yea exactly i think he just needs to be allowed to explore a little bit more

they changed cause im p sure there were internal issues with zombs and also the dude isnt very motivated or inspired to practice or to actually win. They switched him out cause they wanted to change the ethic on the team and to improve motivation. Not a bad move imo but i think he needs to get comfortable first on this team

ah yes... "Men"

It only changed sicks role, dapr is still playing everything that he was before kanpeki was on the team. He was the one that was originally running chamber on the team if that is what youre referring to

I think thats probably the comp that theyre practicing with cause i dont think their bind comp are what theyre actually gonna run esp after looking at their Split comp o_0

I dont think that would work cause Tenz isnt able to have the explosiveness onto site with chamber and there isnt anyone else that is able to make space or actually clear anything on site other than breach. they would get destroyed on attack

holy shit that has to be the most atrocious comp ive seen yet

"blame everything on that man"
clearly another sen hater but ok. In Shahz's eyes he thinks theres potential for Tenz to pop off on split and there definitely is but it just feels like there isnt enough time rn. Shahz has the style of leadership where he wants to make sure his players are comfortable in whatever they pick so he wants to make sure thats the case for tenz but it just isnt working, at least not so far

I dont think its tenz fans at all. Its just the emotional attachment that people have to Sen since they were the first team to ever show true dominance in valorant and people have that investment into them due to that and the fact that no one else has ever been able to replicate it yet. People want to see the day that sen get back to that level of dominance again. Ofc there are the tenz fans and thats inevitable but I feel like people dont want to accept the fact that Sen at their best were just a really entertaining team to watch
The way they play with their tendency to let the opponents back into the match when SEN have a huge lead is just the kind of thing that attract people to scripted television. Like in a TV show or WWE where they make sure the tension is high throughout the broadcast, in that sense it looks like SEN matches are scripted and produces more interest and excitement

Yea thats just the truth honestly. I dont watch a lot of the matches where I personally dont have any emotional investment or attachment. I honestly dont understand why people cant except some facts when it comes to this stuff just because SEN are in the conversation.

Tenz playing duelist on split just doesnt seem to be working for sen honestly it looks like their Achilles heel on that map at least. Get tenz on sage or KO or something, he definitely has the skill to get those characters well or at least well enough considering that they arent very complicated to play and it will incentivise him to get rid of that Jett playstyle on every agent he plays since those agents have no movement

No i dont think so at all actually. If you mean the exact same way as stage 1 then maybe yea but i feel like we need the champions sen to come back soon cause that sen were actually quite a good team they just needed a few more protocols and more discipline which should be solved now since kanpeki is there to improve the environment and work ethic of sentinels

Thats true honestly, this masters' viewership was clearly not as high as it wouldve been had 1 sentinels qualed and 2 (ofc the more detrimental one) FPX, M3C qualed or at least FNC looked good. There was no hype this tournament in any of G2s or Louds matches. Ofc that second one was the bigger factor but i feel that sen wouldve probably saved the viewership and allowed val to reach another viewership peak this tournament. The amount of upsets and the teams that werent able to qualify this time around just destroyed it honestly

ikr lol, G2 are just not it. I still think they got an incredibly lucky run in the lower brackets to be able to qual. They played against M3C that were in shambles and then they went against the common Team Throwquid and then went against FNC that were saving strats. ON TOP OF THAT they got first seed because FPX couldnt go. The amount of fortunate happenings are uncanny and i feel like they wouldnt have even made it out of groups. TL are definitely the better team but they have a tendency to start throwing when they get cocky and they just first of all play like theyre throwing and second of all they play with weird ass comps and they start taking crazy risks

I dont think Optic are FPX level, this would be my Top 5 (ACTUAL top 5)

1-2) FPX > M3C (right now M3C is dealing with D3FFOs back problems and political issues and they just arent looking too hot so rn FPX higher)
3) FNC (I cant say for sure but their 2 new signings should allow them to have more firepower which is the thing they were lacking before so im quite confident that with a few games and a month of prac theyll be back to stage 1 form or even higher)
4) DRX (I think DRX have really good setplays but they arent adaptable enough which is a bad thing. But I think they shine so much in the set plays that it makes up for that. They just need to fix their mental and Id say they could be in contention to possibly win an international LAN)
5) Optic (yea i put the winners in 5, not because theyre bad or because I think DRX are better than them but because I feel like Optic looks really different from match to match. Sometimes youll see a top 3 team, sometimes youll see a top 20 team, sometimes you wont even see a top anything team. This isnt even from match to match sometimes its even map to map. So I cant confidently say that with their weak map pool and with their fluctuations that they would be in the no.4 place)

