get my boy on KOI no?
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Their split is extremely good, as is their ascent. I think not as good as FNC but still better than 90% of the other teams.
The public system varies widely and the universities are mostly the best because it's an order of magnitude better funded than the next best, like Ecole/Tsinghua. If we're talking research US is on top by a mile because NSF and DOE funds are in the trillions of bucks. If we're talking teaching kids... lol
there's a lot of good EMEA duelists tho. someone definitely gotta pick ALIVE up in franchising, dude is crazy
the guard/m80/the union easily could clear many t1 teams. but so could apeks/acend/fokus/m8.
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Nah. Youre tripping. Apeks/Acend/M8/Fokus have crazy individual talent.
Fokus beat C9. And there's maybe 4 teams that can win it all here and quite a few underdogs, pretty much the same as America's ascension, only the Union, the Guard, and M80 look poised to win.
True. imo it's not a player quality problem from a mechanical perspective. I'm hopeful by next season the EMEA teams will overcome many of their reorganization issues and it will be more competitive. And redgar will stop inting and TL will win one finally.
True. Why would the union need to try and sell strats either? Plus pancc doesn't expose shit unless it's to minors.
Optics matter more than morality, this is a company after all. If people make a big enough deal they won't play, from my perspective the cost of being a public figure playing video games for dough is keeping your moral character up, but if people don't care enough then see no evil hear no evil. That being said p sure most of these forum posts don't give a damn about the victims and are just salty they lost.
You don't just throw a major like that with two guys hungry for the trophy to save strats. I agree they played off though and should've been closer if they hit the shots they were meant to hit and I do think they'll bounce back with such a bad result but imo it shows the quality of the other teams at Masters are closer to LOUD's level or above. It's hard to say by champs but I think they aren't really indisputably top 2 anymore, we saw EG and PRX have excellent levels of play and EDG/TL/NRG could be hot on their heels.
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Kind of entering the weakest meta for them and they aren't adapting esp with viper being nerfed, double controller. Ange1 inting less would help, maybe find a dedicated controller who can play harbor or at least brim/astra as effectively as Shao would be good. They definitely need to learn Skye/breach at minimum, possibly harbor or just start permabanning pearl. I also think their discipline is a little lacking; when 6-7/12 of the masters teams now are just as good mechanically you can't quite afford to do that.
True. EMEA has no tournaments if we remove turkey, russia, Sweden, Finland, UK, Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Estonia, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Montenegro, Morocco, Iceland, Lithuania, Ireland. Bots.
Just because it isn't the same level doesn't make it not a major. It is a Riot sponsored event on the international stage with some of the most competitive teams in the world playing, most of the big names that were here this time, and there were stakes even if they weren't as high. The level of competition at LOCK//IN is higher than at 2021 Champs yet we will consider Masters 2 a major. It's not an argument.
Doesn't even matter we have the most Olympic medals they can have eSports
"Clearly not even trying at a major" is crazy cope
Otherwise agree but the levels of play are closer in the middle of the pack teams, not very far apart and it's completely up to map picks and who shows up. LOUD is very respectable for their past achievements but they played incredibly poorly this time.
Your team won 0 maps at this LAN.
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... ? if FNC is the only good team then there's no good teams in americas. TL nearly beat NRG in a horrendous choke on haven that would've been a swift 2-0 for NRG and the #1 seed for Americas did not win a single map.
FNC beat LOUD very convincingly back in lock//in on ascent as well, and EG beat LOUD on ascent at regional VCTs, they play very well within their league against all other opponents though.
True, the alfa/leo/chronicle combination is too strong and alfa still has so much potential to grow as a player
thinking that smoke kills are all luck has gotta be the most silver shit i've read today
it took chronicle shitting the bed, maybe some saved strats, and redgar/soulcas life games though but it's definitely still possible
no fracture/pearl and having showed split/ascent already is gonna be rough though
the hate is weird but yay doesn't play that different to ardiis rn.
it doesn't work very well in the current meta which favors aggressive CQC because of dual controller setups and a ton of delay. it wouldn't save NRG
contrary to what you think getting more slots is better for improving your region because you can play more teams on the international stage and get experience, learn strategies, etc rather than being siloed into playing and scrimming the same 5 teams.
honestly, it'd be good for EMEA to get a slot so they can get more experience and improve their region. even though they are the least competitive region, they also got hit the hardest by reorganization post-franchising other than FNC, imo a lot of these rosters have a ton of potential but they really need to iron out the details
actually agree. depends on the map pool. i'd say fracture/pearl are winnable for EG, 50/50 split, other maps including even ascent i'd lean FNC.
honestly NRG really skimmed by this season
barely beat C9 into top 3 in regionals starting 1-3
tough T1 game in groups
almost knocked out saved by liquid throw on map 1
they played well but you gotta admit things could've gone south much earlier.
gotta respect EDG as well they took it close with PRX
not gonna lie i find most people posting on vlr pretty insufferable
Literally EG's two best maps in terms of win rate (65% fracture, 66% split)... they had a really good setup for an upset here, they did a great job, just not enough.
calm down bro it's only 2 tourneys at the beginning of franchising and this one can still go either way wait til the trophy is lifted first
fr the cope is insane fnatic is just ahead of the curve for this season, there will be players on their level picked up by CN/NA/APAC/other EMEA teams as time goes on
Scene changes a lot in a year. Only took EG a few months to shape up and compared to Lock//In Liquid looks way better in a matter of months as well. The "region" stuff is super immature, there's very good players in every region and at the end of the day it's the team that wins the game not the flag you fly under
it's pretty impressive considering they typically play really close games. but i think 2024 and beyond they are probably going to get overshadowed by new talent, the game is becoming incredibly competitive, with china and pacific scenes in particular
yeah a dad in the retirement home needing a bedpan and help being bathed
tbh TL should not have lost map 1 at all, awful choke.
so random to bring up FNC at every chance of the conversation
maybe alfa masters
CHICHOO champs, grand final 120 kill game
EDG played defense side first, EG played attack side first on fracture, can't compare the two games, EDG had to make up the round deficit. Both teams are really good though along with TL being some of the most improved teams on stage.
most people on this website are not in their right mind
navi is getting discipline and strat diffed, player quality is alright even though zyppan and ange1 have been slouching hard
valorant has only gotten more skilled and competitive over time stop trolling
nah, na'vi have some reps to put in. they have good individual players with fundamentals but the discipline and macro has fallen off quite a bit, zyppan also looking a bit out of it, the comps are kind of questionable, no answer for the harbor viper, just all in all lazy valorant and playing it exactly like they did on fpx with no innovation and they just got read. i trust they can bring it back but they gotta start going back to the drawing board
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