Congratulations! Proving time and time again that fantasy cs is not strictly gambling, there's a great deal of skill involved. No one does it better :)
Top 1% is one thing, but to get Top 1 OVERALL? I BOW TO THE QUEEN, Congrats insane Lucy! Im going with the G2 train! Malbs, Hunter, Karrigan, Flamez, Mezzi :)
thanks!! :D i like this approach, g2 is a great combo with vitality, as i think more will be doing g2 + faze, so you have a good shot of a top finish, especially if it is a g2 vita finals!
Same here! My gut feeling after groups says that G2 and Vitality come hot to playoffs. We will see. But I've got arrozdoce instead of karrigan. I think he will bring more points than him😊
congrats on the win lucy! I, like most went with a double spirit draft and it completely screwed me over for the playoffs ive gone for spinx, flameZ, jL, aleksi and snax i feel like spinx and flameZ being this cheap is something i need to take advantage of, only spending 417k on the 2 of them! best of luck!
Congrats on the win, that’s awesome!! Plus you get gloves haha I’m on a trip right now so can’t spend as much time on a team as usual. As of right now, my team is iM, Aleksib, flamez, mezii and rain. It was hard to make a team with 1 IGL that I was comfortable with and I have the most faith in vitality and navi.
Congrats Lucy! Well deserved win! 🥂🥂🥂🥂 This event is insanely hard to predict. Faze has their special playoffs buff and a huge momentum after their insane last game. Vitality has the chosen one who can just single-handedly win any match. NAVI has the system and superb teamwork plus iM + b1t performing. G2 has exodia levels of firepower with hunter finally getting into his groove. Right now I have hunter, malbs, rain, broky and roman. I'm buying into G2's ridiculous firepower, and as a Faze fan, I hope that their momentum can carry them through zywoo. As good as they are, the rest of Vitality isn't really a danger if he isn't performing tbh.
thank you very much!! agree, it's very easy to see any of the "top 4" in the finals. makes drafting a little tricky! a g2/faze quarters to finals run is nice if it works tho, maximum point potential (and broky is a great sleeper pick here, as everyone will be focused on rain/ropz). gl!
Lucy congrats and good luck in next fantasy! And same than every i need your rate about my drafted fantasy. My fantasy: iM - Entry fragger Aleksib - Eco friendly Spinx - Attacker apEX - noob (but i still overthinking about this role, because he had no only rating about 1.00) hunter - Support I can change roles on Aleksib, hunter and apEX, because i am not sure about them role.
thank you! first up, really nice team! when it comes to roles, i almost never use the noob role, as you're betting against yourself - especially if your play is for vitality to make the finals (which it looks to be). my suggestion would be to put the support role on apex, and change hunter's role to maybe multi fragger? you could also put hunter on attacker and move spinx to defender/mf/stathunter depending on your feeling. usually i'd throw leader role on a weak role player, but in playoff brackets it kinda sucks (bo5 final makes it very hard to trigger). still a better choice than noob tho imo!
Outrageous finish, congrats! This was my worst event ever, went chopper/shiro and buda as my budget pick... Ended up on -8 points hahaha Picking iM/jL/malbs/rain/siuhy for the playoffs
ty ty! this draft is kinda wild ngl, 4 players one side of the bracket!! sure you don't wanna swap siuhy for snax at least, so you aren't playing against yourself every game?
Congrats! Was great to see. I picked a really good team but G2 points just seemed to dwarf 2nd place teams so overall my double NaVi double Mouz didn’t do too well. Gone for the maddest team possible so either top 1% or 100% incoming. Really wasn’t impressed by FaZe despite their clear improvement on t side, and Aslong as nerves don’t get to SAW they can definitely upset there. G2 are incredible on an individual level but I also think Mouz can beat them Aslong as they don’t pick into pug maps. So many of G2s opponents pretended they could outgun in their map vetoes it was so silly. ewjerkz,arrozdoce,Brollan,torzi,flameZ is the final draft
i feel the same about G2 when it comes to the NAVI matchup - not so convinced on MOUZ, but i do see your point. plus when it comes to fantasy, you have to shoot for the stars sometimes! the SAW duo at least mean you don't need to compensate with any low fragging IGLs :) good luck!
