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Finally! The NA vs EU game. They are my favorite teams from both regions too.

I'm not so sure if SEN are ballsy enough to not ban bind, but if they do, it'll be VERY interesting. They've revamped their playstyle on that map quite a lot for challengers finals & challengers 2. I just want to see Brimstone vs Astra on that map.

Otherwise boring veto to be expected, FNC ban split, SEN ban bind. Unless FNC have something up their sleeve for split(SEN did get 13-1'd by C9B during challengers finals on that map & lost to ABX). It feels like overall the maps left would be even, no one stomping on paper, except if something crazy happens in the veto, maybe a ascent|icebox ban. They've also got the benefit of analysing FNC's match yesterday(though not much to gain from that imo), so I would expect them to stick to those maps.

I'm expecting something to fundamentally change how SEN are approaching these maps, Shahz already hinted towards that, but I don't think what they bring could shake up FNC comp-wise, it has to be in the way they approach the game; maybe they have some set-plays and setup changes planned, who knows.

If FNC were to lose, I'm expecting this to play something in the way of FNC vs GMB. SEN are going to hard infostarve FNC and if FNC lose those rounds, it's because of their overconfidence in their reads. Once that happens to them a couple of times FNC start trying to play SEN's game and their midrounding will crumble vs SEN. That's the main loss potential imo. Obviously very oversimplified. I have a hard time seeing SEN just powering through FNC, their main strong point has always seemed to be modulating between bursts of aggression and infostarving.

I'm expecting a FNC win, they just look too good. When they have their reads down, it's surreal how they take over the map. No way telling how that's going to play out exactly, because SEN is such a tricky team. Whatever happens, the lower bracket is going to have a rough time with either of these teams.

nah its good its a copypasta now

All good. -Pujan "FNS" Mehta

stolen from leddit gg

3/3. I feel like sharks will destroy my LB preds.

GG that was super impressive.

Holy shit. Thank god this is not a Sharks stomp. The Korean scene needs this.

Haven winrate for sharks: 89% (best %)
Bind winrate for sharks: 50%

Haven winrate for nuturn: 81%
Bind winrate for nuturn: 83% (best %)

Doesn't explain it alone, but the way Nuturn are approaching this map right now is way different. It's like a different set-up for each round. Their aim seems warmed up too.

The bettors know something we don't.

Looking way better so far on Bind.

Ok that B spam is exactly what I expect from a Korean team.

They have good timing reads and flank watches too. They know when to be aggro, how to get info and to starve info and how to midround.

Nuturn played way more reactively when it came to tactics, except for like 3 rounds where they started pushing stuff, but there sharks just turtled and outaimed them.

So far, this is just pure outaiming and outbraining by Sharks. I know it's early, but those were some impressive damn rounds.

The utility from Nuturn is super cool, but super cool utility doesn't matter when these cracked guys are shooting your heads off.

My pick-em lives to see another day. Thank you V1.

Fuck it was correct..

Your guess is almost certainly going to be wrong.

I love Munchkin.

It isn't true at all? Maybe if you think winning rounds single-handily means you need to get 4-5k. You're literally nitpicking just to try to "prove" I said something wrong, instead of addressing my actual point, which is that the stand-in wasn't a significant negative contributing factor for that map.

And the best part is, that you claim my original comment was an edit in order to say I mislead you when you just misread. What an absolute clown.

Round 1: Jammyz frags munchkin from boat, won them the pistol.
Round 11: Jammyz 2k from under heaven to secure a site and allow others to take A control.
Round 17: Jammyz keeps CR at bay with molly on B walkway, gets 2 frags which totally kills any opportunity to win and gets the third as a trade. If you didn't notice, even though CR were on bonus they had a good shot of winning since they got vandal pickups from V1.
Round 22: They're in a 3v5 after Rion's double. Scoreline is 10-10. Jammyz runs through a-main, kills operator on scaffold through wall making it a 3v3 after Zellsis deals with Munchkin. Lockdown basically secures it, mollies make it impossible for opponents to win. That entry was crucial.
Last round: Doesn't wiff the last kill(troll).

Don't care about further nitpicking or the incoming plausible deniability.

