same with brazilians

didn't know Boaster knew u like that

I think that DRX isn’t talented enough to beat such a strong core of players that is NAVI

that DRX lineup literally 4-0'ed that "strong core" bruh

but yeah i think they would lose to NAVI too - DRX looked kinda mid recently.

love LOUD

NRG, DRX, and NAVI will be in groups holy fuck

lets goooo

LFGGG

didnt think u could get any more attractive

true fuck all of the pacific casters fuck quack fuck tasteless

handsome motherfucker

idk where he went but i hope he comes too

PLEASE INVITE ENDER AND PAVLOS

theyll probably have 2 2seeds and 2 3 seeds in each group, with the matchups being 2seed vs 3 seed

yeah i will say T1 definitely wont choke like DRX

when hes not igl he was good

wdym, they were in lockin and champs. they have the most international experience.

what?

edg just the most experienced chinese team.

in uppers map 1 drx 100% saved strats, ran a totally different fracture comp and no timeouts were called

map 2 was arguably a convincing win by prx tho.

we sent our 3 strongest teams to tokyo. no doubt about that.

prx are the best team from this region drx are actually pretty fucking ass. nobody call me a drx fan lol. u can argue prx had the 2 map ban advantage but drx are still pretty ass i am not sold on Rb again lol, he lost them Pearl.

finally we have teams that will likely not get first rounded, except maybe T1

btw mako is being held back on drx he is the undisputed best controller itw.

honestly deserved for that

true sadge

DRX are holding him back, if he was on a team like LOUD or FPX they prob would have been the first repeat winners.

LOL

it would definitely be like drx to choke a reverse sweep and then lose to one

I mean yeah Rb went crazy on Ascent but BuZz dropping 36 kills surely helped

That gun also got an extra kill, gave Jinggg the ulti and retake entry opportunity, and let Something kill BuZz

Rb dies, and then gifts a gun that basically results in 2 more kills. Jinggg doesn't even die.

Cannot believe it bro, this guy played well at Champs but seems like he's the liability in most games.

he actually lost them the game LOL

lmao idts

bro tossed the game with that whiff omg

a lot of kr people are fans of prx tho? lmao

Saya duelist
Xeta IGL
BuZz senti
Stax Int
MaKo smokes

actual superteam ngl

Maybe Munchkin could replace BuZz on senti but BuZz enables double duelist comps

if buzz could OP drx prob would have won a title tbh..

Biggest copium I've ever seen

Sayaplayer has been consistently one of the main carries for T1 tho, he also ops better than any current duelist in Pacific rn i'm pretty sure

hindsight 20/20 but what an insane player man, saya is just nuts

theorizing about the most balanced possible 3 kr teams using only franchised players....

Suggest
Xeta
Munchkin
Carpe
MaKo

Sayaplayer
Stax
Rb
Sylvan
Zest

Meteor
k1ng
Goddead
TS
BuZz

This guy has got to be the best KR duelist and possibly the best Pacific duelist rn

if something becomes korean then maybe

"Team Liquid lost to TS and beat NAVI"

Ban just chillin, yeah it must suck for them to have lost, but their mental seems pretty good.

MaKo family buff too stronk however.

you can argue sayaplayer is an unofficial kr NA import as he has never played in korean tourneys.

tier 2 kr talent is still good. dplus has good players and players like stew, banger, yoman have potential.

carpe was an ow pro and the only experience had in valorant was that he hit radiant in beta. there was absolutely nothing suggesting they should have picked him up instead of established pros competing in tier 2. dont forget beomjun.

altho yes, signing saya xeta and munchkin was a no brainer and all 3 were very good players. i remember saying that T1 could be akin to LOUD in Americas with their firepower potential and coaching staff

valve game communities are elitist. dota, tf2, cs. especially tf2. but tbf valve is a goated game company.

what is my man waffling about

my favourite team was TNL esports. They were, to the regular KR viewer, the 2nd or 3rd best KR team pre-franchising. During Masters 3 Berlin qualification, they were the best KR team not named Vision Strikers.

The qualification tournament was single-elim, and they happened to be given the misfortune of playing VS in the semifinals, which they lost ofc. Due to the nature of the tournament, they did not even get a single point to qualify for LCQ. Thus they basically could not do anything for the rest of 2021. They failed to keep themselves financially afloat, and thus disbanded. Some of their players went to ONS. Some went to Japan. They are all insane players. Not many were aware or believed me when I said that VS was not made of the best players in Korea, and that Korea is more than one team.

In 2022, only one player on TNL made it to an international event: Meteor.

And finally, in 2023, 3 of the 5 TNL members were reunited on GEN.G, the team that went 4-0 in the Pacific League, but choked and barely made it into playoffs, where they lost to T1.

You realise that qualification is different in CS than Valorant, right? You realise that KR had a free slot to international events, right? You realise that the 2nd best team in Korea failed to qualify for a single international because of a shitty tournament circuit and the members left to find success on different teams. Meanwhile, the team that did qualify, consistently choked themselves before reaching Semis, got knocked out in groups, and thus affected the view on the region as whole.

Sure, I'm not in the worst spot; at least I have a national team to cheer for. I'm fortunate to not be a fan of a team like BLEED or TODAK or Disguised or MAD Lions, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be allowed to want vindication for the "one team region", "kr sucks outside of drx", "east asia sucks, apac teams would roll east asian teams", "why is kr so bad, rito biased towards kr" slander I've heard over the past 2 years.

this is the last reply ill send u. i find it hilarious that you're basically flaming me because you cant cope with your team in another game not doing well. cry about it to someone else instead of insulting me

bro why are u taking ur personal problems out on me lol

you know we only had 1 rep qual to main events, so everyone was talking shit about the region being a one team region and our 1 rep didnt even win anything like LOUD did. for 2 years it was like that.

munchkin said it years ago iirc, cba to find link

im sure he changed his mind tho ofc, people can change their opinions. ive done that.

will never forget this:

https://www.vlr.gg/post/1317321/full-sense-was-more-impressive-than-edg

idk why ur calling me greedy when we share the same mindset as fans then. you never had to deal with the slander kr got over the past 2 years too lol

yes. i also called geng frauds but they got less fury from me because they signed kr tier 2 talent instead of 2 kr NA imports, 1 import from a new game, 1 guy who said he never wanted to play in kr again, and 1 actually good kr player who was moved to NA

i mean yeah theyre still a kr team and yeah ill cancel what i originally said about them being frauds, but at the time i think i was pretty justified in disliking the org. especially after joe marsh said that t1 weren't coming back to korea.