I'd consider placing 3rd at Champions as placing well. The two 5-6th placements at Reykjavik and Copenhagen are just the cherry on top.

Wardell
BabyJ
sinatraa
zombs
Stewie2k

both players either get overhyped and overhated with no in between

What happened to this guy? I know he left cause he was injured, but where is he now?

I know but I expected DK to sign him by now, unless the deal fell through :/

WHERE IS SYLVAN

what’s up BaDa! nice to see u back :)

Hot take: Maru wins it all

It’s not that biased to be fair. DRX and PRX are the only two Pacific teams that we can count on being strong and they’re literally seeded against each other.

The only major issue is that they are hard underestimating FPX and TLN.

aproto - hopefully he can go back to owning on Cypher like he did in 2021

FNC vs SEN
Zeta vs LEV
EDG vs 100T
T1 vs FUR

Easy for '//,

NOOOOO SONIQS WHY MUST YOU CHOKE EVERY TIME IT MATTERS MOST

praying for a soniqs win just for hacknaija

he had to choose Reykjavik for Marved cause he of fell off the hardest in the other two tournaments lmao. definitely a little unfair for mako choosing the other two's best tournament and not his :/

shownu belongs in a retirement home

Westival

Prediction on how the ranking changes after what we've seen:
C9 goes down
SEN goes down
100T goes way up
NRG goes up
T1 goes way down
GENG goes down
TLN goes up
GE goes up

I'd personally put loud or navi over sen

Sentinel - Less
Controller - MaKo
Duelist - Aspas
Initiator - Shao

Mako played 1 good masters and had been declining

MaKo is literally the most consistent controller player, his consistency is unmatched now that Marved is gone

damn GE dropping only 1 map is nuts

yessir

https://valorantsimulator.com/lockin/1VQySZVRnwqXmaNdW2r6

I GOT THE BEST SIMULATION POSSIBLE LMFAO

Exactly. MaKo was also literally ranked #1 at Reykjavik, #5 at Copenhagen, and #9 at Istanbul in terms of rating.
Bang was only #27 at Istanbul.

How is that even comparable

How do you confidently put Bang at #2 but then consider not even putting MaKo as #3

There’s no way this many people are putting Bang over MaKo, he’s good but you guys are hard overating him

them choking this badly every match is a classic

classic Soniqs map

Facts 8/8

-be Riot
-make fans wait a 5 month “off season” where 80% of the events are just boring show matches
-remove one of the two master events to compensate for kick off
-create the worst kick off event format imaginable with single elimination
-throw in two new maps into the map pool just to fuck with teams a little bit more
-ignore the complaints and instead remind self that this was the best possible decision

what a fucking joke

Loud beats NRG to qualify
100T gets revenge on FNC to qualify

that's not a hot take, that's a based take

Win - DRX, TLN, RRQ
50/50 - PRX, ZETA, GE
Lose - T1, Gen.G, DNG, TS

Edit: FPX is a win, EDG is a loss

I'd say LEV, 100T, and whoever makes it out of TLN/MIBR/EG/TH have the easiest brackets since they avoid any of the teams we expect to be insanely strong until semifinals. On the other hand, I'd say C9 (PRX, DRX), GENG (LOUD, FPX, NRG), NAVI (KRU, TL, LEV), and T1 (FUR, FNC, 100T) got dealt some of the hardest potential brackets

GE 26-0 VIT

I’m just saying that you’ve just created these regions in your mind to make it seem unfair. The truth is that it’s the Pacific region, which is 10 teams, and China, which is 2 teams. No where does it state that the Chinese teams in this tournament have any relationship with the KR/JP ones, so I don’t know what the point of this post was to be honest. The SEA teams are just as correlated with the CN ones as the KR/JP are.

Jiangli has also commented on my posts in the past saying that CN+KR+JP is not a region and that calling it East Asia was delusional, so make up your minds. Number of countries/subregions doesn’t mean anything as well, it’s population/playerbase that matters most imo

not me expecting two groups of 16 Swiss format, top 4 from each group moving on to double elimination bracket

where did your hatred for drx come from lmfao

Only one of DRX, PRX, and C9 make it to top 8 meanwhile one of MIBR/TLN/TH/EG makes it on the other side

Also FUT vs RRQ first round while teams like FNC and SEN play each other first round lmao

Sushi can be a bit of an acquired taste and, to be honest, it's still not one of my favorite foods, but based off this reaction though, I feel like you either ate at a really bad restaurant or just don't like fish in general lol

How does SEN losing to TSM make 100T all of the sudden worse than LEV and LOUD bruh

T1 is what it looks like when the DRX strat of signing 3 Jett mains fails

You mean the Pacific league is a one team region? 🤔

I agree T1 are bad but you guys seriously are never going to let that 2021 LCQ go lol

Yes, it’s just that T1 and Gen.G didn’t sign the best KR players. They didn’t sign t3xture and Bazzi, who went to GE instead, and Suggest, who is stuck on DFM. Dplus also has some good talents like Lakia and Sylvan (Rumored), but they don’t like to give players away to their competition

He’s kind of right though, TGrd could probably beat 1/2 of the Pacific teams right now

holy T1 are playing like crap, they keep trying to take duels by themselves instead of swinging as a team

I think so. The EMEA teams have some stacked rosters but TGrd has the best chemistry out of any Ascension team right now. Maybe BLD could beat them?

picking up Carpe seemed more like a clout move than anything. getting a player like Sylvan to play smokes and allowing Ban to flex on initiator would've been the smarter move in hindsight