wait, so a team failing is a duelists job for not hard carrying, but not the igl's job who should be managing his team and directing them :/

His sova isn't even the main issue. It's the two opers lack of moving onto chamber. They put sick, a great flex on smoke. Dapr who isn't an overly aggressive player on chamber, and then got kenpeki for flex.

the fact that neither shahz nor TenZ is willing to go to chamber, despite the majority of Jett mains swapping over to chamber. Their stubbornness is their main fault, and the prime person responsible for that is shahz as the team captain.

Do I think they're a bad team, no shot. They're still a contender for top5 in Na. Their consistancy is an issue as it relies off tenz dropping 25+. It's unfortunate situation they're in. Two players who're top tier with the op, but are stuck in their ways, while everyone else is adapting around them.

He could play against tenstar for all that matters. Dude performed the best statistically today. If not babybay, then most likely Zexrow, or Wardell.

by far babybay

tbh think 100t need an op crutch, considering they've been mediocre since steel left, and then even worse since nitro left.

It's not about talented players in gold, well for sure there are. The example this post speaks of, is pro players and high elo players saying they cant beat golds, or low elo. It's not that they cant, it's that they play reckless and play how they play in higher elo, which is following how enemies tend to play in that elo.

I've done it in siege. I've been high elo in siege, and went on a low elo account to play with a friend. I couldn't read the enemies for shit, and wasn't doing well. They didn't have good mechanics, but are hard to read. All I had to do was not play like I was better, and just play properly. As soon as a high elo person does that, they most likely wont win.

The one issue I had when playing against golds, is not knowing how they played, it tilted me that what they were doing worked. It isn't a consistent way to play, but it can throw you off so easily. After having my shit wrecked in siege by golds, I just learned to not try to outplay them, and just play brainless against them diffing them with aim.

It's like that on most fps games. Same shti on siege, and cs. going from high elo to low elo, you can just aim diff them in every encounter, but never try to outsmart them. They'll be in every corner you dont expect, and will push when you never would. higher elo is easier to predict what the enemies are going to do, and how they push.

In reality though, the imm, or diamond player will always rail the gold player. It's more of a meme at this point. It's just high elo players play the game more predictably, and tend to keep at that pace they're used to. Lower elo just do random shit, which is hard to get a read on.

Main nerfs he needs is his alarm bot, and ult. headhunter is fine imo.

His ult shouldn't slow, and needs 1 extra orb to get.
His alarm bot, take one away. Right now his alarm bots has such a high impact, with little thought. Can shit off a bind rotate with just one. Having two seems a bit overkill on most maps.

Other than that, I feel his kit is fine. slight tweaking, but nothing drastic.

dont care too much about the argument, but mako, mindfreak, pancada. Their omen stats this event aren't better when you look at it in relation to eachother.

Mako is the only other player rated higher than marved this even, and he played 100 less rounds as omen than marved. He's probably the only Omen you can compare to marveds stats right now this event. However one played 39 rounds, and the other is at 154.

Currently this event the top rated controllers (top 3)
brimestone Viper Astra Omen
1 - marved sScary mako mako
2 - mindfreak Mistic sugarz3ro Marved
3 - mistic Marved Marved sScary

I dont like marved (matchfixer that should not be allowed to compete on a professional level), but saying he's bad at other controllers, despite being the only player in the top3 highest rated on each controller, is ironic.

however, some controllers he barely played on, so his stats are inflated in comparrison to rounds played. Astra for example, and viper. He has a low amount of rounds. Same with misitc, etc.

I'll also say people both overrating and underrating his tps. He's had some impactful, and some throw tps. Shit happens. Underplaying his impact on omen though, makes no sense.

$$$$

Marved and babybay were by far the most valuable members on the team.
Envy loaned marved, then payed his buyout.

People talking about the matchfixing being the reason. Faze is probably the only org out there who'd still sign someone if they were proved to be a match fixer. Hell, someone on their team is banned off cs because he got banned mid game :/

They're not as biased as some other casters have been. Still a bit of it here and there, but not as bad as other casters have been.

tbh I'm not sure why you're surprised there's bias in english speaking commentators, towards english speaking regions. It's pretty much like that across nearly every sport.

It's like going into the jp streams, and wondering why they wernt as hyped when optic won a map against zeta, opposed to zeta winning a map.

I dont really agree with it, however it's been a thing since as long as I remember.

a friend and I bet on CS often.

Only bet with previous winnings. I started with a £50 float which raised into the hundreds. I always keep a £100 backup as a safety net. I only ever bet with money I've won from betting, never using money I earned irl.

