It's not a legal gray area. It's illegal period. Tournament organizers in CS are often times just wagering that government entities won't be aware of said tournaments and/or won't bother using their resources to pursue legal action/sanctions. That's not feasible when you're riot games and operating multiple gigantic esports ecosystems.

At that size, gotta do everything legally or government bodies at some point are gonna punish you and definitely cause issues in the future.

lol

100T were insane. Both teams are realty good.

He most certainly wasn't THE problem. But yes, he's certainly now become a problem.

Yea, thought that was the case. I've tried logging in/out multiple times but doesn't seem to be doing much.

Guess I'll just wait till tomorrow and hope it works then.

First time trying vfl, when does the transfer windows open? Or has it already and it's just bugged for me? Every time I click on roster I just see a blank form as if I never made a team.

They're both 3rd seeds lol

I really don't think it's gonna be that simple but ok.

I doubt it. I think NRG will win their next match regardless of who they play.

VIT 2 - 1 FUT
NRG 2 - 0 LEV

Nah, they have to be allowed in second round of swiss, otherwise there's literally no point to using swiss and they should just go back to 4 team double elim groups with regions separated.

o_O

Considering they switched locations to Paris last minute. Gotta assume it'll be with ping.

He got kicked after stage 1 groups

1. G2
   2/3/4 Lev/NRG/100T

100%. If they don't, this season is down the drain.

They need a jonahp

Nah, they'll still beat most teams, maybe not the americas teams tho

Yep, Lev is a good shout. Individual skill across the board on that team is insane.

This stage of the tournament (bottom 4 of each region) only has team povs available. Next stage (all teams except winners of stage 1 who auto-qualify) will have regular obs and presumably casters.

by who?

That wasn't why he's no longer with them. FrosT+Jovi and the full sense boys wanted to stick together. When he knew talon was gonna get kicked, he went to like 3-4 reputable orgs that agreed they would pick up the full team+coaching staff if they got riot approval. But riot didn't want to go about things that way and chose to delay the process to handpick the org.

He and Jovi were actively missing out on coaching opportunities and would have missed out on potentially more so they (And crws/the other fullsense guys) agreed to go their own ways instead of wait for riot to decide what they were gonna do. They were trying to comm with riot throughout all this process about what was gonna happen but they were getting stonewalled by riot.

FrosT went over all of this on an episode of spiketalk a while back.

edit: Here's the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL9uxAIUZ4

Nope, they get 4th if they win. Tiebreakers are head to head match then head to head map diff.

I believe NRG can only qualify in 4th seed for playoffs now. If they make it to london, it definitely won't be a fluke. And none of their results so far have been "flukes" to begin with lol.

Fake free kills? Have you actually been watching the games or are you just talking out your ass? The only time I'll ever be worried about Babybay going forward is on the international stage against another top 3-4 team in the world.

Yea, they have looked shaky. I just have this feeling that they're gonna level up in playoffs and qualify.

He's been their best player this stage.

It's definitely the most open. Personally, I think it's gonna be 3 out of the following 4: LEV, G2, NRG, MIBR

Definitely not lol. Aim wise alone GE isn't far off from PRX and FS match them. Both teams are also really good tactically, macrowise and micro. M8 just had the meta read really well early and MArteen was insane on yoru but as teams gained a better understanding of the meta, they couldn't keep up because, outside of Marteen, they didn't have the individuals to compete.

Same can't be said of GE/FS. Maybe they suffer nerves since both teams lack experience internationally but they definitely aren't worse than M8.

Rip

0 reason to take any risk at all when it comes to riot for anyone that wants to play pro. ZERO

And any interaction with someone like sick at this point, positive or negative, is something someone who cares about future potential sponsors/branding should be avoiding.

This is an example of what ethan was referring to when he said don't be dumb. Why are you throwing these ranked matches in such an obvious manner? What exactly is it doing for you? The circuit is finally opening up again next year and you'll be able to compete again. But if you wanna be banned and end up like canezerra, keep at it.

Mada's neon is mediocre by global standards in the region with the best neons overall, most of the individuals aren't in good form, they're still trying to play against the meta which is no longer working which has to be greatly affecting their confidence when they entered this year with such large expectations of themselves especially with a good performance in kickoff+santiago.

Pretty sure it's a go next stage for this team. They won't accomplish much stage 1 imo.

Yup, LEV and KRU are great. Dante and Spike are probably two of the best neons in the world and the rest of those teams are stacked.

Mibr still has 3 NA players, whether Aspas is in charge or not really doesn't change that.

Unfortunately this meme really doesn't work when two of the best SA teams are heavily filled with NA players and still doing well

Furia is 4/5 Na, relax lol

Actual citizenship or are you asking where he was raised? Raised in NA, citizenship, who knows.

You miss the beginning of the show where they said immediately no americas?

THEY DID IT! Congrats Kru

Wow, antG is clutching so hard in this match.

My money's on Kru

Sure, why not lol

GG

Neon?? I think he legitimately has only been on that agent a single digit number of times. Anyway, the discussion was why you don't see him on top 10 lists. His inflexibility, along with other things, is why.

Uhh no. Sorry but you just don't know what you're talking about. Dude plays like 3 agents. His agent pool IS SMALL and will always be an issue for his team. His team will always need to prep, plan and work around that limited pool when other great duelist players are far more flexible.

Paper Rex are great but they could be greater if he was a more well-rounded player. Being a fanboy doesn't mean you have to turn your brain off and pretend that your favorite player isn't flawed.

I don't think you know what the word "flexible" means. Because it most certainly is not jinggg. Not now, nor last year.

He's really not. You could say that 2-3 years ago. At this point in the game's development, his small agent pool is a significant issue that most other teams/players don't have. Paper Rex still do just fine but it's not something a lot of other teams would be able to still succeed with. Also, he just makes really dumb decisions sometimes, more so than his teammates.

Excuse me, have you looked at the stats?!? Average placement Emea has definitely been worse than americas for the last two years. And definitely worse than apac last year.

It was triple elimination brother. Don't blame kickoff, blame the teams lol

Wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 10. Also wouldn't be surprised if they send PRX home.