fnatic U.S. manager

they had their coach fill in on kj, an easy ass agent, put trent on duelist for tex (very similar in skill), and had their guard core that has been to a fucking LAN, while also now having a coach to mid-round and call strats?

i’m not saying it’s an upgrade but it was BARELY a downgrade

I have no clue what happened in split 2, but they’ve improved so much since MSI, every person on that team has fragging and clutch power while also having insane teamwork. What’s even more insane is that they’re all within top 10-15 of NA Challengers in stats, but out of the 5 of them, sym has the lowest stats. their DUELIST has the lowest stats. I think top T2 teams have learned how to counter a star duelist, I don’t think top T2 teams can counter a star team. they have good site execs, good teamwork, an IGL that can actually frag, and are backed by owners who have so much passion for the game and competitive esports as a whole. that’s the whole package.

come back here when they qualify for ascension

coke zero kinda banger, maybe 1-2 cans a week
21

yo what's up ardiis

way too early bro, just let them go at their own pace

MXM 17-4 NRG
100T 7-4 The Union
C9 12-1 M80
SEN 9-11 MAD Lions

Source: i made it up

just say you have a tiny brain and move on

dont have a favorite tbh, pearl if i play yoru and ascent if i play sova (my 2 main agents)

should be based on round difference after you exceed a certain round disparagement, like +30 or +40 more rounds. giving someone a higher seed based off a Week 2 win against a young C9 is so fucking stupid imo

if breeze is your favorite you deserve to be on a watch list

also blud forgot lotus

i wonder if this list is biased at all

all girls are the same - Juice WRLD

i think Americas mid teams beat EMEA's mid teams

source: lock//in, no mid team (besides TL) has really improved since then relative to the pace other teams have improved

yeah, kru's nepotism + lev taking all their good players fucked them. axeddy looked promising but too little too late. mibr is barely switching anything though, they shit the bed even though they had things going for them

i hope next year shit changes, i think maybe teams will be too stubborn to switch for LCQ

c9 excels at counterstratting tbh. SEN keeps letting pancada and marved lurk? send someone to shut that down. LEV plays too disciplined? W key their ass even on post-plants on their map pick. C9 adapts their playstyle to what the other team does and i think that'll give them the leg up, even if derke is slightly better than leaf or alfajer is slightly better than zellsis.

Americas is the most competitive, EMEA has the best team, Pacific has the most likely underdogs

the 5/3/2 split for Americas orgs was pretty fair? SA complained after the announcement about having half the teams be NA, and NA people complained that it should be 6/2/2 or even 7/2/1. although its looking to be 4 NA teams in playoffs, this split in orgs allows for future LATAM and Brazil talent to make its way to T1, while ascension allows the most deserving subregion to have an extra team in franchising. honestly, well done riot, genuinely a good decision from you guys

bro no don't leak it

W list

watch noyn's mainly Brazilian fanbase give it to an NA player out of spite

eg is the only team besides these 3 that i would like to see qualify

if it ends up being an all NA qual i would want it to be c9, nrg, and eg

no it's that i believe loud would more likely lose to NRG than c9 losing to NRG

i think of the top 3 in americas loud is the weakest

focusing on h2h is dogshit when it has nothing to do with qualifying, round diff should matter more among the already qualified teams

h2h is fair, but not when it's a huge round diff. this means that 1 game is more important than 3-4 other convincing wins

also all this does is let loud feel like they dont have to try because they managed to clinch a victory against an incredibly new c9 roster 7 weeks ago. there should be some stipulation that forces these 1st and 2nd seeds to keep trying to keep their bye spot, even if its a tie in game wins

shit talking is a way of valorant. if c9 wins tokyo i dont see an issue with br or latam individuals claiming it's a win for the americas region, and if people have an issue with that then they're cringe

not really, 2nd seed is probably gonna play against 3rd seed, which means c9 could face nrg while loud could have a free win against furia

it matters when in americas there's 3 teams solidly on top, so 1st seed is in a much better position than 2nd seed

https://www.vlr.gg/211894/americas-ranking-not-troll-leaderboard

this u?

bro stop acting like a brazilian loud fan, we all know ur a slut for m80

i know it would be funny for 3 NA teams to qualify to Tokyo, but LOUD, C9, and NRG as our representatives is our best chance at winning. i hope loud doesnt troll and throw against 100T or Furia or something

c9 has a round diff 40 higher than LOUD, yet loud is 1st seed. i know h2h should matter but to what point? crazy that hypothetically a +100 round diff team could be 2nd seed to a +10 round diff team as 1st seed if the 1st seed team wins a very close 2-1 series

i think above a +40 or +50 round diff higher it should ignore H2H

banter between NA and SA is totally fine until Tokyo, then i root for all the qualified teams

"TOP 10 PLAYERS WORLDWIDE OF FRANCHISING ERA"

tell me what? i'm using statistics and raw numbers to support my findings

no NRG and 8/15 EMEA players is fucking criminal

1. LOUD
2. C9
3. NRG
4. 100T
5. Furia
6. EG
7. LEV
8. SEN
9. mibr
10. Kru

read allat, and although i disagree, i respect the statistics and raw numbers you've used to support your argument

h2h, but at a certain extent round diff SHOULD matter more, the gap between the round diffs is crazy

i heard that he has undiagnosed tourettes (from his ex gf) but tourettes cant force you to type out this message and send it

jesus christ

at some point he has to be held accountable for some of the shit he says man, its getting harder and harder to treat this as mental health issues

haters will say the crowd cheated

no send proof

literally an imgur or gyazo link of the logs

pics or it didnt happen

i think fnatic takes tokyo but they get upset in champs by a team that puts hours-days into antistratting them

i can concur you've been saying this for a while

2 7-1s back to back against the #1 LATAM team?

c9 is the SA killers confirmed

yall can still win against loud

they're saving strats so it should be an easy win, surely lev doesnt lose against them, right?

brobeans is not brazilian or a loud fan, dont fall for this shit

wait for a sale, going on 3 years and it shows no signs of slowing down

gpro superlight, its a little above 70 euros i think but wait for a sale

that's fair, i guess he was speaking moreso about appearance rather than actual stats, gambit LOOKED to be one of the most dominant teams, any time i think of optic i dont think of them as dominant tbh because their wins felt "scrappy" looking back on it

i agree that they deserved their 1st, 3rd, and 2nd hands down but something about optic feels differerent than Gambit. maybe it's because they won their first masters, got 2nd at champs in a 3-2 to acend, and then had to deal with the russia ukraine conflict which was a major 3rd party event that hindered their performance. they could've been more but got shafted due to world conflicts