The most important thing about gambling is, Only, and ONLY bet what you're willing to lose.

also research matches, players, etc. What maps are most likely to be played, etc. That's what you do if you want to actually get serious with consistent betting.

TR players have always been gunners. Their only downside is they self combust when in a team with 5 tr players. As soon as they sort the self combusting, they'll be amazing.

Meddo has experience on breach, and some of sage but idk how far back.
Hoody sova

the thing with changing mixwell, is he's not a good Jett anymore. It's putting a player on a role that is pivotal in performance, when he's inconsistent on her.
It's going into a match with a handicap, when there's an agent that he's actually extremely good and consistent on.

i'd say it's worth messing around comp wise, as Jett is nearly a must have in performing well. They could even go 0 duellist and he'd have more impact than his Jett.

However, this is all based on an outside pov. We dont know what their reasoning is, etc. If it's better in their eyes to do it, go for it. We dont know as much as them, as most of our views is based on a very naïve standing.

Hoody has played sova before. Given it's on breeze, but he has played it.

I wouldn't say the issue is finding someone to fill the sova. when you're more reliant on decent arrows, and a confident and consistent entry. I'd favour nukkye on duelist over an average sova.

Rather a sova put up average stats, then a Jett putting up average stats. Mixwell shines on chamber, and hasn't shone on Jett since yr1.

go next map tbh. Mixwell on Jett isn't the play

Laz doesn't matchfix >

He's a great skye, but him as the sole duellist, it's always underwhelming. When we consider the other duellists at this level of play. the past month his raze, his FK vs FD is pretty bad. He's getting damage done against the enemies, but nearly half the time, the team is in a 4v5 when he goes for first pick.

He's by far not a bad player. Just he shines on skye, as opposed to Raze.

The match against VK I think showed up unprepared they were against the team. VK outplayed them at every scenario, and Acend got lucky with the replay handicap.
Acend played insane the rest of the event, not just cNed. All 5 were playing well. Before champs, it was cNed who was consistent, zeek was somewhat consistent every few games, and the rest were there just to go along on the journey. It's why I didn't think they'd be all that special after champs. With bonecold being dropped, the team will get worse than what it is. Zeek not there, bonecold dropped. Team looks to be back to top10eu, but not top3.

I thought more people would see the champs run as a fluke considering the previous events it was cned and friends, with the 4 members being inconsistent in performances, until champs.

Not impactful on duellist at all. He's a good skye, and pretty consistent. However he isn't the most consistent on duellists.

Probably because it isn't TSM, 100t, Sen, VK, or G2.

Any of those, and the forums are a mess for the next 24hours.

aaah alright. ty for informing me.

ngl, I still rate shahzam as an igl over boaster despite hating the guys personality. The guy igl'd, was the coach, and Jett before Tenz. After Jett he became a consistant player despite everything.

Boaster might be an igl, however his mechanics lack compared to other igls on teh same level.

Despite how likeable Boaster is. His performance this event was shocking, even for him.

Braveaf wasn't able to attend because fnatic suspended him while they investigate the shit between him and a ukr girl.

derke is just unfortunate

He's a good player, but idk how much impact the situation will have on his career. he came out and said he was misinformed about the situation happening with RUS/UKR at the time, so idk.

thought it was because the clown was chatting shit to a Ukrainian girl the day after the fighting started.

three members of the team not knowing what to do now that derke can't drop 30 a map.

nah man. It's obviously because ddk isn't experienced enough with casting, and sean isn't respected enough for his views /s

That's true.

I always saw small regions as underdeveloped in the scene. Like KR and SEA were small regions in Cs, or siege. Until they became more known, and had some achievments behind their region. Brazil was like that for the first few years in siege. Was considered a minor region until they caught up with EU/NA.

I'm just glad SEA have shown they are on the same level as EU and NA. So many good storylines are being made by this. Been getting bored of the whole EU/NA> other regions. A competitive game on an international level is far more enjoyable, than having csgo2.0

Facts can be an excuse though.

Fact - fnatic had 2 subs
Fact - fnatic lost
fact - NIP were the better team

excuse - fnatic lost because they had subs

Did the subs impact the end result, we dont know. Was it the subs fault they lost, no shot. NIP just performed extremely well. Xand and bnj were on point across the 2 maps. Fnatic were just lost the whole time, and were missing their shots.

It's about giving credit where credit is due. NIP deserved the win, downplaying it just makes everyone look bad. It's the same shit Na did last year when victor had covid.

I thought minor region was more based off history in genres esport. Mainly as Japan is classed as a minor region, yet has one of the strongest viewer bases.

Well that's how I saw it. idk if there's a distinct definition of what's reffered to as a minor region.

