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That's right, the secret to winning a VCT major is to bench your smokes player.

• Edward Gaming (2024 Champions Seoul): Replace Haodong with S1Mon, who goes on to play a pivotal role in their year-end resurgence and run at Champions including that clutch on Lotus.
• T1 (2025 Masters Bangkok): Drop Sylvan without warning in the middle of Kickoff and play Carpe instead of him through the rest of playoffs and their first match of Masters. Sylvan eventually comes back in during Bangkok and is one of their best-performing players throughout the remainder of the event.
• Paper Rex (2025 Masters Toronto): Longtime controller Mindfreak is replaced by PatMen, who struggles at first but

Wondering if any of the specialty bike shops are worth going to or if I should just go to a general sporting goods store. I imagine going online isn't really the move since I'd prefer to be able to try it on in-store.

The 2020 LPL Spring Split kicks off today with defending world champions FunPlus Phoenix taking on 2018 world champions Invictus Gaming. The LPL is the league I follow most closely, and even then, it's always the most difficult major league to make sense of. There's 17 teams as opposed to the usual 10, each team is loaded with talent from top to bottom, and despite the fact that the past two world championships have been won by Chinese teams, preseason expectations are usually shattered one way or another relatively quickly - but that does't mean it's not fun to speculate.

I'm classifying the teams into the following loosely-defined tiers. The teams are ranked numerically for ease of readi

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Paging our doubting friend to pay up, or at least come in here and admit he was very silly to think that the most highly regarded international prospect in years (who virtually nobody watched until a couple months before the draft) would be a guaranteed bust in his first year.

Specifically the below:

• The huge exodus from Kaos Latin Gamers after their last-place finish in LLA is understandable, but why have Nate and Froststrike joined 9z, who I'm assuming will be competing only regionally and not in LLA? Are they no longer good enough to play in LLA or is it an issue of the regional merge contracting the player pool too much?

• A bit confused by some of the bot lane shakeups in Brazil. Biggest one is Redemption picking up WhiteLotus and Jockster, who are good players, but I thought their bot lane of DudsTheboy and Ceos was first choice going forward. If that's the case then seems weird to me that WhiteLotus would go to yet another team where he isn't going to b

Before the split the next up would have easily been Ucal, but he's had a rough split and has been dropped in favour of SSOL recently. Meanwhile, less heralded players like Dove and Tempt have demonstrated good levels of performance in the spring as well as ShowMaker. Interested in y'alls thoughts

The majority of player acquisitions I see clubs make are off-season free agent signings or loans, but what are the mechanisms that clubs have for acquiring players under contract with other teams (in the off-season or during the season)? Can you purchase or buy out player contracts like in football or are there other vehicles for player trading?

See title. Want to highlight some stuff for when I next revisit the manga (Shiton, etc.) but can't remember everything.

See above. I know in the US that FloSports service now has broadcast rights to the regular season game but wasn't sure if the agreement with NBATV was being extended.

I'm a relatively new fan, longtime admirer of the sport but only now begun to follow professional/international competitions and am a little worried by the lack of coverage I've been able to find especially ahead of this year's FIVB world championships. Does any have any suggestions on the following:

• How to watch the matches/what who's broadcasting both online and on tv (I'm going to be shuttling back & forth between the US and UK)
• Any blogs or written content that can help give someone trying to learn names/faces/narratives some insight on the teams, players, and stories to focus on during the tournament?
• Suggestions on Twitter accounts to follow that will cover the tournament, g