About sharks bootcamp. I read a thread about it by noyn and it was really interesting. Did they say something about their scrims in comparison to BR etc etc
Im surprised that they lost to Furia btw
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They haven't talked about it yet, but I believe that this week one of the team's players will participate in a Riot BR podcast and tell more about it, Sacy participated in a different podcast yesterday and told about their experience in Iceland and how he understood the results of a bootcamp, if you are interested in knowing I can try to summarize for you some points of what he said
fra(Sharks igl) said in the podcast that Europe reinvent themselves very fast and the difference between them and Brazil is that Europe are better in every aspect like reaction time, comps makes a lot of sense for what the European teams like to do so you see a lot of things that you don't see in Brazil like different styles of play and teams that get out of their comfort zone , e.g. Sharks practiced against Team Liquid like 4/5 times and every time Team Liquid used a different comp. Like Noyn mentioned in the other thread, fra said the 4/5 teams who possibly qualify (or even win Berlin) were Acend, Supermassive Blaze, Team Liquid, FPX/G2 and that Acend and Supermassive were another level. In the VCT BR stream fra also mentioned that 2 good things that Europe have are that reaction time to make decisions are faster and the ability usage is better, gaabx said that Europe plays the "true valorant" and they practiced against of all the teams in Europe(here, he mentions G2, TL, forze, Navi and Gambit).
Well said, Sacy said on a podcast yesterday that when they trained in Iceland against Acend and Gambit they felt they were being completely smothered all over the map and couldn't play, it was almost impossible to get into the spikesite with Phoenix which was the meta that the teams played in Brazil, against Sage and Astra, so they had to readjust in 1 week to play with Jett, Viper, Sage, and Astra especially on Bind and some other maps, but there was no time and in the days close to the start of the tournament they preferred to play with the style they were used to even if they were going to lose. And really, he said that in the duels he felt that the team could win and take advantage many times, the problem is that at least the top 1~12 in Europe has a very high level and next, they use utilities excellently and have a time response to midround actions that they were not used to in Brazil, and that they felt that for whatever strategy they executed against Sentinels especially, they were prepared and reacted quickly.
That sounds like they lost a lot scrims against EU teams before Iceland and lost their confidence in their playstyle behind the scenes. But I remember that some people hyped Vikings up and said they were insane on scrims (scream for example) and also Sacy was really confident in an interview back then?
Saadhak said at some point that they beat Liquid 19-5 at Icebox or something and then they won at Ascent too when they decided to go back to playing with the composition they used to play in Brazil, they beat some other strong EU teams but whatever, in the end they choked in the tournament and were way behind in the metagame
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