is this a bait cause why would they do that for such a high viewership region that managed to make it to finals? I definitely think they are quite bad and that their second seed should be used as a shared seed like they did this time, but not with latams no2 but instead with latams no1. So potentially if latam arent able to win against second seed br they dont get to play on lan
Giving another slot to JP i dont think is going to do anything since Zeta were not good before they came to masters but that perhaps means that other jp teams might be able to improve by playing these top tier teams.
Korea also had no prospects other than DRX honestly. The play in KR is decent in terms of util usage and compositions but other than that it doesnt look like the region has much talent in terms of individual players other than those in DRX and OnSlayers

the guard is most definitely not a joke. The fact that this was their first lan and half their players werent doing as well as they usually do yet they still were able to bring it to a third map and brought the score to an 11-13, Id say had they been able to spend time practicing on the set or on lan or get that little bit more experience that they needed they wouldve knocked optic down to the losers bracket. C9 is busy trolling and playing like potatoes, v1 I honestly dont know what happened to them but it feels like they jinxed themselves with what they said coming into playoffs

i mean both those things at the end are "unknowingly treating matchfixers differently"

tf i was talking about when he moved to optic, that faze shit was a millennium ago

no i dont think he was number 1 NA right before masters, he wasnt doing much a lot of the time and only every once in a while he wuold be playing like he did this tourney but after yea i completely agree that he is the best player that is on the controller role I dont think hes the best controller however cause the support he provides his team is pretty much non existent other than his smokes. When hes on omen the smokes are for his team and the rest of his util is used purely for him to frag out

before he was quite non existent half the time which i guess was the case as well with the rest of optic online, but after the TG match he just went offffff

DRX v Optic will still be the finals in my heart

listen i know not everyone is able to use their brain to analyse util usage and team play in a match but by vod reviewing FPX FNC and M3C you can see that they are far ahead of the rest of the teams in Masters

M3C
WYM stop coping tf?? Ur literally a guild supporter you cant be telling me that

I dont think theyre the second best honestly, I think from this tournament alone DRX and TG were better than them, let alone FNC with their full roster.

I don't see a universe that loud wins that finals honestly, they're just far too one dimensional. If they can't even compete with optic then they are far from being true world's best

It is 3 months old so why everyone called it the best team in the world? Idk i was quite disappointed by loud and seeing that they just look like a decent NA team.
Idk man this tourney is fucked 3 teams that were by far and away the best in the world rn weren't able to show what they had

yall keep saying best smokes but the man literally is getting kills, that doesnt say anything about his util, so maybe hes the best fragger thats a controller main but it doesnt mean hes best controller

Where is Vanity?

literally the entire reason optic is even still in this tournament

Didnt capitalize on the Optic throw rip

Literally marved every single time his team is trolling and throwing the game
Gets 13 kills in 1 round

Everyone is denying it but it isnt completely false, when it comes to teams that arent EMEA or NA there are different expectations completely. If a team doesnt play crazy like PRX or if a team doesnt constantly have heroics or the craziest round ever then the casters dont react nearly as hype as they do for EMEA and NA teams

no they are an amzing team and they have some absolutely beautifully crafted rounds, but just as many rounds as they have those there are just as many where optic are just hard throwing and dont know what the fuck to do. Optic has to be by far THE MOST inconsistent team round to round out of anything ive ever seen

I mean in terms of mechanics hes a meh, but he makes it up for with being an insane IGL just like boaster and to a lesser extent vanity, shahzam (not recently), and valyn

yes i agree they are choking/throwing as optic CONSTANTLY do in the easiest of rounds, but this map is heavily defense sided and i doubt optic is going to win this game

HOW DO OPTIC CONSTANTLY THROW SUCH UNLOSABLE ROUNDS YET SOMEHOW THEY HAVENT BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT YET???
Dude how is this NAs best team man actually a fucking disappointment, this map is so defense sided that they CANNOT lose a round like that. I hope Optic dont qual for another even until they fix that shit

This guy a fuckin geng fan xD wow thats crazy
BTW the top 3 teams in EMEA didnt even compete and they were still able to place in top 5 in the tournament with their arguably 5th best team.
FPX getting ready to smurf stage 2
M3C dealing with D3FFOs stage 4 scoliosis problems
FNC got hard nerfed getting both of their star players take off the team and having only 1 day to prepare with H1BER who was supposed to replace their star player.
NA needs to shut up rn cause even BR is beating them so far and honestly OpTic would get rolled by FNC if they played with their full roster, let alone what would happen if they faced top form fpx or m3c

if im not mistaken the last finals i saw the upper bracket winners get to do 2 map vetos and a map pick right off the bat so that is quite a good advantage if that is the case. Dont quote me on that though thats just from memory

no they removed that a long time ago ever since they had enough maps to play in BO5s. A map advantage is absolutely a terrible way to do a finals cause its waaaaaaay too big of a handicap for the opponent team especially when it comes to getting unlucky brackets, it also doesnt show who the better team is very well. The better thing to do is advantage with 2 map vetos back to back which im pretty sure the winners get, i think they also get first map pick

buddy their top 3 teams arent even at the event and they still achieved top 5 with a team as ass as G2

nah chet definitely didnt do any of this. That gguy has no appreciation for valorant strategy and he didnt even kknow this level of complexity was even possible. THis was definitely the work of FNS

yea it is but are they touted to be the best team in the world? NO. Im not saying loud is bad but i cant believe people had them as favourites when there are teams like DRX, Optic, and TG (potentially wouldve won if they got through the lan jitters)

