The Guard situation

#1

Skyss

The Guard points : 220
The Guard direct qualify to Champions if :

Faze qualify to master but lose againts Optic and finish 9-10th in master
Total Faze points : 210
XSET qualify to master but lose againts Optic and finish 11-12th in master
Total XSET points : 195

Hopium

#2

Gasu

2

Frags

+

–

So basically, they won't qualify.

#3

JustEnjoying

1

Frags

+

–

How shit it would if the second NA team other than Optic bombs out again.

I'm all in for The Guard but i don't wanna see that again

#5

Marty

3

Frags

+

–

I think for this not to happen then faze needs to qual, cause babybay is a lanimal, and xset have cryo and zekken very young players who can be nervous cause lan+ crowd

#6

JustEnjoying

1

Frags

+

–

Smeagin on LAN?

#7

Marty

2

Frags

+

–

he'd drop 25 each map lowkey

#9

JustEnjoying

0

Frags

+

–

Then I'm all for it

#24

jimjam789

3

Frags

+

–

i mean its happened 2 lans in a row

#28

JustEnjoying

0

Frags

+

–

Oh yea Champs was a shit show for NA as well. Two teams got grouped and C9 lost first match in playoffs.

#4

I_like_cute_girls

3

Frags

+

–

Feels weird to see The Guard at Champions
if a team were good in beginning of the year but then it gets bad, shouldn't play end of year tournaments
Valorant meta change so much in few months.

#8

Deadpanmitten94

-5

Frags

+

–

Bro THIS, THIS is the most unbraindead post I’ve seen in a while. THANK YOU!!! This is what I try to say when people use the “our region won champions so we’re better” when discussing who is CURRENTLY better. That’s why (unpopular opinion maybe) I don’t think winning Champions is as impressive as winning any other lan. Cause to win a masters event takes beating the best teams right now. Not beating the best teams 6 months ago.

#22

HaSanity

-3

Frags

+

–

Yea but ur point is irrelevant bcos guard would lose to acend even today 🤷‍♂️

#23

Deadpanmitten94

0

Frags

+

–

Where did I say anything about the guard?

#25

HaSanity

-6

Frags

+

–

Oh my bad, I meant “Floptic would lose to acend even today 🤷‍♂️“

#27

Deadpanmitten94

0

Frags

+

–

Where did I say anything about optic?

#33

HaSanity

-1

Frags

+

–

Oh well that’s your only 2 teams ruled out. Guess it’s a 0 team region then

#34

Deadpanmitten94

0

Frags

+

–

Oh gotcha yeah you defiantly ruled both teams out. You are pretty much a professional analyst so you must be right. Yup your professional opinion has confirmed NA as a 0 team region.

Cringe ass

#26

NneonZz

0

Frags

+

–

unpopular opinion but peak guard could of beaten champions ascend but now theres no way. ascend is a way better team and guard's cinderella story has ended

#17

capital_d_colon

0

Frags

+

–

yeah pretty sure if fnc goes 11-12th
and guild goes 9-12th
g2 will qualify.
Though i doubt any of that will happen

#21

HaSanity

0

Frags

+

–

Yea we just need to beat fpx 😨

#29

capital_d_colon

0

Frags

+

–

im talking about champs

#30

HaSanity

0

Frags

+

–

If we beat fpx, we skip group stage and automatically skip 11th-12th

#10

GLN321

0

Frags

+

–

would be crazy, but not impossible. If the format is the same as last masters, there's a chance that faze/xset could face guild, loud and paper rex all in groups, so who knows

#11

Wronghand

0

Frags

+

–

Shmeage on lan is enough to beat FPX

#12

amyayayy

0

Frags

+

–

i look dumb but what's shmeage

#13

PandaZ

0

Frags

+

–

FaZe babybay

#15

Wronghand

0

Frags

+

–

shmeage is the ultimate mindset. Truly unexplainable. It's just everything babybay is and ever will be.

#16

amyayayy

0

Frags

+

–

understandable

#14

Afterburnz

0

Frags

+

–

so what ur saying is the chances of them qualifying are depressingly low

#18

ConsistentCycles

0

Frags

+

–

surely the NA team doesnt lose to kru or xerxia again right copium

#19

HaSanity

-4

Frags

+

–

Guard ResidentSleeper

#20

amyayayy

0

Frags

+

–

i really really love how the guard played in na s1 and they totally deserved to win, it sucks they blew out so early this stage the role changes affected them, if they directly make champions ill be more than happy, i dont care of they 'dont deserve it' ill still have hopium to support them

#31

Ultimate6989

0

Frags

+

–

if faze qualify to masters they have more chance to bomb tf out, so guard better hope faze wins

also chances of xset beating optc > chances of faze beating optic

#32

Unsicklaupedy

0

Frags

+

–

very similar to g2 situation.
If fnatic beats a team in the group stage, G2 can't go to champions

#35

PicKaRuu

0

Frags

+

–

What group stage?

#37

Unsicklaupedy

0

Frags

+

–

Masters Copenhagen

#38

PicKaRuu

0

Frags

+

–

FNC will be the 1st seed and 1st seed is skipping the groups so they won't play any group matches there

#40

Unsicklaupedy

0

Frags

+

–

i forgot about that then g2 has no chance

#36

jackb2016

0

Frags

+

–

The Guard was such a cool story but I don’t want them to qualify for champs because I’m not confident they can truly represent NA as well as the other teams with their LAN performance and recent online performance. I’m fine if they qualify through LCQ because that will show that they prove themselves.

#41

zardinez

1

Frags

+

–

Yeah I think they should qualify through LCQ too

#39

darkgaming

1

Frags

+

–

Dont say it’s impossible, remember about SEN qual for LCQ