check him bank account

digital vibrance

https://clips.twitch.tv/EncouragingKitschyBadgerNerfBlueBlaster-sqU9iE71CwKrarpx

GGs. V1 can be proud of themselves for making it this far. They got the toughest opponent(imo) out of the three teams in lower brackets and still took them to OT.

That Cypher cam by Magnum is genius. They think they're getting timing'd by him, but he's actually just got the info.

based

Ascent is definitely V1 favored. They play well on that map.

holy fucking GOD DERKE

Of course it is. We'll see how the rest of the maps play out. Mistic really not doing anything at all on this map, whereas he played out of his mind on the last two Icebox maps.

I also don't think Fnatic has played against this aggressive Omen Icebox style. Vanity has created so much space for his team, basically won his team at least 3 rounds so far.

Edit: Also genius about the Omen is the fact, that he can smoke out Magnum's set turrets. This is the key that's making them so confused on some round and lose their mid control.

FNC strongest map is Bind. Icebox is FNC weakest map aside from Split imo, they lost to Alliance and Acend convincingly on this map.

The one thing, that has been consistently poor through all VCT tourneys has to be the UI. Why is it so bad? Kills update late or early, rounds get registered early or late. It's super inconsistent.

If Fnatic lose here, I'm gonna be so mad, that we won't be seeing the Fnatic bind at all this tourney.

This "easy game" shit is so lame. Pretty much all competitive multiplayer games have a practically infinite skill ceiling, the ceiling is created by the players you play against, not the mechanics inherent to the game. You can argue the skill floor is lower, but that's because it's a new game.

Nerf the jumping classic right click. Make the spread larger, it's ridiculous.

Fnatic need to activate for this one. V1 are not a joke. If they go like Liquid and run their default setups, they're going to get read and dismantled. They need to make unpredictable risky plays from time to time like Nuturn.

ye, tho liquipedia has their own criteria for valorant too, all of these events they consider "s-tier"

They just decided to play contact, because they thought it would be an easy game for them, I assume. They had a few execs.

KRÜ is legitimately challenging Liquid on Ascent, damn!

I thought so too, then I saw their gameplan against SEN didn't change much at all.

Their sunglasses look cool, though!

Edit: I am an idiot, didn't read title, but I still think it applies, it's more fundamental, than related to firepower. How they operate their team needs to change for internationals, their scene seems very isolated from the meta.

I think international masters are majors. Champions tour finals would be a premiere event.

Unlucky, but Klaus might be a good import.

Bet all in now, it's 6.5x odds live bro

Acend did beat Fnatic in quals though, the only other team apart from Liquid, and the only one to do it convincingly. How Acend got dropped was in the single elim RO8 bracket, where they got antistratted by Vitality, both maps in that match were 12-14.

cNed OP > Derke OP
Derke lurk > cNed lurk
cNed clutch factor > Derke clutch factor
Derke rifling > cNed rifling
Derke flexibility > cNed flexibility
cNed awareness > Derke awareness
cNed consistenly more fragging power, Derke more reliability

cNed > Derke overall skill IMO. Derke works for Fnatic so well with his push/lurk heavy style. cNed works for Acend so well, because they play around him, he always delivers, especially his OP positioning and clutch factor.

Forgot Acend from this list. The only team to beat the new Fnatic in EU apart from Liquid in the seeding finals. And they did it convincingly. Legit 13-1'd them on Icebox.

KRÜ literally learned from Liquid, so if anything maybe they are the team in this tournament, that knows them the best. Could be exciting, but also could play against them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuyrlXI7nA

"cringe" is cringe

Even if X10 lose this Haven now, they can be VERY proud of themselves. Someone needs to pick up Pati!

Doma using these walls like he's still playing fortnite..

He's definitely not used to being hard countered. If you saw his B main play defense vs KRÜ, he got like 10 first kills there and 0 first deaths. Sentinels clearly read this and they droned out B main every round and shut him down on that position, but he stayed there, then he had to dash/run away. Instead he had only like 3 first kills there and a lot of first deaths.

This is what's so great about Fnatic, they have hard hitters on all roles. Even when Derke doesn't show up, Doma's there, Magnum's there etc..

Mistic's Icebox is so good.

can never know 100% what's going to happen in some of these series, that's all

inb4 aged like milk

sounding like a psycho my dude... chill

I don't even look at it anymore.

I love patiphan and the drip boys, but I don't love them as much as I do boaster & his boastees.

They're coming. With how prevalent antistratting is in this game and how the prep culture is in Korea, it's going to be rough in 2-3 years when the scene really develops.

Holy shit they clawed back at the end. Props to Nuturn. But lets see how they manage attacking rounds without ults. Default util definitely favors V1.

Edit: V1 just threw defense by over-rotating. GGs

V1 winning rounds 16 & 17 of Split is crucial. Hard to see this going NU's way, let's see what they pull out.

I like the narrative, that NU takes this, but my brain keeps telling me V1 will win this.

ok

sleep is free

BR 🤝EU copium

harder, gridshot ultimate is 5x5 small balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBsFzzIoK2w

Not even gridshot ultimate. This is the numpad version.

If the scoreline's were flipped on each map played between EU/NA this tourney, I would not be saying the opposite about these regions. With how prevalent antistratting is in this game and how razor-thin most of the maps were, you would be an absolute idiot to base region diff on two matches with four teams total. I would understand if they weren't close at all and if Sentinels wasn't as dominant in NA. Region diff will solidify itself in Masters Berlin.

If you would combine both the regions together, I would find it extremely unlikely, that the top 10 teams would consist mainly of NA teams.

That's not what you can infer so far from this tournament lmao. If you think so, then YOU are the retard.

EU challenger is harder, than challengers NA. 256 teams per qual, single elimination. Then to finish it with challengers playoffs where there is a GSL format.

If challengers quals were single elim in NA, SEN wouldn't have made it.

BRA71L REPEAT