he doesn't have dual nationality he was born in america, he just reps the flag like tex with the german flag

they can't, something is their import and jawg is registered as an americas player despite his flag

they look ok but got aim diffed pretty hard, also it only even got so close because davai won like 4 clutches

they aren't even playing with trexxx, sayf is the leaf of emea, the rookies are less interesting, I don't see it

50/50, if 100t's individuals look like they did on split/icebox I'd say them but if they lost steam they lose

only interesting new roster in that region is kc

didn't fns say he wouldn't join eg because of the org? Maybe if they go bankrupt and get replaced by flyquest next year or something

how are g2 3 places lower than the team they just beat?

in the americas tournament 100%, unless EG look like total ass I have them as bottom 2 in the league right now

kinda mid but better than c9 and mibr for sure

pretty much agreed, one bo3 doesn't really tell us much though, like one of the teams could just end up having a shit map pool or something

zeta look like ass bro

that's why ethan is my goat

sen fans are never gonna stop yapping are they

when playoffs is single elim and you have no idea who you're playing it makes complete sense to save strats, especially when you have an easy group

lol how clueless do you have to be as a team to think that showing off most of your strats in a mickey mouse offseason event is a good idea?

new acegamer alt now that sen lost? Spamming 0/8 threads constantly

they're all really good and they only played 1 match, respect to boostio though for joining by far the weakest team of the 3 on paper and looking like he's basically revived them

yeah since split 100t looked like a different team, if they can keep that confidence they could definitely beat sen

c0m's been great wtf are you talking about

loud nrg and lev all look insane but I'd say they look like the team with the most new shit cooked up which is massive in a format like this. That said it is possible nrg or lev are saving strats for harder matchups

depends on the map pool and what each team has cooking imo, I will say it's scary that loud 2-0d sen with less having only an ok performance

"if the players played better we'd have won" is where we're now at with the sen copium cycle I guess

lol every round sen won on defense side split was off a hero play and they "should've won", honestly pathetic wasting a sacy 20/5 half too

apac valorant is for the adhd zoomers who'd rather be watching a non-tac fps

mw got op diffed by marved lmao

oxy is the most undisciplined player I've seen in t1 in a while, obviously mechanically gifted but he'll need more experience to be world class imo

how tf do you claim to know how C9 "tends to play" when this is their first match not in some mickey mouse offseason event?

if furia aren't mentally boomed yes

why do people hate nrg so much on this site idgi

you call it underrating I call it learning from history

there's literally a timestamp in the link I sent, if it didn't work it's at 10:10 and it's discussing how EG's winrate relied by far the least on an individual not getting first blooded or getting over 15 kills a map compared to the top 4 teams of the year looking at both tokyo and champs, not a complicated data point but an illustrative one. It's pretty simple to understand data and outside of 2022 yay who he only brings up as a statistical outlier for fun it's based of performances in the same 2 events so no cope about different metas or whatever. Anyway you seem like you're kinda deranged since you never actually adressed my point and only wrote an overly angry essay shitting on the video I linked because the timestamped link didn't work so I'm not gonna waste any more of my time arguing with you

this is just wrong, demon1 is obviously insane mechanically but he's not some super selfless entry with no fear compared to other top duelist players. He's a very confident player who loves to take the occasional ego peek but he actually is quite methodical in his entries and it helped a lot that he had ethan and c0m to provide some of the best supportive util in the world for him. Hell, jawg is more like the player you're describing than demon1 in that every map where he's playing solo raze he just goes ham, like watch their ascent vs their lotus and you'll see what I mean. The main thing that demon1 brought to the team besides his mechanics was fixing their role issues, with bcj they basically had 3 initiator players with one of them just being put on perma smokes for some reason whereas with demon1 they had 2 duelists, 2 initiators and a sentinel and all of them except ethan just flexed to smokes depending on the map.

Generally the reason EG was so good later on in 2023 was because they had a good read on the meta on certain maps and were probably the most coordinated team in the world, they always felt like they had a solid plan and almost never relied on individuals making hero plays. This video explains this with stats https://youtu.be/FrLtJSpaSLI?si=ni4BwG3t63upGR03&t=604

watch loud vs prx split from champs

bracket resets are a terrible idea in tac fps, no one wants to see teams play the same maps twice on the same day. Also grand finals potentially being 1 bo3 when lower finals are a bo5 is a robbery for spectators

I think it’s possible if they top their group and play the group c winner in playoffs, if they have to go through play-ins there’ll be too much footage of them. The play-in winner is heavily disadvantaged in general tbh

demon1 actually is a father, his sons are named f0rsaken, mindfreak, d4v4i, jinggg and something

why has no one else done it if it’s such an obvious advantage? People were literally making fun of her for the 10 man roster all the way up until champs and now it’s unfair and she gets 0 credit as a coach?

fnc fanboys literally can’t handle the notion that anyone sees them as beatable, they have to be worshipped like gods

eg had to play through groups in tokyo while prx and fnc started in playoffs, that's why they have more matches played. As for maps it's because they played 4 bo5s total, 2 of which went 5 maps

people here don't get why potter's goated, she literally made decisions she was constantly getting clowned on for like having a 10 man roster and keeping players everyone thought were mid at best over bcj (even ethan was seen that way at the start of 2023 but everyone always tries to rewrite history) and got a 2nd and 1st place internationally. Like nowadays everyone talks about how the 10 man roster was so good for practice and talent development but go look at the way it was talked about earlier in the season, people thought it was useless and just a way for eg to get a franchising slot

I forgot fenis went -31 in this game jesus

whoever doesn’t play against the play in winner between the winner of group B or C, it’s a coinflip

the graphic they put out is really dumb and doesn’t explain this but the play in winner is never gonna play against the team that won their group in first round of playoffs, so if for example bleed wins the play ins they’ll play either the group B winner or group C winner to qualify

if valorant were like blue lock it’d be football

fnc vs eg upper finals at tokyo

there isn't an individual player this fucks over that much but as a team probably prx because it's even harder to play double duelist on most maps now. They might cook some shit with gekko and/or yoru but they don't have that much time

no invy?

remember in 2023 when they all hyped up sayf like he's the best duelist in the world?

because sen still refuse to say definitively that he’s benched, they keep acting all coy with zellsis still saying he’s the 6th man on stream and shit. Not to mention that it’s already far too late at this point, if they were clear about their plans even after the aftv tournament ended he might’ve had time but they kept being annoyingly vague