heh.

I know Tenz uses iems and zekken would wear contacts. I was hoping it was just a beginner glasses user mistake or a wait till it stops method since the bridge of my nose was hurting when I wore my glasses for too long at the start

Do your glasses the ones with the thick plastic legs or more slim metal ones? My headphones are in the smaller size so that could be a factor as well

How do you wear headphones? I either wear them with the legs atop the muffs and it looks dumb or on my ears and the muffs pushes the legs into my head n gives me a headache

Is there a vod on the captains picking their players. Shiphturr was an insane pick and from my small amount of knowledge, he is the highest ranked pick (immortal+). Bunch of golds and a few ascendants.

Thats why fan tears have to be weighed less than player tears, asuna has stayed on 100thieves since 2020, havent had a win since 2020, and now that they have won more money than they have earned in 6 years, no tears?
Pete sus

Bet. Santiago = mickey
Nongshim dambi mvp neon abuse neon meta mickey narrative pog

If the teams give it enough value, they will show it through their hard work, emotions, and result. Thats why we see all the world champions from 2023-2025 crying while 100T just was like "cool"

EWC is mickey for 100thieves because no player cried. Heretics win is good tho

Depends on the validity of the tears, and the amount of fans crying. Get a forensics team and we can determine the criteria

Im down EWC 2025 wasnt mickey ez

When they work hard enough, emotions will be there. No disrespect to 100thieves, but there is no emotions.
FNC
EG
EDG
PRX
NRG
LEV

All teams (that I remember) that had at least 1 player that teared up. Only rule I will stand by for mickey mouse tournament or not because its funnier

From the roster and from what he said a few montbs ago, boaster isn't playing

I saw the news and was very happy that this YT statistic nerd turned analyst became a head coach, but the comments under the post are saying that this was a bad decision.

My assumptions are either Platoon's lack of experience in the head coach position, the impact FrosT has on his teams, or the removal of a key figure during a time of growth and better results for the org.

I like Platoon and Patmen as creator and coach and hope that Platoon can produce a decent result as a new coach for split 2, but I know that people are gonna flame GE for their decision unless they get at least a top 4 placement in Champs.

So TL broke the rules when they had Nats (Russia) and Wayne (Singapore) on the same team?

I had to make some sort of joke, but I honestly believe that their fans overall arent that bad and its just that 5% making 99% of the noise. I hope at least it isnt that bad

G2 had first pick in the draws, and was the only top seed team to lose in playoffs.

EDG have shown that they have the most toxic fanbase bashing their opponents and also their own players (KK before they won champs). Objectively I believe that other teams can have annoying fans but EDG has about 6 or 7 psychopaths that will send death threats to anyone and everyone when their pride takes .001 dmg

EMEA has 3 teams in playoffs, 2 are in losers

With NRG and GE not qualifying, I hope for a PRX vs EDG winners final (Rivalry that I dont think has played since each of them got trophies) then maybe VIT vs PRX and PRX wins it all Idk

I hope someone makes an app to track shankth's bets so I know who is losing that series

No way they drew these matches on stream and they didnt make any rule to avoid "VCT 2026: Split 2 Trailer"

I didnt even see the 0-1 matches brother...
From 25% to 6%, what are those odds

EMEA vs EMEA
NA vs NA
I didnt watch anything after the games ended, so did they drew on stream and got 2 regional matches? Or was this just a script to make today less entertaining (in my opinion).

Kru and furia Im pretty sure is qualified and eg should be out, what are the criterias for the other teams (sen, nrg, 100t) what need to happen for them to qualify or get grouped

Is it not as simple as nerf neon buff initiators? Buy full armor, clear with util and dont enter close spaces

If they're allowing open qualifers, does that mean every team that is trying to play all have to be older than 18?

Well done, you gave me a good chuckle. Here is +1 frag

Is there more to it than young like young man reflexes or is it emulating the american rappers lil ___?

I think its mostly South Americans like spikezin, artizin, dgzin, mazin. Is there meaning to why people have zin in their names like an old-school clan tag?

Whos igl on this team as well

Respect to RRQ and MIBR for having to play 3 bo5 in the span of a week (aspas also recovering from a surgery and jemkin recovering from a broken back /j, get well soon)

fnatic are just so cold at the start, it feels like ranked play when they are always getting man advantages but losing rounds

In terms of players not roles, got it

I thought you were going for a 1:1, fns:alfa

Its so braindead how connections and legacy got this guy a job.

Hopefully he doesnt keep mibr in the past as well. I want to see competition from a "superteam"

fnatic has a sentinel that can shoot LOL (no hate to fns the goat)

Actual shame, feels like frod is 2 years late when it comes to comp.

Whatever work he does outside the game, must be heavenly to keep him in his position.

