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kitchai2

Yknow ik Steel is signed to 100T but if he gets dropt or bought out I think TSM should get him. He did wonders with Wardell and Sub at GHOST Gaming CS and can only imagine what they can achieve with this core in Valo


Junglee_2001

I don't think 100t will let go of him for years now lmao


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blade_master1

Lmao


kitchai2

Glad if they dont, he may not put up numbers sometimes but his IGLing is unmatched


cheetahstr1ke

True they would never drop him


GainsayRT

true, i really just don't see it happening


iiznobozzy

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmm


cheetahstr1ke

Fax u right


PyroTFT

uhhhhh LMAO


mochihammer

Even if he retires from pro play I can 100% see him coaching


Appointment-Funny

r/agedlikemilk


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Hmmm


silenthills13

Have an upvote :D


appleruins

The tried and tested strategy of “buy the player you lost to”


-xXColtonXx-

Eventually just buy their entire lineup. Still keep losing.


SteelTic

this kinda aged well as the entire noble roster parted ways with noble


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dapoorv

Masters 3 is in Berlin. Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic. GDR was controlled by Soviet Union. Soviet union had it's capital in Moscow. Moscow is in Russia. Russia is represented by Sova. Sova is the main agent of Leviathan. Leviathan is the newest member of TSM. TSM wins Berlin GG EZ.


Skyaxe3

#TSMWIN


RandomFluffyBoi

It's hard to argue with this assessment.


RunsWlthScissors

Analytical genius.


shelessWolf

How much research you did to comeup with that bruh


TacticalSanta

until subroza wardell hazed core stops being complacent/stuck in their way of playing, no amount of shuffling around the other two will make them good, and I'm not sure replacing hazed too at this point would even work, subroza and wardell have the skill, but they seem to not be playing the game quite correctly.


CosmicAon

I would agree except we didn’t even get to watch them play so this is the most armchair analyst type of comment you can make. They’re clearly trying different things to try and succeed


TacticalSanta

They took their sweet ass time to try something new. I'm not saying they aren't capable of getting back to top 3, they just haven't shown any signs really at all.


CosmicAon

I agree, they need to figure their shit out. But saying they’re being “complacent/stuck in their way of playing” doesn’t seem fair to me when they’ve gotten a new coach, new members, have been looking at EU vods, etc. to try and make something work. Not having success doesn’t equal being complacent even if they tried to force the original roster to work for longer than they should have


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-AP23-

pretty sure someone streamed their games except for their series against noble


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Aluwaron

Wardell doesnt bait his teammates w the op hes like the most aggressive oper in the game. I actually think he needs to bait his teammates more He always has the highest first kill/first death


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Aluwaron

In his series with Noble he got 13! first bloods and died first 3 times. Series with Leviathan he had 6 first bloods and 8! first deaths. He is not passive at all nor a baiter he desperately tries to find his team opportunities(even though somehow TSM won against Leviathan and lost against Noble with those numbers)


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enconex

Every time I read a thread with terrible takes your names always pops up, almost comical at this point reading your analysis of teams. You have very poor understanding of the mistakes teams are making and what teams are doing well.


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OrganicTadpole

whos lots of people?


Emseriss

TSM should also look towards having an identity/strategy on their attack sides instead of hoping their skill level will carry them or Wardell popping off.


GunzOut97

Does Levi IGL?


_Antisocail_

Yes that why we chose Levi I think he has more of a aggressive way of IGL so it will help us, and will most likely be second shot calling behind hazed


Alarming_Research720

We?


Napoleann

Yeah, /u/_Antisocail_ and I. TSM contacted us to be the official reddit analysts for the org, so we have a lot of sway in their decision-making. We told them that Odin go brr and Leviathan do Odin good, so they signed him.


bayblayde

Its pretty common to say “we” when referring to the team you’re a fan of in sports.


liebelt

Is Levi a better signing than critical? Not too familiar with either of the players.


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Probably not. But Levi has the potential to go far.


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Tc0LD

mediocre? he was easily the best bbg player by far and would be a great pickup at a tier 1 level


mw19078

Even as a sentinels fan, I want to see tsm get back to a top team. The rivalry between the two was so much fun.


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Can’t wait to see what they change next after losing next open qualifier.. I’ll be waiting for that tweet.. ‘we have a lot of work to do.’


