Yeah it's just gonna be top 4 of stage 2 that make champs.

Not a fan that they're changing the format to where Stage 1 doesn't carry over to Stage 2. Ruins teams like SEN this year, who are top 4 at champs, from being able to make runs just because they have a shaky second stage. I feel the championship points thing was great cause it makes every game matter.

Personally I think people underestimate how good new agents are when they're not clearly broken (Fade). Deadlock was viewed as unplayable, but eventually became a solid pick on some maps. Hell, even Chamber on release wasn't played that much, it took a little time before people realized he was just a better Jett. That's just the nature of things though, people are quick to pass judgement.

EDward, you have to game this one time

Yay Mako and f0rsaken

Accounting for relative skill of the competition on the year, Yay was better. Not accounting for that, 2021 Tenz was the best player ever and most likely won't be surpassed.

You're probably right actually, I just think playing a map you haven't played before in this stage of the tournament is super risky. Last time they played bind Sen won as well in Madrid, but lot has changed since then. It'll be interesting to see, I just believe Heretics has the advantage when it comes to map pool.

This is a pretty likely playout of the bans i'd say, don't think sen will ban bind over abyss though. I think they'd rather play bind.

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I think the esport is in a really good place currently, as all the regions have real contenders. I think we're a few years away from China/Asia being the top dogs though, cause what these teams have gotten to after this short of a timespan is pretty crazy. Not to mention like the whole edg team having no prior pro exp in other games, feel like we're starting to see the shift from former CS guys to homegrown Val players, it will be super interesting to watch.

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China is inevitable… #CCPsupremacy

https://www.vlr.gg/365223/champs-winner-known/#5

They called me a madman… It’s coming together though.

I don't think they can win if they don't pick up an X factor. They just got a bunch of good players; it's proven you need at least that one guy to win a trophy.

Pretty simple lol, you want your most mechanically gifted player taking the best fights a.k.a trading out teammates.

And I don't mean just initiator, this kid is ridiculously good.

Edit: This guy is not a real human, he has SEN in a headlock rn

Not undermining anything, all their improvements were from a team that demon1 was already apart of lol, ppl forget the first 3 series he was in were not that great, but they got better AS A TEAM. Not like he just subbed in late and took them to the promised land, he was on the team from week 2 lol. And my original point was that without their international performances, none of the EG guys would be as coveted as they were heading into this season, which is what makes the MIBR win the biggest what if. No EG at Tokyo, No EG at champs, that's literally 5 teams right now that would look different just based on that.

Improved massively how lol? He played every game outside of lock in and first week of Americas + They got 13-0'd with him playing. There's not even a real basis to show his addition boosted the team if you don't factor in the international events + LCQ is as random as can be, KRU literally had no wins prior and won the whole thing.

It's a conundrum really, cause on one hand Americas should be split between North and South for talent/regional cultivation purposes, but the south American region is not on par with the talent level of North America currently, so idk who'd really be watching/invested in that league + there just isn't as many big organizations in the region. Sucks for the LATAM players cause they're either one of the lucky 10-15 to make franchising, or they're stuck in challengers' limbo with no type of security/investment within their team.

MIBR not beating 100t genuinely would have repercussions to this day lol. Minimum 3/5 of that EG squad would be teamless right now, we'd never really see what Demon1 was capable of, Paper Rex might have had Pacific's first trophy, list goes on.

Playing other agents in radiant ranked is not the same as playing them in pro matches. Way more knowledge and util timing/placement things that are very important to be good on other agents, which takes time.

Is Aspas just Valorant's coldzera? I don't know much about CS, but I feel like from what I do the similarities are there.

Better than ever really. Only thing that is scary is their lack of ability in closing out games, like they let trace come back from 10-2 to 11-10. If they can figure that out though, I think they can beat anybody.

Might be legit, if you see his tracker, he's been only playing KJ and Cypher for like the past 40 games.

Yes, would have made all 3 lans, two GF appearances, won the biggest trophy of the year. Don't see the argument against them.

Probably would say 2 and 3, they're both top 3 in their roles and have made deep runs/won trophies already. Demon1 still had the best rookie year though, went from a complete unknown to champs winner as the best player in the world.

X men character named Gambit had a cameo lol

Of all the what ifs, this is genuinely the worst lol

Group A is harder fs, 3rd place would probably make it out Group B ngl, tough break for whoever that is.

Who's going to be the next victim? Or is this the year the curse is broken?

FPX beating sen is very viable lol, they won't get past geng though

Bilibili's coming buddy...

Underrated for too long, he's been good just as long as anyone and this DRX squad is looking formidable.

GenG is an unfair example lol, they've accomplished more in their first year together than almost every other team in history. PRX has a winning roster in all honesty, they just have a playstyle that boxes them in. There are almost no upgrades they can make really, and imo, it's more of a coaching/igl issue; if they can somehow tweak their style some, they'd be really difficult to beat. Only problem with that is they've branded themselves with all the W gaming stuff, so I mean it's just a matter of what's more important: the fans or winning.

The right answer.

Ahh, shoulda known you're one of those ppl. Even putting aside the obvious bigotry, post says who's the best GC player. Flor plays GC and GC only. So even if you don't consider her a female, she's still a GC player lmao.

I don't believe that you believe that lol

If you mean in EU, it's Mary. If all of GC, very easily florescent.

Veeze

I hope riot rigs the event to somehow put GenG and Lev on opposite sides of the playoffs bracket if they make it. I need that grand finals matchup, Valorant version of Lebron vs the warriors in 2018.

Edit: Probably should have spelled out grand finals lol

I mean out of the current map pool, SEN's strong points are bind, sunset, and lotus. I agree not sure what the haven pick was about but I mean sunset got banned, and geng are better on bind and lotus. Just unlucky matchup against a team with very few weaknesses, they'll be alright I think.

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Sickness

A lot of their games have been good as well, not a bad shout.

Probably removing themselves from Valorant most likely. Nothing to play for now for at least 6 months.

Makes no sense to me why there's like 5 countries with their own leagues, and then like 90% of the top teams are comprised of players not even from the country. Like KPI is (imo) the best spanish VCL team, and they have 0 spanish players... So it's obviously not about cultivating talent in those specific regions. Why not just make 2-3 leagues within EU, makes it more competitive and would probably boost viewership of VCL. I mean the Dsyre squad haven't lost in like 30 games, nobody wants to watch that kind of competitive disparity. Only region deserving of there own league is Turkey, just off the fact of how many demons they've produced, but even then I think this has to change soon, or it's just useless to split it this way.

Kind of unfair comparison considering the Guard core was top 5 in America before franchising. Everybody already was aware they were T1 talent, just in a cooked situation. Most of these T2 teams are largely unproven.

sen fnc geng fpx, fnatic probably the best overall

Real robbery was to the flex players lol, no award is crazy