only heretics have a chance to win?
you know navi is in the region right?

its like you're not even reading the words on your screen

oh ya forgot to mention that the team also has precisely ZERO chemistry lmao never seen a team play as a team less than this one
again thats a team structure thing which owes to kingg and goked

this is the take i would have if i only looked at the scoreboard and let that decide my opinions. kingg is clearly the issue and if you actually watch its screaming at you

now that shanghai is over can we all agree that this team is not very good?
-kingg is not a very good caller, his lotus attack is just them pressing the door button a bunch of times hoping it will pull a rotate from B to C or vice-versa instead of retaking A rubble literally ever
-kingg's lurks are getting very little value, often just leaving his team to die
-the structure of the team is leaving c0m in an off-role that he is clearly struggling hard to adjust to, he's in far fewer clutch positions and not able to find the lurk timings that won him a championship
-the structure of the team is hyperfocused around aspas getting multikills, which is both highly ineffective in terms of having a team consistently win against top teams and leaves aspas constantly in a position where he has to 'do it all himself', causing him to bait more than he should be(he's playing for stats a lot of the time and it shows)
this is not the makings of a good team, full stop - they got exposed HARD both at shanghai and in stage 1 playoffs, and kingg is every reason why
kingg pushed out nzr, can't call, pushed a world champion into an off-role so he could fail at the role said world champion dominated on instead, and has left the best player in valorant history hanging out to dry

worst emea team? there isnt an intelligent person in the world that thinks any emea team is close to better than TH

carpe is the wrong guy to drop(assuming he's who's going out) tbh, izu has played much worse and sayaplayer has been more inconsistent
carpe went from IGLing and struggling performance-wise on the back of that, to adjusting to no longer being IGL, to that adjustment being reflected in his performances in playoffs and at shanghai, where he looked like his old self and a fucking demon
saya has been wildly inconsistent the entire split even just in his awping, and izu has just generally looked kind of bad outside of a few inhuman yoru breeze games

goat sym

29, turning 30 in the fall lmfao

just isnt true is it

sym decides whether tsm have a chance in this game or not

roles just dont really fit well, and replacing who?

im gonna be real, this just feels like a weird ass thing to say about two strangers

sym full clears yay

if they can get stew off jdg, that would be a dream, but i expect him and rb might have higher than average buyouts given how rich chinese orgs are

imo he looked pretty solid last year when he wasnt igling, struggled big time this year since picking up the igl role, passed it off to xccurate and his performances didnt adjust through stage 1 and finally took an upturn at shanghai
hes def cracked and i think he deserves another chance

lowkey carpe has looked better as of late, finally adjusting performance-wise to being relieved of igling

i think it's good that this is the most downvoted post
well done people

kingg and scream have pretty low calling quality, johnqt is probably a better example of a "fragging igl" considering he actually has solid calling quality

clueless

like i said hes a great player
still has no aura tho, its abt the vibes of the Guy yknow?

foden is good but has no aura

4 and its genuinely not close

sym being in a list with aspas is so funny
youre right but still

C9 are not that good and their wins are lowkey fraudulent
LEV running shit off-meta comps with no ideas behind them and mazino playing maybe the worst ive ever seen him or anyone play, LOUD mid-slump, and EG playing like dogpiss
in terms of quality KC and LOUD are better teams

also TL should be 12th i never want to watch that team play the video game ever again

liquid are a tier 2 team and kc clear most of emea what is this delusion

its on kinggg to learn how to actually call properly, watching their lotus makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon
lets default take mound control and b main! okay can we hit c? no theres two people there. well we took b control lets pop door hit b! nope theres 2 people there too. uhhhhhh lets flail around with the door for 40 seconds with zero direction and hope it pulls a rotate so we can hit a site at random! surely this will work! oh our entry got stiffed! well guess we'll lose the round now since there's 15 seconds left and no way to get into the site!
or: lets hit A and hope aspas/mazino go nuclear in the postplant with no other coherent plan!
and thats the whole half. dont even get me started on how they call icebox with their dogshit ass comp, its a trainwreck in 20 different ways
how do your calling deficiencies get exposed on icebox where t1 and talon are able to bot hit A 12 rounds in a row and win the half overwhelmingly
and then how he calls defense strats on icebox are also bad, getting proactive at the wrong times despite a massive amount of info

its not a stamina issue lmfao hes hot and cold in general, completely divorced from stamina
just makes headscratching decisions at times honestly

100%

this roster would have been so much better but instead we have to watch trashies for another split

me when i dont have a clue what im talking about

honestly i think hes taking time off to take care of his fiance
solid chance its a team decision which would be baffling but i think more likely this was his call

anyone that doesnt support KARMINE CORP

ah gotcha

hes right
also swear u had th flair like 20 minutes ago fam

feel like this list is super strongly based on team performances rather than individual play which feels like a bad way to rank individual players
but then you also have forsaken 3rd despite that

anyway aspas is the undisputed best player ever

dw about allat tracker doesnt measure your impact only you can in vod review gang
hs% goes crazy though

i technically allegedly cheated a little bit in a video game to get my masters so probably not

valyn at 4 when he might have some of the worst calls ive seen this split of any playoff team is more than a little criminal

and they were roommates...

this roster is stacked as fuck, how are they underperforming this hard? 1-4 with most of the RA core and YHchen on the roster? anyone watch this team know wtf is going on over there?

im watching in the morning with the boys im excited as fuck

100t

brawk just put your team down like rabid dogs

did oxygen just counter-pull to keep mitch on the bomb against flyuh's pull
holy fucking outplayed

referring to forsaken and jingg's prime in past tense is insane

im an english prof for grad students at a university

the computer science student is a femboy, whos surprised

no they won 61 scrims in a row instead
what point are you even trying to make who tf cares about offseason events

KC flop is peak braindead takes