Actually sad, hope he gets another spot on a t1 team

Someone said to put aspas on chamber, which might work if they replicate RRQ in comps (in term of qualifying, maybe opposite rrq)

They seemed like friends for a while and its cool to see that they got to play on the same team. I just hope they can build some chemistry or find their own identity, and look somewhat competitive in future splits

I remember xenom looked like a great rookie during kickoff and just fell off completely without a trace. I guess I know who to blame it on

Stop playing support and ask his team for more deep angles. It might be confirmation bias, but every time I see zekken on defense he is playing support angles where he can't do much. A player who is known for their talent on aggressive agents is waiting to blind front B on haven instead of playing somewhere like A long or C long, ready to get his and tp out. Im pretty sure he got caught with blind in hand on one of today's maps because he was trying to support others when he could support himself and get kills for his team.

Anyone could make the argument that zekken should play double duelist or entry or whatever. BUT IF he is playing the controller role then I assume he should be trying to play an agressive controller role like tenz did on sentinels. Tenz often had his teammates help him get an angle, he went for his own timings to get kills, and he supported his team when he had to. It's why we saw a bunch of tenz clips in 2024, and a key component to their win in madrid.

Someone who has more ball knowledge either:
-tell me that he does play aggressive angles on omen and I didnt pay watch the games close enough or
-agree with me that mibr should let him use his gun more than he uses his blind

11-8 was the first round he had the op on defense

Watching the round, I dont blame aspas for that considering they had a 5v4 retake and 3 people still lived. It was a headshot angle and he was double swung. Later in the round, Cauanzin went knife out when he had ample time and his teammates were making pressure for his flank (flanking as initiator too).

I think the biggest throws are the man advantages that loud found themselves in constantly but lost the round anyways like 11-11 when alfajer killed aspas with knives who was jumping for Cauanzin and Cauanzin running him down with a classic instead of reloading the stinger.

Was it icebox? Because on 11-3 he was left in a 1v2 retake and died dashing top site

Can someone clip the aspas whiff. I wanna see if it was actually bad

20% of your fans are annoying on vlr, but damn it sucks to see Mazino not make santiago.

On another note,
Can someone explain how zekken plays omen? becausse I feel like he was playing support the whole time like on Haven he just played to blind B main on defense. I hope he gets supported like how tenz was supported on controller

Praying for a speedy recovery for aspas and gl next split

Personally forsaken is my goat for playing basically every agent to a pro level. But if people are trying to compare chronicle vs aspas, I have to argue the belief that a player is only as good at winning a game because they are playing well statistically compared to their team.

Honestly I hope this debate just ends, because its objectively stupid. Everyone has a different definition for the goat of valorant, and everyone is comparing players that play different roles.

LOL they did, good catch. Both the goats went 0-2 in different events is crazy. I wanted to emphasize the fact that MIBR left the venue which was disrespectful for fans and the staff.

It's far easier to put up good stats and performances when you are surrounded by elite talents because the focus is never on you>

Isnt it the opposite? There is less competition for stats when you are better than your team, so you should have the higher stats. If you have to compete against players like alfajer, derke, nats, leo, then of course your stats will be less.

And there is a problem of comparing the stats of duelists and sentinels (both roles that should take most of the first engagements on both atk and def) to initiators and support. When chron is on viper, he is able to play timings for himself through lurks and hold a site with his util. Compared to when he is on initiators like sova breach and kayo, when he is creating openings for his teammates and playing retake with his util.

So not only does aspas have less star players to compete against on his own team, he is on a role that allows him to play for himself if he needs to

So is aspas making his own team to be worse them himself while chron is actively looking for teams that he can support to be the star players like derke, alfa, leo?

Or is aspas choosing players that cant win an international and disbands the team immediately every year, while chron has had 1 team that won an international but forced to disband because of russia complications, and then joined another team that has won 2 internationals and that he stayed with for 3 years only to join a team with one of his former teammates?

Or is aspas just having fun and playing with the people he wanted to play with like nzr, verno, coach frod, zekken, mazino, and tex?

I might not be able to name every event chron was the best player on his team, but I can name an event where aspas's team was the WORST of all the teams. MIBR is the only team I have heard of who left right after an international match, 0-2 shanghai and left without the post-match conference.

lol outrageous

It'd help if you double check things before posting something, especially when you are being rude to someone else. I'll apologize for being rude, so do some due diligence next time please. Buen dia

Average "chronicle is the goat" explanation:
-Wins the most titles, has more top # appearances, plays all the roles, has higher average rating internationally than aspas, 2nd highest earning (Ethan has 1st as of champion 26)

Average "aspas is the goat" explanation:
SO GoOD, ACE ACE ACE, VAMOS GIRA ASPAS, SHITS ON CHRONCON, I CANT WIN WITH MY TEAM BECAUSE I MADE MY OWN TEAM

Its turning from comical to sad at this point. Surely there is another explanation that aspas hasnt won an international since Loud 22.

Dont worry about this guy. Most aspas fans cant read