G2 probably they looked insanely dominant
I think people will say PRX just because they're super experienced at internationals

11 teams will lose in VCT Masters Santiago :(

maybe we can use this time to have high quality discussion about what we think will happen at Master Santiago :D

there wasn't really a "winner" of kickoff because there was no true grand final

why is this team addicted to putting Aspas of all people on solo waylay, he’s the polar opposite type of player Id want on solo waylay

we say this every year and then they still win lol

yall missing out on peak valorant those mfs are done with a half in like 20 minutes

Omega looks ridiculous, fight for a playoff spot is gonna be crazy

also lol did you count MIBR as an NA org

I think ur way too high on fnatic right now, as much as you can trust in their international record it's just the flat truth that they lost to both BBL and M8s. I'd probably put them between AG and M8s right now

ngl I think right now out of all the regions Pacific looks the best, then EMEA then Americas

what exactly does this fix

we all know that most raw stats records are stupid

I think VCT should implement VLR rating 2.0 as a stat

are we in an alternate universe where boaster doesnt go triple negative every match

im starting to get nervousss

they just went 13-11 against DFM, a serious team would have blown them the fuck out. in terms of aim PRXs players are in a completely different stratosphere than DFMs, the only reason it was close is that their gameplay is so messy and undisciplined it gave DFM free rounds

if they bring this undisciplined ass gameplay to an international they're gonna get bodied man I swear

i know they always have been and probably always will be a mechanics heavy team that relies on brawling and outaiming but they need to learn how to calm the fuck down sometimes and stop facechecking everything man other teams are actually catching up mechanically you can't just get by on all aim no brain anymore. Genuinely the only reason they get away with this stuff domestically is bc pacific are deathly afraid of them

tbh the way I view it is that with how streaky valorant has shown it can be, newer teams I will inherently trust a lot less than established ones until they give me a repertoire past 1 or 2 tournaments. We've seen one hit wonders before like 2021 Zeta Division who reach the pinnacle of success for an event and then come back down to earth. Now obviously if teams start to show more consistent performances I will start to trust them more, but in the beginning stages when a team shows a dominant stretch but its only for one split or on one patch, I am inherently less trusting in them. Me thinking that G2 are a better team than Furia isn't because I'm clouted brained or something, it's because nobody on Furia outside of like Artzin and eeiu really have a catalog of past performances at Masters/Champs level events for me to look back to. Contrast that with G2, whose players all have significant experience playing at the highest level of valorant, you can't really blame me for liking them over newcomers

they don't even play the same role

PRX fans have always been bad, they just had the halo effect for a while bc the team was very wholesome and fun but the fans are insanely toxic, some of the worst in SEA

show this to the teams who pass around the same washed tier 1 players and expect different results

until we get another 20 hours of valorant straight

EMEA upper finals was absolute cinema

ngl I feel like there really aren't any superteams in valorant rn, MIBR and PRX are probably the closest we have to one right now but they are nowhere near older superteams like 2023 FNC

some uncomfortable conversations need to be had about C9 ngl, in their entire 5 year history in valorant, they made one single international in one of the weakest NA fields of all time through 2021 LCQ. Even other notably bad teams like Team Secret/Bren Esports, Karmine Corp, and Furia have had equal and even better performances with far less history than C9 in the game

I think our only hope is that nbs cooked up something absolutely ridiculous that NRG's never seen yet and also hope that we're hitting our shots like crazy, we need genuine 10/10 performances from everyone

if we lose tho I'm not gonna be worried, there are some pretty major issues with the roster that need to be hammered out still and the fact that we're still about the 4th-5th best Americas team with how sloppy we look sometimes is quite promising

edit: by issues I absolutely don't mean roster changes, just general gameplay stuff, like I think that we seriously need to be more disciplined especially with a man advantage. I like the fact that timotino is aggressive and willing to entry but he's gotta calm down sometimes

tbf Auti did make Tier 1, it was back in 2021 so it was lowkey kinda fraudulent but he was in VCT NA Challengers with T1 back when they had an NA roster

yeah dude, he was on the C9 team with Tarik that won the 2018 Boston Major, he's probably like a top 10 most famous NA CS player with ppl like EliGE, Tarik, Shroud, hiko and twistzzz

not rlly, he's been in some showmatches but he's just a YT content creator

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWphjEePrzIrRA5mwcOt_4Q

I mean Stew made an actual attempt at going pro in valorant so he's not just some random streamer, he was just dogshit and went back to CS bc he realized he's not built for ts

eggsterr but for sage

counting mfs like grim or tarik is kind of unfair tbh they barely even tried going pro

most famous guy who actually tried going pro but failed in tier 2 is probably an old CS guy like Stewie2k

I'm surprised Paris didn't get it first, they got champs so ig they probably want to spread the love more but France clearly loves their esports. W for spanish val tho hopefully TH or Giants make it

doesn't have to be aspas, just any player with potential to be top 1 in the world, so that's ppl like chronicle etc. IMO it's like 3

mibr 39-0s FUR unfortunately

be a fan of a real team like Bolton Wanderers next time

I couldn't think of a less enjoyable experience than playing viper on ranked ngl, I feel like you have to run double smokes to make her work bc her wall is just so inflexible for attack

just use it to clear corners and backsite, postplant delay darts are kind of overrated

throw that shit just backwall every time lol you can get by on sova by just not being stupid

kickoff is the only tournament thats like this, split one last year guaranteed 5-6 games for the worst team and split two guaranteed 10 games for the worst team

the ranking is based on an elo ranking system which is incredibly flawed when there is a massive disparity in number of games played like there is in valorant

mfs can't be gay anymore ig

this isn't caring about people with clout at this point, this is just people being incredibly parasocial and making incredibly crazy and wild assumptions about a relationship they were never involved in

I also had a boyfriend in high school so idk what ur talking about a cheerleader for buddy

true, kyedae was actually cheating on tenz with every man shes ever spoken to, its true it was revealed to me in a dream

deadass its embarrassing seeing so many ppl care about internet celebrity drama, it's not that hard to conceive that two people can break up amicably. Its actually not a requirement that someone has to "betray" the other or something in order for a relationship to end, sometimes relationships just run their course.

signing kanpeki should be a death sentence to an org tbh

I think a lot of y'all are being really disingenuous when u act like there isn't a North American cuisine that isn't just fast food. Soul food, tex-mex, cali-mex, southern barbecue, deli culture, are all uniquely American cuisines

and yes, tex-mex, calimex and other southwestern cuisines like it are American, they are vestiges of the former Spanish colonial/Mexican emperial era in the American Southwest where native American, Spaniard, and Mexican cuisines mixed together to make stuff like Santa Maria barbecue which was made by Californios in the Santa Maria Valley, and Fajitas, which was made by Tejanos in West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley

how tf do yall be posting so much man I got just under 3k in 4 years on here