Zander is 100% > Jawgemo on Smokes. Pros recommend watching Zander for his omen tech. He is far and beyond a top 3 omen player in the world. Jawgemo might be better on other agents however, but with an omen dominant meta it makes little sense to pick him if zander becomes available

Even if it's a "mouse died" situation, the general rule of thumb is that the round counts if damage has been done.

This is peak valorant IMO, while its nice to see the same teams at international events, upsets are the bread and butter of valorant. If the favorites always won, I wouldn't watch as many matches as I do

I don't think he'll be as dominant, but I think he can comfortably compete even at a T1 level in Americas right now. I think a team like EG, LEV (if TEX doesn't resign), or even NRG (unlikely though), would be good for him.

I personally would LOVE to see EG yay, if EG would be willing to pay the buyout (which is probably unlikely).

I mean they still finished first in Stage 1 and first in Stage 2. They're also the second best team internationally this year behind TH, so I don't see why they would need roster changes as crazy as an IGL change. I think coaching/anti-stratting is their weak point at the moment. (I don't know how much of that duty is on Boaster vs Coaches so I'm not sure), but they demolish teams when they get to play their own game, and when teams play a different playstyle, (example DRX or FUT), they have a hard time playing against them.

Start IGL'ing. Call for util when you need it, and start midrounding (as well as calling executes). If you start this in silver/gold you won't have to learn it later when you want to climb in dia+ lobbies

SEN will ban Haven and Float ascent probably. FNC will ban either lotus or Icebox. FNC is terrible at icebox though so I wouldn't be surprised if they let lotus through.

Icebox - SEN is better
Haven - Close but FNC is probably better
Bind - 50/50
Ascent - FNC is better
Lotus - SEN is slightly better
Sunset - SEN is better
Abyss - ???

I think it SEN aren't too affected by the loss they have a slight edge in this match. But mental could play a huge part.

I'm guessing map veto: SEN Ban Haven, FNC Ban Icebox, SEN pick Lotus, FNC Pick Sunset, SEN Ban Ascent, FNC Ban Bind, Abyss Remains.

I doubt SEN go out in top 3. I think Heretics look weak right now, with Miniboo not performing. Lev look shaky on a couple maps (like ascent and haven), I think theres a very good chance, unless either of those teams have their problems fixed by upper finals that SEN can take top 2 spot. Obv tho Aspas is the Americas killer and anything can happen when he is on the server.

Surely this is a clean 2-0 from SEN. The only potential curveball that would cause SEN to drop a map would be if they end up playing Ascent, and Zekken has a rough game on the jett (assuming they are playing default ascent comp this time). Hopefully this doesn't age poorly, but the only reason EDG are placing 5-6 in this tournament is because they got to play a regional matchup in their first game. Any of the other 6 teams would have taken them out

Trace beating EDG is unlikely. EDG is used to how trace plays and will just ban ascent against them. Even if TE beat EDG, SEN is very good at countering the CN playstyle with their slow default/disciplined play on attack side.
Imo SEN vs DRX is a closer match than TE vs EDG.

Objectively, Sen are great at all the Raze maps, and they've shown promise on Icebox as well. That's 3 or 4/7 maps they're very good on. If they continue to float the other maps and ban the opposing teams best maps, I think SEN takes most series that make it to 3 games. They just have too many solid maps. Most teams will want to ban their sunset, but they look very good on Lotus as well.

gotta be. No way anyone thought Guard was better than Optic in 2022

Here is a list of stuff that gets you upvoted and what gets you downvoted on this site:

(Instant downvotes)

• Supporting SEN in any way
• Having the SEN flair on your profile
• Hating on PRX
• Stating NA is a good region

(Instant Upvotes)

• Supporting SEN's opponent
• Hating on SEN
• Supporting Apac teams
• Hating on NA

what is this champions man. 3/4 of these teams lost after I made this post. Hopefully G2 can pull through.

In what world is shanghai EMEA? Top 4: Pacific, EMEA, Americas, Americas. I'd argue its between pacific and americas but I value 1st more than 3/4.

I think it's harsh to judge LEV from that match against Talon since Talon had tons of vods to review and anti-strat, while LEV was facing a team that literally had 3 matches played, and knew Talon could play whatever the heck they wanted. They had 0 prep against Talon's comps and still 2-0'd. Top teams in playoffs aren't going to pull out crazy comps like that without showing it somewhere previously

if they manage to at least take a map off of GenG i'll reconsider, but from what I saw against FPX they barely scraped by off the heriocs of Riens.

Personally I see one of 4 teams having a decent chance of winning Champs unless a different team comes into some sort of insane form.

My top 4 (In no particular order)
GenG
FNC
G2
LEV

Pretty cool how they're all in different groups tbh.

Yall are gonna ask about TH, but seriously they DO NOT look like they can hold a candle to GenG. Match today, I'm betting 2-0 with TH getting less than 20 rounds total

Ofc Meteor is the more complete player but Aproto is known for his sheriff, and for good reason.

GenG's strats and calling have been phenomenal so far in this Haven game. Perfect timings, every fight is favorable. Not to mention Texture is playing so so much better than Zekken right now.

Bili Bili upsets ANOTHER americas team in champs!

If you're playing an initiator, on attack, your main job is to make your duelist's job easier. I don't know how you play, but there's no way you only get 2,3,6 assists playing gekko. Try and set up your util for your teammates to play off more often.

Pretty sure every country charges for international students. Why wouldn't they

GenG Vs TH here. Former Grand Finals matchup, Now one will go home.

PRX.

No team has ever said PRX was going to be an easy matchup. Name a team that has been given that kind of respect

No clue what my stats would be like, care to check them for me? <3

Add Tricep Extensions for your push day, and imo you're doing too much volume for your shoulders, that is if you plan to do the normal push, pull, legs, push, pull, legs, rest split

what do you mean Shahzam, he's great for vibes

100T 2-0 G2
NA ftw

100T 3-1 PRX, Alecks has to tech pause again for his desk

I don't think you understand. They were making fun of what Boaster said when he was making a tier list for Masters Madrid.