Sau paulo ~M1/kick off
NA - M2 (can easily go for the same arena as world's)
Japan- champions 23

I'll take a 3000 crowd over a 15 k crowd with 70% empty seats for fkn playoffs game

yeah, and if you know that bald guy, he's much more capable than what he did, he could've acted so well and made that video interesting whereas he just read few lines while having a wig and suit on(not his fault, the ones who produced it, its their fault)

we hate on uk coz its uk, but theyll do decent. like reach playoffs

link can play sentinel or secondary smoker/initiator

only reason you rate bonecold low is coz he didnt play in t1 in 2022. he's champions winning igl, he definitely aint a tier below. sure you can rate him below rest of the team, but he isnt a liablity for that team

finland jamppi derke bonecold hiber hoody
i dont remeber all players from lithuania but remember doing this before and they had a stacked team. from what i remember nukkye vakk destrian hype boo nbs coach(acend)
uk boaster mistic link soulcas ardiis benjyfishy (this has potential not neccesarily better)

c9's video is not anywhere close to s. all they did was waste the good set they had got. they could've added a storyline/script or something to the video , especially considering they had a proper boxing ring. but all they did was call players by the names they have like el diablo, which was mediocre. like if i had the job to make that video and was given that set, at the bare minimum i wouldve created a story line

there are 5 countries in europe who'll do better than chile. finland lithuania poland uk(yes) sweden probably turkey and russia obv

not enough fans in korea, we'll see a crowd similar to copenhagen day 1, can change after the league this year though

dont try to argue with people shitting on teams that are actually doing well. it should be obvious that if an org makes playoffs in both fps and even worlds in lol, then that means it is one of the best orgs by any metrics for the year. you'll be wasting your sanity by trying to argue these people

not enough clouted yet

and the igl, so looks like one more player as the 5th and the other 5 will act as effectively an academy roster coz i dont see why players like ethan and bcj would join if they could be subbed in between games

what i meant was you dont need to justify that much. things like teamplay and synergy are anyways not measurable

atleast not an org with L financials who cant even get into partnerships.

support eg. coz they dont have fans

bro thinks we are talking about tier 2 teams like fake clan :skull:

Americas: I like NRG, but ofc want to see NA lose so likely SA teams
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main team: fnatic

americas: sentinels coz of sacy
emea: fnatic and then liquid. (will obv choose fnc over tl if both play)
pacific: dont care honestly. but will go for good old '//,

who?

"I think on paper Fnatic is still slightly better for now and maybe NaVi, not much though." that s all we can speculate over. the results are 100% going to be different from what we can see on paper.

it still doesnt matter, in 2 months they can be the best team in the region or be even worse then this. it really doesnt matter

dont agree with adding the highlights. and the intro would've only worked well if we had the entire team irl. its better to not include web cams as much as possible in an announcement vid

there's no 5'11, its either 5'10 or 6 :)

partly why the above roster announcements were fun was because of some important and interesting players. the players loud will pick up will be no namers atleast for international audience. so yea not excited as much for them

can agree

navi announcement video was better. which roster is better? sao paulo will tell

actually ruining the purity of this thread

always

doesnt mean babysasuke is any less cringe

he takes advantageous gun fights.

scream then yay, nats and mako are top tier in mechanics, but not at the same levels as these two

still a really good event. almost all partnered teams + bleed. just hoping the tech delays arent like superdome.

this is another example of dont think there are no good off season events just coz they arent announced yet

its already happening 99%

no no, red bull is in early december and so is that milan event. that is for sure, so it explains why they are missing red bull(already explained by cojo fnc manager)

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no bro they arent coming. drx might, but no shot fnatic comes

typical bandwagoners. call every team but optic a failure.

why will they bait? it seems like an obvious(unintentional) leak. its almost confirmed that there'll be two big lans in europe one manchester red bull and one this milan event. japan news is new, but there is nothing here thats shouts bait to me.

boaster/fnatic did an interview where they recently said that boaster would be leaving for egypt soon(so was recorded before the superdome) and then it went on saying:
"Tomorrow he’s flying out to Egypt for the first of three off-season tournaments, with the next two taking place in Japan and Milan."

this means that he will be participating in a japanese tournament in this off season that also means we might see a tournament in japan with international teams. HYPE!!!!

link: https://www.nme.com/features/gaming-features/jake-boaster-howlett-is-putting-on-a-show-3339947?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=ap_dahlfus5ry

i have seen more worse curses. regular top 5 team itw is decent COPIUM

crazy how you forget nats was right there ahead of yay when that was happening. he was right there competing against people playing an overpowered jett, using the easiest gun in the game and having the biggest shot at scoring those high frags. nats still came out on top against those players. no disrespect to diablo though, that guy is undoubtedly the 2nd best itw.

people forget to watch his games outside of lan to realise he isnt that consistent of a fragger

the meta might not shift towards jett either but yea you are right. cned has to learn raze/neon or play flash instead of zyppan

the thing is nrg would've gone for dicey if his buyout wasnt as expensive as moving ardiis to US. fu*k faze clan who has put their players in high buyouts and contract jail.

just watch what happened in emea games and then say. you being an nrg fan are now so biased by just watching his masters and champs games. sure he can continue his form, but its more than likely he'll perform worse than what cned does. i am just an emea fan, not a fan of ardiis or cned. rest is up to you to acknowledge

common NA L

this. people only look at what all agents he plays while forgetting how bad he is, that may or may not show statistically. his cypher on lan was the recent example. his sova was bad. he plays those agents at the bare min level. his util usage is no where near a guy who mains those agents

brother watches ardiis only in lan and declares he is the best. ardiis was probably the weakest chamber among the top 5 EMEA teams in the challengers thing. he performed really really well in lan, which he can definitely continue but thats not very certain. also cned's peak>>> ardiis(of what we saw till now)