SEN w/ Tenz are one of my frontrunners for Masters 2, but w/o Tenz I think they could pretty easily flop early into the tournament. There are very few players as mechanically gifted as Tenz, and even if they do find one, then idk if he will be able to fit in the roster as seamlessly as Tenz did. On another point, 100T are just looking better and better, and I think by the time Challengers Finals comes around they will be the best team in terms of strategy and working the map. I think SEN at the moment is the most mechanically gifted team in the whole world, but in NA I think they will be outmatched in terms of strategy and methodical gameplay by 100T.

SEN and 100T are the only NA teams that stand a chance I think, but it's either going to be an NA or EU team, Idk if any other region has a chance.

I think with the high level play that is going to be expected from all teams in the Challengers Finals, the teams don't really care about seeding because any team they face will be.a tough battle. Also, keep in mind that they had just gone a full week of playing Valorant matches and all the way through the round of 128 to Grand Finals. They just wanted a break, and those matches were probably just practice mostly for them to work on team comps. They were all honestly probably tired of playing Valorant and wanted it to be done already so they could finally calm down. Also, they didn't want to try too hard and show off their new strats in a game that is practically meaningless. They would want to save their best for Challengers Finals and Masters Reykjavik, and they want to stay fresh for the longest time possible.

Help what seasonals are you watching they all look cool af.

Back when I watched COD I was an Optic fanboy so that probably contributed to it

I suggested this like a month ago and the devs said they would work on it and it isn't here yet lol

this isn't twitter

100T FUTURE ICELAND WINNERS

We are all gold 2 except for my one friend who only plays Reyna he is gold 3

Getsys an up and comer in the VLR user scene

good bait until the FaZe bit

I think my comp 5 stack has a pretty decent chance ngl we are all gold I think we got this

The way the gun sounds is just way too weird for me, I prefer the pew pews of the prime vandal

Hiko would bait the people in the seats next to him to get rid of them

I don't own skins I just pick them based on what people drop

Phantom:

1. Oni
2. Prime 2.0
3. Ion

Vandal
t1. Prime
t1. Reaver

3. Glitchpop

Elderflame Vandal is the most overrated skin in this whole game

Op

I really don't know, all I know is that I really like the Glitchpop Op

100T has the potential to be the best NA team

2-0 Liquid but I bet that TL will somehow find a way to lose it in true Chokequid fashion

NC State has a team? I didn't even know that lol

why are the breaks so long damn

2-1 liquid hopefully

Pretty basic question, but would you prefer a single international league like CS:GO ha s their tournaments or a group of domestic leagues like LCS, LEC and LCK with a final culmination of the champions of each region to determine the world champion? I personally prefer the CS style league, but that might just be my bias from previously watching CSGO. I just think that a single international league determines the best team in the world far better, since each region's best would play far more often than usual.

curious to know what the teams are

I think they are like 4-7 rank, I can't really think of that many teams better than them. my personal ranking is,

1. Astralis
2. Gambit
3. NaVi
4. Liquid
5. Virtus.Pro
6. Vitality
7. Heroic

but 1-3 are interchangeable for me along with 4-7. Heroic's performance at EPL was impressive, but we'll see if that was a one off thing. The top teams are also looking very weak this year, and there is no clear #1 or even an obvious top 3. TL has the potential to go up with the addition of FalleN and I think Astralis will fall out of the top 3 as more teams start to go with a similar methodical approach with smart util usage. Vitality is very hit or miss for me. ZywOo needs some burden off his shoulders, as from what I've seen, their whole performance is based on how well ZywOo does. They are trying to give ZywOo the freedom to be the next S1mple or even surpass him, but they aren't giving him the support like NaVi does. S1mple CAN carry and often does, but he doesn't need to. But the rest of the team understands if S1mple is popping off, get out of his way and let him frag out.

easily a top 5 team in the world, top 4 kato, top 2 in their group at EPL, the only reason they didn't go further in EPL was because of how dumb the tourney format was

They need better igl'ing and coaching, they look far too disorganized

he would probably be an average at best player who everyone dickrides because he was their favorite streamer, plus he doesn't fuck with the pro player lifestyle and would rather make content than play just a single game his whole career

that clutch was one of the sickest things I had watched live

this looks like a copypasta

They are probably going to match the prize pools for CSGO Majors, so conservatively 1 million, probably 1.5-2 million.

I can gaurantee you that most of the viewers are just people watching different regions. I doubt that Masters will get 400k, it will probably get similar numbers to S-tier CSGO tourneys. It will probably be closer to 50-100k depending on the teams, with Grands maybe going to 300k.

Yeah, I trust them far more than vlr's rankings, but being a number 1 in a specific region just feels like it doesn't matter right now if they can't show up against the other region's best. Like how Renegades is by far the best csgo team in Oceania/Australia, but once they went up against the best that EU, CIS, and NA have to offer they floundered. Just saying you are number 1 in a region doesn't mean anything if you can't beat or even just compete against other region's best.

