the fact that a team that just got 13-2ed by a Geng who arent at their peak qualified for an international over DRX is beyond me man. Riot messed up with this one
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even if you wanna make it out to be that way both PRX and GenG are INFINITELY harder opponents than T1. Geng got 1 chance to make a mistake and redeem themselves whereas it was done for DRX the moment they lost to PRX.
T1 just get to stroll along while DRX who got first seed had to play against more difficult opponents because of it and start off with 0 momentum. I just dont understand riot and their intense desire to make qualification tourneys be as unfair as possible
being first seed isnt an advantage atp in valorant. More often than not weve seen favourites lose whenever theyve gained a bye. There shouldve just been an 8 team playoffs and first seeds given matches against the lowest seeds to stop having this shit happen every single time we have a qualifications
I get what ur saying and I would argue in ur favor but being first seed IS AN ADVANTAGE but I get where ur coming from as first seeds don't get that warm up that the non first seeds do.
Instead I would say that the first seeds get to choose their opponents in the playoffs as this is an advantage and fixes the issue about the warmup.
It can't be ignored that 6/6 of the first teams seeds lost their first game in the playoffs (not including china)
the problem is that the format was a 6 team instead of 8 team format. Teams with BYEs in valorant have notoriously bad luck which i dont fault you for not knowing if youre new to the scene but if youve been a main stay for at least 2 years you should know this by now.
80% of the time teams that get BYEs who are favourites to win will lose their games unless its an overwhelmingly unlikely scenario. So much so to the point that everytime I do any pickems i always pick the teams with the BYEs to lose. I mean just look at all the leagues. In every league where theres real competition the teams that had BYEs lost their games.
Its probably due to a lack of momentum and so they start cold and go out cold too
youre actually so stupid for saying that shit.
DRX are and have been neck and neck with Geng for this whole year so far. T1 on the otherhand dont know how to be consistent to save their lives. They caught a GenG who werent shooting back and managed to qualify but DRX had to face 2 activated opponents all 3 of which would stomp T1 9/10 times.
Its just ridiculous that T1 qualified when its so clearly obvious who the top 3 apac teams are. At the very least with Americas G2 qualifying isnt as egregious considering that at least in the playoffs G2 can be considered within the top 3 on a good day. That cant be said for T1
Yes, I made a mistake. I thought that T1 had beat DRX in playoffs (thank you fake memories), and it's my blunder that I didn't fact check. I had DRX qualifying in pick'ems (before I went on a trip and didn't follow the scene) and was probably just as if not more convinced than you that they were going to qualify.
I'm sorry for being stupid and saying that shit.
against completely different opponents. T1 faced TS, easy win. you get that momentum and caught gen.g off and got lucky. PRX beat TLN obviously (13-0) and then have to play DRX. So your top 2 teams are paying each other to send one to lower bracket and has a potential to be eliminated but then you have a team that qualifies and gets slammed by PRX and now gen.g they just got lucky
TS has the exact same scoreline as GENG, mind you, and they 2-0ed PRX just before playoffs. You are only saying they're shit in hindsight.
Crazy to say a team "gets lucky" in a tournament/qualification scenario. EG got lucky last year to even be at Champs. Of course there is an element of spontaneity, the better team on the day wins. It's not a static dick measuring contest. That's why there's a playoffs in the first place. Otherwise, just take the group results for granted, top down.
I think DRX is better than T1 too, but they had their chances.
TS only got lucky w PRX bcos it’s just their nature lol. it’s like SEN vs 100T or FNC vs NAVI. they could look bad individually but always has the other teams number.TS were shit against the rest. Absolutely EG we’re lucky. 100T caused it cos EG wouldn’t have even qualified and they had so much luck in their games. you have 3 teams on one side going 5-0 4-1 and 4-1 and atleast one of them is eliminated immediately after qualifying. and on the other side you have them going 3-3 3-3 and 2-4 how you could say that’s equal is beyond me. one of them teams qualifies right away regardless of skill.
they werent even in contention only got to champs only did because 100T choked against MIBR. even with Demon1. it was luck entirely. i love boostio hes really shown why hes good but the rest? fell off hard. goldylocks run entirely. everyone thought demon1 and ethan were the backbone of the team but they arent. jawg being the entry made demon1s job 100x better. c0m lurking 99% of the time and people just forgot that happened? the map pool was awful and changed way too much with all the nerfs etc.
It sucks, but what can we do? The other explanation is the teams that got eliminated shouldn't have lost their games - drx choked a 7-0 lead on Sunset, who can they blame for that besides themselves? As much as t1 look so horrible today (whiffing all their shots and looking braindead), PRX looked the same when they faced TS. It just feels like shit they decided to lose the 2 most important games instead of during group stage.
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