Congrats! I'm going with NiKo, Malbs, ropz, Karrigan and apex just in case Faze can't beat Vitality so I still have one player from that side in the finals
Grats on the win! it's proven again that you sure know what you're talking about :D imo the final will be g2 vs navi, because whoever wins, will probably win the final as well, I don't see faze getting away with this again, and vitality isn't vitality anymore atm I'm gambling on G2, I think they'll go over mouz pretty easy, and if they lose against navi, their ratings won't be that awful, which I don't mind THAT much since a bo5 final most of the times doesn't give many points or max role activations Probably my riskiest one so far,but I don't want to completely have the same team as half of the people, since I already have rain and ropz and I hope mutiris with bottom+ noob role will cover up for this LOL niko/malbs/rain/ropz/mutiris
thanks! :) g2 are a fine gamble, i actually quite rate this as you've got 4 really strong players playing from the quarter finals. hopefully mutiris goes even for you and you're set!
Congrats! My run was amazing top 97% with zont1x chopper combo lmao couldnt even save it with 2x mouz I go for 2x g2 2x faze, but damn the prices are so annoying... if u go for that, then if u want to go heavy g2, it's impossible to have 4 good players even with karrigan Im thinking about either niko, malbs, karrigan, ropz, (apex or aleksi), or snax, malbs, Rain, broky, mezii Maybe something different like 2x vitality (?)
ty - i actually thought about zontix last game too, as he's always been a solid fantasy pick. spirit please... the problem i find with drafting is if you go 2/2/1 you kind of want your "winning team" to have two strong players on one side of the bracket, and your igl+mid pick on the other side. so i think the first draft is better if you believe g2 win the whole thing, with apex as your 5th (fallback if faze fail)
@@lucycastsokay, ill stick with heavy g2 then I need to risk that one bc i only have 8 season points (thanks ewc format, vp in blast groups, 3dmax c game in playins and now spirit 😭😭😭)
congrats on #1 :D i picked twistzz in play ins and he was disappointing, picked him again for the group stage and the faze match destroyed me 😵💫 Im going for: JL, aleksib, Spinx, Flamez, snax saw is gonna disappoint faze and its gonna be an easy path to the finals for vitality gl to everyone
yeah this was one of the drafts i floated but i just couldn't stomach both apex and snax :D but good chance it pays off still, apex can frag + snax can get a good rating if mouz game is a stomp
Congrats! My safe pick would be jL aleksi flamez apex and ropz , but i think i might go with my gut and risk that g2 will finally beat navi and go with malbs hunter flamez apex aleksi. G2 right now with hunter being back in form and the fact that he is a big game player alongside niko who currently is the best player in the tournament, not to mention m0nesy and Malbs it is very tempting for me to go 2x G2. What do you think ?
ty! personally i think if you are going into the g2/vitality path, you should swap aleksi for one of: karrigan, roman, mutiris, or arrozdoce. that way you can perhaps upgrade apex to mezii?
Chopper absolutely tanked my group stage score also had NAF. Picked iM and W0nderful which turned out quite well but W0nderful was a waste. As my cheap gamble option I had Arrozdoce which wasn't bad. Overall got top 50% Was planning on going for a MOUZ upset draft with Vitality players but G2 are probably too strong right now.
Congrats on taking 1st, that's huge! I'm going jL/iM/flameZ/apEX/arrozdoce. With snap tap potentially being a factor, I want as much aggression as possible, and I love not having to go for a bronze IGL. best of luck!
Congratulations! Proving time and time again that fantasy cs is not strictly gambling, there's a great deal of skill involved. No one does it better :)
Top 1% is one thing, but to get Top 1 OVERALL? I BOW TO THE QUEEN, Congrats insane Lucy!
Im going with the G2 train! Malbs, Hunter, Karrigan, Flamez, Mezzi :)
thanks!! :D
i like this approach, g2 is a great combo with vitality, as i think more will be doing g2 + faze, so you have a good shot of a top finish, especially if it is a g2 vita finals!
Same here! My gut feeling after groups says that G2 and Vitality come hot to playoffs. We will see. But I've got arrozdoce instead of karrigan. I think he will bring more points than him😊
insane result, congrats Lucy
thank you! :)
congrats on the win lucy! I, like most went with a double spirit draft and it completely screwed me over
for the playoffs ive gone for spinx, flameZ, jL, aleksi and snax
i feel like spinx and flameZ being this cheap is something i need to take advantage of, only spending 417k on the 2 of them!
best of luck!
