The guard are probably 4th best this tourney so far and Sen is right behind them with SR and C9 even below that

Is this guy wearing right now?

fuck this guy has the shittiest pickems and he chose SEN to win FUUUUUUUUUUCK

You think bdog wouldn't turn up? I think will is definitely good and ive always vouched for him but bdog is unequivocally one of the best players in NA

This is exactly why we have and need franchising for NA

So ive been seeing this a lot in pro play and especially in my ranked matches. Its a sage wall that goes towards the site ropes instead of going across or horizontally towards yellow box. Basically the SEN wall that they kept using in the game earlier.
I was thinking of strats to stop the wall from being broken which would probably involve some nades or anyform of pressure towards the opponents right as the wall is going up. So I rewatched FNC v FPX to see what FNC were doing whenever they went to plant on B and I saw that they utilized the wall towards yellow that blocks off the snowman sightline towards B main. So the fact that the best Icebox team knows that the straight wall towards site is a bad one and instead use the horizontal wall yet there are so many teams in the VCT all over the world that still use a terrible wall that easily gets broken and doesnt really benefit the planter in anyway since they can be seen from both snowman and top site even IF the wall isnt broken just is beyond me.
So I wanted to ask why tf do ppl still use that stupid wall instead of using the one that clearly is far more beneficial and still provides an easy plant even if one of the blocks are broken. I really dont see any benefits from the wall SEN was using and honestly it just makes everything that much harder

Ill do a mix of bias and results

1. Faze
2. 100T
3. SEN
4. NRG
5. EG
6. C9
7. The Guard
8. SR (they havent improved significantly since the first tourney they played with this team)

theyve played 1 match together, tho that match was definitely a banger

as someone mentioned earlier a rivalry has to be equal or a competition but SEN v 100T definitely isnt/wasnt. 100T won literally 1 time against SEN which was in First Strike

meh 4/8 maybe cause i dont give a shit abt SR anymore, theyve let me down so many times
(yes ik my flair is contradictory)

derke will peak again, yay will peak again, tenz will drop off cause hes gonna start playing chamber,

honestly this has been the same where i live and ngl its kinda concerning

you living under a rock?

aggression doesnt = PRX
they dont have anywhere near the level of coordination in their aggressiveness that PRX does. They just play like a faster more aggressive Optic

sen are literally winning but ok

He's not that great for the role that he plays

I definitely agree that a lot lack in creativity and that SOME did copy them like starting to play neon but the chamber positions thing is just hard copium

no doubt indo will make it into franchising cause they require at least 1 in franchising and indo is also top 3 regions in SEA and probably most of APAC as well

maybe square off the design a bit more so its more efficient with the space and it fits desktop vlrs simplistic style

no i dont think he was ever overrated. Hes just a good initiator and thats about it

actually yea that one never occurred to me... maybe because it turned out he was trash and never accomplished anything on stage

true

the fact that you specifically say 2021 just invalidates your claim cause he was absolutely fucking nutty that year other than on split

boaster is valued so highly because of his work ethic. I dont doubt that he is the hardest working person in the valorant world and he provides so much value due to this in the form of strategic creativity and difficulty in antistrating fnc

taiwanese blunder

its almost as if cs has been around for so long and so the big teams have established themselves and have had enough time to be both the biggest and the best

here you go literally 1 google search and the first link is this
https://dotesports.com/valorant/news/sources-faze-in-discussions-to-sign-poised-supamen-and-shanks

bro really is 1iq

;(

bro's a little late in the head

thats what i would like so that PRX can win by default by just being better than everyone in this tournament

the most 2 head take ive ever seen but ok. First of all FPX were facing both guild and DRX (but more so DRX) when they were at the absolute BOTTOM of their performance. Russ was barely even able to get a kill let alone properly play the game with his team and DRX just lost mental as they always do after losing in the upper bracket.
And then theres FNC -_-
FNC played like absolute dog shit. It felt like i was watching sentinels playing with all the clutches that they had to pull off and the unbelievable amounts of solo plays and how they just dont want to take any map control whatsoever. Derke wasnt playing at his best in the final few matches, so was mistic.

As much as i dont want optic to win, we can clearly tell that FPX isnt exactly anything spectacular (other than Suygetsu, that man is singlehandedly carryign the team) and that Optic are clearly more prepared than they are. FPX has decent strats but they arent anything in depth like what FNC (in regionals) and Optic have. This would probably be a clean sweep of 3-1 or maybe even 3-0 for Optic if they start off strong in the first map

Bro this shit will cause Riot to lose so much money, its not worth it at all

Both Optic and FPX dont deserve to win. FPX somehow were able to just get by a slumping Fnatic, a slumping DRX, and a slumping Guild. Thats unbelievable honestly. Optic as well had the easiest run of their lives going against fucking Xset of all teams. Their hardest match was literally the first game they played.
FNC are out and if PRX dont fucking win, im just not gonna watch val anymore honestly, this shit has to be rigged

Where did the fnatic from regionals go bro

https://tenor.com/view/sad-pablo-lonely-alone-gif-12928789

Sigh

POV: When you have nothing to say

lol theyre just bad, this is some premium COPIUM right here

STOP TECH PAUSING OPTIC, Accept your fucking loss doo doo ass team ong

i already know that if i ask you to tell me what was looking so great about them and to give me some examples of them youd completely blank and wouldnt be able to tell me

true and real. IDK how optic fans have so much copium, honestly reminds me of sen fans

above avg but hes definitely nothing special

FPX in their current form still is nowhere near their peak. I honestly dont think theyll even be able to beat shaky FNC. I doubt shaky FNC is even gonna be the team we see this match either way but still regardless i think theyre the worst team out of the 4 even in current conditions

tbf i also said that in the first masters when looking at the brackets. I did say it after watching his video but it was just those specific words i wasnt able to find. In my mind what I was thinking was that the other teams wouldnt be able to handle that PRX playstyle but TVM just gave words to it and im p sure other people think the same.
Though there definitely are some takes that ppl copy from him, there really isnt anything we can do about it

gimme an example?

im loving these

bro just jinxed prx so hard ong
fpx were always gonna lose regardless sooo

what fucking na team has a PSYCHOLOGIST?????
I aint even ever heard of a valorant mental coach what you on my guy?

well tbf every other NA team is even more resident sleeper cause XSet wiped em all

I think for any SEN fans and FNC fans it HAS to be when they both lost to KRU. That shit was absolutely heartbreaking especially in how Sentinels were on the cusp of a 2-0 victory and that KRU just had some absolutely unbelievable godlike luck and skillful plays throughout both games