losing to the best team ofa isn't shocking bro, EG were also the ones that killed their mental in Tokyo with a stomp.

already by far the best start to a year he's had in his career, gg

convinced he ditched LOUD because he got tired of sharing kills with Less, they were 1st and 2nd statistically for 2023 Americas and 2nd & 3rd for 2023 Champions playoffs.

everyone still has a chance to qualify technically, so yea. EG has to beat NRG to make the cutoff though.

never believed in magic until i saw a dog turn into a snake, keep your eyes open for the fake ones 💯

was statistically the 2nd highest rated duelist itw before all of NRG shit then bed vs LEV. vs MIBR he looked shaky on Split but brought it back on defense and on Breeze he was pretty much told to chill while the rest of the team played Valorant. Only thing you should be worried about is the leash thats put on him is all im gonna say

sigh

shanks plays better when hes not in the server

NRG and C9 are likely to go 5-1 right now and KRU is already 3-0 but their next 3 matches are their hardest.

thats crazy 😭

the viewership will still be higher regardless lol, it will 100% be the most viewed event whether or not the numbers from china themselves go public

it will be at its highest because china, so yea lol.

doing well in both int tournaments with this team, if not then she needs more time

9 for EG too, this entire series was attack sided lol never seen this before

8/36 of defense rounds won vs EG, what happened.

^^^^ dumbass comparing a player who just escaped a 13 match loss streak with most of it being in tier 2 to Demon1 xdddddddd

Riot games media should be ashamed of themselves too, always trying to push players to be toxic and push narratives that don't exist organically, disappointing that these things are encouraged

i was right in that Riot was ruining Demon1's career lol, he sounding like me rn wtf https://www.vlr.gg/335211/stop-blaming-demon1/#29

depends on how much responsibility they get, Boostio & Ethan talked about how vital Potter and Zikz were to their success and how they crafted shit up like their unbeatable Fracture and then there's LOUD that pretty much had the IGL be the actual coach which has been doing wonders too.

he knows and he's just ignoring it, bros fighting ghosts let him fight them

you'd think this man killed someone or something

the brain rot to unironically believe that's his personality and not just a persona for Riot and everyone's engagement is crazy

let's listen to what the best player on your fav team has to say about him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6nn9Vxrm1s

he has actual issues irl that's unrelated to Valorant so he's done with the persona, let it go gangy

dude EG was literally the worst team in the league on par with FURIA before that match, I had Jawgemo as the worst duelist before the series too even tho he's my fav player, this isn't just about EG suddenly going nuclear. That team got dickslapped by KRU just two days ago and now suddenly everything works against the Madrid winners even with a 2-10 deficit like its a bad look no matter how we look at it.

Demon1 was taking those duels last year though, he just has less responsibility to do that now. He stopped taking those solo aggro peaks in favor for keeping the man advantage or holding mains with an OP, he stopped playing with his team more to look for lurk picks in a default like what was going on with Split, etc. Confidence in him is dying out hard because of what the team wants him to do while avoiding what they don't want to see.

I mean their next 2 games are literally must wins at this point lmfao.

he has less responsibility so he's being pressured to play more passively which isn't working well for him when it comes to confidence. NRG's 13-3 on MIBR my guy had 8 kills as the duelist with by far the lowest ACS, he's being told to do the bare minimum as a player like get first picks with the OP.

also #3 I guess

losing to NRG and C9 isn't the end of the world right now, they'll most likely come back considering their only real contenders are 100T and LEV while there's still a 3rd seed. SEN has 4 days to prepare for the match but like I said before, LEV and EG were big ego hits.

KRU is 3-0 with a decently strong form, NRG and C9 are 3-1 after already facing LEV and LOUD, G2 are 2-1 and look like they have potential, and then there's SEN who still has to face LOUD. There's like a 20% chance they advance imo, the LEV and EG match have been massive massive ego hits both individually for the players and for the team.

he expects way more from them now considering they just won madrid so he's at his lowest atm. Losing to aspas alone was bad enough but EG is way too much, I wanna say he and the rest of SEN bounce back but they're probably thinking about Split 2 a bit.

they had literally 0 protocols or good reads that entire series, Kinggg made them look like a Tier 3 team while the rest of LEV just shot their guns, looking like an IGL + coaching issue for that one. All I'm saying is that with all the talent NRG has right now and the guy that left VCT 2023 as the best player in the world, this team shouldn't be looking like this under what should be one of the best coaches.

he's still a good coach but with an ego that won't be changed. He's been proving the haters right too many times already, idk how he's defendable.

