Good shout

there never was a point of having an academy team at this stage tbh (from org perspective, obviously for players its nice to get paid and trained)

Chet mad in the reply

not franchising, partnerships

but GenG got a round further

Yea if those leagues have good competition, livestreams and money pools then orgs and players would still be interested to stay. Gives players a chance to get scouted

VRL has been good. But have you seen the groups for the winners, put the strongest leagues in 1 group…

BBG Update video Owner hints at Riot setting up a Domestic league, which could be good for the T2 scene everyone is unsure about

new map=worst map takes are so boring

Surprisingly diverse crowd

Ever since assmapudy took over they lost every match against a on paper similar level or better team

but it will not really, its like watching the NA/EMEA group stages before qualifying to a Masters. But without the endless qualifier rounds, that get no views. Plus we will see teams get the best players from orgs that won't make it, making their teams even better. So actually good players against good players.

The first year of "franchising"/partnerships will be the best. After that we will see if it has effect on T2 talent coming through

Thing is, how do you create regional leagues in the US? West vs East? CAN vs USA vs MEX? Most orgs are based in LA, Texas or NY I think

lmao

Deep shit? elaborate on that. CIS obviously got fucked, but that's not a blame to Riot or the competition.

You think they would've stayed if it was the same format as now for the next seasons? Feel like the current EMEA set up is best for keeping T2 orgs in the game. But even then there will be orgs dropping out anyway

Not just screaming, he is doing it while complaining

tell me how a wider reach of audience is terrible for sponsors

Mitch is just screaming

so shoot, switch gun, dash

When's the timeout coming??

It is kinda weird timing to say it's not possible anymore, probably don't want to have potential politic drama/stuff in the future. First players have a nation flag, then city flag, then other types of flags

but doesn't this also mean their prep isn't good?

owner ---- kicked ???

yea, but why not let the #1 play against each other for the qualified spot

its just weird that their spot is based on NIP performance

Top 3 in the first masters, then it went downhill quick. Especially with the new coach they have been ass. Gen G does have a decent performing GC team and did a GC tournament recently, so maybe that helps. I don't think Riot will look at how good a team is now, when partnerships are for a few years. And everything will change in the team with transfers when that new league comes, so they have a better chance of getting better players.

But there are like 5/6 teams that are basically lock in's for NA anyway (SEN, 100T, OpTic, C9, TSM), unlikely they will get in. They have to fight with NRG, XSET, FaZe, V1

rifle chamber underated

Best owner

source?

Because it just looks pretty seeded. Paper Rex (4) & Leviathan (3) are lowest placed seed play against winner out of groups, Fnatic & XSET are highest against second place, with Fnatic in top because 1st seed and XSET 2nd =bottom. Winner group A in top, winner group B in bottom. Second group B in top and second group A in bottom.

thought that happened based on last season, not just last tournament. Same way Riot decided the amount of teams each region could send, based on last season

Its already top 8, that's not early. It just feels that way because there are not that many teams. The simple swap trick would nullify all reason to have seeds, which brings a bigger issue with it because why would you even care in qualifiers then.

But also people are overreacting because OpTic isn't even guaranteed to win.

But the group with Optic is higher seeded then the other group. Why would XSET deserve it to play against the lower seeded team, when they are second seed behind Fnatic

Yea that's how it can work if the higher seeds don't win/lose their matches, it happens at a World Cup or CL.

just send 1 team of each region then, this is top 8. Top 8 of any sports tournament has same region matchups. Because those regions are often just better an go farther in tournaments, its about quality not cute nation differences

what was that

Why is everyone always so upset, do they not follow other sports in knockout tourneys? Do we want cute nation matchups or just the best against the best. If you don't want a NA vs NA top 8 matchup, then OpTic shouldn't have messed up their group stage and get first seed (if they even win against KRU)

they had like 1 day to prepare tbf after shao got approved

look at FT twitter at least once

Have you ever followed a sport?

3 time with 3 different teams, at least top 8 at a Masters tournament as an IGL. Definitely underrated

its a kanpeki-zellsis swap

He had the highest ACS on defense for icebox. Had the highest FK (7-0!!) and 100% KAST on defense. Which all seems to match with what we have seen in the game. You cant just blame the stats, you need to look better at the stats

Huge upgrade. And another good streamer. Double win

Other teams might as well book their flight home now

can we even call it a curse at this point, or just lack of knowledge

Damn didn't even name the match fixing allegations. Bad Marved hater

Vookashu does the same after he dies everytime, its nothing weird. Just mute volume

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I see your point kinda, but its still better then no co streams for growth of the game and viewership. And also official co-streams get paid by Riot i thought, so that kinda give another incentives to not skip it