its incredibly obvious to literally everyone reading it but you

proof that tomaszy really did play like a fucking bot the whole tournament

and an ant has the potential to kill a gorilla but we dont say gorilla >= ant in a fight do we

they'll be more than fine, they're making shanghai and guaranteed champs atp off of champs points

geng, sen, and kc all would have made it you are smoking ROCKS
heretics might lose to fnatic but thats it

guaranteed win is now 5-2 historically in favour of LB winners btw
unsurprisingly you are full of it

they have no international trophies which is also true for edg...
boostio really was right

if sen loses tomorrow and people say they "deserved to win but lost because of map ban rules" then why didnt they win in upper finals?

guaranteed win LMFAOOOO go check what happened to paper rex... TWICE... then come back
(edit just saw a comment saying upper finals winners have only won twice to lower bracket winners winning four times... please write out the words guaranteed win again for me)

"just not it" go look at what every other serious competition that uses double elim brackets does and let us know what you find out you're going to find a very consistent trend

its honestly an underpowered advantage, every other team has the cushion of the double elim which the other team in the final has used to even get to the final in the first place, the team that goes through winners loses that opportunity
if you want true fairness then we should make things even stronger for the team that goes through winners by giving them a bracket reset like a lot of systems do, but valorant doesnt do that because it would take an obscene amount of time

nah people complain but it's usually just about the flash rn which kind of needs to be as good as it is to make the character viable tbh

no initiator in the game is broken right now if anything they're underpowered
you just need to get better man

sym had significantly better entry stats in challengers last year, lets not be braindead here

pov: its february 2023

holy yap bro aint nobody reading allat

said it before and ill say it again, we gotta stop doing this boring ass thing where we all have collective amnesia and base all our opinions and conclusions about the world based off just the most recent thing our brain is capable of thinking about

these conversations feel really dumb at this time of the season because we just talk about the most recent event or two which is like 3 games for some teams - like for instance do we really think demon1 has actually fallen off because he forgot to bind mouse1 against sentinels? surely we all understand he's going to be right back in the conversation for best player itw by the end of the season... right?

same shit with aspas, alfajer, etc(and arguably what people used to do with tenz), those are guys whose skill you cant deny
"best player itw" is lowkey just a dumb ass title tbh thats the kind of shit you toss around after champs
instead i saw someone say narrate and texture... like i love narrate more than anyone else in the world but hes spent 2 events in tier 1. lets be a little more realistic

i just picked the four most recent matches he played in tier two actually
also its clearly not the same: mada is playing a different role than he was on shopify + is on a way better team, and those matches are not the four most recent matches he played in tier two - one of them is from split 1 LMFAO

sym is a talented player that put up good numbers on average for MxM - he had the second best entry stats in t2 na and clearly doesnt bait - but still theres a pretty clear story being told in those games that reveals a consistent trend he showed when playing in those games. personally i never forgot him repeeking a short on haven against tex op v op and getting eviscerated

tbf heretics did not look good on paper at the time but dfm were still a team so worst team in franchising was a wild take

losing aproto was a downgrade but sym for mada has aged really well so far(even outside the reverse pi sym just dropped which is just one game and the kid does have talent if im being real, mada has looked great so far)
think MxM would have kept the gang together if they could have afforded it but i assume they merged because it wouldnt have been sustainable without shopify who are filthy rich iirc

this aged questionably

i remember thinking the same thing
forgot how much of a bot he can be at times its acc crazy

same as the old sym
https://www.vlr.gg/212530/m80-vs-moist-moguls-challengers-league-north-america-ubf
https://www.vlr.gg/212537/moist-moguls-vs-the-guard-challengers-league-north-america-lbf
https://www.vlr.gg/212529/the-guard-vs-moist-moguls-challengers-league-north-america-ubsf

https://www.vlr.gg/314896/m80-vs-tsm-challengers-league-2024-north-america-stage-1-w1

keep Sunset take out Icebox 100%

at least two tourney wonder already

wack ass thread bro hes literally a kid in school
if you 1v1ed him you'd go 0/1000

the same KC took a colossal SHIT on heretics in the bo5 rematch

truly insane game, heretics had some legitimately brilliant ideas
knew these guys were legit

what does this mean for c9

yeah fnatic will be fine they just need to tune up and innovate

if fpx wins ill check myself back into a mental institution

no shot we're counting out gen g surely
this is at least a 40/60 no? gen g have 5 shooters and its not like they dont have a brain to go with it

agreed, which is also part of why i think they've put him on it in the past lol
the skill ceiling gap between gekko/breach and other initiators is quite sizeable imo which i think is why he's played the first two and not any of the others
something is still a strong player and i think the idea that he holds back his team is definitely untrue but his strengths are highly concentrated in only a few aspects and flexibility is absolutely not one

smth's is honestly just okay, and sacy's gekko looks more prepped, gets better ult usage(imo better than everyone else playing him), and combines better on the fly with tms, though that might be in my head or actually prepped, i havent watched comms vids etc
fwiw im not a big fan of his breach

i'm aware that he has played those agents, but to say that he can play them implies he does it well, which is... an interesting idea
and to be clear the only reason he's played gekko is because gekko utility is relatively very simple, and even then there's a stark difference between his gekko and someone like sacy's

0/8

every team that has won an international trophy, ever, has lost rounds when they have had 4 ults
if you believe otherwise your head is pitch black during MRI scans

disagree with his lack of flexibility hurting the team, while he is definitely inflexible i think the team manages just fine

however i think the real argument to make for why he's overrated is that he is only able to provide real value on jett and reyna(reyna isn't a real agent though lbfr) because the actual set of skills something has as a player is EXTREMELY limited
he's still good enough to play on a top tier 1 team because he happens to be really, really, really good at that set of things

KC

boostio, ethan, kingg, ange1 on sova

"ethans aim isnt that good" what.

are you sure about that.

coaches choose the map bans not the igls usually

KC are NOT dropping a map to a team that couldnt figure out what site a bomb was planted on lets please be serious

KC won because they have some of the best fundamentals in VCT not because fnatic "played much worse than usual" thats an absurd notion
fnatic just didnt make the adjustments they needed to when their lotus postplants kept getting run over or their split defense setup
plus KC were fucking demonic and its genuinely impossible to watch that match and think otherwise lol

stop treating valorant like checkers man

dont think this can work without a KJ tbh

someone check on theia's monitor

only thing leaf is good at is memorizing the burger king menu

Immi
Termi
Whoever the fuck manages C9 lmfao

there's a key difference though in that NRG just looked like they didnt have enough time practicing together, fnatic looked like they placed a bad bet on them being good enough as players to not need to innovate
they both get fixed with time in but the reasons for how they arrived at their points were very very different

SR would have won but flor just cursed them so its over i fear 3-0 FLY.R https://twitter.com/florscnt/status/1766896139058524363

edit reverse curse works every time. knew SR would win