i wish you luck

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hey i just got the pick ban mostly right for x10 and envy >:( hahaha

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my pickems weren't the best, i did get group B right but the rest had some really dodgy choices (I had crazy racoon making it out of group C O.O)

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I'd need to give it more thought, but probably a 2-1 for Fnatic with it being very close, I see Fnatic picking and taking fracture quite easily to start but then the other 2 maps (maybe split picked by KRU and bind/haven as decider?) being super close, and KRU could definitely do what they did to SEN another time :)

That's fair enough, yay and leaf are both very good players but have both been quite disappointing here at champions, so I want to go off what I've seen in the recent times rather than what they've done in the past, but I'm more than happy to be proven wrong :D

ty <3 I see completely where you're coming from, it is kinda hard to understand with how the first match went, but the X10C I saw against VK looked completely different to the one in their opening match, so to me it makes more sense they will continue to play with confidence and as if they have nothing to lose rather than to return to being hesitant.

I've heard from many people now that I seem to be underrating TS, I'm looking for them to prove me wrong and do some good damage against VKS :D Agree completely with you on the C9/VS game and Envy/X10C as well, it would be super fun for them to rematch Gambit for storylines, but it isn't looking that likely for them :(

No matter what happens the playoffs will be great though and I'm excited to see whoever makes it through!!

That's fair, thank you for your insight :D! As I said, I'm not all that sure about this matchup, hopefully I'm wrong and it will be a close and interesting match ^.^

I'd like to see them put up a fight for sure, the closer the matches are, the more fun they are to watch! It is the game I'm most unsure about, so hopefully they can prove me wrong. Thanks as well!! Gif should be coming up quite soon indeed 👀

hehe thanks so much! <3

Thanks! I've been a Fnatic fan for more than a year now (since SUMN FC) so it's easy for me to say they will make it all the way, but realistically it could be almost any of the teams in top 8. The best bet is probably Liquid, but what I really hope for is just that the games are competitive and close <3

definitely could see an Envy 2-0, they are the favourites after all but as you said anything is possible at this tournament! :D

VK not at all, if they were in I would've probably predicted them to make it to playoffs but actually yes for SEN hehe, i would've probably said it's like 55-45 to SEN, similar to how I feel about X10C vs Envy today

interesting, thank you for the insight

yep lollll, thank you!! ^.^

I really wouldn't say Fnatic are good at ascent honestly, but I'm not sure that's the point. Vision Strikers are coming in as the better team, and have to play like it. That means sticking to their own game and playing the maps they like the most. Even if C9 might be bad at Ascent and therefore won't pick it first, that doesn't matter because they should be picking and banning to what they are most comfortable with, because they should feel that they can beat C9 on any map so it only makes sense to go for your best ones

maybe VK played bad sure, but X10 still entered with crazy confidence from the first round, playing like there is absolutely nothing to lose, and against the previous finalists in Envy who should realistically be huge favourites, I can't see why they wouldn't play like that again

not sure about Victor's situation, but honestly he is not one of their main players and they shouldn't look so poor just because of him, so I don't think they'll be back in tip top shape just because of him getting a warmer room, but we'll see, they are of course still favourites in the series so them winning isn't a surprise

Yeah definitely, and should be why they make sure Icebox is picked. From what I remember from watching the matches, at least on ascent both Envy and X10C were quite hesitant, whereas in the game today vs VK, X10C played incredibly aggressively and it worked unbelievably well, so as I said before with such a fast win they should be coming in with confidence ready to do the same thing again.

