putting the mortgage on 100T 2-0

CN production looks absolutely incredible, only thing I don't like is that I prefer the other scorebug over the VCT China scorebug

lets chill about Zeta for a second

I literally rushed back to my apartment from doing homework just to sit here waiting lmfao

are they replacing Asuna's PC over there or something man

did this dude just say lewn is the third best duelist in EMEA

G2 over NRG is crazy

I think bind is just a generally popular map in Americas and theyd rather fight 100t than try and pull something on their permaban

LMFAOOOOOOOO

boricua spanish is unintelligible even to a lot of native speakers lol but listening to the music is a good way to help ngl

anything but duolingo

kill this guy with hammers

they have like an 86% pistol WR, I wonder if more teams are gonna copy the deagle pistol round tech

go to sleep

this VCT shit not a game bro you gotta be ready to kill for ENVY Esports

I remember her talking about how she does her own outfits instead of letting a stylist do it for her

LEVs frying SEN 2-0 unfortunately so this isn't going to be a good game

alr buddy lets calm down with future goat IGL

he looked terrible bc NV put an awper on astra/viper, any serious team would realize he was completely misutilized

why the fuck would you sign one of the best AWPers in Americas and put him on controller. This really just highlights how much Eggsterr's inflexibility really fucks over this team because they have to reserve one of their two duelist slots for that mid ass onetrick because putting a primary AWPer on astra/viper is less of a throw than Egg on literally anything else

its time we have some tough conversations about Keznit being incredibly washed

dude doesn't like ANYONE lmfao he hates every player, team, and region in every esport imaginable

Okeanos please never stop shit talking its so entertaining

backshot from bao is crazy lmfao

edit: tbf tho this weekend is largely lower bracket stuff and lower quality games, so the A team is coming next week when we get qualifications and actually good games

the real question is if lovers rock 1v1s Mahoraga

yeah I get u lol 100T has lost too many games they were the favorites in for me to ever really feel confident when they play

guys I think there's middle ground we can have here between "Potter is the greatest coach in the world" and "Potter is the worst coach in Americas", its true that both EG doesn't give her nearly as many resources as other Americas team and she has been riding on the high of Champs 2023 for a while and hasn't performed up to that standard since

100T is definitely better than both of these teams it wasn't even a question

not even on some revisionist history shit, I knew that some slop like this was going to happen from the start which is why i didnt care to watch it

ngl bro u made me feel old as shit lmfao I've been watching ts for 6 years

honestly anyone taking the tenz awards seriously after knowing how the voting was decided was fighting a losing battle, asking current pros and coaches to rate their peers is such a stupid decision because of not only the inherent biases of most players, but most of the time players and coaches don't even watch teams other than their own except for VOD reviews

That lower bracket is going to be insanely spicy, 4 of DRX, GenG, GE PRX/T1 and FS/DFM being eliminated is going to cause some very interesting conversations between now and Stage 1

I think when you're rating just the top end of the league, EMEA first Pacific second and Americas third is decently justifiable, but like I said the Americas midfield is so much better than every other regions midfield that it pushes the region up when it comes to average power across all 12 teams. You don't get any free games in Americas (unless you play loud), while in Pacific you can't really say that when TS and Zeta are running around

1. Americas

Yeah I'm biased bc I'm a primarily Americas fan but I genuinely think that this is top to bottom probably the most competitive league of the 4. Out of the 12 teams in the league, I'd say everyone other than Loud can realistically beat each other on any given day. The middle of the pack in Americas is the highest level midfield of all regional leagues.

2. EMEA

As much as I like to meme on EMEA I think in the grand scheme of valorant, they have incredibly good teams at the top end like Vitality, BBL, M8s and FNC who seemingly can compete with any of the best from around the world. Turkey is one of the best valorant subregions for producing young talent. The issue is that the dropoff between the top end and the midfield is fucking huge, when teams like liquid and heretics are your 5th/6th tier, then somethings pretty bad.

