who?

What is blud waffling about

Oh look, a specimen has escaped from the lab

Wet Leg

Meanwhile saya was the second highest rated duelist in the Pacific league and made it to masters.

what's the difference?

I reckon G2 are planning to pick up the Guard roster if the rumours are true that the org will not hang on to them for next year

In this tweet he isn't talking about aimblabs though, he is talking about the Ghost in Valorant. If he wants to be judged by his Aimlabs skills, maybe he should be tweeting about Aimlabs and not Valorant.

Zander, eeiu and koalanoob are Canadian. The country flag is always the majority of players, not the org location. TL's Brazilian GC team is also listed as Brazilian even though the org is Dutch.

I don't think sentinels are necessarily better to IGL on than smokes. Arguably the best role to IGL on is (flash) initiator, but smokes are also pretty common. Boaster IGLs on smokes, Ange1 plays just about everything, but I'd say he's mostly known for his Omen, Redgar plays smokes, etc. Sure you have people like FNS or Stellar who IGL on sentinel, but it's definitely not unambiguously better.

I saw the play ins mostly as a bit of a taste for how the regions might match up roughly. Apeks should sweep this now

I mean yeah, it's obvious that lock//in had lower priority than masters, and it was primarily done to introduce the audience to the teams, and to give the orgs more time to apply for visas for the VCLs. The format was mostly due to organisational concerns (rito doesn't like parallel games, and didn't want to do bo1s either).

Sure, the format decreases the competitive integrity compared to masters or champions, but that doesn't mean there's no competitive integrity at all, the semis being bo5s does kind of mitigate the single elim format a little bit. It's not like Reykjavík 2021 was the pinnacle of competitive integrity, the format was also very weird with seemingly arbitrary byes and a bo3 LBF. It was early days valorant and it was a bit scrappy. Lock//in was early days franchise era and also a bit weird in that regard.

I just don't think that disqualifies it as a major. Rito considers it as a part of the VCT. You can argue that the lock//in title is less meaningful than masters/champs, but masters is also less meaningful than champs (or at least rito wants it to be) and we still lump them together as majors and nobody really has a problem with it.

I mean if you just write 6/(3(1+2)) or (6/3)(1+2) (or even better, use fractions, which makes it much easier to read), there is simply no doubt about what is meant. No mathematician would write an expression like this, everyone would use fractions. If you have to rely on arbitrary conventions like pemdas or whatever to get your point across, your point just wasn't clear enough

https://www.vlr.gg/34979/envy-vs-gambit-esports-valorant-champions-tour-stage-3-masters-berlin-gf
https://www.vlr.gg/51268/acend-vs-envy-valorant-champions-winners-a
https://www.vlr.gg/51274/team-liquid-vs-sentinels-valorant-champions-winners-b
https://www.vlr.gg/51291/team-liquid-vs-cloud9-valorant-champions-qf
https://www.vlr.gg/112282/optic-gaming-vs-guild-esports-valorant-champions-tour-stage-2-masters-copenhagen-opening-a
https://www.vlr.gg/112334/optic-gaming-vs-funplus-phoenix-valorant-champions-tour-stage-2-masters-copenhagen-lbf
https://www.vlr.gg/130688/xset-vs-funplus-phoenix-valorant-champions-2022-lr2

Whatever helps you sleep at night buddy. NA's best team has more losses to EU than NA has trophies. They literally lost to Guild with Russ and Koldamenta 💀💀

And FNC won as many international trophies as all of NA combined

Anyway Brazil is EU's bitch
https://www.vlr.gg/19086/team-vikings-vs-team-liquid-valorant-champions-tour-stage-2-masters-reykjavik-main-event-lr3
https://www.vlr.gg/51266/acend-vs-keyd-stars-valorant-champions-opening-a
https://www.vlr.gg/51279/gambit-esports-vs-team-vikings-valorant-champions-winners-c
https://www.vlr.gg/130635/furia-vs-fnatic-valorant-champions-2022-group-stage-elim-d
https://www.vlr.gg/167373/fnatic-vs-furia-champions-tour-2023-lock-in-s-o-paulo-omega-qf
https://www.vlr.gg/167393/loud-vs-fnatic-champions-tour-2023-lock-in-s-o-paulo-gf

I mean let's be real, sure FPX or FNC would have had good chances to win if they'd been there, but Optic was not a fluke, they were a top team all year

bro says "we" like it's his money

1) similar (albeit a little bit lower) prizepool compared to masters Reykjavík and Berlin 2021
2)

Barely any teams

Same number of teams as masters and champs this year
3) Masters Berlin and Champions 2021 were single elim as well
4) I mean yeah, the point of the tournament was to introduce the franchised teams. The point of all riot organised tournaments is to promote their products. They're a video game company, not a nonprofit tournament organiser.
5) Source?

