It's pretty easy to decipher in the link given above

you are amazing

Me and my friends are doing fantasy league for pro val based off of KDA, FK/FDs, Clutches, etc. However, there is no stats for Chinese Valorant, so I can't get accurate scores for them without digging through the whole match. Is there a reason why this is the case?

M3C flare not NRG lol

aged like milk

Haven't really seen him on a world beater team though. Vivo Keyd probably the best he's played on, but even then.

Question is, when will MW finally get good teammates.

NA is not a region anymore.

"Cowboy" - Got this name from my friend due to my accent
"SG" - "SuperGamerz" was my old username prior to 2016, It referred to my love of the SNES.

Only the LATAM teams play Split. I would probably not ban it first unless playing 9z, because most teams will favor a map they're strong on for their first pick.

I might have agreed with you, but the game against 9z was pitiful, only managing 14 rounds in 3 maps.

The Guard has the deepest map pool imo, as they played every map a handful of times. Wouldn't be surprised if they switched off the Pearl Ban in favor of a Haven pick. They're solid at Haven, but everyone at this contest has been good at it. Ascent should be their preferred map because they've been great at it this season.

VLR already provided a pretty good preview. I just wanted some stat comparisons.
But if you want a quick run down.

M80, The Union, and 9z Team each dominated their respective region with similar stats. Really hard to add more to them than just that.

The Guard is the only one of the 3 remaining to beat a team from above. They are consistent, and stat wise are not far behind the teams above them. They also probably have the most experience as a roster than anyone else in the tournament.

Fusion looked solid in LATAM North but got clearly outclassed by 9z. They come in as probably the biggest underdogs in the tournament.

00Nation struggled early in stage 1, but added Xand and bezn1 in stage 2. While they went 3-3 in groups in stage 2, they went on a cinderella run in the playoffs to make it here.

Map pool wise, expect to see a lot of Haven, Ascent and Fracture.

It's still pretty nice for context, map preferences, etc. And consistency (such as in 9z's case), should not be overlooked. They have as good a shot as anyone to make it to franchising.

I think it's important to note that 00Nation picked up xand and bezn1 for split 2 and it made all the difference
Split 1 : 2-5
Split 2 : 7-5

This should put them on par at least with Fusion, probably better.

Just wanted to give a rundown/comparison of the 6 teams playing in Ascension Americas. (I wanted to do player stats as well, but got too busy, though I may throw some in at some point.

Win Rate
92.3% The Union (24-2)
90.0% 9z Team (18-2)
88.9% M80 (16-2)
72.2% Fusion (13-5)
70.0% The Guard (14-6)
47.4% 00Nation (9-10)

Map Win Rate
80.9% 9z Team (38-9)
75.4% The Union (52-17)
75.0% M80 (30-10)
70.2% The Guard (33-14)
65.1% Fusion (28-15)
51.1% 00Nation (24-23)

Round Win Rate
62.7% 9z Team (586-248)
59.2% M80 (539-372)
58.7% The Union (852-600)
55.5% The Guard (571-458)
54.0% Fusion (478-407)
50.6% 00Nation (503-491)

Games Played and Win Rate - Haven
11 (91%) M80
11 (82%) 9z Team
10 (60%) 00Nation
10 (50%) The Union
09 (44%) The Guard
07 (71%) Fusion

Games Played and Win Rate - Ascent
17 (76%) The Union
08 (88%) The Guard
08 (63%) M80
07 (57%) Fusion
04 (100%) 9z Team
03 (0%) 00Nation

Games Played and Win Rate - Fracture
14 (86%) The Union
11 (73%) Fusion
08 (50%) 00Nation
06 (100%) 9z Team
06 (67%) M80
05 (80%) The Guard

Games Played and Win Rate - Pearl
09 (78%) 9z Team
09 (67%) M80
08 (63%) 00Nation
07 (86%) The Union
06 (67%) The Guard
03 (0%) Fusion

Games Played and Win Rate - Lotus
10 (80%) The Guard
09 (78%) The Union
09 (67%) 00Nation
05 (80%) M80
01 (100%) 9z Team
01 (100%) Fusion

Games Played and Win Rate - Split
09 (56%) 9z Team
06 (50%) Fusion
04 (50%) The Guard
03 (67%) M80
02 (100%) The Union
02 (50%) 00Nation

Games Played and Win Rate - Bind
05 (80%) The Guard
04 (100%) The Union
04 (75%) 9z Team
02 (0%) 00Nation
01 (100%) Fusion
00 (0%) M80

Perma-Ban
M80 - Bind
The Guard - Pearl
The Union - Haven
00Nation - Bind
9z Team - Lotus
Fusion - Pearl

T1 has slowly crept up into that contender position imo.

2-0

Not over yet.

Saadhak needs more love here.

