chronicle is 2nd imo, he's been in red hot form

observe aspas

either they're doing poorly money wise or they're just very hesitant to put money in valorant, they're both the same as far as I'm concerned

Three big issues we can all agree on this season:

• Not enough games
• Scheduling was too tight
• Single elim matches in playoffs(lol)
  How do we make this better?
  In my opinion, season should look more like this:
  -League Stage 1(play all other 11 teams)- BEGINS IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY
  -Masters 1(3 qualify from each region, same format as Shanghai with Swiss Stage and top seed picking teams in playoffs, finalists each earn an extra slot for their region at Champions)-
  -League Stage 2(play all other 11 teams again)-
  -Masters 2(exact same as Masters 1)
  -Last Chance Qualifiers(Only for regions that earned extra slots at Champions)-
  -Champions(the 3 teams that qualified to Masters 2 qualify here, in addition to the LCQ winners/runners up/third place teams even if needed)- ENDS IN OCTOBER, AS CONFIRMED BY LF

Important detail about league play:
For playoffs, since 12 teams will be in the league this year, top EIGHT qualify to playoffs, but there's a catch:
Top 2 get a bye to second round, like this season
7th and 8th place teams go DIRECTLY to lower bracket to play the losers of the 3-6 and 4-5 game instead of these two games being single elimination
Qualification for Stage 2 playoffs combines results from Stage 1 and 2 to determine qualification + seeding
Every team should play every 4-5 days or so rather than a full week, thus speeding up league play to compensate for the twofold increase in matches

Starting the season much earlier in the year and condensing the length of league play will help give more time in between tournaments for rest/visas/prep, re-introducing the double elim buffer so NAVI doesn't get fucked by Team Heretics twice and then cut their coach causing them to bomb the second stage, bringing back the LCQ thus giving even more time for teams to prepare for Champions(whilst inherently making LCQ even more difficult to find value from by filling the 4th/5th teams' schedule to further weed out weaker teams from getting lucky), and doubling the amount of league games ensures that T1 doesn't get screwed over by poor scheduling and the best teams actually make playoffs and international tournaments, while also giving fans more games to watch.
Let me know your thoughts(even though Riot has assuredly already determined their format for next year, and it will certainly be worse than this)

they won a trophy?

how did you match these up because it cannot be related to skill

the playoff game? yeah it was an improvement but magnum is still SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!
also i kind of rate RRQ, core is pretty good tbh

as an honest kc fan we are shit

any of you transphobic losers

holy insecure LMAO

shaming =/= sharing dawg lets read sometime this year

theyd rather dapr over moose? feel like moose is unquestionably better
edit this was not meant to be a reply but yeah i doubt they have money for verno, c9 is fucking broke

mans needs a better haircut but he looks good in that photo tbh

dumbest shit i ever read

i had him 13th before champs started

hey bud can we get an update on this one

yeah no shit hes a huge prick but to say he's not a good coach or to somehow discredit his accomplishment here with this objectively pretty weak talon squad on paper is genuinely, really crazy
the work he has done here is exceptional even if he's a wet rag of a guy

it is the meta and viper is objectively pretty necessary but meta isnt something that every team must live and die by in order to succeed
or have we all collectively forgotten fpx's icebox LOL
or fpx's lotus
or prx
list goes on really
ultimately i think there's niche value that deadlock can gain on bind as a mixup, it's not how i personally like to play the map but her net does a lot of things that old viper molly were used for on attack(showers, long b) and creates a lot of room for trap plays on defense that vitality themselves have showcased

he should do it less dawg dude comes off like a huge prick
good coach though

no way we're shitting on frost when he has taken a roster that looked like a theoretical bottom feeder at the start of the year and gotten them into champs with a serious chance of surviving their group
he 100% needs to shut up and get some media training but he has undeniably turned water into wine here

if i have to watch sentinels play ascent one more time i WILL gouge my eyes out

just because your shit team cant figure her out doesnt mean she doesnt have a place in the meta as a semi-niche

deadlock is honestly pretty solid on bind(and a lot of maps now tbh), vitality actually had some interesting ideas with her against navi - just had some gaps in their prep and got violently guy diffed

breeze, icebox, sunset, abyss

im more concerned about the lack of a viper over whatever it is you just said

RL is fun to watch tbf

only because hes on the worst team in the region lol kid has raw talent
wait until he has a real team around him trust

TH did not shit on FPX what match were you watching LOL
bro accidentally pulled up the KC FPX madrid game

cloud, chronicle, ange1 actually

ive thought since kickoff that this guy was similar to riens as a player but now im realizing hes a riens type player with no mouse1 binded

that was REALLY not the player i thought they'd drop

what tournament did this guy watch...

did you watch how fnc played at champs lol they only got 4th because DRX choked and they looked so much worse than they did at tokyo

tbh the roster has shuffled around so much from event to event that I feel like they haven't had time to get a really proper foothold yet
maybe that's crazy given how well they've performed but I think their ceiling is a very big question mark

is pulling an nrg just losing to any Chinese team

I actually thought fpx would win out and GenG would get grouped by heretics in the decider game so kind of lol

mid stats internationally? did you watch riens at shanghai?

duelist igl don't make me laugh

the thing is, it is a good comp
like they consistently notch very good results with it and they have really strong ideas behind it
gives me similar vibes to the old loud comp on bind

idk to me he's just a guy that is extremely extremely good at flash initiators and played all three meta flash supports on almost every map and then played yoru in pretty much an identical style
he's just a flash initiator main to me, and probably the best in the region at least at it

did we watch the same game? I saw a team who beat one of the best teams in the world on gun rounds regularly, was outdueling some uniquely good aimers, and came to the table with more innovative ways to play the maps they played that clearly had legs

is he a flex? feel like the only thing he flexed that year was yoru lol which he was still applying in a support manner
think he's really just a support initiator given that he played like 80% Skye and like 15% kayo

they got outplayed on gun rounds, only found wins off advantage situations created by winning pure duels or errors from fpx, and probably should have lost all three maps

2023 Ethan probably deserves a mention

also not remotely the same flavour of indiscipline

did they? i don't think they played very well at all lol, they largely won the game off of unforced errors rather than any outplays that stood out

so it sounds like they didn't lose because of how well heretics played? good analysis mate

far better, yes
fpx should have won all three maps by virtue of them out playing heretics, and only lost from their own undoing

what is this guy talking about...

you mean when fpx outplayed the shit out of heretics the other time? or when they nearly beat the team that won the tournament? or when they put fut down like dogs?