Why are they so hesitant in playing double duelist? So many maps seem to trend towards double duelist. It just feels weird seeing NRG have skuba and s0m who plays both duelist and smokes be stuck with almost same roles (viper/killjoy/omen duty)? Hell, even Ethan can play duelist (but probably not since he's the igl i think?)

I'm sorry, but if G2 qualify for champ while losing every single game at stage 2, riot should remove point system if teams are just going to 'qualify'.

If babybay is cracked and insane replacement, I apologized for saying it. But it sure look unprofessional for an org to hire a broadcaster out of all the talents in NA as a standin.

Maybe its time to move to Canada. 90% of the visa issue wont be as bad as the u.s. i think.

Title. I wish they either had a double elimination bracket at least for the semifinal (If they don't have time for the quarterfinal) or just do single elimination with 3rd/4th place being the same. Why even bother with a match that doesn't impact the Final?

I just had a thought. If both teams made it past franchising and kept all players, who would win at its peak?

Isn't it crazy that its coincidently happening in EWC? What a script ngl.

Reminds me how much I hate the league of legend's trophy system. Only one that matter is world. MSI, First Stand, none of them matter. Thank god valorant never had the same issue in the scale that league has. Even cs has a certain shame-level ladder.

(Lets just not talk about lockin.)

Fnc got so lucky with icebox. It could had been a fast wrap-up for all the viewers instead of watching fnc execute site hit at 20 second.

It's joever for fraudnatic. How do you lose a map after winning pistol and the eco round next?

Looking at how much Apek's player shined when they got seperate, would they have made it to toronto if they kept all five people? Or at least four of them? Looking at XLG and G2 who both qualifed for the event as the ascension team, I think there was really have chance of them making it if they just kept the roster together.

I can feel it. Lotus and Ascent Siufatbb masterclass calling. Spring's insane lurking timer with Juicy fully heated up, getting an ACE to save the game. FNC stands no chance as maps 3 and 4 crumbled. They began to run out of steam as the inevitable happened before their eyes, as Lysoar pulled off a miracle site hold. Yet, nothing beats the greatest comeback of Yuicaw, waking up to carry the game back to the top of the leaderboard.

(Real)

Is he matchfixing? Anyone could check real quick?

They got Jawg, why are they playing literally zero raze every map when its like one of the best duelist? He's literally fmvp on raze. Is this really Gold 2 team comps? Not a single raze on lotus, on pearl, on split, on literally any map that could work. It's literally raze meta after the tejo nerf that is countered by vyse+yoru.

Ash and foxy9 gotta move? Thoughts? Just because NS brought RB, lowkey geng can buy someone from NS. Surely better than ash and foxy9.

Rather than blaming pati, maybe lulquid shouldn't be down 1-11. There wouldn't need to be a clutch if they won more than a single round on attack side.

Bro's calling theshy strats.

Lowkey lit move if nadeshot is willing. There's no way Mibr has any money left to keep its player.

Think about the positive side, at least they made it to Grand Final.

Geng 3-1 or 3-0. RRQ blew all of their map picks against PRX. There's no way geng fumble with double ban advantage, right?

This is the real grand final of vct cn. (Real) (Not bait) (Sarcasm)

I know Slowly is technically new, but is he still considered a rookie? He's been playing at Tyloo's csgo for years now. (I agree he's cracked.)

Who was the original tejo merchant during kickoff? Freeing. Bro only played Tejo after going to Tier 2. Why did DRX switch it up? Just looking at g2's Trent 100% tejo pick rate = win. Are they dumb?

BLG fighting!

I hate g2 because of how heavy post-plant they used to be (And even now). I know other players are using Tejo as well, but watching Tejo post plant from g2 is extremely annoying, especially when they sometime take a long ass time to execute the site into post plant simulator.

The amount of time I see Trent in the back (because he's playing Tejo) is beyond annoying to watch to win. I'd rather watch him play Sova than be on the iPad gameplay 24/7. It's partially riot's fault but thanks to him being so good in clutch, it doesn't help as he now gets to use the ipad even later into the post plant! (Fun! We love ipads!)

EG 2-1 G2, icy's Revenge will be absolute cinema. Just imagine the amount of money G2 had burnt for that roster only to be diffed by a budget team like EG.

it's always surprisingly to me how good Furia was at Lotus. They lost every game but won lotus (except the OT against c9 and G2 who got pretty close), so they got at least one strong map.

Meanwhile 100t... Does anyone know what is their strong map?

