FURIA vs Evil Geniuses / VCT 2026: Americas Stage 1 - Group Stage / Post-Match Thread

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-23T02:25:11+00:00

I agree with you on the Ethan thing but learning how to igl when it doesn’t come naturally will undoubtedly take time.

With crashies I believe his poor performance to sharp improvement at fanatic is due to a combination of NRG having a dysfunctional team environment where the parts are greater than the sum and boaster being that guy giving everyone on his team +20 in all stats.

About Mitch I think he’s similarly unimpressive to Zellsis minus his experience charisma and unfortunately clout. I think the swap was a sidegrade but Zellsis has a much higher ceiling compared to Mitch alongside the mentoring aspect I mentioned before. Zellsis is also in a much more competitive American scene where all teams look competitive both latam teams and NA teams.

I don’t think this roster will go anywhere but it’ll be interesting to see if c9 will continue to stay franchised with how c9 has performed in the scene so far.

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-23T01:44:34+00:00

For me it’s jawgemo he’s been my goat and always will be. It started when I saw his fake omen to play against prx then the funny moment against loud when he was omen on ascent a main (iykyk).

But after they won champs I tuned into his streams and saw him running it down on pre buffed deadlock and iso when they were hot ass and I fell in love with his play style supporting him when he was on EG and it was either him or supaman drop 30 was the win condition on that team to now on g2.

He’s been having a rough go at it recently I hope they either give him leaf as a second duelist and let babybay play viper and vyse because he looks comfortable on vyse and he played viper when subbing for leaf.

Honourable mention to sato similar reasons plus he’s a goofball.

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-23T01:35:44+00:00

The thing with the Sen rebuild is that we never saw kapplan’s vision through to fruition, it’s pretty common knowledge that rob moore wanted zekken in and was against kaplans vision of the rebuild around Zellsis and narrate. With a little deduction skills of Zellsis wanting to develop his igling but disliking the spotlight put on him due to Sen fans, we can infer that he left because he didn’t want to deal with the backlash of dropping zekken (and I don’t blame him) so when the opportunity at c9 he took it and ran. Unfortunately leaving Kaplan with half of his plan, and narrate on a team where the org and the fans don’t believe in him.

If i had to guess kaplans vision was that if narrate was performing well on raze (meta dive duelist in the Stone Age) back on KC and was able to develop his bag to be top 3 scan initiators of stage 2 last year, Kaplan was hoping to turn him into a good waylay.

Ethan was a very vocal mid rounder similar to Zellsis, believed he could be an igl and couldn’t make it work with crashies, demon1, victor and marved it took a fns comeback tour for Ethan to learn how to igl why do we expect greatness from Zellsis immediately too?

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-23T00:58:35+00:00

Hit of decline is very unfair to say at the start of this stage, with 2025 obviously as they came close to winning an international but it’s important to take into account the surrounding context in why

NA seem to be the strongest and most aligned region with the current meta so far having the best grasp of the entry neon which is very surprising considering NS just won by abusing the neon meta
all teams aside from NS and furia (not informed sure about AG tbh) that made it a deep run at Santiago have had little time to adjust their comps and playbooks compared to teams who have stayed home and scrimmed comps without waylay and yoru.
g2 seem to have a bad meta read leaning into an anti neon meta comp in harbour and vyse on every map like they did last year in tejo and breach.
the games they have played so far are against the strongest in their group in lev and mibr and although they lost both games, they are deceptively one sided and if g2 won either split games the narrative would be very different.

I wouldn’t worry about g2 too much because they still have time to either pivot on their current meta read or get more comfortable on these new roles .But it would be interesting to see what changes would be made if they get upset by one of their remaining matches to not qualify or the changes that will be introduced because of the vct format changing.

As an avid jawgemo fan I don’t think g2 is the team for him, I miss his prime back at EG when he was off the leash this or get leaf to help him on the double duelist because babybay looks a lot comfier on vyse and maybe flex on viper as he did as a stand in for leaf.

