I think so but the scary part is that lev can absolutely lose to g2 and sen beat 100t before they found their form, so if cryo has a great performance and Zekken struggles they could genuinely get eliminated

I really hope so bro my smokes goat needs to win a trophy before he retires

It’s only prx core remaining, hope they win a trophy 🤞

Goodbye to LOUD, OPTC and FPX/NAVI 😣
This is the second event in a row where none of these teams made it, very sad :(

It was a good run for sure, all three of these teams defined the early meta of valorant, players line Shao, Suygetsu, less, saadhak and FNS will likely still make waves in valo but I doubt we will ever see these cores achieve major success again

We talking about how despite having the greatest team itw crashies had a 1.00 rating and a 0.98 kd vs Leo having a 1.11 rating and a 1.24 kd

They both also only lost to fpx and prx

Dawg crashies’ team was exponentially better for all of 2022 and still Leo cooked him in Copenhagen and played better than him the whole tourney

Jonahp is more of a flex
Crashies has literally never looked better than Leo
Com is very inconsistent and was worse than Leo for all of 2023 with an arguably better team than he has now
I’m biased towards Eeiu but he doesn’t really clear Leo they are about the same
Cauanzin’s team is struggling regionally so we can’t really compare them

Zeddy was clean on omen I’m surprised he didn’t get franchised

Ok both of us know that is a lie initiators are literally our worst role in Americas

Trexx is not leaving vitality lmao
This would be an nrg situation forcing Shao to call
I’d rather also throw in sheydos somewhere here, he clears purpo and cloud Ngl

He’s honestly my fav eu player too but cmon bro no need to hate on the goat init for no reason
Leo ain’t annoying like boaster either

I feel like trexx is better than cloud regardless, but yeah seriously idk what giants are doing
Cloud, sheydos, purpo all need to get better teams

Nah he’s great but Leo has been more consistent, if trexx keeps this up for a year then sure

The thing is if trexx actually plays this well for a year you’ll start calling him dogshit because you hate on every good Emea player 😂😂😂😂

We all know he was really good, it took him a few matches to adjust but now we have guild trexx again looking like the second coming of Leo

Seriously if they replace runner vitality could be a super team, although they are already doing good rn

I hope they win stage 2 🤞

Idc I’m a shameless self upvote merchant

The only series this split that g2 2-0ed was vs nrg and icy went positive
You can’t call every good game a fluke bro, please act like a normal human and don’t cry every single time ur team loses

A player on a team that is doing well is going to perform well
This is among g2’s most dominant series so far this split, ofc icy is going to play well

G2 as a whole are playing well together
It’s not inconceivable that the team who finished top 2 in stage 1, top 3 in Shanghai and also hasn’t lost since Shanghai would beat sentinels

Nah bro every time sen loses in 2024 sen fans say it’s a fluke a life game or an over performance
Pretty disappointing mentality

U cannot possibly believe that icy, 0-3 EG, 0-3 loud, Leviatian all flukes against sentinels surely

1leaf is him for real, can’t wait for people to glaze him after champs 😣

Buddy the games been paused for half an hour what is there to analyze

Yeah it’s pretty sad how Zekken disappeared after Madrid and underperformed to the point of getting grouped
At least he looks better now

His peak is insane, they should low key let him one trick Jett like Aspas in 2023 Americas

In one map went from 0.95 rating to 1.09 rating from the worst player on 100t to nearly top 10 this stage LOL

Are u retarded his FKPR is higher than almost every other duelist in Americas, Emea, and pacific u stupid blockhead
It doesn’t matter if Zekken has better FKPR, if Aspas is a baiter so is something jinggg derke and every other duelist

Yet he played amazing in the other two matches he played at Shanghai, one being against Geng themselves
Even faker or simple are allowed one bad series, that literally his only bad series in all of 2024
Man is 2022 yay level of consistent

Is fkpr is very slightly less, Aspas FKPR is higher than almost all duelist in all leagues….
U can’t seriously be this delusional

His entire team shit the bed, u can’t blame a singular player

Could this possibly be because sentinels and lev play different? Aspas still has one of the highest FKPR in the league, he isn’t a baiter lol if anything Zekken is way more passive than him

Nah the thing is when ur as good as pros are, it’s very hard to improve, most pro players are at or close to their ceiling within 1 year of pro play and don’t really improve

Mfs talk about how he has been consistent since 2022 but I disagree, he’s not just consistent he’s actually steadily improved since 2022
In 2022 maybe he was a top 5 player alongside pancada Shao Suygetsu and yay, but in 2023 he was undeniably a top 3 player and now he’s arguably the best individual player
Somehow this mf is IMPROVING

Kiles is a champs winner
Let that sink in

Better to compare rating against the other players in the tournament that against other tournaments
For ah example, yay putting up the same rating in champs 2022 was far more impressive than tenz, but not necessarily more impressive than nats putting up like a 1.30 rating in Berlin

I’m not gonna lie brother that’s a reach, micro plays rarely make a huge difference in gameplay as opposed to overall map theory (like what parts of the map are important to control etc) which is dependent on when a map is released than overall time

Wdym by more prep time?

Exactly, they get grouped because a team gets a much easier win against them. That team that beat them may have gotten grouped if they weren’t attending.

Sure, but that still allows teams to make deep runs into tournaments. Even a top tier team having to constantly struggle vs good teams will burn out faster and give up more strats than if they are fed easy opponents.

Sorry I’m slow rn, why is champs more exhausting? Isn’t it more fair now that first seeds don’t get advantages?

Kinda yeah, he really lacked confidence, had a shit team, and didn’t really adapt well to the chamber meta or post nerf jett

Your first point is correct, but meta are defined by updates not by yearly cycles
Meta is always changing and teams will adapt, several champs have had agent/meta/map changes immediately before
But yeah I could see the team experience trumping team quality

Sure prize pool is greater in champs, but since champs has more teams attending, doesn’t the overall quality of teams attending decrease? A 12 team tournament only has the top 3 teams from each region, but a 16 team tourney could have the 4th best team from a region. This would mean that if you get lucky with draws you could face lower tier opponents and still make a good run. Wouldn’t this mean difficulty wise a masters has harder teams than champs?

His first prime started in late 2020 to around late 2021
His second prime started this year, and we will see how he does in champs

I aspire to be this level of delusional

Buddy change the flair already
Your eyes are watering from choking on it

Absolutely, stats do not show all impact and vlr stats are wonky, but still quite impressive to note

Tenz has 1.12 rating, below yay, narrate, Sayf, mako, chronicle, trexxx, cned, Shao, scream, cryocells and others

What? I’m using the stats tab and tenz does not show up all time number 1 bro

According to vlr, the all time highest rated tier 1 pro players are Leo at 1.22 rating followed by Aspas at 1.18 rating

Absolutely could be great and he is a smart player but he’s still an absolute monster of a player I want him to be unleashed and pop off without needing to call

Honestly gambit’s big 3 we’re always nats Chron and sheydos
But I don’t think nats needs to call if they can find some half decent caller

Sheydos fan u are spitting here
He was low key the best m3c member for most of 2022 as well

Chronicle back on sova and my goat sheydos popping tf off on one of the worst teams in Emea, I could cry 😢
Free nats please

Mada would be insane that mf is thanos in tier 2