Was trying to think of some split comps and thought of this.

Yoru
Neon
Viper
Fade
Cypher/Vyse (Depends on if you want flashes, or more "smokes". I prefer Cypher)

I think with this meta you need a senti on split, and most maps tbh. I reckon with cypher you wouldn't need the 2nd controller. Because you have cypher cages, neon wall and viper wall.

On defence it'd not really be that bad either. Viper orb mid, maybe paired with a cypher trip so viper could leave if they wanted to. Cypher can anchor any site solo, viper being mid for fast rotates to either site, neon & yoru can basically rotate from either site instantly. So, you could stack 1 site with fade, neon and yoru which could easily handle a site hit.

On attack having 2 lurking agents could make it obvious for lurks making teams on defence more hesitant to rotate. Yoru, Fade & Cypher should have enough recon util (prowler, fade eye, cypher cam/ult, yoru clone/ult) Neon, Yoru, Fade should be able to take any main without any problem. Cypher cam on spike if its smoked. You can switch between cypher cages and viper wall on A site for lurks. So, you can place your viper wall on B and use cypher cages to try and lurk up on A.

They'll genuinely have a chance at winning the whole event.

i think they have a chance, but first seed curse is too strong. i have them winning from a lower bracket run though.

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Idk how vct teams will work cause partnership changing/"ending" after this season, but I'd hope its similar to 2023 where everyone's basically free agent.

If it is like 2023 then:

Boaster (depends on if he retires tbh), Milan - Coaches

Kaajak
Alfa
Leo (I'm coping cause boaster said he's able to watch and play now without feeling like shit, hopefully well enough for 2027)
Hiro (was on fnc before)
Boaster or valyn (cause fnc look like the only org in Emea with big enough pull to get valyn, if g2 get cooked this year he's 100% not staying)

This ain't my actual guess probably would be more realistic.

Suygetsu makes more sense to me. Looks like he doesn't want to stay at kc

if it becomes like what happened in 2023 where basically every player is a f/a then ill take that again lol

itll be hard for G2 to keep those players (if they dont win something, even then its not guaranteed they would stay. e.g. pancada, sacy to sen after winning champs) so many orgs will come for those guys.

All G2 players contracts end this year. I personally dont think valyn & trent have any reason to stay on G2 unless they win something this year. that "comradery" from the guard has basically gone. most likely if G2 dont win something this year valyn will be the most sought after player in americas and trent/leaf/dawgemo will be similar. if im right who goes where?

theres so many replies that no one will notice i like team liquid

current meta favours prx more, but g2 do look better atm. sad its not later in the tournament (it still can happen)

So it thinks prx beat g2

Cortezia, but i doubt he'd rejoin MIBR. depends on if sen dont want to keep him.

FNC are notoriously slow when adapting to new meta's. They'll adapt to it in stage 1 (hopefully) and will adopt the 2 duelist approach (surely) also im pretty sure Boaster tries to micro-manage everyone on the team (might not be now, i heard that some time ago) which can lead to them playing significantly slower, and would probably also explain why Boaster keeps getting shit KD. I'd actually like to see a "fast FNC" though. Could be revolutional. That + them adding in some fakes and playing slow, would make it practically impossible to predict what they're gonna do. (kinda like what PRX did in toronto, they added that kinda calm/slower play style in sometimes, then won the event)

edit: to add on to the micro-manage part. over time FNC have lost players, those players have been vital for Boaster. 2023 being his peak performance wise. Derke, Leo, Chronicle helping with calls/mid rounding must've been really helpful for Boaster to focus more on his performance than IGLing. Currently he only has Crashies to help him with calling/mid rounding (pretty sure its just him) Must be insanely hard for Boaster atm, hopefully Veqaj or Alfa can help with mid rounding in the future. (i could be absolutely wrong and chatting out my arse ngl, but thats what i think anyway)

I'm confused. Did he not get help for this mania shit? Looks exactly like what he acted like before he got "help".

Boaster was the best player last map...

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That wouldn't happen. Like I said it'd be brand suicide. This is already pushing the border of comfortability, if it was mandatory discord would literally disappear.

You dont need to scan your face in the first place? Just don't do it. I doubt most people are using discord because of NSFW channels. So its not that big of a loss. Plus every company already sells ur data.

I meant I'm early access for this new ID verification. The UK by law had discord make their citizens do all this stuff a couple months ago.

Whats the method? The picture, and they guess ur age?

