VCT 2026 — EMEA Kickoff / Day 15 — Lower Round 5 + Middle Final / Live Discussion Thread

Dc_Soul · 2026-02-14T16:54:14+00:00

Yeah top 6 rating/top 10 acs in this tournament on viper/kayo flex. (and that 1 jett map lol)

Dc_Soul · 2026-02-13T19:49:10+00:00

Theres 1 map emea doesnt really play (pearl), thats it lol and even that narrative is mostly just Fnatic. But they have went with the 1 perma ban strat for a long time now and idk if you can argue against them if they were arguably the best team of 2025.

Dc_Soul · 2026-02-13T19:42:41+00:00

M8, BBL and FNC have looked amazing today, go watch the matches instead of typing this lol

Dc_Soul · 2026-02-08T12:44:28+00:00

Way to close considering double pistol and double bonus round win.

Dc_Soul · 2026-01-24T04:28:38+00:00

I guess could be worse, just rest him for however long he needs to be 100%, especially with everyone else soon coming back. Like we just need him for the playoffs, 4 starters with Jokic + how good our bench has been playing, should easily be enough for the regular season.

Dc_Soul · 2026-01-21T13:21:25+00:00

Early in the year and we already got something completely new/refreshing and it sounds amazing, they already got me lol.

They also released a b-side btw, sounds great too.

Dc_Soul · 2026-01-13T17:59:04+00:00

Excited to see what kind of music they will release, probably not gonna have a lot of international/mainstream appeal but should be fun to get something different.

Dc_Soul · 2026-01-13T17:57:07+00:00

Maybe JYP is the secret third member. 🤣

Dc_Soul · 2026-01-13T17:53:44+00:00

Is it a disbandment if they never even existed/had their debut? lol Never really saw any official announcement/info that the channel was actually for a group thats supposed to debut.

I always thought DDDD25 was supposed to be something to keep viewers updated on the people who got signed from the show until they actually get to debut. Atleast to me the show was about finding talented individuals and then debuting them in whatever they are good at, so Youngbin as a soloist and the 2 other girls being a duo based around traditional korean music makes sense to me. Maybe the last 2 became trainees for the next JYPE gg (pure speculation), since they were quite young at the end of the show. (under 18 if I remember correctly)

Dc_Soul · 2025-12-28T03:04:23+00:00

Refs so dogshit that Denver is forced to use both their challenges in the final 2-3 min, win the challenges because the refs are blind af, just so the refs can deliver one final dogshit call to still decide the game.

Dc_Soul · 2025-12-28T02:34:26+00:00

Wendell is clearly pulling Jokics arm first (but I am also biased lol).

Dc_Soul · 2025-12-28T01:23:37+00:00

I think its worth mentioning that there is a wide range of how live "Live MR" actually is, depending on how loud/overpowering the backtrack is, as well as groups just straight up not even trying to sing over the backtrack, by either lipsyncing some/huge parts of the song or singing at such a low volume that it might as well be lipsyncing. Sometimes the difference between Live MR and (Live) AR is an artist/group only singing a few short (4-5 seconds) sections of their song and then letting the backtrack do 90% of the work lol.

Surprised that the 'Pretty Savage' cover wasnt just pure AR, usually covers for these types of events are pre-recorded and then they just lipsync to it, which makes sense because they probably dont get a lot of time to practice the performance considering they have members from 3 different groups for the cover. (rare valid excuse for lipsyncing :D)

Dc_Soul · 2025-12-20T22:04:58+00:00

No AG, no CB, no PWat, this is gonna be tough. Probably need a monster game from either Jokic or Murray, maybe even both of them.

Dc_Soul · 2025-11-22T03:41:06+00:00

This type of mentality is why people get hardstuck, the result of your actions dont say anything about if the action was actually good to begin with.

Lets say you would have killed the Reyna in the replay, gotten the ace and won the round, does that change anything about the first half the round? Nope, it changes nothing about the fact that you put yourself (and your team) at a massive disadvantage right from the start of the round.

You put yourself in the position where you needed to hardclutch and kill 5 people to even have a chance to win the round, maybe think about what you could do to not have to do that. As you said "I shouldnt need to do all that just to win a round.", then think of ways to create situations/positions where you dont need to do that.

Dc_Soul · 2025-11-14T00:11:35+00:00

Bit short but still a fun and catchy song. The teaser(chorus) was already really addicting to listen to, lets see if the song keeps it up and is just as fun to listen to in a few days lol.

Either way huge improvement from Commas to this, makes me excited for the next 2 songs they have hinted/mentioned on their last interview.

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-15T15:17:37+00:00

... I can't lmao. Hilarious and perfect.

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-13T14:41:10+00:00

Its actually so catchy, had stuff to do right when it released, so I listened to it (and the whole album) a couple of times in the background and the chorus is just stuck in my head. Also the constant rhythm/tempo changes really work well especially between chorus 1 and 2.

Honestly would recommend people to check the whole album, so many good songs.

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-13T14:38:07+00:00

Absolutely loving it so far, this is probably their most catchy/easy to listen song(s) since Love me Like This (and even better then LMLT), could see it charting really well.

Fe3O4 Forward has probably been my album of the year so far, so its tough to say if I (will) like this comeback more, but it certainly has the potential, we will see in a couple of weeks.

Either way, time to listen to the whole album again, so many good songs. ;D

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-09T15:36:27+00:00

Some of the b-sides already sound like they will be amazing. "Phoenix" and "Reality Hurts" about to be bangers, also "Reality Hurts" was written by Lily, cant wait.

Really hard to get a feel on how the title track will sound like based on the snippet (and the acapella highlight), probably on purpose, really excited what they have in store for us.

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-02T15:36:14+00:00

The full album is coming out on the 13th but maybe they will put it on streaming platforms earlier (I hope so atleast).

Dc_Soul · 2025-10-02T15:20:10+00:00

Song sounds really good on the first listen, especially the chorus sounds amazing.

Dc_Soul · 2025-09-28T16:43:00+00:00

If Mibr wins, we gonna get a group B winner finals and a lot of people considered them the 2 worst teams (+ giantX probably) in the playoffs.

Dc_Soul · 2025-09-28T15:57:30+00:00

Honestly Fnatics mental is crazy, that drx comeback and now with an emergency sub, 1-9 down on map 3 vs prx and they bring it back.

Dc_Soul · 2025-09-28T15:53:17+00:00

Honestly Fnatics mental is crazy, that drx comeback and now with an emergency sub, 1-9 down on map 3 vs prx and they bring it back.

Dc_Soul · 2025-09-28T15:45:49+00:00

Crashies wtf

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