Is curry the fifth?

Orion is underrated honestly

Hypothetically, if Val became an 8v8 game for whatever reason, what agent comps do you think would work well?

Would they face the winner of ascension or would they just be put through the full competition?

Or Lost, it’s also a good show

This will only work if they play neon Jett raze yoru and Phoenix

If I remember correctly they said the contract with partnered teams won’t see any sort of reconsideration until 2027

Give Wingman 2 Nuclear Devices

And then in the lower bracket they face g2

Is M8 and M80 not good enough

In both systems there’s still 7 elimination games, just with double elimination there’s more matches for the teams to play and games later in the tournament are more likely to have the best teams

If champs was a single elim bracket after group stage, we might have gotten TH vs EDG in the first round

In a single slim bracket, the two best teams could face eachother in the first round, which means that the match that deserves to be a grand final happens early in the tournament, and the real second place team gets last place.

Double elim brackets are better for entertainment, no one would watch if the upper bracket winner gets a huge advantage that gives them a 90 percent chance to win.

I knew north SA wasn’t cooked

I’m making a spreadsheet with all players who have won an international event, and I noticed that FPX has SEIDER in as a sub for half the event. I didn’t watch VCT back then so idk if it would it be reasonable to say that he deserves to be on this list. What are y’all’s opinion?

Champs 2024
Shanghai 2024
Americas Ascension 2023

at the moment it seems that they’re running it back with the same roster

5-9 to 13-9 and 4-12 to 14-12 is crazy

Hypothetically, if EDG were to pick up the ZYG player ‘you’, we could get a round next year between PRX and EDG where something kills you, and nobody gets the trade.

oh wait youre right
flashback - Smokes

FNS - Duelist
Aspas - Senti/Initiator (IGL)
Life - Initiator
Something - Smokes
AvovA - Senti

if they win at all they are in, since they will have a better map differential than RETA and 2G

if tsm make playoffs the win the whole thing trust

you know china exists right? so its 40 teams and 8 ascension teams.
also i do think that only having 2 slots per region change yearly is a bad system, but unfortunately riot said that they are not reevaluating contracts until 2027

i believe if they win their next match and galorys dont then they are guaranteed to be in

I honestly kinda like it. It’s not great but I wasn’t much of a fan of the last one

Give Wingman 14 Nuclear Devices

the next time i see an absolute braindead sen fan post i will change my flair as far away from sen as possible

imo they should just let the coaches do a 1v1 in chess to decide who gets it

If every tournament's playoffs were single elim, then loud would have won reykjavik 2022, prx would have won copenhagen 2022 and champions 2023, and geng would have won masters madrid

https://www.vlr.gg/378670/leviat-n-vs-trace-esports-valorant-champions-2024-winners-c

Lev 3-1 TH and asbas gets 31 assists total

1. G2
2. SEN
3. FNC
4. PRX
5. FPX
6. TLN
7. LEV
8. VIT
9. TH
10. KRU
11. BLG
12. FUT
13. TE
14. EDG
15. GENG

tbh the format of qualifying for madrid in kickoff was a kinda bad.
because kickoff's playoffs were single elim, the two best teams could have been matched together first round and only one of them could have gone to madrid.
for example in emea, even if fnatic and karmine corp were the best two teams in the region at that point in time, one had to be eliminated because they were matched up.

with my aim i aint winning against any of em so fuck it give me tenz

die four you, fire again, and ticking away all had a "climax" in a way, where the song got more extreme. this one stays the same most of the way through

its an upset because no one thought it would happen, not necessarily because bili bili was a weaker team and still won

im pretty sure this is almost everyones pickem rn

BLG beat GENG twice in groups then go 0-2 in playoffs
SEN get the easiest group but then lose to FNC then get eliminated by KRU
PRX, EDG, and LEV get grouped
G2 look like the best team in the world until the upper finals where they get 2-0'd then they get 3-0'd in the lower final
VITALITY vs TALON in finals (its a draw)

at this point i know sen are cooked, im just happy they made champs

getting the #1 seed can be really useful, for example FNC's first match in champs will either be against BLG, TLN, or SEN, which are all pretty favorable for them

nah its gonna be kru vs blg

tbh it felt a bit unsatisfying that sen qualified through another team winning 1 match instead of them achieving it themselves

three of those four teams are my favorite in their region, and the fourth is geng so that would not work well for me

i do agree that if the goal is to have the 4 teams that qualify be the 4 best teams at the time of champions, then this system is kinda bad.
however their goal was to have a system where a team that does well throughout the whole year qualify through points even if they didn't do well near the end, and in this case it makes that goal.
i do agree that 100t probably deserve to be at champions more than sen do based on their current performance

i made my full 1-16 before the kru vs 100t match thinking that there was no way 100t would choke...

anyway heres my updated one:
1 - G2
2 - GENG
3 - LEV
4 - TH
5 - PRX
6 - FNC
7 - SEN
8 - FPX
9 - DRX
10 - FUT
11 - EDG
12 - VIT
13 - TLN
14 - KRU
15 - TRACE
16 - BLG
originally i had 100t at 8 and every team from 13 to 8 down one

stuff like this makes me wanna become a g2 fan instead