Yeah people are only shitting on BabyJ because of his name. Couldn't think of anything else tbh

He would be considered an import because he previously played as a non-import in Americas. You can only choose one region in which you can play as a non-import on VCT level

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Ich glaube Anfang Januar haben die das bekannt gegeben

I mean one loss to SEN (if the leaks are true) and they'll be in play-ins, which is very losable

right, imma delete my account real quick

Oh if you don't count the best team of the region, the region overall did not do well? Woah, profound.

Teams know. Even some non-pros already know. FNS said on PlatChat that he knows the bracket already.

Is it racist

I mean he probably didn't mean anything evil by it, so I wouldn't judge him or anything, but yeah this kind of stuff can be super annoying to deal with and it might very well be rooted in some stereotypes. Best way to deal with it is probably to try to ignore it, and if it gets excessive, just tell him it makes you uncomfortable.

Riot also said explicitly that the max would be 14. Yes ascension teams keep their slot for two years only, but that just means in 2025 two teams will ascend.

Unfortunately emea doesn't have good controllers

They looked decent at champs, played very close series against Loud and DRX. They also won Copenhagen with this squad, so clearly whatever went wrong in 2023 wasn't just player quality.

No, more so a response to the take in the post I guess. My actual hot take is G2 will be bottom 4 in Americas.

EG will qualify to Madrid, but no other LAN

just break the trip bro

FakeAnanas

Go to settings and it's right below where you can choose your country flag

Thank you, geo!

can't even argue with this

unlucky

I mean let's go through all the teams that won international tournaments then.

SEN Reykjavík - Obviously TenZ was insane and had a shit ton of impact

GMB Berlin - D3ffo was pretty insane in Berlin, but nAts and Chron had a lot more impact. nAts even had a higher ACS while playing Viper and Cypher.

ACE Berlin - cNed and friends (although zeek had a pretty insane run that tournament -- notably he did play a lot of duelist as well though, both Reyna and Raze)

OPTC Reykjavík - yay was clearly their star player, and he barely played duelist. Victor was a good duelist, but he's not the type of guy you'd have in your top 5

FPX Copenhagen - mostly carried by Shao and Suygetsu. In the grand final, Zyppan was bottom fragging on Raze for two maps, they played no duelist on Icebox, and the last two maps were Zyppan on Raze and ardiis on Jett respectively, none of which had super insane impact (they both performed well though)

Loud Istanbul - While aspas is without a doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, duelist in this game, at that particular tournament, he had the lowest average rating on the team. pANcada was the tournament MVP and each player had insane impact.

FNC LOCK//IN - Derke was very good, had loads of impact. Still outperformed by Leo though

FNC Tokyo - Kind of similar to Loud at Champs, where Derke was good, but Leo, Alfa and Chron were just all better.

EG Champs - I mean the three maps they won in the GF were definitely on the back of insane duelist performances. Jawgemo went ballistic, and Demon1 had an insane Split on Jett. LF was pretty similar with the exception of Bind. The rest of the matches weren't really close and they just hard team diffed everyone else, so overall I'd say it's fair to say that great duelist performances were a big part of their actual win.

So out of the 9 teams that won tournaments, 3 (SEN at Reykjavík, ACE at Champs 21, and EG at Champs 23) were in large part due to great duelist performances, the rest had much higher impact from other parts of the team.

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No no, you don't understand. The 500 people were laid off so Riot can afford doubling Leo Faria's salary

If you have difficulties reading this I think that's on you bro

I'm babysasuke's grandma and I can confirm this

y0y

KD doesn't say everything

Brother that list didn't even mention KD

It's not just Brazilians, but the opinion that TenZ should be benched for pANcada is definitely more prevalent among Brazilian fans. Which makes sense, since Brazilians have probably watched a lot more gameplay from pANcada, watched him win champs, etc. Of course it's weird to see him on the bench for someone who arguably has been struggling a lot in recent years. When one player's famous hero moments are more prevalent in your memories than the other's, of course you're gonna think he's just better.

Brother this was posted in May. They clearly didn't mean "We will not ever change the roster again in the history of the world". This meant that they wouldn't change the roster for LCQ.

Because they tried playing with Pancada for an entire year and it didn't work

I mean CS also has less complexity in terms of theory crafting, which for a lot of pros is a bit part of their daily routine. Like Boaster works 60-80 hours a week, scrimming, vod reviewing, making lineups, etc. I have done 60 hour weeks for uni and tbh more than two weeks in a row of that workload I'd kill myself.

True, the open quals were pretty fun to watch. Akrew beating SEN was legendary.

Edit: This was not supposed to be a dig at your flair btw, the match was just wild.

2022 had two challengers (i.e. the equivalent to the ILs today) splits. Both splits had group stages with 5 matches per team, plus playoffs for the teams that qualified. Then there was LCQ, double elim, i.e. min 2 matches per team.

2024 will have two IL splits. Both splits will give each team 5 matches, plus playoffs for the teams that qualify. Then before the two splits there's kickoff, which has min 2 matches per team (actually there will be only one team that gets 2 matches, most teams will get at least 3).

I don't love the 2024 schedule, but I feel like it's extremely comparable to the 2022 schedule? At least in terms of number of games played, which seems to be most people's issue anyway. I still think they should do two full round robin splits, but it's not like this is breaking some sort of precedent.

Tenz ate my son

Thank you Bing, very cool!

Saying aspas = yay in the Lord's year of 2024 is crazy

Every pro player and coach constantly talks about how important team chemistry and vibes are, we've seen teams with great players fail because the vibes were off (e.g. literally SEN WITH PANCADA for the entirety of 2023), but all those pro players and coaches are wrong, I think we should put our faith in some guy who posts on a brain dead internet forum all day.

y0y

The agent classes just aren't really roles tbh

Why would this not be news?

we love you geospliced, dw

I feel like Demon1 seemed like the more composed and mature player compared to Something. He also made better decisions in crucial moments. But they're definitely both very high up.

I love Boaster but he's not a 10/10.

True, every time I see a BlastX Phantom on the ground in ranked I think, "damn that's the Elso Phantom"

Yeah I was just going off the top of my head, that one is iconic, idk how I forgot it

For me it's

Snowglobe wand - FNS
Prelude to Chaos Vandal - Suygetsu
Glitchpop Vandal - Derke
Prime Karambit - Less
Minima Operator, G.U.N. baton and Artisan sword (for some reason) - Shao (please, someone stop him)
Default knife - Boaster

Any other pairings that come to mind?

If you do -899,500 pages on the first day, you only need like 30,000 per day for the rest of the month, should be easy

Goaster masterclass incoming

400 words isn't all that much. Break it down into parts, make a structure. Think about what do you want to say, in what order you want say it. Make bullet points right now, ASAP.

Once you have a structure, make sure you have enough points for 400 words. 400 words, that's like 40 sentences, depending on your style of writing. Per bullet point, you can write like 3-5 sentences, depending on the point. If you have an introduction of 3 sentences and a conclusion of like 5, that's only 32 sentences left, which is like 8 bullet points.

Go try that, make 8 bullet points now, try to imagine what the essay could look like, then take a break. After the break, come back to it and just type everything out. You can do this.

How else would you seed it? Just let Rito decide based on vibes? Let the community vote?

UCL also assigns country slots based on performances from the last 5 years, even if the teams rebuild completely. I feel like while it does suck, it's the best way to do it?