disband pls

-persia -hermes -felix
mid roster at best to begin with

bts suga better than all 3

1 fk 9 fd on fracture drx

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Sunday > stax

stew is a monster wtf

expected, don't know why people thought maru was going to be good

bro brought up an entirely different topic because of how hard buzz diffed yays terrible jett 🤣🤣

why bring up past 🤣 diffed by buzz

dplus 2-0 or 1

ash is up next

2/3 examples u just brought up aren't even rebrands lmao

even without chamber pay is crazy

their neon astra setups remind me of f4q

3-5 will be interchangeable

I think I was pretty spot on with my comments at least

NS is good, has nice strats and insane potential

Maru isn't that good besides hann and will be a mediocre team

SC is ever improving

that's pretty crazy if he did because the difference is night and day now. coach diff ig

ummmm team comps?

I don't think we can call it choking anymore

no he wasn't it was TS. and it's not his fault solo just lovesss to put sentinel players on breach (first hate now estrella)

isn't solo still head coach? peri shouldn't be flamed as much. should have signed jaemin instead of solo

dark horse? they just smacked the favourites

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HES THR GOAATTTT

DKS FATHER HOLYYYY

like I said in my post, dk has no identity imo. I rmemeber them vs scarz trying to do fast executes and they got analed every time. I feel like they literally don't know what to do

I actually thought Margaret was going to be on duelist because he had good aim but yeah moves is looking good so far

I used to think estrella was going to be that guy. he was the best nonchamber sentinel in lcq but now he's on breach duty lmaooo

solos coaching is so questionable. the agent roles on the players throughout 2022 made me mald

igl diff. ns has the only good igls in proxy and jeonghi lmaooo

if maru wins I'll circumsize myself

bro why do I hardly see u on 😭

tweet got deleted, maybe he's on geng now idk

rio lost a map in qualifiers lmao

and I just don't see maru being top 3 imo. they have persia who didn't even play well in SA, felix who's a mediocre initiator and hermes who played pretty bad on f4q. ig his time on HM was decent.

selig is a veteran lmao

in week 1 maybe. but I expect them towards the end of the split to be 2nd. people forget only ns has a certified igl

maru is def going to let u down. and wgs no jeonghi no win

taking 8 maps against nonchoke dplus in their first match is ok. and they got rid of dongho who was a deadweight in that series

1. Dplus Kia
   Self explanatory, they have the most experience both player wise and coach wise but even in terms of firepower on paper, they are the clear favourites. They have a huge org with history and have the resources to contend for ascension.  However, they have been plagued by losing to teams they have been favoured against in 2022 but hopefully with the slight roster changes this is no longer the case.
   Pros: raw firepower
   executes and utility setups
   Cons: lack of direction with gameplan
   little team identity
   poor midrounding

2. Nongshim
   Another LCK team but with a combination of experienced players and rookies. Handpicked by Pine the initial roster lineup had caused confusion amongst korean fans, with seasoned free agents not being signed up, I have high expectations for this roster. With their only experience as a team being a showmatch vs Dplus, they surprised me with a lot of interesting strategies. However the inexperience of the team could be easily seen with a lot of rookie mistakes, poor decision making and failure to adapt to the tempo of the game early on. Even so, I expect the team to only go up and as they gain experience I believe they can contend with Dplus for a spot in the ascension tournament.

3. CNJ
   From here it's pretty hard to choose. To many peoples surprise I will pick CNJ. Despite coming dead last in split 2 of kr vct 2022 and losing their star player in moothie, they heavily impressed me in the offseason by taking a map off Team Secret and being close to beating 2022 FAV both maps. although they didn't look great in terms of coordination, I like to think of it as their first game with the new roster and even so, they did great thanks to their aim. I would only assume they have gotten so much better with time as they've had a lot of time compared to other teams. However, their performance in the offseason was during the chamber meta, with their new player 'pay' being absolutely demonic on this agent. with the meta shifting we could see cnj going back down to their 2022 results but we will see.

4. WGS
   WGS is essentially a veteran team with seasoned players from the Maru Gaming core. This same core competed in the ESL tournament and beat teams such as Crazy Raccoon which are the favourites for JP challengers. No doubt this core alone should make this team formidable but their loss of Jeong Hi who was instrumental as an igl will greatly affect this team imo. I can't see them being as good as 2022 maru/oga because of this, though I would like to be surprised.

5. Maru
   Finally we get to see beyn play officially!! Aside from that initially I was hyped when the roster was announced but now with a little thinking besides hann and maybe beyn they have mediocre players. though their names are all recognisable by korean fans, I just can't see how the majority of this team can compare to some of the others. Not to mention, like most korean teams, the lack of a certified igl will greatly hurt this team, which doesn't even have thag much firepower to begin with.

6. Shadow Corp
   Deadass a coin flip between rio and sc for me. the reason I put them above rio is due to the fact that they are rookies and have so much potential to grow throughout this tournament. they started off as OQ and caught my eye when they came 3rd in the ESL tournament. from there they have only continued to improve by beating ONS in a big  high school tourney who came 2nd in ESL and now even qualifying for vct. I only expect this team to improve the fastest of all teams and i hope they can upset a couple big teams here.

7. RIO
   LFG we got some vets back! ngl when I first saw the roster I was quite disappointed as the majority of this roster was in my eyes washed up players who I had written off. with most of them not even playing official games in 2022 I was surprised by their dominance in qualifiers. I hope they continue to surprise me.

8. OP.GG
   who? omegalul

foxy owns that boomer dubstep
https://twitter.com/DRX_VS/status/1581643205044367360?s=20&t=X7o9K3i6xKxko8u70fMkwQ

seems like it unless he's going to be on op.gg

this roster just confuses me a lot tbh lmaooo

geng doesn't have their 6th yet. maybe he's on geng just not finalised?

geng will clear all these chamber abusing frauds now

probably jeonghi? no way he doesn't get picked up

ohh ok

ummmm tf happened to spear

a couple times? probably. but so many times? not even a chance

dk win ez. in playoffs ns will clap dk tho

optix wasn't good cuz they genuinely didn't take their scrims seriously. back when they started they were known as the na scrim gods.