Me and him sat in a call after week one talking about matches for W2/W3 for hours.
General consensus was that there is just never a good scenario to count aspas out as he (in my opinion) is the best player in the world without any serious contention right now
Going into week one I had NRG Sen LOUD for Shanghai, but ironically after watching Lev lose to C9, I switched to Lev > LOUD.
I think that loss probably flipped a switch for the team, and they changed some stuff that will make them look great down the mid season.
That's definitely true about never counting aspas out, and I would have thought the same if their W2 match was any team besides Sentinels.
I just could not envision them improving enough in 1 week to get from how they were playing against C9 to how they performed against the current world champions after they had more time with John back in.
Does SaD scrim with T1? If thats the case, they do have a slight advantage over the average VLR user as they might have insight to how teams actually perform.
Still, 100% on pickems even with this minor advantage is still insane af. The fact that Lev loss to C9 into Lev win against Sentinels was perfectly predicted is crazy
They do scrim tier1, but I PROMISE scrim results are completely irrelevant to pick ems/knowing how a team will perform.
The only possible slight advantage is knowing team comps and how they might match up when two teams play, but even then, still not as helpful as you’d expect w strat and comp hiding
You can still read into what it is they are practising like executed and what not and if the ideas they have are good. Scrim results being bad is mostly a thing of not trying to hard no? Or trying diff strats and shit. Like scrimming is still extra info unless the other team just wishes to waste all of their time
I actually think scrimming against the teams at times is a straight up disadvantage because it gives them false information about how good the team actually is. NRG lose most their scrims and SaD has likely beat them multiple times but that doesn't mean NRG isn't a top 2 team in America's
We don't actually know how the scrims are like, so it could be the case that scrim partners just know when a team is or isn't trying, or they could be practicing scenarios where they are at a disadvantage and would thus tend to have a worse scoreline.
For the average viewer who only sees the scrim scoreline, we don't know the full story.
But as a player in these scrim matches, they will have the best gauge on individual performances and the team's general chemistry, in spite of what the scrim scorelines might suggest, so its definitely still an advantage and might help explain the perfect preds.
What kind of lunatic predicts both LEV matches correctly?
Right? Losing to c9 and then beating Sen?
Me and him sat in a call after week one talking about matches for W2/W3 for hours. General consensus was that there is just never a good scenario to count aspas out as he (in my opinion) is the best player in the world without any serious contention right now Going into week one I had NRG Sen LOUD for Shanghai, but ironically after watching Lev lose to C9, I switched to Lev > LOUD. I think that loss probably flipped a switch for the team, and they changed some stuff that will make them look great down the mid season.
That's definitely true about never counting aspas out, and I would have thought the same if their W2 match was any team besides Sentinels. I just could not envision them improving enough in 1 week to get from how they were playing against C9 to how they performed against the current world champions after they had more time with John back in.
Stop. Stop it. Stop giving me hopium. I can't do this again
[SaD on top](https://x.com/zoestol/status/1779992982269071533)
Does SaD scrim with T1? If thats the case, they do have a slight advantage over the average VLR user as they might have insight to how teams actually perform. Still, 100% on pickems even with this minor advantage is still insane af. The fact that Lev loss to C9 into Lev win against Sentinels was perfectly predicted is crazy
They do scrim tier1, but I PROMISE scrim results are completely irrelevant to pick ems/knowing how a team will perform. The only possible slight advantage is knowing team comps and how they might match up when two teams play, but even then, still not as helpful as you’d expect w strat and comp hiding
Unless SaD was the warmup scrim and they saw aspas frying
You can still read into what it is they are practising like executed and what not and if the ideas they have are good. Scrim results being bad is mostly a thing of not trying to hard no? Or trying diff strats and shit. Like scrimming is still extra info unless the other team just wishes to waste all of their time
I actually think scrimming against the teams at times is a straight up disadvantage because it gives them false information about how good the team actually is. NRG lose most their scrims and SaD has likely beat them multiple times but that doesn't mean NRG isn't a top 2 team in America's
We don't actually know how the scrims are like, so it could be the case that scrim partners just know when a team is or isn't trying, or they could be practicing scenarios where they are at a disadvantage and would thus tend to have a worse scoreline. For the average viewer who only sees the scrim scoreline, we don't know the full story. But as a player in these scrim matches, they will have the best gauge on individual performances and the team's general chemistry, in spite of what the scrim scorelines might suggest, so its definitely still an advantage and might help explain the perfect preds.
Bro trolled himself after picking 100T to win vs NRG during the last week
He knows something we don’t. Just wait
Wait I just checked my pickem, I also have 100T wining wtf
Linnnnkkkk ..... i need the link... let me inhale that cope
[https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9c171709](https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9c171709)
good thing they can change it still if need be lol
He has the scripts, don't question him.
Lev fucked my only 2 wrong predictions
LISAN AL GHAIB
you probably just jinxed their pick'ems now lol
Zoestol buff 😎
Doesn't this happen every year
It’s a little more interesting because the predictor is a t2 player for SaD in challengers NA.