this team makes me sad :(
i think lev was good enough to win champions last year, we should’ve won that abyss vs edg
and now we can’t even beat furia
it’s never been more over

furia could sign prime 2022 LOUD and still place 8th in americas that org is incapable of succeeding

Is this game just turning into sato vs spike? God bless BR valorant

kingg

Airlines will always try to claim weather because then they can't be liable and won't have to pay lodging I fucking hate them

he also had a veteran igl last year and did jack shit with him and then once he was cut the team immediately got 10x better so

looks like it somehow flagged both teams as corinthians

I think he'll get picked up by a non CN or next year becuase I only think DRG has a ~30% chance of surviving relegation next year and he's way too cracked to get locked in CN T2 - but i don't think it's TH that'll pick him up. Maybe TL if they want to keep doing double senti but decide to part with serial? idk

NV is probably the only team capable of running the same comp with minor variations on every map, and that's literally only because they happen to instalock 5 of the best agents in the game rn. BCF has neither parts of the sauce - they don't play the best agents and their players aren't as good as NV's on their permas

it’s been almost a year but this abyss is my roman empire

mechanically i think 2023 PRX was better, something was going one for one vs guys like demon1 and aspas, davai jinggg mindfreak forsaken were all shooters, but mentally this PRX clears by a mile and honestly I think that's more valuable to have than the mechanical skill because it doesn't matter how much firepower you have - if your team doesn't have the discipline to make the right plays or the fortitude to not crumble when the opponent makes a comeback then it doesn't matter

true i forgot this is his first vct year since he's been in t2 for a while

madrid could've also went to geng
heretics were up 2-1 at shanghai and almost made the comeback on abyss at champs

these games have all been nail biters, in fact today was the first grand final to not go all 5 maps since champs LA

patmen and kaajak probably top 2 but theres some other interesting choices

AMERICAS: verno, lukxo
EMEA: xeus, *cyvoph
APAC: hyunmin, free1ng
CN: i don't follow cn well enough, and i think all the wolves players are experienced

*played for one split

to be fair, the past 6 grand finals since champs LA have been a western team vs an eastern team, so it's really not like asia is pulling super far ahead of the rest of the world in this game the regional parity is still super close

that is true and especially with fnc's slow style it makes sense why alfa gets a kill first instead of kaajak but he's also playing so well that he's not dying first at all

alfa is 9/0 for fk/fd on KILLJOY

tournament mvp conversation should be steering this guy's way

its fnc's style and while sometimes i think it costs them rounds its also very effective at finding the weak site

SEN reykjavik
LOUD istanbul
FNC tokyo
GENG shanghai
EDG seoul

overall record 5-5

PRX 3-1 FNC

called it

but it also means you have to watch one of them lose :(

that's fair although i think if they wanted to play it more standard they'd do jingg omen something jett forsaken sova/kayo/whoever

but its also prx so you know theyre playing raze reyna harbor viper fade or some shit like that

8/8 gr8 b8 m8

they would never put jingg on jett when something and forsaken are better on her, and i think his neon just isnt as good as his raze so they'll pick raze over neon on maps that they share

asian meteor

prx fnc felt like the fated matchup in LA that we never got to see, as much as I love wolves I would kill for a prx fnc grand final

im surprised they don't have streamer mode enabled

what the fuck

In the GenG vs Sen rematch, Lakia had a series of very unfortunate deaths. Here’s what happened:

Lotus round 1: jiggle peeks A lobby and gets head tapped by JohnQT’s sheriff

Lotus round 6: Drops down from heaven and doesn’t anticipate Zekken’s deep rope angle

Lotus round 7: swings off Karon’s paranoia but Karon’s paranoia misses

Lotus round 12: gets spammed by JohnQT’s Odin and texture’s rocket doesn’t trade him somehow

Lotus round 16: gets seize + nade combo’ed while trying to plant due to time.

Lotus round 18: walks out of a smoke into Zellsis’s crosshair even though texture walked out of the smoke and didn’t see anything literally 2 seconds ago.

Lotus round 20: Tenz throws one of the greatest paranoia’s and he’s gunned down by Zellsis’s judge at close range

Lotus round 22: gets spammed through a smoke by Zekken

Icebox round 3: gets ulted by Sacy without getting tagged by dart or drone

Icebox round 9: gets spammed through JohnQT’s ult

Icebox round 12: gets ulted by Sacy AGAIN without getting tagged by dart or drone.

Yes, Lakia went 9/30 in KD across both maps, but seriously for 1/3rd of his deaths he couldn’t do anything. GenG are fighting tooth and nail to not get eliminated from champs, the pressure to perform in front of a home crowd is immense. He had the second highest KAST across both maps and I genuinely just feel bad for him. He’s a great player. One bad game doesn’t make him a bad player.

"I'm the best chamber in the world- but yay was better :)"
-afajer

gotta love him

1 from each region :)

-ash +lakia
-foxy9 + meteor

I feel like this team could win tournaments

upper bracket quarter finals

G2 v GENG 5th/6th elim game is diabolical

1/11 vs 11/6 holy shit bro locked in at halftime

Getting a comeback map vs GENG is so fucking huge for this team SiuFatBB my GOAT

spring does apparently

ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ

dude he finally found his keyboard he's good

HE HAS A KILL IF HE GETS 10 THIS ROUND HE'LL TIE FOR THE HALF

hes always getting sacrificed to t3xtrue's op, not really his fault

look at him smiling and laughing when siufat stands up hes such a fun player

its so over

i mean kinda yeah but does that really matter? they are tourney favs now

FNC G2 and GENG all go to lowers and only one can make it past 4th
insane for three tournament favorite teams

welcome to FNC kaajak, food poisoning is just part of the culture here

hes not casting till top 6

bro had one bad game, unfortunately i dont think xlg are gonna win vs g2 but he's definitely a lot better than he showed today

karon