XL choked so bad, it was hard to watch

Worlds 2017 Opening Ceremony was amazing

I wouldn’t bet on Trent leaving TGrd unless they don’t make franchising but v1c would be a great pick up

I forgot about Deryeon, he deserves a good team

nAts and Meteor are the first to come to mind for me

You don't get my point, his peak was online. Online isn't worth half as much as someone's peak on lan

maybe OCE and SA?

i don't think that Trent's peak is higher then players like stax and starxo's since he didn't perform anywhere near their level on LAN

I don't mean to ruin the surprise but my sources have told me this means we're getting 5 CN and 5 SA slots. Rest in peace APAC, Skrossi will finally make Masters.

Larger player base then any other individual region and Riot have created a better T2 circuit that no other region has. Having a higher player base also equals more competitive teams which equals better practice.

Kayo, Oni Phantom, Phantom/Marshal

Liquid always get out of groups, can’t beat the narratives

Drop hoody, Meddo, and AvovA
Ship Mixwell to KOI for profit
Keep nukkye around
Rebuild with the pieces of Guild, Acend, M3C, and FPX if they don't make franchising
If they can't build a strong roster out of players like Sayf, Leo, nAts, Chronicle, cNed, and starxo, they are doing something wrong

beating Sentinels makes them more likable

DRX
Damwon - most of the time just barely missed LANs
Leviatan - had a massive mental block against KRU for the longest time and choked a lot when they were Australs
Cloud9 - they just looked angry 24/7 during the LCQ
BBL - they only win the matches that help another team qualify instead of themselves

XSET are a little underrated imo since they almost beat LEV while Melser was playing the game of his life

the MCU has been on a fast decline ever since Endgame (it peaked with Infinity War though)

I’ll save this thread just in case

lemme guess, group C and D are based but A and B are delusional?

exactly!

Group A: 1st Liquid, 2nd Paper Rex
Group B: 1st Loud, 2nd BOOM
Group C: 1st FPX, 2nd KRU
Group D: 1st Fnatic, 2nd 100T

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/caa02904

Thoughts?

my man, Loud and DRX are the definitions of superteams. you can't go 16-0 in your own region and not be a 'super team'

i thought ZmjjKK had watchpartied some matches in the EA LCQ?

I think the opposite actually, KRU 100% make it out of groups but LEV are going to need quite a few Melser clutches to make it out

Nobody
Zest
Surf

All NA/EMEA teams make it out of Groups

Boom and Furia

realistically they lose is groups since they've got the three Reykjavik finalists but they've got some upset potential for sure
they should permanently sign Famouz if they end up making franchising

Group A and Group D are also stacked, Champions just has such a high quality of teams

I just realized that Bleed don’t even exist anymore too

laughs in drx, edg, zeta, nth, and ons

i think i would favor Zeta over XIA if they have Tenn, but I'm one of the people who thinks Zeta are better than NTH, so I'm def biased

I don't think TGrd was ever a fluke. They did well in Stage 1 because they had a good work ethic and were practicing non stop. They did bad in Stage 2 because they couldn't adapt to the new meta in time and never had a strong read on it.

90% chance that FPX are the 1st seed in their group
50% chance DRX get grouped by FNC and 100T
10% chance Zeta Division get out of groups

Aside from Paper Rex, the top three teams from East Asia would 2-0 any APAC team

I don’t know, I don’t really hate players but I guess I like Zekken and Cryo but am not a fan of Ayrin, BCJ, or Syyko

How this list was pretty much created:
Balla, Wyatt, and Mimi hard favor NA.
EMEA tends to be favored by Sideshow.
Wyatt loves Loud.
Balla hates DRX and most KR teams.
All of them love EDG but don’t want to look stupid with predictions.

And boom! You’ve got their top players list!

For DRX on LAN, MaKo/stax > BuZz > Zest > Rb

I went from seeing 10 in every thread to just Shownu and Hasanity alts

Fnatic - I don't mind the team but the fans annoy me. Are we just going to forget that for a solid few months before Copenhagen, Fnatic fans were acting like they had already won Masters? The threads saying that they would own OpTic or Paper Rex during Copenhagen? Half the FNC fans evaporated after Masters and the remainder try to say that FNC are better than OpTic.

JP fans are definitely a lot more well-mannered then APAC fans though, I can respect them for that, just look at the APAC fans that choose to kick down SA even though they already know they aren't good.
Also where are you finding these fans overhyping their team? Most of the fans I've seen on forums don't hype up their region.

Stats are incorrect for Wardell

JUGi (EMEA)
Xeta (NA)
Meteor (JP)
MaKo (KR)
Nobody (CN)

Zeta Win!

I think Heroic/AS Monaco are probably pretty unlikely now with nAts leaving M3C, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them disband

he has an obsession

Sentinels are definitely not one of the teams at champs

you're making a controversy out of nothing. putting gender aside, if they are a good coach, they are a good coach, I'm sure they would've hired a female coach if they were a better option

Who are the first personalities you think of when you think of each region?

NA: yay/TenZ
EMEA: ScreaM/Boaster
BR: Sacy
APAC: f0rsaken
KR: Stax
JP: Laz
LATAM: keznit
CN: ZmjjKK
OCE: Wronski
SA: Skrossi

I know the org performance has nothing to do with anything, I’m just saying that they’ve been shit at managing their team and don’t deserve a slot with how bad they’ve been for two years now