Throwing last Masters before Champions (to not get read by other teams) will become meta in Valorant

And I'm definitely not coping

Edit - I'm happy they won but I don't think they will win Champions

It's because one VKS player (if I remember correctly, gtn) screamed to Gambit earlier, apparently some bad words too
Because I doubt Chronicle would start a shit talk out of nowhere

Bookies are dumb to set such odds for this match

SEN showed what they are "capable of" in a match against Furia
Sick and dapr might be the most overrated players in tier1

Should've picked Breeze duh

If it was CSGO / Dota / LoL, no, since there are different "paths" to big events (dota major, ti, msi, worlds, csgo major) for EU and CIS teams

But in Valo / Apex / R6 / RL, CIS play in same quals as EU

NA players have weak immune systems
Russians and Brazilians are born in tougher environment so they are built diff

Holy moly "CS is better" comment on VLR and not downvoted to hell
Am I sleeping

He's being sarcastic dumbass

SEA teams / VKS / FUR / CR / SEN / C9 / ACE / KRU have less firepower than VS

Inb4 I get downvoted for saying SEN. They looked horrible against Furia. In everything.

You're wrong because Fnatic would still have LCQ to look forward to

Obviously only one between Liquid and Fnatic would make it to Champions, and most likely Fnatic wouldn't pull it off with their form 2 months ago

But still, they were going to have a chance to qualify even without Gambit help, which contradicts what you said about them

He's smart with killjoy utility and sentinel gameplay, but whenever I watch his pov I have a feeling that he will whiff or miss a spray, making Fnatic lose a won round

He's done that hundred times by now

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It's not a nice thing to say, especially when you know that cNed is a close friend of those people who "let him down", I mean the rest of Acend

I would delete this tweet as fast as possible

According to VK fans he's not even IGLing
So I don't know why they just don't kick him and bring some better support instead

Then why are they keeping Jhow

SEA is better than KR excluding 1 korean team, which is one of the favourites to take it all

Just look at APAC LCQ results

Acend didn't lose because they had worse aim

They lost because of 4 dumb rounds at the beginning + murizzz 1v3 since kiles couldn't trade + mwzera/heat 2v4 through smoke

If Acend played without choking they would've been up 1-0 right now

Turkish people already kind of lost interest in Valorant.

Maybe because Riot didn't give them direct slots for all events like they did to less strong regions Japan, Brazil etc.

If you were to watch Stage 1 / Stage 2 TR games, there would be up to 50k viewers on their streams (not just BBL), now it's like 5k.

They're not bad
They're definitely top-3 region if we talk about average strength (Korea is just VS, Latam is just KRU, Brazil is worse, Japan is failure)

BR have 2 international wins, only 1 more than SEA and:

BR sent 4 teams to LANs in total (2 Reykjavik, 2 Berlin)
SEA sent 2 teams to LANs in total (1 Reykjavik, 1 Berlin)

Plus that one and only SEA team at Masters Berlin was in the group of death
Unlike Brazil who got relatively easy groups - beat Zeta, beat KRU (fail), beat CR (fail)

No it's not

There are Japan and Latam, Latam is 1 team region so they are worse than SEA as a whole

Korean teams except VS also got exposed at LCQ, so it's obviously SEA > Korea too

If X10 finish above VK in Group A + Secret finish above VKS in Group C, then it's safe to say SEA > Brazil as well

Although we may also take into consideration FS / Furia performances and how they play against major regions (Furia already did a good job)

Why are you assuming that Secret is worse than Furia? They didn't even play each other. And Brazil / SEA have similar success at all LAN events.

Maybe if Sentinels were facing Secret they would've lost the series, you can't know that.

Did you suddenly forget about Chronicle and Rb?

