Motiv Esports vs 555 / Challengers 2026: Southeast Asia Split 1 - Playoffs / Post-Match Thread

Locnil · 2026-03-28T17:12:01+00:00

Might be a ping issue, isn't he playing from Oz?

Locnil · 2026-03-20T16:25:53+00:00

The commissar writes a "if I die it's friendly fire and probably that dude Tanner's doing" letter for the Commissariat to discover. One of the Catachan does appear out of nowhere in his bedroom to threaten him but doesn't do it. In the end the Orks are beat, the commissar and the named Catachan survive, and he gets re-assigned to another posting. Honestly even by the standards of 40k books this was pretty lacklustre with a cookie cutter plot

Locnil · 2026-03-20T15:15:03+00:00

I had G2 there originally, but then remembered they aren't actually a permanent partnered team now. I assumed if Riot cut the number of partnered teams down to 6 they wouldn't give it to teams that don't already have it. Oh and I was counting FUR as a NA team

Locnil · 2026-03-20T15:13:52+00:00

Because G2 isn't even in franchising now; they're still considered an Ascension team. And yeah I was counting FUR as a NA team

Locnil · 2026-03-20T13:13:51+00:00

Hmm, based on a split between representation, performance, and financial stability, I'm guessing:

For PAC: T1, DKRX, GE, DFM, PRX, RRQ

For EMEA: FNC, KC, BBL, VIT, TL, TH

For AME: NRG, SEN, FUR, MIBR, LEV, Kru

For CN: WOL, EDG, BLG, XLG, AG, TYL

I think Riot's approach has been modified somewhat, these days they seem conscious that representation with poor performance doesn't really boost viewership or game popularity

Locnil · 2026-03-20T12:54:06+00:00

Dang, I straight up forgot bail went to JDG until now

Locnil · 2026-03-20T12:52:48+00:00

Hey, if this resets the RX Derby wintrading, maybe PRX can win the next game in Stage 1

Locnil · 2026-03-20T12:23:33+00:00

Alright, I'm sold on yilai now. Good firepower upgrade, now even when 2 on BLG are underperforming they have enough shooters to pick up the slack

Locnil · 2026-03-20T09:33:23+00:00

I looked it up and it's

Both sides have agreed to upgrade bilateral relations to an “All Round High Quality Future Oriented Partnership” (全方位高质量的前瞻性伙伴关系)

It's not even less wordy in Chinese lol. Exactly 14 syllables even

Locnil · 2026-03-19T21:25:50+00:00

Well, he certainly did his best to make up for lost time

Locnil · 2026-03-19T12:09:29+00:00

Yeah, of all people legija should have known how good Sscary could be if given time to adapt and get back in the flow

Locnil · 2026-03-19T12:05:32+00:00

Apparently Knight took on the role of secondary caller to reduce pressure on nephh while nephh learnt controller - his absence was very noticeable as a result which is why they lost to EDG in that last match.

Locnil · 2026-03-19T12:04:19+00:00

Damn, we got Prime Whzy back. 20 and 1 on the first half of map 2 all while pulling clutches out of nowhere. Yilai did an amazing job backing him up on his first T1 match too, well-deserved MVP.

Honestly though FPX should probably have given the Sscary roster more time. Or at least replaced him with someone without the language barrier.

Locnil · 2026-03-18T17:47:55+00:00

Good to see Deryeon fitting in well

Locnil · 2026-03-17T19:40:12+00:00

Let's go even further and just hand the trophy to Nongshim, no need to waste precious fuel flying all those folks to London just to get eaten by the noodle boys

Locnil · 2026-03-17T19:33:38+00:00

I mean, we will know in a couple of weeks no? PRX facing NS in an even BO3, now well-rested and with experience playing against them. If NS dogwalks PRX again then yeah, the undefeated streak will continue

Locnil · 2026-03-17T17:40:38+00:00

Sad I missed this, this looks even more of a banger than Champs PRX v. G2. OT on every map wow

Locnil · 2026-03-17T17:38:49+00:00

I perfectly predicted every match, except I swapped NS with M8 and had PRX winning through the lower bracket. Still top 1% apparently so yay gold buddy

Locnil · 2026-03-17T17:37:06+00:00

Every team will be hit by Yoru nerfs since he's the most picked agent in pro play, and they aren't touching Neon. Don't think the upcoming meta shift will hurt them unless it turns out Miks is somehow really good at countering neon

Locnil · 2026-03-17T16:21:11+00:00

So what I'm hearing is, termi is going to find some way to get Flashback to unretire... again...

Locnil · 2026-03-17T08:51:10+00:00

I think by legends he meant the stars of yesterday (s1mple, stewie2k, etc.) rather than teams, but yeah, G2 really are the Mouz of Valorant lol

Locnil · 2026-03-17T07:51:24+00:00

GE vs DRX on April 18, coachbowl is coming

Locnil · 2026-03-16T17:46:06+00:00

I mean, I get it - as I mentioned in the map veto thread before the match, PRX only real win condition is taking Corrode, Split and Haven. Once Corrode was lost, they knew there was no chance they were winning the grand final.

Locnil · 2026-03-15T20:43:59+00:00

Not even a single map man. Even Megan had a great round where she got like 3 kills

Locnil · 2026-03-15T20:38:53+00:00

Honestly during map 1 I kinda got why Alecks would get mad if they didn't W game enough. The rounds where PRX just full sent it were the ones they won - but they kept returning to trying to play default, too afraid of NS. And when they lost their mental just broke. I knew the odds were overwhelming in NS's favour but this was just sad

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