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XLG and RRQ are both new teams in internationals with much less experience. Despite both being 1st seeds, I don't think anyone expects them to contend for the top few spots, hence their losses to SEN and Wolves (who are also not considered a top team by most but look good rn). G2 and Fnatic on the other hand were unlucky to be drawn as the last 2 teams and were both stuck with a smoking hot Gen.G and PRX.

My point is that while all 1st seeds lost, in all 4 of these matches, the true favorites won/none of them were really upsets or unexpected results. So imo it's a bit hard to argue that it's unfair for the 1st seed teams with this format when simply looking at this tourney alone (even tho I personally prefer the groups format over this one).

Wdym hard throw? If anything Gen.G trolled 2nd map.

ohhhh the misery 🎵 🎶

that cheeky pause to kill Gen.G's momentum won't save them OMEGALUL

Gen.G 3-2 PRX

2-1 Gen.G but can go either way

bros crumbling when facing facts lol

most hype game of the opening playoffs matches no doubt

ThrowRX

AYAYA

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Unlucky Pacific matchup draw yet again. I don't see why this can't be addressed case by case, when 2 teams from same region go 1-0 (or 0-1) they don't draw same region matchups early on in round 2.

wdym came across thread late? I see you commenting below kek

Nobody said double satcheling in to shower is baiting. You're putting words into my mouth. Bro was just perma running it mid lol?

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Yeah I was thinking that too. Tbh it's a win-win situation for Termi; if he offers fistbump despite being snubbed earlier he looks like a chad and w sport, if he doesn't offer one then he walks away with the last laugh.

Fr0st KEKW

Lol termi didn't even offer a fistbump at the end KEKW

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Nectarine
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Healthy, non-sick beyn and they don't lose that sob

I'm tired boss

do leverkusen have a chance or will kane finally get his trophy?

8/10

W preds cause drx win, but u think gen.g beat boom but drx lose to rrq?

both: drx deserves international trophies, but i'll always root for the og players like stax buzz mako (he's still on drx) etc.

Nobody is saying that they're mid, they're good players for sure, but I can't imagine the team looking remotely close to how good they appear now if aspas wasn't there. Also, it's not just a one time thing that aspas is doing, he did it on lev too, go to an underperforming team and turning them around.

I remember that there was an analysis showing round winrates on how likely a team was about to win a round depending on who died first. Aspas was far and away the most 'important' player by that metric. If he died first, his team was statistically had the highest chance of losing the round compared to any other player dying first from any other team.

Either way, he goes to lev, they somehow become a top team, he goes to mibr, they now look like a top team. And note that neither team was particularly good beforehand either, the latter was straight up the worst team in all of franchising.

LIkewise, saying something like "current mibr has three of the best young talents from brasil" is a stretch too no? You can argue they look good because they're playing with someone like aspas. If he wasn't there and mibr wasn't doing as well, then people would say stuff like 'give them time' 'they're just rookies' etc.

Let's just take the team he's on right now for example, mibr.

before he joined

Same coach and some players stayed/swapped, and aspas comes in and night and day difference. They genuinely looked like the worst franchised team from any region before, even dfm looked better. Now, one match off qualifying to Bangkok, currently looking great and only one loss which was a very close game to the international finalists G2 (who lost to stax and buzz 🐐🐐🐐). You don't even need the stats to know he's the biggest reason the team is doing well now, just look at their games.

Nah it's actually true tho, he just makes mid or bad teams good. I don't even like the guy cause drx lost some close series to him lmao, but credit where it's due.

Job is temporary, Valorant is forever

close enough

currently in the USA 🦅 🦅 🦅 burgers guns and a slice of freedom

1. Yes
2. Yes, but idk who
3. Good enough
4. No, unless they look pretty bad
5. 2-1 DRX
6. No
7. No
8. No

This does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos...

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Idk if it's just me, but the players from opposing teams seem closer with each other in asia than na, which might help explain overall sentiment

Very sad, rest in peace.

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Abyss, Split, Pearl were peak, even Haven. A solid shout for the best final oat.

Something along the lines of "if you comment here, I'll give you money if T1 wins"

Stax and Buzz finally win a trophy. Mako next!

🥲👏 I WAS HERE

DESERVED 🥲🥲🥲👏👏👏

I WAS HERE

Feel free

BuZz 🐐🐐🐐

Literally nothing you said was of substance rn. Something called the internet my friend, a simple search to find some. I also reviewed all attack rounds from last 3 series, and lo and behold my points stand true.

I don't think you're reading what I'm saying. It's not just an outlier round, you'll see it in numerous times throughout the match and the entire series and the series before and so on. Watch their voice comms vid. You're giving far too much credit for it being overall edg strats which prevent him from entrying. At one point the defending is enough, the team is playing like that around him because that's how he wants to play. When it works it works, when it doesn't he looks like a massive handicap for the rest of the team.

A first death metric is often meaningless to look at without the right context. On the contrary, what you’re saying lacks substance.

Let’s say I’m playing ranked and I just swing and die mid start of every round. Was I being impactful and helping win rounds? But but but, I had more first deaths, surely that means I was doing my job right? Anyone arguing against this is most definitely new to the game.

Go through all the rounds. Again, you’ll continue to preach something like a team miscommunication, which can be sometimes true, but that’s giving him too much credit for his mistakes. The team is going to full send site, and you’re saying they dump util, smokes, everything you need, and still insist the jett proc dash and let it expire and sit afk main while they’re getting bodies on site? Even if it is a team miscom or decision to bail out, why is the omen the one dying on site and not him? Only a few rounds can you say a genuine attempt was made to risk a higher chance of death by leading the charge, rather than relying on just aim duels mid or main which farm fk/fd stats and create the illusion for people like you that he’s being an impactful entry. Anyone watching the game can tell who the most insignificant player was.