How's that yesterday, even in Korea GMB - TS match ended after midnight

By the way

Shahzam best IGL world
Sick best flex world
dapr 2nd best sentinel world

According to many people on this website even post-Berlin

?
Dude is underperforming since forever and lots of mfs here and on reddit were saying he's the best at his role

Sick is overrated
Lots of people were claiming him the best 2nd duelist / flex player in the world
Hopefully now they see the truth

13-11 13-11 by Latam is good?

TS are better than any Brazilian team my dude
All SEA teams in this tournament are better than all Brazilian teams

Brazil is yet to take a map off anyone from EMEA / NA
SEA already accomplished that 2 TIMES

Playoffs wouldn't be impossible, 3rd place would be minimum for them (over F4Q)
Neither Sentinels nor G2 looked good in that tourney

SEA as a region is very slept on

Paper Rex pushed VS and SMB (two of the Berlin top dogs) really hard
X10 performance was a bit disappointing but that was an early stage of the game
Secret didn't even get a chance to prove themselves

Lots of people overhype Japan, Brazil, Latam etc. (who never really did anything internationally), but SEA is the real dark horse of all events
I'm now confident X10 will smash VK in lowers, FS may not win but will do well against C9

Rip pickems tho

Normal PH people, is this the usual fanbase in twitch chat that you have to deal with while watching every SEA tourney?
I've translated so many interesting phrases from tagalog about Gambit players

Your VCTs must be pure entertainment

Maybe it's better but now I don't see Group D as death or something like that, Full Sense definitely have a chance

Cloud9 are playing on par with Fnatic who are legit tier2 in EMEA

He was the same online
Plus Fnatic have tons of LAN experience by now, this is not an excuse

Can somebody explain me Magnum's logic of aiming

Guy just starts panicking when there's an enemy in front of him and literally moves his crosshair left and right trying to land a random bullet

Probably the most overrated player I've seen

SEA above BR
PRX did something against a team from major region (SMB), plus I still think FS are good
No BR team did anything internationally

If NA's 3rd best team loses to Fnatic, who are not even top-7 EMEA currently, it will be actually sad for your region

True, if we're talking about really the worst international match it's probably Crazy Raccoon - X10, lower round 1 at Reykjavik
But I've never felt so frustrated over esports like I felt while watching Acend - SMB

Nah that's Acend - SMB Split

24 teams

8 start in main event:
4 EMEA
3 NA
1 KR

16 start in play-in (8 advance to main event):
2 EMEA
2 NA
2 KR
2 JP
2 SEA
2 BR
2 LATAM
1 OCE
1 SA

Double elim playoffs in Valo means you will get to see a lot more NA vs EMEA vs Strikers games, which wouldn't happen if there was single elim

For example, VS only played 3 matches at Berlin, although they were like among the strongest and they deserved to show themselves much more, but playoffs draw said no

So you are saying 4 / 3 teams from EMEA / NA (regions which have 5x-10x potential of every other region in tac fps) is fair?

Anyone else feel bad for Guild, Giants, XSET, Rise and all the other teams from NA / EMEA, who never got a taste of internatinal experience because they weren't just good enough to clinch a spot?

Imagine being them right now, you watch this circus that's happening on official Valorant stream, and you realise that your team is 100x better despite never qualifying to LAN event and never becoming famous

Fnatic koldamenta?

Pretty obvious that Fnatic gonna fail at Champions and bench some of their players in offseason, including Boaster, because his fragging is poor even for tier3

You guys lost to a bunch of streamers in KR Stage 3 semis hahaha
And then these streamers turned out to be ONE OF THE WORST teams at Berlin

Damwon lost to F4Q noobs in a Berlin qualification match
Better shut up with this copium
Full Sense deserved to be here

Those dudes don't have Chronicle in top-20 players at Champions
Why even watch that video, they are clearly braindead

Nobody picked Sacy or Mako too, lmfao I'm dead

We need a community vote for 17th team at Champions so TSM can get in

Like Vitality here:
https://liquipedia.net/rainbowsix/Six_Invitational/2018

Are you sure you are from Great Britain?