Banana for snack best fruit, but berries like strawberries and blueberries are better

Engh Gambit coach also came from OW

Yeah it was really chaotic, but tbh its the EU experience

He has insane stats on Chamber.

Makes sense. Luckily Fnatic decided to go with him. Acend comms already seem to be crazy when listening to their voicecomms so adding one with pretty bad English skills would be bad I imagine. They are also really on the fly type of team or at least has been. And BIG lost gob b so them wanting more experienced players is understandable and they already talked how it was pretty hard with Kaspe and Twisten since they were so young +Musashi is German. I would imagine Fnatic being almost perfect team for inexperienced and potential language barrier problem player.

I wish they had just replaced Kiles with Monsteerr and had kept Bonecold. They look so disjointed currently. And yeah Kiles had clear role in Acend so it worked well, Monsteerr will need some time.

W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the modern English and ISO basic Latin alphabets. It typically represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel. Its name in English is double-u,[note 1] plural double-ues.[1][2]

History

A 1693 book printing that uses the "double u" alongside the modern letter; this was acceptable if printers did not have the letter in stock or the font had been made without it.
The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W' character. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter "V" (at the time, not yet distinct from "U").

The sounds /w/ (spelled ⟨V⟩) and /b/ (spelled ⟨B⟩) of Classical Latin developed into a bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, ⟨V⟩ no longer adequately represented the labial-velar approximant sound /w/ of Germanic phonology.

A letter W appearing in the coat of arms of Vyborg
The Germanic /w/ phoneme was therefore written as ⟨VV⟩ or ⟨uu⟩ (⟨u⟩ and ⟨v⟩ becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period) by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German, in the 7th or 8th centuries.[3] Gothic (not Latin-based), by contrast, had simply used a letter based on the Greek Υ for the same sound in the 4th century. The digraph ⟨VV⟩/⟨uu⟩ was also used in Medieval Latin to represent Germanic names, including Gothic ones like Wamba.

It is from this ⟨uu⟩ digraph that the modern name "double U" derives. The digraph was commonly used in the spelling of Old High German, but only in the earliest texts in Old English, where the /w/ sound soon came to be represented by borrowing the rune ⟨ᚹ⟩, adapted as the Latin letter wynn: ⟨ƿ⟩. In early Middle English, following the 11th-century Norman Conquest, ⟨uu⟩ gained popularity again and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use.

Scribal realisation of the digraph could look like a pair of Vs whose branches crossed in the middle. Another, common in roundhand, kurrent and blackletter, takes the form of an ⟨n⟩ whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive ⟨v⟩ (viz. {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {w}}.}{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {w}}.})[4][5] It was used up to the nineteenth century in Britain and continues to be familiar in Germany.[note 2]

The shift from the digraph ⟨VV⟩ to the distinct ligature ⟨W⟩ is thus gradual, and is only apparent in abecedaria, explicit listings of all individual letters. It was probably considered a separate letter by the 14th century in both Middle English and Middle German orthography, although it remained an outsider, not really considered part of the Latin alphabet proper, as expressed by Valentin Ickelshamer in the 16th century, who complained that:

Poor w is so infamous and unknown that many barely know either its name or its shape, not those who aspire to being Latinists, as they have no need of it, nor do the Germans, not even the schoolmasters, know what to do with it or how to call it; some call it we, [... others] call it uu, [...] the Swabians call it auwawau[6]

In Middle High German (and possibly already in late Old High German), the West Germanic phoneme /w/ became realized as [v]; this is why, today, the German ⟨w⟩ represents that sound.

I just don't think H1ber fits in when they have Derke. I would rather see Derke duelist/Jamppi Chamber/Sentinel than H1ber duelist/Derke Chamber. Iluri is decent initiator player who can play Sova and Breach. Obviously Jamppi would work as initiator as well, but I think Iluri would be more natural + he has also IGLed so could add calling. I guess it depends on meta. Maybe right now when Chambers are more like carries while Razes are more like hard entries H1ber/Derke could work better. Depends on meta for example Jamppi could play Killjoy even on maps like Ascent.

Fokus he is their initiator player and igl

I would rep my hometeam obviously so:

Derke (duelist)
Jamppi (flex/2nd IGL)
Hoody (flex)
Bonecold (smokes/IGL)
Iluri (Initiator/IGL)

bunch of firepower, a lot of flexibility and there's 3 guys who could IGL.

