Well I said this before the match happened

KR is a top 3 region, VS and NUTURN showed that already

HL can bear CR without showing 50% of their playbook, JP is massively overrated

I hope they do, it will be very interesting

No matter what happens in LCQ, all experience that AU teams get against NA teams is good for international valorant in the long term

Whoops lol I fucked that up, but still that’s only one map out of how many, not exactly a great statistic

I mean renegades was a pretty solid top 20-30 team, they weren’t exactly dogshit but they weren’t exactly good either

Nice to see esports being taken as seriously as conventional sports, my question is how is the general public's reaction to these types of school, because I know many Americans have a very negative attitude towards video games. Is the same sentiment in Korea, or is it different?

I guess whenever Koreans touch a game they completely dominate it lol, it's crazy. Isn't there also a really healthy upbringing of esports talent in Korea? That's what I've heard from my brother who's really into League.

how do you have JP over SEA when JP has literally not won a single map so far in both masters events

1. NA
2. EMEA
3. KR
4. BR
5. SEA
6. LATAM
7. JP

EMEA and Korea are very close, Japan and LATAM are very much the worst scenes in the game right now. NA and EMEA ranking pretty obvious if you pay any attention to valorant esports. All my opinion of course, go drop your regional rankings if you want ig

If Korea is already performing this well with being the 11th most popular game imagine the talent if they went to top 5, holy shit I can already see the era of Korean dominance incoming

EMEA should get seperated into EU CIS and MENA and have them have their own qualifiers (I'm including Turkey in MENA)

I’m just going off of recent history, and the past tournaments and results have shown that NA is better than EMEA, could be proven wrong in playoffs tho

They also have the easiest group in the whole tournament

I go to a school with lots of international students, and many of them have been basically taught English by watching American movies lol, though the Asian kids have some trouble speaking it

I really like the trash talk going on in Berlin, it really makes the competitive environment feel real and serious, and not just a bunch of buddies hanging out and messing around. As long as the talk doesn’t go too far I think it’s completely fine and healthy for the game.

It’s a pretty unfair comparison because they play very different roles, S1mple is an awper through and through, he’s basically like Waddell and tries to get an awp any time he can get it, while TenZ is more of a hyper aggressive rifler/duelist, and also the relative difficulty to pull off a carry job like TenZ does sometimes compared to cs. I’d say because of the way duelists function and thrive off of aim duels in valorant TenZ still isn’t on S1mple’s level due to his straight up talent and ability, but we’ll see in the future.

I think that it’s probably due to the American and British dominance in the pop culture world that makes English easy to learn, imagine being bombarded by the English language basically since the day you were born and then trying to learn it later, you would find it pretty easy because you have been exposed to it for so long

TenZ the best player right now, there’s absolutely no competition the only argument is who is second

S1mple won the Intel Grand Slam, which is arguably harder than a Major. He already has cemented himself as the top AWPer in all of csgo with all of his insane clutch moments and carry jobs through s-tier tournaments. S1mple has carried NaVi to the top of cs while competing with infinitely more talented rosters like Astralis and Team Liquid basically all by himself for most of his career.

There would be some trouble with communication, but if they can make it work that would be dominant as fuck

I mean before TenZ they were the best team in NA with Sinatraa, it wasn’t nearly as dominant as it is with TenZ now but yeah I’d say they are homegrown

Well no shit if EU was winning games consistently against NA they would be considered the best, but that’s not the case and the only team an EU team has beat was V1 so far lol

It feels like he doesn’t give a single shit about the actual event and is just doing it so he gets that sweet rito money, he is literally falling asleep on his streams and people expect his viewers not to go down?

I'd personally say him and yay are tied for 2nd best behind TenZ because face it there's almost no chance anyone comes up that's better than TenZ. Depending on the results of Masters 3 he could go up or down, but for the rest of his prime I doubt he falls out of the top 5 with his insane aggression and fragging ability

I hope Korea can recreate the success it has had with LoL with Valorant, I really don't need two dominant regions with everyone else picking at scraps hoping for an 8th place finish at best

I know some people consider Korea to be a sort of best of the rest region, they are better than SEA or JP teams. but they aren't on the level of the NA and EMEA heavyweights, and this is the match that can prove that sentiment wrong. I personally think the NUTURN 3rd place finish was kind of a fluke because the EMEA and NA teams other than SEN weren't exactly the best teams in the region

You cannot compare a game between two top 5 teams in the world and SQ vs IMT

You have never experienced a competitive environment and it shows

VS vs Acend looks really interesting, I think this match is going to prove if Korea should really be considered a major region the way EMEA and NA are

this man clearly has never read Bleach

dude we get it Val gets more viewers right now shut up and enjoy the two games for what they are

I think it’s because it was later in the morning for most NA fans, EST people were around lunch time for g2 F4Q and NA is one of the biggest audiences in valorant, and SMB vs ACE was way early in the morning, that game was really set up for the enjoyment of the EU viewers

Do you mean NV slightly worse than 100T?

We get it bro you are a sensitive bitch who has never never experienced shit talk outside the online space, literally play any sport, or competitive event and there is shit talk everywhere

How does Hiko just continue to pull these rounds out of nowhere

The bullets just magically fly at their heads

Can we all agree that Asuna is the best icebox player in the whole game, someone need to check him pc

controversial HL over 100T pick, I respect it tho

there's no way any of these matches get lower than 40k peak viewers

TSM or maybe 100T and G2

that's much better

incredibly controversial pick for NV to make it past bro, KRU should be favored

maybe I'm just not paying attention, but I haven't really seen many Gambit flairs

https://www.hltv.org/stats/players/matches/18982/asuna?matchType=Lan

Asuna played at NCS 2019 @ Fragadelphia, he did decently, not exactly great considering he was playing against T3 competition but this was really early in his career so I give him some slack for that. Also pretty funny he played against yay at this same tournament, he lost 2-0 with yay absolutely dominating

I would think its one of the big NA teams like Sentinels

Why doesn't steel have one when he's the 100T igl

I looked up SuperMassive Blaze and pAura had a star next to his name, and so does ShaZham, what does this mean? Half the teams don't even have a player with star, so idk what it could mean

who cares lol