Yea ik Optic were just really good this map and p much didnt even let loud come back but honestly i still havent seen anything impressive out of loud other than frag potential. They feel like the most overhyped team
I guess well see on ascent though their best map

Nah i have no doubt that FNS was the one that did all the work. Chet didnt even know this sort of complexity was possible let alone devise this kind of plan. FNS is legendary dont detract from him

I really hate that argument and comparison cause zombs is completely different to half of those controllers. Also you named 4 controllers from 4 different teams, that doesnt exactly put zombs far down from the number 1 spot does it?
The argument that marved and zander frag out harder while being able to fill the role better is such a stupid one cause the way zombs plays controllers is that he anchors, HARD anchors. He doesnt allow any space for the opponents to get back into the game and thats why hes so dominant. Shahz has even talked about this before on a podcast where the reason why they often look like they throw towards the end of the game is because everyone is fast rotating cause they want the game to end but looking deeper into their games it looks like they all fast rotate throughout the game, except zombs. Once it gets close to match point thats when youll see him make selfish plays and try to go for kills to try to end out the game. That alone already shows how he is able to fill the controller + sentinel role even better than sentinel players can. Zombs also doesnt stat pad, thats why his stats looks so bad, cause even when theyre winning hard or losing, hes still playing that same style by holding the site properly not trying to go for the kills but to delay and to gather information.
Valyn and Vanity play a similar style but theyre sort of half and half. They do go for frags and they dont play nearly as selfless and i do agree that to an extent vanity is a little better than zombs but idk about valyn tho. I think valyn is quite ok
At the end of the day they all play the role that their teams need them to fill

yea exactly it got to his head and he finally got the high of winning without trying. Im assuming he just doesnt enjoy practicing as much or maybe hes lost interest in the game? Idk i honestly dont understand people like him very well but it is a shame that someone as good as him doesnt even try to practice seriously cause i wonder what would happen if he did

I have no idea why you have so many negative frags youre literally stating the truth. I really dont understand how ppl can fall into zombs' baits and actually start to hate him its hilarious. He playin the community like a fiddle

I mean he couldve very well rented it or just borrowed it. I dont think zombs has that kind of money and even if he did im sure he isnt stupid enough to buy a depreciating asset (well at least what i assume would be a depreciating asset)

well the stun was miss timed first of all and secondly it was due to poor comms all around the team. You can see from that round alone that the comms on sen were absolutely atrocious and would continue for the rest of the map
Also zombs has to be one of the best controllers in NA no doubt in my mind at all. The only problem is his uncaring attitude for the game and for most likely practice. The guy is similar to Sinatraa in that he probably just hates trying hard to win and like its more to just win without hard work. This wasnt a problem when sinatraa was on the team cuz sen wasnt the best yet and they couldnt get complacent because they werent able to win every single match in NA let alone the world

i completely agree and i dont know how other people have not yet realized this. I feel like its quite clear even from the first lan that zombs would be the downfall not because of his skills (cause the dude is seriously really good, the stats dont do him ANY justice at all), but simply because of the fact that zombs is one of those talents that doesnt like working hard. Its been seen from his previous games as well and honestly i just really hope that the dude doesnt end up quitting val and maybe he'll even change his work ethic and they can get him back on sen

Ive held out my hope for them so much in so many other tourneys and they kept disappointing. Now when i throw away all the hope i had for them thats when they start going crazy and start playing like close to how they did in berlin. Optic v Loud i still dont want to go for optic cause i have a feeling theyre going to disappoint again so fuck it im going loud 2-0

same and i hope whoever does end up winning this match ends up bringing it all theway to the finals and finishing it off

they definitely should not but it makes sense in order to increase the participation from all regions. It is nice we get more of the other regions but i feel like if they wouldnt be able to make it to playoffs in the first place then theyll just produce subpar matches so yes and no
overall tho i feel like looking at how far all the minor regions have come, id say theres no more need to do byes into playoffs

Haikyuu is ongoing and so far the anime steps it up with every season (i mean if ssn 4 had more consistent animation and didnt have a gap in between it would have been more hype), the next season hasnt been announced yet but im telling you if you want a heavy hitting sports anime masterpiece, haikyuu season 5 will deliver exactly that

Honestly could be the same for cleoh for defamation of character

Wouldnt the incels be the one that's rooting for sinatraa

It's just that he had to undergo training now. He most definitely will come back

I think give it a little time and theyll be really good but i dont know about qualifying for masters let alone win it

I mean poach really is something else. He lead BBG so well with such amazing strats tho they were just super nervous when they went against Rise and whiffed all their shots. They most definitely shouldve won that rise game

So reportedly Sentinels have locked in both Kanpeki and Zombs for Stage 2 of the VCT...yea...
I dont know what to feel, first off because i was expecting sinatraa and secondly this will be the first showing of sick on controller

Y'all actually thought g2 was good

Didn't the guy say he was an fa now? Even if he is restricted tho there's no way it could be that outrageous considering his results which don't speak for his skill

So no one is trying to look into rawkus right now? Like the man announced he was coming back and then just silence for the past few months. This guy is arguably one of the best fa sovas right now yet it seems like all the teams just forgot about him faze included

people over estimate loud but ok. Unless you mean theyre at 50% cause optic hella inconsistent