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furia SUCKS this season, also did last, but last season dgzin was the only half decent thing in that roster, why tf did he even get dropped? and why is he playing in t2 now?

I did, but that's their singular loss this split, obviously they've won against heavily underperforming brazilian sides, but still, I see them losing to 100t, but probably shredding eg.

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i mean nrg put demon1 on raze (why????) when he's proven in so many other roles. it's just the same issue nrg had last year with forcing roles. nrg is still 3-1, so they're not as shit as everyone's making it out to be

my take: sen should miss shanghai
arguably this seems weird since this is the team that just won the last masters, but this schedule is terribly cramped and shanghai will burn out the team, no doubt about it. I can't imagine being in their shoes coming back after a massive LAN using every single strategy available to not have your igl available until the day of the split's start to then fight teams with a massive target on you. sen will probably squeak through to playoffs and can win the entire thing but imo it's better of for them to simply take the time till split two and get everything straight

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sen should shred furia, and loud look very weak - the eg game was a weird low for sen i highly expect them to come in locked tf in and to beat loud

g2 and sen will probably compete for playoffs contention (if eg lose to nrg), which sen should win with good rd

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team a wins w a comeback: TEAM B SUCKSS!!! DISBAND!!! TRASH!!!
team a loses to a comeback: TEAM A SUCKSS!!! HORRIBLE! LLL

touch grass broskis

genuinely the most i've laughed at a twitch stream in such a long time LMAOOOO w watchparties

lol what

fellas is it corporate capitalist bad to make a living and just do something you enjoy

to all the people complaining abt getting forced to call clove 'they/them'

grow up? like if you feel that uncomfortable (ignorant) just SAY CLOVE!?!?! no one itw uses he/she for agents 90% of the time, just use the agent name

damage w raze lol

most swiss will just be 2-1 plays 2-0

if they keep doing well - no one.

i watched the defensive half for geng and it honestly was entertaining but this map is like horrible

this shit feels like two teams without a game plan playing ranked or smth,

dry peaks people running around no trading 1 for 1's i dont even blame the casters this shit is TERRRIBLE

like what the fuck is the yoru value?? no set plays at all?

it's hard to say, but I'd say like maybe 10 to ABSOLUTELY guarentee it, given you're given 3 for winning the splits/kickoff/master and 1 for every win during the split. if you get 10, you'd be going 10-0 across the split which would mean if you somehow bomb out at both playoffs you can still qual for champs

sen beating loud isn't as dramatic as tgrd beating optic back then. this is a very established core of players, regardless of last year, loud brought on a completely new duelist, and are still figuring out the entry ideas as it seems, optic back then played pitch perfect gameplay, tgrd winning was a MEGA fluke, sen winning here was a pretty even chance.

i think its 50/50, as much as the trio of nrg has done, I still see a struggle in gelling the team as much as sen has been gelled, just an idea

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25 incoming

yappin contest

tenz clears them all !!!!

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whyz is looking fucking MENTALLL HOLY SHITTT BRO

drx literally getting spray transferred aced dying to mollies like bro put foxy9 in atp need aim

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not at all? i just explained to you why kru was already good the score didn't show it, they didn't "rebuild" they just figured out what they needed for the 3 more rounds.

look at lev - mediocre regular season towards the end and lcq start was disastrous, pulled it back bc of their core. zeta - mid regular season, insane performance lcq (no roster change), TS - same story. it's not a 20% thing, it's the fact that most teams blow up without giving their teams time.

kru didn't go from 0-9 to winning in the way the score says it.
kru was an insane team regular season, the record didn't show it, insane amounts of close maps and all they needed was that little bit to push them over the edge. there was a world where they beat loud, eg, nrg, sen, c9 and furia during regular season if 3 or so rounds went another way. the score doesn't tell the full picture

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actually didn't realize i was on vlr sorry y'alls tiktok brains can't absorb more than 4 words

I hope people realize how important a long-standing core is after seeing LCQ in the Pacific and Americas.

Cores that have existed for multiple years such as Zeta, TS, Kru, and Leviathan (yeah adverso and Melser left, but the main three remained), have seen the most success in LCQ. EMEA is weird since everyone came in with a blown-up/new roster to the league. We can also see the seasoned cores who had immense success in the regular season from PRX, DRX, Loud, NRG, and Fnatic. It's so obvious the skill difference between them and the teams who created new systems, and cores, and tried to build anew this year. Time will tell, but I don't think many rosters can justify massive changes (dropping more than one player) other than massive underperformers like DFM and MIBR. Those who are yelling for teams like Sentinels, GE, and 100T to blow up their rosters don't make a bunch of sense. I agree, their performances were mediocre with simple ideas (Sentinels ran exclusively LOUD's mid-takes on Split, and 100T looked too nervy and way too separated for a professional team, GE was a sad result so close but so far, and Rossi failed to compete). But you have to understand, 2 months is time for sure, but for humans 2 months does nothing.

It takes years to build rosters that communicate properly and work together in a cohesive unit. It's pretty stupid to think what wasn't accomplished in a 2-month regular season, will be immediately changed in a 2-month off-season, even C9, a team we applaud for how they looked still is struggling in LCQ to a roster that has had more time than them, plain and simple.

This is just my opinion, but I think the time a core has together as people means more than just the off-season and practice they get in. Until a team VASTLY underperforms like DFM or MIBR, blowing up the roster simply isn't the play. it just jumbles the system and messes up rosters. but that's just me

i predicted china upsets :(

CNED B IS CRIMINAL fuck r u on

NOOOO!!! TENZ BEST NOW FOREVER AND ALWAYS!!
TENZ MY GOAT!!!!

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y'all ARE INSANE. d00mbros is one of the most talented coaches in this games history, you're a vlr user with a peabrain. trust me, they're good. fnatic makes the best teams look like they're in t2.

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i find marved and mako to be very difficult to compare players. they both are the people who set the standard for the controller role, the names you think of when you think about great moments. Mako on one hand is super disciplined and plays very safe and very smart, his aim and his talent is combined with his unflinching discipline wherever he is. Marved on the other hand is very aggressive, takes timings on his own, and creates his own plays. He doesn't play the hard anchor, he plays the aggressive. They're so different in playstyles and understandings of the game, respect and appreciate them both!

GE FIGHTING

Fut beating TH today imo was not a surprise at all. Watching heretics at every event they've been to is underwhelming, they're a pretty mediocre team at best. At LOCK//IN, we saw FUT take a map off 100T, and look pretty convincing, while TH did nothing against EG, and looked lackluster every round making super tiny mistakes everytime.

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I mean, so what? Like businesses aren't exactly charities, it's delusional to even consider them moral or ethical in the slightest. E-Sports gambling is huge, just like IRL sports (which are also largely watched by kids). It depends on how you consider businesses, as an entity, or as a person.

man has obviously not been on hltv

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tenz isn't no. 1 L list (based analysis here on vlr)