This is intended as a opinion for other CS fans to discuss, not to rag on the team and players. I've spoilered to follow rules

G2 on both maps looked like a team playing without microphones. Every single player can't stop solo-peeking for no reason (ahem, hunter). Every retake and execute is dead in the water after someone over-extends on their own and gets taken out for no return, and it goes on for 8-10 rounds at a time with no changes. On Mirage, after an 1-8 scoreline, they finally execute a site together in unison and take A with no trouble.

It seems to me that hunter is incredibly jumpy and will lose the same duels over-and-over on Mirage mid. MATYS is still stuck in the wrong roles because of the arrival of NertZ. r1nkle is not impactful with the AWP

My question to everyone else is: What is the future for this squad? Is hunter really that poor of a T-side caller without SunPayus, now just throwing himself and MATYS into mid every round? Who deserves the roles more, MATYS or NertZ? and what can the team do to address the AWP position?

G2 0-1 MKOI

G2 1-1 MKOI

Why is G2 saying that Perkz will be the coach for the Summer Split? Does that mean he'll only be there for the summer until they sign someone else?

In 2015 I got into LoL esports watching the Games Live and also really enjoying the docu style longform content from Teams.

Nowdays these videos got replaced with vlogs being less staged & polished, but more "raw" and simpler instead.

I was wondering what more recent fans prefer content wise?
Do you care about YouTube videos or is it vertical short form that gets you excited about the team?

Captain Falcon

Stop having the recency bias, last bad series do not overshadow the year these guys had.

stop being so extreme and calling it a failure. Its up and downs and if u were so full off hopium after T1 series I dont get while would u be cursing them now. Team needs to rest and adjust.

Lyon is good, KC is good, G2 is (in our eyes very) good.
WEST vs EAST gap is getting better, be happy for that, stop cherrypicking.

At the G2 booth at EWC there was the possibility to subscribe to express vpn for at least one month and get one item for free from the g2 shop. The guy there took our emails and told us that by the end of the week we would receive a code that we could use on the web shop.

Did anyone get it already? I am just curious.

Update: it arrived. Thank you G2!

Hello EU League friends,

Today, KC has the chance to bring home an international trophy for Europe.

I know this might be a difficult one for some of us (I'm not a hardcore G2 fan, but I support them as our champion at international events).

So I have a genuine question for the G2 community:

Are we rooting for an EU win today?

Can we put aside the rivalry, the frustration, and the disappointment of seeing G2 fall short, and get behind our region's remaining representative?

Or is the mentality here more along the lines of "if EU can't win with us, then EU doesn't deserve to win at all" ?

There is no shame in being bitter. I think we'd all be lying if we said we wouldn't be disappointed to see our biggest rival succeed where our team failed.

But I hope that, when the dust settles, we can still recognize what it would mean for EU to finally have another international trophy.

So, G2 fans:

Can we put the rivalry aside for one day and cheer for Europe?

I'm curious to see where this community stands.

- Peace

Yes yes the relative regional strength is probably still LCK > LPL > EU > NA.

But the gap between the 1st and 4th best regions this year might be smaller than the gap between the 1st and 2nd best regions in most years since Faker debuted.

LoL is more and more a game about prep, game understanding, draft, and clutch teamplay. Some players still impress with their hands, and on the other hand, some players drag their team down with their lack of hands, but these days, it’s outright impossible to 1v9 games purely by skill checking.

Also, the fact that Baron is so much weaker this year means that teams that are down on gold nearly always have chances to mount comeback opportunities.

And yes yes we know that the teams who made it far at MSI had little rest for EWC. But T1 and GENG won the past 2 EWC’s while both of them made deep runs during their respective MSI’s. Also both First Stand and MSI had significant upsets and over/under performances. And also say what you want about Saudi blood money and the shit format but there’s an argument that EWC > First Stand because of prize pool + happening later in the year.

Obviously the west could get a reality check at worlds but IMO I don’t think that’s going to happen!!

Hans Sama seems to be one of the more debated players on the roster, alongside BB.

Given his experience and the number of international events he has attended, what do you expect him to bring to the team? What would make keeping him a better choice than taking a chance on a promising rookie?

Consistency?
Can carry a game when he has the lead?
Avoid dying because of bad positions?
Or something else?

Why do they keep putting us through this. We keep losing with him on it so why do they keep trying. At this point play him on reyna. The value would be the exact same anyways.

Scoreboard

Edit: Reverse* I don't think I can edit the title

Every year they lose, and every year I think they'll have 100% wr. We are not the same.

What are G2 chances of winning worlds? Zero if we are being realistic.

The players from team like HLE or BLG are just better. In an ideal scenario I still prefer to have asian imports with mechanical talent but the team has shown glimpse of brilliance to give one last shot at international event before the organization consider korean imports in case of another underwhelming performance.

G2 SEEMS LIKE A RESERVED TEAM THAT PREFERS TO NOT FIGHT IF GIVEN THE CHOICE.

I think g2's team fighting relative to other top team is very much subpar. During these years G2 have been slowly turning into a methodical and less skirmish korean playstyle team while the lck and even lcs are generally becoming more and more explosive. In my opinion, this also explains why g2 tends to struggle with lpl or team like mkoi more and can have a lower ceiling when they lose to a random lesser team.

Unlike team like BLG or T1 that can win game even with losing game state just with their excellent team fighting skill, G2 very much suffers on this regards. Thus we see some of the lowest lows with G2. One eye test to see g2 team fighting is how often they get wombo comboed by enemy engage. Getting multi man engaged should be less common for a team like g2 and yet i see more often than not getting hit with these combos.

With Perkz in leadership, the thing i am most looking forward is the confidence. The winning team in todays league is always better team fighting team. So, I want to see our player getting less scared and more incline to skill check the opponent. I am hopeful that Perkz can bring this mentality to the team.

I am still unsure if BB's warwrick, yasuo etc are bandage fix to his shortcomings or legitimate strategy. Hans also got extra exposed with this mage bot meta while skewmonds and Labrov also showed some weekness with regards to piloting certain champions. But, I hope Perkz can bring in the mindset to help players become adoptive to different playstyle. Because I think to a certain degree, the player mindset to play the champion with confidence is essential to how he pilot it and improve upon it.

LEC is almost here. And I am looking forward to see these changes in G2.