3. Pacific

Pacific has basically the same issue that EMEA has, but even worse because they genuinely might have the two worst teams in all of VCT, Team Secret and Zeta Division. The fact that these two are real and serious franchising teams is genuinely mindboggling to me. I must give my props tho, the top end of the league look like genuine competition.

4. China

I will not lie, I've watched like 3 games of vct china, but from what ive seen in my limited perspective and what ive heard from more avid CN fans, this region is producing some genuine glue.

I promise I'm not ragebaiting, these are my genuine opinions. Also CN fans come and tell me if my take about CN is right or if I'm just being sinophobic

idk if this is a hot take but C9 really needs to be talked about more in the conversation of completely dogshit orgs. In their 6 years of playing valorant, they made one single international event other than Lock In, Champions 2021, and the path they took to get there through NA LCQ was incredibly weak. And in the franchising era, they are one of the two regular franchise teams in Americas to not make an international event. If teams like EG and Furia are on the hot seat by riot, C9 should be right beside them due to their lack of performance

because they are broadcasted across the nation? No shit ESPN would get more viewers than Bally Sports Cleveland, RSNs only get broadcasted in a the immediate proximity of a team and ESPN gets broadcasted to every single TV that carries ESPN in the country. It's a difference of a million TVs to a hundred million TVs.

They literally do? Ask a Mets fan if thry prefer ESPN over SNY. Ask a Lakers fan if they prefer TNT over over Spectrum Sportsnet LA.

mb j cursed jt

zeta 13-0 here

one thing that I’ve heard about the japanese val scene is that valorant is treated a lot more like a spectator sport and the actual playerbase isnt super competitive compared to other much larger fps markets like NA, Korea, and Europe. IDK how true that actually is bc I dont live in Japan but it would make a lot of sense for why a lot of times Japan never really stacks up mechanically with most of APAC

edit: it would also explain why JP produces so much viewership

I still don't understand what your issue is. NOBODY has EVER had a problem with casters and commentators using nicknames, unless a player specifically asks for them not to use it. It just seems like you have some weird desire for commentary and esports to be highly professional and polished when in reality that's not really what anyone wants. The reason why basketball fans and baseball fans prefer local sports broadcast over national broadcast is because of the personal connections that these broadcasters have with the team, and a massive part of that is the nicknames that they use. Fans crave feeling connected to the players that they root for, and nicknames are one of the many ways in which you can humanize and create connections between players and fans. Seriously dude, get out of the esports bubble and realize that for sports broadcasting, being uptight and professional hasn't been in vogue for almost a decade at this point. Fans crave connection, and overly corporate commentators kill the personal touch that fans so desperately want.

viper is functionally a sentinel man be serious

idk dude he's defending been defending it relatively seriously in the replies

im ngl if you could watch an entire 45 minutes of valorant and still not make the connection that "alfa" and "alfajer" are the same person then you might genuinely be stupid. Nicknames have never stopped sports broadcasting from being considered professional btw, nicknames are used constantly on broadcast. Rob Gronkowski for basically his entire career got shortened to "Gronk" and literally everybody knew who was being talked about. So does Justin Jefferson with JJettas, Giannis Antetokoumpo with the Greek Freak, Sidney Crosby with Sid the Kid, Alex Ovechkin with Ovi, Lebron James with Bron, Brock Purdy with Mr. Irrelevant, Sergio Aguero with Kun Aguero, Javier Hernandez with Chicharito, and Guillermo Ochoa with Memo Ochoa.

king von once said “end gun violence”

"heat" in big 2026

having a good AWPer is probably one of the most important things to having a good team tbh. The gun is so fundamentally good that not trying to capitalize on it is just stupid. Not to mention that the outlaw is one of the best guns in the game right now to punish half shields and ecos

miss that guy, he needs to come back when the goat mwzera plays

I feel sorry for the casters assigned to this game they have to watch the worst game of valorant of the year

nuclear bomb vs coughing baby