not really for playing though mainly for just skin whales manipulating the market lmfaoo

they would not.

Pacific has never been dogshit but they have been very top heavy in their region to be fair

with the shareholder percentage its more likely that china would get more spots lmao

do you think they didn't try any of them out? i wonder how they ended up choosing qck cause wasn't he a sentinel player last year?

read my edit

its just unlucky for fpx on timing but you're acting as if sen is the only team that plays spam simulator

literally every rmr (and also groups for the major right now)

edit: nevermind im braindead i didnt read what he said before, not all teams play each other lol

yea its funny how they called this a swiss but theres no real seeding behind the matchups lmao

it shoulda been used on masters shanghai since we would have an idea on what everyone looks like

swiss format is good, but 8 teams for a masters (and even a swiss bracket) makes this bad

the teams here are the real contenders from what we've seen so far

map 3 is icebox too lmfao i need to know who thought this map pool was good

i agree but also its not like he was on the best team for setting him up when he was on duelist

he never thinks with his posts you can ignore him its like a puppy barking

honorary canadian

if you go to his vlr im pretty sure theres a post where he makes fun of a guy for being french or something

i pray for an event in Toronto for once

did they announce they're blowing this roster up already?

tbh its just live seeding as the event goes on. you can search up the cs2 copenhagen major rmrs on hltv to see how it works if it doesn't make sense and you can do pickems to see how games change depending on who wins

wait are riot doing live seeding for the swiss format im not watching the video linked

to be fair it wasn't only emea with that problem, it happened in apac and some rounds in americas

but the billion dollar company probably shouldn't have that issue lmfao

i think it was a bit of overconfidence to be honest. they didn't really add any new strats from last year so kc was just able to vod review both the fnc-vit game and last year. they prolly saw the one team region shit still and thought they were golden

they'll be back for split 1 ill be surprised if they miss out on the next masters

i am confused on how the production for each region is so different, i woulda thought that RIOT would have made all of the regions synchronized and gave out trophies for each

my fault bro

sen beat all of the good teams in their region? how are their wins undeserved? they put in the a shit ton of work and it paid off

this replied to the wrong comment for some reason lol

goes to map diff then round diff and so on

because its a different lineup from last year

icebox is their permaban no?

icebox is more boring to watch

its not that they're bad, they're average but 100t does actually look good from what we were shown

yes

"Americas top 6 teams
Kick off Group B
NRG
EG"

if you didn't know, you read left to right and top to bottom in english. the way that you structured this directs your eyes in a way that makes most people assume you're ranking things! maybe don't be a dickhead when i tell you how people can misconstrue the way you posted this

w list bro

with the title and the way you structured your post, its safe to assume that you're saying all teams of group b > nrg > eg

fuck no, literally any other team from the group of death should be in lol, the groups were shit

riot is soft its been known

whoever went to play-ins for group b was winning play-ins lets be serious

anything is possible, but 80% chance this doesn't happen

im pretty sure its "random" other than the fact that the play-in winner will not face its own group winner. so its nrg vs loud (sen vs eg) or nrg vs sen (loud vs eg)

wasn’t disagreeing but it was just really funny timing

you’re right, but i didn’t fully mean 1:1 i was just explaining it to op as it seems they don’t know the cs scene and that was the easiest way to explain it.

the one thing i disagree with is the masters/iem thing. i would argue that masters is an equivalent to katowice specifically given the significance of kato within cs history (kato is held in higher regard compared to all other iem tournaments) but everything else you said is right

champs are the val equivalent of cs majors, while masters are the equivalent of like iem katowice or iem dallas, so if a team was able to win like 2 champs in a row while staying consistent both years at masters (maybe not winning but like top 3), then we could start talking about team legacy

but even then its not near astralis haha

when i said flexible, i didn’t mean the flex position, i just meant keeping up with the meta changes within their own postion. it would apply to mako as he’s consistently been one of the best controllers

i would actually argue the opposite. obviously individual legacies in cs are important but i feel more people look at team legacies, ex: early nip and fnatic, astralis era, faze 2022.

with val since the meta is ever changing its hard to stand out as a super flexible player so the people that can are always talked about. i don’t know if we can really speak on team legacies yet other than loud as they’re the only team that has been decently dominant for more than one year.

then again this could just be me waffling

i respect that you’re conscious that you’re just being a hater

she just talked to trents family and girlfriend, hes just being mad for no reason

horrendous timing

they were talking about na for this

we all say saadhak is the goat caller, but maybe we’re sleeping on angel with this…

it was a great call by angel to get ardiis to make fns retire by the end of the year and then return back to the rest of them at navi, i gotta respect it

saw someone say this like last week somewhere: c0m was a decent player in a god like system on eg last year

100t definitely didn't have pressure for this kick-off tournament everyone wrote them off before it started, but they looked pretty good i'm happy for the team tbh