I mean there's just no other excuse you can make for him at this point and everyone knows that, this pitch perfect meta, slow and methodical system of his just isn't it anymore. Potter and Zikz experimented with Demon1 for all of last year with shit like KJ, off meta Chamber, and smokes and they found out what playstyle works best for him but Chet and friends think they know better and want to stick with their mindset that got them a Masters win.

I don't think he'll ever change considering NRG spent the entire offseason practicing for this exact type of playstyle still, it is what it is atp so i just hope for the best.

happened in americas until rest EG caught up for playoffs (halfway through the reg season Ethan was already there), Tokyo everyone showed up but still not to their peaks, and Champions he was definitely winning crucial maps EG shouldve lost. Ik you love Potter and this doesn't undermine her at all, how she sets up Demon1 is like 100x better than whatever Chet is doing right now and this is off the back of her knowing nothing of him besides being a Jett/Chamber Tier 2 stomper.

best peak in a tournament

Demon1
Alfajer
Leo
Aspas
Mako
Less
TenZ
zekken
f0rsaken
Jinggg
Texture

genuinely still hate how they're utilizing Demon1 and a 2-0 was still expected so nothing really. would rather beat a bottom team then lose to them at least.

6/5 in a 11-3 lead this man is being told to not play the game

and made him into a pick merchant on Jett and a roomba on Raze while the rest of NRG do the fragging. free bro they are bottling up his confidence to make him a cog.

if 1v1 stats actually highlighted trade kills then I would care about it and so will a lot of ppl

biggest one so far has been tex, it genuinely looks like another player compared to his time on TGRD.

if 1v1 stats actually highlighted trade kills then I would care about it and so will a lot of ppl

relax xd

stomped tier 2 and made a name for himself with his aggression, why'd you disappear during SEN vs EG btw

was dating her before the best tournament of his life lil bro

i think we give up on that mindset thanks to billy billy and let the champions mvp play without a leash with this slow ass passive playstyle. vomit inducing to watch him sit CT in a 1v1 retake against fucking rgl

from the 1st match this year

shimmers of hope when he runs down mid by himself and gets a 2k for it

putting all the blame on the chet system idc, from the 1st match this year i've noticed he stopped taking fights and peeks he would always take on EG even on smokes. the only time he feels confident fighting main is with an OP and a guardian vs ecos, complete confidence killer. He stomped Tier 2, then Tier 1, and then now suddenly he's giving respect to rgl in a 1v1 lmfao.

w

the copypasta is looking real xddddddddddddd

being serious here and it has nothing to do with his choke vs SEN (probably), its just weird seeing him leaving VCT 2023 as the best player itw and then he just stops playing the game for a very long period of time out of his own volition. Although he was never a hard ranked grinder, he would still actively play the game and whatnot (even peaked #3 the same month he joined EG's starting roster), but now he hasn't even bothered to leave Ascendant in this act and the last one. Ever since Episode 7 Act 3 dropped 5 months ago, he's only mustered up 23 hours of ranked.

I know that he still has his scrims obviously but it's not like getting some extra practice playing the game you're being paid to play hurts right? He was already doing that but it looks like something clicked during the offseason and he just lost whatever motivation he had to play the game in his own free time. I literally cannot think of any Tier 1/2 pro out there that's doing what Demon1 is doing right now or ever really, not even in different esports.

maybe he has some secret alt to play in silence or maybe he thinks hes good enough to just not touch the game outside of scheduled practice, idk. if this guy ends off 2024 looking like a completely different player than what he was in 2023 then I'm gonna be thinking about this if this continues on ngl

if true then chet needs to be investigated by the CIA FBI MI6 NSA FSB BND