I'd pick Texture but... As you said, Meteor was cracked and played his role to perfection.
It's a close one

Texture hands down

Huh?

I support Belgium for obvious reasons but... As someone who doesn't follow soccer, from what I heard, my country's team is absolute garbo right now. So we will see
I am rooting for Germany and Netherlands as well tho.

Idk about other people but I still see him as an amazing player even though I wasn't a fan of EG.

Basically what the title says.
It's been a while but I remember TheGaurd definitely not being the worst team in VCT back then.
So why did they leave tier 2?
(Unless my memory serves me very wrong and they never were in VCT?)

Their new roster looks even worse ngl...
Somebody sign Demon1 already. Absolute monster in the right team as shown in 2023

Seems like a very fair tier list.
Fnatic v Loud was absolutely amazing!
Such amazing performance from both teams.
Also the fact that the crowd was portraying such terrible sportsmanship made it even more satisfying when Fnatic won.

What are two teams per region of which you believe could make a solid run towards the top 4 (if not finals) during Champions?
Keeping the top 4 from Shanghai out of the list. (TH, GenG, G2, 100T).

My list:
SEN, Loud
Fnatic, KC
EDG, FPX
DRX, PRX

Africa.
I mean France. My bad

Sounds good! I'll spam him birthday wishes

Because they consistently high on hopium

"recent"
Dude lost his "best duelist" title in 2023.

Nah, USA just isn't it. Their rosters are stacked with import players.
Teams like South Korea, Russia, Turkey and Brazil would perform way better

I have to assume that they're also making changes because as we saw, their current rosters clearly aren't enough to perform against the other regions. EDG got absolutely destroyed. As for FPX, they did well but still lost their matches and didn't qualify to playoffs and neither did DRG.

It proves that they've got very solid players with high potential. Whether it's this year or next year being bought off by other orgs

Damn I struck a nerve : )

It is a just a show match but... overall performance and the amount of choking tells me they'll be just as irrelevant, if not worse which is disappointing because RRQ's changes looked quite solid on paper.

Can't say about favorite. Lot's of teams have very cool and chill fans. Especially the Korean and Japanese teams
Least favorite is Loud and LEV
Cringe: SEN all the way.

RRQ is looking quite good and could surprise us

They're hardcore carries for GenG.
Munchkin and Lakia are crazy good as well but not as much as the other 3

Making every finals in 2024 so far. And such a dominating performance on their won maps in the finals.
TH are crazy good as well and had an impressive tournament considering that they're all brand new tier 2 players.
Congrats to GenG for giving Pacific their first international victory!

Cool story bro

It's a gg. Time to choke
At least it's another W for emea haha

GenG is such a solid team but... it's Pacific man. They're not winning this DESPAIR

I still prefer texture for that role. Obviously wo0t is cracked and close second imo

With the new character buffs, def not.
We need more wo0t duelist tho

It'll be a close one for sure

t3xture v wo0t will go hard!

Satisfying as fuck!

He just said "no u"

Utter domination, holy sht

At this point, there's a LOT of duelists better than aspas. Let's stop living in the past

S3xture!

G2 has become very unlikeable.

2024 has been underwhelming so far, that's for sure. At least this is more interesting than Madrid

Just like 100T v TH, I thought 100T would win. Now I still think G2 will win.
I am a TH fan and don't really like G2 or 100T but these two teams have been quite consistent while TH hasn't so I still doubt TH's ability.
But seeing as how they played yesterday, I still believe that they have a very good chance to win.

2024 as a whole is pretty sht. These teams lack any form of consistency.
Only team who'd do well in 2023 & 2022 is maybe GenG. But even then, the furthest they'd go is top4

leaf is the big carry imo. JonahP also making amazing plays.
The other 3 have their moments but lack consistency imo

Pretty cool how the majority came into this tournament (including me) expecting 100T and GenG in the grand finals. And here we are, 100T getting 4th place.
They looked so solid. I'm surprised by TH's performance

Surely they don't lose this right...

You already know they'll choke... STOP EDGING US TH AND WIN ALREADY!
I want that GenG v TH grand finals!

Is everyone here a 14yo child?
It's just a game, it's not that serious.

wo0t scared me there! Almost threw
You know his heartrate was at 150 with that showstopper.

Wym? I'm rooting for TH but... it's quite obvious that they'll choke

Nah, you're WAY too early. TH does have a good chance to win this but...
TH is known to win map 1 and lose 2-1.
Meanwhile 100T is a very solid team and often manage to come back

I can feel them pulling a TH.
Wins first map and then loses 2-1

So far, hands down.
They've been in every single finals so far. Meanwhile every other teams been very inconsistent with their performance.
BUT!!! this doesn't mean they'll win the finals. Despite rooting for them, I feel like they will choke again

Please GenG, don't choke again

GenG will win the finals this time around right? Right? SURELY
It's not like they'll choke when it really maters right?