most of the money is in the advertising and social media campaigns, rather than the prize pool.

The point of it at the end of the day after all isn't actually a prestigious high-end tournament. It's just sportswashing.

People forget that means a shite tournament with no passion too, and not just political upset.

Crazy the amount of mouthbreathers ive had insisting the orgs are going to take the event seriously and it magically not be a mickey because of the prize pool

only for this to be how it goes

id be laughing if it weren't so ridiculous

what the fuck are these results then little bro

MISINFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

money does not make an event not a mickey

holy NS sneak

so blatant I don't even think it's called a sneak anymore

ITS ONLINE TOO HOLY SHIT LMAO JUST WHEN YOU THINK SURELY IT CAN'T BE MORE MICKEY

Best player is heavily debatable but yes, losing Leaf is impactful.

KC just ate G2 alive...

so TH getting cut in franchising changes, cool

It's a mickey but a mickey doesn't magically make the Stage 1 Amer 2nd seed lose to EMEA 4th, Amer is just a shite 1 team region that could only farm CN, and they'll bomb champs now they cant do that either.

no just JohnQT and Kaplan

Probably but we're still a weaker region overall

Flash initiator pretty weak right now but that means you put your flash init player on Vyse double senti stuff not solo sentinel lol

lol

sorry forgot seeding is technically different for mickey EWC

also not even true KC is in lol

1 team region and fluke China farming Toronto run allegations not beaten AT ALL 😭

S0ntluls is back gentlemen

looking at the stat page munching food going i told you so as usual

So we're pretending the bracket isn't known about in hindsight again, awesome.

arguably KC too

bro thinks BLG is good

typical NRG cope i suppose

it's icebox... omen is more likely to be alone doing a mid split than KJ...

LMAO S0N WHAT ARE YOU DOING

THERE IS 0 EVIDENCE A SENTINEL IGL CAN'T WIN.

MOST RECENT NA WINS WERE SENTINEL IGL, EVEN. IN FACT, YOU WERE LITERALLY ONE OF THEM.

what are they doing bro

Rating of their bait post (bad)

why tf would you want to shoot viewership in the foot for this

I mean people were calling EMEA stage 1 a mickey understandably for all the tech issues, so yes, absolutely?

it didn't effect the end result so it's probably fine in the overall, but SEN not getting grouped and winning anything in playoffs at the dogshit level they were playing was ultra mickey fluke and you know it. Two teams that should've beaten them screwed over by subs.

its more mickey than l0ck/in bro not even a masters

you replied too late for them to have done so without it telling us.

can't spell so you resort to microaggressions seems reasonable

Autumn (the player not the fraud coach ofc)

yeah its diabolical ngl sack him so DRX can get their year+ of dominance as deserved

preferably wait for TL to win champs first but like

FNC sacked their shit coach and suddenly they're second at a masters again so

never happening, orgs are allergic to building superteams with IGLs

what like our favorites or someone else's and you'll name a person for it

if it's the latter, Apeks.

objective: bait

yeah why do you think they made him IGL lil bro, cuz he was already doing a lot of it

you provided fuckin stats. please look at his util usage, gameplans and timings and come back and tell me he isn't above like 90% of full time smokers in T1.

demon1 also ate shit constantly the rest of the time, F0rsaken's gameplay is consistently good outside of his damn VLR rating because VLR rating is not a real gauge of how good a player is. You want a stat that tells the whole story at least go find the rounds above replacement values.

k but this is unironically not true

That's great if you pretend we don't know what teams they match up against in groups. If BLG lose to TL because they have nAts, SEN loses to TL and is then grouped by PRX because they can't rematch WOL.

It's plenty possible (and has happened before, even to prior SEN) for one of the "four best teams in swiss" to get grouped because of matchups even if you think they're in that category (debatable, TH, MIBR and BLG being jokes doesn't guarantee anything, cuz this TH is absolutely not the one that was at regionals)

brother do you know what impact is

also, dude is doing this stuff while basically being (and now officially being) his team's IGL.

he is playing Omen better than SIGNED SMOKES PLAYERS. Ones AT THIS EVENT, even.

assuming the bracket is exactly as it would've been and the same picks are made (which tbf is not realistic, XLG is not picking TL like they did SEN), they at least make it as deep as SEN (cuz that far is free) and their PRX matchup likely gets them deeper.

The TL line is isn't even really about TL, it's about dunking on delusional SEN fans who think SEN not getting grouped is anything but a fluke. They didn't cook comps and are still trolling JohnQT on initiator, but "performed" because TWO TEAMS HAD TO FIELD SUBS, one team losing their star player and IGL and the other having to play with a guy who literally CAN'T SPEAK TO HIS DUELIST.

SURELY KC man cmon

so true bro a loss to the winner of the entire fucking tournament

how the fuck are you trying to spin that

so true bro nAts' personal performance was the issue in the game that mattered (the one he literally didnt get to play)

0 kills in the series clearly washed

remind me what his teams have won without his impact again

holy SEN sneak

bro did not select an agent and still got in DM what

sideshow has made multiple videos about why not, yes

community list is hype biased instead of properly performance based and the talent list is a miniscule sample size

yeah ofc it's gonna be dogshit

they said this? must've been such a shit take it didn't imprint on my brain cuz damn I do not remember this