furia

gotta beat the best to be the best. if you want to make top 4 you have to be able to scrape wins no matter which side of the bracket you're on

I still think TL and PRX would've gone through if they faced CN instead of each other, but there's no doubt that wolves' toppling of TH gave them momentum into playoffs

i think one of XLG and WOL can upset one, but i don't think they'll make top 4

if liquid had more firepower, they would've put MIBR down the same way GENG did to MIBR.

mibr won only 6 rounds to geng, but they won 13 rounds on TL. i think this is because of the firepower difference; liquid's coaching and ideas (proportional to the time they've had to practice), calling, and teamplay as well as how to play their comps is worthy of top 8 for sure

the mibr line (19 rounds) will be crushed in champs by 100t (15 rounds)

lmfao

i'm watching team liquid play against that rn

what the overreaction is this they lost one tourney on bad prep time

naw fr, what is this backsite B push and one bullet tiktok clip, actually playing ranked. ik his ass didnt comm any of that

reverse geng

nats is arriving in on ONE DAY of practice post tejo nerfs with team liquid. TL were scrimming with an academy player in expectations that nAts wouldn't get his visa in time for any of these swiss matches

liquid won't even face PRX.

prx vs blg 1-1 decider
tl vs wolves 1-1 decider

TH and MIBR bomb out in the craziest disappointment upsets of the event

yes i have no brain
yes i will keep predicting FNATIC to win every international event
yes i will sleep on APAC who have won 2 of the last 3 trophies

things i've liked and disliked so far

i like the hover in agent select feature it allows for some trolling, hope they keep it for champs
the observing has overall been really good, maybe 1 round every map will have something a bit questionable (other than geng mibr haven)

wtf is the point of the econ graphs between halves? who cares?
i think the casting is a bit weaker but it's never bad to an unwatchable level, just a QOL complaint
crowd mic is too quiet

coming from a prx fangirl,,,,,,,,

sen were making playoffs either way

jigsaw falling into place
devil in a new dress
instant crush (w julian casablancas)

at least 2 tame impala in the top 25 though

in all fairness they did win the round that sayf bet that bj on

Usually i think people who call players baiters are just mad but i just watched the entire half and this is actually true

viper ult CT, counter paranoia and sensor for second walk out market, i was legit about to cry it was so beautiful

the A split through top mid with the neon was kind of cool, they just havent scrimmed against deadlock and rly shit their pants

that was the most diabolical post ive ever witnessed live

perfect world wolves vs liquid, and heretics vs mibr/gen

yeah dying to op and judge with a sova on your team

they need to play more defaulty and stop trying to play fast. they get shutdown by this deadlock every round then sit in main and let GENG take the entire other main for free lol

thank god we can finally have karon discussion now there was not enough hype for this guy even after what he was able to pull off last year

GG NT

t3xture is at least a tier gap from kamo and whzy. why did everyone forget about the best team of 2024?

is it radical

?

is this guy throwing? baits KJ into the A long peek then dicks around with util out. the molly didnt even land at the long choke correctly either lol

i feel like you're missing out on world class timings and viper saves with that tho no

Valyn and Riens? putting aside the fact that Karon and nAts win more duels, Riens doesn't play flash init outside of Breach on Fracture. no experienced KAYO (unless you want f0rsaken to play it with two other initiator players on the team), there's no Viper player on this team, and Riens as a worldclass recon is getting shafted by a sidegrade (very very similarly to 2023 Sentinels)

i think Karon can do more than Mako in terms of winning duels and securing rounds for the team's more aggressive players, if I was just going by vlr rating half the other players wouldn't be on the team lol

Duelist - aspas
Recon - Trent
Flash / Flex - f0rsaken
Controller - Karon
Sentinel IGL - nAts

i would have Leo here instead of Trent if he wasn't such a variable, Verno is almost equally viable.
aspas has only played on solo Duelist teams in the past 2 years, but f0rsaken can flex onto the Yoru if needed.
on maps like Lotus and Split, where nAts will play Viper, f0rsaken can flex to the Sentinel role or Breach.

Trent on Sova (ascent, haven, icebox) Fade (sunset, pearl, lotus) and Tejo (split).
Karon will play Omen on all maps except Pearl and Icebox; on Pearl he plays Astra.

The role mismatch arrives on Icebox, where Karon and nAts overflow the Viper position.
nAts will play Viper, Aspas plays Reyna, Karon plays Chamber, and Trent plays Sova while f0rsaken flexes onto KAYO (T1 comp)

only real ones know who uses unupgraded recon

for real tho, most of the difficulty of playing harbor comes from positioning yourself well enough that your utility finds value and it often makes for a lot of awkward walls on thin doorways, these changes make the skill floor and skill ceiling much higher and closer to smt like astra

i like this but i think he should have postplant mollies that you can control like a brim smoke

Who are we lying to nAts has solo won more rounds than aspas did in 2024 and nAts is on IGL

where would you have them

prediction btw
how bad is it to leave out all chinese players from top 11? i feel like most people only had KK and chichoo in their top 10s from the entire CN region in past events, but maybe these 3 have ppl im sleeping on?

1. Jemkin
2. nAts
3. Trent
4. zekken
5. t3xture
6. aspas
7. Riens
8. Jinggg
9. Alfajer
10. Verno
11. Karon

i might be dickriding GENG a bit too hard, also i think aspas will underperform as he gets comfortable with the skilled players on his team instead of b0ts like c0m

v1c and sylvan

holy CN erasure

emea third seed at #2 lol

karmine corp?

loud > c9

ts split attack side calling is worse than platinum elo text chat igls

add g2 and drx

g2 mibr was really fun

no one gaf 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

hes always top 2 performers in his team series-wise and carried the kickoff finals lol