If they were playing playoffs rn my take would be exactly the same one as it is. The roster has hit their peak, once that happens there only is one direction to go and it is backwards. The players need a fresh start from 0

Yeah you're right cause some teams went straight to playoffs, still, does not change the point

Said the guy without an NRG flair?

As I said, once you have been on the top your goal should be to up there again. They have placed 5th-8th, 4th, 9th-12th. Which would be a perfectly fine for any other team, but not for them. They managed to win with a duelist like prime yay, they are not gonna find another prime yay anytime soon, so their celling is just not what they used to be, they can0t find the same success they did in the past. They can only go backwards.

Same applies to NAVI, actually if you look a pure results:
NRG has placed 5th-8th, 4th, 9th-12th
NAVI has placed 3rd-4th, 7th-8th, 9th-12th

Do not fool yourself, NRG's year is exactly as disappointing as NAVI's, literally the same

MrFalin is a blessing for the Turkish scene and Ata Kaptan is superteam material imo, one of the best controllers we have in EMEA in general, more valuable than qw1 and the rest of FUT imo

I think the time has come for both the NAVI and the NRG core.

Think about it this way, once you have been the best team on the world, anything that is not doing it again feels like a failure to your fans. In the case of NRG, they were the best team in the world with all their players in their prime and having the best duelist in the world which I don't think are gonna find again. And for NAVI it's the same, they have reached a point where small changes don't make a difference imo

Only hearing FNC comms is when you actually realize his value. A player probably values derke's job the most

Oh don't get me wrong I would 100% bench ardiis, he is a liability imo.

And yes Victor duelist would be better because it wouldn't force you to play Jett, but no, on those maps where you do wanna play Jett, I don't think Victor is better, minimum not significantly better. Ardiis has top 4 stats on Jett this event, his Jett is not the issue

I never said he is bad, I said he is not good enough to be NRG's duelist. #17 last paragraph is the best explanation I can give

Alright if that is your actual ranking then yes Victor Duelist is your move. I rank Victor below both Leaf and Keznit. Which means imo he is not a top 5 Jett in his region, therefore not "good enough" for a team whose goal should be to win champs. I don't think we're gonna agree on how to rank those 5 players, but I hope at least you get my point a bit more now

OPTC was able to win an event with the best duelist in the world on their team, and I believe that core can't do it again unless they have something like that again. And that is way passed Victors celling imo

No no, why do they sign a Jett then is my question if they already have a good enough one. It's easier to find someone on any of the other roles Victor plays

Why do you think he has not been given that chance then? He has only played 2 maps of Jett this year my friend.

The only reason Victor wasn’t on jett was that ardiis isn’t good enough on other agents

See that's where we disagree. I see it the other way around. The only reason why they signed ardiis is because they knew Victor wasn't a good enough Jett, and the team knew
Bro Victor has played 11 Jett maps on his life, 2 this year, yeah he did well on those 2 maps this year, and I think you're just remembering those 2 maps instead of the whole picture.

Alright bro, let's do something, forget everything else we disagree on, rank me all of Americas Jett's, or at least the top 5 of them, see where we place Victor

1 Not good enough ≠ not good, we're talking about a team that wants to win it all. Is he a better Jett than Demon1 or Aspas?
2 No, he is not a better Jett than ardiis, but he is a better everything else

Just what I remember from watching him play it last year on the very few maps he did. And I just don't think he has the firepower other world class Jett's do which is key imo. I'm not saying he is not good, I'm saying NRG should be aiming to win it all, and I just don't think you can win it all with victor as your Jett

Good raze
Prob good Neon
Not good enough Jett

Fair

What was his peak then

He is the best he has ever been which means he is in his prime. Could have also said cned wasn't on his prime at the start of Acend and it turned out he was. If he becomes better then great but as of now he is on his prime.

