true

agreed except the last part, it definitely feels like everytime i dont watch the team im rooting for they just lose. I didnt watch SEN v TL and they lost, I didnt watch FNC v KRU they lost, I didnt watch V1 vs C9 they lost.
I watch Optic v C9 they win, I watched V1 v Optic, I watched XIA v Optic (the FIRST time, I didnt watch the second and i think you see the pattern)

theyre great but the problem is the time gives away the map count and it also gives away the winner near the end

no dont look at the results. Every morning i watch without knowing who wins the matches, i make sure i dont open twitter or vlr before ive watched the matches

but i mean do you need every single match to hit diff? You can watch some on VODs

xD damn thats true

nah i think maybe at worst it would be a hard fought one but i dont think there would be a world in which fpx or M3c didnt win

honestly i do think they were better than every other team except gambit and fnatic (when theyre doing).
M3C and FPX is just constant showings of almost perfect valorant and i love it. I dont know why it took as long as it did to finally get perfect gameplay and I really wanted to see what a game between 2 perfect teams would look like.

damn xD

no it was just the fact that DRX were able to so easily counterstrat them. Zeta couldnt respond cause DRX is just so good at completely shutting down a teams strategy. They didnt come nearly as prepared as they thought they did and it cost them. We saw the same with NIP, they are quite a decent team but they got rolled by DRX because of DRXs potential to just not allow you to do the plays you want to. Theyre superior to every other team rn in the playoffs at taking space on the map and getting info, those two things combined is what makes them look like theyre smurfing.
The only thing DRX lack is a consistent showing of high skill gunplay. Their players are great but often times they just dont show up like they usually do or they need to do, and when all their players just arent feeling it, they easily fall apart as shown in the VS v GMB match

Im p sure rn KRU would make it for worst team alongside NIP. Also it isnt about them defeating the 2 worst teams, its about the way they played, the discipline they were able to play with, the cohesiveness in game plan and execution. Clearly if you dont think DRX right now have by far the highest chance to win the tourney out of the teams in playoffs then you just dont understand how to properly analyze the teamplay shown by the top teams.

I honestly think the guard isnt gonna win a match specifically because they got unlucky with the guaranteed opponents theyre facing. Theyll face Optic which im p sure are gonna roll them if they play like they did the other day against XIA, and then they have to go against most likely PRX or DRX, both of those teams being teams that could easily roll The Guard (more so PRX)
PRXs style is super aggressive and hard to counter with solid and cohesive teamplay which is what TG are so good at doing. Their prep and their good comms will be completely run over by PRX and the extreme speed and chaos that they cause in game.
So yea honestly if TG cant win against Optic, theres literally no hope of them getting to the finals, especially considering the fact that they dont have any LAN experience from any of their players.

you guys realize VODs are a thing right?
Turn off Twitter notifs, get off youtube, and watch the match first thing in the morning while having coffee or tea or sum shit

how is this in anyway hate? I think you ppl are just snowflakes. The guy is literally saying LOUD is getting overestimated cause NIP lost hard

Thing is i would agree with you but the problem is if the second place finish team "OnSlayers" from KR came to compete, i honestly dont know if they would really win anything spectacular. Though DRX themselves are most definitely cracked af

So Id say theres still a chance Loud are insane but i mean looking through their matches i definitely think that theyre getting overrated since theyre flashier than other regions and its just pure aggressiveness, which might be hard to deal with for a few rounds or a map, but after a bit will be adapted to by the best teams

DAMN sheeeee

not true, FPX and M3C and FNC at full force beats out literally the entire globe except maybe DRX

xD dude i legit burst out laughing reading this

typical western geographical knowledge

I think loud is overhyped specifically because theyre from brazil and they tend to really over do it with the predictions. I dont doubt theyre a good team but i mean zeta beat NIP and thats saying something. So honestly yea LOUD are probably really good but i think if TL play the way they played against XIA then theyll win no problem

cough cough trash coach Chet

tuhrue

he is

...Xerxia literally was on par with TL? U gud?
For a region not nearly as supported as EMEA and NA, this was a great showing by the second seed.

True they looked really afraid of pushing and playing the way they usually do esp on Haven

Lowkey I really wanted Optic to lose so Chet would leave. Mans is a toxic influence for Val that no one wants to listen to. He doesnt have proper appreciation for the game and someone like that should not be at the helm of a team as powerful as Optic

...Im not gonna say anything cause you arent following my point

I guess the cringey comps are still too much for Chet to handle. The game just isnt complex enough so he cant create super complex strategies that will win them games. Oh well 2-0 for XIA again

man that was my first thought too but even this problem is too big for the indians, i think i might be doomed

did that already it didnt change anything

lemme try that actually

its been 3 days and thats what i thought at first but it doesnt seem like this problem is going away anytime soon

buddy i think youre looking at the beta timeline, switch over to alpha-01224 and the subsequent lines and youll see that Xerxia beat or stomp Optic out of the tournament in 4382 different timelines. If im not wrong were on track to that line since rn were on alpha-01221 which if everything goes according to plan in the next few hours should shift over to 1224

Yo someone pls dud im dyin over here im just trying to play some ranked but everytime i open valorant it goes to the RIOT GAMES screen with neon on it, the sound plays, and then the game just stays like that. The moment i click off or alt tab it will stop responding.
Ive tried reinstalling, updating drivers, changing fullscreen settings to windowed (though for some reason it stayed on fullscreen even when i booted), and ive also tried running it in compatibility mode + administrator

I honestly have no clue why you think that thats the case since clearly it isnt, its been shown time and time again that mechanically cracked players thrive in valorant

ive never seen such a W take in my life

;-; the pain still hasnt fully sunk its teeth into my soul yet
im happy zeta finally won a game but fnc didnt deserve such an unfortunate end, then again it isnt as unfortunate as fpx i guess or potentially more since fnc got absolutely humiliated

yea im in the same boat as you dude i hard jinxed FNC. I legit thought it would be an easy win and wed be able to see them close to original form in their next match

damn dud so true bro
I heckin love Yay

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its just a trash bait dont pay mind

honestly i dont think zombs is gonna be leaving sen, i feel like he might just step down from pro play so that sinatraa can come back just as he said he would. Maybe hell come back later on but i dont think that it seems like he even wants to play in the pro scene

dud... at least make the bait good man tf

that is not true in the slightest. DRX are just an anomaly in KR as seen by OnSlayers being touted to be a legendary team that should be on the same level as them and OnSlayers proceeded to get clapped 2 games in a row for ALL maps by DRX
I think honestly the org just got super lucky with the players and they also just have really good coaches and managers

I didn't say he was it's amazing how everyone assumes things like this

Well I mean again I can't say but it's been quite a while and maybe he was a different person at the time. Also there's really no conclusive evidence that he did all she said he did. At worst there were a few confirmations of "abuse" and that stuff I don't remember him ever denying.
Ofc the girl could just pull back up the investigation but so far nothing so maybe they talked abt it in private

Exactly that's why I feel this while situation is so dumb esp because she said she had the evidence this piece of evidence she claims to be conclusive video proof and for some reason she didn't submit it and still hasn't?? Isn't that 1 suspicious and 2 highly convenient that the reason she didn't share it was because they didn't ask her

It's been more than a year that he did everything he was accused for. I'm sure it's even been over 3 years now

No he can't he said himself

FNC is is nothing without derke.
FNC is also nothing without boaster.
Had boaster been the one that wasn't playing, FNC would've still lost both these matches. Maybe derke would be able to carry a map or potentially a series. But they still wouldn't make it out of stages
I'm not gonna argue honestly because if you don't understand that then no wonder you're a g2 fan