you heard it here first

considering he’s been a part of the majority of rosters tsm has put out they have found success, i can in fact say he is part of the reason his teams find success

and would you look at that! he has the chance to ascend again! so how is he wasting a slot if he has a better chance than anyone else at ascending?

i guess it’s because alym is from kyrgyzstan

and yet he continues to outplace the majority of people in tier 2 and still sees himself getting chances to ascend

if gmd was as much of a deadweight as you say he is, he simply wouldn’t be performing the way he is, very simple

he led a team to ascension twice, if that’s wasting a slot then quite literally everyone in tier 2 is wasting a slot

he topfragged last game to make grands, i think you’re just hating to hate

i imagine this is the first envy game you’ve watched ever

what do you want him to do, just not play?

And then you woke up

all streaks must end someday

tier 1 is calling

Since when was nobody off of igl

We get one minimum

Brawktagon is coming

leo is going to vit lil bro

fns has always had shaky aim but the problem is in earlier valorant he was able to back it up with insane calls

nowadays it doesn’t look like he has a clear read on the game and was experiencing massive burnout due to being at the tailend of his career (he said himself he simply didn’t feel like competing when he retired) so it didn’t justify him dropping abysmal numbers

back then he was able to facilitate his playmakers (marved, yay, etc) but it didn’t seem like he knew everything that was going on leading to his retirement

sand deserves tier 1 btw

i don’t think his lurks themselves are the problem, in fact i think he is second only to leaf regionally, and even then it’s a very close second

but of course with him having little experience against the best teams, he’s going to have some disjointment not with his own timings but with the rest of his team, specifically when faking sites and then running into stacks

skuba’s bind against G2 was beyond exceptional on defense, but he had little impact against them on attack, and i noticed that he was often playing with the pack and not really allowed to make his own plays which everyone knows he’s capable of making

i suppose that’s more of a prep diff? i just think they’d be a lot better if they allowed him to make
more plays instead of simply relying on mada to be the tip of the spear every round

this is also a factor too, mada is probably the player who takes the most risks and when they work NRG often wins the round, and his late starts hurt his team a lot more than they should be

but like this i think it’s just fixed with more experience (since mada isn’t historically a main duelist, he was often a flex when playing with bdog) and more confidence (though he has plenty of it)

i think ethan’s attack igling is not that bad at all, i think the reason for why they struggle so much on this side is mainly because of their midrounding, and i think this is because one of their main midrounders, skuba, is a rookie and doesn’t have that much experience with attack timings against the best teams in the world

i see a lot of good calls coming from NRG early in the round and then it falls by the wayside, so it tells me that while the strategy looks good, the adjustments are the problem. i think there is a little bit of disjointment between s0m (who is the veteran midrounder) and skuba (who is the lurker and therefore a very heavy piece in attack midrounding) and the differentiation in timings is what causes them to lose a lot of rounds they shouldn’t be losing. i also see some rounds where skuba simply doesn’t lurk and they all hit site while leaving a lot of weak points

this could also be a reason for why skuba has looked off recently, in a lot of their matches he hasn’t looked to be the superstar we expected him to be

while i think ethan’s attack calls could be better (some rounds are still odd calls which is very visible), they aren’t bad at all and can actually contend internationally, but i think there needs to be better comms between their midrounders as well as general confidence from skuba (which will probably be fixed with more experience)

hopefully skuba plays a little more confident and just trusts his team and himself more, if he does then i think NRG has a genuine chance to make a run

historically the 3rd seeds should be beating the 2nd seeds but there’s a reason for why the 2nd seeds made grand finals

they should all be favored against lower seeds because they’re peaking at the right time, even teams like GX NRG DRG, especially considering teams like FNC TH T1 SEN etc are on a downtrend

mada clears

then say nothing because ts ain’t happening

telling a vlr user to stop hating is like asking a fish to breathe air

Of course not but saying that their peak is top 4 if they all pop off and work together is actually not a bad take, the quality of players on that squad justify it

obviously i have them being grouped because they look abysmal rn but if they suddenly lock in then a run is possible

it’s not unreasonable to say that at their absolute peak sen can make top 4

100t dropping cryo instead of making him switch to senti just for cryo to join sen and switch to senti anyway would be the most 100t scenario imaginable

Who else are we gonna ask them to

bruh just hold the bottle in your hand lmao

Coming onto vlr simply to push agendas, i fw it

Naw

can he bring back sayaplayer

verno may be better, but right now? i would rather have brawk

the best player isn't always the better option

jemkin

wo0t is a flex and also from emea

mada unironically has the highest ceiling in americas as a pure duelist, he will do some insane bullshit to win rounds and he has the mechanical skill to pull it off

problem is he has trouble reaching this ceiling, but when he does i honestly think nrg is near impossible to beat

no

Thank god we kicked this fraud

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the problem would be finding an actual good igl in NA tier 2 because the list is very short

everyone will talk about “life game” and “odin merchant”

real ball knowers know he’s been that guy since his moist moguls days, there’s a reason he’s called the brawktagon

it’s like they all collectively forgot he was their best player for the majority of the split

#NRGWIN

Has bait gone too far?

i did mean those 2 but the only one of those two i can realistically see losing a series is FNC

Nah they’re gonna crumble like they did in toronto, i can feel it

well the issue is that despite there being no group of death, each group has a very clear 2-0 team and then the others are left to duke it out for the final spot

edg sadly falls into the latter category

PRX GX
FNC BLG
TL NRG
G2 T1

TH get grouped 100%