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

replace shahzam with f0rsaken, he used to be a jett main back in the day

there are plenty of single duelist comps on pearl, wtf are you on about? In fact, double duelist in general isn’t really meta anymore, even on maps like split most people prefer the comp oxg played at ludwig tarik now. If you say I’m missing some broader point on role issues idk what it is, who plays sentinel on raze maps? If that’s what you’re asking I’d say crashies, he’s played sentinel in the past

they can literally just play a different comp on pearl then? Ethan can just play kayo if he’s not comfortable playing yoru while calling, which is just an assumption you’re making

when was ethan ever playing “pseudo entry” on eg and how would this become impossible with him calling? If anything eg sometimes had boostio entry and he was the igl which makes your point even dumber

they literally got 2nd at the previous international lan without demon1 performing at nearly the same level as champs, why do people always leave this part out? Acend lost to fucking 100t at berlin. Also if you think ethan is an average player you have 0 eye for the game period

I like this one it pisses off everyone except loud fans

? they get a bye in the group stage because they placed highest at champs, fnc and prx will also get one

i don’t see how this roster is worse than c9 or 100t on paper, only reason people are so negative is because it’s eg

my argument is that he wasn't the 2nd best player on eg at tokyo, not that he played bad

https://www.vlr.gg/220297/fut-esports-vs-evil-geniuses-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-opening-b
https://www.vlr.gg/220444/loud-vs-evil-geniuses-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-ubqf
https://www.vlr.gg/220446/team-liquid-vs-evil-geniuses-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-ubsf
https://www.vlr.gg/220447/fnatic-vs-evil-geniuses-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-ubf

like I said, he woke up for the bo5s and the rest of the team played bad in grand finals but for pretty much all the matches they actually won or came close to winning he was not their best or 2nd best player, idk why you even feel the need to pretend otherwise when anyone who actually watched those matches knows it's bullshit

boostio, jawg and ethan all cleared him at tokyo, he only really woke up by the lower final. Look at his stats vs fut, liquid and the first fnc match

imagine if derrek suddenly becomes good on eg, would be the funniest shit

almost like there was another big tournament after this one where loud exposed a huge weakness of this lotus comp that fnc couldn't adapt to (watch sliggy's vod for more info on how they exploit it) while eg had a 100% winrate on the map in the same event with an average scoreline of 13-6

flair

is c0m going to lev confirmed not happening? I thought it was still up in the air

yeah fair enough

for your lotus point, yes fnc lost because they got antistratted but that means their weaknesses on that map were shown to everyone. It's not like it's a quick fix on their end either, the comp got completely exposed (mainly how with no flash they can't fight A properly, sliggy explained this you can watch his vod). With that in mind I can't agree until we see them play it again, especially since EG were 3-0 on lotus at champs with a 13-6 average scoreline

sen fans get 1 off season win and become worse than navi flairs

If we ignore off-season shit and just look at it post-champs I'd say
ASCENT: EG
BIND: PRX
BREEZE: idk
FRACTURE: EG
HAVEN: LOUD
ICEBOX: FNC
LOTUS: EG
PEARL: PRX
SPLIT: LOUD
SUNSET: idk

jingg should be there too ofc, just listing 2 omissions from the team that literally won champs

idk when the narrative around eg changed to it being demon1 and friends but anyone who actually believes ethan and c0m weren't top 20 players this year either didn't watch tokyo and champs or is just braindead

I think this guy just forgot champs happened