wyoa KRU was clearly really good in champions, they were counterstrating and they had really good util. You dont fluke a triple overtime on bind against Gambit. Since their coach left theyve been looking like a really weak team and NagZ is now back to being an average jett instalock who cant frag at all. Now it looks like they dont have any strats and NagZ is really weighing them down so no they shouldnt be on the list cause they lowkey looked like the worst team at masters even worse than FNC with 2 subs and NIP

also the team that wiped gambit and fnc both teams being champions level teams but ok

top 8 but ok

yea really sad honestly i was hoping that Kanpeki would create a sudden increase in performance on the sen roster but alas that was too much to ask for. Now all we can really do is wait for their prac and actual comps and see how they do when theyre fully trying to win

nah lowkey kinda weak, ive seen better sen haters

so basically what loud did against optic?

damn all the teams are getting upset on first map huh?

Sentinels rn in the Open Qualifiers is already getting numbers that Masters matches got on the main stream. If they had a chance at getting to masters I wonder what the viewership could possibly be

literally played raze in his last match but ok
-16 frags lol

true, honestly unlucky for sen, they might even drop Kanpeki cause they just dont understand how insane TBD is

not very

Uhuh... keep coping

bro ur Brazilian... i dont think i need to say anymore

TRUE

true and real

change your name to dumbass

but men are better at holding it in tho... Everyone says its toxic to not be allowed to cry in front of other people but i can tell you right now ive never met another man who has wanted to cry in front of even their closest friends. It doesnt matter how toxic it is or isnt, the truth is it doesnt feel good for anyone (speaking from a male perspective) to cry in front of people they know no matter how close. Crying in private is completely normal and often times its completely impossible to hold it all in.
Im a person who has never EVER turned to crying in my younger life and i barely ever did cry. I would at most sulk or lock myself in my room but that was it, no tears. And even for me once everything started to pile on me and the stress of the real world got to me i broke down. Id say its an inevitability and I feel like the modern world at this point has come to terms with it. I dont really see people syaing its weird to cry alone, usually just when in front of others.

mans changed his name cause he got bullied on the internet lol

yea they would need a hell of a budget to buy the whole roster out

youre braindead if you think it isnt a bait

g2 got a lucky run, FNC, FPX, and M3C wouldve wiped masters honestly the level of play other than drx and optic were so low

agreed honestly, its a shame FPX and FNC werent able to properly represent. FNC with their full lineup i feel would definitely take the tournament fairly dominantly

are you jo0king???? you think loud and optic are at the level of FPX??? Aint no way dude. I was gonna legit respond to this thread but the fact that you dont even realize that FPX is definitely top 3 global is beyond me

why does everyone think sick will go brim. I feel like omen is more his style or honestly even astra a controller hes more comf with

nah i feel like sick will run astra or omen and most likely kanpeki will go chamber Dapr is comf with vip and its a shame to put flex on viper

Will they though theyre all russian players, would they be able to get visas?

If the man actually filled in the proper role then id understand but the guy isnt even the same role and he isnt even that good at his own role
I wont doubt V1 cuase theyve praced with him so im guessing they must at least be decent, but i feel like thye wont be as good as this previous qualifier

didnt hazed retire?

because now yay has proved it. Back then yay had ZERO accomplishments and even when Andbox brought him in the team still wasnt able to do anything significant

How was that hating?? People were first the ones hating on TSM and thinking they didnt stand a chance because Envy had signed a tier 2 player. As a pro player shahzam has gone against yay before and he thinks that yay isnt that good especially at the time yay would frag but it wasnt necessarily against any good teams, and the reason he would frag a lot is because he was a good player on a bad team where he pretty much was allowed to get as many kills as he could muster every single round cause his team didnt do anything at all

I think in terms of results its most definitely Optic, but the most consistent in terms of play and strats id most definitely say Gambit/M3C.

these are way too good man
the rock look more like The Potato

Irrelevant record but a record none the less

i am so confused at whatt the hell is going on and im arab

EDIT: Ayo wait a minute this shit look hella good. Just from the looks alone i can already tell this tastes better with milk

Zeta werent a good team when they went into masters. They improved more than any other team in the history of valorant has been able to improve in that amount of time (less than a week and a half)