You could easily remove Middle East and Africa (E"MEA") and it wouldn't make a difference. Outside of Turkey obviously if you cound them as Middle Eastern.

nah he just tried to make them think he was just faking without smokes. Sometimes just sticking can get you half.

I don't think xms is a paycheck stealer. He hasn't been good, but before he got signed to KC he was doing well in French VRL and was understandable signing. But depends how you see paycheck stealer. Would name Newzera/Sh1n/PM rather because they were just on KC already and seems like KC ran out of money.

yes ofc but what I mean is that they were dissapointing since that not only in regular season that is happening now

Liquid (pre LockIn)

just keep breeze out and bring back icebox remove pearl

Icebox owns this shitty map

Maybe, but that still doesn't take away from my point that many of the NA franchising players let it be even NRG, SEN, 100T seem to be struggling bit even on individual level. And those players are for most part more proven than any of the players you mentioned outside of yay and trent. I get your point with EG and maybe C9, but not so much for other teams.

What is happening with NA? Feels like most hyped/pre-franchising "NA" players have been pretty underwhelming so far. Cryo, Ardiis, pANcada etc and even some workhorses like crashies has been bit underwhelming. Maybe its just because of small sample size, but seems like these guys are really struggling vs SA teams.

I watch LoL(LEC and MSI/Worlds mainly), but I don't have much clue either but this is how I understand it (at least LEC):

You have 2 splits split into 4 seasons aka Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn(?) and pretty much during those you collect points to have better chances at making it into Worlds in end of the year. Also after 2nd season of the year(Spring) top 1 or 2 teams from each region qualify for MSI that is like Masters international event.

And before that you have regular season where teams regionally play BO1s against each other and then top 8 qualify for groups and then top 4 qualify for playoffs and those are BO3/BO5 nowadays I think.

I'm not exactly sure about everything and they just changed how LEC works. Also if I'm not wrong the format depends on region. But I'm pretty sure I got it but not exactly sure how points work.

Riot will legit split Americas for 2024 if 0 NA teams qualify

overrated since the beginning

they really got far because of Zekken Raze and Cryo Chamber, but tbh they were pretty mid before Champions so who knows if they could have kept going anyway

I think you could only upgrade like Alfajer if you put in Less or maybe Suygetsu

SE - Leo

I genuinely believe that KC will bounce back to ok level

At least its not the one LEC/Riot uses. Americas just use LCS studio and I'm not sure about Pacific.

True, but I would also imagine it being partly because of completely new studio compared to Americas for example who just use LCS studio. Valorant and LoL are not the same, but sharing existing studio definitely makes some thing more easy.

these were so sick Astralis vs Vitality with Astralis homeground looked crazy good

Regular season games don't mean shit. NaVi without experiemental comps wouldn't have much trouble beating KOI who btw were genuinely playing well in that match. I would take NaVi over LEV or NRG anyday until proven otherwise.

Talon were top 8 beating who? Oh yeah MIBR and EG. While NaVi defeated Leviatan on their best map and 13-2d them on Fracture. There is like nothing to point out that LEV should be rated higher than NaVi.

Yeah but as I said that wasn't the best on Guild either. Guild were at point top 3 EMEA team, but feels like they were really hurting themselves with their style at times. Guild was like one of the slowest teams and there were so many times where they wouldn't even do anything other than just wait for right moment and then just run in and die. Really predictable in a way. But just my take.

I don't think that Koldamenta is the weakest link, but don't you see similar weaknesses in KOI as we saw in Guild? Like when it comes to calls and quite slow adaptation etc. They have full site control but rather they decide to cut noise and just stand in main doing nothing until last seconds.

Giants 2-0 (might be 2-1 if they play Ascent, GIA seems to perma ban Fracture but BBL has banned it as well)
Vitality 2-1 (I think KC can play good and better than what they did in last 2 games its just about confidence, if they find it I think they can have close games or even win vs decent teams. Like they show moments of brilliance here and there. Especially if these 2 go to Lotus I can see KC taking a map)

NaVi rolled Leviatan in Lock In it wasn't even close

Salah owns you and isn't even French

Oh wow 2nd best over who? EG, C9 and SEN even though they lost?

I've usually been Soulcas defender, but feels like he either isn't consistent enough or just not the right fit for this team (in-game firepower, utility etc)

primary school not high school

I guess they didnt just want empty seats for nothing and that can become a problem with these leagues

In a lot of ways KOI looks like Guild on some of these rounds. Feels like IGL/Coach problem.

Maybe dumb question but why people rate Zelda games so high and are always super hyped when new one comes out? I have never played any Zeldas but everytime I see footage of it it doesnt impress me and the new ones looks so similar to the last one at least looks wise.

Redgar is not better than Boaster

kinda but usually the multiplier will be so small that you get nothing unless you bet much and then again have chance of it going wrong and losing

like if you had Fnatic vs RRQ or something Fnatic would have like 1.06 multiplier or something potentially

CS, but sometimes it can be bit hard to follow. When I started watching CSGO esport for first time I had no idea when top teams would be playing so I just watched some random tier 2 tournaments before learning more. OWL was first esport I started following closely and it was made easy by the franchising system. So overall CS style is better for more games and better for balance, but Valorant style will be easier to follow and franchise systems can be fun if done right.

tbf deserved for whoever built rosters like TH or KC

Zeek was inconsistent af in 2022 like most of Heretics. No hate for him, but he fits right in.

Chet - Was consistently good with OpTic.

d00mbros - FPX were always heavy anti strat/hard team to anti strat and I would imagine big part of that definitely being cuz of d00mbros. Also consistent and good team.

Mini(?) - Fnatic has been top tier team for long time already and can't really think of other coaches who would deserve it over him. Also the players outside of Boaster and Derke have changed and they have still been top tier. Good scouting as well.

look nothing alike

dot

recon

W bundle but I dont like if color changes depending on side and you cant affect it

G2 vs KOI

Leo easily out of the 2

Tell me who out of the teams rated lower than top 10 would deserve to be on top of them?
aka TL, FUT, KOI, TS, GENG, TALON, T1, PRX, 100T, C9
TH, BBL, KC, GE, ZETA, RRQ, DFM, EG, MIBR, KRU
I don't think any of those mentioned teams have strong argument to be rated higher.

if you enjoy no-crowd event with weaker competition then sure

Even you know why it was shit

Masters 1 Reykjavik 2022 is the worst and that's all that matters

I think its just difference in preperation. And NaVi played weird comps vs KOI.

I also really like how Giants combo Gekko with other agents. Like double flashes with Gekko and Omen etc.