What did he accomplish on MIBR? Being the only franchise team to not even win a map at the first split? What a downgrade, from a world champion, to zero map team. W move from MIBR, though this alone won't be enough.

All of the Brazilian broadcast had bet that no NA team would've made Shanghai, and now this happened. I am laughing.

How many times will Fnatic make this bizarre comebacks?

He has been a huge source of conflicts on LOUD. For instance, there is a "documentary" made by LOUD itself which he had claimed that there was a former LOUD player (probably Sacy) that was toxic and abusive. In addition, in an interview to the brazilian broadcast, he blamed the Coach and his assistent (Fr0d and stk) for the loses in Masters Tokyo. He had a terrible relationship with Aspas, the coaches in general, obviously he had a beef with Sacy. And to finish, he is not in his prime anymore. Has he played greatly outside of the match against G2? No. I trully believe LOUD have very little to lose by benching him (or even kicking him out) than keeping him on the roster.

O Sad já falou algumas vezes que quem tá callando é o Cauanzin. Imagino que isso explique algumas decisões de comer smoke no seco, quebrar regiões de mapa sem usar recurso, deixar o qck plantado em uma região de mapa sendo que ele é o entry... Sobre o Less, indícios de que ele é fonte de conflitos não faltam. Sacy já foi vítima de uma mentira (corroborada pela própria LOUD, friso) de que ele era tóxico e abusivo no time. Depois tiveram os rumores de brigas do Less com Aspas (que nunca confirmou nem desmentiu) e com o Frod (esse confirmou), além de ter fritado publicamente a comissão técnica no Masters de Tóquio em entrevista. Eu sinceramente acho que o time tem mais a ganhar do que perder com ele saindo. Mas o pessoal prefere olhar pra 2022, pro Prime Less que deitava 30 a cada mapa.

É uma combinação de problemas desse time:

1) Comps completamente off-meta. Abrem mão de Sentinela em mapas que é CRUCIAL a informação de uma Killjoy ou Cypher. Você pode jogar off-meta? Pode, a Paper Rex faz isso e tá na constância deles de sempre pegar top 3, top 2 de campeonato. Mas assim, a Paper Rex é um outlier beeem extremo do competitivo, os caras de lá não são normais. Mapas que o Gekko tá broken sem usar o agente, aí usam Harbor e Viper e não trazem um agente de flash... É óbvio que isso iria acontecer. Ah, não acho que o Phoenix tenha sido um problema, aliás, dentro de todas as maluquices que eles trouxeram, essa foi provavelmente uma das poucas que prestaram.

2) Onde está a staff desse time? Se vocês repararem os pauses táticos, é muito raro eu ver o STK falar algo. Olhem os pauses da Kru, da EG, da Paper Rex, ou de qualquer time, em momento algum eu vejo o Atom, a Potter, o Alecks, ou seja lá quem for quietos. Se o Sadhaak não confia no trabalho do Coach que está vendo a comunicação do time, então para que ter comissão técnica? Coloca todos na rua então.

3) Duelista diff, tá faltando muito. O qck não tá com mental para assumir a responsabilidade de ser um entry nesse time. A série de ontem foi pavorosa, ele é uma Raze que no ataque passava o round plantado no hooka ou no banheiro. Na Icebox ele tava fazendo lurker de Jett e não ganhava um espaço, e quando ele tentava abrir bomb, morria de cara, e muitas vezes sem trade. Algum outro jogador tem que puxar essa responsabilidade, mas sendo bem sincero, eu acho que a batata do qck já assou demais nesse time. Aí quando ganhou da Sentinels quis farpar os que criticam ele kkkkk.

4) Mid round péssimo, e aparentemente quem tá fazendo isso é o Cauanzin, com o Sadhaak fazendo menos o papel de IGL. Bem, os resultados estão aí, nem preciso me alongar muito nisso.

5) Less com impacto medíocre (com exceção da série contra a G2) em todos os mapas. Não sei de onde tiraram que se o Less sair, esse time acaba. Ele tá fazendo o papel que o Kinggg fazia ano passado naquela Leviatan que tinha o Tacollila pipoqueiro? Os padrões dele já estão muito óbvios, e ele está cada dia menos ofensivo. E com os nerfs da Viper, provavelmente isso afete ainda a performance dele. Nem vou entrar no mérito de ele ser uma fonte constante de conflitos nesse time, rs.

