CLASSIC JAY "I am now ready for a return to competitive play" WON

The true NA's last hope is here
This is seriously gonna completely change what Chall 2 is gonna look like, Sinatraa about to own. Id love to see sinatraa v Tenz but its also lowkey scary if I have to watch that match in lowers cause imma get hella emotional if one is guaranteed to leave

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I mean I dont think its to that extent honestly, I feel like theyre still quite a formidable team but honestly I think ppl are really underestimating NIP they played crazy against FNC nothing held back. Also the whole Derke situation was on a 1 day notice so they didnt have the mental ready yet

I mean hes a SEN content creator, leaving a clip of him in the video doesnt indicate much imo. Also if he were to come back he definitely isnt replacingg tenz esp after the V1 match, and replacing zombs would be kinda dumb unless Sick is gonna fill the role which i still dont think is the move. Replacing Dapr tho...? Dunno it might be smth to think about since dapr is the viper player (Sick has been spotted playing a lot of Omen and Viper). Honestly I think Daprs recent performances havent been too good but then again hes like a glue to the team just like Sick is so not sure how thats gonna work
6 Man Roster would be sick I feel

Damn you were right TL beat XIA

nah they didnt even try wyoa. Anyone with a brain cell and two eyes could see that FNC literally were throwing so hard i almost mistook them for liquid

Honestly theres a high chance thats what happened after XIA won the first 4 rounds. Man just gave up like he did with TSM

They actin like they even have a chance at winning KEK

thats not wrong. Mans has never done anything productive in his career. Somehow he just got a big name from being in the right place at the right time and now everyone thinks of him as an insane coach even though hes sitting on his seat the whole Optic match telling them over and over to just win their gunfigghts and play better

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Thing is in all honestly the way Chet conducts himself is standard in the west. They often are quite ignorant when it comes to any country other than theirs even other western or 1st world countries. Sure you could say he is racist but thats not exactly true since he speaks that way due to an ignorance and an absence in wanting to find out more about other places.

The thing is the score line doesnt tell you the actual feeling and the vibe the players and the teams were giving off in the match
Xerxia were definitely in full control almost the whole game for Icebox, and they were dismantling Optic on Ascent. The rounds that Optic won were not impressive rounds they were simply "Yay see opponent, Yay click head", almost no teamwork in any of the rounds were what caused the win. However the rounds Xerxia were winning were stomps or clean teamplay that slowly lead to a bigger and bigger advantage within the round.
Xerxia no doubt were far ahead of Optic today at least

Literally more than half the rounds were won due to one player on optic fragging out but ok. If thats close then I guess Optic is just a shallow team with no cohesion or team play

Praise is not needed at all ofc but the guy was literally down playing everything Xerxia did and was quite literally throwing jabs at them because what? Optic played badly? Those arent grounds to insult someone and ofc him doing that is going to lead to literally everyone shitting on him cause the guy is a salty and toxic coach who has achieved quite literally nothing in his time in valorant

IDK why tf ppl are denying it being tenz, its just the truth, the guy is by far the most popular universally. Name me one person thats anywhere near as universally known as him. I have friends that dont watch val or play it and they know one thing about the game and that is TENZ

the cat ears i dont think got anywhere near as much attention as tenz but yea overall it is definitely tenz

definitely still most popular by a mile no question about it
Name one person that is more universally known

i really dont get why ppl have to hate at every sight of the name tenz, it doesnt make sense to me but i guess thats why they spend 12 hours a day at their desk

true but tenz is just that much more well known

Thats literally DRX but for some reason they dont get the same treatment as loud. Shame honestly that these cracked ass teams are treated like underdogs esp when teams like Liquid shit and Optic are considered to be some of the best

brave played for less than a month with them, so saying that they lose a lot of firepower with a sub on the team is just a false statement. Esp cause FNC is a strat based team which allows for player flexibility as proven by FPX time and time again. They just need to be able to teach the sub all their strats and set plays and it will be like brave never left.
Turret whiff is just him, that has nothign to do with team play or indiv skill cause i mean he proved it that very round that he is insane.
I think as well the fact that they have a few matches against quite mediocre teams allows for them to build up more chemistry so thats a good thing. Once they get to the final bracket play, they 100% have a really good shot at winning the event

