The United Kingdom 💪🏻💪🏻

See #12

Why are you still watching?

You're totally fine, I just added on to the context

He says neighbourhood. He swallows the last syllable a little, but once you know what he said, you can hear it relatively clearly.

There's no stats for maps 2 and 3 though, or am I tripping? Something's clearly still fishy

Bro is just discovering the fact that teams can sometimes win several rounds in a row

:(

They probably just don't have the map pool tbh. That does mean that there might be some hope for split 2 though.

It'll depend on the coaching staff, but if they can clean up their other maps and get some consistency, they might be able to do some damage. Playoffs at least might be doable to avoid getting auto-relegated.

For this split, it's pretty much joever; I don't see them beating FNC or Vitality. But I see some positives here that justify having a bit of hope for them to at least make it to Ascension, if the org doesn't press the panic button and keeps the roster and coaching staff the same for stage 2.

The most soft thing you can do is let people walk all over you and say "thank you daddy" when they call you a little bitch to your face

The four classes are also made up categories that don't help teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zyin47_Rgk

Players are naturalised into the region (i.e. count as residents) after playing there for a year

Didn't know BBL has the German government in their pocket like that and just decided to not give him a visa.

They were literally 3rd in kickoff lmao.

They're definitely not the third best team in Americas, but you could put Aspas on a team with 4 Shanks clones and they would still get some wins. The rest of the team isn't world class, but they're all solid, they won't miss playoffs.

Edit: Think I was wrong, oopsie

GC players are exempt from the import rule. Flor doesn't count as an import.

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Makes sense you don't know him. Why would you watch Masters Bangkok as an NRG fan?

Very unlucky for Erik.

Bringing in a performance coach might be a good move though.

Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a Cove. A Harbor Cove. A Harbor Cove with a shorty! And shorties make me crazy.

The official broadcast will continue to refer to them as Rankers until this tournament is over. They signed up as Rankers, so that's what they are. They'll be Envy for the next split.

Happy for Rossy, he for sure deserves to be in tier 1, but I don't like this move at all. Natank was not the problem and this will not fix their issues.

GDP per capita should rise slightly

Blue for the feeling after they bottled yet another tournament.

Red for all the blood shed on the way.

White for [REDACTED]

Man seeing Stax and Buzz after that intense final and after all they've been through with DRX actually made me cry even though I wasn't that invested in T1 initially. Really reminds me of Boaster after the LOCK//IN win. Both insane 5 map finals with OT on the last map too.

4/10 bait

Flair

You meant assists right? W prediction

Upset is a bit much. Even if you favour EDG, it couldn't possibly have been more than a 60-40 in anyone's mind.

Should change your username to CoughingBaby I guess, unlucky

Vit Derke has a lot more freedom than FNC Derke and it shows. He's always been insanely good but it almost feels like he's reached a whole new level this year.

What reason have NAVI given us to believe they are A tier?

Yeah man I remember when Derke choked the two international grand finals he was in. Or when Sayf choked the two domestic finals he was in. Good times

Forgot crashies exists. Jeez, that's insane. Literally half of all international tournaments

Fin fact: With Chronicle (Masters Berlin), Milan (Champions 2021), Erik (Masters Copenhagen), Boaster and Alfajer (LOCK//IN and Masters Tokyo) and Crashies (Reykjavík 2), they now have six different international titles between them (out of twelve).

What's even crazier is at the end of the year it'll still be six!!!

EDIT: added crashies

The average vlr chatter's brain can't conceive that teams might sometimes play better or worse than other times. It's because they always go 2-19 in ranked,

Not as much as you

When marketing features players by brand value instead of video game skill 🤯

"all time" but let's conveniently ignore 2022 and also 2025

Sen is not beating DRX

Sick lineup. On paper, G2 Vit and EDG should be heavily favoured, but in such a small tournament with only 4 teams in the playoffs, feels like every team could go on a run and take it.

Feels like every region is sending much stronger contenders than in Madrid last year.

I'm not sure he'd be into it when the alternative is making content and potentially doing broadcast work. I do think he could be a great coach though.

Awesome analysis, badger252!

Hiro singlehandedly won them Fracture.

Really happy for kaajak, he's been getting a lot of shit. Hope this gives him some confidence and he can keep this up!

Jesus Christ

Nobody above silver takes headshot percentage (especially in a single map lmao) as a valuable metric to assess someone's skill.

My consistent goat

Getting worked up over a casual off season pug with not even established teams, but mixed rosters who probably never practiced together is crazy ngl.

Bro's gonna die of a heart attack before he's 30