I trust the players more until proven otherwise or if there’s more evidence

It’s literally Kristof

Hot take: every player on sentinels (yes even shaz) are all great and could compete with the best in tier 1 assuming they’re on non dysfunctional teams.

https://www.vlr.gg/104991/soar-vs-version1-mel-premiership-s3-w1
Pretty sure he’s still playing with V1 unless something changes in 4 days

Yes

Id be shocked if optic didn’t make it

Yeah definitely but his util and performance on kayo in particular was a big part of that

This is vlr, nothing I say could be weirder than things already said

Massive cap he was literally one of the main reasons they did well in stage 1

If V1 qualify to LCQ and get to practice with their full squad for a while (and keep Zander for this tournament), they will win it.

Yeah no

The upper seed teams will not do as well as the mid/low seeded teams in NA playoffs. Also optic are still qualifying.

He did but they were the same teams basically. Vanity led V1 with Penny, Zellsis, Effys, Jammyz (Wippie sub), and C9 with Xeppaa, Mitch, Leaf, Xeta, and both times they beat at least one team.

Vanity lead two different roster cores to international tournaments (rosters he basically built). No other igl in NA (or the world I think) has done that.

I honestly think both teams deserve it, Guard played so well against XSET and they could definitely be as good as stage 1, and NRG has a ton of really cool ideas that I wanna see work. Sucks that there can only be one :(

Awesome post

Agreed but obviously making the playoffs at all is a lot more important than seeding

GLHF!

In NA, only one match will determine what teams make playoffs. Everything else is set in stone. The winner of Guard vs NRG will go to playoffs. Good luck to both teams, hoping for an absolute banger of a match.

We can tell

EG will wreck a top EMEA team

Mhm and I suppose Fokus would as well right Kristof

SEA would be Xerxia and PRX I'd think

Are almost out in groups. If you said this even last challengers, people would laugh their asses off.

Don't judge them until playoffs, they've burned fans before

Who does iluri play for

TENZ

This is unreal...

They're pretty damn good ngl. They did get 3-0'd by optic tho after they were able to ban Optic's two best maps.

I have no clue both are not doing as great as they were (C9 especially tho)

Zander and Avova are a bit cap tbh because Zander hasn't performed like he did in stage 1 and Avova just hasn't been good at all the past year with like two games as exceptions. I'd want SugarZero and Ange1.

Cap they’re not making it. The org isn’t big enough.

Cap

lil bro G2 is even worse off

LMFAOOO I GOT DOWNVOTED 10 SECONDS AFTER POSTINF

1. Optic
2. EG/100T
3. Ghost
4. XSET/TGRD
   Honorable mention: C9 if they get their shit together.

Here me out on TGRD: their game was so close and if saya had been playing like he usually does I think TGRD wins 6/10 times.

I’m really happy with the crop of teams this tournament tho.

EG

Sayaplayer pounded on lan idk what you’re trying to say

Id argue you don’t have enough data points for it to be statistically significant and even if you did, it would make sense for the team that didn’t lose yet in the tournament to have a greater chance of winning

NISMO

Faze???

Dw rawkus will drop 30. They'll still lose tho.

XSET always 4th sadly

Watch cartoons no cap

You're def right about 100T, I just threw em in there. With EG, I was going extreme recency bias and saying since they beat Optic, I think they could beat Zeta, DRX, and PRX because Optic was better than any of them. Do I think they will beat any of them on LAN? Honestly no clue, but I figured I might as well put them there.

When Loud loses because there's another team as good, I will follow.

Rawkus is gonna drop 40 and they're still gonna lose

Yeah I bet they'll get picked up by new orgs if they get accepted into franchising.

I put fnatic in first what are you mad about

Luv you kristof