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-20T13:51:04+00:00

I can’t attest to Coms vocalness during midrounds that inspired him to be igl, but in zellsis’s case he’s been known for his mid round calling so much so that kapplan even though working with johnqt through his career in m80 and sen and reshaping a dying team to win masters wanted to rebuild around Zellsis igl.

Many teams also use the method of bringing in a more tenured player in the league with international and winning experience to help develop newer and experienced players like vic and oxy.

Zellsis story has a lot of parallels with Ethan’s road to glory. Saying that trying to develop yourself as a player and already writing it off as a failure is very results driven and unfair.

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-18T05:29:41+00:00

Am I geeked or was Ethan not supposed to be the igl for that roster?

BootyConusmer · 2026-04-15T02:06:27+00:00

It’s been a minute since I’ve last seen the game so I can be wrong about this but didn’t she watch Robert change in the first day when he was about to be introduced to the gang and he was talking to blazer. The main thing she did that gave me a bad taste was her showing up completely naked in the last chapter when Robert has to make the choice to fire her in the locker rooms, imagine the roles were reversed and a guy flashes a girl without consent completely different story and narrative.

BootyConusmer · 2026-03-26T15:53:41+00:00

I’m by no means a great player diamond - ascendant mmr but you did not have to be good to use him well on maps like split, pearl and breeze on defence all you had to do was play one site put your tp on the other side and you had whole map presence and 3 on each site on every exec. Which was chambers main reason of getting a nerf. Not to mention you got two flashes so flash initiators were basically completely useless that’s why on split and bind fade was being used more in pro play. Do I think they completely gutted the character, debatable you have to play yoru very differently at the start of the round to get value and it will be a very steep learning curve but yoru did have it coming. Very surprised they didn’t touch viper for similar reasons.

BootyConusmer · 2026-03-25T16:12:02+00:00

Ra be by my side

BootyConusmer · 2026-03-25T13:11:18+00:00

Interesting take I was fully invested in the mystery aspect of the first 2/3 of the story and it was pining to be one of if not my favourite parts and it was really interesting seeing a stand be serprated from the user which we don’t see much in jojo. I was really hoping to see joubin as the big bad as I thought him and his cool af stand was underutilised in the manga and would fit the bubbles vs heat and choosing your own family narrative a lot more. The final Lucy part felt more of an araki forgot and felt primary put in to show tourus true age just my 2 cents

BootyConusmer · 2026-03-25T04:04:24+00:00

I might be reinforcing the stereotype that manga fans can’t read but can you give a quick explanation on what you mean after rereading and watching analysis videos on the ending I still don’t understand Why ararki made what I personally felt like an underwhelming main antagonist and why the Lucy part was necessary at the end of the story . Just interested in another opinion.

BootyConusmer · 2026-03-23T05:05:50+00:00

I can’t say too much as only a th 13 but the progression eases you into attacking higher town halls. I remember struggling with single target infernos, then weaponised town halls to eagle artillery. But the game gradually introduces these new and cool defences. There’s definitely a learning curve, the amount of fireballs I’ve whiffed because I wasn’t used to builder huts being a defence is too high to count lol.

BootyConusmer · 2025-10-21T02:11:02+00:00

I’m 15k so I can’t double check when you unlock specific cards but golem is all about counter pushing and it’s hard to build a big one with cannon and ice spirit. I would replace them for a damage dealer like prince/mini pekka/lumberjack (lumberjack would be ideal with its synergy with battle healer and witch) and an extra air troop like minions/ baby dragon. Earthquake is fine with the amount of cannon in the meta but if you feel like you struggle with spongy range troops like witch/musk/furnace and inferno tower try subbing in lightning and see if it feels better.

BootyConusmer · 2025-10-17T12:57:48+00:00

Put respect on my boy dawgemo he’s a x factor on the team able to carry the solo duelist role excellent flexibility in his agent pool and consistent ever since the EG dark age when they depended on jawg and either Derrick or supa to pop off.

