9 Map pool for Pros? Week 1 Pickems

[@Fymryns]

“American teams usually complaint the most on twitter.” 😂

[@philhwang2005]

No lies was uttered

[@rf7182]

Freedom create chaos And information technology prove it

[@randomguy7863]

Not just american teams, americans in general😂

[@BBLoup]

I think that's right but that's needed, if they don't, nobody's saying things so im happy Zellsis is calling out valorant bullshit🤣

[@CzAnimations]

​@@BBLoup make sense given that Twitter is more popular in Americas than other regions

[@funkmonk3021]

geng wont be jetlagged. shanghai only has like 1 and a half hour of time difference compared to korea. Honestly, they won the best tournament in terms of location between their original region.

[@CzAnimations]

And breeze will still be in first week

[@munkhjinmunkhbayar5952]

I think GEN.G is just guaranteed to champions. I don't know why poeple are debating that. Even if they're jettlagged it's GEN.G they'll pull out a win.

[@picoto1775]

Jetlagged might mean after party too.

[@lotus4147]

@@munkhjinmunkhbayar5952I thought they were guaranteed from points alone from qualifying to masters 1 and winning Shanghai

[@JYD2020]

Riot make a normal schedule challenge: level impossible

[@voyagersentfromearth]

No wonder we heard nothing about the map rotations, Americans didn't cry on Twitter

[@musculusiv4172]

Honestly it would be hard to make the scheduling and formats worse if they tried

[@CoelenK]

Hey I never knew you had a patreon and just checked out the playbooks and I gotta say, this is so much work that you must've been put and the quality is outstanding. I shared it with some of my friends so hope that helps!

[@SliggyVAL]

Really appreciate this comment man ty

[@LennardJaros]

About GenG being jetlagged, the time difference between Shanghai and Seoul is only one hour.

[@sb5421]

11:18, so BBL starts 0 and 2? That could be the one to undo the pickems, no? Let’s see!

[@CzAnimations]

It doesn't sound right but they are also playing 2 matches and both against very good teams

[@ryedel4113]

Top 6 Overall = Playoffs Overall = stage 1 + stage 2 STANDINGS so teams like DRX start 5-0 for example Top 3 Playoffs = Qualify to Champs Bonus 4th champs slot to be determined by POINTS instead Total 4 teams per region

[@mug7963]

2024 season has been fucked since the start ngl. Can't wait till 2025 i guess lol

[@honsu5214]

why is there no finals video?? (Just asking because I was curious but you uploaded every other match so why not the finals which is THE match of this tournament)

[@Buy_YT_Views_721]

This video came recommended, and now I can't stop watching the entire playlist.

[@Cheekee72]

I honestly thing GenG actually have an advantage in the T1 game and not T1 simply because of the map pool, GenG have been playing and preparing Split and Breeze for a long time now over Shanghai and T1 almost certainly will have prepared more for the new maps coming in. Likely they will only play one of those maps, but still quite the advantage

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

Riot respect competitive integrity challenge: Impossible

[@murirokcs5518]

Where can we find the playbook

[@kostamajstorovic3543]

Wait will there be changes to haven?

[@MikNod000]

When is week 2 pickems?

[@kristjanossenkopp6889]

How is koi out already?

[@mr.obampogu633]

actually, they have very low chances. Cause in split 2 teams qualify by all amount of points. TH 6 Karmine 7… so they need to be 6th place, but now they got only 1 point.

[@bruh7661]

they have like 0 points lol

[@kristjanossenkopp6889]

@@mr.obampogu633 k thats what I thought they can still make playoffs if they win every game

[@Daveprotence]

@@mr.obampogu633you are mixing up standings and championship points. Stage 1 standings count towards stage 2 . Championship points determine the 4th team that goes to champions and will only be important for the teams that don’t finish in the top 3 in playoffs.

[@infinite1483]

@@Daveprotenceis that true? Most things ive heard are on the top 4

[@nic_bo0353]

wait the garage turret on heaven is still good even though it can't see c and garage ?

