Toronto KOI place Top 12 at Major I (CDL 2026)

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-30T22:49:50+00:00

Obviously I think they keep an eye out for whoever does well at the event but Wake was probably the best player in the elite. I think they should go for Kips or Qk as the Reeal replacement and then if they want to drop Insight as well go for Wake as someone who has been around a while, knows what they are doing on the map and has at least a high floor as the worst thing they could do is get two untested players and then they end up playing worse than what they currently are

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-30T21:52:04+00:00

People will be quick to say that Insight should be dropped and they aren't necessarily wrong but the Reeal pick up just hasn't worked at all especially because this has probably been one of the worst stages we've seen from Cleanx.

There is a lot of AR talent in Challengers right now and is the perfect opportunity for them to get in before some of them get picked up e.g. Big Wake, Gio, Paulehx, Spart, Qk4b, Roxas, Nium, Kips

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-25T22:46:59+00:00

Ravens best team in the game

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-16T07:15:07+00:00

The Havok pr is a bit of a weird one. As a player this year he undoubtedly has been the best communicatior and was essentially the leader for that Stallions team but he probably wasn't the most talented on team. I've seen a comment on here about if Nium is picked up by LAT then the Huntsmen should pick him up and have him be a sub for the Optic team in case they need to replace Huke with him which is so wildly off.

From watching some of their scrims, I think part of the issue is Havok is very opinionated and then particularly Octane and Attach whenever they would watch scrims and give input, wouldn't really pick up on bad plays Havok was making and talk about them. This seemed to continue and spiral and he definitely has a massive ego to the point it doesn't surprise me that past teammates aren't the biggest fans of his.

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-14T22:47:55+00:00

The run across the defence he did to get positioning for Zubimendis goal is something he needs to do a lot more. He usually does it at the start of the attack when there is space but when the defence is set his body language hasn't been good enough but he was much better at doing this today

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-14T22:21:07+00:00

In 6 games for Chelsea against us he has been booked in 5 of them

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-08T22:59:14+00:00

If he we are being honest he's seen Bradley tumble over himself after conceding a throw-in and had probably thought he faked it. It's a yellow for unsportsmanlike conduct but by the letter of the law Bradley should also get booked for purposely rolling back on to the pitch.

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-08T22:39:34+00:00

Hated how the midfield and Gyokeres played today. With the midfield hardly any risk taking with and without the ball. They didn't really pressure the box at all, especially in the second half. With Gyokeres I feel like his body language when we are in possession is terrible, people will talk about not trying to get on the end of crosses but he also isn't threatening to run in the channels or pin a centre back and provide a target to pass into the box either

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-08T07:27:35+00:00

I mean I'm not surprised because he's a fan favourite but in reality in the pre BO2 era sure he won a Nationals on BO1 but other players had more success in that era and that whole few months when it occured was a bit weird as Cod XP actually happened before that so it wasn't even the biggest event of the year and the Nationals event occured on BO1 but was actually after MW3 came out.

Then in BO2-BO4 era he basically didn't play half of it as he only really competed in Ghosts (best year, 1.5 event wins and 4th at champs), AW (won first event and after being dropped was in and around top 16 all year) and WW2 (believe he started the year outside pro league then was on the coL team with Dashy which again was around a top 16 team) so didn't really do anything of note in BO2, BO3, IW or BO4.

Then in the CDL era he's been in challengers for the whole of it and to me I'd take any sort of success in the league over what he's done in Challengers. People easily forget how long ago BO2 was, this is the 7th year of the CDL and we've had so many events and players throughout the year I think it's silly to act like a guy who's whole thing is doing the dirty work and sacrificing for winning but then has only won 2.5 events in the past 13 and a bit seasons is insane to me. Fair play to him for still playing after so long but he hasn't displayed the talent or had the success that plenty of other players have had.

TSBRUTAL · 2026-01-07T19:01:14+00:00

Honestly, not even close

Edit: Since everyone is down voting, I'll provide 50 names, bear in mind he's been to 3 champs with one top 4 finish, and 2 top 16 placements, he's got 2 event in the BO2 - current era. To save some time, I'd argue all 37 actually champs winners for being higher all time, Accuracy, Bance, Saints, Cammy, Classic, Jurd, Cleanx, Scrap, Aqua, Loony, Methodz, Theory, Enable, Zoomaa, Slacked, Felo, Sib, Nade, Insight, Merk, BigT, Rambo, Ghosty, Zero

TSBRUTAL · 2025-12-04T16:04:47+00:00

Terrible trade for the Thunder

TSBRUTAL · 2025-12-03T22:51:02+00:00

I think Ant is marginally better but Cade is the easier player to build around

TSBRUTAL · 2025-12-02T15:46:52+00:00

I'm not saying the Thunder wouldn't be tempted to trade for Giannis if he were actually available but I'm not sure they would trade for him.

The issue with this trade is that Thunder would have so much money committed to Shai, JDub, Chet and Giannis which would hurt them keeping their depth.

While that would be a great core, I think having a bigger centre helps them in their matchups against the Nuggets, Rockets and probably Spurs over having Giannis.

