atp termi is just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks

stax will not join the team that cast him aside, especially after his success on T1. lakia will be estrella 2.0

LMAOOO but he still won't get called a fraud because everyone wants him to be the best smokes player in pacific.

i expect termi to overcook like this but it really isnt a good idea. they need to find an established igl who can come in and provide some stability to this team. they went from being the most stable to the most unstable team in the world in the space of 2 seasons. the issue is there are no igls that are free agents and know fluent korean who are at the caliber that a team like drx needs to be successful.

watch how karon is the only player who will somehow dodge all the fraud allegations LOL

yeah. mako as igl goes double negative. mako off the igl role is suddenly the best player on the team. he is not suited for the igl role, it limits him too much. that was the only good thing about estrella on the team.

holy recency bias. this is insane literally a couple of months ago people were putting foxy9's head on the chopping block. then everyone said drop munchkin for weak mental. now we are going after ash? as if they aren't playing against the second best team in the world currently.

they mean that freeing is a tejo merchant and that was why DRX did so well in stage 1. honestly i can't deny that. before freeing joined DRX he was a full time senti player, so DRX currently have 3 players out of 6 whose most comfortable role is sentinel, and that is not a good thing imo. i really wonder who flashback will sub in for, perhaps for beyn but beyn did ok today. mako and hyunmin cant really be replaced and flashback doesnt play initiator so freeing would get subbed out on double senti maps. DRX has a whole lot of issues to resolve that have built up since they lost at bangkok. igl issue, roles issue, SEVEN MAN ROSTER ISSUE. this team is getting nowhere at the moment.

true true, mako could have saved the game if he wasnt igling

smh are they treating this as a practice session? idk what they are doing rn.

ok but hyunmin is actually HIM. with the right teammates he could be top 3 duelists in the world.

The only teams that may feel burned out are fnatic and paper rex and even they have had some time since Toronto to rest up anyways. Maybe the Chinese teams too but that is poor scheduling, not burnout.

And audio issues on their streams smh, if there wasn't so much money going into this it would defo be a mickey mouse tourney

I think drx wins here 2-0

There's no way I will be caught dead watching lothar omfg. I don't love mako enough for that

Your pickem for group a and b is exactly the same. D is very similar too..but literally everything in group c is flipped for me lol

no. flashback definitely stepped down before estrella was going to replace him. i think estrella was going to sub in for beyn to relieve mako of igl duties. this with flashback might have been a solid team if flashback locked in but he was already looking worse and worse in the beginning of stage 1 from last year.

i meant i dont think it was termi's fault that flashback left. mb, i didnt make that clear.

I don't think flashback leaving is his fault, but the constant lack of success from this team which always has had amazing players on the roster. Termi is literally the only common point between all of them. He is undeniably a good coach when it comes to building up and scouting potential rookies but something about the culture he creates in the team leads to the team falling apart in high stress situations. DRX at their worst chokes unbelievable leads. DRX at their best causes other teams to choke insanely.

what rank are you?

oh are you j*b-phobic like me? the word alone causes me grave distress

no one wants you here clearly so get off this site

AS HE SHOULD BE

once delighted has convinced his followers to switch to his flag and flair, australia should be number 1. just look at how many seychelles flags there are on this site all of a sudden.

i am petty and spiteful when someone disrespects me so I ragebait to make them feel how I feel about them. also i like to subvert expectations. irl, no one would ever expect me to ragebait others, so I have started doing it to keep everyone around me on their toes

oh i see i misunderstood your point. mb. you could hardly tell that this was the guy who got dropped for "being toxic". i thought you were agreeing with the first comment in this thread.

i think it's the pacific curse. every time they win an international tournament, they never do well going into the next one. GENG wins shanghai? bombs out in groups at champions. T1 wins bangkok? they don't make it to toronto. PRX wins toronto? perhaps they choke horribly in the GF at champions.

