EMEA is a CS region, there's just nothing we can really do about it. They can get the players for the occasional hypercompetitive team like FNC and Heretics, but the fact is that the best EMEA tac fps players want to play CS, while the best North American and Asian tac fps players want to play valorant.

brazil are an anomaly, those mfs can put up top tier cs and valorant teams

Lev looked pretty demonic (it was vs KRU but still), they have the easier path to Lower Round 4 with -Demon1 Cloud9 too

Tbf, it's always kind of been like that, it's just that the primary investigators always got the full credit. The reason we say Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and not Watson, Crick, Franklin, Stokes, Wilkins, and Wilson is because the paper that got famous had James Watson and Francis Crick's name on it. Newton is called the father of calculus even though it was combined, separate efforts of Newton and Leibniz that contributed to our modern understanding of calculus because some English scientific academy (that Newton was the head of by the way) said that Newton did it first.

Scientists clearly peaked in the 20th Century

Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Marie Curie
Niels Bohr
Louis de Broglie
Max Planck
Wolfgang Pauli
Erwin Schrodinger
Paul Dirac
Linus Pauling

All revolutionized their field. Hell I'd even say the 18th Century may have peaked higher than the 19th Century purely off the contributions of Newton Lagrange and Liebniz and the development of Newtonian and Lagrangian Mechanics

edit: tbf I am incredibly biased towards physicists because I'm an engineer

no world Furia replaces someone right now with how hot the team's been playing, just ride the hot hands until kickoffs over

gotta be a smoke player

they at minimum need to do some role switching because N4rrate at primary entry is not it

its not 2023 anymore man you can't get away with having deadweights at IGL anymore because of their game sense, you can find players who have elite game sense who still have league average fragging ability

Tier 1:
MIBR
NRG

Tier 2:
FUR
G2
100T

Tier 3:
LEV (w/Neon)
C9 (w/OXY)
NV

Tier 4:
SEN
EG
LOUD

N/A KRU
doesn't feel right ranking KRU's sub roster without seeing their actual roster play, I kinda like the roster conceptually but i'll reserve judgements until I actually see them

MIBR and NRG look significantly better than everyone else, they're basically guaranteed to take the Upper and Middle finals in my book, and Lower finals is a coin flip between the Tier 2 teams

Tier 3 teams are just kind of the mid teams tbh, I think they have some potential to get an upset on a Tier 1 or 2 team but they aren't nearly good enough to consistently fight for internationals

Tier 4 teams need to start rebuilding immediately, they have massive flaws on the team that need rectifying immediately if they want to compete.

100T
TS
TL

every team I like is mid as fuck </3

that's a record for ACS in a map right?

that game was a coinflip game lol, 100T absolutely could have won that

MIBR has to be #1 for Americas

literally 1984

mobile games are huge in South and Southeast Asia, much more accessible to use a phone than a PC

fym sentinels

MIBR owns brazil fr

sorry for calling you the worst entry in Americas I forgot Virtyy exists

Imagine going from the greatest team in the world to being in APAC tier 2 hell

ngl playing sentinels actually improved my aim bc ur actually forced to have good gunplay if you want kills

idk that just doesn't move the needle for me. It would be a jump in firepower sure but like I said Jawg is in my opinion the biggest issue with this team right now. He's playing terribly to start the season, he's gotta do better than putting up a 0.66 Rating if G2 want to be a serious contender for internationals this year.

ur genuinely braindead if you think that saying Aspas got carried by his team yesterday is somehow Aspas propaganda

would the move be -babybay +demon1? Bc I don't think that's addressing the real issue with G2 right now in that they have the statistically 2nd worst entry fragger in Americas rostered. And if you go -jawgemo +demon1 that brings up a whole different issue of roles and having to move an elite AWPer onto an entry role, whether thats Demon1 or babybay

the fact that Demon1 isnt a tier 1 player is malpractice

how the fuck do you give up 5 ecos in a row lol these teams are full of professional throwers

this is entertaining valorant. Not good valorant, but entertaining

back to back to back to back

3 thrifties in a row is absolutely nasty work

back to back ecos is ridiculous

I've always had a soft spot for MIBR, they're one of the OGs of esports so its nice to see them succeeding again

WE love femboys and tgirls

top dog is the antonym of underdog

dude valorant has always had teams that can pay infinitely more than everyone else

yall sending one of BBL or Gentle Mates bro

G2 looks significantly less impressive than they did before, it took insane performances from leaf and babybay before and if they don't show up its cooked

Brazil sadly owns us

vamo brasil

jawgemo hate hive leader showed up 😭

greatest player in the world Eggster will be a world champion wow

never was a fan of him or G2 but this performance is so generationally bad i just had to comment

genuinely ur dogshit

we still talk about you Nearest Airport

we say this every year dawg

i just realized that mf went -20 against 100T holy shit what does he even do

the funny in question is Furia 2-0

it'll be close, I think a lot of people have preconceived notions of 100T based on last year when 100T are a much better team. I still favor NRG but it probably won't be a blowout

tbh I think him bottomfragging isn't necessarily that bad, I think we're just used to Aspas carrying his team but right now he doesn't even need to carry when he has another top 5 player itw on his team in Zekken, he just needs to focus on gaining space and enabling Zekken and MIBR can win

Aspas can still popoff and takeover but its probably reassuring for him that he doesn't need to go off for 30 kills every map

how we feeling about 100T vs NRG, ngl I think I like the matchup better than a potential MIBR matchup

NRG is def still favored but 100T can play it close, It's gonna go 2-1 either way and I'm leaning like 65-35 NRG, but maybe I'm coping and we're gonna get railed 2-0

he's always been a very handsome man ngl

idk what ur on bc Americas has the highest Waylay pick rate in kickoff

Americas: 49%
China: 43%
EMEA: 37%
Pacific: 22%

Pacific are gonna get FUCKED by a yoru nerf lol they run 83% Yoru

“IsraelGPT, generate me a vct americas costreamer that all of the IDF soldiers around the world will love”

“BZZT BZZT generation complete. Your streamer is: Tarik”