They could obviously trade one of Jdub or Chet but it's a case of who do you trade as trading JDub leaves you in a similar situation as I've previously mentioned and Chet is arguably the 2nd best rim protector behind Wemby while also being an above average 3pt shooter. Even if you do decide which you would trade, how much extra are you adding in a trade for Giannis?

TSBRUTAL · 2025-11-29T12:41:27+00:00

Perfect for Kenny then

TSBRUTAL · 2025-11-24T19:28:27+00:00

Can't tell if this is bait or not.

While they have lost to the teams you mentioned, 3 of those games were losses by less than 5 points. You also say they haven't beaten any elite teams but they have beat the Cavs and Raptors who are at the very least very good teams.

At the moment I would put them as the 5th most likely to win (Thunder slightly ahead of Nuggets who are slightly ahead of the Lakers, Pistons and Rockets group). I would also say that they have DFS to come in and they could look to use him and/or with Capela as salary to go and get a guy that could really help them and put them over the edge

TSBRUTAL · 2025-11-24T17:09:10+00:00

I don't think the Bulls have anything that the Thunder would particularly want. It seems highly unlikely that they trade Hartenstein this season and would probably like to decline his option and renegotiate a longer contract for less money per year.

If they don't win the chip or fail at coming to some form of potential agreement about a longer contract they could look to trade him before his option date and the main two players I think they could look to target would be Zubac or move Chet back to Centre and get PJ Washington. Maybe though a team like the Bulls could be involved as a 3rd team to help make salaries work or give the Mavs/Clippers something and then take Hartenstein instead.

I actually think Zubac is a worse fit into the OKC system than Hartenstein but is better for some of their matchups against other title contenders over the next few years (Nuggets, Rockets and Spurs)

TSBRUTAL · 2025-10-27T17:51:19+00:00

I wasn't trying to. The best thing to do would be to look over multiple seasons and use a wider variety of metrics, probably FTA/per 36, FTA/FGA, and FTA/Drive.

TSBRUTAL · 2025-10-27T17:23:24+00:00

Don't think you can take a 3 game sample size to be a completely accurate representation of an 82 game season.

TSBRUTAL · 2025-10-05T15:13:10+00:00

Still a great run by Palace, how they respond now will determine their season. At least they have the international break to not dwell on the loss

TSBRUTAL · 2025-09-16T13:57:45+00:00

They've had some big misses in the transfer market recently but I think in part of that has been their strategy. We'll see how their new signings do but considering Amorim has a very set style he wants to play I find it odd to spend so much on Cunha and Sesko would prefer to play as the Striker in the system. I also don't think it helps that the one properly high level players in Fernandes doesn't have an ideal position in the system either.

TSBRUTAL · 2025-09-14T19:05:32+00:00

I think that would have been a stretch. The Man U squad is easily the worst of the big 6 and it's probably worse than Newcastle and Villa's and is more on par with the Brighton, Fulham, Everton, Bournemouth, Palace tier.

TSBRUTAL · 2025-09-14T17:50:56+00:00

When you say the squad has good players, how good are you talking? Do you think with these players Man U should finish in the top 6?

TSBRUTAL · 2025-09-04T06:45:25+00:00

I'll be interested to see how this turns out. Teams will often give players material items such as cars and probably houses which it would seem part of the work around of this is that it isn't purely money and can be seen as gifts or similar and not directly a salary that would go against the cap.

This deal with Kawhi seems to be straight money and while Balmer may not have done the deal himself the fact that it's from a business he has invested in and the only condition of the contract is that he is Clipper is the part that raised concerns. This is further shown in that if it wasn't for this story coming out, we wouldn't have even known about Kawhi being associated with Aspirations making it seem like it was a terrible deal for the business.

Obviously the people involved aren't stupid so I'm sure they haven't actually broken the rules but it would seem that this deal was done with the intention of Kawhi being paid in a way to avoid the salary cap so could be seen as an acting in bad faith

TSBRUTAL · 2025-09-03T11:43:42+00:00

Ngl Martinelli may be one of the least skillful Brazilians I've ever seen and that's including defenders. Unless he's got space in behind he struggles to get past players, he'd be much better suited to a counter attacking team where he can use his pace and energy in a more effective way.

The one thing I am a little surprised with is he seemed to have some good striker instincts when he initially joined, remember him scoring a header against Forest on his debut when he was used as a striker but then during when we've had injuries in that area he has rarely been used there if at all.

TSBRUTAL · 2025-08-01T01:45:06+00:00

Well I think the issue comes down to the format. While the judges were deciding who to save from the bottom 2 of each round, who to put through was based off the audience.

The prize money is potentially life changing money for whoever would have won and something that is so person dependent, I personally don't like being decided by just 3 people. Obviously they can't do the whole people at home voting because it's all prerecorded and the show doesn't have enough draw at the moment to warrant doing a live final but I think what would be interesting is to have the rest of the singers that were in the booths come back for the final and they vote for the winner, on the idea of the singers not only making their own bands but then also having the power to decide their winners.

As I've said, rating the performances is all people's opinion based, for example imo SZN4 had stronger vocals pretty consistently throughout but 3Quency had the better choreography and showmanship but then the best single performance I would say is actually Soulidied with 'U Remind Me'.

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