRX and Guild)
No I agree with you completely Felt like last year we had Sentinels, Envy, and C9 as world class competitors, but now it's really only Optic. I don't believe in XSET much, Faze is lacking strategic depth, and I also just don't trust NRG to hold their own against a Loud or FPX.
On the other hand, Optic is really fucking good and they have a map pool of literally 7 maps, so it's really hard for them to lose bo5s. I wouldn't count out a repeat win as a possibility.
TGRD literally played Optic and PRX, both top 4 teams. I'm sure they would've done better if they got the chance to go through groups.
XSET is boring but yeah it'll probably be them. Optic is a given, their map pool is all of them.
This is hard cap I doubt they'd beat Xerxia or Zeta much less Loud or Fnatic
THIS SHIT IS SO CLOSE I'M GOING INSANE
Yeah honestly I could see just about every main duelist in the top 10 teams in NA working out better than Will. Yay? Definitely could entry with the best. Tenz? He'd work. Bdog/Ban/Saya/Penny/Leaf.... At the same time, he's doing what they need rn so I'm not opposed to him staying and them working on it.
mwzera and forsaken are my FAVORITE NA PLAYERS
Asuna wants to win also 100T aren't a step above faze
Hey Skuba and Zander are pretty good too, we just haven't seen them in a while.
Hey maybe T1 will be good in 2025! You never know!
Mine: TGRD, Zeta, M3C, and Loud
PRX and Xerxia are pretty great too.
Hey nice! If ya see this, hope you guys make it to masters and get an org for franchising! One of my fav teams for sure.
They’re not getting NA we have like 2 billion teams already.
Optic is the only team in NA with a deep map pool rn, by which I mean they play ALL the maps.
I agree with this, but I'll trust the second NA team to play well enough to make it out of groups at least.
Facts honestly. Apac_Jimmy is a tier 1 baiter along with Ballsax and Styling and should be considered an outlier.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves yet
I mean you could say the same about PRX but they did pretty well. At the moment I just trust Faze more.
Common L my dude. Even if they beat Faze, I doubt they're gonna beat EG/NRG plus XSET. If they DO manage that, I'll trust them to make it to playoffs at LAN.
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