let me pretend my favorite players are still good :(

Just talk about nAts and they will love you and all your female coworkers will look at you and be shy towards you.

"how is ur haunted forest did it catch any fire ?"

is this some sort of reference? because I dont get it T_T

riot also kinda cant, throughout the entire year there is something riot related, they literally dont have extra time in a year

Problem with that is, your the need to miss a qualification for another event, and then cram all the work to compensate for the longer masters or you stream multiple games at the same time.

lev would get shit on playing lotus

lev were lucky to get so many rounds on ascent

I always bet on the chinese teams, needless to say im rich

never has been

well if people didnt shit on lock//in, we mightve had a second one, but atp I dont see them ever doing it again

because time

that was to compensate for chia

aw man

only 1 team made it through points in 2024.

Kickoff is a thing because its optimal to having a masters without an overlly long time of qualification. The masters being 8 teams is also to make the event shorter.

TE placed higher than 8 teams lol.

alright

china has more teams than apac does in playoffs and top 4.

fnatic aint dropping chronicle

Map 1: 13-4 LEV Win
Map 2: 10-13 EDG Win
Map 3: 6-13 EDG Win
Map 4: 14-12 LEV Win
Map 5: 13-7 EDG Win

I feel like edgs lotus is very antistratable and their sunset defence is questionable. EDG need some improvement on these antieco strats and still overheat way to much, sen vs edg was kinda a mess of a game (not as bad as whatever tf drx vs heretics was) so unless they massively improve I see a lev 2-0 or 2-1. I would love an edg win tho

edg were aiming good against prx on icebox, just never getting the crucial kill

mr. i didnt watch china

they were pretty competitive

huh? you sure? people cheered for t1 a lot in shanghai and ive never seen any korea hate either

and against g2 they choked the other two.

yep, its gonna pretty much "which star player can bail out a team more" gameplay

edgs cohesion is pretty good, they just overheat a lot

so apac is minor minor region?

youll never know mine, its impossible.

true but seeding historically doesnt matter

1. winning meaningless bo5 but losing numerous important ones isnt a good track record. face it prx was never gonna beat fnatic who lost to two teams the entire year.
2. having a close game with a good team has historically not mattered when scaling how good another team is.

is this a joke? why does saadhak speaking portuguese matter

dominated? they didnt even make all 3 lans this year. fnatic lost 3 games I believe all year round

calling tokyo a fluke is crazy. considering prx cant win a b05
the mickey mouse format only had 2 teams that were good that didnt do well in lock//in. both teams made roster changers afrer lock//in...
optic should be the only ones questioned for visa issue tournament wins

rn? experience. but as an org overall? kinda just need to luck out icl

theres only like 3 brazilian teams? why port S tier

0.) True, didnt realise that.
1.) Beating rookie teams that cant find success means your run was easier. I would rather have extra vods than less practice any day
2.) if heretics or karmine won a game against a competent team in madrid (literally anyone but fpx), I would agree .
5,) yeah, as sen dont need to have the most champ points in the league to go on, sen also dont need to win in playoffs

We need more overall consistency for it to be official, if china can always outplace pacific, then we have a talking point. or if china wins a trophy -0-/ in all honesty if china lifts a trophy by next year, they might be the best region considering the opportunity to life one compared to the other regions. otherise in my non bias opinion 1.) AMER 2.) EMEA 3.) APAC 4.) CN

the only breakthrough pacific has had that isnt prx, drx and geng were zeta I believe. and needless to say I believe zeta had the flukiest of fluke runs ever

Chronicle - 3 trophies, best in the world multiple times
Yay - most dominant anyone has been in a full year in all of val
Aspas - consistently a top player
TenZ - most famous and well known player
Derke?
Forsaken?

debatable many had them going far, sen I would say were the madrid favourites

1.) Had to go through LOUD, 100t, LEV, NRG for Kickoff and won - LEV, NRG had 0 synergy at this point. 100T were not a top team yet. Loud were good tho
2.) Beat both EU teams at Madrid Swiss Stage and basically eliminated them - both eu teams were rookie squads that together only beat an extremely weak fpx
3.) Destroyed favorites PRX 3-1 and beat GenG in Madrid final despite having worse map pool & no map ban advantage - True
4.) Fell off Split 2, usually hard to recover form (look at NRG) - fell off at split 1 actually, split 2 they did ok
5.) Clutched Champs by points, voted most overrated team - qualifying through champ points is an easier overall run
6.) Went through group of death and eliminated favorites GenG - True
7.) Beat DRX convincingly - True
8.) Beat EU first seed despite just loosing to EDG - True
9.) Guaranteed Top 4 - True
10.) I don’t think another team could have done this - not true
11.) SEN is clearly one of the top 3 teams this year - winning a trophy makes you top 3 by default
12.) and if they make finals I would argue that they were the best team this year. - GenG have better achievements, not winning split 1 or 2 and not making an international event isnt a dominant showing. Heretics and EDG are up there if they win champs.

• if sen win champs, they will be the best team this year yes.

If sen win champs:
1) SEN 2) GENG 3) HERETICS
if sen make grandfinals and EDG win champs:
1.) GENG 2.) SEN 3.) EDG (you can argue edg > sen)
if sen dont make grandfinals then they cannot be 2 or above unless LEV win champ

worst take ive ever seen + without any cocky players the game would be boring + zellsis is more cocky

I really hate both roles icl, i much prefer the flashy plays of duelist

I dont play the game much pretty new

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/EDG%20kangkang%23kang/overview

give some tips

also they might stuggle against lev

edg ban ascent/icebox
lev ban bind
edg pick sunset (60/40) in favour of edg
lev pick ascent/icebox (20/80) in favour of lev
edg ban abyss
lev ban lotus
haven remainder (40/60) in favour of lev

really? edgs haven is scrappy and very poor compared to a team like fnatic, edgs bind, icebox and I would throw in abyss look messy, edgs ascent is bad

edg have a good lotus (100% wr) and good sunset (100% wr)
besides that they have only found success on bind (2-1)
and they have yet to play abyss or ascent (floated both a couple times but never confident to pick it and the last two showing of the map isnt pretty)

oh yeah, 3 years ago you wouldve said ascend is a bad team, so I dont wanna hear none of this bs

do you honestly want those teams up there? after their performance all year round?

classic L by Stormm