And Fenis still managed to talk some trash and be incredibly funny while not coming across like an arrogant prick

I looked it up, you can find the list in the reply to mateus. I was actually right about the 478 ACS by TenZ haha, although it was in Berlin, not Iceland

Okay, I'm back home with my trusted spreadsheet.

In #1 we have TenZ vs F4Q in Berlin with 478 ACS on Breeze
nAts got 460 on Bind vs Vision Strikers in Berlin
yay got 449 on Haven vs 100T in Berlin
ardiis got 438 vs XSET at Champs 22
Dubstep got 432 vs Vikings at Champs 21

So this map by Less is in 6th place. Although out of these five, only ardiis had a higher rating than Less (2.14 vs 2.11). Take this with a slight grain of salt though, because I don't have data on the best ratings yet. I wanted to look into that, but haven't gotten to it. So far I only have a list of highest individual ACS.

Yes, I only count international events, I did all that manually, I'm not gonna look through all the ILs lol. I think TenZ had a game with like 478 ACS in Iceland 2021. But I'll look it up in a few hours and update you!

But either way, 420 ACS is crazy, Less is absolutely insane.

Pretty sure it's not a record but I think it's top 5, I have a spreadsheet on my laptop, I can look it up later if you want

Glad we agree EG is trash

https://www.vlr.gg/220448/fnatic-vs-evil-geniuses-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-gf

Alfa more consistent

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They will never remove those two at the same time, they're like the most popular maps they got. Ascent definitely needs some kind of rework though. I think it's fine in ranked but the pro matched are soooo boring.

No that was the original doge. Cheems is a different dog (though same breed)

Yeah if this is an event with a crowd in Japan, there is no way they don't invite Zeta and FNC

Also not sure about Bonecold and zeek. They did that Acend reunion video where Bonecold said that him and zeek often clashed and fought about ideas mid-game. Bonecold said it was healthy and made them both better but after seeing zeek's history on Acend post-champs and on TH I'm not so sure.

Nats chamber is insane, but this comp doesn't have anyone who can Op on Jett. Which in the current meta you definitely need.

Hey I just went through the list of LAN winners and I can't find any "Boostio" there? Does he maybe have another alias?

You're so real for this, he's only been farming trash teams this year.

Like he got LOCK//IN MVP for this game? Pathetic.

Pro players can give them out to users they like, just dm some on Twitter and ask for them. It's the same with Riot gun buddies.

There is talent in Türkiye. Alfajer wasn't this good on Surreal Esports. I watched some of their VCT promotion matches, and he always struck me as someone with potential, but I never thought he would be in contention for the best player in the world after just one and a half years. Cned, despite arguably having fallen off quite a bit, was one of the best players itw in 2021. FUT have some great players as well, despite coming straight out of Tier 2 into the IL.

Talent doesn't mean much when you don't work under the right conditions.

I can't really tell you what exactly the issues are, but it's definitely not a lack of talent.

Especially since this could possibly be Jinggg's last tournament in a long time, maybe ever (if he does go to college after his national service)

Needs a good awper

That wouldn't change anything except she's now slightly harder to flex onto for non-Jett mains

I think a reasonable nerf to the overheal would be that it can only recover as much shield as you started the round with.

Basically if you start the round with no shield you can never go above 100HP, and if you start the round with light shield you can never go above 125. It is kind of busted in pistol rounds.

Other than that I think overheal is fine and if you don't give her a straight 1v1 it's not even that trivial to pull off because of how easily it gets cancelled (LOS/damage)

Tier 2 teams everywhere also have 3rd party tourneys and scrim franchise teams, and yet they are still far behind. That's not really an argument. Having its own stable VCT ecosystem with pocket money from Riot, regular international competition and everything makes a huge difference. Just look at the roughly 1 year of Chinese competition internationally.

APAC LCQ - EDG participates, wins
Champs 2022 - no wins for EDG
Lock//in - no win for EDG or FPX
Tokyo - no wins for ASE, EDG get 5th-6th
Champs - no wins for FPX; BLG and EDG make it out of groups (tbc)

In just this short span of being able to compete internationally, EDG went from being a team that didn't stand a chance to a genuine competitor for top 4, and Bilibili beat NRG twice to make playoffs. It's very obvious that this scene will keep evolving and catch up to the other regions pretty soon, if you actually think the ecosystem doesn't play a role and they're just bad, idk what games you're watching

Boaster on Reyna clears

Also skin trading inevitably leads to gambling, and Riot is very anti-gambling to the point where they even refuse to take sponsorships from gambling companies

Riot has no incentive to monetise ranked when people are gobbling up $50 skins like crazy

They are trying so hard to make people run A splits through mid

Masters Berlin was Indian team Gambit esports (Gambit is an Indian word, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit)

Champs Berlin was fraudulent and doesn't count (Vivo Keyd destroyed Acend but Riot Games intervened due to racism)

Copenhagen isn't a real city, look it up

Lock//in mickey mouse tournament, might as well count Knights Monthly

Masters Tokyo was Fnatic, and they don't count (1 team region)

Champs LA will be won by Global Esports (hello India)

https://twitter.com/Flybynight271/status/1692334155462213850?s=20

She reminds him of his mother who never loved him

I really hope FNC makes the grand final just so we can see their Pearl. I want them to go full Berlin Gambit mode and put Boaster on Reyna

People also said they can't win against FNC and they destroyed them lmao.

Anyone can beat anyone here and Loud is not exactly FUT/BLG-tier, it's a 60-40 for PRX at best

Vlr users can't comprehend having a healthy relationship with your parents

Who?

If we don't count SEN and Optic NA has zero trophies, absolute joke of a region

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Then the "LATAM" accent is probably a Spanish accent and it's Fitinho

PRX did get a lot more kills overall, they were all positive with something +11. Plus recency bias, second half actually was a slaughter.

I don't speak Latin, sorry

Way ahead of you buddy

FNC gets two lucky Mickey Mouse tourney wins --> omg FNC best team in the world!!! 😱😱

FNC lose most important game of the year to North American team --> don't worry guys it's just one loss they'll bounce back 🤓🤓

Anyone who thinks Sentinels won't win champions is just delusional

None of us are. We're all just wafflers. That being said:

FNC OVERRATED 😂 EMEA WASHED 😂 ZERO TEAM REGION 😂 BOTSTER ONLY GETTING KILLS WITH ODIN 😂

Go cry about it perhaps

Maybe one day your team will make another event and you can stop thinking about EU all the time

Bro says "technically 🤓" and doesn't know FUT esports is from the European part of Turkey

EMEA 🤝🏻 NA

I don't believe but I will definitely be rooting for FUT all the way. ATAKAPTAN the goat needs to ascend on his rightful throne

Shouldn't be an unpopular opinion tbh. FNC is better than PRX, but the difference between FNC and PRX is smaller than the difference between Loud and FUT. People are sleeping on Loud rn.

It's not looking good for crow

They played well, but the fact that they got grouped at both events this year with that roster is a huge disappointment. If they had a decent run at Tokyo I could have called this a slipup, but the fact that it happened twice is concerning (even if the group was difficult and the games were close), so I wouldn't go as low as 2. Maybe a 2.5 though

Good, you didn't miss anything of value

Yeah, but tbf this is vlr dot gg, so I gotta shit on Navi