Nice clutch Nth

I wouldve mental boomed after almost choking 10-2 with such a heavy attack comp

i dont blame him, this is the biggest game of his life so far

he threw the game with that push into the mid smoke, unlucky

he had a lot of impact vs paper rex, hes definitely not their worst player. its astell, hes only there to translate for seoldam

nice try Nth :((

PTC makes kayo look busted damn

gg FS win

good luck

I believe he stepped down to look for better opportunities, potentially internationally. at one point he was still under contract but BIG BAAM were allowing him to look for another team, but then they dropped him fully

korean phone number works too, or at least used to. you might be able to get a korean virtual phone number to make the acc, but honestly its easier to just buy one. i think they are kind of expensive though, because it is a pain in the ass to get one

https://twitter.com/GeorgeCGed/status/1448804939510292483

rito wat doink

MINIMUM 12 days btw

all the regional language streams are biased and its hilarious to watch. Spanish stream was cheering when LATAM teams won rounds and complaining when BR teams won. JP stream is the same for their games, they get so hype when they win rounds but they are completely dead inside when they lose

South Americans kings of taunting and hype

NT

This is how its done in R6S, APAC North is KR + JP, APAC South is SEA + OCE, and South Asia gets their own slots

3-3-2 slot distribution

nvm im braindead

Watch Riot give two direct slots to China and fuck over OCE and SA again lol

Ive been playing cs since before you were born lol

#4 seed technically

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

PAPER REX = PAPER TIGER

thats more like it

thank mr. meiy

fuck off mindfreak lucky shitter

life round

MEIY AND TEN WITH TWO MASSIVE CLUTCH PLAYS HOLYYYY

lowest in ACS, K/D, ADR, KPR if you exclude tuna who only played one map which was a 13-4 loss

every time i predict im fucking wrong and get clowned on so

lets go PRX quick 2-0

no reason to switch, CIS gets dedicated slots for majors in CS instead of EMEA quals and easier to matchfix in lower tiers. There is both more money and opportunity in CS for the time being

6K talking mad shit hahaha

plays like fiffy too lol. man went 9-44 in a major final

I meant big event, LAN is still synonymous with that for me mb

Hyeoni massive choke

Its his first LAN so ill give him the benefit of the doubt but that is a bonkar tier performance. If he plays like that again NU might not even make finals lol

Rise not even worth ranking 😞

"struggled" while winning maps 13-2, 13-4, 13-2 vs XO who are top 4 in India lol

also the series vs GE was very close even though Louvre playing with 80-100 ping vs GE 20 and at 5 am Singapore time lol.

and beat Secret 2-1. sure, the agent ban system kind of fucked them but LVR also had to play without viper/sage.

I mean they got beat by an amateur mix team in Challengers playoffs, they were in terrible form before LCQ, and they lost their two best players. Realistically they were not even top 5 in JP before LCQ. CR, Zeta, Nth, Fennel, new Sengoku are all definitely better. new Blue Bees and FAV are probably better too

Their good performance vs FS was a pleasant surprise but this is more of what I expected coming into LCQ

even JP fans dont have high expectations, theyve been calling gg since 5-0 saying DWG is just better in the twitch chat lol

Nth is definitely the hope of Japan at LCQ rn

Reject T sides are so slow, its killing them. Pushing with 15-20 seconds left and just get shredded because they gave up all map control and info 40 seconds earlier and end up running into 3 or 4 on site

yeah, hes a good player that happens to play jett, kind of like asuna. hes not a natural jett player like seoldam or t3xture for example

yep, essentially solo carried Feeling (a literal mix team put together before Challengers) to Japan Challengers playoffs which then upset BlackBird Ignis. hes not on the same level of hyper-carry as hyeoni and hes not as polished but he is extremely talented

completely forgot to mention him too lol, easily top 3 in Asia on pure talent alone

I mean most of the top Jetts in Asia are all Korean lol. Seoldam, Buzz, t3xture, allow, GangPin. Meteor is good too although probably not on the same level as those 5. Even Mako can play Jett and HANN is also very skilled but a little unproven. In Asia the only other Jetts anywhere close to this level are f0rsaken, Jingg, Skrossi, Patiphan, maybe JohnOlsen if you stretch a little, maybe Zmjkk if you think good performance in China means anything

feels bad for b0i, getting a lot of undeserved hate even though 100t win lol

DK should win pretty handily, dont think this will be as close as the FS-Reject game, but maybe Reject can take a map and make it close

mainly because TNL literally only have 3 players unlike Zeta who still technically do have 6, even if they are rebuilding. otherwise I wouldve put both Zeta and DWG in C tier with TNL. If youre counting the roster with Hate and eko, though, I'd put them in high A tier around X10 or Secret

and youre right, Zeta should probably be lower anyway, I think current form Nth and Global would beat them and even DWG with this bad form would probably win at least 6/10 times. the other B tier teams its more of a tossup, or in Zeta's favor. im just on JP copium

for X10 atleast they are somewhat LAN-proven and do have a proven star player in Patiphan although he is a bit of a question mark still. I'm just personally high on them for now

https://gyazo.com/85896807a3d81bb6b98b0d306b3822c2

I ranked the teams within the tiers too, at least for S and A tiers. Also I am including current form into this, if it was in a vacuum the rankings would be slightly different, for example Bleed wouldnt be so high but they look kinda clean

to explain some of the rankings:

-S tier is all of the APAC teams I think are capable of competing at a mid-high international level right now. I excluded secret because we didnt get to see them in berlin and x10 because I dont know how they will look with patiphan not having played in so long

-A tier is solid teams capable of competing at a high level in APAC but arent quite ready for international play yet

-B tier is good APAC teams, shouldnt be playing internationally. DWG is here because they look like a mess rn and F4Q will be here as long as they keep trying to run meta comps that they have no clue how to play instead of playing their own style. Nth has potential for A tier but I need to see more, 2 upsets vs F4Q and Zeta isnt enough

-C tier is mid tier APAC, Sengoku on paper have a high B-tier roster potentially but they literally havent played a game yet, TNL is here for now because they technically only have 3 players unless I completely missed something but their core rn also has high B/low A tier potential

-D is teams that just arent very good, BIG BAAM is here because they lost crazyguy who both carried them frag wise and was IGL, and Moef and Mowff arent as good as crazyguy and Redneval, who they replaced

yep, just checked and his steamid is redwater877

is redwater877 the same redwater from csgo?

if F4Q play like they did vs Nth they are toast. they need to stick with bunny on raze, dont need to force themselves to conform to the meta. better when they play their style

fennel, cr, zeta all merch orgs

jp merch in general is pretty solid

13-3, 13-0 is definitely a bad day lol, GE arent that bad

as IGL and smokes too

zeddy is so good, IGL, plays smokes, and is the arguably the best fragger on this team

if they replace Coffee with trexx and hugeon with someone who can actually aim this team is an emea dark horse

and of course as soon as i shit on hugeon he aces lol

nvm he whiffed again and now smb are going to win in OT LOL

Nuturn 2-0

FS almost lost to reject playing with their analyst and their best player got diffed by someone who hadnt played in an official since march