The biggest diff between tier 1 and 2 is teamplay, macro, and individual decision making. I’d say most t2 players are nearly as good as t1 players mechanically.

PRX vs GenG recently was great. That texture ace on lotus…..

Nah trust me, as a senti main, that shit is EASY

Not awful, but let's be so fr Champs 2021 was NOT competitive by 2023-2024 standards. APAC wasn't at a high level yet, Brazil was still figuring things out, and NA was still clinging onto a Sentinels roster that didn't believe in bootcamping. 2022 marked an drastic increase in APAC and Brazil performances with Loud, PRX, DRX all becoming genuine competitors.

He's just suffering from insanely low self confidence right now. The guy's on the biggest losing streak of his career (not even Andbox was this bad), and ending up here after being on top of the world must be a huge shock. I mean it's a shock for the viewers (that's why the yay hate is so strong in the first place), so imagine being the dude himself. Team system (or lack thereof) also makes a difference too ofc, but it's not everything. Let's be honest, the mechanics he's been showing recently have been dreadful; way worse than anything he displayed on andbox and optic even on his worst days.

Why wouldn't he? He's extremely flexible to just about every role.

Don't forget:
Ethan now IGLing on new roles while dropping respectable numbers: winning

He shut down zekken 11-1 in the head to head. Lev would not have won that map otherwise.

Ya but you can’t compare teams based on how hard they beat their opponents. So much depends on individual form, and the individual form of their opponents at the time.

They haven’t played oxygen or mxs, who are their only real competitors for ascension in Americas. At least in NA, I’m unfamiliar with most of brazil and latam this year.

They’re playing Winthrop university bro 💀

You’re so 2022 pilled; meteor is the 3rd best player on his team rn 😭

Bro's copying my post from 2 hrs ago I can't believe it

nah karon's da goat

Put him on Lev! And get Pancada too. Aspas, kingg, pancada, c0m, nats. And get em a good coach while we're at it. That'd surely be better.

Fuck ur right, he’s literally Phoenix stardom irl

natank over f0rsaken, d4v41, demon1, ethan, marved, leo, keznit, johnqt, cauanzin, crashies, mako, karon, something, etc
is INSANE

Lemonade Stand on top!!

IT'S SOOOOOOOO JOVER

Same I was terrified they’d throw it

I had such high hopes for vitality as well tbhhhh

+Aspas would be INSANE

YOOOO SUSHI WELCOME BACK BRO

Also yeah but fnatic look rough rn, hope they clean it up later

Yeahhhhhhhhh so many 1v1s

I'm hoping they turn it around during the next rounds and maps, but they already look a little off. Nothing like how they looked at tokyo or the EMEA season last year

I was looking for champs, it’s soooo good

ur the goat

Nah it's not soccer, it's American football. Only popular in one region, that's it. Soccer is more popular worldwide than CS lmfaooo

^^^^^^^ EDG (as used in your example) were playing as many off season tournaments as possible PLUS practicing like 10 hours a day the whole week. That's gonna cause burnout on anyone. If they were playing more games and practicing less, they would probably be spending less time in the server tbh.

I think it has to be BG3, I've never played anything like it. The writing is just so fucking good.

Im sry bro you gotta take Tenz out and give it to f0rsaken or texture. TenZ played top 10 worthy, but not better than either of those players.

o7 you were genuinely great last tourney, dont believe the haters

I would honestly agree. Mindfreak has consistency problems that monyet hasn’t displayed on smokes

Me!! He will be the goat when he plays again

No way you guys are this bored lmaooo. Go rewatch Madrid or something!

EG paint

Deadass I think it'll go NRG, Lev, SEN, Loud as the top 4 in that order by the end of the year. LEV could not work out tbh, but I'd be surprised if they dropped beyond 5th

You would say their coat is awesome or they are good looking in general reference. They/them are terms every English speaker uses all the damn time in singular tense, and it's so weird that as soon as people request to be referred to by they/them, people lose all human decency.

Exactly

As someone who plays omen a fair bit, he’s gonna be useful for a while yet. The key part of that is the paranoia, it’s just so so strong. Sure the tps are useful, and the smokes are good and allow for some sick one ways, but the flash is really what makes him so good in team play.

That was also the first gf for all of those players, they gained valuable exp, and they’re not gonna choke next time. I believe GenG will make another final this year tbh, and I expect they’ll have a better showing there. It’s apac’s turn to win a trophy.

Yeah the second one is all abt recency bias tbh.

I’m of the opinion that the top 50 players from each region could be world champion class players, if put in the right situation. To me there’s only 5-10 who are genuinely a step above (I would say Aspas, Less, Zekken, Saadhak, f0rsaken, jingg and a few more). Those 5-10 are nearly irreplaceable players, and I’d guess there’s more like them in t1 AND t2, except they’ve never had the chance to show it in the right team.

Don’t disrespect the future goat of Val, Karon like that

Aspas?

I think PRX will be a gagillion times better by shanghai than they were here. It's the diff between Tokyo and champs last year. I also trust GenG to maintain that form; they weren't streaky or anything, they were just that good. Plus T1, RRQ, even TS and Talon showed moments of good play. Apac will be very strong at shanghai, the only issue is other regions might improve just as much if not more.

I agree with this, except maybe Aspas == Zekken

What are you guys even saying man. Genuinely worried for the general mental abilities of this community, when this is the sort of shit I'm seeing. I feel like baits used to be funny and comments used to make more sense. We need ShadowIsBad to return or something idk. Ballsax save us.

What the actual fuck are you talking about? This is how I know you've never seriously done a sport irl. If you think having an off day in a game when you use much less physical effort is more common, I just don't know what to tell you.

You’re ridiculous btw for trying to call sen frauds. They were the best team at Madrid and proved it. As for the kickoff format remarks, yeah single elim isn’t ideal, but consider a sport like figure skating or fencing. Figure skating, those athletes get one shot for their program, and if they fuck up that’s it. Fencing: it’s a 64 player bracket single elim tourney. Would you call every one of those competitors flukers?? It’s stupid to hate on Madrid, and sen won at the end of the day. No tournament will be perfect, and they played well.

Idk if ppl are calling it a fluke bc of who qualified, the way the Swiss and playoff stages were organized was perfect. Every team had chances to make it, and we really did get the best teams in playoffs, and the grand final. SEN deserved that win, props to them. Hoping we get this format again!