OpTic, FNC and FPX for me I think all those have showed quality that no other team has so far IMO

Then that game plan was really weak

Little bit yes I believe. They are promising, but I feel some people are little bit overreacting when you read some of the comments like player gets most basic shock dart kill ever "OMG THIS PERSONS UTIL IS SO INSANE".

Ask that from NRG

It is if they don't play around it

wheres Ardiis/Zyppan and Trexx/Leo

D3ffo isn't the problem, but I kind of think that roster change could do M3C good. Not that the existing players aren't good, but new player would maybe bring new energy to the team etc. that could help them get over this slump.

The fact that he can play high level Jett, Raze and Chamber puts him at really strong place. He can flex to anything Fnatic needs from duelist pretty much.

Who has ever said that Derke doesn't have good Raze? Both of his Jett and Raze has been top tier for quite long time.

Reyna ult shit so doesn't matter

Same. But before that I hope they will clean some of their stuff and have consistent performance in playoffs. Would be amazing to see Sayf and Leo on LAN finally.

true, but I guess they thought he was under heaven

Bit shaky at times definitely, but this was weird match overall feels like

I was doubter when it happened, but Ardiis has been really great with FPX.

Joona pretty common male name here

G2 100%

I think FPX should be very likely unless they decided to move to China that is unlikely after EMEA FPX success. They have been in EMEA since beginning and as Chinese org definitely have money so I would believe Riot wanting to keep them. Unless again China becomes big then maybe different story. Also depends how many slots each EMEA region gets.

top 3 IMO no in order: OpTic, Fnatic, FPX

I think those 3 are the most perfect out of what I've seen so far. Great rosters with bunch of individual talent, great strats, great fundamentals, a lot of depth, great coaches and IGLs (Chet/FNS, Mini/Boaster and Doombros/Ange1 slaps), some of the best preparation and good map pools.

And rest I'm not sure, but would guess Loud, DRX, PRX, NA 2nd, EMEA 3rd etc.... bit biased

Lets go Berlin International Gaming!

nah I don't think so. Braveaf is initiator player and they already have Redgar who is their IGL and Sheydos. Doesn't make sense to replace either one IMO.

100%, really impressed by BIG

Fnatic and FPX are pretty much locked unless they mess up in playoffs. 3rd spot if between M3C/Guild/Acend/Liquid and out of those Liquid are not making it unless they really improve, Acend maybe look bit better than Liquid but they need to improve a lot as well. Guild have been looking pretty good, but are inconsistent like always. Hard to say who will make it as 3rd. All about how much these teams can improve and can Guild keep their good form in playoffs.

Aslan

Icebox most likely

both bad, but stabbings > mass shootings
I don't even understand why some Americans bring this up

burger meal or pizza is pretty much perfect I'm simple person, but mashed potatoes and reindeer/red deer meat with lingonberry jam and veggies is goated as well. Finnish christmas food good as well.

ofc finnish girls best because im finnish but not strongly.

on top of sentinels and faze at least imo, fokus is hard since they are new in vct and have faced pretty hard opponents. Im not unbiased tho, but try to here.

fnatic (maybe), finland

just 1 bad match

L

0/8

surely Clueless

Masters with nerfed EMEA is so boring in my opinion. What is the point of Masters without full competitiveness? Just look when OpTic can't attend and NA 2nd seed gets fucked in way or another and then say how exciting it is.

No if EMEA gets fucked again. And even outside of that I don't think so. I believe that you won't have underdogs like Zeta making it far again.

Going to cry? "OH NOO EMEA CASTERS DON'T TALK ABOUT BRAZIL OR SEA IN EMEA BROADCAST!!!!" Also they aren't wrong. EMEA is top region and have actual competition unlike some of these minor regions.

Fnatic
FPX
G2
Guild
M3C
TL

Copenhagen: FNC, FPX, GLD (this is their time I believe, but most likely won't make it like always)

Its called fashion and in case of Rolex also statement or even investment

Nah he also performed really well in Stage 1 playoffs lower brackets as well. One of big reasons why G2 qualified IMO. He stepped up massively, but couldn't continue to Masters 1.

Vakk's showing so far hasn't been great. But maybe he isn't just fully comfortable on this team yet.