round diff over Global (-1 vs -22) and won against GenG through some divine intervention

If we were still in Split 1 I would say FENNEL/REJECT but I think Riddle is taking this

I am in severe pain

There's a few tournaments that a team needs to go through to get from Tier 2 to 1

Open Qualifiers: Several teams, originally from signup but will be taken from the Invite division of Premier going forward, go into a double-elim bracket in one of 8 different groups to qualify for the first Challengers Split.

Challengers Split 1: The top 8 teams from OQ will first fight in a regular season. This is either done through round robin (each team plays against one another) or group stages (same concept, except with two separate groups). The top 6-ish teams from the regular season qualify for playoffs, as well as a direct spot to Split 2, while the bottom two get put into relegation. Winning this split is only really necessary if Ascension qualification is dependent on points, which some regions do.

Promotion/Relegation: A second OQ is ran where the top two teams from the qualifiers face off against the bottom two teams from the first split. The top two here qualify for Split 2.

Challengers Split 2: Same format as Split 1, except the winner of this split gets the Ascension slot for their region (Assuming the region doesn't do a point system)

If a team does a point system, the team with the most points after Split 2 gets the Ascension slot.

Ascension: The final Tier 2 tournament. The winners of each region fight for the franchise slot, first through group stages, and then in playoffs. The winner gets to play in Tier 1.

not to mention G2 were almost certainly mental boomed after Masters

I work at a hospital does that count

I feel like it was a case where neT wasn't the problem with kickoff G2 but Icy ended up kinda being the solution

y0y fan talking about washed

she could take a silver 5-stack and somehow get them to win a match

ngl it would've been really difficult for the split 2 version of bleed to work out role-wise considering they have 2 info initiators, then again their season's prob over so ig gg go next year

Kinda just sucks, really wanted Crazyguy to prove his worth more

t3xture isn't a rookie, he was on GE last year

Both Japanese teams in Tier 1 were stated to be the two worst teams in Paciic

• Neither DFM nor ZETA have any chance of making it in Champs now, marking the first Champions tournament with no Japanese representation
• DFM gets outaimed, ZETA just look like ass

Tier 2 is also a mess rn

• REJECT and FENNEL are one loss away from not making playoffs after being the top 2 last split
• TENNN getting flak for supposedly ruining the team even though his addition to the team was due to factors outside his control
• Everyone's mad about import rules especially with SCARZ + the fact that pretty much everyone else has 2 Koreans on the team
• Murash fanbase thinking they're saving Japanese Valorant by attacking anyone who makes fun of their players (My perspective on the fanbase, might be wrong tho)

I don't know if this is me overreacting but it doesn't seem very good for the region rn

if he didn't bottom frag both maps he would've been so real for that

unfortunately crazy raccoon money and clout is too strong

In their post-match interview one of the members (i forgor if it was haodong or after) said that they get like no meaningful feedback when experimenting against other chinese teams because they just beat them anyway

Akame if you're reading this plz save us

trace are looking good

lmao just wait for them to choke at playoffs again, i love FengF but I have little hope for them to make Champs

This feels like an overreaction from Murash's fanbase ngl, this isn't the first time something like this happened (Wolverine's thumbs-down from last split left a bad impression on me)

Thinking DFM 2-1 here

DFM has some good ideas but often gets mech diffed outside of Meiy
ZETA just look like ass in both aspects

Asked the same thing, apparently muto was doing a little shittalking to million

no clue about BRIAN tho

(VCJ watchers come)

Was there something I missed from last night? There’s like a billion qrts on muto’s post-match tweet taunting him.

REJECT

Akame and BRIAN are insane, shame that they’re getting Molly whooped rn

Dplus is pretty much the only current KR challengers team to have a major presence outside of Valorant (LoL and PUBG mainly)

Meanwhile all of the JP challengers teams either have regional dominance in another esport (REJECT even won an international Apex Legends event not too long ago) or have major streamers backing them up (Murash/Riddle). That plus the salary thing makes playing abroad much more enticing.

I hate that I can see it

Before the match: Devise team comps and strats for different maps and test them out against other teams (If they are tier 1 teams they'll usually scrim against decent T2 teams in the region). If the coach finds that the team struggles on a certain map they will select that as their permaban. They may also review VODs of the team they face up against, see how they play out certain maps, and devise strats to counter the enemy team (anti-stratting). They also usually serve as a counselor to maintain the players' physical and mental health to keep them in the best playing form.

During the match: Watches the gameplay and analyzes how both their team and the enemy team play out certain rounds. If they notice anything the players should capitalize on they'll call timeouts. Coaches also call timeouts to give the players a mental reset if the webcams show noticeable distress.

After the match: Review the VOD and spot out any errors in either IGL calling or timeout calling. This feedback is then applied to the next match.

On your question about fraud coaches, those kind of coaches will not call timeouts (Termi), put players on non-comfort roles (LEGIJA), allow permaban maps to go through (Chet), and overall puts the team at a strategic disadvantage.

honestly they've been pretty decent considering that in any other universe apeks would've won ascension

ez for BRIAN my goat

first full match I went 6-18 as Sova on Haven with 0 HS percentage. I had like negative FPS experience

dawg it's privated

Anyone tried it out and have thoughts?

I find the paper transformation mechanic very fun but i have no idea how any of the guns shoot so I go like 3/13 in scrimmages

never really found the appeal of it outside the bullet and kill counter

wouldn't buy it personally but will pick up off the ground because i like stealing other people's skins

truest thing i've read all day

chill it's still the old patch

Both of these teams need to be executed

hasn't received any offers for challengers teams

Perhaps there is a reason for that

syouta's liquipedia says he can speak english

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/amBrian%23yee/overview im deep in the trenches here

With the Blazeking situation I started to wonder if there are any players that their own region doesn't fw

idk if ascension counts but jemkin got 0 kills on bind during ascension gf

What’s up with blazeking

yooo fellow Mega Ampharos enjoyer

that doesn't make much sense, they played with each other on Zeta's academy roster before fennel picked hiroronn up and supposedly cooked the main team in scrims

only the classic feels NPC, the rest of the collection have been on a bit of decline recently

im not saying any of them are bad but holy lord i see these everywhere

What are some skins that if you see someone have in their collection you just know how unoriginal they are? Not to say these are bad skins it's just these together would make an NPC ahh collection

I think these types of skins would include:
Ion sheriff
Recon phantom
Reaver/Prime vandal and karambit
Sovereign marshal

nah but rossy costed the team three rounds trying to get someone with a judge

If that reply to semmler was from any other person we would've clowned on it as Tier 3 egoposting

i think carpe's more likely to get benched since xccurate's igling now

they placed top 3 four times

masters copenhagen (2nd)
masters tokyo (3rd)
champs LA (2nd)
masters madrid (3rd)

p sure that tweet was a joke lol

"guys i don't think gc performance translates well into tier 1 or 2"

open qual stat cope (doesn't mean shit if you can't qualify)
deflection to Icy (he was grinding it out in Tier 2 and EG's reserve roster)
random transphobia accusation (someone forgot the s in the pronoun)