At least with Sens win they actually beat the other best team in the world whereas in Shanghai it was proven that Sen and GenG still hadn't been usurped in terms of level of play.
Madrid had 2 S tier teams, Shanghai only had 1.
Either way both tourneys were Mickey mouse asf, probably competing with Tokyo as most Mickey mouse

That's not a fluke it's called a Minnie Mouse tourney (yes Minnie mouse, the Mickey mouse was Madrid)

I genuinely don't know why but ever since the start of this tourney I've got the feeling that EDG is gonna show up and be the best team of a tourney 1 tourney too late.
I have a feeling it'll be close but they'll take it against Sen but I rly want them to prove me wrong

Yea it really do be like that. It's been 3 years since the tenz glazers and they still can't get over it

The name checks out. don't be so salty lil bro

This gotta be the most ironic statement ever ☠️

what exactly was the throwing? Other than SEN whiffing 2v1s and shit there really wasnt much throwing. DRX adjusted their setups and kept catching SEN cause they didnt allow any picks. Even after that SEN tried to play for picks and it kept failing so they decided to just take mid and hit site

i mean that is the map but regardless no match will have every round be insanely hype. Even then tho the postplants were insanely close and tense. There was like 1 or 2 boring posts in the first half i think but that was about it

Bro please, that was even more postplant sim than this and i like Heretics.
I didnt feel any hype from that map maybe because it was groups but also because it was just one sided halves. Not even in contention against this map

GOTTA BE THE BEST MAP YET NO???

KEEP TALKING YOUR SHIT ABOUT SACY

Bro is ignoring sacys godly performance so far this champs. Bro has some sort of champs buff

I love watching all you dumbasses glaze GenG so hard when both games they've played so far have been way worse than their performance at Shanghai.
Keep talking shit about Sen to fuel the hate boners

Aight bro

Trace just topped
Edit: oh you meant first seeds

As long as they keep throwing then there's a real chance

What more is there to say? We're cooked
They decided to show up 1 event late

If only you won lotus, if only y'all tried a little harder

their performance from 2 weeks ago was top 10, we aint pulling shit out from last century bro

and KRU owned 100t so...

aight bet

G2 are probably the most drilled and disciplined team we have EVER seen in valorant and that style of play is perfect against most playstyles we see today. Issue is against teams like GenG who have a similar level of teamplay and far higher firepower it just doesnt work so well. Its not a matter of GenG are way better than G2 but the styles just dont match well but then again G2 have adjusted to many different styles to fit their opponents.

Lev in my eyes have a better chance because theyre literally the GenG of Americas with less firepower. I feel like Lev wouldve comfortably won todays series if they played like they did for this entire stage. It just looked to me like they had no real motivation to win a seeding match. Call me crazy all you want be objectively Lev played worse than they have been this past stage and made mistakes a tier 2 team would be making like the excessive amounts of dry peeking in man advantage and equal situations.

If were being realistic tho, GenG are so fucking consistent that i just dont see them losing Champs. Then again apart from SEN in 2021 and Madrid as well as arguably FNC in Tokyo, there have been 0 favourites to win a tournament

It zooms in your game so it's easier to see enemies, it's not a gimmick.
I personally don't think it's worth the input lag in valorant tho

Why does this matter so much to you bro ☠️

Who cares? Anyone with a brain can tell these guys are neck and neck

FNC trophies: Lock//In Trophy, Masters Tokyo
Prx trophies: 🦗

This guy actually told you to grow up and this is the shit he's saying 😭😭😭
I can't dude this is too good. He thinks that he's roasted and toasted you if he can get you to say FNC have won 0 of 2 internationals 🤣

Kind of a dumbass comparison, really doesn't prove anything other than you're butt hurt

Nah loud actually look like they're trying now, though less very well could've locked omen with 0 warning on the team

The only way this is an argument at all is to take into measurement how good the teams were and to compare peaks. In placements it isn't even a question.
Imo Sen would've made it really far in Shanghai cause the competition was straight garbage (somehow worse than Madrid) and if Sen were able to play in a free region like APAC their slump wouldn't be so prominent

That logic really doesn't add up

While I'd typically agree slightly with that statement, this game looked the closest to a team actively trying to lose and no one looking to actually kill the opponents or play together.
If anything loud want to get this game over with and go home or at the very least that map. Also picking ascent against 100t is suicide and loud aren't a stupid team, they're usually rlly good with vetos so... They likely do want to end this 0-2

Fr, qck stocks rising.
Issue is Brazils tangent pipeline to tier 1 doesn't exist so they can't find any young cracked duelist very easily. You gotta settle with what you have and fix up the strats to accommodate

So now we know why he doesn't wanna play duelist

They try too hard sometimes yk?

So you're saying if they had the best support in the game over ardiis who was having a shit year that they'd achieve higher highs?
I never thought about it that way, you're kinda smart, wow

The only thing in someone's head is this guy getting you triggered when he sees your 0/8 bait ☠️

We got rid of the crypto thrower and Nepo daddy, we good now

This guy gets screwed wherever he goes man, even going crazy in this match saadhak is throwing on neon and the rest are mid asf other than caua

This year will be the only champs that's actually significantly higher in level of play compared to the masters of the same year because many teams are actually competing this year and a lot of big name teams didn't end up making it.
This'll be the first 16 team even where it actually gets harder due to having 16 teams attend where there's enough room for all the best teams

The storylines will come up once we're there, right now there are a few like Prx v Sen redemption, likely there'll be China v boostio, and probably TH finally being able to not choke a GF if they end up winning which would be a MASSIVE storyline if it happens

THEY DONT x_x, scream is a flex, keiko is an entry

theyre really bad at ecos so im guessing they wanna try to get a high potential gun that doesnt require a hero buy

the IGL wouldve stopped 100T from winning so many rounds in the first place. The IGL would stop them from overheating. The IGL would call strats that makes it easier for the entries to pop off. The IGL would be sacrificing his stats to boost everyone elses stats

except everyone on GenG is one of the best on the team
Mindfreak has never been the best since copenhagen

so how we doin this?

PRX fans deserve it for shitting on Monyet when he was literally the only reason they got as far as they did in Madrid

he somehow cursed both teams he had winning

4th as a placement alone isnt bad but you gotta look at the context, fnc were playing like shit, they didnt trade, they had stiff looking execs, their reads were off, placement and timing was bad, individuals were terrible.
They got 4th but they didnt really go against any challenging teams during that run apart from Loud who absolutely tore them apart in both matches

Is this not just proof that Boaster isnt on the same level as Saadhak and FNS. Even Angel hasnt had a falloff this bad other than when cNeds agent pool was their downfall. Boaster has always been a decent IGL but I dont think ive ever seen him as a world class IGL (this is from a FNC fan of 3.5 years btw).
He has players that at their best are on par with everyone at the top of the world rn but they always look abysmall and just rely far too much on heroics. (their split was rlly good tho)