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The importance of a long standing core

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Krishna_

I hope people realize how important a long-standing core is after seeing LCQ in the Pacific and Americas.

Cores that have existed for multiple years such as Zeta, TS, Kru, and Leviathan (yeah adverso and Melser left, but the main three remained), have seen the most success in LCQ. EMEA is weird since everyone came in with a blown-up/new roster to the league. We can also see the seasoned cores who had immense success in the regular season from PRX, DRX, Loud, NRG, and Fnatic. It's so obvious the skill difference between them and the teams who created new systems, and cores, and tried to build anew this year. Time will tell, but I don't think many rosters can justify massive changes (dropping more than one player) other than massive underperformers like DFM and MIBR. Those who are yelling for teams like Sentinels, GE, and 100T to blow up their rosters don't make a bunch of sense. I agree, their performances were mediocre with simple ideas (Sentinels ran exclusively LOUD's mid-takes on Split, and 100T looked too nervy and way too separated for a professional team, GE was a sad result so close but so far, and Rossi failed to compete). But you have to understand, 2 months is time for sure, but for humans 2 months does nothing.

It takes years to build rosters that communicate properly and work together in a cohesive unit. It's pretty stupid to think what wasn't accomplished in a 2-month regular season, will be immediately changed in a 2-month off-season, even C9, a team we applaud for how they looked still is struggling in LCQ to a roster that has had more time than them, plain and simple.

This is just my opinion, but I think the time a core has together as people means more than just the off-season and practice they get in. Until a team VASTLY underperforms like DFM or MIBR, blowing up the roster simply isn't the play. it just jumbles the system and messes up rosters. but that's just me

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LyCan52
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allat break it down to 4 words

#3
N1FanKeznitdeuS
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didnt read at all, KeznitdeuS clears

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dayyaan1
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One way ticket to Yapperville

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Krishna_
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actually didn't realize i was on vlr sorry y'alls tiktok brains can't absorb more than 4 words

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FrenchToast
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hard agree. a core is important.

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yaiima0
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🧇?

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Cannot
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LyCan52 [#2]

allat break it down to 4 words

teams together longer = more wins

(sorry for going over the word count)

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not always true but like 20% true. There have been many teams that found little success but kept the roster only to also get destroyed the next season. It's just a big risk. Do you really think a team can just go from being destroyed to a top level team apart from kru that never happens with the same team.

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Krishna_
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Cannot [#8]

teams together longer = more wins

(sorry for going over the word count)

w rizz

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nutab1e
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I read that and I agree, anyone who says SEN needs to drop players is braindead

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Krishna_
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Zerphyr1 [#9]

not always true but like 20% true. There have been many teams that found little success but kept the roster only to also get destroyed the next season. It's just a big risk. Do you really think a team can just go from being destroyed to a top level team apart from kru that never happens with the same team.

kru didn't go from 0-9 to winning in the way the score says it.
kru was an insane team regular season, the record didn't show it, insane amounts of close maps and all they needed was that little bit to push them over the edge. there was a world where they beat loud, eg, nrg, sen, c9 and furia during regular season if 3 or so rounds went another way. the score doesn't tell the full picture

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Krishna_ [#12]

kru didn't go from 0-9 to winning in the way the score says it.
kru was an insane team regular season, the record didn't show it, insane amounts of close maps and all they needed was that little bit to push them over the edge. there was a world where they beat loud, eg, nrg, sen, c9 and furia during regular season if 3 or so rounds went another way. the score doesn't tell the full picture

so you just proved my point even more. Thank you

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Krishna_
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Zerphyr1 [#13]

so you just proved my point even more. Thank you

not at all? i just explained to you why kru was already good the score didn't show it, they didn't "rebuild" they just figured out what they needed for the 3 more rounds.

look at lev - mediocre regular season towards the end and lcq start was disastrous, pulled it back bc of their core. zeta - mid regular season, insane performance lcq (no roster change), TS - same story. it's not a 20% thing, it's the fact that most teams blow up without giving their teams time.

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Trykan
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Okay but for a counter argument 100T have had their main core since last year (all they did was replace Will with Cryo) and appear to have not met expectations so although it does apply, sometimes you just need to pull the plug

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Krishna_ [#14]

not at all? i just explained to you why kru was already good the score didn't show it, they didn't "rebuild" they just figured out what they needed for the 3 more rounds.

look at lev - mediocre regular season towards the end and lcq start was disastrous, pulled it back bc of their core. zeta - mid regular season, insane performance lcq (no roster change), TS - same story. it's not a 20% thing, it's the fact that most teams blow up without giving their teams time.

not even true? Leviatan has made masters and champs before with their core. They are no random team but they lost momentum at the end off the regular season and their mental is terrible. They have not had an "insane lcq performance" but an expected one. What your describing is just a team building confidence and momentum which is not the same as a team looking and playing horrible and having bad results to just playing amazing. There are expections though 20% of the time like I said, for example EG.

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LyCan52
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Cannot [#8]

teams together longer = more wins

(sorry for going over the word count)

W rizz

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LyCan52
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Krishna_ [#5]

actually didn't realize i was on vlr sorry y'alls tiktok brains can't absorb more than 4 words

tiktok

pls don't ever say that b*n 😡

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