Lookin at V1 vs Optic, C9 vs Optic, and V1 vs C9, I think its quite clear that you cant translate how good a team is by doing that.
100T beat both Acend and Gambit and were actually the only ones to beat them for that period of time all the way to masters (in an important match at least). Could you say that 100T were in fact at the time the best team in the world? Not by a long shot
I also mentioned that honestly i think the competition this time around (other than Zeta) are quite neck and neck. Id probably say you could move around the teams quite a bit and it would still be quite a valid list. I just thinkk the top 3 i put up there are solidly gonna have the highest chances to win Masters

read my above message

G2 hasnt performed at all. All of their wins are questionable and the best they did against FPX was 3-1 and they got destroyed on icebox and again FPX didnt even have their A-game on show on the day with a vital player missing from the team.
TL has looked and continued to be garbage the past month. They could barely beat Navi (ofc theyre a good team but considering just a few months prior TL were slated to win Champs, this was just a super poor showing byt hem) and they werent able to beat any team except Guild and G2 earlier on in the stage.
DRX didnt get worse losing lakia cause he just didnt fit the style of the team, he was kindof like an ugly duckling in that group. Losing kking tho i would say would have been a hit, had they not had such a good replacement for him in Zest which id say is an overall better and more consistent player.
Again liquid is lookin like a pile of liquid shit, super inconsistent after champs, and constantly sabotaging themselves by running the most stupid comps ever, and having Jampi on a non fragging role (though his sova is cracked af)
FNC losing braveAF mightve been a hit, but Id say its not mainly because teams with setplays are usually very adaptable since they only need to apply it to their sub, and also Brave was also only on the team for like less than a month. If it was someone like derke that couldnt play then yea i agree, but Id say other than him they can just have a decent flex player fill his role.

All of you are wrong this is the one true ranking that is quite undeniable
1-4
FNC, DRX, The Guard (if they dont crumble under the pressure), PRX (yall actually sleeping on prx)

5-8
Optic (this is assuming that they play like they did in this challengers cause they are playing so poorly compared to what they used to be), G2, KRU, Loud

9-12
yea put the rest down here idrc

Honestly after 1-3 the rest of these teams are quite close in terms of skill, well at least most of them, id be able to move them around with each other no problem

Liquid in 1-4 i have never heard of such a troll in my entire life

The moment i saw g2 in 1-4 and i saw fnatic and drx in 5 and lower i immediately disregarded your opinion

r u trolling? If fnatic is in B tier, literally every other team should be in F tier
Fnatic lost to G2 in a game that didnt matter where they clearly used ZERO strats and set plays, yet somehow ppl start calling htem a trash team

rip

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Yall know we aint ever gonna beat any EMEA or NA teams if we keep fighting over the pettiest shit ever right? Cant we make this a competitive friendly rivalry rather than going barbaric over every single countries' reps that dont make it to International

Yall talkin like half of PRX isnt Indo, one of which is most definitely the best player currently in all of APAC and arguably Top 10 Global

bleed copium

travel restrictions

Well I mean they literally have 4 teams in that region, it would be quite difficult to not qualify

pr is from sg

do you know what regions are?

dude they knew 100% that Fnatic were gonna be throwing their seeding games. IDK if its an insider thing or they just know that FNC do that but Ange1 just decided to go jett cause there wasnt really anything on the line esp cause it was first map and it wasnt their map pick

he literally match MVPed

that is the most close minded mindset ever. Its completely fine for IGLs to be playing the duelist role. 100T and Sentinels at their peaks were both doing that on certain maps. Its completely fine IGLing isnt something that stops just because youre entrying

Done

Truly, he had it so spot on that he forgot to change his flair on time so he did it after the match

Instantly changes flair

Are y'all fucking bozos? FNC were completely dominant in groups and takes all 5 matches convincingly. They beat M3C undeniably a top 3 team in EMEA (yes they lost against G2 but did y'all forgot that they 13-0d them?), If that doesn't show they are one of if not the best idk what other proof you need.
People need to understand first of all that honestly for top teams like FNC, SEEDING DOESNT MATTER, playing seriously in seeding matches just gives more content for your opponents to analyze and ultimately counter strat you. And secondly, the round differentials don't matter
FNC is most definitely still a contender for No. 1 in the world and it has not swayed at all regardless of scores against FPX or G2.
There's a lot more behind the scoreboard and the round differential that a lot of ppl just don't understand how to fucking read.

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I think its time for Fnatic to shine, they have everything to prove while M3C dont really. Fnatic taking this one
Its either gonna be 2-1 close on every map, or 2-1 with gambit sweeping one map

and you most clearly are not in the top 7 billion "LINGAWISTS"

NAH NAH YOU ACTUALLY ARE TROLLING 100T IS STILL THE BEST TEAM GENWHOIOOOO???? FAZEWHOOO??? MATE IF YOU DONT THINK 100T IS THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD, YOURE DELUSIONAL CAUSE I FUCKED YOUR MOM BITCH RATIO L TAKE MY COCK

DUDE NAH 100THIEVES BEST TEAM DUDE
YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THEY ARE STILL THE ONLY TEAM TO BEAT BOTH GAMBIT AND ACEND AT AN INTERNATIONAL LAN IN THE SAME LAN
YALL ACTUALLY CAPPING IF YOU THINK 100T ISNT THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD RN, THEY JUST TAKIN A BREAK CAUSE THERE HAVENT BEEN ANY STAND OUT NEW TEAMS THAT THEY NEED TO PUT IN THEIR PLACE