You can't tell me this wouldn't be a banger af match to open the first Masters with.

After winning Champions in 2024, in Champions 25 & 26 they played their opening game against the eventual winners... Why must we suffer.

Probably no s1mon if AQUA is still the XLG manager

drop stew & autumn get s1mon & muggle

Alright it's been Jieni7 on and off twice, zjc, CB, and Stew all once... Can we just go back to s1mon already, get haodong back as moral support in the coaching booth and resign muggle as HC. It would be hard to have a worse performance than what's already happened, I know London was top 3 but let's be real that was insanely fraudulent.

KC winning

Thoughts?

So far they have the most rounds out of any CN team, you just gotta believe!

Bro looking like Harry Potter with that picture icl...

champs 2025

Idk about that one, GE and Platoon looking insane so I think they're easily topping 2-0 2-0. I'd say the second spot is either EDG or Loud, and with how Loud did EDG last time I have the confidence that they're not losing a rematch.

Group A: 100T 1st, JDG/FUT 2nd, T1 4th
Group B: GE/EDG 1st, Loud 3rd, ViT 4th
Group C: TYL 1st, PRX/TL 2nd, G2 4th
Group D: NS/KC 1st, NRG 3rd, XLG 4th

IK it's a joke butt, this might be legit...

We're really running babybay solo duelist neon, over having Jawg on duelist...

I mean, it's not like he was particularly bad last year (outside of the game to qual to London) he was decent for most of it. But I feel like when they switched him to duelist in stage 2 + Champs it was just kinda setting him up for a under performance since they already had KK who can play any duel except Yoru.

First time in a domestic grand final, in the post s1mon era this might be the start of something!

Will they go 3-2 or 0-5?

I wouldn't say wrong, but some people think game=match like myself and they just use map instead. So it can be confusing sometimes.

Maps?

EDG 2-0 DRG moving up to 4-0 in groups.

It definitely wasn't just S1Mon that caused their success in Champs 2024, everything was going well for them outside of ecos. I want them to get back to success, I just don't see any path forward with how the team is currently being run. Like the most of the comps have been a struggle, the way they're playing in general has been a bit lacking. I just hope that whoever is in charge over there, can do something so that they can make London and have some success there.

The thing is, back when they had S1Mon in Bangkok sure KK's Yoru isn't great but it looked much better there than at it did at Champs. They also tried waylay 1 time back in the loss to NOVA, like KK can play it.

IIRC, the manager at the time they had the internal conflicts has already been replaced. I think this would probably be the best option right now tbh, like S1Mon made this team look the best they ever did.

So let's be real, this team has looked pretty bad since they the played upper final at Bangkok. Ignoring everything that went wrong there, genuinely what are they supposed to do? They've tried double duelist (stage 1, 2, and Champs in 2025), it didn't go well. Sure they lost a close game against the eventual Champions in NRG, but then they kinda shit the bed against liquid. In 2026, they've been doing double duelist, and then CB entry + KK chamber. Sometimes it looks alright, but most of the time it doesn't. While I don't really know Esports too well, isn't EDG supposed to be a premier org in CN? Shouldn't they be able to sign any player they want? Like the whole org and everything they've done since benching S1Mon after the NOVA loss, just makes them look lost. I've been rooting for this team since I started watching VCT back at masters Tokyo back in 2023, and I get that you can't always be international contenders every tournament. But like they shouldn't be struggling this much, at this point they would look better if Haodong was the 5th.

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