i put it in quotation marks because that is what the rumours are, and flashback has been on and off on this roster for other issues so I myself are doubtful that that is the actual reason. but those are the rumours and I am just emphasising that flashback asked to be put on the bench at a really bad time. its almost like you are incapable or reading between the lines. it doesnt matter why he said he wanted to be on the bench, all that matters is that HE ASKED FOR IT HIMSELF. TERMI DIDN'T CHOOSE TO TAKE HIM OFF THE TEAM. you are literally focusing on the wrong thing just because you want to blame termi for all of this team's problems. stop it.

idk if that the right one I can't find anything about him talking about trexx there

timestamp please

sorry. i get very defensive when i think anyone is insulting my controller goat

he deserves to be crashed out on. how come DRX has thrown MULTIPLE playoffs opportunities if all of the players are meant to be good? how do players leave the team and do better on other teams when DRX was never able to produce results better than a mere 5th-6th at internationals? there is simply no explanation for the number of times that team has choked apart from the coaching.

when has one singular player (that doesnt play the duelist role) carried an entire team to an international? never. look at every LAN stat for DRX's rosters. they all flop in playoffs except for mako. i am praying for the day he leaves that org. in fact, i hope that DRX get removed from franchising just so that mako is forced to join another team, a team that would actually use his talents to win a trophy for the pacific region :(

delighted gets to hit 10000 posts

#sylvanownsmako??? ok that is just simply not true. mako is still the korean controller goat just for his longevity, but even now he is still better than sylvan. sylvan is good but not THAT good.

Sylvan was imo the best player on that team in stage 1. I have no clue why they would drop him, especially considering they won a masters with him on the roster. I don't think T1 is making champions.

hi

20k steps is a lot. i think setting realistic expectations is much better than aiming high and not reaching it at all. my step target is 14,000 because it is challenging enough that I have to actually try to hit it and it also takes less time than 20k, while also being less physically taxing.

the igl role has been an issue since 2022. if DRX have not found a competent igl to lead this team in that long, then idk what they are doing. i understand why DRX signed estrella and that flashback put them in a bad position, but if they are just going to drop estrella to make mako igl again, i don't like this move. it's going backwards instead of forwards. perhaps freeing will pick up the igl role, but at the moment i am not impressed with the fact that termi is willing to drop both beyn and estrella for flashback and a new rookie from the academy roster so soon. this team with beyn has and had potential early this year, so what is the need in dropping beyn again? it makes no sense. why bring him back if he is the first on the chopping block? that isn't fair at all.

omfg just give mako to T1 and let this team crumble already. and its not like mako is the only good player on the team anymore, but he is the one who has to suffer the most from termi's shitty roster moves. I understand mako plays better when he isnt igling but is it that hard to find a better korean igl than estrella? surely we can do better than that?

even if we talk about the defender side though, there are still 2 options of duelists that are far and away better than the rest due to their fast travel around the map, and it is once again yoru and neon. without these 2 duelists, the round will be decided pretty much in the first minute because there isn't enough time for other agents to move around the map, and only 2 agents in the game can fake pressure on one side before very very quickly entering onto the other side. and once again there are only 2 agents in the game that can switch from holding A to holding B on defense very fast. and thats yoru and neon.

Win it all because the trexx slanderers exaggerate his supposedly weak mental too much.

i dont think this is a room temperature take. some of the duelists are far and away a much better pick due to corrode being a big map with long rotations. yoru and neon already stand out as better duelist options, especially because entry to site isn't simply by dashing into the site, but instead involves multiple layers to it and may involve gradually carving out map space as there are multiple choke points, especially on the entry to A. the other duelists don't have enough util to clear all of these spots as the entry as effectively as a yoru or neon (or raze to an extent) can, or will take a long time on the rotates which is not ideal.

my nt

+meteor and GENG wins champions EASILY.

as a mako fan, it would be my dream to see a korean team that HAS won an international to poach mako from DRX but both karon and sylvan are too good to be replaced, even by mako.

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yeah this is also a decent solution

i remember this from years ago where every week there was an article on news almost missed which was just about roster moves in tier 2 leagues and results in leagues that not everyone has time to watch or pay attention to. i wish it would come back because without it I feel out of the loop on most tier 2 and below leagues.