He has no work or way to bait now that NRG are good.

I mean GenG went from a masters winner to bombing out in groups last year so I think T1 will keep most of the roster. Just hope that they don't develop an enjoyment of choking games.

raafa

Pati is like the EMEA Zellsis, he's good against teams worse than TL but as soon as he reaches an international event and has to face an actually good team he goes negative, he shoots like shit, and his util isn't any better than the other support players who get a similar amount of assists while also actually shooting.

Schizo ass post

In my experience breach is almost unusable on the map apart from his ult and aftershock

I mean they still beat FNC, GX, and BBL so they had to at least be decent

Zekken
Kyu
Satellite
gmd
Reduxx/Seven

Sen- I mean everyone was expecting Sen to at least not go very far this champs with how their form was coming into it. Also they were just a good team all year not a great one, no one actually thought they would win an international this year after bangkok.
EDG- No one was actually expecting anything of this team after bangkok, in fact its a shock that they even made it to champs in the first place with how poorly they were playing
TL- As the first Seed and looking like the best EMEA team most people thought that they were going to own their group and easily make it through. And even despite the narrative that they always get grouped, a lot of people still had them as one of the favorites for this tournament.

I think TL was the biggest upset just because of how much people were expecting of them.

TL got unlucky getting between DRX's run to 5th-6th place.

I mean anti-eco's are a huge problem in all of China and have been for as long as I can remember

I mean vo0kashu doesn't know much Chinse still, you can see it when they show DRG comms on China broadcast he doesn't speak much other than little things which is a crazy position to be in as a normal player so it must have been pretty rough on demon1 and he did really well to still contribute and not be a total liability like the XLG sub at Toronto was.

Kgad is definitely better than kingbob in every way possible

No usually sports/esports players get P-1a visa's

I think the only other 2 teams that could be threating are CCG or the team with s1mon but I don't think any of the teams will really give DRG a challenge currently

Furia might build a mostly NA roster according to rumors

Only rare atom is really a threat and they tend to throw ascension grand finals like m80

No alym or glyph?

Hey I'm trying to spread a narrative here, you can't provide receipts like this it ruins what I'm trying to do

He still has the South Korean flag on VLR even after moving to tier 1 which means he's an import by technicality

Kess counts as an import also so was ec1s.

Bro give up on Cryo, he's not the answer for Sen. He would turn Zekken into Asuna to accommodate his shit agent pool.

100T is unsavable. They are the only org that could be given every possible benefit + any roster they want without import limitations, and still find a way to be mid and lose to Sen.

It sucks that DRG had made at least one international every year they've been in VCT and yet orgs like Nova or Tec who have done nothing are partnered. I hope the Koi treatment happens to TEC or NOVA.

It wasn't a 1v1, it was a 2v2 then whoever Jonah's teammate alive was(I don't remember) dies and the its 2v1 and drg still have a player alive on the right and while demon1 is tree then jonah kills the player on the right and then its a 1v1. If demon1 peaks while his teammates getting shot then Jonah dies, if demon1 waits after he flashed for jonah to tap the bomb he most likely wins. If jonah doesn't get both of the kills then G2 lose that pistol.

BLG- They looked like they were really unprepared and didn't know what was going on. Also they are China merchants and always do poorly in international play apart from beating NRG twice.

DRG- They had a sub so we don't know what they would really look like if they had their full roster, and they got put into easily the hardest group of the tournament and DRG since after stage 1 have seemed to have trouble closing maps out.

EDG-They are in a transitional phase where they need to make a change but they can't find the change they need to make and keep trying new changes that don't work. They performed better than most people would think given the form they had coming into Champs.

XLG- They are a good team and could go on a run. It was a bit unfortunate for them to get PRX first but they actually didn't do that bad against them and they even beat the Chinese farmers. I think for a 4th seed they've done enough to prove themselves.

The Jonah pistol clutch on lotus when demon1 had a flash and just didn't have to peak but still peaked anyways even though Jonah didn't tap the spike yet.

Said sub cannot speak any chinese and DRG hardly speaks any english, they had hardly any time to play with said sub, they got put in the hardest group and almost beat T1 and everyone expected them to go out first in this group anyways.

They performed better than almost any other team in their situation would have.

I mean they are just playing the game, you can't complain about that.

But I am worried about how many hero plays G2 needed on both maps to win, like if they didn't get those plays this game might have been a lot closer than it was.

Lock in because no bo1 and it had every team participating

I swear every thread I've seen about Sen roster moves propose Sen picking up either washed players like c0m who would bring nothing to the team over a some of the tier 2 talent or picking up a player like cryo who takes a lot of investment that might not even pay off if he can't learn Senti or a new role.

This is the biggest problem in Americas right now, teams keep recycling the same tier 1 talent over and over and they almost never play any better than they did when they were released from their old team. Teams should instead be taking chances on tier 2 talent like almost every other region has, and even LEV and NRG did and look way better than before when they picked up recycled players.

And Seven. Its crazy they fumbled all this talent and yet kept Asuna for 5 years.

I mean they kind of fumbled with Stellar too

I'm sorry but the people who keep putting Cryo on the team don't know what they are talking about. The only Senti's he can play are Sage and Chamber which are the two worst and least impactful Senti's currently. Also why would n4rrate not just play double duelist, he can play more duelist agents than Cryo can.

There is no reason to try and force Cryo to fit into the roster when there are dozens of tier 2 talent that would not only fit better but also be given a chance.

I mean if they just prepared for XLG's attack side more then they probably would have won because XLG's comp is terrible on defense and Sen almost came back when XLG was on defense. But Sen looked like they didn't prepare much because they have a history of being good at lotus.

The best thing would be DRG and XLG meeting in the Grand Finals in order to decide who goes back to ascension and who stays in tier 1

Ah yes because this EDG is the same one that was at bangkok and they are playing the same exact meta. Also BLG arguably has a more experienced roster than EDG does and if the calling was better then they wouldn't have gotten out called by BLG or DRG in China playoffs.

If you think that EDG is the best Chinese team then you are stuck in 2024, EDG have a terrible read on the meta, KangKang can't play yoru, Jieni looks lost, the calling is mediocre. Ceiling does not mean a team is good or else a team like Vitality would be at champs.

If they were the best Chinese team then they would have made Toronto and would have been first seed.

Your acting like we didn't see TL who won all of EMEA almost lose to EDG a team that everyone knows hasn't been great any time recently. So lets not pretend like China and Americas are the only regions with bad teams.

n4rrate is so much better than cryo in a team building stand point, he can actually play agents other than Jett and Chamber. Its bang who has constantly disappointed and looked clueless in important moments. So they should drop both Zellsis and Bang and get tier 2 talent.

You haven't seen this comp on defense which is somehow worse than it is on attack

At some point it stops being luck and becomes skill

Cry harder

Well yes but OP said "EDG’s coach saw Kangkang frying on Neon and was like yeah lets put him on Yoru duty" which is saying they should just put him on perma neon which obviously wasn't an option.

Yeah because you can play Neon on Bind and Abyss.

DRG are beating G2 and T1 and going on a run

They should get an upgrade to patitek the EMEA Zellsis first

Depends, but I like sideshow because he has good reactions but if he's casting then I like to watch FNS or Sliggy

I don't think he's that bad at it anymore, he needs to improve his flashes but he's still much better at it than aspas and some others

Demon1 will play in champs