Superteam:

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just them

Bro I cringe anytime they refer to it as this.

How could anyone miss the opportunity to call it Shao-time?

ngl, Fnatic has too much firepower, even if someone's underperforming at least one of them is capable of stepping it up

that being said, I used to think the same about 100T, but idk they've looked whiplashed recently--it's like the tilt spreads to all of them at once.

IF 100t can find their form today then I have no doubt that they're the better team, but its not looking likely.

Needed a name for one of my characters in Black Desert Online, wanted something to go with the dark sorceress theme so I chose german for "Night" = "Nacht", but thought it didn't sound enough like a name, so I added an "el" to make it feel more real.

My money is on Leviatan

Duelist/Awper: Yay
Smokes: Zombs
Viper/Sentinel: Marved
Initiator/Entry Raze: Sinatraa
Flex/IGL: Hazed

based

Random Question: Did you used to play M&B Warband: Napoleonic Wars?

Bonecold is same IGL that won Acend Champions. Don't underestimate his impact to the team.

I say F/A to mean not currently signed to any org, so could theoretically make a team without any contracts in the way.

Awper, Duelist: Yay
Smokes: Marved
Sentinel: ? (Either this or Flex should be IGL)
Initiator: Sinatraa
Flex: ? (Either this role or Sentinel should be IGL)
Coach: sgares or mCe

I can't think of a good IGL not already in a franchised team that could lead this team. To be perfectly honest, I don't like vanity whatsoever--Yay describes him as a less structured IGL, and to me that means he works off momentum too much, and isn't capable of maintaining the necessary stability to keep an international team at a consistent level (Look at their matches vs DRX for example). He relies on chaos too much, but doesn't plan it out to the extent PRX does, and it backfires once a well-disciplined team like DRX simply learns to read and punish his chaotic but unsound strats.

I also can't think of many international level sentinels from NA, maybe there's some good options from EU?

For Flex, assuming it isn't the IGL, I'd imagine Xeppaaa or Subroza, but I'm not entirely confident there.

He removed Cloud9 from this twitter bio. I'm starting to think it's not just bait...

I'd say more like 4: Ange1, FNS, Saadhak, and Stax no?

I'd say more like 4: Ange1, FNS, Saadhak, and Stax

Touch grass. Ironically enough, anyone that buys into his "hustler university" nonsense is behaving like the very sheep he makes fun of. You can't be taught to be your own person; if you want to be successful, you have to materialize that success yourself, and stop listening to quacks and scammers.

the exchange rate doesn't directly correlate to the purchasing power of either wage in the other's economy. An relatively high NA wage in brazil is the equivelant of a rich wage in Brazil, and the opposite is true.

I'm having an aneurysm reading this.

victor and crashies refuse to not play together, they're a package deal

Somehow I believe you

I hope you make it to semifinals. You deserve it after this

Ange1 is a world class IGL, NAVI is a team that--while containing world-class aimers--relies on strategy like NRG. There's no way they lose.

Now I'm mad we didn't get to see NA's shittiest team beat your second most hyped up team.

2? Excuse me we have 4 superteams.

Me, I am the one who asked.

Fnatic have a few vods of them playing together in the Japan Showmatches they participated in, which may not be perfectly helpful, but may provide insight into what maps they have prepared. Above all, it looks like their haven was already really nasty a few months ago.

Also, historically Fnatic have a hard time learning new maps, (refer to Fnatic vs XSET on Pearl)

A month ago Sentinels barely had any practice, and flat out said they had 0 practice on split prior to the Tarik x Ludwig invitational showmatches.
Even if they've practiced it a lot more since then, I'm not confident in their split and I believe neither are they.

From all this, I'm predicting that Sentinels will ban Haven, Fnatic will ban Pearl. They'll maybe play lotus or split, then if lotus isn't played, fnatic will ban lotus, and sen will ban icebox, and they'll play fracture.

no tell me bitch

nyaaaa~ nats-kun is the best player in EMEA, and i respect him very much,

but sorry Cryo clears TL.

Yes, but moreso because I wanna see what this SKRossi hype is all about. Ayrin was kind of a weak link on XSET, so I don't have many expectations for him specifically.

That being said, I'll support any team that isn't EMEA on that side of the bracket, it'd be funny if they don't even get to play against NA in the end.

My guess is that everyone overreacted to Sacy and Pancada leaving. This game is so incredibly sensitive to roster changes, and at the time tuyz and cauanzin only ever looked like "the best LOUD could find" to fill their shoes. Most of everyone considered Brazil a one team region, and with that champions-winning superteam fractured, there was a lot of doubt whether they would be able to reach the same peak they once did with 2 supposedly "tier 2" replacements in peoples' minds.

A good comparison would be Paper Rex: imagine if mindfreak and jinggg left that roster. Would people still consider Paper Rex the same international-level superteam if that happened?

nyaaaaa nats-kun

1. NA Teams, cus im in NA
2. BR team, even tho im LATAM, because aspas is hot and is just fucking better at this game. also because if not for them, NRG would've made it to finals.
3. TL bc nats

I mean my eurocope statistics

Thank you, your post will be useful for my statistics...

Hello everybody, Nachtel here with your daily EU cope statistics.

