They literally said unlikely, as in, it doesn't make sense for 100T to replace Cryo with yay, but Cryo and yay have a smilar role/play style, so it would be a good fit

You mean the team with a Swede, a Ukrainian, and a Latvian (living in England), and a Swedish coach?

France is a lovely country for a camping trip, especially if you're from Germany or NL/Belgium. Without all the French people it would be the best country in the world

Good enough to beat Clown9

Boaster and Tenz both get plenty of hate. It's just weird tbh, they both are super wholesome people.

Half of those countries have like 3 inhabitants and they're either all cattle farmers or professional tax evaders

I mean if we say LOUD and DRX underperformed, then we should also acknowledge that FUT and NAVI also underperformed and EG overperformed.

Especially if you watched the FUT games vs EG and DRX, I think it's clear that a lot of it came down to nerves, everyone besides atakaptan looked shaky af, which makes sense considering they only played tier 2 until this year. I think they can be as good as EG or 100T when EG isn't currently going on an absolutely insane run.

As for NAVI, god knows what they're doing tbh, they should be much better than this. Even in cNed's rare Jett games he doesn't perform like he used to.

I still think Americas has the edge over EMEA, but it's closer than people pretend. I feel like we've been there before, when 100T narrowly scraped by two wins against ACE and GMB and NA fans thought NA would destroy everyone at champs in 2021, and then 3 EMEA teams top 4. Or when EMEA underperformed at Reykjavík and then won Copenhagen.

To be fair to Navi, they are the only LCQ team that played in Tokyo, and thus had a lot less time to prep for LCQ.

Not like they looked good at Tokyo, just an observation.

Bro had trexx, Leo and Sayf on his team last year and got eliminated from LCQ by old NAVI and OGLU

Feel kinda bad for [team]

There was an "incident" in ranked where TenTen said something about Flip being Indian and shitting in the streets (which is especially dumb because Flip is Indonesian) and Flip said something mildly racist back about anime (which is especially dumb because TenTen is Korean). TenTen's contract with Northeption was immediately nullified, Flip wasn't really punished at all I believe.

Also TenTen is Meteor's brother, which is why this whole situation was brought up again for this game.

Open your eyes then

Chronicle came from competitive swimming

2022 Optic was definitely as much of an NA superteam as 2023 FNC.

skill issue

"El Clásico" ?

RRQ 3 - 1 TS

keep anthem and get young japanese talents, nerd

Unfortunately the grand final goes to KRÜ

Idk about that, their midrounding is awful, and that's not something a cracked duelist could fix. They have some of the best gameplans and set plays, but are so drilled on those, and so inflexible that they completely crumble whenever any detail of the plan goes wrong. That's why they always look amazing at the start of tournaments and then seemingly fall apart.

I think -Taco + keznit would make them better, but something else has to change in the team to fix their issues before they can genuinely be a top contender.

Yay would just be a 1:1 replacement for Cryo, who is the only one on that team that has been performing recently. Doesn't seem worth the risk tbh

Yeah it's definitely not impossible. TS, GE, RRQ and the likes are all pretty inconsistent, and then one BO3 against a team like T1 might be good enough to secure third place for masters. It'll be tough though.

I mean KRÜ vs FUR was at an acceptable time for EMEA. A lot of EMEA viewers like watching NA (almost more than EMEA itself lol). I think a significant part of NA viewership comes from Europe. Not a majority or anything, but it's not negligible.

I reckon if the games were switched, 100T vs SEN would have gotten more views.

Bro thinks he trembo 💀

They are going all the way

I have the most hope for The Guard, they've been together for a long time, have previously won NA, they've shown they can compete, they could easily make playoffs and maybe even make it to masters next year.

Bleed probably won't make any LANs, but they could certainly take some wins in the league. There's a couple teams in APAC that are within their reach.

M8 I honestly doubt are gonna do much. I mean it depends on how TH, KC, Vit and KOI rebuild for next year, those should all be beatable opponents, but if they get their shit together they should still be way ahead of M8.

