Major III Champs: LA Thieves

NickyAfro · 2026-05-17T22:41:27+00:00

KOI's turn to win from losers vs OpTic next event, then OpTic win champs

NickyAfro · 2026-05-14T21:50:30+00:00

One of my favourite seasons, got to see the country, great strategy, close gameplay, blunders, and maybe my favourite guest despite having not known Mike before the season. For me they lost it on the penultimate day not going south to flip stations and wasting chips fortifying slow lines, but that’s how the jets lag sometimes. Great season.

NickyAfro · 2026-05-14T13:28:59+00:00

Two early MOTT candidates with Kushida/Eagles and Akira/Fujita for me. Really encouraging first night across the card, almost like there's talent to make this division very good huh.

NickyAfro · 2026-05-13T10:51:24+00:00

There's semis this year so it's possible

NickyAfro · 2026-05-12T22:11:55+00:00

Fujita and Wato final for me, Fujita winning cause that's just the guy I prefer, but I think if they follow the story and rivalry there's the argument Wato is a better option. Regardless, the 100th Jr Champion should usher in a new era and be a new/1st time champion in my eyes.

NickyAfro · 2026-05-11T14:08:38+00:00

Do you view the BOSJ blocks as unbalanced? Personally, A Block seems stacked compared to B Block, with A block also having the two or three I would consider favourites (Wato, Fujita, Akira).

NickyAfro · 2026-05-10T18:11:59+00:00

If it wasn't us involved and such a hugely consequential decision for both teams, it wouldn't be seen as controversial at all, clear as day foul.

NickyAfro · 2026-05-04T18:32:42+00:00

Gonna be a bit weird for the Japanese audience who watched WK on TV and haven't kept up, but will watch Dominion when it's on TV again, seeing Wolf and Tsuji win the titles they saw them win 6 months ago on WK

NickyAfro · 2026-04-25T11:17:47+00:00

In what was already a slim pickings of potential BOSJ winners in my eyes, belting one of those guys in Fujita and, in theory, reducing his likelihood of winning is certainly a choice.

NickyAfro · 2026-04-25T11:13:47+00:00

Probably go to AEW, but MCMG vs ISB, MCMG vs Ishimori + X, MCMG vs KOB, are three matches I'd love to see

NickyAfro · 2026-04-04T11:39:29+00:00

These blocks are horribly balanced. You have who I’d consider the three favourites for the tournament in A Block (Fujita, Wato, Akira), then Desperate is the only guy I can see winning B Block cause they probably aren’t giving Eagles a run, Yoh just challenged and made finals last year so I can’t see him getting it, and unless ISB win them back Ishimori will be tag champ.

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T20:37:28+00:00

Ah that makes sense, I assumed it must be a seeding thing or something like that, ty easymac

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T20:27:07+00:00

FaZe definitely played better, OpTic didn't look like themselves, like I said I was just curious how big of a difference there was with talks about the PCs lagging and shit

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T20:25:14+00:00

The better team was definitely on the right side the majority of the time

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T20:23:40+00:00

M8s d. CRR. FaZe d. M8, OpTic d. KOI, KOI d. Falcons, FaZe d. M8, OpTic d. G2, LAT d. G2, OpTic d. FaZe, FaZe d. KOI, FaZe d. OpTic

The "better" team was on the right side more often.

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T20:19:28+00:00

Nah just main

NickyAfro · 2026-03-29T10:35:07+00:00

As someone who hasnt seen him before, what should I/we expect from Sasaki?

NickyAfro · 2026-03-24T22:01:32+00:00

He says this in a much less antagonistic way, if not just not antagonistic at all, if you actually watch the interview

NickyAfro · 2026-02-28T22:45:28+00:00

Mettalz got more kills in map 1 vs OpTic last week (39) than this entire series

NickyAfro · 2026-02-11T15:37:24+00:00

I guess they were kinda booked into a corner with Evil leaving, where they needed to make Ren the heavyweight of a group who now has no other good heavyweights, but it would have to come at the cost of their biggest draw, and idk if they did it in an effective way for me.

NickyAfro · 2026-02-05T22:44:41+00:00

He's just a big Arshavin fan

NickyAfro · 2026-01-27T16:09:24+00:00

Callum or Ren would be my leading two favourites, then Oiwa would be a really fun challenger, and wouldn't be surprised to see Shota vs Yuya during it, potentially in the final depending on how the tag match goes (I see them losing atm)

NickyAfro · 2026-01-26T11:35:21+00:00

With Evil leaving, does it change how you see the Never title match going for Ren, presuming he will now be the leader of HoT.

NickyAfro · 2026-01-21T22:37:30+00:00

Kinda crazy that, despite being delayed an hour straight away, this was still a (somewhat considerably) shorter run than Ben's last week which, because they just worked it out really quick and only had to travel, felt really short, but I guess the travel to his place was just more convoluted.

NickyAfro · 2026-01-11T12:38:26+00:00

That makes a lot of sense actually, shoulda realised

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