They are still the Union. This shit is NOT over, especially with their pearl.

Guard net is my king.

Thank you liquid fan. Liquid being the absolute king of winning useless matches.

Just excited to see them go 0-2 again vs NA at champs, if they don't fully choke in groups that is.

I have Furia and Levi switched, but that's unironically mine.

I want Sen to win LCQ and Champs JUST because Zekken will drop such funny shit on twitter if he had a chip. No other reasons.

NA is 18-16 vs EMEA all time, 8-5 this year (all 5 wins for EMEA were Fnatic).

I expect better from you Qwertyy

Anyways, NA is 8-5 vs EMEA this year.

8-0 w/o Fnatic.

Just want to see PRX with Something. That's really it.

Crime? Murder? Death? Moral Questions? Mysteries? Equality? Money?

Ya know what goes along with all of that? Pirates.

Ahem Excuse me Sir, have you heard of One Piece?

Trust me bro (I have not watched Death Note, nor Bungou Stray Dogs)

Fuck that nvidia guy. I'm thinking of buying a 6700XT because my 1650 super is crashing ~3-5 times per day, reboots the whole system (I've had the card for 3.5 years at this point). Because of their lasting abuse of the graphics card market, I gotta go Team Red for at least the near future. Plus, it's not like Ryzen is even that much worse compared to Nvidia. It's close enough that, if you want an ethical reasoning, you can go Ryzen to support a better ecosystem of cards. It's nerdy shit, but it's enough for me to edge off that extra performance you get from Nvidia still. Just from personal experience (probably the exception, not the rule) I can't trust Nvidia mechanical longevity.

The actual fuck? Gen.G get 4th in playoffs and now they are the 6th seed again? Why was it not based on playoffs for the upper spots? Dumb as fuck imo.

some of the orgs do some solid stuff. like Fnatic does some good content, Liquid can be cringe but they've had some solid vids.

1. Literally whom
2. It's just the baiters doing that shit, most actual fans from NA are just excited for an M80 vs Union Grand Final. I don't care which team wins. If Union loses, they should be picked up for the MIBR roster. If M80 loses, they should be picked up for the 100T roster.

It's just the next step to replacing the 100T roster :)

I doubt kru would drop their LATAM roster for a Brazilian one (since they are a LATAM org)

I love my Brazilian homies. I respect the hell out of the Union. Either way the M80 and Union rosters are getting into franchising. Whoever loses is going to replace the 100T or MIBR rosters, so it doesn't matter.

AM still 10-9 against EMEA this year.

"wE hAVe 2 tiTlES" Brother you have 1 team

AM is 10-2 against EMEA w/o Fnatic
EMEA was double grouped, and went 2-6 w/o fnatic as a region.
KC, Heretics, Koi, BBL <<< KRU
Sentinels, C9, and Furia would dogwalk Liquid
The Union would destroy Fut

Have a great day.

Brother, I been hating on EMEA. I do not care whether Union or M80 get into franchising, whichever roster loses is still going to replace a whole ass franchised team. No way MIBR or 100T lasts past this year, it's all good.

please do, these guys are actually great.

2, just like how many of your teams got grouped at masters.

5-8 vs NA this year.

0-8 without Fnatic.

when juicy is good for 2 basically every round, then it's a good strat.

bleeds comp is literally built to run it down and fight. The fact that they are just better mechanically makes it just so much easier for bleed. They don't even need to think.

bleed are expected to win. They are like a lite version of PRX. Plus, they have a rare source of experience in Sscary, that only really dplus also has. Bleed could develop to challenge the mid-tier teams in Pacific.

3 of the top 4 games have EG in them, even when the view times were dogshit for 80% of NA fans.

Russia is #1 because of Something, I think Canada and Sweden, maybe USA, are all easily above Finland.

Sentinels fly to EMEA LCQ so that EMEA can't win LCQ.

People clown on GE because of rossi and India, but they are a team that could do some real damage in LCQ. I'd say that losing to them wouldn't be crazy for any team.

It's 18 - 16 for NA all time. If you remove the highest winning team from each (8 from Fnatic, 7 From NV core) you get 11-8 for NA.

Just like most stats in Val, EMEA is boosted by Fnatic. That 5-8? All 5 wins are Fnatic. Fnatic carries EMEA.

Bro I've looked at stats, I haven't DIVED into stats.