Three French orgs partnered by Riot and KC is somehow the fourth best French org in the league

Optic won a Mickey Mouse tournament lol you call that a major?? Only the tournaments where my favourite teams win are majors, idiot

Welcome Team Heretics heat

Personal lessons for stuff like piano from professional teachers are like 30-50. Trent is not a trained coach.

jollz is literally a scammer lmao, his most specific personalised advice is like "go with team and look at the minimap sometimes"

Compare any of his coaching videos to for example a woohoojin vod review, and consider that woohoojin does this for free, it's night and day. Honestly you learn more from watching Woohoojin coach other people than from getting personal coaching from jollz

Tuyz is the best Harbour in the world and has been pretty solid on Omen and Brim all year (his Astra is not great tbf). He's not the best player on Loud, but if you look at all three international leagues, he's easily above average

If Optic worked together to become a really good team, AND had the best players in almost every role, the expectation should be much higher than an "artificially" created superteam, no?

In terms of individual prestige, 2022 Optic was on par with 2023 FNC, maybe even higher. Nobody really considered Alfa for best sentinel in the world before this year, and very few considered Derke to be the best duelist in the world before this year. Leo had a few more advocates I guess, and Chronicle was at least in the conversation in 2021. Yay was considered the best player in the world period, and Marved was on everyone's global top 3 list. Crashies was also always in the conversation for top 3 initiators.

The old FNC roster was basically a tier 2 roster apart from Derke. Magnum and Enzo are literally tier 2 players. Technically I guess so is yay, but I think we can agree that that's a very different situation. Doma is not even good enough for tier 2. Getting second with those guys on your team is a lot more impressive than getting second with yay and Marved on your team.

Obviously S0m and Ardiis are much worse than Marved and yay. The only comparison that makes sense is old Optic with new FNC and new NRG with old FNC. And that's lenient towards FNS honestly, S0m and Ardiis clear Magnum, Doma and Mistic in a 2v3 with their eyes closed. In that comparison, old Optic loses to new FNC (1/5 wins vs 2/2 wins) and new NRG is about on par with old FNC (some decent placements, top 4 internationally)

If you think Optic was not a superteam comparable to FNC currently, who would you have replaced in 2022 to make them better? I honestly can't think of a single player in NA.

Obviously S0m and Ardiis are worse than Marved and yay. The point is that FNS did have Marved and yay on his team for 5 international LANs, of which he only won a single one. He then had some good placements with S0m and Ardiis.

Similarly, FNC had some good placements with the old rosters, but now with the current roster won 2/2 LANs. I'm comparing old FNC to new NRG and new FNC to old Optic.

Derke and Alfajer were not superstars before joining FNC. Boaster had his part in making them the players they are today.

He also made top 2 with Mistic, Magnum (tier 2) and Doma (not even tier 2), and top 4 with Mistic and Enzo.

Optic last year had arguably the best player in NA in every role (aside from Victor, but he was such a good fit for the team and played his role so well that he might as well be) and they still only won one title.

Boaster has had bad games in terms of calling for sure (the Lotus and Split attack sides Vs Loud at Lock//in were pretty lousy tbh) but he's a good IGL.

Mistic really wants to go back to tier 1 huh

SAW logo kinda slaps. Apeks is mid

I mean apart from Victor every Optic player was in contention for best in their role in NA. And Victor was a perfect fit for that team and slotted in perfectly.

FNS absolutely had the best of NA around him. Not saying he's bad at all, but that argument is kind of weak imo. Boaster made top 2 with Mistic, Magnum and Doma (two tier 2 players and Doma not even good enough for tier 2), and made top 4 with Enzo and Mistic (both tier 2 as well).

S0m and Ardiis are without a doubt much better than any of those (no disrespect to Mistic or Enzo, they have their strengths, but they were never anywhere close to best in their roles in EU)

Arrogant? Bro what? Have you ever heard him say a single word?

Coping with what? The two LAN wins in a row? Yeah Boaster fans must be in shambles right now

Idk sounds like you're just not very good at thinking of metrics

who?

What is blud waffling about

Oh look, a specimen has escaped from the lab

Wet Leg

Meanwhile saya was the second highest rated duelist in the Pacific league and made it to masters.

what's the difference?

I reckon G2 are planning to pick up the Guard roster if the rumours are true that the org will not hang on to them for next year

In this tweet he isn't talking about aimblabs though, he is talking about the Ghost in Valorant. If he wants to be judged by his Aimlabs skills, maybe he should be tweeting about Aimlabs and not Valorant.

Zander, eeiu and koalanoob are Canadian. The country flag is always the majority of players, not the org location. TL's Brazilian GC team is also listed as Brazilian even though the org is Dutch.