What do people expect fragging on smoke igl in the same as a flash initiator player? The main Flash initiator player in a team always gets fucked by being forced to wait with stunlines and flashes in the back.

What makes you think smoke players always tend to have an easier time to frag compared to the flash initiator? Will Valyn play breach? No, because he's the smoke player on the team. There's a reason why Jonahp isn't replaced in g2. He is the utility player on the team.

Do you think Valyn would be able to function as a flash initiator? Off smoke and not 2nd entry that gets killed compared to Jawgemo, whose main entry?

None of his teammates want to be that guy sitting with constant utlit up and allowing the enemy get the timing. (Notice how it is flash initiator, not scan initiator. Trent and Leo don't have this big of an issue because they aren't literally tied to sitting duck with utilt. They can just throw it out and don't have to worry about it afterward, not forcing to assist teamate for both defend and attack sides)

To add, initator are always fucked with shooting if they are expected to be constantly throwing util (Comparing rossy in lev and rossy in T1) having a lot of timing enemy can catch with util. Not to mention needing to igl. If we were to compare his controller stats (way above average) to his current igl initator, he's almost fns level of shooting.

I just realized something. Art was a controller player (but now he's an initiator igl). Then, he transitioned into coaching before joining DFM. Why would they make a coach a player? Why not just keep him as a coach and find an igl that can shoot?

They still did better than before. So better than nothing if you think about it.

Regardless of the roster changes, I really hope they keep Dgzin for next year. He's a really good player and has earned his spot as a good duelist.

I don't see how Loud can find someone better other than buying back Aspas, which is never happening.

Title. I haven't seen it past week 1. It seems everyone had abandoned it except Aspas, having actual set-plays with his ult.

Edits: Thanks everyone. I completely forgot about G2 yesterday.

Title. Source: Trust me bro

tuyz to mibr with loud having a new player no?

The fact that the match was 3-2 is probably alarming, and the superteam may not be worth the money. Liquid's budget team (2 tier ones and Free agent Patitek, it's probably only Nats and maybe Keiko more expensive side) getting second is extremely impressive.

he need potter and have a system set up around him. No other coach beside potter can fix him

LCK is going on, probably takes away like 75% of the live viewership

Flex1n is on its way to his 5th team mercenary journey. Has a player swapped as many teams as he did in tier 1?

(Also, Flex1n was on Perma Flank watch thanks to Astra pulls. I can't really blame his KDA)

Vo0kahu taking the budget probably makes the money pool even smaller for them. It's also kinda risky for them, considering DRG mostly comms in English if I remember correctly. Both Luke and Nicc can both speak English and understand it I think?

As much as I want to say yes, Luke is probably the best that DRG can have, considering they are an ascension team and probably don't have the most money.

Meanwhile, XLG has a rich millionaire backing it. That ascension team was able to get a much bigger sponsor after they won ascension The fact that DRG signed Spirit (academy player) and Tyloo still owns Flexing's contract (aka why BLG didn't keep Flexing, their budget went to Whyz and the league team, aka why Flexing was only signed last minute) makes financial sense to keep Luke.

older than FNS my goat

2-0 EDG,

Is jinggg the best Phoenix t1? Not even funny, but he's the only one that I seen playing it on pearl back in 2023 champ. Does anyone else recently that play phx other than qck?

Now Sultan is the only one who needs to look for a way out.

Bro, GE might as well do what TH(Spanish org with no Spanish player) does and sign BOOM's entire team. They can use their Indian roster in t2 talent as they continue to develop. Just let the BOOM team have a chance in t2 and probably save so much money from doing it, too. There is no need for a massive budget for some import teams.

It doesn't help that EG is a scum org. This is a daily reminder that Riot should never have let them into franchising. Isn't it hypocritical that Riot didn't allow G2 to franchise in Europe because of Ocolete's relationship with Tate, yet just rubbed it under the rug when EG CEO forced its player to keep playing with mental struggle with the whole Danny situation, and their staff even called the player re***d? Surely sound like a great org to work in.

That gotta be cap. Bro picked his own alt account for sure

Bro it's 3:10 AM and like 6:10 AM in NA, how do you expect viewership?

Genuine question: Zero ops were brought or killed in the icebox. He's only playing vandal. Did EDG's abyss perform the last few rounds (Aspas buying forced ops that didn't made any impact), killing Aspas's mentality in oping?

"If you give them something, they're gonna run away with the game." I knew it, it's all prx carrying edg (Sarcasm)