I'd sub in Alfa / Nats, Leo / Crashies, and Marved / Boaster.

Bruv got Dat ice in da veins, you know.

EU is actively 5-8 against NA this year.

NA is Currently 8-5 against EMEA teams in 2023.

Fnatic is all 5 of the losses.

When will these people realize that Jingg played WAY better at Masters, doing the exact same things he was doing in Pacific. It wasn't like Something was stealing all Jingg's thunder, Jingg just wasn't playing at the same level back in Pacific.

Something is definitely better, but Jemkin is still a massive talent going into ascension.

FPX lost more games to XSET than Optic did in 2022.

So, I've got some stats. I've been riding the NA 4 - 3 EMEA Stat for a minute now. Basically NA is 4-0 against not Fnatic EMEA teams. Fnatic is 3-0 vs NA. That's just masters. I wanted to look at lock//In to see again how that went. Here is what I found, stats are a combo of both Masters and Lock//In

AM 10 - 9 EMEA
AM 10 - 2 Not Fnatic EMEA (Navi over Lev, Kru)
NA 8 - 7 EMEA
NA 8 - 0 Not Fnatic EMEA

North America has not lost to an EMEA team that isn't fnatic, all of 2023. I just hope to God that this Stat is pounded at Champs or else that extra LCQ slot will be wasted. Fnatic is also 7-0 vs NA teams. Fnatic just owns NA. I'm cool with it, I'll call boaster daddy.

I barely even watched, I already knew EG had lost.

We all know that Champs will probably have a showmatch thing, so here is my idea for it.

In short, I think Riot will be showing off a new map. So, we would just want to see it once right?

My idea is that the Showmatch isn't a match but instead a series, the new map is played 3 times between 3 total teams. Those teams are the ascension winners. This will be a mix of a showcase of both the map and a chance for international viewers to witness the best of the former tier 2 teams.

This showseries would occur the day between the Lower Finals and the Grand Finals, I think the two teams will deserve an extra day to give the best Val possible.

I think it'd be a super fun event, and it let's these newly franchised teams get their 'lock//in' moment to play infront of a crowd against international competition. Plus, letting the map be shown in a competitive style will be a cool change from it being a lot of content creators recently.

TL;DR
The Ascension winning teams do a BO1 series on the new map in order to both show off the new map and show of these new teams to the world. It would happen the day before Grands to give the finalists an extra day to prepare.

I like the hobbit series, they are basically my go-to movies.

We are comparing a time when NA got 2 slots and EMEA got 3, just automatically. In both of the first tournaments, Optic BEAT the other NA team R1. It's hard to go out on the stage for the first time and lose to the team you beat 2 weeks ago. Then in Champs, XSet beat FPX. 100T beat Fnatic. It's not like these teams were bad, it's that these teams were put against the best of 2022 INSTANTLY.

Eeiu, Hazed, S0m, tex, and Ethan is a very good roster, but it really isn't the strongest. I think hazed is overhated, but he isn't quite on the level of most other currently franchised IGL's. Plus, we're having Tex be the Chamber one tricks against cryo, yay, and dicey. He's a much more aggressive oper than those 3, it was a rough Era for aggressive opers.

Wdym, How do you choke when you just never get a lead? RAAAAAAAA

It was Rossi's best game of his fucking career AND HE HAD TO HAVE IT THAT FUCKING WEEK? CMON BRO.

This might be the VLR post that pushes me over the edge.

SKRossi >>>> Scream

Cope

NA flag just throw Pujan's face up there.

Brother.

Your team lost to Karmine Corp.

Quiet.

I have a very sensitive mouth, I always burn it on hot foods so I have just come to prefer lurkwarm things.

I actually prefer room temp coffee or just slightly cold coffee, but you can only really get scalding hot or frozen coffee around, ans frozen is closer to warm than scalding is.

EMEA won masters over NA, that's a fact.

Masters was the equivalent of having a smurfing Jett drop 45 to boost his friends. EMEA went 3-4 against NA, all 3 of the wins were by Fnatic. The rest of EMEA went 2-6 through masters. Fnatic are the smurfs.

EMEA gets the RR, aka the bonus slot. The comparison fits so well.

So, do you guys prefer coffee or tea? Or do you dislike both? Iced or hot versions? I'm a iced coffee, warm tea type of guy.