someone probs made a joke to try and get the moral up to reverse sweep the map
if there was a team to do it this tournament its SR

Prx has been experiments with champs during the offseason for a while now.
So, nah I doubt the'yll be using the same comps in Sao Paulo, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some offmeta agents from them if they liked how they worked in this tourney.

theyre just as part of the team as every player is
so ye they should be professional, as should every player per rules riot set (7.1.2 applies for all team members). Problem is when you have THIS kind of rivalry with so much trash talk between the teams, suddenly turning around and suspending someone for a minor (previously ignored) offense is rough.

Thing is we've had this discussion in the GC scene before with the tea bagging bans, so guess that's just GC where riot will randomly punish competitors

why did you have to do that to enigma wtf

had me scared there ngl

ooooooo them not having a coach explains SO many things
like props keeping up regardless but idk why you'd make it hard on yourself when you have such a top tier team talent wise

I was super worried when KC announced their regional roster early on and am somewhat relived with all the mixed squads (ignoring Turkey because I'm unsure of how well a lot of their pros speak English).

However
Excluding the Turkish teams, out of the 8 players in t2 last split, who are now joining a franchising team, 7 played in the Spanish or the French VRL last split.
0 played in another VRL league.

Don't get me wrong they're talented players, but are you telling me that there's no talented players in the other VLRs?

Tl;dr Vrl France: Revolution & Spain: Rising go brrr

if they can finally beat excel in the playoffs, shits cursed

I mean zeek is consistently alright, remember acend as a whole was looking... meh... last split so that's gonna be a big part of it (only slightly high on copium here)
And if keloqz gets the support from the team he could turn into the next super star, if he doesn't, I'm SO scared that his playstyle will leave us with another yacine situation

Youd have to pick between the 3060 or the 6600xt for current gen "low end" cards
Depending on your country amd could be a lot cheaper, and if so id strongly recommend picking theirs up then
If the prices are really close nvidia still has an edge in terms of drivers on the lower end since amd is still figuring out their dx11 patches and alt tabbing seems to break every once in a while (but at least for me the drivers have been holding up well otherwise)

You're in luck!
Bonkar has been picked up by the legendary org that brought us the OG guild back in 2020
https://twitter.com/BonkValorant/status/1578047996230516737

F for finest though

beat out in this context means surpass -> they got a higher placement than the 2 EMEA teams at the competition -.-

and at no point was i talking about fpx? 2 top EMEA teams being g2 and liquid, since they're both teams who successfully compete at the top level in EMEA

did you even read what i wrote?
both

if FPX were there ZETA were supposed to face them FPX 0-2 ZETA anyday

and

if FNC with full squad was there they would clean sweep them

are not only hypotheticals but also completely irrelevant to what i was saying
You can mald as much as you like the point still stand that Zeta is a Japanese team that was able to beat out 2 top EMEA teams to make it to top 3 in a lan, proving that they're a region that compete at a top international level

also im not your buddy, friend ):

if you watch the vod of the game was anything but "persuasive" xD it was really scrappy for both sides so its hard to get a consistent result out of it
we're gonna have to wait for rematches to see if nth have surpassed them

liquid and g2 were there in full power no?
look EMEA is biggest strength is that our t1 is really close with every team carving its own niche and shaping the meta from there; you cant just dismiss 2 of our best teams at the time getting beaten in that tournament
Yes it sucks that fpx and Fnatic weren't able to show how good they were but that doesn't change the fact that japan produced a team that could compete with the top of the World (and even win out against the majority of them in the event)

Based on Sayf interview they could not have taken Twisten on loan; thats the whole problem of the situation
They didnt want to sign anyone and thought they could take a loan for the duration of the lcq, but then a day before roster lock found out that they had to sign player instead.
-> they had to either pick a free agent or get someone to terminate their contract within the day so they could sign them instead.
And yea that's where Yacine came in; past experience with the team, willing to terminate his contract and correct roles

His performance being the way it was is just unfortunate, since they didn't have time to properly prepare with him and get him used to playing in t1 again

Subtitles I pulled from Yinu's video with names corrected and some punctuation to make it readable:

