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I like aspas, and think he's a really good player, but sometimes I just really want to see GenG win to see the absolute chaos in some of the threads that will come out.

Yeah, I just double checked, looked like he played on Icebox v.s. fnatic, and that was it. I just remember finding it funny because he got his own hype video before the event, and they only let him play one map.

Vision strikers used to have a 6 man with Lakia, and I can't even remember if he got to play a single map.

NA never doing something on LAN after NA 2021(?) LCQ, even though that wasn't really even a full LAN.

Bro, who did those photoshops for the roster photos? That was so bad.

Absolute banger, could be 2-1 either way.

2-1 either way. After yesterday, I'm leaning to CGZ.

Fisker neon op entry is certainly unique

Crazy Racoon, NTH, or SG, one of those is winning.

Felt like 95% of it was just speculation. There's no reason to believe that Sinatraa was blacklisted because Riot would've just made it an indefinite ban. That would've just generated infinite good pr for banning him "permanently,". They literally gained nothing by making it only a 6-month ban.

On what grounds lol? Even if he was verifiably innocent, Riot could still blacklist him from the league just because he was associated with SA allegations in the past, nothing illegal about it.

The funny thing about this is there's actually a statistic that most people that go into sex work have been sexually abused in the past.

Not saying that makes him guilty.

I think it's worth noting that it's not confirmed that he's blacklisted. During the time he was suspended, he wasn't playing in any tournaments. I believe prior to the LCQ, his only competitive noteworthy thing was being trialed in scrims. It's possible no teams wanted to take a risk on him going into franchising, especially when there wasn't exactly a clear person to replace with him. I think if somehow he isn't picked up by any teams next year, franchise or tier 2, it's safe to say he's been blacklisted from franchising.

How can you put Faze as 7? Their roster was looking really good towards the end of last year, and presumably Neptune is an upgrade from flyuh.

Maybe the issue is that zellsis doesn't really play sova, which is what sinatraa plays. Also don't know if you put him on raze if you have Xeppaa.

Out of curiosity, assuming he was playing the initiator/flex duelist role, who would you swap out for him that's currently in franchise?

Finally found some direction in my life after just doing whatever I wanted in the moment. Decided to go to Law school, and am currently studying for the LSAT. Feels good to finally have something to work towards instead of just working out and playing video games.

Good Will Hunting, train to Busan, whiplash

Brim's not really a must pick on fracture, fpx and xset (I believe) run omen from time to time.

Almost certainly not true. Can't believe the romanian government/police couldn't tell, especially when we had pictures on his twitter, that had him walking around romania with the romanian flag emoji. It'd be hilarious if it's true, but it's probably just internet bs.

I don't know about Champions, but I remember hearing it around Copenhagen, where they got to the grand finals, and Jinggg said they were just playing for fun.

This is just my personal bias, but I think something is actually a crazy underrated player. Would be really fun to see him at a LAN.

I don't understand why people got so mad about Shroud saying he wasn't as good as simple because he didn't have as much passion. Is the argument that s1mple is really better than shroud because of genetics? Wouldn't saying it was due to him just being genetically better dismiss all of the passion he puts into the game?

I'm similar. Not really possible to explain things like consciousness from a purely physical perspective, but I don't think that the answer is a some sort of god.

Grew up Methodist, and transitioned to atheism towards the end of high school.

Yeah, bro forgot to take his schizo meds.

You'll notice that the way it teaches you is incredibly inefficient. Instead of learning grammar rules, you just learn different conjugations of verbs as a new vocab word. It's a fun game, but not a good way to learn a language. If someone's really serious about learning a language, my advice would be to take classes at school, or buy a textbook.

Not really, been on Insomnia, Blue bees and Sengoku. Tbf, there's not that many T3 teams in Japan.

Just wait till you get to college and you have 7:30 am classes.

Bro was literally smurfing at Berlin on Jett.

1. Sugar - Mass of the fermenting dregs
2. Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
3. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
4. Finger - Elephant Gym
5. グッドバイ- Toe

It may not be a 1:1 comparison, but you can look at the red scare during the cold war, and it's basically as 1:1 as you can get. The point is that the dominant social power will try to suppress anything that challenges the narrative. It doesn't make it any more right or wrong; it just happens to be a fact of human nature.

Ultra common Netero W

Cancel culture has always been a thing, just depends on who has the majority of social influence.

Oh, thank you for clarifying.

I might be misremembering, but I thought riot wanted all teams in the league to have a gc and academy roster. Wonder who Sen, 100t, and nrg will pick up.

If you go by having the best team, yes, but I don't think the rest of the region is comparable in strength. Hope Loud winning champs can improve the strength of the Brazilian/SA scene as a whole. Would be nice to see.

Large typhoon

So happy for them, and glad to see this team that has improved so much since masters win. Definitely deserved.

Tbf, I think there is a little more to consider than his choice considering the fact that he represents a company and org. If he wants to hang out with Tate in private, don't care. But when he's creating negative pr for his company, I feel like employees and affected people have a right to be annoyed.

I don’t know. Optic map pool looks really bad right now. A lot of optic’s best maps, drx is also good at.

I want to cry every time optic doesn’t ban breeze. It feels like their worst map that they just refuse to not play.

I hadn't watched anime in a long time, but I watched this show, and it was pretty good. Glad it's getting continued.

I think it's more likely that a team will pick up the entire roster, and then make changes. The team has made a lot of progress on this iteration. I would say Ayrin if anyone is likely to go, although seeing him depph and bcj do well this tournament, I hope he doesn't.

Classic rock
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Steely Dan in particular

I don't think you can fault someone for taking advantage of a system like this. It's in the rules that everyone agrees to by competing, and XSET wasn't the one who initiated it. I don't think I could honestly tell a group of players that they shouldn't take an arguably deserved second chance at winning the biggest tournament they've ever competed in.

Nah, Cypher cam was an intentionally abused bug. KJ turret was an unfortunate scenario, not the same.

What ended up happening was probably the best scenario that could've happened given the whole situation. XSET got their replay after being arguably screwed out a close round, and FPX got to prove they were still the better team. There's no info other than someone's opinion that XSET asked for the replay, I think it's fine for the FPX players to feel a little animosity because of the situation, but you shouldn't shit talk the players unless you know that they asked for the replay.

There’s a serious chance that after tomorrow, there’s only 1 EMEA team left

Picking up the mantle of the old 100T roster