I'm ngl watching them get humbled during peak tejo meta when they thought they had it all figured out was worth watching fraudtumn lift a trophy

I fw talon idk why they get so much hate

There needs to be separate lists for bandwagon teams and for trophyless teams

For example I don't think I've ever had a positive interaction with a VIT fan but there's just way fewer of them than s0n and prx baiters

This is the year of chokers finally getting a trophy so it'll be TH or KRÜ

Just make a top 10 tf is this

she's one of the "expensive" agents (others being breach, kay/o, tejo, gekko, phoenix, iso, sage, chamber, viper, and harbor)

that is, she doesn't fill one of the core roles, and so teams have to build their comps around her instead of most/all the other possible flex options.

she's probably the best of them, but many teams will prefer others for their own playstyles and levels of prep

no guided missile no win huh

they've been letting audiences down since only mid 2024, and there's teams that have been doing it since 2021

aspas 2nd masters curse that's it

the original fluking chokers going on a run:

KRÜÜÜ VISAAAA

your team let L2 and chihuahuas into the top 4

Melser and keznit will lift a trophy this year.

You misspelled "KRÜ"

Pretty much. At internationals there's 6 upper bracket wins to 5 lower bracket wins

The problem is that there's no format to account for a fraudulent team that beats the 1st and 2nd placers just to shit themselves against the 3rd and 4th.

It's not any more fair for there to be no advantage to going undefeated in playoffs. We may as well consider playoffs to be a clean slate anyway since there's more prep time than in groups matchups.

Would PRX have beaten GEN in the upper bracket? Maybe. But we know for sure that FNC couldn't, so they lose their map veto regardless of who they end up facing in GF.

how dare I like a team that sucks ass, it really takes away from my point doesn't it

ppl have been complaining that it's useless and there's no advantage for upper bracket runs right until fnc get exposed for being 2 map merchants

I think keznit confirmed somewhere he's going smokes

or
initiator (fade/sova) - shyy
sentinel - melser
flex - mazino

Considering the IGL shortage, melser will do fine

KRÜ's real problem is that they've never had a good perma initiator player to round out their core

we just watched EDG and GEN both fall off after dropping their "weak link" support so idk man...

hold up if we get melser to senti igl and shyy to ini they win it all

which might suggest krü finally go on a run and win champs, and I'm not sure I'm ready to live in that timeline

allat just for mickey merchants nrg to win

Maybe he just struggles to stay focused

I haven't listened to them so I couldn't tell you

maybe Cranberries esque, if they were from the Midwest and not Ireland

The comp is not bad.

Circular reasoning

I'm talking about the NV comp

The Yoru + Sova combo fills in fine for pre-nerf Skye, and there's plenty new plays that open up with Clove instead of Viper

It's pointless to compare them 1:1 like this when so many other things have changed, including the default comp to begin with

Not enough of a sample size to say that

more on the folky side but both main vocalists of The Crane Wives are women

So we're just gonna forget when 2023 LOUD was the most dominant team on Haven using a Harbor comp

He works well on this map, it's just that most teams (understandably) don't want to learn all the weird shit he can do when Yoru/Iso is far simpler

you know how hard it is as a loud flair to admit this group is free as shit

Winning this means literally nothing but it's nice to see that they don't have stupid role issues anymore

Also why tf are they listed as argentine now

They got the easier group tf you mean

shyy to sova/fade

br0ach and Lay/off are not worth playing

Tacolilla

Brazil KRÜ

just realizing emea lost all three GF appearances while apac won all three lmfao

what I'm hearing is they threepeat champs paris and masters santiago before getting 4th at masters glasgow and grouped at champs chengdu by EXL, the winners of the event

Fire emblem and blasphemous are my favorites

The new season of the finals has some bangers too

and people say melser is the problem

Only like half of these apply

But yes this is exactly what will happen with zellsis and melser and there's nothing we can do to stop it

nah again I'm talking about #10 acting like the region doesn't have a future because it's not "producing talent" when we got lukxo, sato, dantedeus, neon, virtyy, and all of EXL

that's literally two full teams worth of very promising players, just from latam/br, who will be new to tier 1

lack of talent is not americas' problem

I was talking about the "producing talent" part obviously the tier 1 teams rn are ass

It's more like a sinking ship than a bandwagon

You did NOT pick a good alternative 😭

What the fuck do I have to do with this