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| Registered: | January 15, 2021 |
| Last post: | September 13, 2023 at 2:36 PM |
| Posts: | 307 |
I’m hopeful for nrg, I believe in GenG, and think that FaZe and Sen both make it.
For T1, the only question I have for skill is dazed. The team is hampered by their roles. Ska was a top 10 Jett na when he was on it, idk why they ever took him off it. Ska on Jett, and the team goes back to being contenders, whoever is against the ska Jett on the team needs to be cut.
Almost certainly 100T vs NV but I could see IMT upsetting either of those teams and making it to the finals.
He changed it up recently in VCT Stage 2 so I'm hopeful for the future.
As a 100T fan who likes seeing good plays it hurts me to see people throw rounds and get rolled by an insane clutch through bad peeks.
I missed IMT TSM so I'm going to watch that vod, then FaZe V1 and then 100T ex-Dig
It's not a particularly big problem when they have two top 5 players in the region so I doubt they will, they probably should find some new supports but I don't watch enough to know who should be dropped and who should be added.
BcJ is a great player and rarely mentioned in terms of top players because he is just the best player on a roster that doesn't get noticed much. They are still considered a Tier 2 team despite proving themselves better than former Tier 1 teams.
G2 have the best player (or if not the best a top 3 player) in EU, a fine Jett Op, a great controller, a good second duelist and flex player, and a top 5 sentinel in EU. G2 have a disaster of a calling structure, and no coach. They have fallen off because they don't have a real structure behind them. If they get a coach and develop a IGL they can go back to being a great top team, but they cannot seem to do it.
Good player, deserves more recognition. BBG has always been close to the top of tier 2 and now they get a chance to prove themselves against T1 teams.
TenZ's loan ends the day before the finals of this qualifier and its expensive as fuck to get another loan of him.
Getting a real long term 5th is the smart decision + they proved the point that Soniqs isn't a team that should be making it far in the tourney.
They can't afford TenZ and even if they could he's not worth the amount that it would take to buy him out anyways. $1,000,000+ for a buyout + his salary is not affordable.
SEN sandbagged in order to play with their new 5th, which is a smart move. It is however why I dislike SEN as a team
SEN throwing to practice with their new 5th since paying for TenZ isn't realistic.
Smart move but SEN throwing all the time is bad for the scene and why I don't like them as a team.
hekzy is also an idiot a lot of the time but doesnt deserve to get shipped off with the rest of them
thats when they had android who was the biggest carry in NA after TenZ stopped playing on C9B
Acount123 at least has some meme value but the all the rest can go
ANDBOX KEKW
def worse than xset and NRG though currently but ANDBOX?
NGL we might have just found more people who would get banned
You're just a sad person, I hope you get help
why are you such a piece of shit to fat people? this guy has achieved more than you ever will
frankly, wtf is going on in this match?
Tex could take the spot as NRG's best player, but NRG also has s0m who has looked excellent on omen and at times like the best player on the roster, eeiu is also on NRG and is a freak on Sova, and well daps has been way better recently. NRG such a stacked roster its absurd.
You're talking mixwell best player on G2 when ardiis is still on the roster, wtf are you on?
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Can I have some of whatever you are on it sounds really good.
psalm is good but the signings of ryann and rara didn't really make sense and fucked with the roles a bit
obv a shitpost and ironic considering you think sova is garbage
Zombs is a great site anchor, and the best supportive Omen in NA. He isn't a play maker because that isn't his role. He also was responsible for building the team so I doubt he will be dropped and he shouldn't be.
Breach is almost always necessary (or at the very least a huge improvement) in single duelist compositions over Sage. You have to play Omen and Sage much more aggressively than 100T wants to so I think that they could make the Single duelist comps work, and I hope they do, but I doubt that they will.
SEN is not the most talented roster in the game, but they are certainly in the conversation for NA, top 3 at the lowest for individual skill. Brazil and Europe have super teams with incredible skill that matches or exceeds the peak of SEN at every role. Hopefully TenZ can become a permanent part of SEN but it might take a while for that to happen.
Hiko does bait but that is clearly the style the team thinks he will get the most value on, and it makes sense. He is a great clutch player and he is playing Sova. To maximize Sova's value living for the arrow to come back is huge. He can and should play closer to the team and attempt to trade more often though.
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Omen 1 trick lol
Ethan said that he won't be on Smokes for long, I think that they are mostly just trying this while Ethan learns the game. I think that breach is broken and that he should be played, but I don't know if they will continue to play it.
Steel should move to Cypher full time since he likes to lurk and that lets his util get value.
Dazed's aim isn't ass and he is the IGL, Ska is notoriously quiet so he can't igl, and it makes no sense to move him to a role like breach that requires him to call. I think ANS becomes jett, Spyder becomes second duelist or smokes, and autimatic gets cut.
Given that SEN are shitting on everyone including FaZe I think that they are better, but top 2 isn't a huge overstatement, although I'd put FaZe below NV still unless they go further later in the tourney.
Funnily enough Zombs was a OW pro at one point, almost made it into OWL multiple times (but they still are mostly CS).
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I went off VLR and I guess I read it wrong, also this team is for LatAm because I'm sure that you could easily do this given its still 3/5ths Brazilians.
I feel as though NRG is underrated by most teams since they didn't make Masters, but they also have an absurd amount of firepower from eeiu, ANDROID, and s0m. Their IGL daps looks greatly improved mechanically recently, and shanks is both talented and playing reasonably smartly now. Perhaps they could get a better Jett but that's about the only change you could sell me on. Am I just missing praise for NRG or do people think they are not good?
Unrelated but I played against a Taco in ranked who just rolled my team and I.
I have not watched a whole lot of LatAm/BR recently but this is the team I'd make, mostly based off stats and what I remember. Xand has played smokes before and I think that Jonn or mwzera are the better Jetts so I just want the maximum firepower on the roster.
LatAm:
FURI Nozwerr (sova/flex)
GL Jonn (entry duelist)
FURI xand (smokes)
LZK Maka (sentinel)
GL mwzera (second duelist)
Yeah 100T giving up mid on ascent is such a throw, especially when they are inconsistent at best when taking extremity control. It is frankly atrocious how they play the map.
The rifling skill is much lower on average in NA than EU or BR and KR is lower than NA. NA also doesn't bother with excellent utility play when compared to EU so right now NA is much lower than EU on average, but perhaps the top 3-4 NA teams can hang with some EU teams.
They just need time to work out the stylistic and strategic changes that are required by the addition of Ethan (which will 100% be worth it in the long run) and the change in the composition towards a more utility style.
They just need time for Steel to yell at Hiko during Vod reviews until he plays closer to the team and trades. He was doing better on Icebox for trading and playing closer, but they kinda just threw Ascent. It was a complete outplaying there and then Koosta just stopped the flank pushes incredibly well.
This is definitely a huge problem but it is fixable. 100T has a bunch of great/world class players, they just have stylistic and strategic problems right now that are exacerbated by the comp change and the addition of a new player.
They no longer have a Korean team, Riot made everyone drop their non-female secondary rosters.
G2 Ardiis (sova/flex)
GenG Shawn (sova/breach)
I dislike the inclusion of NiP and Liquid over a guarantee of a top CIS team or more Turkish teams. Heretics must have declined the invitation for them to not be included and I wish we could see more of them before the VCT starts.
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