Bren ranting that teams that participated in EWC don't care about champs like what is this guy yapping about 😭

What's been so bad about it? The playoffs include the Top 2 teams from the last Masters among other good teams?

Franchising just ruined everyones perception of tournaments. I just don't understand how you can just discredit a tournament bc it doesn't say VCT in front of it

People are comparing it to T3 Valorant events like the best teams in the world aren't competing in it. If you consider Lock In a Major with its single-elim format, idk how you would discredit this event. People cry there aren't enough matches then when a non-VCT event happens everyone says it doesn't matter lol. This isn't the same as SOOP, Red Bull Homegrounds etc., bc those events have less than 8 teams present; this one has 16. Not sure how you can think teams aren't trying either, do people think the players don't want 500k?

"invented lurking"

I'll cry laughing if Cryo gets dropped before Asuna

Cryo has singlehandedly won you multiple series this season and you want him gone lmao... also Zander doesn't want to IGL anymore.

That's true, I'm surprised they never experimented with Asuna on Omen. Thinking about it now it would suit him well because his utility is genuinely insane.

I'd agree with that. You can also make the case that Cryo never should have been placed on Raze (but he likely was doing well in scrims, so they went with it). They could have put him on Omen (OR SENTINEL LIKE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR YEARS) more since they eventually put bang in Viper jail anyways. Imo they should have leaned into double duelist more. Cryo Jett + Asuna Raze probably would have worked out better than what they did even if the comp wasn't meta. Mikes biggest issue was putting players on agents/roles that didn't fit them. I'll also give Cryo some leeway for his Raze performances because it was directly after Chamber meta where he was more of a lurker, so he wasn't really in the mindset to play a hard entry. His success on Yoru and his aggressiveness on Yoru the last year makes me think he could develop into a good or average Raze player if he was required to play it now.

Derrek def got unlucky and it was braindead when he was put on Harbor on Pearl when Sova was still viable. I think Mikes was good at defensive setups as an AC like you said but I wouldn't want him to have input on comps or anything offensive related. I still believe in Zikz personally, and but would love to give him another year with a different IGL. If that goes south, I'd say it's time to move on. If they could do Happy and Zikz as AC like he was on EG I'd be more down for that than a 3rd reunion with Mikes, I don't love the idea of Stellar and Mikes being on the same team again.

You would be correct

ion is better than gmd bro

my hero academia fan detected

I'd say more like underdogs than darkhorses

i remember when this dude was playing on teal seam when he was 14 with Seven (the original canezerra type hyped up player). Hopefully he can develop into a T1 player, it's crazy I've been watching this dude in T2 for this long he's bounced around so many F/A teams

idk I thought it was kind of hard but Victor is definitely better than jacob

why tf did he name swap to "jacob" lost all his aura (ik its his name). It's like Victor swapping from food.

My CTE but N4RRATE off Fade would be a mistake

There's zero patience for SEN it's weird. They replaced 2 of the best players on their team for 2 younger players and still have made every international this year, getting better results in the 2nd than the 1st. People need to relax and realize them not winning an event this year doesn't mean changes have to be made.

Zellsis isn't the problem man but if you're replacing him I'd rather have try NiSMO because at least you know he has a good mental and will keep the team in check similar to Sacy. Also, N4RRATE on flashes and Zellsis on recon makes no sense.

Gotcha. I like the idea of Cryo being on a secondary duelist in certain comps compared to being asked to entry 24/7. I'm glad they leaned heavily into him on Yoru despite losing at EWC because he is clearly very good with him. I also agree with your Asuna point; whenever I ask for him to be replaced, people take it as me trashing on him, but you just can't go 5 years with him and have no success. He will have personal success elsewhere where he gets to play agents like Fade/Kayo/etc. full time, but he makes no sense on the current roster where he is asked to play Neon/Raze on a consistent basis. People often think because you are aggressive means you should be on duelist which isn't true. Love the idea of Keiko replacing him.