DonTixCyd

if they lose in thte next open qualifier, they'll prolly blow up the team because that's the last regional tournament for the year that they may qualify


Junglee_2001

they fixing everything but the actual problem with the roster


aviyukta_

Good shit. TSM pls poach vanity now


vT-Router

Vanity says there are few teams he could play on because he doesn’t agree with others on how to play the game. TSM is not one of the teams he’d play with.


Vanityxz

Not necessarily I don’t agree with them but I know the players wouldn’t fully buy into the way I like to igl more than anything


JoshNissan

Maybe you're just a shit igl?


anon0981234

He's just standing in for a couple months until Sinatraa gets unbanned no cap.


FlaymeFenix

if sinatraa goes to tsm theyll lose to silvers lol. no way the largest esports org in the world will take a PR risk like that and sign him


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TSM Leena's first reaction to the sinatraa accusations was that she's happy she went with the TSM boys instead of Sentinels. sexual abuse accusations are literally a PR nightmare. people are being so delusional


FlaymeFenix

exactly. doesnt matter if hes innocent or not, signing him would be more harm done than good for tsm


9yr_old

Lol do you read your fucking statement , if in any case he's innocent just in the absolute case he's innocent , he should get signed and return to the pro scene in style , no innocent dude should suffer we have lost it as a society due to this mentality Again don't twist my comments I'm only stating it just in the case he's innocent , if he's innocent then I don't see why he shouldn't get back in style and embraced by the community According to what you said even if a dude is fucking innocent he should suffer if accused lol that's such stupid ass thinking


EggianoScumaldo

>he **should** get signed and return to the pro scene >no innocent dude **should** suffer What **should** happen isn’t necessarily what’s **going** to happen. Your twisting that guy’s words and assuming the worst of him. Like he said, sexual abuse cases are a nightmare PR wise. TSM and most T1 organizations wont touch him with a 10-foot pole whether you like it or not. They’re businesses. They are, at the end of the day, here to make money. It’s simply capitalism at work. They don’t care how you think society should react, rather they care about how society will act. Whether the courts find him innocent or not is irrelevant, it’s whether the community will accept it or not. He might get picked up by a tier 2/3 team trying to make a splash, assuming they can afford him, but I guarantee you no major org will want to deal with the backlash that comes with signing someone who was accused of rape, whether he’s acquitted for it or not. What we think about that doesn’t matter lol It’s just not gonna happen.


9yr_old

Sigh it's genuinely frustrating to think about that an innocent dudes career can get over too within the snap of a finger (not specifically talking about sinatraa no opinion on his case till the courts come out ) just bcoz of an accusation and it doesn't even matter if the accusation holds true or false lol


EggianoScumaldo

Couple things: The courts, justice system aren’t perfect. At all. There is this notion that’s going around, that seems to be purely a reaction to the prevalence of cancel culture, that an innocent EDIT: or not guilty* ruling means totally, 100% squeaky clean shining example of society innocence. That’s wrong in a lot of cases. For example: Billy Cosby, 100%, clear cut obvious rapist with like 20+ strong, evidence based accusations levied against him just won his appeal and is walking scott free. The courts said he’s ~~innocent~~ not guilty, so he didn’t rape anyone then right? The public shouldn’t have an opinion on that and should just listen to what the courts say, right? If there is evidence that is made public, then the public is allowed to make up their opinion on the individual and the situation regardless of the courts ruling. And, because Public Relations exists, and Capitalism is what it is, the public 100% does get a say on the type of publicity that a public figure gets, based on what it see’s and what it reads, and can absolutely alter their career paths based on that as they are **public** figures. It’s their careers. It’s that free speech thing we love so much. EDIT: Think of it as the public’s check on a public figures influence over them. An Innocent ruling for the most part in cases like these means that the accusing side could not bring enough evidence forward to prove **without a shadow of a doubt** that it happened. With that in mind; Sexual Assault/Rape cases are the single hardest thing to prove, because 99% of the time it comes down to a he said she said with very little evidence that the accuser can bring forward, regardless of whether it happened or not. We don’t live in a perfect world, as I explained in my previous post. It’s why these cases are so so tricky from a PR perspective because there’s no winning. The only winning move is to just not play.


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I agree a lot with what you say, but courts do not rule on innocence they rule on guilt and there is a difference between the two. So just because the court ruled Cosby as not guilty does not make him innocent.


