T1 won deserved. On TL's side it felt like only Jamppi and Mistic were playing great, while T1 was actually always adapting and creating new ideas.

3 Aces and two 4Ks in one game... why not. xD

That was actually a crazy Lotus experience once again.

PRX vs. DRX

That match never happened before this year.

Sentinels so damn cool.

But also... wtf DRX?! Some of those plays felt kinda sluggish in comparison to what every Valorant E-Sport viewer knows from them. Sometimes they literally ran without util on open lanes without any sort of info.

But anyways a great series of SEN! TenZ on Omen is sweet af.

Sounds good.

Mistic is such a great Omen player! Can see this TL team becoming actually very good in the future... they prob. need their time to sort evertyhing out for actual tough opponents, but yeah. Looking good.

Yesican is actually a good player. And dunno... TL with a totally fresh core. Could be close, tbh. :P

*Edit: Yeah, okay nevermind. xDDD

GG

No Jinggg, no win. He came in after the first map and showed again why he's the best Raze and one of the best duelists in the world. Outstanding player.

Glad for Sentinels, tbh. I like PRX, but I'm just happy for TenZ, zekken and Sacy. Also Zellsis and john fit so damn well in this squad. The whole synergy is now actually great again.

Congratulations!

Thanks for your answer. This was not about the money, just regarding Tiers (whoever sets the standard there). But thanks for clarifying that, since I didn't know how the sponsoring works of the Challenger tourneys anyway. :)

Not. They just got destroyed by SR and SR's core lost to a Tier 3 male team.

SR (V1) lost to a T3 team (Turtle Troop) and G2 Gozen got 0-13'd by Team Heretics and also destroyed by FOKUS (Tier 2). And now these teams play for 180k USD on a Tier 1 classified tourney. Shouldn't this all be performance wise leveled, since people were discussing mixed pro teams for the future?!

I'm not hating, I just don't understand the leveling of Tier 1 when it comes to the different leagues.

yay won't play due to health issues. 5 hours ago BLEED made an statement.
https://twitter.com/ggBleed/status/1730467743357661520/photo/1

:(

Will be close. Saw SUYGETSU scrimming with aspas in the last days several times and both were doing their usual gunplay magic.

Both teams are able to win this. I guess the daily mood / performance will decide.

Who actually hates the dude? I think he's always much more humble than some people say.

Tactical maps where heavy strats are good: CGN
Maps where you can seek many direct duels: OVA

Autumn was insane on Haven. FPX really improved a lot.

BBL, Shopify and SMG are the favourites I guess.

Another al0rante 1v3 Clutch.

Dude is just insane in duels.

Zekken is just so good!

cucumba

al0rante vs. all #4 :D

Bro, it's a damn off season tournament with totally random teams. Why being ashamed? Nobody cares about Spike Nation... relax and enjoy the matches.

One of the best riflers in Valorant... I mean even Derke mentioned him already.

al0rante still crazy af. But yeah, I think even with the best possible German lineup (with tex, Click etc.) it would be difficult. And the best possible Turkish roster on the other side would be one of the best national teams in the world (beside of Russia, Brazil and the US).

Alles gut bei mir. Und bei dir? ;D
GG.

al0rante vs. national teams

xD

Every player needs to adapt to a new team. Everyone.

tex on Raze was directly more effective impactiwse. He def. needs to get used to the Sentinel role...

GG to my Turkish friends. <3

:D

Ahhh, this will be exciting.
I say... LEV 2-1 C9 - but it will be ultra tough.

What's up with azury and Leosen? Those 2 are usually always crazy good.
*Edit: Okay nothing said, Leosen def. got crazy again Split. But azury still had a bad day.

Russians are diff.

You can tell it's different to tex playing a lot of roaming and lurking now with Killjoy etc. as a Sentinel, instead of doing quick entrying and dashing in with Jett. But I'm 100% sure tex will get used to his role very quickly!

aspas + tex + kiNgg = one of the best trios in the world now!

aspas x tex
The best duo westside of the Atlantic ocean! :D

Would love to see the match with these rosters:

Germany
Duelist: Click
Initiator: musashi (IGL)
Sentinel: al0rante
Controller: B3ASTM0D3
Flex: tex

UK
Duelist: keiko
Initiator: soulcas
Sentinel: Lime
Controller: Boaster (IGL)
Flex: Mistic

That would be a crazy battle. But yeah... I guess UK should do this one with all that experience.

What a match. That Cloud9 team looks so damn promising - even without one of their best players, wippie. And yeah, OXY is an absolute beast. Also Leo showed again why he's the best player in the world with this performance after only 1 week of practice since Champions.

I think FNC def. had their problems with the playstyle of C9, but even without much practicing in the last time, their experience helped them to win it in the end.

What a nice idea.

Bro, Leo studied this game. When you see the statistics combined of him for the whole VCT year or even for 2020 - 2023 he's always on top... gigachad.

But I think C9 can become very dangerous, even without wippie. They have such a fresh way to play Valorant... super aggressive and still very methodical. Absolute killer team. Fnatic def. needs to take that one 100% serious.

I mean Filu as well... he already was the best player beside of al0rante in the DACH league and now both did the next step.

B1SK and purp0 are 100% Franchise ready.

C9 2-0 ZETA

I say this time C9 plays much more consequent.

I think now everyone can say FOKUS did actually a really, really good job against FUT.

What a great team. yetujey and cNed fit so well!

AlfaLeo strikes again.

Not scrimming (or not being able to do so) will be punished... you saw it with G2 yesterday, you saw it with one million other teams before and off-season tournaments get quite sweaty quite quickly. xD

Great match of Fennel. Dangerous team with funny dudes!

But still it's so crazy to see how especially Leo, Alfa and Derke are pulling off their stuff like it's breathing. Alfajer hitting shots that you shouldn't hit as human being... :D

GG to CASE. But I've actually never seen trexx and sheydos playing this below their usual abilities. I mean we saw it with some other teams now not giving 100% at an off-season tournament, but trexx and sheydos played like they didn't want to be there. xD Kamo played well and really tried to win, I kinda feel sorry for him.

True.

You can see aimwise etc. that GIA are def. on another level (especially Fit1nho, Cloud and hoody), but they play so "undisciplined" that it literally cost them the first map (I mean it's a OS tournament, so... no wonder somehow, but YKWIM). SAW is def. doing a great job.

And Redgar didn't forget how to peek corners you shouldn't peek. xD Liquid won't miss that behavior for sure. ;D

I like both teams, but dunno - I think with tex instead of leaf the whole chemistry would be better for now, since they won Ascension together. I mean I can understand that tex took the chance to play with aspas and kiNgg at LEV, but yeah... it's a bit of a shame that tex doesn't game for that one German Valorant org in the USA (G2).

Both teams have a lot of potential, but for now I see Sentinels with small advantage because of their experience.

Cloud9 wins this!