mans just talking out of his ass

Is SMB just abusing their high ping or do they just have that much of a gap in aim between them and gambit?
It does to me atleast that they are just wide swinging whether of op or rifle and out dueling these gambit players

yeah nats truly is just different,
i remember dapr saying he stole some cypher and viper tech from him during the scrims they played in iceland

nice bait 0/8

It is really hard to make the argument that he is not the best player in the world.
He continues to perform excellently in all his games and during pressure too.
People had doubts if he would perform well on LAN and he completely proved them wrong. He might've even had the best performance of his career and that too it was on LAN.
So as of right now, with the data we have to us, he is definitely the best player we know of, or the best duelist player if you want to categorize it.

FaZe Corey is hot af no kizzy

Group 1: NA1 , SEA 1 , EU 4, LATAM
Group 2: EU 1, JP 2, KR 2, BR 2
Group 3: KR 1, NA 3, EU 2, BR 1
Group 4: JP 1, NA 2, EU 3, SEA 2

These are my predictions of how the groups are going to be.
Thoughts?

doesnt SMB have more fans?
their turkish fanbase is absolutely insane

Its not to do with the high population,
In india, people look down upon these kind of occupations. Being an esports pro is not respected in the normal traditional indian household.
Unless indians mature in these senses, india has a very very long way to go until it is a major esport hub

The problem is the fact that middle east servers are in EU region.
If middle east server was in Asia, then the teams would get more of a free choice in which server they wanted to play.

Anyone know why T1 does not attend any of these tier 2 tier 3 tournies like NSG and such? They need so much official match prac, it is so evident from their matches that they lack this regardless of the massive amount of experience they have.
Pretty sure they aren't restricted by riot either for placing too high, so why?

2-1 for Acend
I think SMB will win map 1 and then get reverse swept

lowel sage is pretty meh rn
Turko sage is best in EU at the moment imo
the other 2 i agree

Man fPX fucked my preds so hard, :(

I would love to say that but after their match agasint SMB, i would like to not be as confident..
My perspective got a lil foggy after getting ass whooped by SMB ngl

its just fun to watch SMB in all honesty and i kinda want turkey to do well in internatinal stage :)

imma be sad if both gambit and g2 lose today and my whole pred is fked..

1. Sen
2. SMB
3. Acend
4. 100T
5. VS
6. Envy
7. Gambit
8. G2

Yeah but that is part of their game plan.
If you think that is an issue then it all leads to the coach right? Cuz the coach and igl must be coming up with a game plan and their main plan is , is to laways get wardell on the awp by round 3 and try n get a pick.

Hard to tell without actually being part of the teams and listening into their comms and shit.
However, from an outside perspective, it does seem like they have a weak IGL. I'm not aying hazed is a bad player but his IGL skills arent tier 1 level yet. They rely too much on individual brilliance imo.

cool

they don't have patiphan for berlin tho right?

It's shaky aim cuz their sens is so damn high. Thats all it is.

true,
mans gonna get 10x more accidentals so a nervous asuna is a good asuna for 100t :)

factuals

im sure the expereince factor doesn't come in nervousness. Every pro feels a lil nervous in every LAN when you get to see your opponent right accross your table. It's more like in the clutches and important round decisions where the experience to think under that pressure comes to play and i think 100T is just better than envy in those situations.
Although, if envy go in with a fearless mindset that yay and food is just gonna crazy and win them every duel, then all that experience isnt gonna do shit. SO for envy is more up in the air btu 100t, im confident they can make a top 4 finish.

Cned is better but not by a lot. Wardell is up there pretty sure.

https://www.hltv.org/events/5469/iem-cologne-2021
something like that,
groups into single elim :)

100T is probably getting a top 4 finish in Berlin imo
Envy is up in the air, they might just win the entire thing or bomb out in the 6-8th position.

I'd like a group format into a SINGLE elim bracket.

Delusional.

Im sure if its groups, then first seed NA and first seed EMEA will not play any EU or NA teams. Their groups will be filled by lower seeds of SEA, Kr, BR and LATAM

bru you just a hater if you think zombs isnt the best astra in NA..no shot vanity is better than him.
The nitro thing can be arguable but vanity? hell no

I only think it is going to be Gambit if they qualify for Berlin.
I feel like they have a good stylistic match up agasint sentinels.

your life must actually be sad

It's 2021, everything is offensive, cant even joke around anymore sadge

Navi is a new roster and they are doing well..
A change is very uncalled for

I'm sure riot has a way to deal with those stuff.
It'll probably be only 6 pcs in the room where the 6th one is for the coach and the other players will just rotate among them.
Don't think they need to clean the pcs everytime if they in the team since they all will be vaxed and pcr tested negative

They are allowed 8 players iirc
5 main roster and 3 subs

agree. Nuturn just had an off day.
If it was double elim, VS and NU would have 100% made it to berlin.

don't they have only 2 players from cis?

They probably did but i do feel like a roster change is inevitable if they don't make lcq

He definitely is
It's kinda sad how riot thinks these are the most important matches so they get their best casters for these and not the games that actually qualifies teams for berlin.
I would love sgares and ddk to cast the Envy vs sentinels game in the upper bracket that decided the berlin qualification

The problem with seeding games is that some teams just can't get into the game. They will be trying to win but they are are unable to focus on it. If they lose a round its like whatever go next type shit. - Dapr (idk exact quote but this is what he meant), he also said that sinatraa and him were unable to get into seeding games at first too but the more they played, they just got used to it.)

thats the worst comback or whatever the fk i've ever read in my entire life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0JgNnqhzI&t=24s
this the one that shaz talks about steel..so yeah, the entrie sentinels team other than sick and tenz dislike steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLgQK9Lwmc

Also Steel was trash taklkign sentinels when they beat them in first strike while knowing the situation about Shahzam and that he couldnt prac for liek 2 weeks or something and then sinatraa was lashing out at steel for saying crap.

Sinatraa and steel have beef. Both of them won't be in a team together 100%

He was average raze? Are you delusional or what..
mans had an ACS of 270+ in over 90 maps...
And the impact he would have in those games are insane

He was average raze? Are you delusional or what..
mans had an ACS of 270+ in over 90 maps...
And the impact he would have in those games are insane