I think is my pick for best sentinel in APAC, second is King

Anyone else have any shouts?

agreed with this

yes but at that point players are tilted, secret and eugene dc mid game, tech pauses...

GE won but that game 1 couldve changed the series

thank you, GE played well under the same circumstances as Damwon I just wish they can prove themselves to people like me on lan next time

im not gonna answer that question because indians will call me a hater and downvote

just wait till lan

dcinside going crazy lol

yes thats why we all love lan

Ive always said that

indians im not trying to say GE is bad, im trying to say that the upset result is just classic online valorant

remember during the game there was like 5 tech pauses because of dc, same thing with GE vs PRX

all in all its a combination of alot of things but ping was DEFINETLY a factor

its a combination of everything, but first time playing on 80 ping map 1 definitely tilted the players

Ive played on high ping before so I know the difference

If youve played before you can adjust to 80 ping but it requires you to have tried it beforehand

Damwon players are the korean players that play the most on kr servers instead of asia server and when they scrim its mostly on 8 ping or 30 ping (tokyo) or 45 ping (hk2)

Yes but ik damwon players never practice hk1 server the max ping they practice on is 40 usually and they had to play with 80 on game 1

Also GE players play mumbai to singapore scrims frequently

I told everyone that you should not take damwon losing to ge on 80 ping seriously...

Jeonghi played really well before joining damwon

Intro was on crazy raccoon but was replaced by munchkin

Japan has so much of korea talent rn its crazy

If PRX looked strong how did CR look..

I dont have the link but someone integrated ranked population into total playerbase size

Na had like 1.5 mil
Asia had like 1.7 mil if you count Korea that 2.0 mil
Latam had like 700k
Europe had like 2.5 mil

Yea were so behind

But it makes sense, when breeze cam out western pros liked it because it was wide and open but koreans pros hated it saying its aim simulator with no strategy

Fracture I think Korea will be strong, map is very tight spaces so astra breach comps will be good

If APAC North (CN/JP/KR) becomes a thing they will have as many slots as NA

playerbase wise theyre equal to NA
viewership wise they will be bigger than NA

Knowing that DK is like Koreas third best Breeze team and getting 13-3...

We suck at breeze :(

Same, their ascent performance against reject and boom was solid

Less friction on table when moving mouse

Ok so similar to Damwon then

Gonna be good series

How good is PRX on ascent?

They have the lowest server population out of all the continents by far

Even NA is less populated than Asia rn

Ofc they can lol

Rule number 1 in esports, never take 80 ping game results seriously

Ay 1-0 start

Lets close it out

Upfrag because name

Do or die time #DKWIN

But damwon deleted reject... i dont get it anymore

Damn how did reject have a close series with these guys????

Yeah u need vpn to make account but if u have acc u dont need vpn

I just buy account from every region bcuz im too lazy to play tutorial and do placements

All w no vpn

Intro always pops off hes dwg's most consistent player

Texture is 50/50, so I guess well see his condition in next few hours

For any server u dont need vpn, just the account that matches the region

U can buy a korea account

Dont worry bro I watched the nuturn fs series, fs played well but nuturn played like they were throwing

Youre right

yea 2-1 most likely score

but if Im being honest, I rate Damwon higher than NTH and seeing NTH beat PRX showed they aren't at VS level yet, and anybody can beat anybody

no Im scared of forsaken jett

Anyone else excited to see how strong they are versus PRX?

They just came back from smacking Reject and Boom, and Reject are close to Fullsense who stomped on Nuturn on 2 maps

Im very optimistic about this PRX series, I really dont think they will get destroyed. Maybe 2-1 close PRX win or 2-1 Damwon upset

Also Intro is imo the best sentinel in apac, I dont know anybody whos close except King

NU win

good shout on exy

all g I have nightmares of DK players ligning up on A long

man this one is gonna be a BANGER

Realistically north apac and south apac would have 4 slots each, OCE would be part of apac south I think

pretty good

market potential for gaming in india isn't as big as China, USA, JP or Korea

you can look up research on this, look up Gaming Industry Revenue Share

https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/

except you two are clueless because mumbai servers are not more populated than jp servers or even kr servers

Brazil imo has the same exact problem asia had in csgo

smaller population, no good scrim partners

that guy has no idea what hes talking, ignore him

Ok now that all the memes have died down, trolls have gone to do some other stuff, I wanted to talk about SEA.

Goddamn SEA is scary, the fact that FS beat Nuturn handedly and PRX is a FULL tier above that...

It also puts in perspective how grateful we should be to have a team like VS.

As a csgo player I remember how sad it was when MVP PK were the only good team in Korea and would sometimes not win the qualifiers with the other SEA/chinese teams.

Thankfully, in Valorant Riot has blessed us with a scene and has tried their best to turn this into the next big FPS in Korea, I know for a fact that as long as the playerbase keeps growing like it is right now we wont ever return to the dark csgo days. Yes today SEA had better teams for now, but next challengers could be a totally different story. We saw that happen between masters 2 and 3. It all depends on how much effort the pros will put in to become better and we as fans can do nothing but support them till the end. Also this LCQ is not over so theres that. But lets start lowering our expectations for now.

Also the best result for us Koreans is that the strongest team goes to represent APAC. I know a lot of us are disappointed because PRX lost to SMB and that means our region as a whole is way behind EMEA/NA but I still believe thats not the case. This champions I hope PRX or NTH or FS or whoever qualifies shows that APAC is a extremely competitive region, that is whats best for the future of the scene.

you realize Im korean so I will support F4Q?

Im not gonna become a random GE bandwagoner