i mean, her players not hitting shots completely screws up any strat she helped them to prep. potter's coaching will look bad regardless if they are playing like this. and regarding demon1, i think potter was the right coach for that eg roster to win (although i still believe ethan was the most important piece for eg)

nah. i thought he got perma banned?

net probably unofficially retired and tacolilla is not good enough for t1 anymore. this team just needs to completely rebuild tbh

honestly i would put drx above gen g currently, i dont think they are playing smart valorant rn. for some reason gen g keeps picking lotus every series, idk if its strat save or just they don't wanna work on other maps

aspas. demon1 gotta get another podium finish at the very least this year before he's better, and that's if aspas has a shit year (doubt it)

worse than 100t games

m80 tbh

ur more self aware than the majority of people on this site

for what its worth they are playing with little to no practice because of ddos attacks on their facility in gangnam. if they shit the bed vs drx (or rrq) then roster probably needs changes

wait if mibr win this sen are in playoffs?

it should be? at least i thought so

pacific was random draw. sen could be playing any of eg, loud, or nrg (they want eg ngl)

i dont mind nzr or c0m. the glaring issue isn't language barrier, its obv player performance. i would give tex the regular season before making a decision, but i could see a world in which lev just immediately go to nuking the roster

how is this c0m fault when tex was playing like that

they don't need any roster changes. they just need to figure out their map pool (for fucks sake, ban split old lev was shit at it too). if they are awful on breeze too, you can come back to this and clown me. but until that happens, its simply a map pool diff

mb potter fan

bump because this shit will happen again no doubt

im sorry again potter. eg isn't cooked, they make madrid. potter best coach. jawgemo is still the best raze and top 10 players itw.

this is prob way too early but i dont think potter cooked with this roster

they dropped rb and zest because they wanted to change something and foster young talent. k1ng would be the opposite of that - a player whose tenure in the scene has been long, albeit not always successful. my guess is that the underlying reason for them promoting flashback instead of picking him up was because t1 and gen g both moved on from him

(to get into rumors, yes, he was said to not be a great for team morale. do with that what you will)

FUT arent a bad team? they just did an ange1 cosplay for groups

boaster's calling that map was not impressive, i wouldn't just use ''munchkin bad igl'' as a reason why they couldn't win. vit have cender igling, who is doing it for the first time this season

in all seriousness if derke plays like he just did fnc will get shit on by s3xture. they can't be having him drop those numbers

aren't u british + fnc flair? fuck are you doing with that combo

idk if its LOUD, but as you said its reasonable to think that they are the unknown

they were just starting, unfortunately tarik didn't show the score after

(i am not jamesff, but as teams are now starting to consistently scrim someone has to fill in)

source is via tarik stream this afternoon, imgur doesn't work for me so i just found a video where tarik leaks them (scrim leaks start from 4:32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jdev5wkNrY

YFP 15-6 Will/C4lypso mix
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C9 11-12 unknown
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EG 15-7 TTR
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G2 13-8 Gmd team (probably FaZe/TSM mix)
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MXS 9-8 unknown
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NRG 9-12 unknown
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M80 15-6 SR GC
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feel like the standard set for international events in apac is that the level of gameplay is high. just look at worlds 2023 and masters tokyo

the only reason i could give you is that next year riot will be forced to add more details (finishers, sounds, etc) because they'll want more money

(honestly just get it, prx team did a fantastic job. just look at some of the other apac teams and how they got shafted)

1/8 because there's a target audience for the bait. do better

they aren't even that awful all things considered. its just that jp talent pool is shallow due to buyouts and t2 talent not wanting to join the org (dfm doesn't have a great track record with player treatment). a lot of people in the pacific scene have credited meiy with being a really good player, but hes the only player on the team who is at a t1 level imo. the team is just a remixed CR so they are basically a t2 team

obviously this is a random scrim comp, they wouldn't reveal actual comps for vct like that. also its just a mix of LOUD + last year PRX comp

vit 2-0 fnc (because who honestly wants to see a dominant fnc win, if group a was anything to show people wanna see upsets)

if vit make madrid will he play with them then or will they just play destrian because of comfort? idk how long he has been applied for the visa

i dont think steel was giving this analysis so vlr nrg fanboys could run with it ngl

yeah no its 1-1, i was typing too quickly lol

they were playing really proactively, i think they are just missing a bit more extremities stuff. his calling was fine, and his stats werent god awful either

its a round robin, so the best record team advances. in the event that all teams go 0-2 it will be determined by map and then round differential

gen g all the way

it is weird that riot wouldn't implement it in val since they already do it in league but ig at this point in the scene they don't want to incentivize like that

aside the mass doom posting, these skins could be redeemed by effects and finisher. we don't know what they look like yet

gen g looking good. same with lev, tln, koi (there were a few other ones too that were good). mibr and tl are ass tho ngl

i mean pipson has had decent success, so personally i would look at the players before him. g2 was good for a long team, even despite having pretty inconsistent players

it was good. there were rounds where he straight up just called what a team should/shouldn't do, and it played out exactly like he said it would. good analytical talent to have as a caster

just wanted to make this post to let everyone know that either KC or TH are guaranteed to make playoffs and be one match from madrid, and one of fut or giantx will not

edit: this post was meant to be making fun of giantx and fut for playing awfully, as well as TH not being terrible like people thought

fut tried to be navi (idk how, there's no ange1) by putting cned on shitty agents and running bad comps. they also couldn't shoot properly, so ig it was a rare off-day in that regard. oh, and boo had a life game

really fucked up to say this after they just ended their tournament, but the point is valid. cryo looks the most out of place on this team. asuna is a close second, but his problem is that he can't shoot back anymore for some reason

i think it works super well, hes doing a great job for his first time. on top of that his analysis has been really damn good, so its not like hes just saying random shit

bait used to be believable

i doubt that i will have perfect pickems after the next set of games, but my faith in LOUD was rewarded

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/153b0a25