It really depends on the team if its defender sided (remember fpx vs fnatic), and both teams are ALOT better at attacking

idk normally they're pretty good at planning 3 hours per game; I'm guessing they want to at least have a chance for the games to finish before NA (since the 3rd game is 2 hours before NA)
Still sucks though to change both time and channel

id say nth passes as t1 since they preformed decently last masters against other regions t1 teams

thats a pleasant surprise, but ofc when you host the best watchparty in emea they want you on the desk asap so you dont steal all the viewers ;3

This was... a game
idk how much we can learn from this game but at least it was fun

its still 3 more years lmao
coincidentally also when windows 12 is rumored to release

with recent results 100% without a doubt

Alliance filled a similar spot early on though hence the comparison (7/8 Masters 1 and then consistently upsetting different t1 teams, at the top of t2, but not showing enough consistency for me to be confident in calling them t1 during their "prime")

Boo left pre g2 didnt he?

Feel like Giants was a very Alliance like team, where they have 4/5 top t2 players but cant consistently break into t1
So imo splitting was great for them since it allowed them their players to get more t1 experience and prove that they very much belong at the top

I feel like not everyone is interested in the on the fly analysis they do and would rather have them commentate what you can directly see since it tends to be more hype instead
Its different preferences for different people; I very much enjoy their slower casting

please dont jinx him, let him finish this series strong before yall go to war over this

why feel bad when it worked, bbl are shaking in their boots atm with Guilds confidence

sliggy likes it https://clips.twitch.tv/SuaveSuperJamCurseLit-cDore7FqWmn9v94h

they played a lot better today, meddo and avova decided that they didnt wanna lose 2:0 and map 3 was just dominant
They also didnt fall back into their usual style of doing the same execute every round till it gets shut down today so thats good for their future

I still dont think theyre gonna make it past the next round, but we'll have to wait and see

helping mixwell out there

pretending that the team who has gone through THIS many roster iterations isnt trying to improve is just wrong
the thing with the roster is that on paper g2 is a top team so any roster changes you make are just straight up gambles (mixwell maybe being the exception? but we dont have scrims so hard for me to say)

Every time they dropped half their roster to pick up new star players it didnt work out and they got flamed for not sticking and improving with a roster, so them trying to build up synergy is a really nice change of pace

im not

According to his interview with Yinsu it was misunderstood, since we only had officials (where he was still playing smokes primarily), while he was talking about scrims (where he was playing breach on almost all maps)
He doesnt mind the smokes but disliked the breach playstyle he was getting forced into by the trial (not Emil) coach

oh yea xD the term Korean jett didn't appear out of nowhere, yall have a few crazy peeps over there

gotta allow for more 13-0s somehow

Rb is still a beast online so its too early to say^^
But t3xture has always been more consistent while rb is alot more flashy imo

he didnt have to prove it right away smh

his jett has been looking good mechanically while in the vrl; hes been playing her for a while now so its not like the old guild yacine jett days

step 1 to making a good Turkish team is taking MrFaliN as your igl, dude makes good calls and frags, what more do you want

either best player or a below average duelist (to put it kindly)
theres rarely an in-between

From what sliggy has said about Emil this observation would be correct, with him being someone who works on fundamentals
They still have bacon as their analyst so they shouldnt be falling behind on strats either, so it seems promising

Only question is if Scream will be able to translate the prep into calls ingame since that used to be their biggest issue (imo)

as well as that bleed are a team that would benefit from getting a day to anti-strat while onic really didnt mind
and yeeeea.... bleed had an interesting game

the good ol' fpx special

problem is they didnt have much time to practice with the new roster, so we dont know how many strats will be there yet
switching 2 players before a big tourney is always risky, though i have very high hopes for them

theyre a team that just lost 2 of their core players so theyre very much on the weaker side of the competition

Maru have never really been impressive with their gameplay; theyre good but never look like anything special, so I have 0 idea how theyre gonna match up against a lot of these niche teams

This is gonna be an interesting test for EDG to see how far the region is; they're playing against the weakest ONS we've had in a while, losing King was huge and they just didn't have much time to practice with their new roster

that's an understatement, there's a huge difference in onur kru and no onur kru
(like they're still a good team, don't get that wrong, but they just haven't looked nearly as good as they did during masters since he left)

trigger discipline like that is usually good, you dont expect your opponents aimbot to work 360 degrees
supamen just got that premium product

Feel like both teams watched the Split of m3c vs Acend and saw it as a challenge
The chaos is amazing