Anyway that wasn't my point. My point is Current Alfajer > Prime cNed

Prime Alfajer is already better than prime cned imo

Low key I wanna see Scarz and to what point they are worse than Zeta. Last year it was Manchester so we had a couple Polaris teams to we might get the same this time

FUT is the ever first Turkish team to put up a solid strategical game. MrFalin is the first step to succeed but there’s a lot of work to be done

Idk if FA but benched, Vitality has announced they won't be counting with him for next year. No announcement for the other 3 as far as I know

Bonecold was benched and no one wanted him, that's not a coincidence, same with zeek. And this year they both have gotten a second chance and have been benched again. the roster was done imo

Third is probably something like Sweden and then Finland, Lithuania, UK or maybe Poland. I'd say those are equal or above Spain and France

Fuck yeah thank god

Jing is allowed to be a otp Raze because he is extremely good at it but there us no one who can replace him and justify playing like he does. Something plays raze, sign someone on another role

I think no one can replace Jingg, and that is why you do not try to replace him. It's time to not be forced to play double duelist on all maps. You can tell sometimes they don't want to, like in Fracture so they are forced to do other stuff.

I would sign someone on another role, if he can play raze great but if not just let something do it and on the maps you want double duelist you still have forsaken

Jemkin and Kristal cracked
Bisk is a beast

All 3 better than wippie purpo and deffo

Chronicle
Derke
Nats
Suygetsu
Shao
Something
Demon1
Cloud
Trexx
Sheydos
Jemkin
Bisk
Deffo
Purpo
Wippie

Unrated: Vici because haven’t played in too long (but prob between Jemkin and bisk), and the 2 IGL’s because can’t judge without comms and the value of IGL’s depends a lot on the team/region etc. Hard to replace role

HM: Vokashu, this guy was not picked up fro franchising last year because of his high release clause but dude is cracked af, even if he has had a rough year

Nope, not saying people won't leave, but deep down the game is the same game. Way bigger than OW2 but the same dynamic

I'm taking china and APAC over Americas any day and I expect you to do the same, that's how it works

Nah BLG just realized mid map that they needed to lose to eliminate EG themselves

The rivalry is with NA, Latam and Br are cool

He getting diffed by Haodong

On international maybe. In VCT in general no

PRX comms are the best

Ok.

Not really because EMEA had 5. The guys complaining about slots is mostly Americas

1 Eu and 0 NA fortunately

If they both win today they actually have the most teams in the upper bracket

I don't buy him as Jett, he is fine of sentinel

Also let’s wait because if I’m NAVI or TL I’m making changes and not precisely just 1. And if that happens, they either swap players which would be kinda weird or Giants/ KOI/ VIT/ TH have to pick up the pieces and idk about you but I feel like KOI and VIT would be the first options right? Giants maybe, TH I doubt

Nah but then there are better options than Tag if we are adding all other roles. Plus again, there is a maximum of rookies you should take

Yes, Unfake is one of the options I really like for upcoming IGL, that mf is cracked af. And yeah probably Lowel has good experience and is a solid option not to make it 5 rookies. It’s a big bet tho

You keeping Wolfen as a sentinel tho right? He can’t be the Jett, he is decent don’t get me wrong, but it is limiting yourself, his ceiling is not high enough to win it all

Benjy is staying tho

Yes but lowel does not IGL, Unfake is TQ IGL, we need an IGL.

As for Sheydos, I think without starxo sheydos wouldn't clash with Trexx so much. I think both work perfectly fine

Tbh I think Kolda is staying, just cause to what extent is it worth for KOI to get rid of Kolda and put someone else? Who? Does KOI win anything having Bonecold instead? Yes maybe Enzo but 1, he is gonna be hard to get, 2 I'm not completely sure KOI would sign a French. Ik it sounds weird but the rivalry is so big they would get a shit tone of hate if they replace Kolda with Enzo.

As of the others I would say starxo is probably out, and I wanna cope and think they keep both trexx and sheydos, (that's what I would do), so that does leave Wolfen out

Well great then cause I wanna claim him xD

Oh 95% they are not keeping him. Quote from KOI owner is "heavy changes". I think that means 3 changes or more, but minimum of 2