Betting odds for both to win were identical

Don't think that's fair, people had them pretty even with 100T

Cope harder

13-2, 13-9, 2-0 is definitely a dumpster lol

Dude said nAts was flukey but Sheydos isn't lmfaooooooo

xffero (tehbotoL at the time) dropped 38 kills playing Viper on Breeze in his very first LAN map ever against OpTic at Champions 2022. Think Monyet broke it technically for a "LAN" this year in the Pacific league with 39 against DRX on Split (in a map they lost)

How did they do him dirty? This is a competition, the team looked poor with him and looked much improved when they replaced him with something.

Is it though? As a viewer I love seeing top tier competition on a weekly basis. There are downsides sure, and I bet a bunch of them will get fixed with time/experience

And global salary caps are very hard to do considering every region has vastly different costs of living.

$20 for an event ticket anywhere in North America is super cheap, especially in LA

Better audio quality and lower latency are the main reasons I believe.

Having the idea that "anything other than winning ascension is a fail" will absolutely set this team up for failure. Sure they might be favourites but they not only have to run through every tier 2 North American team, but then Brazil and LATAM as well. Some partnered teams from the Americas league wouldn't even be locks to make it out of that format lol

The top prize is $50k, which is $10k a player before they pay out any coaches, analysts, and org cuts. It could be as low as like $5k per player which is like 2 weeks salary for them. I don't think they care THAT much about winning.

Not every team can be good, at least this team is now intriguing to watch.

Damn sorry to hear, any luck since?

Literally same thing happened to me today too. Game randomly wouldn't open, task manager would say "BoostrapPackedGame" and wouldn't let me click end task on it. Tried reinstalling Valorant and Vanguard and a bunch of tips online but nothing worked until I deleted my antivirus which has seemed to fix it. If you have a 3rd party antivirus try disabling it temporarily and then launching the game. Hope this helps and goodluck!

Did you get this fixed? Having the same issue rn and can only launch the game after I toggle off my antivirus which is terribly annoying.

Thank you. I wonder what the roles will look like on this team. No one on the team has much Chamber experience do they?

Good thing I asked lol just figured since he hadn't played pro in over a year and was a content creator he was going to be like Cigarettes on Paper Rex

I haven't been able to find it, does anyone know who will be IGL for Detonation and who will be in the starting lineup? I assume Seoldam will be the 6th as he hasn't played in forever and is a massive content creator but I'm not super familiar with the Pacific scene

I disagree with a few of these, and even still, it's hard to judge rosters on a one to one comparison. Sen has elite talent coming over from LOUD but they also have one of the biggest question marks in TenZ who hasn't been playing at a top level for over a year. Also if we assume Zekken is playing Raze then TenZ will have to play Chamber which he has 8 matches on and hasn't really done the best at (it doesn't really fit his style). With C9 it feels like there will be very few confusion on the roles and I think it's safe to say C9 has a much higher floor than SEN

I kinda like it. Last year there was months between LCQ and Champions and it was far too long.

They're hype but I wish they had better knowledge of the game. They keep missing very obvious things and saying things that are just flat out wrong, pretty distracting tbh

For NA? Over 500k

well yeah if you don't live where the event is then plane travel will be expensive, not much Riot can do there

What tickets are you looking at? The tickets for Masters, for the best seat option, are like $100 USD total for all 4 matches.

That wouldn't make it random though and could end up giving competitive advantages.

It's literally randomized. Just bad luck.

well obviously not look at yay on ANDBOX lol

They had only been together for less than 2 months and came 3rd in North America, that's about as good of a result as you can expect lol

I know he was bad on it. I just thought he would be good on it before he played it, and I wish he had more than 50 rounds played to try to learn it and make it work

This is why I thought Shahz would be a really good chamber but they switched off playing him on it

I'm right handed IRL but switched to left handed view model awhile back, had some friend tell me about an eye dominance test (idk if it's true) but it said I'm better using left handed and just ran with it. You get used to it if you just switch and play.

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This is 1000% not true lmfao. Do you know how many professional athletes there are that coast once they've got a big contract? There are legit top 10 athletes in certain sports who have a reputation for being out of shape and lazy. Shaquille O'Neal is a prime example.

I think M3C can get back to top form but since the start of the year they haven't been very good. Acend don't look top tier and Guild has yet to even qualify for an international event so hard to tell. I'm a big Guild fan I hope they can qualify and have a good run.

NA Stage 2 Open Quals start in like 4 days lol

As someone from NA, I think EMEA will still be the slightly better overall region this year, but NA is clearly the 2nd best region and it's not really close.

Mainly because they are in a group with OpTic, Liquid and KRU where only 2 teams make it out. Losing Patiphan was huge and they lost to Paper Rex twice this year but they shouldn't be below ZETA I think they'd beat them

Asuna is the only one here I'd really trust. I think his ideal role is similar to Xeppaa or Zellsis or Victor where he's playing the Raze on maps where they don't run Jett but then also flexing to Kayo or whatever initiator is in meta when they do run Jett.

Yeah, except Victor now doesn't have COVID and won't have to be isolated, and XERXIA's best player is in Overwatch now lol

That is not the case. If NIP wins, then LOUD gets the bye. If Leviatan win, KRU gets the bye.

LOUD looks good but I haven't really been impressed with many of the other teams from outside EMEA and NA. Not that I watch them a ton but I try to

Masters 1, an NA won the event and didn't drop a map. Masters 2, an NA team was runner-up. NA is behind EMEA, but what other region has results that are even close to NA?

Now do the other international events.

I mean at this point we have more evidence that Champions was flukey and that NA is probably still the 2nd best region in the world.

They both made top 12 in NA? How few teams do you think are in each tier?

I know this is a troll post but imagine calling NRG and Rise "tier 3" teams

I think EMEA is better. I'm saying I still think NA is the only region capable of truly competing with them. LATAM is just a 1 team region with KRU anyways and the smaller Asian regions just haven't shown that they can compete with NA long-term yet imo.

I mean, NA is the only other region to make a final of an international tournament. Sentinels won Iceland and Envy made the Finals of Masters 3. The only reason this is even an argument is because NA underperformed expectations in 1 tournament where minor regions overperformed expectations, but they still didn't reach the levels that NA has previously.