Please, lets be honest here…
Always seems to me, that people outside Brazil, in general, never gives LOUD the proper credits. They are winning/getting to every big tounament finals for a long time now. The most consistent team in Valorant.
So stop saying they are not much better than FNC/DRX/NRG, they just 3-0 a very good NRG.
If you say they arent the best team in the world rn youre not watching Valorant.
We gotta say Loud is the favorites for Tokyo.
I mean the gap between NRG and Loud is small. Loud was the better team today but all 3 of the maps were super close, and there's a world where this could've been a 3-0 for NRG. Not trying to take away from loud, but it's just wrong to say any team is far and away the best rn. Valorant has no astralis era yet, but maybe Loud will become that in the future.
They are the only top team of the different regions going into these leagues that has continued to adapt, improve, and experiment throughout the last month. It never felt like they cared about their stats or winning the tournament until the playoffs. They were focused on their improvement. There's nobody that did it like them. It was a great thing to watch.
i will be real i thought they fell off a bit during the regular season (still very good but not as great as champs or lock//in imo), but during playoffs they've looked exceptional, even better than lock//in i would say, I can't wait to see them in tokyo will, be some great games.
defo 100% the best team since theyve been getting to the finals so consistently, but theres always other great teams who'll really be feeling a tournament so it feels unfair to discount other regions. I'll admit even going into lock//in my expectations of loud were super high and fnatic (who ive been supporting since M1 2021) were on the floor, but fnatic simply had a good tournament and i don't expect that to not happen for other teams in the future.
at the end of the day people will cope and hope behind their own region until the sun stops rising, but loud are still a great team. the best valorant has seen so far by a lot. but that doesn't mean they're undefeatable. one of the reasons this game is so enjoyable to watch is because of how unpredictable it is
Everyone recognizes LOUD's excellence (or they just lack any understanding of valorant) and will consistently have them as one of the favorites to win tournaments, but the gaps between teams are so small that its just impossible to tell. Just in the current competitive scene all the top teams and favorites for tournaments can all probably beat each other on any given day because the gap is so small, that it is hard to ever call one team the DEFINITVE best. LOUD is one of the best in the world without a doubt, but we may never know the best team in the world truly is because of how competitive the scene is right now. - - And I think that's probably good
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Like just a few small plays here and there go the other way for each game and a different story can pretty much always be written with how close the top teams are to each other. An unfavorable timing, a missed shot or two, getting sprayed through smokes, accidently being off on swing coordination or spacing.
Even today, FNATIC, who people though were the best in world lost because they simply didn't have those type of factors going for them against Liquid.
The seemingly small stuff like this can shift in balance from game to game, map to map, round to round and that's why its just impossible to call a team or even player such set in stone terms like best in the world.
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