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Nah. Everyone was expecting NA to be the strongest region this time around even based on the fact that they have Sentinels. Gambit could have won their game against 100T and were dominant on first half of the game. Sadly they choked and 100T clutched. Acend had bad read on VS while VS knew exactly what Acend was going to do. Bad individual performances from majority of Acend players as well. G2 isn't the greatest, but they would win against most of the teams outside of NA, EMEA and VS. Huge overreacting from people. And LAN SMB seems to be pretty weak.
Outside of SMB not really. Unless PRX or CR pulls the biggest upset ever there's going to be 3 EMEA teams in the playoffs and the games there are going to be single elims. 100T had all the chances of winning over Gambit (I actually predicted them to win) and VS had all the chances of winning over Acend (they were clearly underrated based on predictions and their gameplay against ACE). G2 was put into same group with Sentinels, but managed to win both of their games against F4Q. EMEA isn't struggling unless you expected them to dominate every region. OUTSIDE OF SMB!!
Sentinels NA #1 winning over G2 EMEA #4 is expected. Gambit were dominating 100T, but ended up choking 10-3 lead on match point map. And their mental was just boomed on Split. Vision Strikers played really really well against Acend and they were super prepared for every move Acend made. Both teams played really high level of Valorant, but VS had the better read and were able to win. I didn't predict this to happen, but it was completely possible. SMB is performing bad and that is what I'm going to say. We literally only had 1 proper NA vs EU matchup, since you really can't count SEN vs G2. And 3 KR vs EU matches were G2 won over F4Q twice and VS won over ACE. And Envy is in pretty free group tbh and they were expected to get 1st seed. That is not copium.
Yes I know it more than you do.
All the G2 fans trash talk SEN for dropping a map and when they lose they say "NA #1 seed and EU #4 so this was expected." This is not copium?
Then all the EU fans say "Gambit is gonna destroy 100T" and when they lose they say "they are new to Lan and just choked" This is not copium?
People make threads threads on "How can VS beat Acend" and when their team loses, they are no where to be found.