huge W

PRX look great as usual, and DRX actually bounced back, W pacific

what happened to hypoc

As an NA fan, having BLG beat NRG here isn't that bad of a scenario. Having 2 reps from each region would be incredible for the growth of the game in China and would show that all the regions are solidly competitive as a whole, and not just one region is far better than the others. EG and LOUD still carry the Americas flag and both have the potential to make great runs, so losing NRG to the group isn't as bad.

I'll see what I can do boss

uh

awful match between 2 teams in the bottom 4 of the tournament

raze awp might be the future, raze's utility is better than Jett's utility, and rifling is about equal on both sides, the only problem is that you can't take as aggressive fights with raze awp than jett/chamber awp, but if someone is an insane raze player and awper then putting them on jett is a bit of a throw

bro wasn't asking ab less lmao

Alfa clears
Suygetsu and nAts is close but I'll give it to nAts bc his peak was better than Suygetsu's peak

90% of the time if a good team gets shit on in scrims, they were trying some new shit and it didn't work

guild with twisten would have been godly

idk if I'm delusional but I swear that there's so many brazilians on vlr, and they always making Portuguese threads, but nobody else does threads in their language

just a weird observation

The roster in hindsight is one of the best I've ever seen, but they never really did anything with it

Luminosity wins champs confirmed?

GB + FNC flair strikes again

get rid of Midgar

not everything has to be so utilitarian, people can like things without it having a purpose outside of pure enjoyment

There's a lot of things that wouldn't exist in this world if all we looked at was it's utility, esports being one of them

fr, the excitement builds so much more when players aren't all buddy buddy w eachother

S1mple before TL maybe, he’s not toxic like S1mple was but he’s a very emotional player and is still very young

How does it feel knowing nobody on EDG is very good

he said some format changes are coming right? But I think the community is a bit deluded ab how T2 should work, it should really be a talent funnel for a few players at a time to get to T1. It never really will be self-sustaining due to it's nature as the lower tier of competition, and now that teams are realizing how risky going for ascension is I could see some pulling out

their palms are sweaty, knees weak arms are heavy

fr, they really started to get tilted and try to make hero plays in the 2nd half of their attack side especially

holy banger

what Alfa and Leo is doing on senti is far more impressive than what TenZ did on jett/reyna. In 2021, SEN was built for TenZ to succeed, but on this team Alfa isn't the focus

tbh even NA fans doubted the deep run ability of NRG. Since the beginning their ceiling felt like 4th-3rd, but never grands

red bull clutch>>>

let me huff my copium in peace

Haven a T-sided map guys the W is still possible

since when did mastercard have the thrifty rounds wtf

greatest Turkish Valorant player, Cned could never

if FNC didn't have a Derke, Chronicle, Alfajer, Leo, Boaster, Mini, the WASD keys, a left click, a mousepad, working internet, PCs, and the CTRL button they are nothing

common duc W, please keep making stories

so far its looking a bit more competitive

I just want FNC to finally have some competition, seeing them stomp is impressive but boring to watch

Zeta Division haven and lotus masterclass incoming

We underestimated Chinese valorant so much

Stop giving me PTSD

Watching these teams is so fun, they just have the utmost confidence that they’re better than you and will completely ego you at times, and it’s so refreshing for this game

I didn't watch any of the matches, is DRX actually legit, or is everyone just mid and they're the least mid

ez4BLG

100T are probably one of the more financially stable orgs in the scene right now. While 90% of other orgs relied on VC money or rich billionaires, they tried to have their own sources of income like with higround, juvee, and Project X. They also have some of the most popular creators on the internet right now with Valkyrae, and their esports orgs are all pretty decent at least.

They don't make money that's the thing. Most esports orgs only hope is basically to break even, only the biggest orgs in the biggest esports with the most success with the most sponsorships ever will be even slightly profitable. The amount of money ppl were spending on orgs was ridiculous in the first place for incredibly diminishing returns, for a lot of teams their funding was 90% from rich millionaires and VC firms who thought esports was the next big thing, and now that the bubble burst and the money is being pulled orgs will need to be incredibly stingy with their budgets.

to be fair, not many orgs are looking good financially right now. Maybe before the esports depression SEN was looking fine but now that the VC money stopped flowing so freely they'll need to cut back on contracts

they got deluded by the 2021 success and thought they'd be winning tournaments forever

this time for Africa

Plat 1
Plat 2 Peak

This team is so shit

Y’all remember when DRX said that they were using the whole year put Foxy9 in Champs