I mean you just need to make peace with the fact that your team will usually just lose xD

I honestly unironically think skrossi would have been the best player on this roster lmfaoooo (maybe not as good as russ or LF)

Now, asking for 5 indians on a roster and wanting them to be better than DFM right away is just not right. If you support a full indian roster you've gotta understand that it will be dogshit in the short term and the long term is always uncertain.

Honestly, imo the problem lied more with the strats. On lotus attack they didn't fight for a ruble even once if i'm not wrong. That's gotta be trolling, right? Also they need to play around the attacking OP better, LF going in without any info to break the turret because polvi had an outlaw on the buy round after losing the 2nd pistol was mega trolling.

On ascent against during the first half, it was looking like GE could win the map assuming they did okay on defence. That day I thought maybe they fumbled the defence under pressure but their defence is just not that good on ascent. Initially they had the reads on DRX, however once DRX adapted their attack GE couldn't do much.

Their OP thing on attack works for now because people get caught off guard, that advantage won't be there from the next match probably.

The problem seems more than just "bad players". If they have the strats down even this roster can be like mid in pacific. I think they still lack strategically for now.

It's looking likely that this will happen. Especially if TS lose to zeta.

Not sure about tln being better but these teams don't look that good. Had higher expectations from RRQ.

nah it won't happen unless DRX pull out a comp that GE can't figure out. But it should be ez 2 maps for DRX.

xD it's more funny to just call them trash

Agreed, I would divide the teams like this PRX GEN T1 DRX (good) RRQ TS Zeta TLN (mid) GE BLD DFM (trash)

Gotta believe

I mean, from just looking at the comp it seems like they were always gonna lose. No viper on Icebox is trolling, right?

ngl this is too good

See, skrossi is not that good on initiatiors. This is his first (or second after briefly at GE) playing support. None of the guys you mentioned shoot back like him. This is why i think RIGHT NOW he's the best Indian player in the league (which is also supported by stats). Over time though, the younger players should improve and rossi probably has reached his peak/will reach his peak soon and start to fall off. I just think at this moment he's better than the other players.

as much as i want to believe this, the stats don't show that they are better than rossi currently. Maybe with some good coaching over time they can be, which is why they would be a good pickup for GE.

And how are they wasting a slot exactly?

I think on sunset, they were running their old idea of 1-4 default with the raze lurking which did not go well at the start because of the chamber. After that, they were too focused on the chamber and let others make plays. I think that map they were just lost because the comp caught them off guard.

On Icebox the map understanding was there I think and Zeta did not have any idea how to play that map. The bad thing is that even with a lot better ideas they just about managed to close that one out.

Ascent is harder to pin point but I feel like once Laz was on GE were just mentally cooked. Not too confident about this take though, since they have shown they can deal well with the mental when they did that 1-8 comeback against Furia.

From the knowledge I currently have I don't think I can pinpoint the reason for the loss. It also didn't seem like they just couldn't shoot back.

you mean skrossi? lmfao

I think even though this version is bad, this seems to be a step in the right direction. They are trying to create a more funky prx like jersey i like that i do think eventually they can stumble upon a version that is really good.

I don't think the reasoning is invalid necessarily, it basically comes down to what you think of the individuals. I can see meiy drag dfm over the line against a team like GE or bleed.

As a GE supporter, I have to believe. But that makes me think what exactly do I expect from this roster? What does believing really mean? Do i believe this team will become the best in the world someday? hell nah. I believe they can be middle of the pack in pacific

I believe

I can see how he can be annoying but I enjoy his videos and streams a lot lmao

I guess by performance he means match results

just stay quiet and let south asians run your country bro

Well that is certainly news to me. I think the logical conclusion i can derive from this is that rossi's support must have looked really bad in scrims cause texture was looking good on duelist at lock in. I can see a universe where they get more time to practice and win more matches in the first 3 weeks and then rossi just has to sit out after coming back

So unless you have some insider information that is wrong, at lock in t3xture was the duelist and rossi was on initiator/sentinel i think. Also at the time there were clips etc that i vaguely remember that said rossi was changing roles from duelist to playing more support.

Now why I blame the comms is because during multiple games there were instances of miscoordination, t3xture peeking with the op but no one breaking the turret for him (likely couldn't communicate it properly)

this is factually correct, t3xture had a rating of less than 1 as a duelist in the first few weeks and rossi was the 2nd highest rated player in the league after his first 3 weeks. I think the problem for t3xture on GE were english comms, the korean comms have allowed him to evolve into his final form - S3XTURE

yeah they were and good on them for that but does that mean rossi deserves unnecessary hate for having 1 bad game? Didn't he just yesterday destroy a team on chamber? How am i driding for stating mere facts? lmfao

he's the highest rated indian player and the highest rated player on his team lmfao

I mean in the first few games of the regular season t3xture's duelist hadn't looked good and rossi started well with good performances against prx and talon and then smoked geng. At that time t3xture's kj was looking pretty good too. You can blame the coaches and ppl for not seeing t3xture's potential tho

Well one of them was a showmatch so shouldn't rlly be counted, even if u do he didn't bottom frag so that's just factually incorrect. In 2 other games LEV just stomped and he didn't play bad. The other 3 games were indeed bad even when he was on raze. Personally i'd say he just needs time.

-polvi +skrossi

Because they lost, sp0n but if they had won sp69n

Have to agree, rossi was the reason they lost to TS and RRQ but he was the reason they beat GenG and had decent performances against PRX, Talon and DFM. From what we've seen so far, I do think Rossi was better than polvi.

Benkai: Fine
LightningFast: Good util on viper, omen needs more work. At times when he's pressured it looks like he panics and just does anything, seems like something that will improve with more experience and (better?) coaching.
Blazeking: Without him fragging they cannot win
Russ: Calls have looked mid, the blame probably goes to both russ and the coaching staff. Aim has been okayish.
Polvi: Only thing he has over rossi is that he can play raze as well.

Overall: At some moments they just cant seem to get kills, the firepower issue looks very real. Can't say the team is hopeless but it does seem to have a lower ceiling than GE'23 or even other teams like Bleed and Talon.

No hate and only support to the players, hope they bounce back stronger <3

The thing is it's his job to keep faith and keep hyping up the team for the fans, he can't just go like "this team is dogshit we're not winning anything"

I think GE will need great individual performances as well to win this one. But as a fan, my job is to believe #GEFIGHTING

let's not get carried away, so far it seems GE cannot win without blazeking going crazy

I think with GE there was also a comm issue because he had to speak in english, there were times where it looked like he couldn't ask for support properly. With korean comms though, this man looks like a fucking beast.

I mean he's not wrong, apart from the RRQ and TS games his performances weren't bad.

could be ready for tier1, he's way too op for SA

Why are you so upset about all the trash talk? Personally I enjoy when people talk trash, it makes things more entertaining. They have even backed up all their talk so far lmao. I also like how he doesn't trash talk just for the sake of it and only says what he really believes. They probably will beat DRX but that match will be a spectacle.

And not just that he just seems to make a lot of mistakes, missing shots, running ahead of the team, missing smokes. Pros make mistakes sometimes and it's okay but at the same time you also face the consequences and rossi seems to make a lot of mistakes.

Respectfully, i think this should be it for skrossi in t1. Bad aim is a different thing but he just seems so disconnected from the team, surely they had enough time to fix this? I think it's time for lightningfast or someone else to replace him.

you'll need to find a new purpose in life now ):

RRQ is expected to win this event

Commend fell off when he started making unnecessarily long videos

really? don't u think hating someone for what they did 2 years ago is more salty? lol

I guess that's a valid reason to hate him /s

This is true