With the rumors of their wage arrears and their involvement in cryptocurrencies, they're probably not rich. Or maybe they were rich and then suddenly weren't anymore. Many crypto companies that invested in esports orgs during the esports boom during COVID have gone bust.

Or maybe their asset prices will go up again and they won't have any problems with their finances.

Did you know that Tier 1 Korean teams are bigger than NA org? T1 and GEN literally pour $10 mil into their League of Legends teams every year. DRX is considered a relatively small organization, but in 2022 they spent over $5M. They will spend for valo very much less, but they're big enough.

1 SEA viewer is not worth the same as 1 East asian viewer.

He had only one day and prepared a ton of countermeasures to SPG's rush tactics. SPG had a slightly better trade kill ratio throughout the match, but BOOM had a lot more first kills.

Why not SPG

So funny coming from the asshole who bash SPG more than anyone else, lol

The only variable is the roar of the crowd. The two teams are not one level apart, but two or three or more levels apart.

At this level of practice, RID should have banned Abyss the first time. The other maps are more playable.

BME is definitely much more prepared in Abyss.

Well, they're just afraid of Abyss, but we don't know if they actually suck. BOOM has a record of 2-1 (1-1 for AE) and FS has 1-2. RDL hasn't played once.

There hasn't been a single Abyss match at APAC Ascension. it's been banned from every match because no team wants it.

On the other hand SPG is really good on Abyss. They've played 3 set on Abyss in the playoffs alone and won 3. 2 times against NS and 1 time against DK. Even in this Ascension, they haven't banned Abyss single time. They just forced their opponents to ban that map.

Welcome, BLD grumble.

Well bro, after all massive shitposting, I'm going to run away when my team loses too, but usually we don't lose as much as the Indians.

Normally I don't mind other people masturbating, but when 1.4 billion people (realistically just half of vlr members) are simultaneously jerking off, it's sound bound to bother us.

Seoldam looks bit better now.

I wish the stupid Japanese who laughed at the korean region because just DK got beaten by the Bonkers, and deluded themselves into thinking they had more talent than Korea all year, had the same experience, but there's quite a gap. RDL will win.

Low enough IQ to think that FS will beat this.

Does anyone know what the Riot rules are for HK/TW? It's a bit contradictory to be able to participate in VCT CN and still qualify as a Pacific local resident. They have very few opportunities in the Pacific, but 10 out of 58 Tier 1 VCT CN players are from HK/TW.

SEA only league = Riot's pure massive infinite deficit. literal bottomless pit and Riot isn't stupid enough to create it.

DSG no doubt, But I hope RVNT gets a fluke win.

I wonder how long the SEA delusion of “we lost this time, but we are the better team in the end because we are individually better aimers” will continue. Can't you guys realize that your team lost because your opponents are better than you, not because 'just made a lot of mistakes'?

I'm impressed with the DSG aimer too, but SPG has the strongest individual firepower in the tournament. It's not just teamwork or comps.

The Kazakhs were pretty good, but the score was 26-8 after 7-0, and the game became one-sided after SPG's stage fright wore off. BOOM, on the other hand, had a bit of comeback after horribly beaten one-sidedly.

Even if all their conditions are at their best, they can't beat SPG or FS, they'll just go from being a fucking horribly weak team to just being a weak team.

If it's a Rapid lofi, they're just weak, not for any particular reason.

NAOS? They seemed like not bad, but unexpectedly they were so seriously weak.

SPG

What i thought is NS with Japanese roster might have been better for Japan than DFM.

Well, when Riot first organized APAC, the rumor was 5 Korean orgs (Gen, T1, DRX, DK, NS). NS exist as a Korean organization, but they were going to use a full Japanese roster. The remaining five slots were to consist of 1 JP and 4 SEA.Those plans were canceled.

I was asking what it was because you said you see a problem in the Korean region. you didn't mention Japan in your comment..

And i have thoughts on your argument as well, but it's after midnight, so I'll write them tomorrow.

What problem exactly?? Koreans created modern esports and have been on top of the world since 1999, when it began. They don't seem to have a problem keeping it.

