Remember when skye got nerfed and everyone said she’s dead but now she’s average and balanced? Viper will still get play on most maps especially with the current map pool but a lot more stuff will become viable now. If anything I don’t think it’s going to hit as hard as the skye nerfs and definitely not chamber nerf level falloff. Cypher nerfs are whatever I like the trips changes but the cam I’ll have to see first idk how it’ll go

Cypher still will be better on breeze bind split sunset
Kj will still be better on ascent lotus icebox
Doesn’t change anything

Betting sites banned me for putting a billion on with $2 odds in the liquid game

Viper will still be good on icebox and breeze she just won’t be oppressive with double smokes on split bind lotus

Yeah if they replaced fade with skye their split comp would be so much better

Obviously the alpha and omega groups are unbalanced with their kickoff result seeding, so what if instead they made the groups fun

Americas: NA vs SA
Alpha:
Loud
Lev
Kru
Mibr
Furia
Omega:
Sen
Nrg
100T
G2
C9
Eg

Pacific: EA vs SEA
Alpha:
Drx
GenG
T1
Dfm
Zeta
Omega:
Prx
Rrq
Ts
Bleed
Talon
Ge

KRU
HERETICS
DRX
FPX

FPX will take china to new heights whilst putting oce on the map at the same time

Glad they win and the champ point is nice even if it probably irrelevant but man this format sucks, like the fact that the groups are seeded based on kickoff with RRQ as a bonus team as they came 3rd in group c so it was a 50/50 on which group they get placed in and they get put in the harder group again. Also they lose to ge when playing with a sub which id like to think wouldn't happen with estrella. Good hopes for split 2 but tbh playing in a group with DRX and PRX sucks

sub

yeah im here but its sad knowing rrq cant make playoffs

They’re scared of RRQ is why

pretty sure its map diff

if mates 2-0 and navi 0-2 then it's 6-4 to 7-6 so mates will jump them

Should they do the lotus thing with vic raze marved senti demon1 smokes on all raze maps maybe?

Swerl and GuanG look crazy as a duo but overall the team isn't looking great

Very hesitant and indecisive midrounding makes me wonder if too many people are trying to make a call and they just get lost. Like when ethan was announced igl people were saying at least marved and crashies can help midround but if all 3 are trying to make calls it gets messy

both comps are about as good as each other it doesnt rlly matter

Nvm first round is against own group so drx would play tln not t1

Why do lev Mibr and furia play different amounts of games

The only thing is if bleed 2-0 drx then they aren’t top seed and need to play elim game vs t1

Not the case unfortunately, playoffs already decided

Dropped igl dropped hc and now stew is the only Korean and idk if he just feels alone or smth cause he isn’t being set up and supported the same, as well as mart1n underperforming like crazy

They lost to fpx yesterday but those 2 look far ahead of the pack

they need +37 to make it which is impossible

2 wins blah blah single elim blah blah whatever
If I want my Wolves to make playoffs I need to cheer against Nova, and therefore, against oce :( Why did the format make me do this

we can only hope

conky and komodo would save apac

Real quick to dismiss fpx, you’ll see

If she’s a keeper you’ll watch together

Historic win potentially if they can top seed Shanghai as well. I think this is different to trace and ra winning during evo series as I think fpx has looked better even since kickoff. Might finally have new kings of China. Also role swapping autumn to viper and Lysoar to controller/senti is amazing imo Lysoar has looked far better off viper and allows the team to not have to run double duelist or chamber every map. Potential danger team in shanghai if they keep improving

Yo nvm tho fpx looking good

Making a statement this game, noone is safe in Shanghai

but I like ninebody

Spring mentioned good post 👍

As long as their spacing is good and tradable then they’re good, it’s why foxy9 on duelist isn’t great cause he’s too far ahead even tho his aim is great

Feels like apac has 3 s tier teams with no a tier teams atm so they have the best winning chances for Shanghai but overall they’re just alright

Omg a celebrity noticed me 😱😱😱

GuanG on sunset putting on clinics every time

Mb I wasn’t watching

I’d look like the goat against this liquid icl we’ll see if he goes crazy in playoffs

Surely one of these teams could just build a full Russian roster and just dominate

1 map against a dysfunctional awful looking liquid is way too early to call anything

Hello everyone just checking in, seems I was kiiiiiiinda correct ahahah

actually tho th with a new player looks better on paper but who knows how much patitek did for comms or anything so they are a big question mark

i was say 0% chance but every game is an upset so its 50/50

idk I feel they are playing at similar levels tbh, but subbing in this instance matters far less compared to last year as roles will stay the same and it's only the sentinel switching which doesn't take much to get used to
They wouldn't swap mid season or anything but in between shanghai and split 2 it could happen if flashback comes back

foxy without a doubt
foxy been on senti so I think they planned to have flashback in that role and subbed foxy into that last minute, and like foxy has been good senti but a specialist that's also crazy is an upgrade imo

tixx goat

holy savage