well tbf
in bangkok they lost to 3rd and 2nd place
in toronto they really only lost to 1st place (and made it CLOSE)
imo if DRX make it far in this tournament i think TL genuinely could have been one of the best teams this year but they always got unlucky

i dont think you have met chokerx

when i witnessed that flick i saw a flash of him lifting the champs trophy in 2023

The four teams in playoffs so far also made playoffs in EWC. The other four teams that made EWC playoffs aren't in contention anymore, but they have a pretty clear counterpart in champs
SEN -> MIBR, strong americas team that beat china #1 and lost to emea #3
KC and BBL -> TL and GX, all four emea teams make playoffs
GEN -> T1, Masters winning Korean team
So therefore, MIBR, TL, GX, and T1 WILL be winning and making playoffs

not a celebration but aspas saying "someones dying on a, i just dont know who yet" then getting an ace is the aura peak of champs

i made an accolade rating just for questions like this, and by that ethan would be top 6 at best if he wins

i really like hexagons, and i played on a minecraft server with custom swords and there was a sword called the dyrnwyn, which i thought was a cool name

wait this is looking just like ewc
sen gets upset by emea underdog then beats xlg
g2 gets grouped by chinese 2nd seed
pacific look extremely dominant
no chinese team makes playoffs

I'd say top 5 oat if they win champs, but it would also depend on if prx or fnc go on a deep run too, since those players would probably get bumped up aswell

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verno will igl on a team with aspas at champs

sato is probably second, verno is first

americas
it’s funny as hell
fnc v loud lock-in (would have been g2 v t1 if g2 won)
smoggy
in a big fan of rookies, and this one has had the coolest storyline so far

mcdonald’s is hella cheap and using the app is so worth it

yea, but unfortunately they won’t be able to use that data until playoffs

cant wait to see day 26 drop when 100t picks asuna back up

i feel like that says more about china t1 than china t2

ngl i wish g2 were at champs :(

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boostio
demon1
ethan
timotino

tragically, the sin prisa gaming logo is no longer with us...
but to answer your question yes

i remember riot saying that it would just be too much work to create a whole new variant or skin for the winner, and it would likely take months for it to be done. imo a really cool alternate idea would be to add a variant where the champion aura matches the winning teams theme (pink and blue for prx, orange for fnc, etc).

most trophy winners havent been able to keep their winning roster for more than a year
fnatic lost leo, eg lost everything, sen lost tenz and sacy, geng lost meteor and lakia, edg lost simon, t1 dropped sylvan
prx are the first trophy winners to look like they have a grasp on their entire roster since fnatic, so unless one of them retire or get some sort of health issues, they should be pretty dominant for the foreseeable future

not a huge fan of nrg, but i am the number 1 edg hatewatcher, and i can confirm this match was so peak
my heart was skipping beats at that ot dude it was exhilarating

can’t believe nrg won an attack round in the middle of a defense round

ur right, i would be scared if i were you

i found the strat to watching the vods afterward spoiler free
for me i have school, and the matches start right when i get to school and end right before school gets out, so i open the yt stream on my personal laptop at home right before i go to school and keep it paused and close the chat, and use this chrome extension which hides the video duration: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-video-duration-on-yo/jkgpcmmhejecphgdnihjfgmdpdkhgpke
the only annoying part is constant ads, but after the first series the ads pop up a lot less

if you want mindless banter - tarik
if you are trying to put your child to sleep - sliggy
if it’s a wolves game - tmv
if you wanna donate to the elderly home - fns

i didn’t know drx was japanese

it’s called riot games for a reason

so ig xlg ain’t winning then

the video literally had an intro with every player and coach's names except estrella so id say very likely

well yea ofc, i just thought it was weird that the top orgs are more similar to the top 2 years ago than the top last year

there are more teams at champs 2025 who were also at champs 23 than those who were also at champs 24

mibr, drx, xlg
these three teams barely qualified through points that they earned with different rosters/systems, and have fallen off since changing

eh the only thing i see is that theres a clear top 3 and a clear bottom 3, but really anything from 4-13 is anyones to play for and i could see some huge upsets happening. almost every team this year i either really want to win or really want to lose, the only teams i dont really care about are blg and rrq, last year i did not give a fuck for over half the teams at champs

i ain’t complaining

jawmo

it was a REALLY bad lineup

the deadlock on his team threw an abysmal lineup

sir this is a wendy’s

vookashu gets his visa right before the final, and demon1 is kicked out of drg
leaf gets health issues again and babybay got measles, so g2 sign demon1 to step in
they play five duelists and win champs

send it directly to demon1 this time

people who don’t use 24 hour time

the animation was gas dont get me wrong, but the past two champs "anthems" havent had the aura that the first three did

g2, nrg, mibr, drg, or edg, just so we can get the first two time champs winner

jt really isnt a bad song, i would probably listen to it pretty often
the main thing everyone dislikes about it is the fact that it doesn't give off that champs anthem aura and feeling, like how die for you and ticking away did

sato
verno
babybay

if we’re talking of all time then alfajer, jinggg, crashies, jawgemo, meteor, kk, nats, something, demon1

sen weren’t even playing bad the whole split, it was really just the first match and last two matches

stay strong goat