As someone with the early access version of this ID verification thing, I don't understand the complaints. I use discord every day and it hasn't affected me. Its genuinely not that bad, if you don't verify ID its just the same, but without NSFW channels. The only logical issues I kinda agree with are the risks of data breaches and the potential of discord taking it further, but you don't need to verify ur ID, so the first one can be avoided. The second reason is practically brand suicide, so that kinda makes me think that they wouldn't do that, cause once they do the community just like its currently doing, would boycott the hell out of it.

(I've read a single article about this, so if I'm missing anything mb. I'm also not an absolute gooner, maybe thats why I'm not that affected.)

Went camping at Loch Ard last year, was pretty good.

since you said please

ok... i turned on a VPN all so my eyes could get blasted by that stupid ass light mode

gonna be honest. i misread that at first.

I personally dont really care about this, but i don't think "growing apart" is the real reason. Would someone to break off an engagement with their partner, because of that? Also both of them started their relationship before either of them were insanely wealthy & popular, so its kinda unbelievable to think that "growing apart" would be the actual reason for breaking off their engagement & stopping the relationship.

-Cortezia
-Kyu
-N4RRATE
+Inspire
+JonahP
+Some VCL Goat Duelist, or get the old Goat Yay

Cortezia is good, but i dont think he works well on an all english speaking team tbh. He looked lost on bind against LEV.
Put Johnqt back on IGL have JonahP or Inspire help with calling. Or do what XSET did and have 2 "Co-IGLs" (iirc they did that with dephh and ayrin. but i might be wrong)

If Vitality fail again this year. This could work, PROFEK is really good though. Sayonara could learn omen, Jamppi or Chronicle can play init if Sayonara plays omen. nAts has chemistry already with Jamppi & Chronicle. Could also help Jamppi as a second caller. Tbh this is based on if PROFEK does really bad, but thats unlikely.

Comps could look like: (Based off vitality's past comps)

Abyss
nAts - Astra
Chronicle - Veto
Sayonara - Sova
Jamppi - Yoru
Derke - Waylay

Breeze
nAts - Viper
Chronicle - Sova
Sayonara - Omen/Yoru
Jamppi - Yoru/Omen
Derke - Jett

Haven
nAts - Killjoy
Chronicle - Viper
Sayonara - Omen
Jamppi - Sova
Derke - Yoru

Or

nAts - Omen/Astra
Chronicle - Killjoy
Sayonara - Sova
Jamppi - Yoru
Derke - Neon

like i said he'll probably want to switch. he was on a 3 or 4 year contract iirc when he first joined and it was rumoured to be a lot of money so his buyout was probably too high for most teams to justify getting him, so thats probably the only reason he stayed on the team. thatll be no problem once his contract has run out.

would be the most sought after player if he was available? insanely good player on top of that he can frag while igling and has insane experience?

his contract is out this year. another org will 100% offer more money than liquid would, also hes been with the org since 2023, so probably wants to switch.

there is no way liquid manage to keep nats next year. id be very surprised.

get new coaches. trexx on gekko, nAts on waylay, kamo to initiator, getting rid of kamyk for serial, bringing in a talented t2 PACIFIC player?, their abyss comp against kc? corrode comp with astra/omen instead of astra/senti?? (they literally put wayne on astra in split and he went positive, but didnt think to put him on astra in corrode and put one of the best senti players ON SENTI) Also not using their academy team to promote players?? surely they scrim against each other more than any other team so the chemistry should be there.

LETS GO

why didnt navi go solo controller and have 4 drones :/ wouldve been goated

contract runs out this year.

not really any incentive for him to come to FNC. used to have chronicle and be good. but now FNC dont have chronicile, and are almost losing to FUT.

they play different roles

cause

id cri

if liquid fail this year, what team gets the GOAT. no way he re-signs with liquid. id lose it.

They have a nAts

its easily fixable. just make alfa play veqaj's role. make veqaj 2nd duelist & init. we've seen how good he was in t2 on duelist/op. and alfa is probably the best replacement to chronicle in the scene. (nAts is the goat)

when do the actual players get to play cause my pickems aint gonna be happening without them.

but i wish the johnqt rumour was real.

i said they are the exceptions for this year cause they can shoot? plus boaster literally went positive against loud in the grand final lol 4 kills off of aspas.

same could be said yeah, but ange1 made 2/3 international events, shouldve been 3/3 in 2022. while redgar didnt, so its harder to justify for redgar.

ill rephrase it. heading into 2023 ange1 was one of the better fragging igls. start of 2023 he was doing good and going positive, then later in the season navi the team not just ange1 were doing just as bad as him. probably could look at the other players on navi in 2023 and see similar stats.