It's less about Fnatic's chances of winning the same match and more everyone was glazing 100T saying they wouldn't drop a map.

Now they're in the losers bracket.

That sounds so dead it's unreal. I always thought LoL was pretty active. Maybe they do so few events to drive viewership when it is on?

He looks like the dad from Peppa Pig. I can't unsee it

At home just like 100T are going to be.

I was just thinking I don't think I've seen a Guardian ace before

That's fair, PRX might just be in their heads from the start. But PRX in general has a good record against all regions pretty sure.

He could just point at himself, he looks like the dad from Peppa Pig

GenG atm look scarier than 100T, surely you'd want the easier match.

I don't know if it makes them the strongest but I very much respect it. Tbf Brazil, Korea, Japan and Turkey seem to make a lot of teams of 5 or 4+1 nationality wise.

EMEA, SEA, LATAM are all by their nature really intermixed in their regions and other than LATAM have huge issues with language barriers between their potential player base.

Canada and USA are basically one country anyway so makes sense they mix in all their teams.

It's even funnier with his shit moustache. Just shave man.

Imo FUT are just scrappy. They always make a meal of a win and when they lose it's like they aren't even in the server.

The 100t match it looked like they hadn't even logged on. I think their coach didn't prep well at all

This match GenG look like they came ready off the bat

CS doesn't have franchising. Some tournament orgs allow partnered teams, so consistently good teams or orgs with big viewership can ensure an invite, some may even auto them past the first group stage. But that's the biggest extent of it.

It has never applied to Majors.

They'll still be playing against teams or any tier of they manage to qualify for the event.

It's not like the Valorant closed circuit

It doesn't even remove Open Qualifiers as a whole, just removes them from direct qualification. You have to qualify and make another event and do well enough to justify bringing them into the RMR. Cinderella runs are just a little harder but when they happen they should be of a better quality.

I highly advise you don't. Valorant is probably the most unpredictable eSport, you're just asking to lose money

How does English not even seem like it's your first language

This is exactly how Valorant has felt for me. It was promising early on, people still working out the kinks, now whenever a desk is talking about "meta comps or setups" it sounds like made up hype and analysis. Games feel more like scrims and throwing the kitchen sink to see what sticks than anything heavily thought out. There will be the occasional util combo that's clearly been thought of specifically for retakes or stopping rushes, but everything outside of that doesn't seem pre-planned as a protocol

Raze is my biggest issue at the moment, the showstopper is just a free round the majority of the time because it just removes a player from the round. How is that any sort of "tactical shooter".

What's inconsistent about Dallas? Other than 9z upsetting and catching Mouz lacking because Mouz Torszi has been on somewhat of a mini break I don't really see any inconsistencies other than I guess BIG looks like they might be back.

Playoffs are always just the quarter finals onward. That is exactly how tournaments should be made, there are more than enough matches prior for you to get your form up and utilise the benefit of the extra chance. When it's the playoffs there shouldn't be chances for mistakes, you should have everything tightened up.

Tier 2 in CS is way more competitive and closer true, but their consistency is always the issue, they could win or they may just crumble whereas Tier 1 teams are very consistent. It helps that CS has an insane number of teams and orgs and it's not until you get to Tier 3 that teams aren't big names with a decent budget that may not attend every major event.

Also everyone fares about Blast and EPL. They're 2 of the biggest events of the year, blast world finals is one of the biggest paying events alongside majors and EPL practically decides your invitations to loads of other events as invitations are normally based on ESL team ranking.

I really think Valorant fucked up with Franchising, I get that it was early, but it's been 2 years now of only 3 events a year, no Tier 2 really to speak of and over half of the franchised teams don't seem to even try to improve so what's the point in watching them.

That's literally what makes Valorant more boring for me. When everything is constantly changing there isn't much point getting invested as nothing is going to stay the same. The quality of gameplay falls off a cliff too considering the game is mostly smoke spam and free kills from showstoppers or equivalent util you don't have to put much effort into.