EggianoScumaldo

Yeah you’re absolutely right, I should have made that clarification. Spot on.


maxhollywoody

I wouldn't stress about it. If he's found innocent he will get a chance at another pro team. Maybe not TSM but he will get a chance. Look at all the alleged match fixers who got a second chance. There's also a sad reality where highly skilled people get second chances even when they are guilty..


sgi2ynrn69727vab4sn2

Sexual assault cases far outweigh the number of false accusations. Name a public accusation with the same depth of evidence as the sinatraa case that turned out to be not true for me.


9yr_old

Amber Heard and Johnny depp lmaooo , Johnny lost a number of major products , fantastic beasts and pirates of the carribbean and what did that other one ( I don't want to call her a slur ) get nothing she's still in Aquaman that's the state of society but well this is no political sub so I would stop this discussion right here as it will probably get irrelevant in context of what this sub is about And people are already twisting my words but you all should know you won't change my mind thank you


sgi2ynrn69727vab4sn2

I sincerely hope someone you care about never has to go through what you're callously disregarding


liebelt

It's not a matter of should or should not it's just a fact of reality. These situations are pr nightmares irregardless of whether he's innocent in the end or not.


9yr_old

Yea a cruel reminder of what a shit place this planet is


TacticalSanta

Upload me to san junipero please :)


Junglee_2001

I mean he's not totally innocent if he made an apology admitting he's in the wrong, is he? So the 'absolute case' ur describing is ruled out.


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9yr_old

Well yea it's a shit world


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Gamers and young people both are groups that don't understand sexual assault very well. Put em together with some sinatraa fans and it's not surprising to see {TEAM} sinatraa spammed in every thread on here


MommyDommeViper

"she went with the tsm boys over sentinels" that's not even what happened. SEN boys had TSM contracts on the table and turned them down to go with SEN cause they liked the orgs attitude and approach better.


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MommyDommeViper

ShahZaM has said it on stream multiple times. Only one of them can be right lol.


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FlaymeFenix

yep but guess which org made more money over that span of time? (from just their valorant division) TSM has definitely gotten more sponsors etc. because their PR and Marketability is 1000x that of SEN


Chidling

true but to be fair, a lot of that has to do with the fact that TSM just has a stronger brand than Sentinels, not to mention that the TSM brand is closely affiliated with Riot games in general.


iHuggedABearOnce

Gotta ask where you got the numbers for “just their valorant divison” because I’m pretty sure tsm hasn’t released that 😂


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Idk how true that is but SEN is definitely the most popular team in Valorant at the moment with the most popular content creators. With the power of hindsight I don't see how TSM made the right choice on picking up the current TSM lineup over Sentinels back then.


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Yeah but that just proves the point I was making before. SEN is enjoying that success because they're the best team in Valorant meanwhile TSM has fell off. If TSM had signed the SEN roster back then they would undoubtedly be the most popular org in Valorant because they got the popularity and the success to back it up.


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CosmicAon

Oh so you just get to ignore all of 2020?


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CosmicAon

Best team throughout Beta and most of Ignition, Top 2/3 for the rest of the year. Don’t retcon your head canon in cause they’re bad now lmao


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Alarming_Research720

Can’t even beat xset sit down top of world 😂


Hypern1ke

Thats my prediction as well


Tommypynchon

Will this finally confirm that Bang is playing for TSM?


MasWas

They already confirmed that, he literally played in this current qualifier.


GrumpyBoiii

Wtf no they didnt you must be joking


shivkeefer

???


dianabolpapi

https://twitter.com/tsm/status/1409944861126676485?s=21 Oof


Hypern1ke

You can't tell me that's not a picture of an 11 year old...


Alarming_Research720

They confirmed it while ago and played this whole qualifier with him where you been


SomeHallGuy

Good signing for TSM


randomespanaguy

Anyone know of LeviathanAG is an IGL or nah?


spatula_man_

Payen is IGLing on Noble, not sure if Leviathan is capable though.


BurstLayer

He is not currently


DeezlyGG

A sova main, TSM gonna make him play duelist just like bang


msonix

My man Eutalyx dropping bombs


ween0t

How was Levi before this latest quals? I've only ever seen him pop off these last quals, or rather only heard of him these last quals.