Congrats on the win, that’s awesome!! Plus you get gloves haha
I’m on a trip right now so can’t spend as much time on a team as usual. As of right now, my team is iM, Aleksib, flamez, mezii and rain. It was hard to make a team with 1 IGL that I was comfortable with and I have the most faith in vitality and navi.
I'm happy for you. I haven't won any prizes myself, not even a top 3 spot. But I hope that someday I will :D
top 1 is actually crazy. Congrats.
Congrats on No. 1! I can't go against mouz, so I'll take Brollan, torzsi, rain, ropz, and Aleksib. :)
you'll be one of the few going down this path, so if it pays off well done!
Congrats Lucy! Well deserved win! 🥂🥂🥂🥂
This event is insanely hard to predict. Faze has their special playoffs buff and a huge momentum after their insane last game. Vitality has the chosen one who can just single-handedly win any match. NAVI has the system and superb teamwork plus iM + b1t performing. G2 has exodia levels of firepower with hunter finally getting into his groove.
Right now I have hunter, malbs, rain, broky and roman. I'm buying into G2's ridiculous firepower, and as a Faze fan, I hope that their momentum can carry them through zywoo. As good as they are, the rest of Vitality isn't really a danger if he isn't performing tbh.
thank you very much!!
agree, it's very easy to see any of the "top 4" in the finals. makes drafting a little tricky! a g2/faze quarters to finals run is nice if it works tho, maximum point potential (and broky is a great sleeper pick here, as everyone will be focused on rain/ropz). gl!
Congrats! Thats insane
Lucy congrats and good luck in next fantasy!
And same than every i need your rate about my drafted fantasy.
My fantasy:
iM - Entry fragger
Aleksib - Eco friendly
Spinx - Attacker
apEX - noob (but i still overthinking about this role, because he had no only rating about 1.00)
hunter - Support
I can change roles on Aleksib, hunter and apEX, because i am not sure about them role.
thank you!
first up, really nice team! when it comes to roles, i almost never use the noob role, as you're betting against yourself - especially if your play is for vitality to make the finals (which it looks to be). my suggestion would be to put the support role on apex, and change hunter's role to maybe multi fragger? you could also put hunter on attacker and move spinx to defender/mf/stathunter depending on your feeling.
usually i'd throw leader role on a weak role player, but in playoff brackets it kinda sucks (bo5 final makes it very hard to trigger). still a better choice than noob tho imo!
Thank you for your rate I appreciate it.I choose role support for apEX, for hunter multi fragger role and Spinx´s role stayed same (attacker).
Congrats! I got top 8% with NAF,Twistzz,Hunter,Aleksi and iM 😊
Outrageous finish, congrats! This was my worst event ever, went chopper/shiro and buda as my budget pick... Ended up on -8 points hahaha
Picking iM/jL/malbs/rain/siuhy for the playoffs
ty ty!
this draft is kinda wild ngl, 4 players one side of the bracket!! sure you don't wanna swap siuhy for snax at least, so you aren't playing against yourself every game?
Congrats! Was great to see. I picked a really good team but G2 points just seemed to dwarf 2nd place teams so overall my double NaVi double Mouz didn’t do too well.
Gone for the maddest team possible so either top 1% or 100% incoming. Really wasn’t impressed by FaZe despite their clear improvement on t side, and Aslong as nerves don’t get to SAW they can definitely upset there. G2 are incredible on an individual level but I also think Mouz can beat them Aslong as they don’t pick into pug maps. So many of G2s opponents pretended they could outgun in their map vetoes it was so silly.
ewjerkz,arrozdoce,Brollan,torzi,flameZ is the final draft
i feel the same about G2 when it comes to the NAVI matchup - not so convinced on MOUZ, but i do see your point. plus when it comes to fantasy, you have to shoot for the stars sometimes! the SAW duo at least mean you don't need to compensate with any low fragging IGLs :) good luck!
Congrats! I'm going with NiKo, Malbs, ropz, Karrigan and apex just in case Faze can't beat Vitality so I still have one player from that side in the finals
thanks!
good safe approach (as far as g2 winning is safe). kinda like my play but with g2 instead of navi. not bad!