So Masters Berlin and Champions 2021 were not majors then?

Not an official tournament organised by Riot that is officially part of the VCT.

Yeah I loved watching SEN destroy everyone at masters Tokyo, can't wait for champs 🔥

Bro made an account just to call Boaster gay 💀

Stay mad bro

No way Fnatic take Ascent. It'll be 3-1 if FNC win Split, or 3-2 otherwise.

For me his comment about Potter was primarily just really weird. Maybe it was the wording, but it just felt a bit like he was singling out Potter while EG were definitely not the only team that looked kinda bad. And with all the other stuff going on around George at the time, it definitely made it seem like it was motivated by sexism, even if not consciously. I don't think he's a bad person for making that comment or anything, but he could have also defused the situation pretty easily and chose not to. Eh.

rare qwerttyy w

I think EG would have had a good chance but the two map bans for Fnatic might be too big of an obstacle. Lotus, Bind and Haven lean into FNC's favour, Ascent should be EG's map and Split is anyone's game. Unless EG have cooked something crazy up on Bind I think FNC take this 3-1 or 3-2 (depending on Split)

I feel like KRÜ was a lot better than the results make it seem like, I'm sure they'll get some wins soon

I can top this
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/cd8220c4

That's my personal masterpiece 💀

I mean, they made top 3 at 4 different events, if that's a fluke everything is

Me when someone writes three (3) sentences but I can't read:

Yeah I was thinking about those 2 as well

hell yeah

If a team consistently gets lucky in every game and every situation, it's not luck. Just because you can't see why they're getting these kills doesn't mean they're lucky.

Spam kills are 500IQ if it's a player I like and lucky if it's a player I don't like

The Valorant understander has logged on

I think EG have very good chances of taking at least one map tbh, since FNC permaban Pearl and EG look insane on Fracture. Could even be an EG win tbh, since their permaban (Bind) is one of FNC's best maps as well.

I agree though, I think NRG have it in them to beat EG in lower finals, they have a deeper map pool and fenis does not lose those

EG ban Bind, FNC ban Pearl, EG pick Fracture, FNC pick Haven, EG ban Lotus, FNC ban Ascent, Split remains

FNC 9 - 13 EG on Fracture
13-7 on Haven
14-12 on Split

2-1 FNC

navi won't even make it out of LCQ

He has a lot of weird takes, but occasionally he says some correct things

If one team consistently always seems to win the "lucky" rounds, it's probably not luck.

NA never stomped at Valorant, they have always been a very good and competitive region, there just hasn't been a clear #1 region so far.

NA fans like to overhype their successes

Stop acknowledging your team's flaws, you have to be delusional to be a real fan

Crazy how mibr can't compete with Loud, but they still managed to ruin their upper bracket run at masters

Honestly, why can't people come up with creative insults instead of this kindergarten thing where they replace the first syllable of any word with "shit" or "bot". Saw someone calling Navi Shartus Vincere yesterday, that was a good one, but instead the average vlr brain can't come up with anything better than shitmea or botvi. Lame.

The supreme leader kimself emits wifi to the whole glorious nation

Lol, the amount of people in that thread acting like it's beyond impossible for EG to beat DRX

yeah that's why i said i don't think that makes mini better than chet, i just think they have very different strengths, and there is clearly something that mini is better at than chet

Yeah it's crazy how the region with the most teams in playoffs has same region matchups more than the regions with fewer teams in the playoffs

There's literally only 8 teams, most of which have made deep runs at international tournaments, and with the way the seeding works there's just not a lot of different possibilities.

Since Loud have already played EG and NRG in Americas, and DRX at LOCK//IN, there was a 75% chance that Loud would get a rematch of sorts.