Also Furia/VK/TBK (whoever qualifies as runner-up of SA LCQ from these three)

Zeta have a sub instead of Tenn? Plus last time they played they weren't the best JP team?
I don't think Zeta will do anything at Champions at all

They do care, China's CS playerbase is big enough

Their teams still have played, are playing and will play like idiots

Because in CSGO they didn't have much tactical depth or success at all, TYLOO (best CS team) are known, first and foremost, for braindead plays

His aim is overrated
Suygetsu, Shao, Zyppan, Derke, Alfajer, trexx, Sayf, Leo, Chronicle, nats, Jady and many more - ALL better with rifles than Tenz

DRX never met EDG, how can you know who's better and who's worse?

Are DRX consistent international failures not enough to stop you from overrating them?

Other teams have a lot of VODs on Guild, M3C and Liquid made good roster changes
Even if they kept Russ, their chance of winning LCQ would still be very unlikely

How come Russ has so many fans who desperately want him back

Much better than what I saw yesterday?
Just take a look at the bracket. Both teams Liquid have played, went out immediately after going to lowers

No way you just compared god molsi to ethan and hazed

Rewatch Navi-Liquid, that was a shitshow of a match

Acend > Liquid too
Bracket put 4 strongest teams on top

Looks like upper part of the bracket was so much stronger than lower part
Free LCQ for M3C it is then

dinkzj is responsible for almost every Navi game, whenever they lose it's because of his whiffs

Really? And they still have no fans and produce no content, absolutely dead Youtube, Twitter accounts, players don't stream either

Really? I watched Liquid-Navi Fracture and it was embarrassing from both sides, even aim of both teams was off

Map picks don't mean much in Valorant
You definitely overrate the concept of "team being better on their pick"

In terms of top-1 or top-2, Latam > Brazil. Copenhagen results prove it. It may change in the future though.

In terms of top-3, top-5, etc., Brazil > Latam. Overall Latam tier-1.5/2 scene is weak.

So Fnatic is somewhere between NiP and LEV? Considering how close their game was. Alright then

Whole 2 Latam teams outperformed Brazil last Masters?

Latam has 2 teams each of whom is better than everyone from Brazil?

The only overweight FPX players are Ange1 and ardiis
Even their coach is hot

There's no shit in EMEA top-12

All Valorant casters are bad

"Pogdos" sounds so gross, I've never heard it before and better never hear again

Source for Navi being locked?

Reykjavik 2021 has gotten deep into people's brains, because it was the first international event

Thereby, everything that happened at Reykjavik 2021, in terms of community reaction and fans memory, has double effect of everything that happened ever since (although the quality of gameplay has been improving over time)

But do you remember Lakia 1v2 clutch against Version1 15 months ago??? Best sova in the world!

Boaster never won an international and his team always crumbles mid-tournament, when others learn their plays
If that's "good IGLing", alright

How's Boaster better IGL than Ange1?
We saw last Masters, didn't we?

I don't need to cope, I know my region is superior
When people say stuff like "Acend sucks", they don't think about the strength of their opponents

Navi, Guild > Liquid, Oglu
All these are better than anyone from NA either way

Acend would win SA, APAC, EA LCQ
Wrong region sadly

Yes? Every NA team aside from Optic would lose to G2
Harsh reality

I watched a couple of maps from SA, APAC, NA LCQ
Absolute garbage, OGLU would dominate that shithole, let alone these teams like Acend, they'd destroy

Both teams are playing well
Would've qualified to Champions from any other free LCQ tournament, apart from EMEA

Phoenix changes I guess never? Good company

Remember when Avova was regarded as one of the best controllers in the world

Do you know why they didn't make any LAN?
Because Riot decided so, they'd rather have shitty extra Asian or South American teams on worlds stage

Almost twice more slots for Korea+Japan than for whole ass SEA?
It's idiocy
No mention of China either

You should never take Bodork tweets for granted
Dude misses half the time
Very unreliable guy, whatever he does there behind the scenes, it's not fruitful

Navi is not a lock, FPX might be considered CIS as well, thus picked in place of Navi for that subregion's representation

BIG is not a lock, G2 is based in Germany, maybe they'll count G2 as DACH because of it, and there will be no need to get BIG into the league

3rd team - anyone else, Heretics could be, but they already have a Spanish rep (KOI), so it's not necessary

Also, we don't know whether Riot even counts CIS / DACH / East as big enough to get their own teams in EMEA

Let's say G2, FNC, TL, BBL, KOI, KC, VITA - locked, massive brands

Need 3 more teams
None of the remanining ones have big fanbase, even if they do, it's not very different from FPX EU Valorant fanbase (who gained a lot of support by winning Copenhagen)
What's the difference between picking, say, Rogue, or FPX? There's none

Multiple teams region, but every single one of them is bad compared to other Masters participants

Yes, they want to expand their brand internationally, get some non-Chinese fans
What's bad about it

Imagine Furia make Champions, but 4 of M3C, Acend, Navi, Guild, Liquid don't

Chinese diaspora all around the world? I guess

Woke up when they felt power after beating ONS

Bro your dickriding of China is crazy

I didn't know correct word so I looked up in Wikipedia

What if every Valorant player's spermatozoon missed the egg cell in the lottery of 1 to millions chance

We would have no Valorant players at all