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

literally hit his first bullet of the game on russ just now, congratulations

f0rsaken only played jett because he is PRX best player and i guess they felt he was holding the team back by not playing jett, kind of like Asuna on 100t. But jingg is very good and actually a dedicated jett main so i guess it made sense to switch back

Brazilian superteam should always be mibr imo, the name is too legendary. Unfortunately I think Immortals owns the mibr brand and you cant have two teams in 1 org compete in VCT

More like TSM. Dominated in the early stages of the game, fell off when teams realized it was really just Wardell/mwzera carrying the whole team with no real strats

Unfortunate choke, Oxygen just way more experienced and it shows

Also Shalaby on Kay/O with avez on Raze was weird. Avez has been performing better recently, but Raze is shalabys bread and butter

Got damn, expected a Paper Rex 2-0 but this was brutal

nt Reject, both JP teams honestly playing above expectations. actually giving me hope for Nth upset LOL

SamuraiDiff

interesting considering he was a tank main, not a widow/hitscan like most of the other OW transfers

former Japanese overwatch player

Zeta >>> HL in Berlin

Fennel is JP #5 seed and almost beat BOOM

Reject playing with two stand ins, and now took a map off FS lol

whats your point

WTFF kingg

first actually impressive classic right click play ive seen, still needs a nerf tho

GOD kingg, sits in kj ult for three frags holy. so much impact on A site every round

lower bracket run incoming

thats astralis, theyre from denmark. common mistake tho, its ok

winnable for anubis to be honest, oxygen is terrible

Dwg losing has melted his brain unfortunately, his last 50 comments are all clear signs of a severe copium overdose. Pray for him

Yacine tossing and Guild still win, bonkar brain too huge

literally 5 or so rounds this game entirely his fault, including last 2. stick to phoenix and raze, i never want to see him play jett again holy fuck

jinx fucking useless as jett. let mittii play

hes a jett op main typically, he plays kay/o on bind but i guess they are trying him on ascent too

And they are playing with two standins in place of their 2 best players by far. They are fucked

How does this brim/viper/breach comp on breeze actually work lol. Undefeated

gets boring seeing the exact same copy pasted braindead comment on literally every thread. bait once in a while is ok but not 50 posts a day

tsm owns u btw

Reject playing without Dep and Hareee, their only two good players lol. SamuraiD and Skeey (their analyst lol), both formerly of Connect, will play with them. Neither of them have played an official since March. Im honestly not sure they get 10 rounds this whole tournament. The only way they win anything is with ping diff fuckery

maybe ardiis. played on fish123 when they were the best, g2 when they were the best, and heretics who used to be the best

wardell slept through a grand final before, its ok