0 kill win is COMICAL. How are you this bad BLEED?

that's the problem. he thinks PRX picked him up to replace jing. he just needs to play his game.

Unlucky for M3C. hard times.
APEKS was a fucking joke i ascension. classic FNC chokers.

his raze is mid. obviously jinggg is the goat raze.
his problem is timings and over confidence. he's in over his head.
he often takes unnecessary 1v1s, or got caught in bad fights
at times, he's also either too fast or too slow with the rest of the team.

he needs to calm down and realize PRX don't meed him to be that guy he was in GE. in GE he was THE GUY, the carry, the star player.
PRX needs him to do what they need him to do. not what he THINKS they need him to do.

no. monyet should flex duelist - controller.
that's why they picked him up, if they want a raze he plays raze. if they want to run second controller he flexes.
MF back to full time controller.
davai to full time initiator.

They're promising. But if Estrella and Flipz start to clash, they'll be fucked. i hope flipz still be the 1st voice and Estrella stay 2nd and just help point things out.
because flipz is actually a really good player mechanically, but he's facing the classic IGL problem.
i hope they worked out.

'21 G2
'21 Vision Strikers (wtf happened)
'22 M3C (we know why)
'22 LEV (chamber nerf)
'22 The Guard (lost to ORX in Reykjavik, lost to 100T in LCQ)
'23 100T (after losing Sean Gares. they looked so fucking good under Sean.)
'23 DRX( I blame Termi)
'23 NRG (bro we ain't losing to billy billy bro)
'23 NAVI (CNOT)
'23 APEKS (no wonder, full of ex fnatic chokers.)
'24 RRQ (unlucky with the groups)
'24 TL (they picked up a bunch of chokers)

AME - LOUD
EMEA - TH
PAC - PRX
CN - WOLVES

i think the just have a more structured system this year. a system that allow his strenghs to be utilized. also it helps that he basically lead a team centered around him and his brother.

i agree, but i still take SEN. why? the same reason i took SEN over LEV. ̶h̶o̶p̶i̶ team chemistry. as a unit, they look better than NRG.

ec1s

the thing that these guys have in common is that they are misfits, exiles, pariah, a bunch of wasted unproven talents teaming together. they all have one objective : proving the doubters wrong.
you see how people ranked them coming into the season. people said they wouldn't work, and they proved them wrong.
if you put zest in he will mess up the team chemistry.

and also why need zest if you have fucking KARON over here lighting up heads.

aren't orgless players also FA? theyre not under contract.

It's the literal opposite in Indonesia. we have talent, But ORGS aren't willing to invest in VALORANT challengers. apart from BOOM and AlterEgo, there arent any major ORGS investing in T2. most of the T2 in Indonesia are either orgless or mid tier orgs.

that's fair. DUELISTS comes and goes but FLEXES stays. there will always be a younger, sharper, better duelists. duelist is the often celebrated role the best players, the big names come from this role. but flex is a role which takes more form the player but given less praise.
if yay is able to flex (which looks like he is willing to), i believe he can be one of the best flex player in the game. that is if the team can work together. just give them time.

yo dont NEED to use the awp. he awp is an answer to something. if they have an exec, if they have a strat, if they have a comp, that need to be stopped before they can do anything, you buy the awp. the power to stop what the opponents are cooking is essential.
that's why you rarely see attacking awps, it is more of a defensive weapon. that potential first pick is what makes the awp so powerful.

I think its fine. it makes Madrid more of a quality over quantity thing.
i think the format is only for kickoff + Madrid. i think Shanghai will have more teams.
and imo they shouldve called it Kickoff Madrid, considering they use kickoff basically as a group stage.
also so we can have 3 different titles for the year.

true he is terrible with the awp.
on xset it was cryo that was on awp duty.
in '23 tenz was on duelist awp, and '23 for tenz was tough. and zekken was flexing.

zekken just picked up the duelist role in late season '23 when tenz was subbed out. maybe as he play more duelist awp, he get better. thus they can get more value from the sova.

its comical, how sacy is so good on sova, yet he cant win with sova. i think he just got one yesterday.

BOOSTIO?