[@SliggyVAL]

This haven was done for really old guard comp so a while ago patch wise. So viper smoke and turret wont work fully as planned

[@blueskyhigh1426]

great for Sen, they remove one of their worse maps with breeze gone during the main season, and they still have their best map, split still in. Should be easy qualing for playoffs

[@wrekt2192]

wait sen will play split? I thought they removed it?

[@camo976]

@@wrekt2192 its removed for playoffs

[@TheLastQuazar]

I thought Breeze & Split got removed no? And they put in Haven and the new map Abyss in

[@Cyclic727]

​@@TheLastQuazaronly breeze is being removed until playoffs

[@divam_ge]

Every win feels sweater when no one expect you to win :)) from 0-6 to 2-4 and almost doing 3-3 ( if they cleared Leo ) I trust on this roaster even if they dont qualify , they will surely put up a great fight #GE

[@vedangkashyap8964]

good job man!! thanks for spreading positivity >

[@seenpools9096]

9 should be Permanent tbh. Just put in the 9 best maps and they will figure it out.

[@Cyclic727]

This is a horrible idea. Teams already struggle to develop a good map pool with 7 maps in, adding 2 more just exponentially increases the pressure on coaches

[@zyptonical]

I feel like every pro player should be comfortable complaining because they should be able to call out Riot without repercussions.

[@thenicesven5328]

With FNS back, i have all my Money on BilliBilli to make a heroic comeback only to beat FNS 2-0 again

[@arturoflash]

The first week on 8.10 is fucked. The change to 8.12 for playoffs is fine for me because that change will have been advertised for a while

[@DatBeast18]

Thoughts on Talon going 4-1 with 6 person roster

[@Twifster]

BBL Sliggy my beloved, love you from platchat jerquers

[@joka5393]

Poor NAVI, poor Erik... having the best record but format and Heretics killed them :( But if they win both games first week they are basically in Playoffs. Maybe they get revenge

[@Ormil]

i mean tbf heretics is the runner up of both emea and masters, but yeah single elim killed them

[@TheLastNinja]

9 is a high number

[@bripi244]

Navin over Heretics is kinda crazy ngl

[@DatBeast18]

Second best team in EMA=Fire coach lets go

[@DatBeast18]

who says the koi players would wanna come back after you kick them

[@512x7]

W Navi as usual

[@ergertkurtaj8665]

Navi looking good but can’t qualify for 2 events in a row ?

[@cocomilk253]

i hope all team agrees not to play breeze for them not to prac it anymore

[@burnedpotato2]

But wait- how is this even allowed?

[@gragalakaisel1477]

ikr. how did they think this is fair and is a good idea lol. it's just a simple solution of just deciding which patch they should be playing. instead of this sht even the tournament integrity is RNG.

[@brssnkl]

I would be offended if I was Pro in NA :D

[@clae6778]

Talk to me Sliggy, why so handsome?

[@thfocuz]

nah nah nah.. i am convinced Sliggy is a Heretics hater.. even after getting 2nd in masters shanghai.. picking navi over TH just because miniboo is coming back.. this is ridiculous

[@littIepie]

icb even TH got 2nd on shanghai you're still saying you have preferred NAVI over ALL of the emea teams lmao could have just said FNC or FUT 🤷🏻‍♀️ friendship ended w sliggy jk although i agree NAVI should win vs TH who got less prep time

[@krishnaneupane7546]

As a viewer , its even more fun lol

[@kaz-gaz]

jdg>>>tec

[@musculusiv4172]

Arent Heretics proof that 6 man rosters can work? They essentially ran a 6 man roster this season

[@yerp2457]

You could say the same about Paper Rex last year, just because you can doesn't mean you want to

[@eschess_]

Both times it wasn't a planned 6 man roster. Both teams, TH and PRX had to use a sub (if I remember correctly FNATIC also did that, which wasn't planned). They "played" a 6 man roster because they had too since one person of the regular team couldn't attend to the tournament.

[@camo976]

they didn't do a 6 man roster on purpose. they had to do it due to circumstances

[@musculusiv4172]

@@camo976 I didnt say on purpose... If TH can do it when they are forced to then a team could do it even easier if they do it on purpose

[@sungnankang]

Goofy ahh format as usual

[@kobs_0]

something something format IFISPEAK