The vlr.gg rankings are kind of bad just don't use them. We probably shouldn't be caring about regional rankings and wait until international LANs come, that's when the rankings will really matter.

probably best to keep bans in pro play, I cannot imagine how unfun comp will be with bans

feel like right now NA and EU are virtually equal, its just that the different play styles causes people to say that one region is better than the other based on how they prefer to watch the game

everyone saying -steel +brax are silvers who think games are won by fragging out. Give 100T time, Ethan joined the team recently and hasn't adapted fully to Valorant like his teammates. They can honestly either run either double duelist or single duelist, it's just that they run single duelist because they want 4 of them to play tactically and similar to csgo, while they let Asuna double satchel onto site.

watch next he's going to call Hiko a baiter

Vitality had a pretty decent 6 man roster until they dropped it because valve was being stupid with their substitution rules for RMR points

they literally haven't even played a match yet how was somebody already dropped

they haven't played in over 2 weeks, and the past games they have played they either bodied obviously inferior competition or got destroyed by teams that should be their equal. They haven't been able to compete with NA's top dogs like Sentinels and 100 Thieves. In the two events they have been in since 2021 started, they got 1st-4th in the qualifier and 5th/6th in the main event for Champions tour Stage 1 Challenger 3, and 5th-8th in the Stage 1 Challenger 2 qualifier. Are they just being carried by the points they got early in the game when they were considered one of the best teams in the world?

I got like 45 kills on Bind with Phoenix, had to get like 3 1v4 clutches just to lose 11-13, I had more kills than the whole rest of my team combined

bro can you just shut the fuck up please, you aren't contributing at all to the conversation

because you think so! in csgo you need wallhack or aimbot but in VAL you need only a soft radar hack since if you know where someone stays, you can force him away with your abilities and get on site and we all know abilities win games after plant. easy af to cheat in this game. nobody would use wallhacks or aimbot in this game trust me! a soft radar hack is enough and i doubt you have never faced those players who control the whole map like theey play also for you on your own PC... whoever thinks this game is almost cheaterfree, lives obv in disneyland!

thanks for the copypasta

I think the problem is that valorant looks way cooler than csgo. I mean, which would you rather watch, a team lineup smokes and then tactically explode onto site, or Babybay shmeag his way onto site by spamming jett dashes and updrafts while hitting insane shots? I think the answer is insanely obvious. Also, all anyone wants to watch in pro csgo are pretty much 4 teams, NaVi, Astralis, Team Liquid, and Vitality. If none of those 4 are playing, then the viewership goes down drastically, for example IEM Katowice 2021, where the quarterfinal between NaVi and Liquid got more viewers than the Grand final between Gambit and Virtus.Pro. I hope that these two gaimes can grow along with each other and make each other better by pointing out eachother's flaws, but the difference in views comes down to the audience mostly. I am sure that most valorant viewers are casual watchers that may not be the most invested in the game but play it a little bit, but enjoy watching the highest level of play, while csgo viewers are the faceit level 10s who can appreciate the tactical play style and insane amount of skill that csgo requires, and obviously there are going to be far more casual viewers than dedicated ones.

finally we can se if NA is actually any good or if it just looks good because there are no international matches yet

so if you take two of the biggest regions for csgo there would be less viewership? Man who would have thought? Based on your logic, if you get rid of the major audience for any game, then that game's competitive scene is dead. Plus there was still huge viewership for non-CIS and Brazilian teams dumbass

315k for Astralis vs. Vitality at IEM Global Challenge 2020
459K for G2 vs. Fnatic at IEM Katowice 2020
476k for Astralis vs. Vitality at Blast Premier Global Finals 2020
240k for Heroic vs. Vitality at ESL One Cologne Europe 2020
140K for Team Liquid vs. Evil Geniuses at ESL One Cologne North America 2020

"dead game"

596k viewers for Liquid vs NaVi at IEM Katowice 2021 (quarterfinal) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/iem-katowice-2021
445k viewers for Liquid vs Virtus.Pro at IEM Katowice 2021 (semifinal) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/iem-katowice-2021
130k viewers for Complexity vs OG at ESL Pro League season 13 (group stage) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/esl-pro-league-season-13
543k viewers for NaVi vs FaZe at Blast Premier Spring 2021 (group stage) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/blast-premier-spring-series-2021
687k viewers for NaVi vs Vitality at Blast Premier Global Final 2020 (semifinal) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/blast-premier-global-final-2020
1.3 million viewers for FaZe vs Cloud9 at ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018 (grand finals) https://escharts.com/tournaments/csgo/eleague-major-2018

over 900,000 active players of steam https://steamcharts.com/app/730

"Bad graphics"

obviously dude, the game was made in 2012 what do you think

"too slow"

just say you don't appreciate tactical play and shut up

"boring af"

subjective af but sure

I would play csgo more if they made VAC better

Making the ult fatal would be completely broken, if a viper pops an ult there is no point in attempting a retake because you will just have to w-key it in and try to find the viper or die.

Overall, I think the consensus not only in pro play, but also in the whole community, is that Viper is one of the worst, if not the worst agent in the game. What do you think can be done to remedy this and make her a competitive controller choice against Omen and Brimstone? Or maybe they should change her role in the game altogether?