I think it's not as simple as that. Their roster is talented, but they are not on the same page. If anything they need time. ,
I am big yay fan, but he looks shit right now. But benching him or anyone wouldn't solve anything for BLEED. if they can't work together, no amount of roster changes can change that.

now in hindsight maybe signing egoist was not the best move from BLEED. they already have a great sentinel player in deryeon. why sign another one?

and it's not as simple as "put yay on chamber and jett and let him farm". now i believe he CAN farm on chamber / duelist. But if they still cant work together those frag will amount to nothing. give them time to polish things up. maybe some role shake up will do.

here's my opinion on what they should do :

DON'T FOLLOW THE META.

you don't NEED to run double smokes, you don't NEED to run skye, you don't NEED to do anything.
play your game, play what's best for you. DOUBLE SENTINEL with CHAMBER? run it. DOUBLE DIVE? run it.

for example their breeze was nice with yay on neon, there were some ideas with the neon. yes they cant close it out, yes they still made minor mistakes and some bad macro. it's things like this they need to do more. lean more into the PACIFIC ways of making waves and not just riding them.

So opened vlr to look for skrossi to see how he's playing. Opened his last game, and found out an Indonesian player severine is now playing for REVENANT. and on their opponent team there's frostmind playing for MLT.
I shrugged it off because they are great players, and good for them.

Then I opened more Indian challengers games, and I see adrian and sayoo playing for GRAYFOX.
And obviously in T1 there was GLOBAL with monyet in '23, then blazeking in '24.
As an Indonesian I'm proud of them and support them. Good for them getting signed with these ORGS.

Now I don't follow Indian nor Indonesian T2 scene. But is there a reason why Indian ORGS likes signing Indonesian players?

"carpe" more like "crap eh?"

buying light shield in OT rounds? bruh.

its prob cause XSET stomped them. that was grim.

notice him buying light shield on both OT rounds on ascent. what happened there.

naah they lost map veto. fracture is one of DRX best maps.

china = b wall. it's weird.

Copenhagen wasn't a fluke. PRX prove their worth. FPX weather the storm. 3 favorite teams in optic, loud, fnatic underperformed in Copenhagen.
Champions Berlin tho...

KRU? I'll take LEV. they're dicipline, crisp aim, strong exec. but still they get early exit. mightve been nerves. maybe wasn't ready for the crowd.

XSET seem like they can't get an attack right, OPTIC defense is so good.
OPTIC 13 - 11

i mean they destroyed fnc the other day. crowd hated them.

yeah but breeze was insanely dominant tho. and the breach pick. they even made a new comp. the fnatic breeze comp. even optic used it the other day and failed.

smart plays are boring.
smart plays win games.
boring = win games.

they're actually good on ascent. baiting people to take 3v3 gunfights one side of the map. while the other 2 creep up to get free kills on rotations.
then they flip to the other site. optic 101.

yay is the most consistent player in the world. that's why he's the goat. no other player performs like him.
he might not be exciting, but he plays for the win. get kill get out. he rarely make flashy hero plays.

FNC vs M3C - split
DRX vs FPX - ascent
FPX vs PRX - Copenhagen Finals.
no particular order.

im sorry that was a my bad. let me rephrase that.
coming into the series, DRX clearly WAS the better team. that series was a horror to watch. i'm even disappointed in myself for believing they can win.

fr how can a team can be so inconsistent. also they alternate between good fnc and bad fnc. if they stick to their pattern we have bad fnc today.

DRX is clearly the better team. they just don't do any adjustments.
DRX always have weak mental. stax gets salty so quick. Mako and rb are steady, but if stax start getting salty, that'll effect the others.

L coach. that breeze game was says it all. he didnt have a counter on ONE strat. they even took a timeout only to do the same setup.

yeah cause they hear someONE. pushing a main. theyre not giving them a chance. as expected.
but if drx have someone pushed hall. they might have a chance. they kept leaving hall wide open. they didnt try to hold it. even when rb had a op. the op was holding a main.
the only good counter they did was on the last round. but thats AFTER they opened the door. AFTER the kayo ulted.
they didnt do any counterstrat. they didnt play aggressive. they didnt willing to play full retake. they deserve to lose that map.

im have DRX winning champs but that was grim. they didnt adapt at all on the defensive.

oh so u think buzz is enough? yeah he did push a main ALONE. why only him? why not him and stax give flash them dog them whatever. they only did it on the last rounds.
a trade is not enough to stop those exec. they needed to push hall and a main. give them pressure. buzz alone cannot stop that exec.

omg that was atrocious. they kept letting loud doing the same thing on a site. 1 push hall, 1 mid, the rest a main. kill them while they look the other way.
DRX had no answer. L coach. they didnt even try to play aggressive down a main, they didnt try to flank, they didnt put anyone in hall. very very bad defensive rounds.

DRX 2-0 LOUD. loud lost map veto. they picked breeze. tf
OPTIC 2-1 XSET. bcj kinda quiet yesterday.