day 4 preds

back again, today's preds went pretty well -- got the first two right and whiffed on zeta (gonna be honest, i was trying to jinx them as a japan fan)

optic 2-1 xerxia
yo man wtf you biased piece of shit! xerxia rolled optic twice now! how can you think they win!

yeah, im biased. idgaf, i think these two teams are close in skill and honestly i would be happy if xerxia won it as well. love to see apac representation. but i think what people overlook is the losing effect. when you play a team in a double elim bracket and have the opportunity to face them again, the team that lost has a massive advantage in being able to study their weaknesses and discover how exactly the the opponent exploited them. considering i think the teams are quite evenly matched, this factor is large enough to tip it in optics favor imo.
optic 55-45 xerxia

nip 2-1 zeta
honestly speaking i would love to predict zeta but I can see the match going in two ways, and nips victory is just slightly more feasible to me. i've watched all of zetas games and i can say that they are still not playing up to their potential they showed online. their fracture was sloppy and full of holes, and anyone can tell you how icebox was just hero plays round after round by honestly the entire team. and while i believe they have the ABILITY to recreate this against nip, it's not a consistent thing to fall back on. what is much more likely is only one or two players really shooting at all cylinders (laz +1), and ultimately i dont think that's going to be enough to penetrate the power of jail valorant

hope they prove me wrong though!
nip 70-30 zeta

hate, agree, disagree, below

optic 2-0
nip 2-0

optic 2-0 (they are mad now)
zeta 2-1 (hopium)

optic 2-0 cuz chet mad now and gonna put yay on yoru to beat their ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USjQF25l9zg&t=46s
maybe this will open your eyes to see that Xerxia honestly are the better team right now than Optic, and unless something happens in the way they play, it will be another 2-0 sweep imo.

I would really like to see OpTiC beat XERXIA as they seriously improved their Ascent today and made nowhere near the amount of mistakes. That said it would be nice to see XERSIA through. I think it could really go either way, though if OpTic wins it will really bring back a lot of the NA hopium…
It is annoying for XERXIA though as rematching is always harder and they really are good

optic has warmed up
if yay and marved stay hot then I think they win

while i want optic to win it could really go any way, xerxia played really well last 2 games so lets see i guess

L fucking take, especially after Chet said Xerxia's comp was "cringe".

Common SETSUZA L

Xerxia 2-1 OpTic
NiP 2-1 Zeta

Xerxia 2-1
Zeta 2-1

Big hopium on the zeta pick. And I want xerxia to win

Prob Optic and NIP but I hope for Zeta

Xerxia 2-1 Optic
Zeta 2-1 NIP

Hopium overdose

optic 2-1 xerxia

Zeta 2-1 nip cause why not

XIA 2-1 OPTC
NIP 2-0 ZETA, but I'm happy if ZETA end up winning anyway

if you look at the pattern from champions...

NV 2-0 X10
X10 2-1 NV

XERXIA 2-0 OPTIC
OPTIC ___ XERXIA

its all a pattern.

OPTIC 2-0 XIA

13-8

13-11

ZETA 2-1 NIP

7-13

13-10

13-8

2-0 xerxia and NIP go through
Out of copium for optic and zeta it was a good run

i want xerxia to win lets go xerxia

"honestly speaking i would love to predict zeta but I can see the match going in two ways"

You see a match that only has 2 possible outcomes going in 2 possible ways?? Hmmm. Are you like a detective or something?