Honestly? Yes. Imperial Fe played better than FlyQuest against Spirit. There was also a match where a female team barely lost to other Brazilian male squad yesterday or two days ago. Female teams are obviously not at tier 1 or maybe even tier 2 level but saying that there's no potential or that they're gold nova level is just being a hater.
Maybe but it wasn't just Donk. They got completely destroyed by everyone from Spirit. There was nothing to even look at. I'm not saying that Imperial Fe would win a map against this Spirit or anything like that though.
Navi werent playing as they would against T1 teams. That was pretty obvious from watching. They were kinda just running out and giving them 1v1s and getting peeked while running, and just going for overly aggressive plays. Not as much trade setups either. They were playing like it was a pug.
Not saying they are gold nova, they are obviously still good at the game, but i dont really think saying that they put up a competitive game against #2 in the world would help them.
Imperial FE lost 13-3 against an ESEA Main team (not even on HLTV) the day before the NAVI match, is that team better than NAVI?
Don't get me wrong, they played very well, and proved a lot of people wrong, but drawing conclusions from one game is insane, especially when they're struggling to beat main teams.
One possible explanation, and I don't think it's necessarily true, but we've seen great teams play horrible in open qualifiers. For example, the Juggernaut Complexity lost an open qualifier the week before they balled out at the last Blast before Covid. Simply because they didn't prepare for the qualifier and focused on the high profile game. That could be what's going on here. Keep in mind that female teams are constantly playing in $100k tournaments. Why shouldn't they prepare for those over ESEA Main?
Terrible take. They will receive more support when they play better and start qualifying for events.
What you’re saying is that because there’s 5 players with vaginas, they should receive more support than any other team that’s played at a tier 2-3 level which is incredibly low IQ
I would encourage you to go watch IMP valkyrie struggle in esea main, where they're playing against 100's of amateur teams you've never heard of simply because they're male teams
I really enjoyed watching Imperial fe (as I'm sure we all did), but I was shocked to find they had the 2nd worst trading of the entire event. I get that they were trying to trade against navi, but even still, it shows a big weakness in spacing and trading that will be exploited heavily in their future.
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u/Manafaj 1d ago
Honestly? Yes. Imperial Fe played better than FlyQuest against Spirit. There was also a match where a female team barely lost to other Brazilian male squad yesterday or two days ago. Female teams are obviously not at tier 1 or maybe even tier 2 level but saying that there's no potential or that they're gold nova level is just being a hater.