They should be safe until the semifinals (hopefully)

Fr, that guy's insane

Asked

Best matchup of the day imo is about to start, hoping for a 3 map game
Who do you guys have winning this one? Personally I have FPX winning

Group A: Sharper, Bren
Group B: Full Sense, Paper Rex
Group C: Boom, X10
Group D: Alter Ego, UwU (maybe not cause they have a sub)

Bren and X10 make it out of playoffs

Fahrenheit and Celsius both work honestly

I have hopes for TSM, though I doubt LG will go further then potentially beating FaZe round 1

How's everyone's pickems looking?
I'm 6/6 on the day, although I'm high on that TSM copium for tomorrow
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/12f8cb59

Can't argue with a room temperature IQ

-Zombs is not a top 10 player
-Players like Corey, dephh, Nature, leaf, GMD, and Yaboidre deserve the slot more then him

Yay's a very good player, but he's gotta stop giving up his life for free
Every time I watch him die, I feel like it was in an untradeable position

I hope the slot goes to whichever region performs best at Berlin, since I doubt China will receive it now (nothings been announced)

IMO:
1) G2
2) Heretics
3) Cloud9
4) Damwon
5) Fire Flux

TSM logo is also really good

You need help

This is bait but here's an honest answer:
I disagree with d3ffo and patiphan straight off
ScreaM and TenZ are better players but may not be better Jetts
Russ and Jamppi are playing less and less Jett recently
Seoldam, BuzZ, and Izzy are farming weaker regions
Keloqz still needs to prove himself a bit more to be 100% better
Yay and derke are on pretty similar levels as Wardell

Cned is the only Jett on this list that you can claim is 100% better then Wardell

Nah, NRG won 2-0
You can check battlefy

LATAM - https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/1c63ac41
BR - https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c4d02864

Cmon GL, make it to the big stage

Idk why people are so worried about C9 not making LCQ & calling Vanity's move from V1 risky

For them to not make it, Rise and TSM would both have to get 5-6th or above just to make it to a tiebreaker

As well, TSM and Rise are both underdogs (at least Rise) in their upcoming matches and are on the same side of the bracket, meaning that they will most likely eliminate each other in the Lower Bracket Round 1

If worse comes to worse, meaning that TSM and Rise both make above 5-6th place, C9 at the very least will have a tiebreaker with Gen.G for a slot

Also keep in mind that Sentinels, atm, are the favorites to win Berlin which would mean that C9, TSM, Gen.G, and Rise would all automatically make LCQ

TLDR; C9 would have to be unlucky af to not make LCQ

What do you guys want to see happen in the challenger playoffs?

The three things I'd personally like to see happen are:
1) A CIS and a Turkish team making it through the EMEA bracket
2) Envy/TSM upsetting Sentinels in the upper semifinals
3) Northeption getting a spot in Berlin so we can see Seoldam on the big stage

The amount of individual talent on Vision Strikers is insane, can't wait to watch them in Berlin

Could have been a good roster now if they stuck together, but I doubt they would be better then current Vision Strikers/Stage 2 Nuturn with Lakia

They had a lot of comp overlaps that made players uncomfortable, with one example being BuzZ (an insane one trick Jett now) being forced into the smokes/sentinel role

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/e99aa796
Real ones knew

hope that t3xture has the game of his life

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT_Oceania_Tour/2021/Championship_Points

https://www.vlr.gg/24971/gambit-esports-vs-no-pressure-champions-tour-cis-stage-3-challengers-1-gf
https://www.vlr.gg/24970/no-pressure-vs-gambit-esports-champions-tour-cis-stage-3-challengers-1-ubf
https://www.vlr.gg/24129/no-pressure-vs-gambit-esports-champions-tour-cis-stage-3-challengers-1-uqf

A lot of people don't even think Gambit will qualify for Berlin, doubt NAVI go far

Most ppl from EU, TR and CIS do
My guess is though that a lot of people coming from non-EMEA regions will think that CIS is a super strong region just based off of Gambit's performance last time in the playoffs

If they go in thinking NAVI and forZe are on the same level of Gambit, they will be disappointed

It will be hype but I think people will be real disappointed when they realize that Gambit is by far CIS's best team

pain.

Good F/A's
My guess is that Andbox ran out of money to spend on these big names and, due to them not showing the best of results, are making drastic (cheaper) changes

I like Mixwell, but I disagree.
Acend are a very strong team that, although they could flop on Lan due to lack of experience, have an extreme amount of talent across the board
Vision Strikers literally play on Lan all the time and potentially have the talent to beat Sentinels

Aswell, I could honestly see FPX or Gambit giving Sentinels a run for their money in Berlin

You can feel the momentum building

Poor TNL, always facing Vision Strikers

Honestly hoping any region other then NA or EU wins after all these posts

Lets go Vision Strikers :)

It's true that a lot of people from NA are toxic but ffs, EU was pretty toxic towards NA as well and kind of deserves some of the shit their getting rn

I mean Europeans were acting like NA was a T2 region before Iceland, with some saying the EU finals were a higher level of competition then Iceland would be

And then there was that one Brazilian guy that put 4 brazilian teams in the top 10 with like 1 NA team

Just fullscreen to avoid the chat

I guess TSM want to face 100 Thieves...

NU 2-0, two close maps

Just happy to see VS and NU on different sides of the bracket

No, Sentinels would take the Masters 3 slot and two more NA teams will then qualify with circuit points

This game was painful to watch and I'm not even a fan of either team

Fr, GMD still strong as ever tho

They seem mentally checked out of this one

Any team that can make it to the challenger finals is a tier 1 team in my book

SEN, 100T, NV, and XSET are 100% Tier 1
Gen.G, TSM, T1 are looking like Tier 1 teams as well

FaZe, LG, and Rise are Tier 1.5 IMO

If teams play like they did yesterday, it will be FaZe and LG no doubt

Teams got better and V1 couldn't rely as heavily on post plant lineups

Other Regions LCQ Slots:

North America: 8 NA, 2 OCE
South America: 4 BR, 4 LATAM
Asia: 2 KR, 2 JP, 2 SEA, 1 VCC Winner, 1 Unknown (Maybe china)
EMEA: 7 EU/CIS/TR, 1 MENA

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/d9160b69
TSM, of all the teams, was the one to stop me from going 0/6

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/d9160b69
May have messed nearly everything up, but let it be known that I believed in TSM

What happened to Dignitas is happening to NRG
Very talented players that can't seem to work together (also Dignitas had a lot of match fixers like current Rise)