His skye used to be fantastic. His best performances I can remember, has been him on skye last year. Given that was before her flash nerfs.

Just him going from Kayo, to Raze, to Sage, to Sova. Just after the skye nerf, his consistency has fallen. idk if it's him being thrown around different agents, or just general drop in form. Just the only notion of what we can assume, is agent pool.

Jamppi has looked fantastic after he was taken off 100% Jett. Since going across to flex, the dudes consistency has risen.

Think it's taking him off Skye which set himself apart from other players, and making him flex across 6 agents in 15games.

next excuse is yey broke his back from the last 6 months.

val is too early in regards to that. Faker spent years becoming the face through events, same as s1mple. s1mple barely used to stream CS, but became the face through years of being the best.
We'd only see someone on their calibre of impact on the game, in a few years time. Until then we're stuck with the face being the most popular, which is probably tenz atm :/

ngl, I think scream or mixwell is the face in eu. The face overall I'd say is TenZ, or Tarik.

Quite a lot of people forget that the face of something isn't equal to their ingame skill, but popularity of their brand while playing the game. EU players in val dont care about themselves as a brand, as composed to what NA tend to do in game.

I'm not saying they will either. Just saying the chance isn't 0. Nothing in terms of teams has a 0% chance.

idk man. Tenz wont play chamber, shahz wont, dapr isn't an oper.
not 0 chance, just incredibly unlikely.

I dont think his Jett was an issue. At the time he was on her, dude could get a 3k a round get traded and they'd lose the round.

Just think with chamber being released, he can go on Jett and not feel like they have to op. The mai nissue with comparing his Jett with others, is the others are opers. A rifling Jett compared to an OP Jett. Hard to compare stats regarding it. With chamber, we can see more riflers going on Jett. Scream was nuts with knifes, but by far he was best on reyna. his reyna was insane. Throwing him on other agents, I feel is too experimental.
It's like taking soulcas off skye. Soulcas was a good skye towards the end of last year. Putting him on a smoker, when he's their second entry/entry next to scream. Feels like they're just doing what TSM did last year, and swap roles around over and over, but leaving one person on a constant role(nivera and link in this case) TSM at least kept their best mechanical player on his role but swapped everyone else.

His Jett was far from bad. It's just he's limiting her by not being a good oper. His kayo, I feel people are overhyping so much. His stats on him of meh.

He just looks to be in a rough place recently after champs. Him on skye, instead of soulcas is a huge issue tho. Soulcas was a demon on skye, so they put him on omen?

Could be a cultural thing. Well from what i've seen it's just a countries history with that word being used in a racial context.
In Eu, calling someone monkey is like you said. someone just jumping around not thinking about what they're doing.

then wtf do you want us to do xD

all you can do is contact discord supp.

All you can do is contact them and wait. Nothing really else you can do unfortunately.

I like how everyone talks about salary, when he's said on stream multiple times that he loves overwatch and that it's his passion.

Their perception is getting dragged by gamers. In the grand scheme of business, they're still one of the most profitable esports orgs out there.

It's more about what's worth it. Damaging relationships with your main profit sponsors, or getting a win in an event that org themselves dont tend to make a lot of money from?

take logitech for exmaple. Imagine if logitech pay an org 3million dollars a year to sponsor them.
Who would the org focus more on? the team that is mostly a deficit to their profits, or the sponsor that gives them their large profit.

That's the difference in focusing on the sponsors perception of your org, than the gamers.

It's also why 100t are known as the hoodie org. They make so much money from merch sales, that hurting their overall brand is worse than dropping a couple players that didn't get their fair run. it's a shitty situation that caused a lot of us to lose respect for org.

I just dont understand why people always bring sinatra into a team situation, without actually thinking why orgs wont pick him up. Most orgs would love to pick him up. Dudes an insane player. He's just a brand risk for investors. It's not the morality of it, it's the politice surrounding his situation.

Because there's a difference in 16year olds watching someone on twitch, and multimillion dollar brand deals.

Negative public view for an average person just watching someone play, is a lot different from a company paying that person to advertise their product.

my man said TSM were better xD

they got diffed on fracture hard by kanpeki, and diffed on pretty much every scale on icebox.

TSM might have great individual players, but fuck me Akrew outplayed them on both maps. Teamwork was better, individual performance was better.

That's the annoying thing about them tbh.

It's like the yhave a sense of superiority that they're too good to play in other events that aren't VCT. Hell, c9 came off lan, had a short break and went to an event.
TSM played challengers 3 , lost, and didn't do anything but stream and potentially scrim without any actual event time.

Never understood teams that didn't to get as much actual event time as they potentially could.

Akrew just build different tbh.