Pansy and Bren probably

Y'all do have that one guy tbf

We had PRX baiters, then GenG baiters and now T1 baiters
The disease continues to spread 💔

Well exceptions aren't the norm
You know people who have turned down life changing salaries but your average person if given the chance to pick a job like that, they will probably pick the offer up.
Money is money and as an organisation, as a business, your biggest moral is that you gotta make money. Many of these orgs have never seen green in their whole existence. Imagine the chance to pump in 50k for just showing up at the tournament.

I honestly have started to respect him a bit ngl
He has grown on me in the past year

gamergirl trying not to hate on Zellsis challenge : impossible
Respect the dedication tho

Kai or FengF I suppose
But tbf, there are a lot of great players and teams this tournament

CAUGHT

I kind of like her work with Mini in EMEA
Mini still has a bit of a way to go in his casting but I like watching the game from his perspective, it's kind of refreshing

I wonder if they were really that good or we just thought they were good because of relative comparison with other teams. Like what happens if we bring EDG 2024 vs PRX 2023
The whole point of PRX 23 was gun down, out aim
What happens when the opponents are exactly as good at those things as them but have strats and mentality
What happens then
Guess we will never know

If you think EDG is great, like top 3 great, you have no reason to believe TE isn't
T1 the only reason I don't believe in them, despite of me supporting them btw, is because I don't trust Autumn

Apparantly Sen was about to make a tournament of they didn't make Bangkok for all the teams who didn't make it so W Sen
But other orgs gotta step it up man

I think they genuinely should form a partnership with some of the big TOs and add more games in the calendar
No one needs a week rest to play fucking Valorant bro
Everyone talks about this load management and shit and I understand it but the conversation that Riot doesn't make full round robin because of load management pisses me the fuck off
MF YOU ARE PLAYING VALORANT
LeBron James can play 4 games of basketball in a week at 40 years old and you can't play 2 games of Valorant?

I won't go into the whole moral, ethics and political part of the tournament and its host. We have heard it before like a thousand times. I am just trying to understand the org's perspective. This is my opinion or what I think is the reason they are joining, so bare with me and correct me if I am wrong.

While it is good to say all the good stuff about morals and ethics, at the end of the day, money matters. Specially in eSports where most orgs are bleeding money each and every year. We can put our high hats on and talk about how they have enough money from partnership, but at the end of the day, it's a business and most businesses I know would never reject money, specially the kind of money EWC offers. So why seperate eSports orgs from that.

For instance, they invested a million on the League of Legends tournament last year. That's 8 teams btw. You get 50k just for showing up and if you win, you get 400k. It is an insane amount of money.

It's not always black and white, good and bad. A huge part of this is very ambiguous. It's easy to say "Saudi bad, org no support, booooo" and it's okay if you believe that. It's your values, no one will say anything to you for not supporting this tournament. But you also have to understand why the orgs are taking part in it. In an ideal world, organizations wouldn’t have to make this choice, but in the harsh reality of eSports economics, morality often takes a backseat to survival, to money. You gotta make money back somehow after all.

TLDR for the ones with the attention span of a gooner : woooo EWC kachang kachang money. Org see money org go awooga 🤑

Jawgy Mawgy is good but he ain't that high
Where is Trent, Keiko
Autumn has no idea how to use Meteor
Put Free1ng instead

You do you since it's your list, but definately lots to debate

T1 Gukesh when 🗣️🔥

Man Dota pays so much it's crazy

Pretty sure he means prize money

I heard he is making an A24 movie
WE GOT FRANK OCEAN DIRECTED MOVIE BEFORE A FUCKING ALBUM I CAN'T WITH THIS MAN

This is the equivalent of naming your album, "songs to goon to"
Like damn, you have a whole ass creative team, use a better name
This sounds like a Spotify playlist lmao

I mean I doubt he will sign and obligatory thing
He is notorious for being against obligations lmao

Pull up 😈😈😈

I mean probably for EWC and brand expansion
Lots of chess players getting signed
Arjun Erigaisi signed for Gen.G (this btw, they gave him a shitty AI song and video. What's up with Korean orgs and ai lmao 😭)
Hikaru was with TSM, now Misfits
Looks like Chess is finally getting monetised by big orgs

KY$

That's not nice :(

This doesn't make any sense. No way they are changing their igl just a few days before Bangkok. I saw the news and I legit thought it was a bait but then I saw the official announcement. Good luck to Nats. Go to a better team and shit on liquid like Sayf. Liquid doesn't deserve you guys :(

So are you saying goodbye or are you asking me to come back?
Pick one man what is this

EDG 2 - 0 TL
DRX 2 - 1 SEN
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VIT 2 - 0 T1
G2 2 - 0 TE

I mean that is how the format works tbf
It's the Ascensions Pacific format
Way better than whatever they did last year for sure

Come on man

I didn't hear a lot of people complaining about this year's kick off???
Don't think they will change this either
Look at Liquid
Made it all the way from Lower Bracket

Leaf
Trent
Hyunmin
Sayf
Less

JohnQT
Mako
Kamyk

Negetive aura album name ngl

They kind of are
If Winthrop wins this game against SRB, SRB will be in danger since bottom 3 eliminate and there are like 8 teams tied with a 1-2 record who can end in bottom 3

However if they do win, that puts Winthrop confirmed bottom 3 and that can save SRG since all they would have to do is beat Hakimori and if they can't beat a 0-6 team, they aren't ready yet

I wonder what is happening with their rosters
Neither of their teams doing good

I don't think it's a bad thing. It just means the game is evolving to a point where random ranked kids can shove bamboo up the asses of proven pro players. And it is about damn time. Too many recycled players in tier 1 and 2. The change needs to come.

Did you know, mada spelled backwards is adam 🤯

They are a good team. Why would losing to a premier team be a bad thing? Nongshim (previously Sin Prisa) was a Premier team too.

Yesterday I think?

I am excited for them
Would be interesting to see how they look at the end season when push comes to shove
For instance, MxS was winning everything until the last week of Challengers NA when they got raw dogged by TSM and M80
Would be interesting to see another Premier team in tier 1 like Nongshim (SPG)
However, one advantage to Rankers is that, the experienced cores are all gone. It's kind of not as strong as it was last year. Still won't be easy but they can definately make it.

I get that it's NRG, cursed org or whatever but I got a feeling that this is another one of the overblown VCT fake rumours. Getting cut 1 month in the season is just so absurd to me, even for NRG. S0m was also joking about it on Tarik's chat (that's what the clip guy clipped). I don't think if it was real, he would actually joke about it and probably try to avoid talking about it at all. I dunno, just having a hard time believing the legitimacy of this news.

Nah
Abdul would never
This is some phony fraud

He is. He works for Dexerto and is one of the most reliable sources of esprots news nowadays.

No way this is true right???

But NRG only pays in chicken nuggets tho

It was very scrappy man
The entire Pearl I was losing my hair from how many times Loud could just end it

😔⛵☝️

Almost forgot

DRX vs T1
GenG vs T1
DFM vs PRX 😂😂
100T vs Sen
Vitality vs Liquid
EDG vs Trace (final)
100T vs NRG (?)
RRQ vs Nongshim
BOOM vs Nongshim
Boom vs T1
Xi Lai vs BLG
Vitality vs KC

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