nice joke

Last year in general felt lamer. Getting higher tier gameplay this year

EMEA and Korea my guy. Imagine rooting for just one team. What a sad life

The one team I really regret not seeing at Champs is GenG
They'd have such potential to go far in this tournament and truthfully deserve a spot. Not to mention how entertaining they are to play (especially t3xture)

Avez sneak

Based

The fact that this is even a debate says it all about the future.

Not even close
The guy is practically irrelevant. Had one good year

NS and Riddle

Who's looking good to move to tier 1?
I feel like NS are big favorites and BOOM have proved that they can be a force to be reconned with.
But for the other current tier 2 teams, who's looking good?
I just know about Riddle looking like serious contenders.

Holy sht they are bad.
If this is the future of EMEA teams ascending, EMEA is even more cooked

Technically Falcons but Falcons os literally THE country.
If not Falcons, I feel like T1 is up there

Yeah, I'd rather we get another org over M8

If Ulf loose (which they won't), does Joblife qualify?
Or does Ulf qualify no matter wat

Flair

Agreed. I don't expect him to do much good BUT we know what his highs are like. If he's able to wake up and tap into that...

If this is demon1... matches will be interesting. Easy a make or break for DRG
First match should tell it all

Based

Haven't been watching tier2 this year till now so I wouldn't know. JL looked quite meh from the few matches i watched.
Twisted looking good indeed

It'd be dumb to not consider TH as a potential winner. We know what their highs look like.
They're not my favorites going into this but not a team to ignore

Fair point, gotta agree with that

Isn't twisted already participating in ascension, no matter what due to their points

What's truly going to happen is Leo's gonna come back. Riot will accept him as a 5th solo team for EMEA and 1v5 his way to victory

Ngl, all teams in Americas and EMEA tier2 look quite weak and not ready to compete in tier1.
I feel like it's possibly because a lot of tier2 talent was yoinked into tier1 teams. At least for EMEA

It'd be really interesting to see Demon1 in DRG indeed.
Though it'll be hit or miss. His performance has not been up to par since EG

Which team(s) that are currently in tier 1 will participate in ascension for EMEA? Will it be Apeks and M8?
As for all Ascensions, does only the winner make it to tier 1 or will there be 2 or 3?

Honestly now that you mention it, I completely agree. SEN is a longer shot to perform well enough
And yeah, TH and T1 is only in this list because of what they've proved they can do when they reach a high this year.

Teams that have a shot:
PRX, T1, G2, SEN, FNC, TL, TH

The rest I'd be hella surprised if they won. I'd donate 100 euros if that happened

Leo? Where?

Exactly. Explains their performance in tier1

It's funny to think that 4/5 of these players were previously in Tier1.
The fact that they're struggling so hard in tier 2 says it all

Money

I don't understand why they didn't start from scratch but okay

Why tf would anyone rather go play in shitmerica

Against what? A random team?
Better things to watch than two irrelevant teams who won't qualify.

Who did?

Ah yes, cuz you can only root for one team.
Flag reflects the person well

You stuck with the lowest of tier2. That's old news my guy.
Time to get some representation in tier1 :)

My guy hoping his team will even get close to qualifying. Now that's hilarious

MENA ain't doing sht lmao

doubt

Who? lmao

Even though I'm not a fan, I feel like PRX has the best odds of winning champs based on current strength.
But I feel like now, more than ever before, the potential for any team to go on a run is quite big.

I can see SEN, G2, XLG, TL, FNC, T1, TH and PRX go on a run. Mainly due to the strength they've shown at some point this year.

MiniBoo

This guy deserve another international title for his consistent solid performance year after years.

The only team looking good enough to have a chance right now for Pacific is PRX. I honestly would not be surprised to see PRX go all the way to the end
The rest just don't have that consistency.

Not gonna get much done. They've proved it to us in Toronto

Holy sht, he won

Hate goes to termi.
I'm happy DRX made it. Time to swap coach pls

Holy jynx