I hope you eat your words in a couple hours. I will if 100T lose

of course it was possible. These teams don't stay static since they last played lol. There would be no point to watching these matches if #1 just meant forever. Teams improve and the best team at the time of the match wins, and right now, we got a match!!!

HELL YEAH!

Is a group D pickems not possible with the double round robin format?

D2 the last 2 acts. I play casually tho so I don't give gameplay opinions much

crowds in NA would heavily depend on municipal policies which in NA can be very limiting. in DC, it got as bad as they wouldn't recommend >10 people in a building unless absolutely necessary (like a hospital) at the peak of the pandemic. and it's only getting worse it seems before it gets better anytime soon and Riot needs to confirm stuff soon

NA isn't exactly doing a great job with covid rn

Damn, this doesn't even feel real :(

covid travel restrictions between germany and PH didn't work out

the value from recon isn't just getting a ping. It's about clearing areas. Once you've cleared a huge swath of space w/ a recon, you can narrow down the opponent's potential hiding spot, so Sova's still gonna be extremely useful on this map. plus, the line-up potential is insane with the amount of things you can bounce off instinctively kind of like ascent.

Wait.. But by that logic, emea hasn't been able to beat sen this year either so that would put them at about the same strength... 100T and emea

fair enough. Idk any other s-tier players they could sign right now tho that would change things up for them like yay or tenz did for their respective teams

Sinatraa also played duelist for Sen when they needed him (like in icebox). Still, I agree that he doesn't really fit their comp needs unless he really changed some stuff up in the last 6 months. I don't think he can be signed right now with the kind of PR he has tho. Not to a tier 1 org at least...

Not gonna lie, this is looking kinda rough for TSM

sinatraa plays duelists too, not just sova. Maybe he's improved his player pool to include smokes too in his 6 months absence. It's unlikely but a not that unlikely they'll pick him up

they really might tho. He's their only chance at getting an Ace-level player to seriously contend for winning LCQ (if NA wins berlin)

Very informative, holy moly

wtf, I thought I was seeing shit. I swear it was vivo vs 100T, and now it's Havan liberty? that's the 3rd time it's changed lol

Envy going straight to the top 8 😂

Yeah... I'm at a loss for words. The lack of empathy to say something so toxic. Then to think he wouldn't see it in a chat of 600-800. Then to come to vlr to post it again.

It's baffling the amount of attention some people crave.

They wouldn't ban split since 100T wouldn't pick it either in a bo3. No need to waste your ban on a map both teams don't pick.

Are you? They're not even doing that bad and you have this little invested in them? They clearly have things to work on so it's only up from here. They're a month away from berlin and 3.5 months away from champions. I don't expect them to win Berlin (top 4 would be good), but I expect by champions to see them rivaling Sen or whoever else is the best by then.

don't be silly lol. of course not.

Yeah, I think this tournament definitely showed that they gotta go back to the lab w/ this comp. It's just not as useful the stuff KAY/O brings

no idea. i read somewhere they might still make it if EMEA wins berlin? That would put them in the same position as TSM, but I never verified this info

he does really well when he plays duelists in ranked games

he also had a map in that envy game where he top fragged. Everybody has bad games, including tenz. I definitely agree that Steel is top talent even tho the community likes to make him (and hiko) the butt of the joke a lot of times

Well, having support players is one thing, but having the actual support in-game is another. 100T have had issues in the past with making sure Asuna's entries are adequately supported with proper spacing, utility, etc. Having Ethan with him has really helped both of them shine brighter and the team has most recently benefitted from that success by making it to Berlin. I can't wait till they figure out more and eventually (hopefully) even rival sentinels for the all-around best team in the world.

Breeze is amazing when it clicks and it does for me too. Some people just don't get the map yet imo

Fine, you all get cookies

I think yay and Envy are still fresh at being a top level team. Yay did a lot of early Tenz things today against 100T that got punished (pushing CT or just going too aggro without backup), but I think those kinks will be worked out in a month of prac and review. They look damnnnn good otherwise besides some map pool things here and there. All in all, I'm really hyped for NA's potential cuz it's only up from here

Same lol. I was mad confused coming in here ready for some nonsense

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It probably will be a 3-1 in all likelihood

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I'm gonna go out on a fucking limb and say it: 100T 3-2 SEN somehow 🥴

Wait, so they're in a very similar position as TSM was in NA?

If by the end of this bracket, only a Berlin win would let them in LCQ, then FPX basically the EU TSM

top 5

Yeah, he's not wrong lol. 100T still need to prove themselves and win here imo

this is SOOOO exciting!! Berlin is going to be a fire tournament

If 100T doesn't fix things, I can see them going to 3rd place now

I think this is a good wake up call for 100T to keep working on their comps and set ups. It felt sloppy today, especially nitr0 just half-clearing sightlines before moving on to another part of the map

Tenz also missed a similar op shot in Ascent in challengers 1. It happens.

Boaster's stream explained why it was a save. Either they go for it and lose their guns for the match point or they save and try to come back. It was definitely the obvious choice to save also because they barely had any util left for the retake

What they said

100T 3-2

doesn't matter which spot they get per se. I think they just have to be the highest NA team at Berlin and they'll automatically get enough points to directly qual for champs. If either of the other NA teams win Berlin, then they also autoqual for champs through points.

'XSET jumped out to a commanding 9-3 lead on Haven, but was slowly reeled in by 100T over the course of the second half. Despite reaching map point at 12-9, XSET was unable to close Haven and wound up losing the first map."
Oops, also this was 11-9, so not quite map point.

"XSET started the series with a 9-3 lead on the first map and ended the series by winning the second map's final six rounds." - might help to specify that these 6 rounds were in the 2nd half. I had to go look up the match to figure out what this sentence meant.

Small typo: Sen won breeze against Rise 13-3, not 13-2

Maybe. I certainly expect Envy to get the 3rd spot to Berlin. They're just begging for it with this roster