If EMEA was just NAVI and Fnatic every week, you'd have a point. But minus those two teams, EMEA looks pretty poor imo. Especially if you count Lock In where everyone but NAVI and Fnatic looked pretty bad.

kru was in the same boat with roster changes this week lol

Starting the league off with a double header doesn't help Fnatic either. Both teams will be zoned in looking to take that EMEA crown from them.

Yay is probably a better IGL then dephh, just pick him up.

7/10 being first rounded is a tough pill to swallow. I don't think the region is bad. PRX and ZETA have shown they can compete at a high level. GenG looks like a contender in APAC. And even GE pushed Vitality to a 3rd map. I just think the performance wasn't worth the C. I do not think APAC is bad though.

I'm not being serious. I think talon and TS are very good. GenG looked strong in their loss to LOUD, but I don't think we can say they'd clear anyone yet.

I'm joking, NRG is clearly a top 5 team.

ok

How about
Fnatic - S
LOUD - S
NAVI - S
DRX - A
Americas - D
EMEA - F
Pacific - Super F

Americas - B+
While it wasn't a perfect performance by the Americas, especially against the 2 EMEA super teams, the Americas still had 4 teams make it to the 3rd round, and had the least amount of teams eliminated in the first round, and outside of the 2 Talon upsets, American teams generally didn't lose any games they were favored to win.

EMEA - C+
It was really hard to grade EMEA. NAVI and Fnatic looked so good that they could dominate every LAN this year. But outside of the top 2, EMEA fell rather flat, having 8 of their teams go out in the first two rounds (4 getting first rounded.) I think EMEA is going to be dominant internationally, but domestically, it's shaping up to be a snoozefest.

Pacific - D
DRX looked great. Talon and Secret looked solid. If I could grade them alone it's easily an A-, but SEVEN teams from APAC got first rounded. The only saving grace for the league not being as lopsided as EMEA is that we have seen how good PRX and ZETA can be at peak form.

Bonus - China
D as well imo. Can't really give them an F because they were competitive, but they both got first rounded, so rip.

I think you need to change this to people on vlr lol. Generally, all my friends that watch VCT don't root against regions, but against specific teams they don't like (usually sen or fnatic lol). I am a NA fan, but have watched NA, LATAM, Brazil, and EMEA leagues since the inception of the VCT. I just root for good games and parity, unless it was the team I specifically root for.

Well s0m 1v5s FNC

s0m could 1v5 Fnatic.

fixed

paladins esports was the first esports I watched. I new about frz, but not saadhak

Wait, Saadhak played Paladins? LEZ GOOO

Pretty sure he beat Tenz' performance in 2021 Iceland

LOUD's trophy should go to Liberty then. Thanks trem for your infinite wisdom

Americas league is gonna be so much fun to watch for both the main stage and ascension. There will be teams left in the ascension tourneys that could arguably be at the top half of the main stage.

I'd say LOUD is the better team between the two because of consistency. ignoring the fact LOUD won champs, Optic has some ugly losses to Xerxia and Guild, not to mention their inability to win their own region. However Optic is still the only teams besides maybe FPX that can claim to be at the top.

Fixed!

Record for the year : 30-4
Records vs each region :
Brazil : 21-0
LATAM : 1-1
NA : 3-3 (All Optic)
EMEA : 2-0
Japan : 2-0
Korea : 1-0

Map win record for the year : 68-14
Map win record against each region :
Brazil : 46-2
LATAM : 3-2
NA : 9-9
EMEA : 4-1
Japan : 4-0
Korea : 2-0

LOUD RECORDS WITHOUT OPTIC :
Win Record : 27-1
Map Win Record : 59-5

Loud is clearly the best team in the world right now, and only Optic has stood in their way all year. LOUD is basically Optic if Optic never played down to their competition.

We're all in the same region now.
Americas 3
EMEA 3
:)

Top 3 minimum. They'll play the winner of the lower bracket semis and lose that at worst.

More scared of icebox. I personally would have let it through since it's a good 100t map as well, and furia beat them on it, but it's still fair to just say no.

Liquid domestically vs. Liquid internationally

BCJ has the power of fried chicken on his side. They winning Champs for sure.

Maybe that's why DRX always stops at top 6. They're scared of that second place curse hurting them in Korea.

To further hit on the second place masters curse:

Masters 1 2021 runner-ups
FaZe - NA
Team Heretics - Europe
BBL - Turkey
forZe - CIS
GL Blue - Brazil
Wygers - LATAM
NUTURN - Korea*
Absolute JUPITER - Japan
Team SMG - SEA

*Only Team to make a masters event, making a top 3 run in Masters 2 Reykjavik. However they never came close to matching their early success and failed to make Champs.

Yeah, I would've added more, but wanted to make it short and sweet lol