I mean for a game like this, that's how stuff is supposed to work right? Some agents will counter other agents. With your complaint of him being able to tank Raze Ult with an ability costing 300 credits, Kay O can stop her ult with a free, no-cost utility knife. Are you going to argue about him as well? Utility is meant to counter other agents' utility. It's Valorant.

Yeah, I knew Fnatic won the offseason it was just a matter if they were going to choke or not with that roster which they didn't. I honestly don't see them losing at champs. The only chance for any team to bring them down is by doing a better job in the offseason and building a team that can match them on all boards.

Yeah.......

I'm a fan of the game not starting any problems giving fnatic props calm down their buddy.

Not going to lie this team is actually so unfair that I don't see no other team matching them head-to-head on paper. They might win all 3 trophies. Yeah, they lost to Liquid but it was a seeding match where both qual to playoffs anyways and they were probably saving strats. Not sure how long it'll take before them winning constantly gets boring because I actually see it happening. NRG is a good team they just don't have the same caliber of players.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/d03b03d2
GE Fighting

You put ZETA twice and you missed Furia

I’ll say increase the time of his tps, decrease the number of his headhunter bullets to six and make it cost more, and also lessen the time of the slow after an ult kill

Yeah very smart from optic to tactically lose here to avoid that curse for champions trust.

TSM vs Sentinels Faze invitational

Yeah um I don't think it's XSET fault that they haven't played yet and I like how you point out only XSET and not the other 3 teams who had a bye into playoffs that aren't from NA. Also for FPX they could've avoided playing 4 bo3's if they beat DRX but they didn't so it's their problem not Riot's and at least they are going 2nd tomorrow for a little more time. There is no bias here. Dont forget they put NA VS NA first round in both tournaments. That don't sound american company biased to me.

Upper bracket finals, lower bracket round 3, lower bracket final and Grand Final

Audience is for the final four

So how do the playoffs seeding work? Does Fnatic and XSET get the 2nd seed of the groups and Leviatan and Paper Rex get the 1st seed assuming is the same as Iceland? If so there's a chance for maybe if FPX and Optic win tomorrow a Fnatic vs Optic and XSET vs FPX first round of playoffs unless riot goes stupid again and makes an NA VS NA and EMEA VS EMEA first round. What do you guys think?

I don’t know why they keep running this comp on this map knowing they only do well on defense statistically and struggle to do anything on attack due to the lack of space creators. They lost this game when they allowed loud to get 6 on attack their only chance was to get a 10-2 defense half win but they blew 2 3 v 5s unlucky.

I think Derke will do just fine in lan the only thing that might be a factor for fnatic being unsuccessful at masters is if alfajer underperforms because we can’t forget he’s still 16 with no lan experience but if he overcomes that, I would say fnatic are the favorites.

The org FPX is based on China and the org NAVI is based on Ukraine. Gambit is based on Russia.

Honestly, there is no best team in the world for val. Masters 2 and 3 were just qualifiers for champions. The teams that placed high on both tournaments are just teams to look out for in champs. I didn't consider sentinels the best team in the world when they won Iceland because they can still lose at champs and be forgotten that they won Iceland. Same thing for Gambit.

First of all congrats to gambit they deserve it but internationally so far NA has won more games.
NA Wins:
Sentinels vs Fnatic 2-0
Version1 vs Liquid 2-1
Sentinels vs Fnatic 3-0
Sentinels vs G2 2-1
100T vs Gambit 2-1
100T vs Acend 2-1

EMEA wins:
Fnatic vs Version1 2-0
G2 vs Sentinels 2-0
Gambit vs Envy 3-0

So far NA leads EMEA 6-3 in international matches

If Sentinels have no competition within their region to develop as a stronger team then how come they were able to not drop a single map against other regions who by your logic have better competition to become stronger. I think NA is pretty strong and Sentinels have been brought down before.

Are you going to ignore the fact that they beat Fnatic twice, FPX, and Guild to reach the playoffs and they weren't even invited to close quals so the fact that they made it this far on that long road and beat tough teams doesn't just all go away because they "only had to face oxygen and giants in the playoffs". They deserve it all the way.

Funny enough the team that placed last in Iceland made it to Berlin.

It seems to me that you are looking for a stupid reason to hate him even though he hasn't done anything extreme to be hated by. But I guess a person having their opinions and switching mouses is triggering for some people idk.

SEA?

Good to know a 9-3 half isn’t good enough to win somehow

Idk but I like it because it gives the teams that lost a whole day to reset and come back stronger the next day instead of being forced to playing another series in 10 minutes after a draining loss.

V1 vs Liquid

Seeding matches aren't as serious as qualifying matches for some teams usually. Some do care about seeding.

Just skip school Berlin is more important

Yeah if giants win today and fnatic beats tenstar then both emea representatives for Iceland would have to face each other and prevent one from going to Berlin

Yeah if giants win today and fnatic beats tenstar then both emea representatives for Iceland would have to face each other and prevent one from going to Berlin

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Champions_Tour/2021/North_America/Last_Chance_Qualifier

this is the last chance qualifier bracket

lmao

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/8f45e02a
Ez for V1

GG go next year

NerdStreetA

That would mean TSM vs Andbox in round 16. Yikes.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/a73f4959

Is this a dream?

Yeah the tier 2 teams not playing around this stage, they better stop underestimating them

Immortals lost as well lmao

Damn 100T can't catch a break with these 13-11's losses

yeah my spray felt better as well when I got my first skin. I guess is just a psychological effect

NA: Sentinels, 100T, Cloud9

BR: Vikings, Gamelanders/Furia

EU: Fnatic, Liquid, Gambit, FPX

SEA: X10, Full Sense

KR: Vision Strikers, NUTURN

JP: Crazy Racoons, Absolute Jupiter

LATAM: KRU/LAZER