NRG Esports

Right, so teams from 2023 onwards with Swiss.

Yeah, I mean, you were talking about the Asian teams, but I think obviously the one which probably gets referenced the most is NRG in 2023 outside of the Asian teams.

Because even though NRG deserved to beat G2 in the way that they qualified through to 2023 knockouts, NRG beat Team Liquid, so regional opponent, Mad Lions, and then G2.

Bad Lions in this era.

And then they beat G2 in the qualifying best of three.

So I don't know.

They just rocked up, played a domestic competition against NA EU, and then just lost to every Asian team that they rolled up against.

So while I actually think NRG very much...

Well, they've basically bombed out since unironically since the mouse win, they have.

lit their chances on fire now i think today as of today they just got a huge uh grace where that last chance event i think somebody dropped out and then now they got an invite so they went they were unlikely to make the major but then because they got the last chance uh invite i think they're skipping another land if they do okay there they're gonna be in but just i want to like NRG was looking good there for a second.

You know what I mean? That's why I'm just...

They started just losing bad, bro.

And here he comes.

Here he comes to make it just a little bit worse.

If Energy

has the 12-0 loss and Sonic celebrates too early of making the major and they don't make it, this team is, like, actually cursed.

Still very high up there and is, you know, presumably as long as DZ continues to stay around.

Speaking of another dead esports org, NRG got picked up, got bought out by DZ for the record.

Aren't they still NRG in like certain esports? Yeah, so...

Yeah, they wanted to keep the branding because they felt that, if I remember correctly, I saw a conversation between people involved where they said something along the lines of, like, the NRG branding in specific games is far more valuable than DZ, which I completely agree with.

Like, if you were to bring NRG, if you were to rebrand the DZ team in Rainbow, the game that, like, major esports org... famous in the first place and you were to rebrand as energy i think rainbow six fans would riot just the same as if you were to dump like the energy brand in like cs or cod or whatever and bring in dz there's no connection to that name right so it's like you kind of just whatever and you got the two brands who gives a shit right it's the same company but

i also think i mean they have multiple dz skins in the game and to my understanding if they rebrand they lose those skins in the game so business move makes a lot of sense as well

Yeah, because the Astralis ones disappeared when they got, or the Disrupt ones got disappeared when they got bought up by Cloud9 or East Coast or Astralis or whatever fucking org bought them.

2024, I'd say FlyQuest had a pretty easy draw, not as easy as 2025, advanced by beating Team Liquid, but then had a very encouraging series against Gen.G. That gave me a lot of hope as an NA fan.

2023, I think hope was actually extremely low, but the NRG miracle, beating G2, was a massive boon for the region.

Like, I still live off that a little bit today.

And I think the fans that are still around from North America live off that a little bit too.

There would be, like, a, a gap, so they wouldn't get punished.

For example, like, they, they were able to play against G2, against NRG, against a good Leviatán, so that's what made them good-

Yeah

... right now.

For sure, yeah.

So before EWC, everything felt pretty good.

We only lost at that point to, like, NRG and G2.

I think we had a one loss to SEN-

Um, so I think it's gonna be, uh, it's gonna be tough for them to make that, uh, make it back.

NRG are playing at this, uh, S- NSD LJ Texas thing that's, you know, they're probably considering whether to attend or not to attend, depending on the other side.

Uh, Imperial, same thing, where they're playing in those couple of tournaments, uh, in Brazil, so they have a good chance.

Uh, otherwise, yeah, you can kinda see that the rest of it is more or less decided.

Oh, yeah, they won the Frag Tourn.

They f- they won the Frag University tournament against, uh, Dendelion.

There was NRG there too.

Um, so they, they shot up in the, uh, in, in the ranking through that.

Yeah.

They'll try to follow the path of FlyQuest 24 and NRG 23-

Yeah

... as the teams to make it into the quarters, and that FlyQuest 24 team almost, uh-

So I think it's a really good positive note to leave the event with that you do have like a team that you can go out there and root for in the international stage.

You know, as much as you've been wanting that to be someone like M80 or maybe NRG, so in glimpses of it at the previous event before FML, they beat Maus.

They beat Maus.

And then did nothing.

And then bombed out of this tournament as well.

So it's crazy.

It was strange to see NRG look so weak as the tournament went on.

I think that was disappointing.