That makes sense. Its gonna feel like a long offseason, I wouldn't take anything as 100% until teams make announcements as we've already seen with many teams

WOW this sounds like a team who will win it all or explode in April

I guess they are trying to cash in with the buyout

my point is that neither are "chokers". the teams with veto advantage could be considered chokers but not as a whole

I don’t think she will get nerfed unless it is like a 100% pick rate. I think it would be nice to see a meta shift for the next season

LEV not making changes, would love to see saadhak and nzr on a Kru team

Losing grands doesn’t always mean choking, they just weren’t the best team. Still a great year

Won’t even make it there

We still talking about that?

honestly at this point GE can either field a whole indian team or take the KC type route and grab 4 cracked duelists and an igl

not even close

Any team can beat any team on a given day

fuck the org but feel for the players man they had a good year

If they pick up someone like Jawgemo it might be over for everyone next year

w rage bait

Unfortunate for Trace, DRX is basically the best Abyss team left and theirs looks bad

Rage baiting is crazy 💀 shawn u making us look bad

Unless there are big changes on Haven from SEN, DRX takes it. Bind would probably be a third map instead of SENs pick

who knows, we are getting great young players in every region anything can happen next year

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If someone wanted to make an account with each possible composition of groups, they would need more than 300,000 accounts. No one crazy enough to attempt to do this kind of thing. I doubt itll ever happen

to all the people spamming jawgemo to PRX, if you take 2 seconds to look at the contract database you would know they already have one import

he's gonna be fine lol

Likely no changes

I'd only pay a bag of chips for an account with just a title lmao.

average NRG fan

Not the best logic to look at the series, some teams match up better against certain teams so the correlating the win with DRX losing during stage 2 as SEN easy win doesnt make any sense. Either way will be a good match

I agree with you, they wont be able to get both Bind and Ascent and their other maps do not look amazing

Trace have 2 maps, which are Ascent and Bind. EDG will ban Ascent like they did during Stage 2 and are very decent on Bind. I can only imagine a 2-0 or 2-1 loss to EDG. Then they would have to play against SEN/DRX who will both be happy to ban Ascent. Not looking like great chances but they already upset 2 teams so anything is possible

At his bleed rate you are absolutely right. If he gets dropped I would imagine no one would give him anything more than the minimum

they perform best when there is doubt so I hope nothing changes 💀

I mean if we want to talk about disappointments then it’s gotta be T1 for not even qualifying

ok

Not even close to a fluke. They came the closest to a 2023 FNC type year. Unless there is a 2 tournament winner, GenG will likely be the best performers of this season overall

this has elite jynx potential with champs still happening

Out respect for Trace and EDG, I’ll be passing on that $20

I’d say yes. We already saw regions get extra spots last year and it didn’t mean better quality overall. Usually every region has 1-2 teams who are actually contending. Who knows what needs to be done to guarantee the best 16 teams. In my head it would be cool to make a mega LCQ between the 4 best non qualified teams from each region but it would make no sense logistically

Yep I defo agree here, they were also in a down turn of form since the tragic Shanghai result. It happens

honestly you could have just muted and/or reported and moved on man, it really isnt that deep. if they deem the behavior bad theyll penalize them

this is probably similar to my rankings as well but id have C9 over EG

why would you try to make another song when you already reached perfection, anything new would just be worse

we do not need another Marved song

the only team where there can be discussion of removal of slots is probably china but who knows where those slots should go. we saw extra slots given last year and that didnt really get us better teams and its not even an EMEA problem. Regions by the end of the year are pretty top heavy so in champs there is always 1 or 2 teams per region that are not close to contending. SEN/KRU in Americas, Vitality/FUT in EMEA, Talon in Pacific, and etc. Every region takes at least a mid team to Shanghai and Champs. I hope they test new ways to qualify for Champs so that we get the 16 for sure best teams

people keep blaming the comps but other teams see a lot of success there. its more their style of play

i still like them but im sure people are disappointed with how they are playing. Probably entered every tournament as a favorite since Jinggg came back and they are underperforming severely

I mean they never say they arent biased. They even joke about it at times. If they didnt pick your favorite team it isnt the end of the world its a podcast

not gonna think it was a mickey it was the best teams in terms of form at the time. throughout the year teams decline and others rise. it is what it is

he is right, the successful teams control the pace of the game and show that they can be slow and methodical and have set agressive fast strats, In games we lose we look very indecisive

there is still champs why is there so much roster discussion

i'll go in with no expectations and root for the boys