Like the NRG team, just came crawling back

wait do they actually? thats crazy that Madrid gave basically nothing then

But it would be map differential, so a 2-0 would make the differential same as Heretics

While this is fair, would you really want a team that goes 1-4 (20% WR) to make playoffs? Doesn't seem fair for a team on the otherside who likely goes 3-3 (50% WR) in this case to miss playoffs.

To be fair, they probably didn't see Yay/Vanity lineup working for a championship (honestly might've worked) so financially why pay so much to someone if they're going to be mid when you can pay another guy (some T2 player) a lot less to achieve slightly worse results.

Still they shouldn't have paid Yay that much to begin with if they were going to falter so soon

I know Pacific has a 2 win minimum for a team to qualify for playoffs, does Americas have the same rule?

They really opened the floodgates

I mean ACEND won 2021 Champions and they have a quite small presence

I get that you want to give the 1st seed the advantage, but like why not make the 2/3rd matches a double elimination to qualify into the other 2 spots. This might cause the same issue where the 2nd and 3rd place team from the same side of the bracket might just be better. Double elimination is where its at

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I just remember this thing that Steel said that his strat on 100T when they played was to find the site Cned was on and to hit the other site

Please remove Vanity, he hasn't done anything for this org in any of his 10,000 stints

Unfortunate for your bank

yes but also KC said that they had like 104 scrim wins with no losses at some point didn't they?

Good b8

I feel like walkouts in general have been not as hype this masters. Feel like the lack of Boaster/Benkai just changes it

Assuming the right matches for 3rd place won, the addition of teams like NRG, FNC, DRX and TE would be crazy

can anyone explain why icy is so good? Im looking at his stats and its nothing crazy like what

o7

Unfortunate for EDG, always want to see them prosper. Loud just too good right now

wait but GenG won

All first seeds won, so no interregional matchups :)

I guess it makes sense, that's what's left of the core that played last year

Looking at the way Riot treated League's gamemode shows the poor future of Valorant's gamemodes having any creativity

this would be so funny

Okobotro 🗿

Do you have the clip

This is what got me into a C9 fan LOL

RIP the GOAT Twisten

41% win rate tho

0/8

Obviously not the greatest reason considering the excess costs, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVYKg_Xod0 is a good video

Like I personally don't watch but Valorant Curious always seems to try and make new gamemodes or challenges to be creative

Although it looks bad you get the 50k salary without having any expenses (housing + food is usually covered for you). So realistically you are getting a lot more in benefits as well compared to just the 50k.

All things considered that is a tough call :(

Probably red bull partnerships

Didn't TSM dump the NALCS which kind of ruins their relationship with RIOT?

I assume this was for regular season Americas where LOUD got first seed and won the playoffs for Tokyo as well

2023 MVP: Alfajer
COACH OF THE YEAR: Potter
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Something

Could be trialing with other IGLs

I really like his lineups and cool things, but sometimes its cringe that he roasts others/randoms while doing so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLaBzx0FhYg

tbf the thread didn't say it was the truth just a choice factor

prx winning would be huge, since pacific hasn't won yet. Loud winning would be cool as back to back champs but it would be cool for each league to win a champs

Prime and Oni

[NRG]

Okay but for a counter argument 100T have had their main core since last year (all they did was replace Will with Cryo) and appear to have not met expectations so although it does apply, sometimes you just need to pull the plug

DISMANTLED BRO

:(

Okay but you forgot W Streamer for Mr. sOmuel

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Omen/Brim/Skye