yeah i stopped solo queuing on my main account like like 2 years ago
now my duo is busy so i barely play tbh

i have an alt where i solo queue with no comms but i get bored after like 1 or 2 games

ive learned one thing today

https://i.imgur.com/TBX1aIi.png

comps DO NOT matter

we lost to clove omen neon jett tejo 😭😭😭

funnily enough
In maps:

yay 9 - 9 aspas

This will be the 7th time we see yay vs aspas

currently the score is:

series: yay 3 - 3 aspas
maps: yay 9 - 9 aspas

this is the tiebreaker

yeah exactly, I've been watching most of TL academy's matches, which has been making me watch more tier 2 in general
I hope more EU and NA teams lean in to them

I think fans gotta learn to give some leeway to the orgs
having only 1 or 2 indo players doesn't make them any less of an indonesian org

it just goes back to this:

it's absolutely fine if you want that, but then you shouldn't demand results imo.

too much time effort and money for too little imo, it wouldn't be practical

The way I see it, if you expect your teams to only pick up talent from one country without regard for merit you're setting you're setting them up to not be competitive. Sure it's absolutely fine if you want that, but then you shouldn't demand results imo. You have prioritise one or the other more often than not.

The reason regions like Korea can get away with it is because of how deeply engrained (PC) esports is in their culture, for example; you want a top tier initiator? you have 5 to pick from, I just don't think that's the case with the subregions in SEA.
I think what GE are doing is perfect, they realised that perhaps they didn't have the most competitive region, so they chose to look abroad and pick up foreign talent specifically for the roles they needed

Language barriers exists in Europe too, especially in the East. It's just a hurdle that you have to overcome.
(The level of English you need to know to comm is actually a lot lower than people think)

Yeah, not to say that they don't need to tap in to their own countries talent, but it shouldn't be a priority imo.

I'll use TS as an example: they are a PH org but they can still pick up talent from other SEA sub regions, maybe they could build a roster around 2 PH players, say 1 MY/SG player and 2 Thai players for example

I will admit I have no idea about the tier 2 SEA scene so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I think maybe SEA could benefit from the EU approach
Instead of building rosters around primarily one country, they should build rosters for the region as a whole

For example: VIT, KC have no French players.
TH, KOI and GX have no Spanish players.
APK don't have a Norwegian player.
But all of them have 'EU players' + a few imports

I think SEA orgs should take the same approach
The only org to really do it is PRX actually, with 2 MY/SG and 2 Indo players

dawg I didn't even expect FNC to make Bangkok in the first place
I didn't see anyone else saying that they would either

(besides sentinelmain but he's known to be wrong 99% of the time)

It's not that they don't mind, I'm sure they don't
but the last time we really had a home team do well was Champs 2023 tbh

I feel like one of the few advantages of having an 8 team tournament would be that even teams who don't make it too far still get a decent amount of playtime (in comparison to teams that do make it far)

and even Talon have 2 KR players 😭😭

Not because of Bangkok itself, but because there'll likely be no home team
TLN might make a lower bracket run but I think it's pretty unlikely at this point

I think NS wins this but I really want to see a home team at Bangkok

holy shit 😭

I don't think so ngl
I think they just won't sign any new Russians, the only reason they asked Suy and Shao was bc they were already signed

they were signed before the war
NAVI also asked them to become 'non-representing'

nah lock//in not valid for me

if the reason is single elim then you gotta talk about masters berlin and champs 2021

if its about teams being invited, top 4 teams itw at the time made playoffs + nrg (5th best team) made 5th-6th

bahrain*

he must be having the time of his life rn

yeah i think role issues are gonna plague them for the whole year
demon1 needs to go on to perma smokes imo

https://i.imgur.com/VqK0UfL.png

I guess it must've worked in scrims

tbf they're playing against G2 so I don't think it's entirely fair to judge without considering that

its just how it is when a streamer becomes huge, like huge
at some point u gotta tread on eggshells with every sentence you utter, since your brand becomes bigger than you

its why I enjoy watching ardiis now, even though he's immature and often has bad takes I can respect him for keeping it real
(it's also funny when he boldly makes a claim, only to be proven completely wrong)

im free!

https://www.vlr.gg/442716/aayan-not-fraud

kamo and kamyk woke tf up

actually hold on
vlr has two different versions

the pickems is different from the main page
idk what to believe atp, logically they play against the top side of the lower bracket to avoid rematches (EG vs MIBR winner), but im not sure if the EG/MIBR/100T takes priority of if KRU does

I believe vlr to avoid rematches

i think tech issues

another m4 in the making

nt Henry

i think in general yeah

i think this map specifically its inferior when paired with a yoru
I would fw tejo + breach + raze though on this map

imo no
yoru + tejo is weak on this map imo, i said it during the 100T game too

pANcada

what did bro do
i was locked out

happy birthday!

(I wouldn't look at the match for now)

I got absolutely no problem with LOUD taking this

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FqdBaomb8js

keiko for me 100%

https://i.imgur.com/iMbgHYh.png

thats not nice

I lost 45 on fnatic
but made 45 back on a last minute bet when liquid were down 9-10 on map 3
so yeah
liquid is the truth

#MambaOnTheBus

honestly you could say this for every region rn

I felt bad for making the thread with the conditions being that hard
(Even I lowkey thought we'd get 3rd at best) so yesterday I adjusted the post to say I'll give one away anyways so I wouldn't waste anyone's time

❤️

yeah I never thought we'd make bangkok unless there was an insane upset in the lowers
i just wanted 3rd place for confidence ngl

yeah you cooked with this reply

ok sorry :(

we lost :(