I predict none of the teams you mentioned even make the event

Yeah and yet you spoke of this as if it was the reason for the pick... Zikz put him on Astra... not sage his "comfort"... and he was great on astra so theres no excuse of oh he was underperforming or it wasn't working out... he put him on sage. Because its HIS comp idea. And how HE wanted to play... not because they needed to play around Cryo's agent pool. Yeah which is why N4RRATE would be on controller...??? Which is what was said??? Tier 2 stats are not at all comparable to tier 1 stats because TEAMS. Individual rookies are irrelevant if the teams understanding of the game and map are bad and have recycled and outdated stats. And just because SOME rookies came out performing well doesn't mean all of them did Kess is consistently one of the highest rated players in tier 2 yet in tier 1 apart from 1 game was below average same with xenom. Zekken and Cryo play yoru to similar levels and Cryo's Jett is always going to be favored over zekken's because Cryo is more oppressive with a op. So yes... I do believe there is good reason for Cryo to be on Jett and arguably even Yoru than zekken. Current double duelist meta comps are Raze Yoru, Waylay Yoru... Zekken is a entry/movement duelist... he's not going to play the yoru in a double duelist comp... so again why are we mentioning raze.

s0m???

When has Cryo ever in his life made the claim sage in a comfort pick, rather than idk... astra the agent he played EVERY TIME THEY PLAYED SPLIT in 2024. Meta's change costantly, when was cryo every supposed to be playing senti? N4RRATE doesn't have to play sova every map. Did you serious just compare the stats of a Tier 1 player who's made several internationals and even champs to a guy who's never stepped foot in tier 1? Yeah and florescent is higher rated than aspas on jett... like what are you actually talking about. SEN are never in their lives going to play satallite on jett or raze over zekken. What's the point of even mentioning that? WHAT weird comps? Yeah, Cryo is the reason for weird comps... Cryo is the reason Zikz decided yeah, gecko on split in the move for boostio. Or even astra for Cryo as if he wasn't playing Omen on icebox and doing fine. And can clearly play omen. Mind you. They put CRYOCELLS the known JETT player on OMEN on a notoriously known JETT map. But yeah no Cryo has a bad agent pool its not that the management of this team is just incompetent.

Tenz had a solid reason to leave, to retire? Tenz has also said he's actually not that close personally with zekken. Saying that the only player he was really close with was s0m. Friendship doesn't guide careers however it impacts them. However nothing guides johnqt to leave without using pure speculation. I just think its very unlikely a player leaves a team they like and feel comfortable with for a team they have zero connection to. Without an overarching benefit.

No way really?

No I say that because john has talked extensively about how good of a teammate zellsis is and how much he enjoys competing with him. I don't think he will leave so long as zellsis stays or unless hes offered significantly more money.

Would YOU wanna compete with G2?

Guarantee john isn't leaving sen before zellsis does.

Why is Reduxx the flex and not john?

Cryo only ever played sage because that was zikz's comps what are you talking about. Cryo was never a sage player. That was him actively flexing to play zikz's comps. Cryo has a great Jett, Chamber, Sova and a solid Yoru. While also having the ability to flex controller and other sentinels as well. Cryo playing iso on haven was legit borderline just running around shooting people the most "gameplan" around it being asuna as a distraction. Wdym he needs a gameplan centered around him to win?

DFM gotta at least make an international. DRX have to win something. Maybe MIBR if aspas verno and cortezia stay together. And whatever team Cryo is on hopefully.

Is this just pure mechanics...? Even then vo0kashu over alfa?

best team of the year - G2
best regon of the year - APAC
best international run of the year - Wolves
best regional farmers - TL
comeback team of the year - NRG
biggest dissapointment of the year - EDG

2025 MVP - Trent (theres like 5 solid options for this)
ROTY - Kaajak
coach of the year - Bonkar
comeback player - Something
igl of the year - Valyn

Single elim. And for the most part prep is just non existent. You're nearly clueless to how any teams play unless you scrim them or they play a lot in the off season. No seeding you could've hypothetically seen Loud vs FNC round one. new team, new metas etc. It was just a glorified show match and was in fact marketed that way as well.

pure copium but respectable

Tenz Aspas Chron Ethan imo

pure copium but respectable

DRX and NRG were very close. Did NRG just get that much better?

Don’t think he’s a problem at all it’s still very early stage 1. Teams are going to adjust and learn to counter it. Nova for example have already begun to show how easy it can be to counter Tejo.

Very recency bias pilled. This is likely to change by next week alone.

Isn’t it just easier to read the other team and the map when you’re anchoring, and not as focused on team fighting? Having an initiator who can be focused on the team fighting such as Zellsis or Crashies while also being able to aid in mid rounding just makes more sense. Maybe it’s harder to manage both playing initiator as igl.

Between DRX and TLN more recently.