Where did I say that? Quote me.

I'm replying to a guy implying, that their stand-in was a significant contributing factor to their poor performance in the map they just played.

It clearly was not. Stop the cap.

Do you know how to read? I said second best scoreline. Jammyz literally won them rounds single-handily. Also if you didn't know, wippie was in the same position as jammyz during challengers finals after PLAYER1 left. And there was only a single game during challengers finals where wippie wasn't either 4-5th scoreline wise.

He also had negative K/D on all agents he played during that tourney.

Not to shit on wippie, but you're clearly misremembering something from challengers finals.

Their stand in is the second best scoreline on their team. Vanity was hard bottoming with -8, very uncommon for him.

Really looking forward to this one.

HOW DID V1 THROW THAT OMG1KL4312JI4321HU214JIO

If V1 takes this map, they're running away with the dub imo

V1 looking like they're going to ruin my pick'em right here right now.

Crazy Raccoons actually running astra kj on ascent? That's cool. No more omen.

Reddit 12h ago: KRÜ is the darkhorse of Iceland, they have a good chance of winning the whole thing.

Reddit now: Fnatic just won against an easy team, chill guys.

They were also in the same school. They feed those kids a lot of peasoup and porridge I guess.

The prophecy https://twitter.com/minijake_/status/1384828161800777729

Derke on lan diff right now. 0ms insane.

Yea it's like they copied the Liquid comp and then just do their default over and over. They had so much confidence on pistols because it seemed like they just focused on running and fragging and it won them rounds.

Can't spell latin america without america.

dogshit productions>riot productions

This tech pause just killed the momentum.

Literally everyone has hyped them as true contenders so ofc they are nervous.

I've already got my copium tank next to me in case Fnatic loses.

not the same person writing the article

just dont have internet issues... its that simple bro

VAMOS MUNCHKIN

fr literally just won them like 4 rounds on his own heroics on ascent

Every "T1 player" begins without T1 experience, may be a long-term move. Could just be tryouts for a sub position.

The last game I'll watch before masters Reykjavík begins...

Make it a good one, Rise.

rise tf up

Megastitut top 10 team in EU incoming.

If you mean combining agent comparison with K/D, I agree, that would be closer to a more specific, meaningful comparative than just ACS. But then you run into the question of the role of that player in the team and what agents the others in that team tend to run. Some players simply get support from their team to perform well on that metric. Sentinel/Sova baiters and superstar duelists are the dominant players in this category. So ultimately it is not a good measurement of how good a player is compared to other players, it's just selective of that category of players. Is a Jett main OPer, like Shahz, Jamppi or Wardell comparable to a Jett initiator/fragger like cNed, babybay or russ? What about someone who creates space for their team, like Derke? Difficult to say.

Overwatch compares the skill of players based on the hero they play and how divergent they are statistically compared to other people playing that hero across many metrics. The reason this works for OW is because the role of a hero and what you do with that hero is more or less well defined and reflected by the metrics. The roles of agents in Valorant are not always so well defined, so agent comparisons are only useful in some cases. Either the roles of the agents are well defined and are comparatives in and of themselves. Or there are no "heroes" or "agents" and the players effectively play under the same constraints, making them mostly comparable, like in CS.

If you don't have either of those qualities in the game, creating a model to compare performance of players requires some heavy assumptions, which create biases, which ultimately only make the results of that model reflect that model's assumptions. So then it just becomes a question of "what assumptions are correct", which will create a years long shitstorm debate about the "correct" way to do things. In OW, you can reasonably say what players are the best at their hero. In CS you can reasonably say who are the most impactful pros with KAST. In Valorant it's difficult to say, because people value different things & the way agents are utilized is not easily quantifiable; objectivity goes out the window.

Already nerfed... https://twitter.com/derkeps/status/1371866028209233922

Beautiful opportunity to bet against FNC as a fan of FNC. If they lose, you're down on the fact, that they lost, but you get 8x your money. If they win, you're happy, that they won and lose your money.

I call it emotional hedging, you can't lose!

Fix: Users with flags, that correspond to any player's flag on a team should not be able to vote for that team.

Problem: Everyone starts fakeflagging.

r-r-r-rematch