Nobody has done it multiple times. Out of all the teams that won an international event, EG and Acend were the weakest ones on paper, but EG looked hell of a let better. The improvement they had over the course of the year is insane, and even the players ascribe a lot of that success to the drills they did with the 10-man roster, which was all Potter. Out of all the teams that won, EG is the only one where you can really feel the impact of the coaching imo.

US scene > Kenyan scene

Sayf wanted to leave.

They are literally trembo's way of coping with the fact that furia lost

It'll still be good enough to comfortably beat most APAC teams and qualify to all international events.

RRQ's peaks were pretty high last season, even though they also had some pretty bad games. They improved the roster and have some very skilled players, if they can become more consistent there is definitely a world where they become a top 3 team.

Keyword almost

He wants to focus on finishing school

Why are there so many malding platchat haters in here and why are they all so angry? Am I missing something?

Least racist European

Me as an Omen on attack, last alive, staring at the Gomu Ningen Nika defusing the bomb:

It's an opinion that I personally disagree with but I think he phrased it in a reasonable way and gave decent arguments for it.

But if you're looking for reasonable reactions, Valorant fans are not where you should start looking.

y0y

Keiko is literally the only one on that roster without international experience. Mistic has been to 4 LANs, Enzo 3, nAts 5, Jamppi 5 as well.

ScreaM and Nivera has two chances to qual to Masters and Champions this year and didn't even get close. L1nk and Dimasick haven't done anything noteworthy since their stint on TL.

If Keiko can keep up with the pace in tier 1 and Mistic doesn't team flash in the final round of the grand final (much harder now that he's on smokes), they're 100% better than the old roster.

Pretty sure that's not how the playoff bracket works. If G2 a d SEN are knocked to lowers in upper round 1 and KRÜ and Loud in upper round 2, then the lower bracket matches would be G2 vs KRÜ and SEN Vs Loud.

I would try to find another hobby, if you're feeling empty something creative might do you good. Something like drawing or writing or game development where at the end you have something you can look back at and think "hell yeah, I made this". Just a suggestion, it might not be the right thing for you, but maybe it helps.

Dude his fucking solo in the champions song this year is literally the most forgettable part of any song in history. It's so bad. I don't know if he wrote those lyrics himself but it sounds like Riot gave him a list of Valorant related keywords and told him to include one or two of those and he was just like "bet" and included them all. Like "Solo with the ace and my team went gold" what does that even mean?

Individually Fnatic is still the best team.

How they do next year depends a lot on what Boaster and the coaching/analyst staff come up with. They played RBHG with no prac, they will show a different look next year. Only time can tell.

I feel like it would make more sense to compare Tex to Less and Saadhak to Kingg

Also Mazino > Tuyz except on Harbour

Sorry I don't see where he insulted Bonkar

Kiles said chill guy imma win this

Yeah of course, I just think it's funny (though to be fair, they did have a certain threshold below which entries didn't count, so it's not like he only used it for three rounds or so)

I find it very funny that the player with the highest Vandal K/D is the guy that literally embodies the Phantom (nAts).

Unfortunately as a born and raised American and biggest Americas fan, I have to agree with my fellow American Number_1_Sheydos_Fan here, we just get cleared by EU so hard, it's unfortunate really.

Don't care, I will always be a FUT fetishist

Bro says "my team" 💀

Starting to root for them once they start winning isn't an achievement bro

Saadhak 1v4 ace vs NRG is another one that comes to mind

God that bang clutch vs Lev ruined my day haha. Props to him though, he played that absolutely perfectly, it was definitely a great clutch

Yeah it's not a "good" clutch but definitely memorable

vlr when Ange1 takes a first duel: Wow what an idiot Imagine taking first duels as a support agent.

vlr when Leo doesn't take first duels: Wow what an idiot Imagine not taking first duels as a support agent.

Boaster always underperforms when he has to do more calling and micromanaging. That's why his numbers are generally bad but he's so good in clutches.

They've had pretty much no prac, so he was probably doing a lot more mental work than usual. He'll be fine next year.

FUT 3-0 anyone who dares challenge them

Verno is actually the second coming of Christ or some shit

That is certainly a team composition on the map of Ascent

I wouldn't call C0m or Ethan cracked aimers. They are good for other reasons

It's okay moatz, our finished region will never amount to anything, but at least we still got worlds, i haven't paid attention in a few days, but surely one or two eu teams made it to the playoffs right

>10 odds on a BO1 is crazy

Bro's living in the past 🥱

USA? Doesn't ring a bell. Did you mean glorious KSA? 🇸🇦

i'm down for that

Who's making the Madrid final then? Come on, make your pred

Sayf was literally the highest rated player of the team at every single event liquid played. He was also the highest rated player (tied with Alfajer) in the EMEA league.

I'm still with you that nAts was the most important player on that roster, but Sayf was definitely good this year.

The problem with Redgar is that even prime Gambit sucked on attack. We didn't notice that as much in Berlin because they got carried by individual performance. Redgar might be a great CT IGL but that's just not enough.

Bro snuck zeddy in like we wouldn't notice 💀

Monyet and Jinggg are very hard to compare, but overall I'd probably call it a sidegrade. They're different players, and Monyet won't do exactly what Jinggg has done for the team, but he will add more versatility, as he has shown this year that he can be an absolute top-tier controller (I mean, his IGN starts with M, right)

This decreases its versatility a little bit, especially the jumping spread, the jumping judge was quite common in pro play. However, if you just hold inside a smoke, or around a tight corner, you will still one shot people, as the damage, and the spread while standing still or crouching, haven't changed.

meh, I don't agree with the decision at all, a fine would have more than done the job, I just don't think a coach could have turned a 39-10 on the last three maps into a win somehow.

also acting like this is EMEA favouritism is silly, there was also the XSET turret situation where a really stupid decision was made against EMEA.

French

ScreaM is just a good rifler, he's never had exceptional utility on any agent. That's why he was always great on Reyna and Phoenix, because their main job is rifling

SR won two maps against G2 and then got absolutely obliterated on the last 3, this is somehow Riot's fault