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

art0mis

m0stercl0ss excuses

They're experimenting with the wrong comps. The Deadlock shit is not the answer to any of their problems.

GenG has beaten every single team they've faced internationally at least once

Pretty sure most of their roster knows they ain't gonna be resigned kek

x0ppa

Abyss was an absolute snoozefest so no

Pacific: GENG vs Paper Rex
China: EDG vs FPX
EMEA: ?
Americas: ?
I don't think americas has an el classico right now

Didn't LOUD run phoenix after that or am I crazy? only other team I've seen play phoenix recently is NOVA over in china

For real I just want to see boostio fall off the map on abyss

title

at least you have the 12-5

His aim actually looks terrible. This guy is a total paycheck stealer.

these two teams are putting on the biggest snoozefest of playoffs so far, 12-5 should've never happened