The North American region of Valorant will not be on top of the game for very long. The reason for it being on top initially is the reality that North American Counter:Strike is dead. Without this being the case, there wouldn't be much of anything going for NA, much less Valorant. The pool of professional North American CS players was massive for orgs in NA to choose from, able to take over talent that is going to be far ahead of any other region for the near future. Now that some time has passed, we've seen NA really not grow at all as a region basically just leaving Sentinals as the only real bastion for NA dominance abroad considering their run in Iceland. Unfortunately for them though, it's basically been proven with time that the teams they did beat from abroad, I.E. Fnatic and some others, are not even close to being dominant in their region. Fnatic was knocked out by Liquid who just got beaten by a 25th ranked Navi for crying out loud. The supposed to be dominating teams in EU are being destroyed by the new teams such as Ascend who is looking incredible at the moment. Same goes for Gambit, who looks very good.

Point is, though, NA supremacy will go to the wayside once everyone else gets that time to catch up from the huge pro player deficit they were in coming to Valorant in the first place.

EDIT: I was correct.

ACEND isnt a new team, they won masters 1 EU. But yes, new EMEA teams have emerged and have potential to take down sentinels

It's also possible FNATIC overperformed at iceland/qualifiers and under performed recently. Surprised they arent in the qualifier tbf. NA is also improving.

Did yay and asuna play cs?

I think that pretty soon it’s going to come to the point we’re being good in CS doesn’t matter anymore. These young cracked kids are going to grow up on Valorant and dominate the scene.

CS Never really seemed popular in NA, viewership for domestic events was not even 1/10th of what it is now for Valorant. The issue w/ NA CS was a pretty small talent pool when compared to EU. I think that this won't be nearly as big of a problem with Valorant given the current playerbase, active streamers, and Riot's support so NA Valorant will have more longevity than CS did.

While I agree that SEN’s reign will end (all things do, I think it’s going to be very tough to win Masters). I don’t think it’s because of this NA talent pool idea. The majority of the best players in NA Valorant are/were CS outcasts that either couldn’t find a good team or success. It’s not like before Valorant people were going, “damn ShahZam and TenZ on the same team, that will dominate everyone. Or “Dapr and Zombs, that might be two of the best non duelist players NA has.”

100T I would say are the one team that did have players that could have still found a winning spot on a team in CS, but even then. Hiko, Steel and Asuna are not part of this CS talent pool that NA had an advantage supposedly. I would agree if it was players like Twistzz, Elige, Naf, Stewie, etc that were on some Valorant line up tearing it up. But so far the best NA players are players who had a hard time finding success in CS GO.

IMO the talent that will decide who is the best region in the next year or so. Are the young 17-18 year olds, not ex CS Players unless they are the big big names.

mans put up an american flag to type some BS KEKW

Stop using cs as a comparison these are different games with similar movement and aim skill but other then that it’s all the mental and strats come up with, tenz used to choke on Lan cuz of his inexperience but now 2 years later he dominated LAN and won Iceland, they may be the same people we saw in cs but they’ve evolved and improved and we can’t compare them until it shows in Berlin and champions if the NA CS will happen in valorant also.

I don't usually comment on these things but there's just so many assumptions being thrown around lately. You can call my perspective bias or whatever.

To me it's just weird of all this stigma associated with where a player came from. Like frankly, who cares about their players and their backgrounds. Who cares if they were ex CS/Overwatch/Apex/Fortnite players ultimately? This is VALORANT and it's a different game favoring different skillsets. Some backgrounds translate better into this game in terms of what skillsets you need, but it's not a determiner by any means of what makes a good player in this game. Often you'll find that, the "best" players of another game aren't the best in this game. You'll find this in sports too where people try multiple sports before beginning to specialize in one.

Secondly in terms of the NA scene being washed, sure you can argue that the scene is a lot of former of professionals because it is. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that. For me, it was never a matter of not being able to compete in the CSGO scene. I had the talent and ability to do so, although I lacked at the time both the character and discipline to capitalize on that ability. I had a lot of issues in regards of how I acted towards others. Not to mention, I struggled outside the game with a lot of abuse/burden from both family and ex's. I ultimately have a lot of regrets of how I treated others and how I squandered opportunities till I had very/little to none left in the scene. Obviously everyone's story is different, but for me I'm ultimately a VALORANT player at the end of the day. I want to be remembered for what I do in VALORANT. I don't care about what happened in my CSGO period, I took what I can and made a conscious effort to not repeat similar mistakes and improve in different areas.

Finally, I think people care way too much about which region is stronger. Who knows what the future holds. It's fun to speculate- don't get me wrong. But this whole certainty of what's gonna happen in the future is just dumb. Who's to say that in a year VALORANT is released in China and a Chinese team takes the #1 spot. The meta shifts in this game every single patch/agent/map and that will favor different teams/regions as time progresses.

My excitement stems from wanting to play the best teams from around the world and to push myself to be better. I don't care if a region is superior, I just wanna play because it's fun.

Ok rent free fake flagger

Honestly, I feel like NA will be the dominant region for a while, at least for 2/3 years because is the most skilled region and has a good understanding of the fundamentals of the game, which is arguably the hardest part of Valorant.

who cars

We'll see about that

EU will lose to korea

EMEA will win Berlin.

Just because NA doesn't have a slew of different teams qualify doesn't mean they are washed. Your argument is that because EMEA has different teams that are contending and knocking out previous Master's teams, that they are the better region. Sentinels are just the outright dominant team in the region and the world as they have proved.

It's good for the game that there is competition rising in every region. I might be a Sentinels fan but I like seeing close games. I'm rooting for all teams at Berlin. This is just proof that Valorant is growing and thriving.

goated prediction

Whatever, just wait for TSM

NA has more talent in this game than most other regions. Tenz, Yay, Leaf, Xeppa, Asuna ... besides EU most regions only have 1 or 2 players like that, that alone should keep them top 2 for a while.

i started following valorant competitive scene just before master 3 Berlin. so, i watched EMEA and NA qualifier and quickly gambit caught my eyes because they play as a unit the most during qualifier imo. Them winning master 3 makes me like the team more.