I threw this idea around in another sub, my reasoning was that Mike’s was more of the issue than Stellar. Stellar didn't have guys like Zander/Eeiu on the team to help him with calling (they also didn't have a real coaching staff, which was a whole other issue.)

Neither him nor Vora really play Senti (outside of Sage for Vora), but both play Initiator, and Kyu has played Viper in the past. I just think he's a better caller than Vora, where Vora is a better fragger. If you get Keiko, wouldn't he be on Omen on certain maps, which would allow Zander to swap to Viper? Or would Cryo play Omen, and Keiko play Raze/Neon on maps like Lotus, for example?

Coughing ant vs 5 nukes

Also, I'm pretty sure Eeiu does a lot of preround setup stuff as well for the team or at least that's what I heard him say in an interview earlier in the year.

I think Ethan struggling had more to do with the team environment and Chet than his ability as an IGL. He's looking fine as an IGL now that he has a real coach. I don't think anyone on the roster should swap to IGL but I was just saying it makes more sense for him to do it than zander considering zander doesn't want too.

you're a TSM fan you gamble on your mental every match unfortunately

I agree, if you are swapping someone on the roster to IGL it would be eeiu not Zander. Zander has said numerous times he doesn't want to IGL again and only did it on M80 bc he had too bc no one else wanted to do it after Johnqt left.

I agree with all of this but I'd rather have Kyu than Vora

There were real humans on this site saying Timotino should replace Cryo on 100T if they rebuild

I think he would only ever play Senti again if they did a double senti comp with deadlock where he would be replacing an initiator.

Zander is much better than Spaz.

Putting NiSMO on Senti makes no sense. He's one of the best pure flashers in NA. Just drop Asuna and Boostio, put NiSMO on full time flashes + he is very good at Raze as well so Cryo wouldn't have to play her. Then get an IGL willing to play Senti.

Knight is one of the best midlanders of all time bro what is this comparison

Based on them making Champs with Stellar before Sean left and Mikes took over. I don't disagree with you but Stellar never went -28 or close to that in a series on 100T, Boostio is going -20 on a consistent basis. I'm not saying they should do it, I was more so poking fun at the fact that Rossy would somehow be an upgrade.

On Lotus though? Makes no sense to run her over Neon or Raze atp. You can convince me on Ascent she might have some uses similar to Jett but I don't see the vision on Lotus especially when you're running a Fade who actually pairs well with an agent like Raze.

I'll laugh so hard if they cut Cryo or Eeiu before him

Eeiu, Cryo, Zander is a good core. Replace Asuna + Boostio and go from there. I understand it's not all Asuna's fault but we are 5 years into him being on the team with zero real success, at some point you gotta just cut your losses and try out new talent.

MikesHD had more to do with that than Stellar

when are teams going to finally realize she's a horrible agent?

how many times does Rossy need to be dropped within a month of being on a team for people to realize he's not all that. Just bring back Stellar at this point if the best option is "Rossy"

You aren't winning anything with Asuna as your main duelist + he doesn't want to OP.

Leaf is arguably the best player on the team. His lurks and midrounding is one of the biggest reasons for their success.

falling for winning vs a chinese team gimmick

all this money to have the wrong player facecams, 1 million tech pauses and delayed audio 😹 how do you have worse production than T2 Valorant 😹😹😹

FNATIC champs trophy?

I know 100T has already been down this road but I'd unironically rather have Stellar back on 100T playing Senti over Boostio. Eeiu handles a lot of the midrounding and comes up with a lot preround stuff for the team. Let him and Stellar call together, at least Stellar never had an issue with fragging when he was on 100T.

.89 KD and 10 assists in Stage 1 on Yoru (with a 6-19 game) but still has a 1.15 KD all time. I think it's fair to disregard Stage 1 for all of NRG imo. It's a clean slate now with a new team. Historically he's a very good Yoru and I still feel very comfortable with him picking it.

He went from being on the same team as his child to his daddy. Fairs.

It's okay Bonkar got his 2nd favorite child Skuba

Completely forgot about miliary service shit