Honestly, yeah, not that much obvious improvement

They are pretty bad casters tho

He was being set up with 4 extremely consistent support players

Maybe temperature. He was farming in lcq

Cap. Weed does not give physical withdrawal symptoms. It is psychologically addictive like any other dopaminergic behavior... any withdrawal symptoms are psychosomatic. It's not fucking heroin

Political shit he said i think

It does matter... more representation in the actual tourney means more chance to win, just purely based on statistics... and if it's double elim, they might end up playing each other. Plus, 2 teams from each major region go to franchising, which exacerbates the impact even more.

Only about half of these make sense imo... that being said, the fact destrian and newzera are franchised but mistic and enzo are not is a travesty... and those particular moves are perfect

That being said, I think the 5 teams will actually benefit NA to a degree since there is obviously a higher concentration of talent. Still wish there were a couple more slots because it was definitely deserved. And frankly, the fact SA gets 6 slots in ascension and NA gets 2 is fucking ludicrous

https://youtube.com/@CommendYT

The real commend or nah? Cuz W take

Where is bjor tho? Feel like he's a solid tier 2 sentinel player. Should have been on a contending challengers team

Just bc they scrim challengers teams doesn't mean they are as good as other challengers teams... that's just a logical leap I can't get behind

Man I can't wait to see who qualifies and gets to be shit on by the invited teams for months

Eu=/=emea

Aged like milk

...for ruining my pickems completely

I think pickem scores should be represented by a bar graph to better visualize the distribution and where in it your pickem score lands

...for me. Anyone else? It won't fill out with teams and at the end it's saying I need to select winners for every match... even though I'm tracking the advancing teams even if the names aren't filling in.

...for me. Anyone else? It won't fill out with teams and at the end it's saying I need to select winners for every match... even though I'm tracking the advancing teams even if the names aren't filling in.

Anyone know why damwon isn't showing up in korean challengers?

He played pretty well... but man is really saving hunter's fury for next fucking year

True. Bug exploiting, bloviating man baby, as far as i can tell

1) no, it is precisely the point. I dont even like lothar... but it seems pretty obvious to me that "brazilian fans" is literally just an identifier for which fanbase was sending him death threats. And since brazilian fans refers to literally no particular race, there is nothing racist about his post unless you wanna read that in, or unless he is lying. There are white people, black people, latin people, native people etc. in brazil. It's not targeted at any race

2) no more can you defend a racist statement by saying it's true than you can disprove any true statement by saying it's racist. If you wanna prove something untrue then argue the truth of it. Dont just call it racist. You wont convince anyone that doesnt already agree with you

Did I read this incorrectly? Or did you just imply it's within brazilian culture to send death threats..........

Nationality =/= race. Brazil is a diverse country

Nice

*siuuuuu

Optic and drx are on the same side of the bracket... but ok

I dont think that's actually how it works. It's random draws to my knowledge. The only thing set prior to the draws is that the winner of each group are on opposite sides of the bracket AND everyone from groups plays the #1 seeds ftom each region

That's a decent point. Still need to know if optic can beat eu

1) i acknowledged that
2) those regions dont have nearly the playerbase or depth
3) EMEA is one region in valorant. If it were 3 fully fledged regions, they'd have individual qualifiers like every other legitimate region
4) you have misunderstood my point. Im saying the winner of berlin guaranteed another spot in champs for their region. I.e. gambit winning meant fnatic went to champs. If NV won, they would have sent 100T
5) yes that was good. Would have preferred if it stayed that way considering NA made 2 masters finals and won 1. The only other region to make finals in masters last year was emea. Emea deserves 3 spots fs.

Thanks for making actual arguments instead of hating :) respect

I'm not saying they do, but there is a lot of fishy evidence.

1) for a second time, the only teams from NA face off in round one of bracket play
2) there are only 2 teams from NA to begin with
3) last year the team that one masters 1 got to take another team to masters 2... this time EMEA gets 3 slots again without showing anything worthy last masters.
4) last year the winners of berlin sent another team from their region... this time the number of teams is locked without regard to performance in order to make room for SA which hadnt shown anything outside of KRU.... And this was decided before masters 1, even.
5) in the end, NA could win both masters and still only take 2 teams to champs... and with it being even harder for them to win both masters bc one is gping straight to the losers bracket no matter what.

I know EMEA has had to play each other in brackets a lot too, but it's not as egregious and you still have 3 teams without regard to performance

There's a 3 way tie in match standings, so then it goes to head to head... but in that 3 way tie, every team is 1 and 1. A beat B, B beat C, and C beat A (kind of thing). So H2H cannot be used. Tiebreaker is then map score in which faze is ahead. EG and LG are tied in map score, so it goes to round differential where EG are ahead

Aged like milk :)

BatChest

Unpopular take but i want to see it too

His value is reduced off of sova, and there are plenty of players that can match his util value while also fragging more and more directly supporting teammates with presence. Maybe they can steal skuba after the group stage is over.

They're not going anywhere with Jerk. Time to pick up BabyJ lol

You have to remember that many of these clutch situations are unwinnable... especially given hikos playstyle, he is in 1v3,4,5, situations a lot more than most support players. Add onto that that you shouldnt be winning much more than like 20% of your 1vXs... 1/27 is bad, especially for Hiko with his reputation, but that is just one event.

Personally, I don't think 100T woll win until they move on from Hiko. Ofc he's great in the clutch, but he is in the clutch way more than he needs to be for obvious reasons.
That being said, here's a possible path forward:
1) Swap Hiko for critical if pioneers actually drop him. If not, try to get ABX vice... he can even igl if it doesnt go well with ethan as igl
2) when knights inevitably lose and dont go to masters, pay whatever buyout to get skuba. Mans farming on controller
3) either resign babyj bc there's no great reason to have dropped him, or sign dizzylife to have a legitimate jett player

They can't find hiko to drop him tho. He's not with the team jafeel

I'm very confused about how the nsg circuit points are working in terms of aeeding, but this is the most egregious case...

Anyone have insight? Were they under a different name?

No

No

Copium

Wow some of yall looking pretty clown in retrospect huh

I hope so

Curry needs to go back to a support role. I've never seen him perform on duelist or flex

Fnatic are looking for a Sova main in replacing Doma. Any suggestions? I think ghengsta might be a decent option