NA only has Sentinels who have no competition. No competition unfortunately isn't a great thing to help teams develop. EU on the other hand has Acend, SMB, G2, Gambit, TL who could all defeat each other on a good day. This competition helps the EU region teams develop more than Sentinels
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id say more in the line with the fact that sentinels are the top team of na with a pretty big gap below them to 100t and nv. but in emea smb, gambit, acend, tl are all very close to each other and who wins depends on whos just feeling it that day. the top competition in emea is a lot top heavy than na from what we saw in challengers 3 playoffs, but only berlin can confirm or deny these speculations.
I hope that EU doesn't eventually dominate the game, honestly this NA vs EU rivalry is one of the best things that Valorant has produced. It gets a sort of tribal culture around it with trash talk from both sides, and with the way that Valorant esports is formatted with international matches happening very rarely, every game between the top teams of each region feel that much more important. In CS, it feels like we see every single tournament dominated by the same teams every time and all of them are EU, which could disconnect many viewers, especially from NA and other regions that aren't massive CS powerhouses. In valorant however, the hype built up between these two giants of NA and EU can bring in new fans as they see the hype around these two teams and want to see what's up. Just look at the growth valorant has had since it came out. It has hundred of thousands of people watching damn QUALIFIERS, and unless riot does a tremendous fuck up then these numbers can only get higher as more people get exposed to valorant and the esports scene, and I think the NA vs EU rivalry will contribute heavily to that.
Brooo even ShaHzam said that Fnatic was the hardest team for them to beat, and if you dont know Fnatic isn't even the top 8 team on EMEA, they didn't even made it to EMEA playoff. I think all four EMEA teams can beat sentinels if they dont choke (G2 only if they manage to start playing as a team and stop depending on their players solo plays)
I was waiting for this comment. No, they weren't the best one. They were the first team that mastered the post plan molly line-ups, in that tournament, teams didn't know how to play against that, that's why after the viper nerf and the other teams countering that FNATIC have never being that dominant again. Even TenZ said that Gambit were owning them when they pracc against them. And I dont even remember how acend didn't make it.
Yeah, for me all 5 players are really good. But they’re trying to create something new with strange comps and all attempts against big team have been shit. I’m surprised they haven’t tried 4 controllers yet on bind hahahahahah, I guess it didn’t work out for them when they used 3 controllers against g2 and liquid hahah
I agree about the matches being disappointing, but not the entire tournament. All the other games after the G2 against Gambit (the games for the 3rd, 2nd and 1st seed) were bad. It was like Acend didn't care about the seeding, I was watching the Haven between ACEND AND GAMBIT, it felt like a showmatch hahahah
EU meta is behind?
Why is that EU started playing Viper months ahead of NA until NA realized that it is must have pick on some maps.
The same with Astra, or no duelist comp on some maps.
EU has this always before and Na copies it afterwards.
WDYM by "comps are miles behind" ?
When did NA discovered some comp that EU implemented after them? yea right, there wasnt such thing
Well one one the representative of EMEA on iceland said that busted busted astra is overrated and they don't fear to play against it. Yeah you are right TL was still using brimstone on Haven wheras at least Boaster used Astra. Also when Astra came out no one wanted to play her. But then later on everyone realised how good she was.
ill have to disagree with that too. idk where it is coming from that emea has worse fundamentals than na, that is straight up not true. also emea has evolved the most with the 2 iceland teams not making berlin and the 3 actual top teams making berlin + g2. g2 got blessed with the bracket, they are not even better than team liquid imo at their current stage.
Not because I’m a g2 supporter, but I think g2 better than liquid. They made it to the finals in the first qual to emea liquid made it in the second. But have to admit that g2 need to improve their team play and trades, rn they depends on players solo plays. Also don’t forget that gambit is seed 1 today because g2 choke the 3rd map with 3 match points. But in my opinion acend, gambit, liquid, SMB and g2 are all head to head if they are at their 100%.
Yeah, I felt that all major EU teams played in the same way and similar level previous to Iceland, which is evidenced by how TR and CIS performed comparing to masters 2. While NA improved heavily strat-wise and their teams with the biggest potential like 100T, Envy and even TSM made a good restructure after "choking" on previous qualifiers. I predict that NA will come better than Iceland and at least one of the EMEA teams will get an upset against a "minor" region
Just because envy and 100t are losing to Sen doesn’t mean both these teams are bad ,it’s just that sen is very strong.
Good for both these teams because they are fighting against the strongest team as you said “No competition unfortunately isn't a great thing to help teams develop”.
So don’t think envy and 100t are weak internationally based of their results against Sen
Just that NA does not have the drawn offf long OTs over OTs in challengers playoff that does not make them a better team infact the best thing about NA teams is that if some team has a really great half they are always able to close the game. They have really good and proactive defense which is really hard as in defence the most amount of team is required also they don't depend upon any gimmicky setups and setplay made by their coach
SEN > EU > NA
EMEA and EU are the same, doesnt make sense to put EMEA > EU since EMEA is basically EU and turkish+cis teams so obviously it is stronger than EU brotha, but still "EU" alone without turkish and cis teams is stronger than NA as a region, although I must say most strong EU teams like BDS, FPX, Fnatic, NIP, Alliance, Vitaly have been doing crack on Stage 3. Stay away from drugs kids or you will think Phoenix + Breach combo is good
For me Eu is not better we saw it in Iceland. But i think the hole valorant na scene is not better then eu. For me i think Sen is better and will stay better in Berlin maybe and i think 100T and Envy will have a good run but i think Gambit is better then those two teams and acend to and maybe g2 and Smb but i'm not sure. So for me (to do an idiot ranking) Sen >/= Gambit > Eu (top teams) >/</= 100T/Envy > The rest of na teams etc (maybe Korea can show up a good level but i'm not sure). So i understand people who says NA > EU bcs sen beat fnatic but i think when a region is better then an other one it must be the hole region but it's ok i understand. And in the end we will se in Berlin so let's go Na let's go Eu make us like this major !
If anyone watches Plat Chat, they would know that wyatt talked about how NA was so far ahead of EU because they were utilizing surmises MUCH better than EU is. EU teams have all these 0 duelist comps which don’t work since you can have all the map control in the world, but you can have a jett/reyna peek and get a kill safely bc if dash and dismiss. At least teams are finally adapting and using 1-3 duelists.
The thing is, Acend SMB G2 Gambit TL are in the same league as NV 100T XSET. Sentinels are just slightly better than all of them. It's not like SEN hasn't been taken out in NA. However, if you underestimate the other top teams in NA just because SEN is better than all of them, then you will be sad seeing your favorite EU team lose to either NV or 100T [they are strong :)].
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