yea there are secondary callers in every team. Victor/crashies for fns, sacy for saadhak back then, zest and stax sharing igl duties, dapr for Shaz, mitch for vanity back then, ayrin for dephh back on xset,... its not like the igl is the only person calling for the team

you are right with that point. I only said raze can be a capable duelist on haven, i do think jett is a better choice now with the chamber nerf and kj's pickrate. one thing that i think is underrated about raze is that she has the best retake util for a duelist, while losing op power sucks, having better retake util goes a long way. also you dont necessary need the raze/fade combo if ur controller is astra since astra's gravity well can act as the fade's seize in that fade/raze combo. you can have comp as raze sova breach astra kj, losing some offensive power without omen's flash, but having astra on defense

brother im not disrespecting saadhak igling whatsoever. I'm not acting that sacy was the secondary caller. that fact was known to everyone in the scene. calling where enemies could be, guiding teammates to position, isn't that secondary calling?

can't blame you. before the Boston major and the intel grand slam, NA CS wasn't great

you are right, im not saying jett is bad on those maps, im just saying teams can play raze on those maps and i dont think we would have a problem with it apart from not having an op agent. while playing jett on maps that raze is great on may cause some problems

he's still young, that's his first time on a big LAN. it's normal to get nervous. also this team just got together 1 month ago, genuinely felt like it's a role issue with this team. sheydos shouldn't be on kj

i dont think his calling is bad, it's just the igl burden was shared between him and sacy. let's see if he can igl at a world class level without his right-hand man

i think we forgot about the intel grand slam. fastest team ever to win the $1 mil prize. because all we can think about TL cs is coldzera's jumping awp

i don't think it's one sided to jett at all, since raze is still really strong, and with the current map pool, fracture, split are played with raze (or neon) primarily; with haven, icebox and pearl as very capable map for raze, also with lotus with a main control battle which requires lots of util.

let's see it today then. i'm not disagreeing with it just yet. im expecting a clean win 2-0 vs fpx and a good game vs LOUD/GENG from them

they need a clean win vs fpx and potentially beat LOUD/GENG to make me believe this take

skip it best match of round 1 by far

lol iron still talking???? want me to shut ur ass down more?? stay quiet kid

they did though
still i wouldn't pick a team that only had a month to make strats and scrims

tbf they just got together a month ago. they made nrg sweat though

you seriously picked a team that got together a 1month ago??? over the optic core???

wtf was that jumpshot. man looked like Steph curry out there

i think it's the roles. i think put sheydos back on that flex role since he looks really good

lol hahahahaha im dead

see when FNS on a 1v3 position with no way to win, he backed off and saved?

see when NRG on a 3v5 with no way in, they backed off and saved?

try on unwinnable rounds iron???? open ur monitor, think, use ur brain. save lockdown for what? they just gonna back off and explore other option lol. literally unwinnable round and having iron in here complain about not trying

see when they tried a 3v5 retake and lost the round?

that was not a winnable round crashies has ult and time was ticking
and they have to clear all of site

and i assumed you have an american brain after you said Ronaldo doesn't show up in big occasion, like every game doesn't matter.
maybe you need more than 18 years to dissect what's right and wrong to say when talking about football.
truthfully, i ain't a ronaldo rider defending ronaldo, im actually a big Messi fan. Even I think Ronaldo showed up more in elimination games. how about this, if you are actually british like you said, then instead on basing everything on stats like you do in crickets or whatever, watch the game, the FULL game. dont go on youtube and watch highlights, don't go to your team's stadium and stay asleep for 2 hours eating hotdogs, instead watch the game and see how impactful your players are to the game

Also this is football not basketball or American football. This is American talking right here. You don’t watch enough football to understand the game, how it plays. Wtf do you mean about not doing it when it matters most? In football, every minutes matter. It’s not basketball where the first 2 quarters doesn’t matter. Football score doesn’t say 95-89. In football, every game matters, every goals matter, every yellow cards matter sometimes. It’s not NBA where you can rest your starting 5 for a couple of games for them to be ready for the playoffs, it’s not the NFL where you can get rest in game, come back in and play again. Pls for the love of god, watch the game, appreciate greatness, and not be a dumb American pls

jesus... honestly, they might do better against rrq

fabio grosso won the world cup... thomas muller won a world cup... di maria just won one... do that make them better than ronaldo? why does the world cup winner status mean so much to people?

and yet, he was the one who carried them to ucl finals. this isn't the nfl or the nba, every game in the knockout stage, the number of goals scored matters, everything matters. Real wouldn't have ucl if ronaldo didn't carry them to the finals. stop actually looking at stats and watch his journey to see how clutch he is

most clutch player in the history of football... i ain't a ronaldo hyperfan, but when it mattered, he didn't show up? get your fact checked first

i still dont understand why they benched Cancelo and brought off Ruben Neves. watching Bruno in that second half he just looked hopeless, he couldn't get stuff done because he had to do the dirty work without neves there helping him

orgless team... do your research better pal. Or watch cs before making any comments about it

im betting they are coming back for revenge. Unlike Sentinels, they grinded from being unknown to greatness. They gonna grind

It’s 1 game. You win some, you lose some

Cuz the winners have a match in 15 minutes

no it wasn't. boring and annoying af

oh you weren't here in the astra meta. good for you man. good for you

i thought the liquid roster is basically confirmed?

EMEA and NA still has so many good FA left on the market that EG, KOI and heretics shouldn't be considered "weak"

he's played astra before, and fns would be the one playing viper. i mean he used to main smokes before hazed came

so because of 2 insane maps from will, people thinks he's better than asuna now? like everything and anything asuna did before that disappeared? so dumb its annoying.

nah i think they already said that victor and crashies are a package deal

oy did i utter one word about him being bad? at least it takes a brain to read you know?

well...

love him but no he's not. it's still Asuna

that's a lock already

but i thought optic's haven wasn't their best map. it has always been Bind and Fracture as their best map. And with their pearl looks like the best itw

Optic: Their Breeze just got so much better out of nowhere, haven't seen their icebox in a while but their ascent, especially on attack, feels so disjointed; makes me feel like unless they have something on icebox, their ascent won't hold vs LOUD. Bind is still world-class for them. As for Haven, this map has slowly made its way to the top of optic's map pool. Also FNS's hater, shut the f up. Ridiculous calling on Haven and Breeze, great map on bind. yay is still yay, Victor turned up at the most crucial time, Marved showed his peaked form on Haven, showing why he was considered the best controller itw. crashies's impact on the first 2 maps was unbelievable.

DRX: great tournament from them, took a massive gamble and stuck with the same roster. Beating FPX convincingly and taking Optic to 5 maps are such great achievements from a roster we said were chokers. excited to see what's next for them next year. Mako was a demon, putting himself as one of the best, if not the best, controller itw. Great tournament from Zest, stax and Buzz. But the most surprising player from this team has to be Rb, especially on that last map.

with the buff to the flash, it's a lot harder to dodge it now

1. Berlin Gambit (prime nats and chronicle was sth else)
2. current Optic (yay is fucking demon)
3. current DRX (have always loved their ideas and execute)

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