Today we have seen 60% less "top EU teams are in Omega bracket" and a 10% increase in "Valorant is a shit game, horrible esport" copes

EU threads on average are down 40%

Thank you.

I remember hearing it was a permanent slot at masters, meaning instead of 2 teams from NA qualifying, it would be 3 like in EMEA

I don't think any of them are asking lol most of them are just cheering on the americas league.

Honestly not even sure why you keep explaining it in every thread I look at.

Gen.G Below KC, they did a lot better against LOUD.

By virtue of the tournament's design, it's only ever possible for 3 NA teams to make it to the top 4, since one of the semifinals slots is exclusive to a part of the bracket with no NA teams.

NA x SA Beat those EMEA shitters

No hard feelings for NRG vs LOUD but im rooting for my former optic boys, but beyond that im rooting for Furia in Omega bracket

L Aspas is Brazil's GOAT. Not good with raze? he 1v4d optic on raze. I'm an NA fanboy but he beats most NA duelists.

bro fuck outta vlr, stop appearing in my timeline

Reading this thread after a year is eye-opening.

TIL you have to limit yourself from performing in GC to appease transphobes in VLR, whereas nobody would bat an eye if a cis woman put up the same numbers.

I'll never understand why you braindead monkeys fail to see the immense value dephhh brings to the table.

First, and most obvious to point out, he not only has experience playing on LAN against other international top teams, but he is one of only 3 IGLs in NA that has managed to beat a top European team.

Making it to LAN is one thing, but actually being able to adapt to wildly different styles of play than the ones you're used to (especially those of the previous world champions) and coming out on top is all the credentials one should need in my opinion. But sure, let's just say you're all right and it was a fluke the first time around...so what about the 2 wins against FNATIC? Even the match they ultimately lost against FPX to was the closest (and longest) match champions has ever seen.

To say something along the lines of "Cryo was carrying those matches" is to discount the undeniable fact that every single one of us has learned this past year: It's become almost impossible to win matches purely based on the individual performance of star players.

The reason for this is debatable, whether it be due to a changing meta rewarding set-up chamber players over solo entry jetts, but the fact of the matter remains the same.

Why do you think Sentinels fell off so hard after Masters 1? It's not that TenZ isn't still cracked, it's that strategy dominates the game to an overwhelming degree now, moreso than aim to an extent. It's the reason The Guard managed to make it as far as they did during the first Challengers; they, a team of nameless up-and-comers, were the ones that pioneered a strategy-focused approach to the game in NA. All the other teams at the time still relied on the Sentinels model (even Optic to an extent in the earlier stages of Challengers 1).

When Challengers 2 came around, everyone (except Sentinels) saw the writing on the wall and began building competent and organic rosters, learning to play strategically so as to replicate the Guard's success. XSET was one of these teams, and not only did they successfully copy the Guard, they outdid them.

Dephhh was at the forefront of this.

I'll be honest, XSET's performance in Challengers 2 was largely helped by Cryo, and their Copenhagen run (If you can even call it that) was downright horrendous and some of the worst valorant I've ever seen (especially their match against Optic), but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't to waste, since at Champions they made sure to learn from their mistakes.

The role of an IGL often (as is the case with FNS and Chet) involves collaborating with your coach to analyze gameplay and come up with strats. Sykko knows Dephh, and has been working with him for over a year, it doesn't take a genius to understand that Sykko has personally seen Dephhh's growth as an IGL and is infinitely more comfortable working with someone he is close to and whom he can trust through his accomplishments to execute his vision on the highest stage valorant has to offer.

shut up bronze scrub.

Yashwatthama "yay" Yadav is an Indian professional Valorant player for C9, an American electrical sports ( e-sports) organisation. He is also known as El Diablo aka the demon because of his mafia connections in his hometown, Haryana.

Now that all of NA is stacked with superteams, I know longer care about making sure NA never loses ever again.

Which of the teams are you rooting for?

Personally, I'm a 100T fan now; only roster that has only NA players and no imports, really loveable roster too.

What are the fucking rules regarding import players? Apparently Ban, born in South Korea and with South Korean citizenship is still considered an NA import? the fuck is that shit?

How long does someone have to be living someplace for them to no longer be considered an import? Is Dephhh still an import? Where is the line?

Why tf does this sound like we're talking about fucking summoner wizards lmao.

"No, only the great sorceror FNS had the power to command the great devil yay."

"but Vanity is a promising summoner milord! He just might be able to wield his might to a greater effect than ye olde legend FNS ever could!"

A big question on my mind right now is how the C9 superteam will function comp wise. Of all the rosters, be they confirmed or rumored, this is the only one that has 2 high fragging primary duelists: Leaf and Yay.

I assume if someone is going to take chamber, it's definitely Yay (that's a no brainer). That might leave Leaf as another primary duelist + entry or potentially another flex; the best comparison I can think of is the dynamic between f0rsaken on chamber/jett and Jinggg on raze/reyna.

This does pose the question: what will Zellsis' role be? with 2 high fragging powerhouses on the team, each potentially taking a duelist spot, I doubt he'll be put on Neon to entry like he did on Sentinels. More likely than not, I believe he'll be resigned to a primary initiator/flex alongside xeppaaa.

vanity will probably remain as the dedicated IGL and smokes player if this is the case and Xeppaaa will probably remain a flex.