I also could see leaf's disruption being super powerful for sure, correct me if I'm wrong of course I didn't watch thaaat much of NA LCQ but I thought leaf was mainly having crazy impact with Jett, especially on breeze pushing mid or elbow, area's like that, whereas from the games here at lan it's felt a little different and like he's just doing a lot less, and his Skye seems like a very similar level to his Jett when that wasn't the case before, so I'm not convinced he will truly throw off vision strikers and stop them. Especially with the match being very high stakes and VS being such a well respected team, I don't think he's gonna magically be back in his online form of pure domination, but we'll have to see and that's why I still give them a decent chance of around 35% :D

got no clue what the stats even are honestly, I've just been watching the matches, only 'stats' I've looked at were the pick ban phases lol

could you explain why you think that? as I just said in the comment below imo it seems quite obvious vikings would win pretty easily from what I've seen but I'd love to have my opinion changed

you think so? I didn't catch much of CR vs TS but secret were pretty embarrassing against gambit, whereas vikings were highly impressive in both their matches therefore it makes sense it should be the most one sided match of the day, but I'd love to hear why you think that :D

yep online maybe, but that doesn't mean it'll translate, as already proven (also probably then unlikely VS pick it I never said this was a high quality post okay just some quick thoughts D:)

i mean i did say who i was right at the start tbf

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Hey, so someone asked me about my predictions for tomorrow so mostly because I'm bored I thought I'd give my predictions going into tomorrow's matches since I've been watching almost every game in champions and also got clowned for thinking KRU have a good chance to beat SEN, so maybe I can at least explain myself here before getting flamed hahaha.

Also ofc since I mentioned it in the title, I am a pro in EMEA game changers for team chatbanned (maybe getting signed soon O.O), we finished back to back top 5, with wins over G2, Guild and Rix :)

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Game 1 - Vision Strikers vs Cloud9

Map veto prediction:

VS -ascent (seems to be their perma-ban rn)
C9 -haven (maybe vision strikers best map, not something I think c9 will risk)

VS +breeze (they picked it into full sense, and c9 looked super dodgy on it)
C9 +icebox (not really sure what they'll pick here, but I think icebox is reasonable to go for because it's a map c9 plays all the time)

VS -split
C9 -bind

Remainder: Fracture (either team could ban split/bind, but i think both will want to go for fracture 3rd since they can be prepared for their opponent, while they can't for the other 2 maps)

Now with the map pool laid out, it's pretty obvious that Vision Strikers will take the game in my opinion, although the maps favour them that much I believe they are just the better team and will be able to win it convincingly. They should be quite fired up to prove themselves after the loss to Fnatic whereas C9 won't exactly have the highest level of confidence after such dodgy lan performance, and I wouldn't be that surprised to see leaf affected again. However, I don't think it's fair to fully count them out, C9 most certainly have a chance.

So overall, I'll say it's 65-35 for Vision Strikers, and the most likely result is a 2-1 for them, but C9 could also surprise on fracture, as well as it could be a 2-0 for VS.

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Game Two - Vikings vs Team Secret (this is probably a lot more dodgy of an analysis because I don't really know these teams as well)

Map veto prediction:

VKS -ascent (seems to be a perma-ban for them atm)
TS -bind (got dominated on it by gambit, and vks dominated gambit on it, so it'd probably be an instaloss to play it)

VKS +breeze (not sure how comfortable they are on this map, but after a 13-0 loss it seems unlikely they'd be scared to play TS on it)
TS +haven (idk exactly why lol just seems like the most likely option)

VKS -icebox/split (pretty sure VKS want to play fracture 3rd map, they've left it in twice now and I think they'll do it again to force 3rd onto whichever map they want)
TS -fracture (unlikely they will want to risk it, leaving fracture in the veto in this current state of the game is a very high pressure move and typically shows you have a good fracture, even if it's a bluff it's not really worth the risk to the team on the other side of it - trust me I've done it with my team hehe)

Remainder: Icebox/Split

As I already said, I'm kinda unsure about this game, but I think it's pretty obvious VKS will win, their team will be full of confidence after such a strong game against gambit and with players like sacy, they shouldn't be able to be stopped.

I'll predict roughly 75-25 for VKS, with a 2-0 victory being the most likely outcome, but a 2-1 also possible.

