StarLadder

And now they're going to go back to limited practice.

And in their next event, they're going to play back with their main roster, obviously, in Starladder.

And then another event with their main roster, probably with limited practice in between there as well, before JL is back again, but in a different role.

It's such a mess where I'm not quite sure, especially with how these two events, I'm now confident that they're not going to be able to navigate it in a way that sees them staying in like a... an elite like a pure they won't stay in a top one conversation I'll say

You don't get to assess the top too much.

Star Ladder has a few of the top dogs there.

But I

don't feel we even worked out the top yet properly.

so weird in the context of that answer, though, don't you think? If you're saying we're not chasing trophies and we're not trying to grind these, what is the reason you'd be on such a grind then? If you're not trying to do it at some tail end for Fallen, wouldn't...

In theory, if you're actually trying to make this switch as seamless as possible to a new IGL, wouldn't you want to chill so there's more time off to work with your kinder...

well we got the the other side of this right you've got the spirit side who are winning everything at the moment and then they've taken off the next couple events they decided they don't do fisher which is fine like i unless you have to go to china like it's a long way to travel so they don't need to be there then they're not going to star ladder then they're going to be at epl right after epl is bucharest that's the last event before the cutoff they're not doing spirit aren't doing beijing right let me check I think they might.

Vitality isn't doing Beijing.

Mm-hmm

... like it, right now you guys are sixth, uh, assuming StarLadder doesn't go terribly poorly, you should be fine.

I don't know if that's real or not.

I'm just saying it feels like you should be fine, uh, to get that invite.

It, it's something that-

Insane

... is gonna start grinding those boys down, right? Because they've been playing everything this season, then they have to go from Fisher to StarLadder, so that's in Spain.

Then from StarLadder would be...

And then obviously with majors, we get sort of sub-storylines that are always interesting, like who's the new performer coming into the major.

I think in Starladder and Budapest, it was James Paravision, the team that broke out.

Then they dropped off really quick and we had Foot come back up.

So are Foot really a true team that's going to start rising at the biggest event of the year? So I think for me, there's a lot of interesting storylines at different levels.

Yeah, yeah.

So if they somehow lose to Mouz or 9Z in the lower bracket, I mean, it'll come down to like the StarLadder and the Pro League are gonna be huge for them.

Like they'll actually have to, let's say, win Pro League.

Like they, they're, they, they'll be aiming to win Pro League to sort of make sure that they're-

I then play Porto with the bearable stand-in, the JL for Mezzi.

I then play Star Ladder where there are There are no real contenders.

There's them.

There's no Falcons.

Yeah, like we have Blast Bounty and like it's typical up and down for 3D Max because in the same week they made like the LAN playoffs of Blast Bounty by beating Magic and beating Foot and then almost beating Maus.

In the same like week as all that happened they also lost to fucking Walsaki and Gentlemates to go last place in the close qualifier for Star Ladder.

They also beat Gentlemates in Stake Ranked.

Like, again, we're going back and we're going back.