Whatever helps you sleep at night

I mean like it or not, Riot disagrees with you

Guys after 100T's performance at Red Bull Homeground, I think it's safe to say that 2023 will be 100T's year. C9 with yay, SEN with two world champions, NRG with the optic core, nothing can stop these teams.

Masters Tokyo didn't even give out circuit points or anything. I guess you could argue that previous masters tournaments sort of acted as qualifiers for champs, but Tokyo definitely didn't

The President of Denmark herself just won GC Champs

They were able to improve quickly because they had better practice than any other franchise team. This better practice only being possible due to the 10 man roster.

There was indeed a rule. They were not allowed to pick up any player from a top 8 team

there had to have been better players

Well they weren't allowed to sign any players from a top 8 team, so that severely restricted the available pool

I would consider crying if this was in any way comprehensible

unfortunately the goat MrFalin owns cNed

Despite it being accidental, SMG actually played the comp pretty well, they understood exactly what they had to do to make it work (aggressing on the extremities on defense, double flanking against the post plants, farming Phoenix ult points on attack, pushing further in their own post plants). EG on the other hand was completely lost.

If desperate men online were willing to pay 30 dollars for my bathwater, I'd sell the hell out of that shit lol, why the fuck wouldn't I?

The experience between mimi and Petra is super valuable, especially considering this is only the second GC LAN and the whole scene is still super inexperienced.

Surely they beat Tal0n

Acend and no other team even comes close

I really hope he makes it purely because it would be funny to see what happens when there's two of them

trying to win is a bad thing? should they try to lose instead?

"Moral perspective" bro these kids are college students, they are not playing valorant full time like actual pros

Germany - nieSoW 🇩🇪

Michael Phelps clears

It's also specifically called "way too early tier list" because the whole point is to just wildly guess without knowing much about some of the teams

As a proud American I have to say this is making me ashamed of my country. Absolutely horrifying stuff...

y(-1)y

Excited to see what TL is gonna look like. I feel like a lot of their success will hinge on how well Keiko can adapt to the tier 1 landscape.

Also excited to see PRX with Money.

Will be a banger tourney for sure

Being at work is the only reason for me to ever open this hellscape of a site tbh, I would never do this shit at home

Indeed, that is what I am saying

Acend fluked

Yeah exactly. And EG didn't. Hence Potter is a better coach than whoever the fuck coached Acend in '21

SEN 3-0 TL Mistic teamflash in round 24 on map 3 to decide the game

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)