only the classic feels NPC, the rest of the collection have been on a bit of decline recently

im not saying any of them are bad but holy lord i see these everywhere

What are some skins that if you see someone have in their collection you just know how unoriginal they are? Not to say these are bad skins it's just these together would make an NPC ahh collection

I think these types of skins would include:
Ion sheriff
Recon phantom
Reaver/Prime vandal and karambit
Sovereign marshal

nah but rossy costed the team three rounds trying to get someone with a judge

If that reply to semmler was from any other person we would've clowned on it as Tier 3 egoposting

i think carpe's more likely to get benched since xccurate's igling now

they placed top 3 four times

masters copenhagen (2nd)
masters tokyo (3rd)
champs LA (2nd)
masters madrid (3rd)

p sure that tweet was a joke lol

"guys i don't think gc performance translates well into tier 1 or 2"

open qual stat cope (doesn't mean shit if you can't qualify)
deflection to Icy (he was grinding it out in Tier 2 and EG's reserve roster)
random transphobia accusation (someone forgot the s in the pronoun)

G2 as a whole has been disrespected like crazy

I've said it before and I'll say it as much as I need to; if they won Shanghai we would have weeks worth of threads complaining about how the other teams threw their matches

no way you say we have the stale strats like have you not looked at fnatic

zeta take away his gun it would be funny if we got two fragmovies out of this

edit: he got a sova ult kill right as i posted this

atp flor glaze feels paid for

how much does shopify rebellion pay people for flor tier 1 threads on vlr? I need some of that shit

It's one thing to translate comms to a player who doesn't speak the main language (ex. FPX and DRG), but having to translate the coach's plans? Yeah that shit's going nowhere

we will be waiting for the icebox frag movie

the viewer count about to go insane

we back

bruh akame tryna knife fight last round kekw

congratulations varrel for winning Lotus with two players afk

A factual statement? In my VLR?

Mods ban this guy he knows too much

i skipped past the recon phantom once and it still haunts me

yoshiii took the washed allegations personally

SZ 2-0

wow amazing i get fucked in 40 billion more directions and my normal crosshair is too big now thanks riot

The org was kinda fucked financially and they didn't do the franchising paperwork

remove ascent please

Really want them to put hiroronn back on sentinel but laz chamber too iconic ig

GiantX -> Opera GX

Format-wise, LOCK-in. You fumble once and it's over.

Competition-wise, Champions. It's the final tournament of the official season which means everyone had time to refine their strats to their best ability.

Only M8 really

Liquid lucked their way into a playoff spot and everyone knows it
As much as I like KC they have been on the decline recently

A lot of the sentinel players in Shanghai were former duelists (ex. Meteor, leaf, tex, I'm also pretty sure Alfajer played Raze a lot in 2022) who went from seeing mixed results to being one of the best players on their teams.

This made me wonder if it was anything regarding how they played duelist in the past that led them into becoming insane sentinels.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

You have to be on some next level hatepilling if you watched Shanghai and still put icy this low

What's even crazier is that he dedicated himself to one of the least profitable e-sport genres in Korea.

Bro was thugging it out as a CS player in a country that had little infrastructure for it.

Everyone come for free money

wdym that's his former username

Gen.G I heccin love s3xture

tbf there aren't really any bad Omen maps but yea the tps are gonna go insane

From my first impression the map's main feature is its verticality and open space

Duelist: Jett

• The map is vertical which is Jett's whole thing
• Jett dashes and updraft allow her to traverse across all the death falls
• HM: Neon (Some super close corners that seem easy to stun + neon gets new buffs now)

Initiator: Sova

• Drone benefits from verticality and doesn't risk falling off the map
• HM: Breach/KAYO (Also doesn't have utility that can fall off the map)

Sentinel: Cypher

• None of the other sentinel players can do much when the enemy is jumping over your setup
• HM: Sage (Grimm walls will probably happen here)

Controller: Viper

• I would imagine the walls help isolate the upper/lower angles
• HM: Harbor for the same reason or Omen because he's the most versatile controller

Meta comp will be those four + one of the HM agents

EDIT: HM will probably be Breach I just realized he can ult people off the map

how long until we see someone miss the ledge jump in vct

also how would sage resurrections even work

Ascension teams as in the ones who won last year or the ones currently in challengers?

I think it has to be Jawgemo's ace vs NRG no?

MiBr knife:

• Took 100T out of playoff contention, allowed EG to scrape by into playoffs
• EG goes on a run in Americas and qualifies for Tokyo
• EG got second at the event

Jawgemo ace:

• Took NRG out of playoff contention, allowed G2 to scrape by into playoffs
• G2 goes on a run in Americas and qualifies for Shanghai
• G2 are now top 3 at the event

Cooking or nah

I find if I work on stuff I have a personal interest in (Video editing, keyboard building, photography) then I forget about whatever is making me sad or stressed.

Video games do not count, that tends to frustrate more than destress.

Even if it did it would be too much work for a system that was already pretty good regionally

cooked up a 5 star meal with this one

ok i think neT's revenge arc gotta stay back for a bit

That would be a logistical nightmare, especially since it's Tier 2 and Riot doesn't put much financial investment there.

Also Split 1 isn't entirely unimportant; doing well grants you an automatic spot on Split 2. It's even more important if there's a point system involved.

neT and BcJ out for bodies

he's already top 4 in shanghai?

ngl the NRG changes are too little and WAY too late for a champs run, switch them with G2

I think their main problem is that their playstyle is super predictable at higher levels of competition. JonahP said that G2's main strategy in their matchup was just preparing for 3v3 fights in their spawn 10s in the round.

I still think that W gaming is a very powerful playstyle (I mean how else would they reach podium finishes in 4 major tournaments) but they need to optimize their slow rounds in order to actually win those majors. Warbirds as assistant coach might actually be a move; TS beat them multiple times in regionals and he could give pointers as to how to counter the enemy counters.