Honestly I was thinking of the exact same thing, you just put it into an articulate post, so thanks for that.

One thing I'd mention is APAC should be extended to include OCE as it is currently, so if a cracked player from these parts joins Tier 1, they can slot into an APAC team without taking up an import slot, and eventually if an OCE org steps up they could take up one of the team slots.

Another thing would be to extend SA to the entirety of LATAM so the region can include the Central American countries as well.

Oklahoma City Thunder in NBA as well

I play on laptop and hover between 60 and 120 fps

I'm Bronze 2 peak and currently

Why do the EMEA teams all have the general Europe flags but the teams in other regions have the flag of whichever country their org is based in

Yeah in a broader sense they're both gun replacement ults that function really well in unison with the agents other abilities.

I think Jett ult should have the same cost as Neon ult as they both function in similar ways

Brim needs a buff not a nerf wtf lol

KRU making it to Champs last year was such bullshit, they made it through because of the flawed champs points system. If they had this years champs points system 100T would've made it instead and honestly they would've been more interesting than whatever KRU did. KRU are literally the FUT of Americas.

I reckon the way to play defense is to have 3 on A and the other 2 in B and mid. Just hold if they hit A and play retake for B

How much ever you disagree with the circumstances surrounding the tournament (I'm not a fan of the Saudi sportswashing either), all the teams are going to be trying their absolute best to win unlike other random offseason events because of the gigantic prize pool.

Alfa would've broken it if the game went map 5

99 kills on 4 maps is crazy work

I mean sure Alfa was the best player in the finals but giving him the MVP would have been bittersweet at best and would have felt more like a consolation.

I don't think he cares about being MVP when his team fought so hard and lost such a big final. I think he would have felt like shit and he would 100% trade the MVP for the tournament win in a heartbeat.

I think it's always better to award the MVP to a player from the winning team regardless of how the players from the losing team performed.

Yes

I predicted a PRX vs FNC final correctly but wrong about everything else

I understand the MIBR - Trace argument but purely off of objective tournament placement Sen should be higher than Liquid. Farming China isn't really a valid argument looking at how high Wolves have placed.

Why is Trace higher than MIBR?

Also Sen should be higher than Liquid too right?

According to the Heretics curse, 1 of PRX and Wolves will come first and the other will come third.

So whoever wins G2 vs Fnatic will finish second place

I'd love to see one in Sydney

-Foxy9 -Ash +Meteor +Lakia

I'm sure GenG with this new roster would win at least 1 tournament. Perhaps even a mid-year tournament. Perhaps even a mid-year tournament held in China.

In every international Team Heretics have participated in since last year, they have always lost to the 1st and 3rd place teams and only the 1st and 3rd place teams.

Masters Madrid: Lost to PRX (3rd) and SEN (1st)
Masters Shanghai: Lost to G2 (3rd) and GEN.G (1st) Champions Seoul: Lost to LEV (3rd) and EDG (1st)

Therefore, one of PRX or WOL will be winning Masters Toronto, with the other taking 3rd place.

Credit to u/smol_emo

The PRX and Wolves that beat Heretics in Swiss Stage are not the same PRX and Wolves in the upper finals. Those 2 teams have levelled up so much over the tournament. Heretics has no excuses.

But also yes it would have been nice to have Team Liquid in the playoffs they were pretty nice even with the roster fuckery and time prep issues they had.

2 people have perfect playoffs pickems and like 3 other people had perfect Swiss stage pickems but no one has both.

(I have neither sadge)

The company (Vaxee) figured out a way to get him a new mouse asap

I think 3 team groups are pretty bad coz it is actually advantageous to lose your first game.

What I reckon would be better is have a Swiss stage as usual but let the 1st seeds start as 1-0 and have the 2nd seeds play the 3rd seeds in Round 1

Group Omega is free as fuck for PRX in Stage 2 no?

Duelist: forsaken
Initiator: forsaken
Sentinel: forsaken
Controller: forsaken
IGL/Flex: forsaken

How does APAC have less language barrier lol

There's Japanese, Korean, Indo, Malay, some Chinese, Tagalog, Thai + some of these players would've never learnt English as a second language which you can't say for the European countries

Fucking aye

Omg bros lisan al gaib frfr

Dude was super toxic during the Bleed yay era while being mid as fuck

12-5 FNS reference!?!?

No OT sadge

NBA getting a new winner as well

I think Fnatic is gonna do something cool but yeah so far it's been a bit disappointing

According to my pickems G2 beat XLG but lose to Wolves for the regional parity

Kangkang, t3xture and something are probably the highest peaks I think.

There are probably others who are pretty close in the other regions.

Real, me too

There is not enough prep and scrims you can do that can counter the upgrades and improvements you make by playing and grinding through tournament matches.

The PRX of like 5 days ago would have lost to G2.

Similar situation with Wolves.

This past year all the teams that have never won before have been winning across all sports.

Tottenham Spurs
RCB
Whoever wins the NBA
Some others I don't remember atp

That's why I think South Africa have a shot today, they have the upper hand now as well.

(Also a small reason why I think PRX are gonna win Toronto lol)

CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS

G fuckin G

Holy fuck I love this team

Ok last time Swiss teams went 3-1 vs the 1st seed teams, so Fnatic have a shot I reckon

A clutch like that just completely changes the energy of the team

Useless stat honestly

Ok looks like it's fixed now dub

Why is Mindfreak playing on the starting roster instead of Patmen!?

Or is vlr just bugged

Alecks losing his shit has become such a big meme in the Val community that the productions goes out of their way to show him malding more than any other coach.

I've seen pretty much every other coach mald like that when their team is losing but only Alecks gets shit from the community.

Zheng is KK's last name

Nah they specifically mentioned 'Liquid without nats' lol, I reckon they mixed Wolves up with BLG

Wolves never played Liquid what are you on lol