Boostio threw because he didn't want to play Bilibili

Nothing to really feel bad about, they at least had their run in split 1 and had a ton of momentum going into Shanghai, their honeymoon period ended and they're back to being shit

The fact that vlr laughed G2 off all year just for them to be the #1 america team in shanghai and keep that form throughout split 2 and likely will get #1 seed for champs is absolutely hilarious

I think BLG and VIT are making top 8 unironically

FPX and Trace might actually have a higher chance of making top 8 than EDG. Are we back to overrating EDG again? Even their fans are disenfranchised.

winner: GenG
most overrated team: SEN (can't say EDG because of how disenfranchised their fans are)
most underrated team: DRX
most overrated player: Miniboo
most underrated player: Hiro, Trexx or Kai
team that is gonna choke and flop in groups: TLN
mvp of the event: T3xture
player that pops off on an ass team: KangKang (as always)

Overrated team to be honest. Some mechanically insane performances from cryo and bang, and boostio was a great igl for these guys but they ended up being ridiculously inconsistent. Many had them top 3 for Shanghai because of their high-level play throughout split 1 and they went out in a whimper and split 2 was just a disaster for them. Only thing we missed out on was 100T losing to a chinese team because boostio karma is real.

Up there as one of the worst for sure, Apoth is arguably worse

He knows he's not getting resigned keke

keke

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Ascent is actually one of the more interesting maps in my opinion (unless it's a Pacific game, their Ascent games are boring). At least it's better than Icebox I haven't seen an entertaining map of Icebox that didn't involve FPX this year.

I think most people view FUT as a 'regional merchant' and there's no real reason to believe otherwise right now. They looked bad against the Chinese teams at Shanghai.

Americas is a tough one to call. LEV and G2 look good, but I'm not confident that either of these teams could clear GenG or FNC. We've seen their performances in best of 5 matches.

EMEA is looking like the best region across the board. All 4 teams look good, but FUT will probably get clapped by a Chinese team lmao.

GenG have got to be the favorites to win, I don't see anyone beating them right now.

Kai would drop 105 across 2 maps and SEN would disband shortly afterwards

SEN
100T/KRU
FUT
TLN
DRX
who else?

SEN would unironically go out 0-4 to Bilibili

For real, no one cares about the clash of trash

In a way it sucks that another Chinese team hasn't stepped up enough for us to stop getting these EDG/FPX grand finals. I'm expecting an EDG 3-1 here, maybe FPX get a map in OT. I wish FPX would take the throne from EDG but I'm not confident about their chances here.

I'm telling you, Kai is one of the best mechanical players in the world on Jett. He's actually unreal. He tried his ass off here but Trace has no idea how to play Abyss and his team really lost stamina as the match went on. Haven was one of the craziest maps of valorant I've ever seen with the amount of stupid decision making and thrown rounds by Trace.

Aaaay was actually insane in Shanghai and he's an excellent support player for the team, he's also an incredibly clutch player with great mechanics. Lysoar looks like a very nervous player to me. Every international he's one of the worst players there.

keznit is so washed lol

Boo is the JessieVash of emea at this point lmao, miniboo is not cutting it

Heretics are cooked, only FNC is a contender to win

FNC 3-1, they don't lose these

keke

NAVI are done bro, who knows what that roster is going to look like next year

Trace/FPX is a bo5, probably a 3-1 trace but who knows at this point, it's always an edg/fpx grand final

FPX getting torn apart by Biank's odin on Ascent is one of the funniest things I've seen in vct all year

best awper in the world

12-5

I feel like you have to give the edge to TH over G2, aside from that I'd agree

Doesn't feel like Americas has a powerhouse team right now aside from LEV and I'm not on board with them quite yet, though they do look incredible right now. This feels like a Pacific or EMEA win.

We can be more hopeful now that After is out and Haodong is moved over to assistant coach. Simon has been a really good pickup for the team too. KangKang has been insane recently but that's nothing new, he's never been the problem. He can play Jett, Raze, Neon and Yoru at a high level and that is fucking crazy. Let's just hope EDG don't crumble again.

Trace cooked FPX in their last two matches, it's possible

This group would be fucking insane

GenG has the most aura. Nobody wanted to play them in Shanghai and they beat every single team they faced. They're the scariest team to play against right now. Heretics are going to be many people's #1 pick to win champs but they crumbled against GenG in that bo5.

Many pros have stated this already but it feels almost impossible to anchor both sites, you're almost forced to fall back and wait for your team to rotate.

Honestly expected Trace to look way better here but EDG just outcalled and outgunned them. It's common for teams in China to look good for most of the season then just fall apart when they face EDG. I'm definitely not sold on EDG quite yet. They won kickoff, they won stage 1, and look what happened.

The difference this time is new coaching, nobody on igl and simon as initiator, so let's hope for better results in Seoul.

We all knew it would happen

ok but this will actually happen

'fraid SEN are shit and will be 0-4'd by bilibili

we need aspas to bait his teammates and drop 90 kills fr

another parasocial thread

Their last two series were close, It'll definitely be a good match. I'm expecting a KRU win here. As Shanks said during the LEV/EG game "We all know LEV isn't going to play like this in playoffs".

So TLN, BLG, FUT and SEN will be the 4th seed of every region? SEN are cooked

not my problem

He's right this time

Should KRU really qualify to champs over SEN? I feel like SEN still clears them

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