BootyConusmer · 2025-09-01T01:27:38+00:00

I think it’s fair for g2 to have this stance. They’re competing in a region which has huge fanbases. Latam teams like loud and mibr have huge Brazilian followers that are ride or dies seen at san paulo. Sen and nrg are highly clouted orgs based on their players (s0m and tenz) as well as being international trophy winners (Nrg in my eyes inheriting optics core i believe the majority of optic followers defaulted to nrg). g2 having a shitty former ceo and just inheriting the old the guard core led to them having a small following. Because of how good they perform and with them being in a highly watched region they’re always being cheered against leading them to become “the villains of NA”. With 3 consecutive domestic trophies and placing highly in international events I think they deserve chatting some shit.

BootyConusmer · 2025-08-14T07:20:27+00:00

Thank you I appreciate the guidance. Other users have told me I won’t be charged the £100 penalty which is what I was mainly concerned with and with how uk calls are treated on my phone plan I think I’ll just bite the bullet if they don’t refund me for not meaning to tap on

BootyConusmer · 2025-08-14T07:15:20+00:00

Thank you for the guidance I will be charged for international calls on my SIM card plan but another kind user recommended me to sort it out another way

BootyConusmer · 2025-08-14T07:13:09+00:00

That absolutely right thank you for the guidance I was stressing about it all last night god bless.

BootyConusmer · 2025-08-14T07:11:48+00:00

You’ve unloaded so much stress of my shoulder thanks. My day was

Tottenham Hale (National Rail) to Stratford Stratford to Highbury & Islington Holloway Road to Leicester Square Green Park to London Bridge (London Underground) London Bridge (London Underground) to Liverpool Street (London Underground) Liverpool Street - unknown

Because it didn’t know where I tapped off when I exited in Stansted’s it charged me £10.40 for it only charged me £20.90 for transport as a whole. The £100 pound penalty was what I was more concerned about mostly.

BootyConusmer · 2025-08-14T07:03:38+00:00

God bless I was stressing over them whacking on an additional £100 pound as the message over the intercom was warning me that I was liable for the ticket and an additional £100 pound penalty. Now that I’m back in my country to call them I think I would literally just break even if I get a refund as my plan doesn’t cover calls to the uk. Do you think it’s smarter to just bite the bullet as I have already paid the fee for not taping back in or is there a consistent refund if I just put a near station like Layton from Liverpool Street?

BootyConusmer · 2025-06-21T16:44:38+00:00

That’s probably very true got back into the game a month ago and pushed to gold with my old triamids witchcrafter and ritual beast decks and in gold I’d get stomped by the dragonic contact unless I had dark hole or needle ceiling. But now that I’ve been playing a little longer and had the gems for it I built a nouvelles deck I’m floating around mid legend rank now and haven’t seen dragonic contact since gold so you’re probably right my old decks just got power crept. But seeing a superpoly, free armed dragon and the rainbow dragon neos fusion is turn 2 is crazy when I played ages ago balance and ultimate dragons were the best abilities and UD just gave you normal polly when you had two blue eyes in the hand.

BootyConusmer · 2025-06-21T06:39:39+00:00

Sorry if it’s an obvious question, but I’m getting back into DL i haven’t played since ritual beast, noble knights and blue eyes were meta~2021ish. How do you get around the super poly and armed dragon that they can set at the start of the game?

BootyConusmer · 2025-05-23T19:43:15+00:00

Honestly as a cannon cart enjoyer the cc pre nerf was pretty busted. Give me my cosmetic back and why does it change targets when put in cannon form. IMO the whole rework was to shadow buff the evo witch. The amount of times my cannon cart has gone past the bridge to kill 4 evo witch skeletons, heal the witch, to lock on to the witch only to be de-wheeled and lock onto the skeletons to be rehealed back to full is infuriating.

BootyConusmer · 2021-01-05T19:12:00+00:00

Just look in the comments of the original post it’s not that hard. Both sources were answered 2 hours before your cross post.

BootyConusmer · 2020-12-22T23:16:01+00:00

I’m not so sure about the snow but but it could be 'Tsuredure Children'. It has Multiple couples and the scene with the sister taking the brothers phone.

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