no north american sports leagues don't believe in relegation sadly, its due to the fact that the rich owners had to pay millions to buy a spot in their respective league. if a new team joins the league, its cause new owners made a new franchised team and the league wanted an additional spot

ahh i did not know about FNS' contract length thats why i made that post earlier lmfao

that's what i've been thinking since ascension ended, cause i don't think guard will split apart for now and johnqt is the next person that makes sense

do you guys legitimately think that FNS will go to SEN? after all the lengths to get crashies, victor, and fns as the core for NRG for the 2023 year, they would just split after a poor champs appearance? i feel like i'm going insane with all of these scrim threads and posts, and I don't see them splitting unless there's internal issues

yea Nadeshot has said that he would rather get cheaper younger promising players and develop them rather than spending crazy amounts of money on established players so he wanted cryo

our next game is sometime april 2024, weird schedule i know right?

not tenz either -ardiis +zekken or -ardiis +yay cause the chemistry will be there for yay

we can hope but it doesnt look like they're gonna add community servers sadly

yea it really sucks how inconsistent hes been this year cause he was in such good form before

mikes should be the one gone if im being real cause i think the team could do well with a better coach, but they probably will drop some players and sadly the most likely is derrek

Unironically, I think that the most unbiased takes I've seen on here so far are the people that have tier 2 flairs when talking about Tier 1

w bait

crashies said in his interview after the EG game yesterday that chet has not been getting a ton of sleep so thats why hes looked like that this week, but idk about the rest of the games lmao

im not gonna lie demon1 clearly has to be in contention for the americas. this man saved a team that would not have even had that chance to make playoffs

unless the updated roster improves their chemistry and get some good strats going, no

fenis but it doesnt matter cause he has a massive brain

as much as i want americas regions teams to do well, im annoyed that eg made tokyo purely for the reason that demon1 cant go. its actually a wasted slot if they stay in the same form they were pre demon1. but what do i know lmao eg is clearly able to surprise

saw this on my feed too lol, im more into the cs scene than val but the whole argument between the fan bases is really exhausting. and his arguments between the crowds was so biased LMFAO, he used clips from the paris major and compared it to the small little venues for crowds they had for the franchised seasons in val. still dont get why other cs people cant appreciate that there is a competitor to their game, it only makes both better in the long run

POISED is up there for me cause of his wrist injury/surgery

someone said on here that demon1 said his parents are both from russia

holy shit, are you my chem teacher from high school?

i was boutta say this, i dont think many people who watched the streams could tell by looking that that arena did NOT look like it was properly ACd, i wasnt there but i could tell that place looked like an oven

you're right about fans not caring about teams outside their regions, but i think why people were mad about lock//in is cause half of the fans in the arena left after fnatic won. i could care less that loud fans left cause obviously they were there to see them win and they had to work the next day, but its disingenuous to act like this playoff game and the final are the same. i can understand the complaints if this happens in the playoffs lower bracket finals and grand finals

i do agree but it is a bit different, this is playoffs for teams to go to an international event vs lock//in was THE start of the year for franchising and it was an international event

their fundamentals are really good but the issue with them they dont build off them with a bunch of different strats, they've kinda just been sticking with what they've done the whole season and haven't tried any new stuff

nrg lost to them the same way they lost to mibr, fucking around with roles

ah ngl ive never seen it shortened to youtu.be before so i was just wondering

scam link? youtu.be?

this is the exact reason that there should be a proper relegation system in tier 1 rather than just growing each league