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It's got to be very high.

I think so much of the conversation is around Donk and it's still interesting because I was on a show yesterday with Maui and he was saying like, we can't take riflers for granted that they're going to have the same longevity as like the Simples and Zywos because it's just a different ballgame.

Like we've had, you know, Olof was two years, Codero was two years and I think Donk is a different case.

But it's still concerning that his floor's kind of collapsed.

But I also think it's more interesting to kind of look at, okay, so Spirit, you're in a team where if you're not winning trophies, you're under pressure straight away.

And I think you look at it and you want to raise the floor, which is what they tried to do by signing Tanir.

And I think you'd look at Tanir and Zontix and you think, Okay, like, Donkenshire are dependable, and even though it's going to be tough in a team with Donkenshire to have enough resources, you should expect more consistency from your third and fourth riflers.

Or your second and third riflers, sorry.

So who do you think wins the tournament, Harry? And which of these numbers would you take?

It's always hard to make predictions, isn't it? I think Spirit, I think, are probably the one I would go for from a betting point of view, just because their ceiling with what we saw from Donk today, even though they lost against Maus, is something where if they're in a playoff game and it's all fired up, I back them in a high-pressure game against a Vitality.

And I think if they avoid Maus in the playoff bracket, because it seems like that's a little bit of a rock-paper-scissors situation, I think if they avoid Maus, I don't see them losing a game.

So I would be looking at Spirit or Maus.

He would say the same things about Jorko because he was not getting his head back in the game off of that.

But that being said, I think that professional players take out their stresses and frustrations in different ways.

And I'm not going to judge him too much for that because even Donk and Niko slammed the table too.

You're allowed to if you're Duncan Nico.

I think we're going too harsh with how we criticise these players because we're doing that thing that I do agree with, which is when you look from the perspective of the org or the big name players in the org, like LXEB and Blade and Bate, they're supposed to win already.

So you have to be really harsh with how you criticise their teams because what you're basically saying is, if I add the right players to those guys' team, don't they win? And the answer is yes, in the same way as if you have the conversation about Monacy in Falcons or Donkin Spirit.

But the problem is when you are the young player coming in who's barely played at tier one, notice that we're almost never saying about these players yeah he just doesn't have the skill mate he just doesn't have it you know he'll never be a good but like by the way i do say that about people like jacob i think actually i have seen his skill cap out the difference is those players as you said the biggest problem is it is just an experience mate like we're acting like you control them like i don't care how good you think blade is as a coach the best vod review in the world doesn't really make up for having years of experience doing the things he's describing You know what I mean? It's very different, in my opinion, to, like, understand what someone means by, like, do things this way and to just know in your bones, like, oh, that's the play you make here.

Because I'll give you a weird, a quick analogy that you'd probably be able to relate to as a pro.

The problem is Spirit's gone.

Yeah, they should cut Donk.

There you go.

All right, perfect.

No, the team is, I don't think ever had, I mean, it's a little dramatic, but that's why we have a podcast so we can be dramatic.

I just don't think we've seen this bad a run of form.

Even this, like, it's not a lot of bad form from Donk.

But it's more than we've ever seen, which is kind of concerning.

That's my bad point.

For me, Kyosuke and Monacy are extremely talented players, just on one level with Donk.

Maybe one player per decade like them appears in Counter-Strike.

It's very rarely they appear.

You will be in the best team.

And Spirit is a system.

It's going to be hard for you since it's Donk there.

And you're going to play like support of Donk.