I'm surprised G2G picked up Akita over berryx tbh, I really wonder how the trials went

They placed 3rd last stage + overall didn't have a standout performance, they are no longer the "superteam" and others stepped up also

Ah it's you again, hello. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about GC; just observant at this point, the last few months have been disastrous for my hopes LOL, I've seen far too many downfalls of these rosters and the top GC level evened out, nobody really stands out.

I think TL BR was (no longer is) the only serious contender to take games against their regional T2 competition, but now with -bstrdd they're just a regular top 3 / top 4 GC team. They showed they could take off maps and even won series against players and teams who are in T2 now when they didn't tilt and properly coordinated. GC teams painfully lack a playbook + they lack teamplay, SRG got into T2 by having good teamplay but didn't hang around because they outright played bad. No excuses, no BS, just bad aim, bad teamplay, bad util.

I'll hold off the hype on Falcons, but I have nothing but respect for them.

I was thinking finally we get a GC team on their track to do well in tier 2 and then they get rid of bstrdd, I'm legit dumbfounded

If you read the thing, Sarah gave her benefit of the doubt and it unfortunately got abused.

Finally someone with common sense.

-alexis when

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f68579a0

Unless I missed it earlier, before clarification I don't see the mention of Sarah from SRG directly, there's so many sarah's in GC same thing with mels lol - and also yeah I agree she could replace some of these scan players with no issues, I am almost 100% certain she would've pugged her way into tier 2 if GC didn't exist as a gateway

Anyways she has another chance to prove herself, lets hope its gonna be better this time around

Oh yeah she deserves it, she's proven to be a ladder warrior and is probably the second most committed player in the GC scene to play ladder + get better. Shame SRG is held back by not having a 2nd initiator that can properly frag.

Agree on Kamiyu, somewhat agree agree on Amy, agree on srN, indecisive about Nelo, disagree about Sarah (if we're talking GX GC Sarah)

I don't expect any of them to be tier 2 dominators, I will be convinced a GC player can hold their ground in T2 when they get able to dominate the ladder and go at least top 20 there

Noia made it into tier 2, they (SRG) just fell out after first split, they're playing relegation soon.

The players who did this should just be blacklisted from the scene, embarrasing

Which 5? I'm kinda curious which regions are we talking about also

right on the money, i play a few games each act and finish in either silver 3 or gold 1

Killjoy and Cypher tied for n1

How come? aren't both jobs oriented towards sitting for a long period of time?

God bless whoever decided on this, was about time. As much as I love Petra and mimi, one of them had to go for the past year. They were really powerful for a long time but the competition caught up and they plateaud and the role changes just did harm.

Good luck to Akita, she doesn't really have shoes to fill because G2G (and GC) isn't quite known for its duelists but I still hope she does well. Now they have 3 flexible players but they should do their best to put them in proper roles so they avoid the issue of having 3 people playing a different agent every map.

AND THEY DO IT AGAIN

I've been watching GC for about 3 years at this point and T2, especially NA T2 for 2 years now. It isn't difficult to balance. Riot should do a better job at incentivizing people to reach for the stars, I feel like "settling" for a certain tier of play is the worst way to decay as a player, GC or non-GC.

GC just has not consistently been appearing in T2 for the sole reason they're not good enough as a collective, individuals are but the league itself is at least a tier below. Even if they want to be in T2, they are not there yet. I will be honest when I say this I am surprised that we got a whole GC team in T2 as early as we did LOL.
GC also has an issue with having way less people to choose from, so you can have way less prodigies in comparison to regular play and can't form superteams (G2 Gozen fell off). For GC prodigies we should be keeping an eye out for Turkey, as they tend to have some really good players in VCL, VCT and GC. Maybe one day we have 5 Turkish girls in VCL.

GC players earn their place in T2 by being good enough to play in T2. Nora, k0rupt, Bob to name the ones in NA VCL. It's really just that simple.

I have one very simple solution - how about Riot just funds both equally?
This is not a pie where one gets more and the other one gets less, these are two separate pools according to them, they should just be equalized and we have a solution.

To also add onto this, if GC and T2 had approximately equal funds to work with (which I know, wishful thinking), GC players would hesitate a lot less to leave the sphere into mixed teams. Money is an amazing motivator, especially if you rhink you have potential.

As someone who enjoys watching both leagues (especially NA T2), I truly do think they should give more funding to the scene. I get that if you are good you will be picked up, but to become good you still need to find a reason to play this game competitively, and financial support sure helps.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f68579a0 SRB addicted to disappointing me

Then you are safe, the bracket is huge

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c0ac6ed1 #WUWIN

https://x.com/kyedae/status/1907570736983847217?t=5DquI1EDQC0wdhxZ7dP9Dw&s=19 yes

The vibes are not enough to carry a team to Challengers and I hope they consider more initiator players in the scene as I have rarely ever seen her frag when it truly mattered

6 kills in a Bo3 is ROUGH. Hopefully alexis locks in and they don't end up playing 4v5 vs Funhavers.

Based take

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Safiaa MVP, Jiex also surprised me. WP KC GC

Nelo hasn't even shown to be a bad fragger it's just that Petraela show is over, other girls caught up to their years and years of experience by just being better :/

-33 and 0.8 rating average on Omen in the recent games, just saddening

If they lose here Petra is absolutely getting cut from this roster, easily her worst split yet

2-0 KC GC won't even be close Safia is too good

Me neither, now they have the sentinel role split between mimi and Nelo which I seriously dont get, hoping that people responsible for these swaps and transfers realise vibes are not enough to win games

Vania is fine because she's mechanically the best EMEA GC player, she could roleswap to anything and still be able to shoot equally

G2G has the money to buy good players, they should peep mimier and berryx, they're young and easily teachable, put Vania back on smokes and then go from there, this is the mildest iteration of G2G I've seen, 2025 should have been the year they get into VCL yet here we are

I still think the role changes they made are awful, G2 will cap out at 4th this year in GCC if they keep on playing like this

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/75616800

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/00d84a3e have not watched a single VCL game this year, went off of vibes

The vibes guessed wrong on Joblife unfortunately

yeah, still feel the same - I get that Nelo is experienced but when you have that much experience you're nowhere near as moldable as newer GC players (rezq, mimier, berryx to name a few)

For what was supposed to be a superteam last year, they look rather mediocre, can only hope this is due to the fact that they're sorting out their new roles, Bind is looking good though

Because they still meet all the requirements for eligibility. By winning GC NA Series 3 they will qualify.

I have been incredibly sceptic of the -rezq +nelo line, like +smurfette makes so much more sense for what roles they play, and Nelo is just mediocre, in my eyes G2G lost the superteam status for this year

Stats =/= shotcalling

lowkey embarrassing how often GC teams (not only SRG) get FK advantage and still lose round somehow

Sick

yk what game is game