NA has 2 LANs
EMEA has 2 LANs (with 1 more important being Champions)

But this is indeed a yikes from babysasuke

Optic prob goes undefeated in NA groups, either flawlesses playoffs or makes a LB run like they do, and then go to Copenhagen and hopium continue to prove that they're the best in the world right now, but Fnatic is honeymooning hard right now and are easily on the same tier/level as Optic rn. Either way if they play at Copenhagen it should be a fire matchup

Vandal attack
Phantom defense
Vandal on most agents
Phantom for smokes
Vandal for Crisp
Phantom for Consistency
Vandal 100% for Breeze Icebox
Other maps it can be mixed.

Aka it comes down to playstyle and preference, I use both pretty consistently but I personally prefer the Vandal because the one tap headshots being really satisfying

is there anyone other than genghsta tho?

best take

I don't rlly see how, I'm just saying its good by comparison to other disney star wars content. Just obviously has a few MINOR issues that depending on how seriously you take the show will either be something very noticeable or just gloss right over you.

Coming from a huge Star Wars fan I think its pretty good thus far, outside of a few minor gripes with how disney tends to ruin crap. Its definitely got its flaws like how they've messed with the canonicity of another disney show they made, some cheesy chase scenes with young Leia, and alot of bad writing on the villains outside of Vader. But thus far through 3 episodes I've enjoyed it and it definitely has potential, like its atleast better than a fair amount of other disney star wars content.

whatever teams have the biggest round/map differential

DRX are easily like a top 5-8 team ITW they just end up choking at a masters event but they very likely will win a title one of these days. Theyre just one of those teams that have alot of the pieces but just need to put it into execution

doubt

2-1 hopium for NRG just so we can get all of group A into a cluster fuck of 2-2. Ethan revenge game and prob gonna be the best game of the weekend

s0m, tarik, xeppaa, flexinja, averagejonas

hm: vanity, boaster, prod

its almost as if everyone has been calling for it for a year now and that Riot has acknowledged that he will eventually get a buff/rework theres just no timetable.

isn't a super popular team when theres boat loads of bandwagon/big team fans in NA.
Teams like EG, Ghost, NRG, Knights, LG all have fans just not as many compared to 100t, tsm, sen, optic.

We exist trust me

Good for practicing good habits/mechanics but it plays out so awfully with people just footstep camping.

Stuff that others named like crosshair placement n what not should be the main focus

Honestly just having a much more competitive region overall in NA is good. And we arent the only region seeing that. Competition levels right now in tier 1 are pretty damn tight outside of maybe 1-2 top tier teams in each region (optic, fnatic, prx, loud).

Outside of Optic realistically any other the other 11 NA teams could qualify to M2 with how groups are going.
But it would be rlly funny to see everyone being 2-2 next week but I agree on the last point where whoever ends up being 5/6 in the group itll really suck for because every match has been pretty tight

facts

fair assessment tbh, but as #3 pointed out, ranked 2-11 are all toss ups due to how UNPREDICTABLE the groups have been, the amount of upsets we've seen really goes to show that NA valorant is really competitive for that 2nd top spot behind Optic. Which in all honesty is great to see just is really damn hard to rank

would be really funny if that did happen

lets count how many times sentinels have fallen off since Iceland last year

only thing sentinels have now is them being consistently bad

Optic is a lock, but outta every other team it could be really anybody right now. NA competition is pretty close outside of that.

sentinels fan is one to talk

Yeah I have no idea whats going on right now, not to mention they JUST started bootcamping.

Either Ghost are just built different or NRG is just having a really bad off day. Hurts to watch at times tbh.

yeah alot of people missed that in the middle of the action,

Tex didn't have bomb he had to go and pick it up after koala collat sniped eeiu and s0m

this hurts to watch

fair, tbh theres alot of really quality controllers in NA.

fr boomer mans is popping off

this round was nutty for both sides, match is gonna be a certified banger

Marved and Bang are the best 2.
Honorable mentions are Depph, Valyn, Hazed, Aproto, Vanity back when he was on smokes but he's since switched

Gonna be a banger, we got S0m Yoru

what the hell is C9 doing lol

Hoping NRG wins but this match should be a banger either way

That last round was the biggest clusterfuck i've seen in awhile

true, but NRG wasnt bootcamping for its first two matches and now they will be, so they might be next level compared to when they were against TSM and XSET is what I meant by that

Watch parties probably, that and the main stream being English which likely isnt most russians or turks first language of choice

its called TSM is the kryptonite of 100T but shit the bed against everyone else in simple terms.
Thats not saying TSM or 100T are bad just that TSM is at the bottom because they can't* beat any of the other teams in their group.

Gonna be a banger of a match I'm sure, hoping 2-1 for NRG

damn mans rlly went 0-2 today

I think by the end of this we'll seeing
XSET NRG 100T and Guard as the 4 teams outta group A (not in that order im not gonna bother with that)
atleast if Guard keeps form that is, but I gotta agree that group is literally anyones to take, woulda been a bit different if XSET locked in atleast one spot today but damn did 100T come out swinging

Sheesh Bang

sheesh

big brain bang smackin people with his wang

https://www.vlr.gg/104124/sentinels-to-sub-in-rawkus-and-dani-for-tenz-and-sick

fair

you forgot guard and ghost and put xset twice

rip bozo

tenz finna morb his way out of sentiLULs

Thats also kinda true.
I agree that yea M3C > G2 and TL but they finished 5th so they couldn't have went to Iceland either way.

Either way what happened at Iceland happened and we had PRX ZETA LOUD and Optic kick ass, wouldn't call any of those teams flukes and they did beat just about everyone else there including EMEAs representations.

Copenhagen should be really fun and competitive when it comes around.

its just a reactionary post to some EU goober doing the same thing at NA

FPX and FNC excuses are legitimate
But EMEA didn't even make top 4.

At the end of the day global Valorant is alot more competitive this year, hell we could see Japan Korea Brazil or APAC take M2 or Champs even because theres no more clear cut "minor" regions outside of LATAM.

Its anyones to take plain and simple. Glad to see it being competitive.