I'd really like to see Valorant stop changing things for a full year and let teams actually play around and perfect things somewhat. As it is it feels like there is no reward for a team investing in finding comps for highly involved characters when you can take less involved characters and get the same results with way less effort or thought put into it.

In all fairness people like CS because of the consistency of the game. Valve doesn't fuck over their eSports scene every few months by rebalancing things everyone uses and introducing yet another piece of utility that everyone now needs to adjust for. In CS the best teams are consistently good for a long time, in Valorant one update, agent addition or weapon rebalance completely changes the team rankings.

Most CS tournaments are double elim. Single elim is extremely rare. Also you're forgetting EPL and Blast World Finals are both huge events. Normally there will be one or 2 good IEMs also.

Tier 2/3 CS is insanely busy compared to Tier 1 as well. I remember when Gambit Youngsters were playing 20 maps a week for over 3 months. This is just before they broke into T1.

This is so insanely accurate it's unreal.

NGL last tournament I enjoyed was lockin

Damn you're really upset at people enjoying matches.

Babysasuke was screaming about lockin being a fluke all of last year and complaining about chronicle non stop. Chronicle won Tokyo and asked him where he was on the forums.

https://www.vlr.gg/180100/babysasuke

That's like saying Skrossi is rent free because he got turned into a meme

Imo he should work on playing a sentinel and have Jett as an option if they want to play an Aggro comp. You can still op well on most sentinels.

Someone else should definitely be primary duelist tho, cNed was insane because of Jett and Op being perfect for him. As both have been merged and counters added to the game it's clearly going to mean he has to adapt

Babysasuke alt reveals itself

Honestly I blame the IGL and Coach more than anything. They've looked lost both playoff matches.

You can't just rely on aim diffing if you're always getting double peeked or stun peeked.

Tbf he never recovered from Chronicle calling him out last year.

I just want to see Derke be more disciplined. Last year he tightened up so much and didn't give away free frags. This year he's getting caught out a lot because he's not just holding an angle with a teammate.

If neither are native American, you're welcome, Son.

What language do you speak? Pipe down son.

The few rounds FUT won were all aim shining through from shit strats.

We saw no mid rounding against FUT because the set pieces were working and everytime they didnt it was FUT winning aim duels to dismantle the strat.

Remember individual plays aren't mid rounding, mid rounding is more what you do in a 3v3 scenario

More like VisionStrikers. The one match they had was pretty much all set pieces and FUT didn't interrupt it at all. 21 Reyk SEN was pretty much all midrounding and aim diffing.

Unfortunately I do.

Literally can't take NA serious after they tried to claim LOUD to then drop them after 1 poor showing. Most of NA players are half Asian or half Russian as well.

It's like watch a stepson scream at his dad about winning a foot race when his dad was an Olympian.

Imagine Reykjavik 2021 except nobody was Sentinels.

That's honestly how it felt.

I genuinely couldn't fill out 45. There are like 8 I think are pants on head retarded and the rest I have no idea who they are.

As per usual nothing will happen and Valorant community drops interest for another 6 months.

At this point Cricket or Baseball has more action than Valorant.

Literally saw you included Jingg and just decided you're a moron.

I look at this list and realise I only remember the names of people I think are retarded.

I would argue it's best described as a clown fiesta. Very few teams are playing at their best and the few that are are barely have to do anything new as the other team is racing to lose. Only team who has looked competitive every game imo is GenG

Valorant viewership in general is carried by specific orgs or players.

You'd think viewership would be more centralised given how few matches there are a year.

FUT fetish is way too good a roast

I said it before and I'll say it again. FPX have looked miles better than EDG for a while

I swear it's not normally a big issue in other games but Valorant is so damn inconsistent. I can't tell if it's the lack of any actual matches throughout the year or what but consistency is non existent.

Tbf there weren't really any good teams to pick other than FUT and that could still have backfired if they actually turned up on the day.

G2 have clearly been underestimated a lot and Heretics the same because of them having a sub.

GenG was definitely the worst option to pick though. Clearly nobody wanted that matchup.

Why you gotta act like retarded yanks when Fnatic is winning. Just be normal, we're not them.