Jesus christ what did I just watch
we are so cooked

cgn is streaming it https://www.twitch.tv/cgnesports
use https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCL/2026/EMEA/Last_Chance_Qualifier if youre looking for streams atm (though they got the wrong cgn channel so you wont find that)

while it sucks to not have a main broadcast, every game is currently being streamed
VLR just doesnt have a good system to show the costreams atm

Use liquipedia for these kind of games ngl

it is who was on the server though
(its just the 7th spare account VCT has - so spear was playing on it)

The G2 vs HLE game happened, so no

This is gonna be such a banger
SGE 2 - 1 MDR

bro was just playing ranked so I wouldnt worry too much

gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8

Good start ngl

Sure, and then you look at his total APR... and he's surounded by all the other smokes players in EMEA, because smoke assists are a worthless stat in Valorants current implementation

ye, thats where the narrative comes from

Glyph wasnt even a particularly support oriented player, idk what youre on
The actual argument would be that he was supposedly good in comms, but we dont have any actual info on that

But also this is DACH aim, not turkish aim (... which is probably why they keep losing)

Gottta make a psa for orgs that Proxh + Minny is an auto choke

edit: 1 hour later and its broken on all browsers (including incognito), so its server side

loads perfectly on all browsers for me
also correctly pulls the page using urllib in python so you might just be cursed ngl

(or rate limited; but idk if VLR has something like that)

If you like chill farming games then get it
Tons of things to do to keep you busy for 100+ hours

Aint that good on the romance department if thats what youre after
Combat is a bit shite (but doesnt take away from the game... its just basic)

biased: CGN
favorite: NaVi Jr

(Aside from a CGN clean sweep ofc)
Id like a final between Fokus and Mandatory (Fks for their potential, and MDR for being super stable)

score is a lot closer than it was on the server ngl

might get a matchup between them in lcq though

plus its the only game scheduled for today too
could have easily made this bo5

Dangit, thought we were hating on the hardware company after their last security fuckup

eyo wtf
happy FKS showed up, but at least wait for me to get home before you speedrun them :'(

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I assume this is an issue of mistranslation, but he's not talking about himself in the last tweet
He's saying Itopata should be in t1

Enc are mixes so I doubt they cost any more stamina than a focused scrim.

Still an upgrade over a ton of t1 duelists atm though, so im sure we'll see him on a top team next year

You are attributing claims to Ari that they never made.
Aris claim is black and white.

Was it Platoon and Patmen that wanted Frost gone?
Either they did and Ari's source is correct, or they didnt and Ari has spread misinformation.

Ari has not made claims as to why they wanted him removed.

tragic end
cant fault Misa for having some clutch af players though, ggs

Fks really tried to throw this one
Ucam gonna be gutted to lose this ngl

we need more Pa1ze vs B1sk like on the last map though

she bro

they are a separate tier
but since they also qualify for t2 (like premier), and said premier teams teams are competitive (negative winrate ngl) against the GC teams, I think its fair to group them as t3 in Riots current system

8/8

just cause their roster didnt get leaked afaik

tf you mean underrated
they are favorites

Yes! Martux and Cintyx (and lamelly) made it to EMEA stage 2 last year
They got owned, but they did make it
https://www.vlr.gg/487773/bitfix-gaming-vs-ulf-esports-challengers-league-2025-emea-2-d2 (this was before ULF was good though)

Idk bro this rosters standouts, Martux and Cintyx, looked mid in t2
But nah youre not wrong

The biggest factor imo is gonna be how much teams get to prac anyways
And while other teams are gonna be limited in scrims (since their players are signed to orgs that are still competing), Norway can go full out on this event

Id expect we have a lot of these "lower expectation" teams upset some of the t2/t1 mixes, like you would usually see during open qualifiers.

Germany is generally considered one of the worst countries for expats, since housing and finance is a pain + the bureaucracy that comes with our government is particularly harsh (double so if you dont speak German).

However most of these issues dont really apply to the pro players (since their org deals with those issues), so I think its more the area.
But hard to properly pin down when youre trying to summaries the grievances of multiple people who were forced to leave their home country by one of the most stressful jobs.

Generally speaking Berlin should be one of the more suitable cities, since its incredibly international (though ig the complain is that theyre in the middle of nowhere, not in Berlin).

Im not sure since theres so much going wrong atm (and its hard to tell from the outside why things are falling apart), but I cant imagine it helped xD

Given how much worse they looked for the first couple weeks after KovaQ left: yes.

Man this one stings
After the JL game I cant even call it unlucky

Welp ggs, and hope they bounce back in lcq

oh, I misunderstood the above post to be from an earlier stage of planning where there would be 4 teams for emea total (so including all sub regions)
then my list would be halfway decent (cause no way you could give turkey 0)

FNC, TL, NaVi, KC/M8

Both KC and M8 pull numbers and invest in the scene so I genuinely couldnt decide between them

Problem is then turkey have 0 slots and you lose one of the 2 big french orgs

Losing TH and Vit would be a shame, but neither are interested in supporting the scene outside of t1 (fnc too, but they have too much legacy) so I cant justify them above the others
BBL as an org can burn
And Fut and GX are fine, but ultimately feel like filler orgs

Are you talking about the viewing experience as a whole or the level of competition?

and the post above is about as good as we can do inside the vlr rules^

To remain vague and hopefully stay inside the rules: America is currently one of the biggest, if not the biggest, ally to Saudi when it comes to their video game/esport investment strategy.
Considering how recently the EA deal was, it'd be stupid to jeopardize the momentum by trying to be "fair" towards (for their investments) irrelevant countries/regions.

comparatively 100%
I wouldnt call Vit fans chill, but yea... nothing compared to DVM

france t2 already had ultras assaulting other people, so youd be surprised at what some idiots can do

with the temperature they have over there atm, I doubt there's gonna be anything left to burn

(Only regarding EMEA, havent watched other regions t2)

I doubt it. Theres a ton of competent t2 teams this year, who could compete in t1, but theres no clear standouts.
Combine that with the system being way too rigged for the t1 teams and I just dont see it happening.

We are gonna have t1 players get hard diffed by random t2 kids though, so still gonna be fun af

if he hasnt been on your list since like... well 2022, then your list might need some work ngl

rough group draw ngl

theres still hope CGN or JL fall apart at least for yall

Idk if theres any unusual viewbotting happening rn (havent heard any concrete allegations), but its so much more common than you think

Id be shocked if theres a major esports in the age of co streaming, that doesnt significantly benefit from viewbotting

plus the last time they did implement something aggressive it got SO much backlash (it was VERY aggressive tbf)

Heck when you have one of the biggest talent agency on twitch (Night Media) publicly calling for streamers to view bot, then you know twitch is way past caring.

From https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-time-start-viewbotting-reed-duchscher-zv2nc:
"I would never explicitly say you should bot your views on Twitch, other than in the title of this article. But the reality is, if you’re not viewbotting and everyone else is, you’re at a disadvantage."

Yes, esport charts counts co-streams too

Youll have to pay if you want more detailed breakdowns of where views come from though

Less of make up, than break
Swiss is designed to be a non eliminating format, that efficiently ranks ALL teams.

You will notice that Valorant's Swiss' are always eliminating.
This in turn makes it more efficient in finding (for 8 team swiss) the top 4 (since it doesnt matter for this format who the 3-0 and 0-3 teams are).
This leaves us with a format that is essentially just a double elim again (with the main difference being that seeding is less impactful, and random chance instead does the matchups),