Grats on the win! it's proven again that you sure know what you're talking about :D
imo the final will be g2 vs navi, because whoever wins, will probably win the final as well, I don't see faze getting away with this again, and vitality isn't vitality anymore atm
I'm gambling on G2, I think they'll go over mouz pretty easy, and if they lose against navi, their ratings won't be that awful, which I don't mind THAT much since a bo5 final most of the times doesn't give many points or max role activations
Probably my riskiest one so far,but I don't want to completely have the same team as half of the people, since I already have rain and ropz
and I hope mutiris with bottom+ noob role will cover up for this LOL
niko/malbs/rain/ropz/mutiris
thanks! :)
g2 are a fine gamble, i actually quite rate this as you've got 4 really strong players playing from the quarter finals. hopefully mutiris goes even for you and you're set!
Congrats! My run was amazing top 97% with zont1x chopper combo lmao couldnt even save it with 2x mouz
I go for 2x g2 2x faze, but damn the prices are so annoying... if u go for that, then if u want to go heavy g2, it's impossible to have 4 good players even with karrigan
Im thinking about either niko, malbs, karrigan, ropz, (apex or aleksi), or snax, malbs, Rain, broky, mezii
Maybe something different like 2x vitality (?)
ty - i actually thought about zontix last game too, as he's always been a solid fantasy pick. spirit please...
the problem i find with drafting is if you go 2/2/1 you kind of want your "winning team" to have two strong players on one side of the bracket, and your igl+mid pick on the other side. so i think the first draft is better if you believe g2 win the whole thing, with apex as your 5th (fallback if faze fail)
@@lucycastsokay, ill stick with heavy g2 then
I need to risk that one bc i only have 8 season points (thanks ewc format, vp in blast groups, 3dmax c game in playins and now spirit 😭😭😭)
Im scared of g2 in bo5 final tho... something to consider i guess
congrats on #1 :D
i picked twistzz in play ins and he was disappointing, picked him again for the group stage and the faze match destroyed me 😵💫
Im going for:
JL, aleksib, Spinx, Flamez, snax
saw is gonna disappoint faze and its gonna be an easy path to the finals for vitality
gl to everyone
ty! great draft, i really wanted to go the same, but felt slightly more confident in navi. but spinx + flamez at that price is crazy good. good luck!
I got iM, jL and Spinx as well + Apex and snax. I really want to draft Mouz boys but their bracket is too stacked
yeah this was one of the drafts i floated but i just couldn't stomach both apex and snax :D but good chance it pays off still, apex can frag + snax can get a good rating if mouz game is a stomp
Wooooooooo
of all the fantasy events you had to skip doing a video on, it was the one you won 😭 but seriously, congrats tho! good luck to all for playoffs o7
Congrats! My safe pick would be jL aleksi flamez apex and ropz , but i think i might go with my gut and risk that g2 will finally beat navi and go with malbs hunter flamez apex aleksi. G2 right now with hunter being back in form and the fact that he is a big game player alongside niko who currently is the best player in the tournament, not to mention m0nesy and Malbs it is very tempting for me to go 2x G2. What do you think ?
ty! personally i think if you are going into the g2/vitality path, you should swap aleksi for one of: karrigan, roman, mutiris, or arrozdoce. that way you can perhaps upgrade apex to mezii?
Wow, this is a crazy team. I like it!
But how can I activate the pick'ems on HLTV?😂
pick'em button in the top right corner of the playoff bracket :)
www.hltv.org/events/7436/iem-cologne-2024
Chopper absolutely tanked my group stage score also had NAF. Picked iM and W0nderful which turned out quite well but W0nderful was a waste. As my cheap gamble option I had Arrozdoce which wasn't bad.
Overall got top 50%
Was planning on going for a MOUZ upset draft with Vitality players but G2 are probably too strong right now.
for the playoffs I’ve got iM,Aleksi,Rain,Flamez and Mezii
im hoping for a FaZe shitstomp against SAW, going frozen ropz iM aleksi apEX. frozen has to have a stage MVP someday right?
im going malbs hunter flamez mezzi arrozdoce
nice and simple, no underperforming IGLs to drag you down! quite like this, i really rate the arrozdoce pick :)
Congrats on taking 1st, that's huge! I'm going jL/iM/flameZ/apEX/arrozdoce. With snap tap potentially being a factor, I want as much aggression as possible, and I love not having to go for a bronze IGL. best of luck!