I know what romance you have with Tier 2, but in esport's 25 year history, Tier 2 has never contributed much to the development of the competitive scene of any game. It's nothing like soccer or any other traditional sport. You don't have to be coached from childhood, nor do you have to wait until you're physically capable. You don't need to organize a group of people to play and practice.

Focusing on the nature of the competition itself, rather than grandiose future plans, has always yielded better results.

I'm not mercilessly and brutally declaring that they have no future if they lose, I'm literally saying that they don't deserve to be good Tear 1 players now (regardless of the Ascension result). It's Seoldam and Joxjo who have no future as players when they lose, not SPG. Probably this tournament is their last run.

Predicting the other two matches was too easy. The real unpredictable match of the day.

Seoldam and joxjo are two players who have been completely eradicated from the Tier 1 scene. Tier 1 Korean teams don't even consider them as a possible reserve player. If the SPG kids lose to them, it simply means they don't deserve to be tier 1 Koreans.

First Ace : Dambi
Highest Rated Player: Persia
Lowest Rated Player : coconut
Most Kill in a match : JohnOlsen
Team that went winless : Rapid Lofi
Final MVP : Persia
eam that exceeded everyone's expectations : NAOS

Well... Korean language doesn't have a specific 'noun gender' or 'feminine tone', so I don't think I feel it much. We don't think much about it, and I'm sure they didn't think much about it when they chose their nicknames. What I do feel is that there are a weird number of typical english names (ivy, magaret, felix, francis, ash, kally, ken, jerry and more...)

Last I checked, Persia doesn't have to. He's not well enough to serve on active duty, so he's been granted an alternative service status, which is something you don't have to do if the government hasn't given you a duty assignment in three years. At the end of next year, he'll be relieved of his duty.

But it's not a sure thing. In the third and final year of the waitlist, they've usually sent out.

One-time unbans for “account abuse verification” are very common. This is because there is no way to verify the authenticity of a claim that determine who actually hacked your computer. Okinawa's original computer's motherboard MAC address is still banned, indicating that the cheating was real. There have been numerous instances where cheaters have hacked into their own computers and submitted logs. I've seen this one too many times. PUBG scene had a whole industry that specialized in doing this for banned cheaters. There must have been thousands of accounts that were unbanned. And every single one of them eventually received a second permanent ban.

https://x.com/zetadivision/status/1810252491155742727

There have been a few other times besides this.

Zeta Academy players I saw were bit mid. They played a few public scrims(streamed) against DRX Academy, losing easily by scores like 13-7 on every map, every time. Even Honeybunny, supposedly the most talented of them all, didn't impress much.

China deserves 1 slot

Lakia

Refusing to fist bump after the game shows this guy's bloated ego and dirty personality.

gogo

It's funny that he himself never said a word or even gave an interview (because he didn't speak Eng well).

No They always drop it.

Although some team's triggered fanatics will rush in, many Koreans are confident in advent of korean domination. but I thought they wouldn't really be able to get any trophies in the first generation, it came much sooner than I thought.

The World's Greatest Team PRX fanatics were rolling around on the floor while the two free slot teams played in the APAC Grand finals.

The biggest reason why esports is a bubble is because viewership itself cannot create value. Unlike traditional sports, there is no offline market and it is difficult to sell broadcasting rights at high prices, so viewership has only value as a link to game skin profits. Viewership is important, but it has no value in itself. Honestly, this is even more true in regions like SEA. Each SEA viewer cannot create the same value as NA, Europe, or East Asia. Then, it would be better to sell the broadcasting rights at a fixed price.
It's funny that SOOP only has about 10 streamers and 50 viewers, but even so, they have the right to invest in expansion. If you ask Twitch to buy the broadcasting rights, they won't buy them.

Esports is a top-down game. If you have superstars and their followers, one of followers will become a new superstar. Everyone develops using the superteam as an example. Eventually, trophies will mean volume.

hmm.. Not 'any maps'. SPG never plays Icebox. Their Icebox ban rate is literally 100%. Whatever they may have prepared, it is unlikely to be as strong as other maps due to the lack of Margaret's Cypher.
RID is quite strong in Icebox, as they showed in the finals.

On the other hand, Japanese teams avoid Abyss. Koreans don't.