Enfim, esse time tem que mudar várias coisas para sonhar em ir pro Champions esse ano.

They just can't win a full buy. They won 3 pistols, 3 anti ecos, 1 bonus and only 3 full buys? This team lacks a lot of things.

They go by Choke 9.

Lurking Jett.

Sempre esperei por esse momento.

Na Bind ele só sabia ficar plantado naquele hooka. Na Icebox só jogava de lurker. Duelista mega passivo, zero skill, eu no lugar dele começaria a mandar currículo.

THIS IS WHY C9 GO BY CHOKE 9!!!

The Winner of this match, gets the third slot for Shanghai.

NRG clearly lack an IGL and a better Coach. Sentinels doomed themselves by choking against EG.

I hope neither Kru nor Leviatan drop the ball. It would be underwhelming not seeing them at Shanghai. And It would be fun to see more of El Clasico down the road.

I don't mind.

That's the problem of having a such of a mediocre team in G2. They are not good enough to eliminate LOUD and EG make into the playoffs, but they are not terrible to make Sentinels qualify to playoffs.

Choke 9 will lose their first map because that's the thing they always do. So congrats MIBR for winning your first map in this phase.

Aspas plays Poker.

They are better than all brazilian teams and also NRG. But I think they would choke against the rest of the field.

I thought too...

Just a mediocre Team. They only beat teams with very little or no prep time at all, or actually bad teams like MIBR and Furia.

Just stop comparing Aspas with ANY duelista. Just compare Keznit, Semen1, Oxy, Asuna, memezera among themselves. Aspas is just in another level. Also, what a great game from Mazino, I think people are overlooking him.

Semen1 and Ethan cannot do anything without Potter.

I think clove runs greatly on Icebox. She can easily fill the duelist spot since this is a map that CAN be played without a duelist.

It's bizarre to think that BBL can qualify as the top seed or not even make the playoffs. That's Crazy.

Zeta and NRG. It's just frustrating to watch their matches.

They only play "greatly" in one half of each map, and even then, they have been stomped in one of the two maps they've played in the last few matches. There is a serious argument of them being worse than Furia because Furia at least won two maps against Kru and Choke 9, but again... It's Kru in their first match with Heat and Klaus being the IGL (and It was a close game, 13-11), and a stomp against Choke 9 who cannot win their first map in a series.

Furia and MIBR (in addition, Brazil needs to lose at least one slot).
KOI and... Maybe Giants, Gentle Mates? The second one is a tossup between a couple of teams.
DFM and Bleed.

There was a point were brazilian broadcast didn't even bother metioning his name. They called him by the agent he was playing (I believe that happened in Masters Copenhagen).

The Sky is blue.

LEV 2-1, Aspas drops 95.

É a disputa de quem erra mais. Isso explica o baixíssimo nível dos times brasileiros nas franquias.

He better starts playing Reyna Because he already told that Riot can't Nerf his aim. Well, just play Reyna, then (Or Clove).

NRG has the worst attacking side I've ever seen. They are too passive on the attacking side, and there is a world where 100T wins against them.

They have great trade setups and Klaus midround calls are mostly great. He might be the best IGL in VCT Americas.

I don't think this Viper nerf will take her off from Breeze, Icebox, Bind and even Lotus (but It will require some adjustments) . I think this nerf will change the Viper default on Split 100% and possibly Haven. This is 100% a response to those teams who think that Viper replaces Killjoy (Hello, Loud).

Oxy is a solid top 3 in Americas. Zekken and Jawgemo have been too inconsistent to me. Why is Cryo not the duelist from 100Throws? He single handed carried his team to win Breeze against Kru.

Just play with another agent, bro.

LEV is not going to drop a single map because Kru already have the seed #1 from their group. They might play just basic default setups or like crazy comps such as SMG GC had done with the 4 duelists + Cypher.

THE 0-9 TEAM GO ON A RUN!?!??!??

Congratulations 100throws

Memea didn't even make into playoffs in Masters Madrid.

NRG Just lacks a strong macro strat, in addition, Ethan's midround calls are just terrible.

Potter is the real goat.

CHOKE 9 is finished.

Are they gonna be 13-0'd?

This is why C9 go by CHOKE 9

Classic Choke 9.

This will be an interesting match. Both teams are cooking so well. It's a tossup, honestly.