rude but factual

brazil made bossa nova which makes it the best country ever

yeah something about the way they play looks so good but also so shit LMFAO if you get what i mean

also i love kushy he is the gyoat

holy godsquad

i never said the team was bad just that they're literally unlikeable for some reason

they can still go 2-3 even if they beat rrq no?

something about the team is just unlikeable man idk what it is i just cannot bring myself to support them in legitimately any game

Kushy is one of my favourite players and I like Jemkin & believe in his potential
I was a big fan of Monyet when he was on GE as well

but why tf can i just never feel like rooting for RRQ man is it the way they play?

idk...

it's not XQQ it's fucking carlao man they brought in a bum from Furia who has 0 achievements. At least XQQ made an international and got 3rd at it

the org is indian and the coaching staff/players are multinational. that might not be Indian but it's definitely not Korean.

yeah but 2 of their 5 aren't Korean and neither is their coaching staff

it would add up if he didn't talk shit about actual KR teams lol

GE isn't a korean team though

i swear he was part of the KR hate train

ronyko is biased to CN teams / doesn't like KR teams i thought

i gotchu. its just my personal experience tho tbf

yeah he did have to take over the role mid split which is fair play to him but it's also not like he had a good record prior to GE unlike mCe

also in every map GE played since juv3nile left and before mCe joined they only got double digits ONCE

like i get that it's hard to transition into a solocoach especially mid split but yk...

nah u owned that bum icl

it's like maybe 30 or 40% of games i've played, so not super common but it's the only region i've played on that displays this behaviour.

I comm in english but when i told bro to lock in i google translated "focus" to japanese, which i thought may have been mistranslated to sound more aggressive but the vyse basically wrote in chat "hey focus" every time i died so probably not

anyway it's simple english, there was a japanese dude on my team who spoke a little english and tried to keep the vibes up but i lowkey suspected him of trying to fuck me over as well because he tried to bodyblock me in a corner too one time. anyway i just played my own game and ignored the trolling, because i just wanted to have fun. it baffles me that this vyse would deliberately dedicate 40 minutes of his life to try and bother me LMAO like if you just locked in like i told you to we would have won, and whatever you do isn't gonna affect how i play. in the end i went positive and you went double negative, your mmr is gonna take a bigger hit than mine and you'll probably feel even worse because you spent the entire game trying to fuck me over and failed and lost on top of it whereas i had fun even though we lost.

anyway the fact that this behaviour is unique to japan just proves how cooked the region is. it's just loser mentality like how are you ever gonna win or play well if one little joke is setting you off and you respond like a bitch lol
granted i've met some chill dudes in japan servers who genuinely have a normal mentality and they play well and have good attitudes but holy shit man

yeah

story from two days ago:
our vyse kept peeking mid and dying and was 0 7, he also said he'd play with the team instead of lurking but kept swinging mid, so i jokingly told him to lock in and he insta left team comms, started shooting me and following me around, told his duo to try and body block me into a corner, pinged my body every time i died, tried to run around me and jump in front of me wherever i went, and told the other team to report me for being toxic
we lost 11 13, i went like 17/16 and he was 9/21 by the end

funnily enough this is not the first time some shit like that has happened to me. i've played in NA, SG, MB, HK, KR, JP, and EU and only in Japan from Japanese players have I encountered this level of pussy behaviour lmao like there's no other way to describe it other than just beta male soyboy behaviour. it's happened to me for a variety of reasons, sometimes it's unprovoked and they call me gaijin because my ping is higher than the rest of the lobby's, sometimes it's because i'm entrying too fast, sometimes it's because i'm entrying too slow, sometimes it's because i'm lurking as senti, all sorts of reasons

after playing ranked in tokyo i can confirm that japan as a region is gigacooked this shit goes down to the roots icl

like 80% of japanese players are genuinely awful to play with

dude geng haven is probably the best in the world i wouldn't judge him so hard for underperforming vs them

sean gares is the goat and i support him

bro knows ball and has some of the most experience in esports at every level, he was a player, igl, coach, analyst, caster, and gm and he ranged from solid to great at them

mCe record:
build the guard out of tier 2 nonamers
beat optic
sent the guard to a lan in their first proper qualifier
led c9 to an insanely dominant group stage run with 2 late pickups one of them being a collegiate player

elevated record:
pretty meh results with current GE roster

not to say Elevated doesn't do anything but GE look like a different team after mCe joined

lothar hasn't done shit since the beginning of time and you're talking about precambrian

dont even put those 2 in the same sentence the only time sean coached a team they made it to Champs with like 3 tier 2 players + asuna and bang he is the gyoat

ain't this guy get like 20 kills in 1 half vs RRQ with it the only other time he ran Neon

NRG beating geng 95% when they just got 2 0ed by them at ewc

Ladies...with gentle hands

can't believe this guy wasn't in tier 1 for all of 2024

udotan has been underrated since 2024 even 2023

fair

nah cane is different for sure he's the number 1 rated player in all 3 VCL splits bro like he has had a 1.3 rating every split

meteor attended 5 events, made 3 finals 2 of them as underdogs, and won 2 with 2 different teams

kangkang been to 7 events made finals at 1 won 1 with 1 team

kangkang over meteor btw

ppl and for the most part i follow jeff nippard's ppl but with some changes and additions

i've also been part of professional teams in almost every capacity at some point and i can tell you that good teams don't let mistakes that happen in the heat of the moment negatively affect the rest of the game. this shit is meant to be dealt with outside of the server because it offers little to no productivity in the middle of a series

even the most dysfunctional team i've been on kept their frustrations to themselves until the game ended (and then they'd immediately leave the vc to cool off aka tilt queue LOL)

Carlao isn't Japanese but that guy is just as responsible for ZETA's awful record as XQQ

https://www.vlr.gg/292033/rare-atom-vs-dragon-ranger-gaming-champions-tour-2023-china-ascension-gf
stew +41, 25 kills above the second highest fragger and still lost

not really

pretty doable yeah but there is a gap
shit theres a gap between imm3 and rad

primmie and d4v41 so goated bruh

oh hell nah

if you look at the H2H it's not really that close tbf

t3xture was going through it, spammed through smoke at least twice on crucial rounds

he's had sickness issues this year from what i know

edit: wow that aged badly

calm down bud it's 2025 nobody even talks about the 2024 champs skin this would have been relevant if you posted it last year as it stands nobody really cares man

yeah but if they get over that they'd be insane, even with it they still looked very good at toronto

geng tournaments 4 trophies 1 grand finals 2 strong performances 3

no other team in pacific besides prx has a better record at internationals

still performed better than rrq and did a decent job minus the choking

geng liverpool half makes sense and half doesn't

feel like chelsea/liverpool applies to both geng and prx ngl

honestly the way geng turns up at internationals it's a loss for pacific if they don't make it to champs