MY BEAUTIFUL BOY IS WO0TING ALL OVER THEM

Nah Liquid need to give him a starting spot

Difficulty impossible

I don't necessarily want FUT and TH to win, I just want G2 to lose tbh. Boring ahhhh 3 fans total team

I'm still praying my second favourite team Heretics can make it to upper bracket finals and at least give Gen.G or 100T a run for their money, maybe even pull of the upset

Just realised I have an exam on the day of the upper bracket final. God damn it

I genuinely thought this was the official announcement, came, and then clicked on and realised it wasn't. All the cum proceeded to return to it's place of origin, waiting for the day my designated LOUD pANcada nut can finally be released

I think it'll be a giga banger, could go either way. I think it goes all three maps regardless of who wins

I think if you give Valorant a few more years it'll get there. Valorant came out in 2020, CS has been around since the 90's. The fact Valorant has had even slightly comparable crowds up to this point is pretty impressive all things considered

Which players nowadays, if any, will be on the first Astralis of Valorant, aka the first team to go on a super long dominant winstreak where they are completely unchallenged?

It's clear that FNC can't return to their 2023 level of play without some changes. Ever since champs last year they've been in the mud, and haven't shown many signs of improvement. They failed to qualify for Madrid, looked mid in the regular season and just bombed out of Shanghai without winning a match. Even when they won EMEA the only thing that looked somewhat convincing about their whole playoffs run was the lower bracket final against FUT. They dropped a map against fucking Liquid. Then a Karmine Corp roster full of inexperienced rookies choked two massive leads against them, with FNC basically skirting by on experience differential. Then they got manhandled by Heretics. Then had one convincing game against FUT. Then Heretics choked a 2-0 lead in maps against them and once again lost to experience diff, all the while Leo and Alfajer were pulling generational deadlifts to bail them out constantly.

And it's not like we can say let them cook, give them time to improve. Because that's also what everyone else is doing. Heretics and FUT have the chance to massively level up at Shanghai, NAVI were already way better than FNC and have time off to work of themselves, VIT and KC are some of the most dangerous teams with time to cook their strat book, even ass teams like KOI and BBL were improving near the end of the season. The domestic competition is starting to leave FNC in the dust and there's a very real chance that FNC miss out on champs and honestly I don't think they deserve to go.

This roster needs changes to return to their status as the best team in the world. There's no 2 ways about it

Not yet. This year is the development stage. But if they keep the exact same roster and coaching staff for next year then they're going to be world beaters and could contend for trophies

zeddy

whzy saw FNS return to NRG and all of a sudden BLG will return to their 2023 form so he can double blast pack his way over to Seoul, judge in hand ready to give Puchan a dip in the pool

https://x.com/chronicleEZ/status/1796904564681257059

Knows he had an absolute STINKER of a tournament and actively WANTS all the hate for it

I'd say it depends on if 100T beat Gen.G. If they do I can't see anyone but 100T winning, if not I'd favour Gen.G. They're my current top 2 for the event

Absolute turbo banger

Regardless of the result I just hope it's close

FPX are giving me PRX 2021 vibes

I'm just waiting for their breakout year where they crack top 3

I see an easy solution

EDG d00mbr0s

Attempting to expel all the choking energy from his body on the lower bracket run

Another Susanto masterclass

The point I was trynna make is that FNC have been in a slump since champs at this point, and just hoping for a bounce back without any serious changes probably isn't the best thing to do. All in all I think that's fairly reasonable

Vindication for getting robbed by having to play the best team in EMEA in single elim qualifications TWICE

Mr Neddington my goat

Cuz Chronicle never really trash talked like Boaster did after Madrid, and he's been consistently performing for the rest of the year, just had a stinker of an event now while Boaster has been negative almost every series

FNC disappoint at Champs: They're FNC they'll bounce back
FNC don't qualify to Madrid: They're FNC they'll bounce back
FNC bomb out of Shanghai: They're FNC they'll bounce back <-- You are here

It seems like all of their discipline came from mini, and now that he's no longer in charge it's just been slipping

Tbf it was a random ass BBL life 2 weeks in which they also beat Heretics out of nowhere, even beating them on their home map of Sunset

ANGE1 clears Toaster every day of the week, FNC -Boaster +ANGE1 never loses to FUTA

Get zeddy from KPI, they look like the ascension favourites atm

MiniBoo can play a pretty good Kay/o so maybe honestly

If that happens then I give up on PRX ever winning an event, Gen.G are my new Pacific last hope

Didn't Heretics beat SEN 13-5 on Sunset at Madrid?

Heretics look like they could be the best team itw on Sunset ngl

GYATiTek my glorious supportive goat, next year that fraud Jamppi will be out and my goated Pole will be actually setting Keiko up well

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

https://x.com/M1niBoo/status/1795744113876464030

There's no way Heretics lose to EDG before subbing out paTiTek for MiniBoo, then proceed to go on a lower bracket run in which they beat PRX in the finals... right?

Oh god please not again

Um ackshually LEV beat 100t on Bind at kickoff and FUT just beat LEV on Bind therefore FUT>LEV>100T

The brother buff is real

Probably Heretics with Boo. He has some insane mechanics for an IGL. His 4k against PRX in Madrid was fucking bonkers and I could never see Boaster or FNS doing that

TenZ wins first Masters of the year

Chronicle wins the second Masters of the year

cNed wins Champions

Rito gaming getting lazy

I think I caught brain damage from this list

Ethan never solo rinsed FNC like ardiis did this year my glorious king fartpiss > white bread boring mf Ethan

R6 is absolutely dominated by Brazil tf u mean

Only chance is if leaf has the best game of his career and gives a generational deadlift. He's the only player on the team that can contend with PRX's firepower

Zmjjkk (Duelist)
f0rsakeN (Flex)
cauanzin (Initiator)
Jawgemo (Smokes)
benjyfishy (Sentinel)

Cuz G2 has about 10 fans and all of them are NA

OpTic never winning a regional final was to ensure they never bombed out, another Fenis masterclass

Just knocked out the single Brazilian player at Shanghai 💀

I’m assuming from Americas it’ll be 100T, LEV, SEN and KRU, which will be hype as fuck if LEV and KRU are in regular season form and SEN are in Madrid form

Then EMEA I’m guessing NAVI, TH, FUT and then either KC or FNC, and finally getting Heretics at full power and NAVI at an international event will be sick

Then Pacific I think PRX, Gen.G and DRX are a lock, then the 4th slot I could see going to RRQ now that they have Monyet, and all of those are sick teams.

Then from China FPX, EDG, Trace and DRG

It has potential to be the most stacked Champions we’ve had since Istanbul

Cuz Chet must have never even seen an EG vod and thought Demon1 could just solo dash onto sites and call it an entry

Also Marved had to make way for FNS kitten. Unfortunate for him since he was by far the best player on NRG