Its so horrible actually in league a game which is way less ping-reliant there was a massive controversy about teams playing on a standardized 30 ping at msi that even faker complained about and yet in a match to qualify for champions this shit happens, like its just inexcusable.

civilized response

they also had to play with a 40 ping difference

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

wtf how is this remotely fair

riot was probably afraid by how dominant emea was at champions

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

Emea is an massive region that covers the entirety of 2 continents and 1 sub continent. The area is larger, playerbase is larger, the viewership is larger. Emea has staunchly outperformed sa in every event bar m1 where the best emea team (that won the next event when they could attend) was unable to go due to a war. The only justification is the meaningless boundaries that riot drew. They could've easily split eu and cis and then I guess they now deserve more slots because they are 'two separate regions'. By your logic you could group everywhere outside of sa as the rest of the world region and I guess sa deserves more slots despite level of play because they encompass two regions

m3c is just a lan team imo and I think they look less dominant than other teams that make deep runs in lcq because they are playing vs better competition

I WANT YOU IN MY ROOM

nah worst case is best case, best case is worst case

1. FPX
2. PRX
3. EMEA LCQ
4. OPTC
5. FNC
6. DRX
7. LLL
8. EDG
9. LEV
10. NA LCQ
11. ZETA
12. XSET
13. KRU
14. XIA
15. BME
16. SA LCQ

optic is a bit high, they looked pretty bad in copenhagen and got bailed out by a pretty easy bracket

As ea lcq is over I will retire my edg flair and go back to being a delusional fpx flair. Good luck at champs.

honestly not too far from the truth

A draw I simulated with a random number generator
A: PRX, DRX, ZETA,100T
B: OPTC, FNC, XIA,FUR
C: FPX, XSET, KRU,BME
D: LEV, LLL, M3C,EDG

as is tradition

definitely imo

I dont know when the draw will be

Usually placing of latam1 and br1 is based of who wins lcq, in this case lcq 1st seed was kru so lev will probably get the nod for pot 1. As for xset and zeta the second seed from na has historically almost always outperformed the first seed from japan.

2 teams from the same region cant be drawn in the same group

usually only one team per region can end up in a group- the only exception was berlin but that has since been changed

dream draw for drx

by nature of pots each team in pot 1 is strong yes

nah m3c

Here are the pots for champions groups, 1 team from each pot will drawn into a group, creating 4 groups of four.
Pot 1
Fpx, Optic, Paper Rex, Levitan
Pot 2
Fnatic, Xset, Drx, Loud
Pot 3
Zeta, Xerxia, Kru, M3C/TL
Pot 4
EDG, Boom, 100T/TGRD,FUR/TBK
What do you think of the pots and what would be the hardest possible group and easiest possible group in your opinion? For me hardest = PRX,LLL,M3C,100T and easiest = LEV,XSET,XIA,TBK

nah this one was higher level

They will probably be an expansion team

they just lost on edg's worst map by far

very high

ons beat them lol

likely

tbk 3-1 fur just more ice

no-one will miss you

you are good but zmjjkk clears
STATS

ZmjjKK https://www.vlr.gg/player/3520/zmjjkk
Derke https://www.vlr.gg/player/5022/derke
f0rsakeN https://www.vlr.gg/player/9801/f0rsaken

ACS STATS (CHAMBER)
ZmjjKK - 300 ACS (thats the most craziet insaniest thing ive seen ever)
Derke - 259 ACS
f0rsakeN - 263 ACS

VCT STATS (90d)
ZmjjKK -100% winrate (MVP of 95% of the matches)
Derke - 80% winrate (MVP of 70% of the matches)
f0rsakeN -90% winrate (MVP of 93% of the matches)

can you take your time to appreciate how insane ZmjjKK is? without a doubt the most talented player to ever touch the game, ever

I'll try to explain briefly why I think he is the best player in the world
Despite his insane aim and movement
The best way to know if a player is a good sentinel is CHAMBER. There is a BIG difference between a good sentinel and a cypher abuser
If he is a good sentinel, he needs to be good with chamber.

derke? not good with chamber
tenz? not good with chamber
f0rsaken? not good with chamber
cned? not good with chamber
meteor? not good with chamber
ardiis? not good with chamber
jamppi? not good with chamber

Thats why I think he is undoubtely the best player in the world. If RIOT by any means decides to nerf chamber and shift the meta we prolly not gonna even hear names like f0rsaken and tenz again :>
He is not killing 40+ per map because when he joined EDG he was forced to play a different role because heat is already a main jett... and lets be honest, every single sentinel nowadays gets 20+ kills per map because team and setups are basically built around you (even mid skrossi managed to get +23 kills with it https://www.vlr.gg/105267/enigma-gaming-vs-global-esports-skyesports-champions-series-gf)

edg clears

vk picked up mw when glb lost lcq- maybe drx can do the same

fpx? m3c? full fnc?

clicks on post
sees shownu
ignores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTNl1Wi3-8

due to the fact franchise has no entry fee, there will likely be alot of expansions as the scene grows

there probably will be

tl could also- but I don't have much faith in g2 and oglu is too new

I can't, considering na teams outside of optic's performance this year see any na team not named optic take the title

sus

honestly wouldn't be that bad

I do think kone underperformed in the first game vs nth, so its possible

usually they based it off who wins lcq

group of death: OPTIC DRX M3C EDG
group of life: LEV DRX XIA TBK

the pots are based on regions and not teams, historically na 2nd seed has done better than jp 1st