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Game 3: Envy vs X10C (Probably the most interesting game :D)

Map veto prediction:

Envy -fracture
X10C -bind (both teams seem to have these as perma-bans)

Envy +haven (maybe a risky guess here, ascent is the most obvious option, but from what I saw Envy looked super off on ascent in both times they played it so I think they'll want to change it up, and with having a vod on X10C compared to no vods on them, it's not as unlikely as it might seem)
X10C +icebox (with a good performance vs VK, I feel X10C will have the confidence to take Envy on icebox - it's never been that strong of a map for Envy so I think Patiphan will be perfectly happy to run around and feast on them with reyna)

Envy -breeze (pretty obvious, their second worst map easily)
X10C -split

Remainder: Ascent (if the first picks go how I assume, I think X10C might see that Envy have low confidence on Ascent and leave it in, or alternatively/additionally, they have now 2 vods on Envy's ascent and their own vod to learn from mistakes, so they'll be going in with a good gameplan and know what to do)

I really don't think it's that unlikely X10C take this game, I see it similar to KRU vs SEN. They're gonna be coming in with a lot of confidence after stomping a very good team in VK, and know exactly what to fix from the previous match, whereas Envy just got quite heavily upset by Acend. With the game having to be played off-stage, I think X10C might not be as hype, but I'm hoping that won't impact them, and assuming it doesn't their chances are really higher than most will rate.

I think it's around 60-40 to Envy, or maybe even 55-45. This series should be going all 3 maps and should be really fun to watch. As I said Envy are more likely, but I'm really feeling the upset so I'm gonna say X10C take this 2-1, losing Haven then winning Icebox and Ascent :D

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Hope that was interesting and helps you a bit with understanding what these games should go like. Not that my view is perfect and the vetos will go anywhere close to as I've said, this is just something quick I've done for fun, but I shouldn't be too far off with what happens, because I haven't been too wrong with the predictions I've made in my head up until now hahah ^.^

i think the game to watch out for will be x10 envy, that's the one with the most potential imo, other 2 should be quite comfortable games for vision strikers/vikings respectively but i wouldn't count c9 out of their game entirely

probably something like
VS 70-30 C9
VKS 75-25 Secret
Envy 60-40 X10

like it's just logical even if you don't watch the games tbh, furia were super close to beating sen, kru beat furia, therefore kru can beat sen lol

not like that's actually how it always works but yk it's no where near as unreasonable of a shout as ppl were making it out to be here

it's almost like pro players know what's going on in the games they watch and can therefore accurately judge what might happen better than the average random

zombs 'brazil are a shit region'

me 'it's a 60/40 for sen'

this guy 'omg no sportsmenship why so rude to my sen ;((('

it's not even that unlikely either tbh, sen simps will be in tears because i don't think any of them know how good other regions are, it's probably just a 60/40 or so for tenz and friends :d

cool but this is lan and they won ascent against envy

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doesn't mean they didn't just take first map

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from jade: inner lines 1-3-2-1 red (no outline, no dot)
reason: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxmf30FHhAPduubzbkHJcw_kkeea3F_9X5

fr though there's obviously no best xhair objectively how can u give a reason that isn't 'i like it' x)

never is just wrong, he was the best jett in the world around a year ago

fr he's soooooooooo good

yea kinda same but i am SO excited that they're doing well, im on the copium for them to take first now ngl

hehehe there's something coming that's all i'll say

shouldn't be too far away :)

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they should be signing chatbanned in eu imo

the difference is there, definitely, esp if your fps is consistent 240+, but i would recommend a better mouse for sure if you actually want to improve

the thing that is normally said is that extra hz in your monitor doesn't really help with your gameplay, but rather just makes the game feel better to play :D

as we've already seen 1 million times, jett will never be dogshit unless her dash is changed (or i guess if knifes don't one tap head maybe lol)

Rank : Immortal 3

Graphics : RX570
Processor : Ryzen 7 3700X
Display size : 24in
Refresh rate : 240hz (no i don't get 240fps consistently lol but for rn its still much better than 144hz and i'll probably be getting a full new pc kinda soon anyway)
Mouse : G Pro Superlight

honestly every map in the game is 50/50, except maybeee fracture being t sided