its a good team but will probably choke when it matters (brazil moment)

W org wish they came back to valorant but they were ass while it lasted

sorry cant hear you from lower bracket

im pretty sure fracture is loud ban

LOUD have the best map pool

also dont know about that

RJ is a shitty city but we actually are very competent on event production

they boarded last night and are probably arriving later today

honestly there's not much jet lag from SP to LA (5 hours if im not mistaken) and there's a day to rest so i dont think there will be much jet lag

2-2 in Americas
4-2 in EMEA (Fuck you BBL)
1-1 in Pacific
Forgot to do China

Rio de Janeiro >>

honestly i think most people just havent figured it out tejo yet hes good but not broken
otherwise i think its healthy most teams have a different style and comps

i mean yeah the org might not be great but i will never not root for a team with brazilian players

there was the weird phoenix/yoru comp loud used too at the beginning of the year
later there was cypher-deadlock
probably not ideal but it was a start

ascent was already having some different comps last year tbh we might see some cooking
i hope so

Why

prob map pool? emea has a yoru fetish on "jett maps", americas don't pick abyss at all, split jett meta is outdated, rest of map pool not really viable... only being used in pearl and abyss sometimes

there's a bit more to that but i honestly don't really want to discuss it
it's past
i believe he's a better person now

i honestly do believe dgzin time in T2 was very good and necessary for him
he played with a more established IGL and evolved a lot under him (Raafa)
it's been only one match so i can't say for sure he's better now but on furia he had too many silly mistakes

just to be clear keznit actually has some history with racist comments it was not only that incident

THAT SAID it's been a while he seemed to have changed since then and apologized, i honestly believe him and believe people can evolve too (https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1867042500185059647)
also yes dg was a bit egotistical a while ago but he seemed to really mature too

they could actually qualify to bangkok lmao

did you watch the game with your eyes closed?
they played it like a ranked game, pushing smokes, run n gun, 100% aim no brain
any actual decent team would have punished them way more
2G were pissing themselves too much to do that
they had a lot of mechanics i can tell you that

they could work on pearl, yes, specially that troll comp, but their defense was at least half-decent
and their split looked good, didn't win because loud made a great comeback

oh yeah
yes its scheduled as the first

i mean to anyone watching closely only NRG really disappointed

i didnt watch koi and liquid
2G was probably the worst of all regions maybe
but MIBR didn't look too different from apeks or giantx
and we have 100t, C9, EG and Loud, all of whom looked decent enough to compensate

true but we also haven't seen Sentinels, LEV, G2 and Furia (main roster)

there's still loud vs kru before tho

bias because we had a banger match between two international favorites already, while americas didn't had that. other matches in emea were same level or worse than overall americas

Since my pickems are ASS now

Loud 2x1 Kru
Sentinels 1x2 100thieves
G2 2x0 C9
Leviatán 1x2 Furia

honestly? year is looking pretty good thus far

NRG messing with my pickems jesus christ useless team fuck me i guess

didn't looked like it

What is this game

both seem to overheat quite a bit tbh

still 19th here wdym

not really impressed by both mada and verno tbh

always plays well in the beginning of the season

well you definitely don't peek a smoke in the middle of the bombsite either

there wasn't time for safer reposition, <10 seconds
even if it had
he also had a blind
he just opens without using anything
guy was already marking his position, he got shot in the fucking head

this just pissed me off even more what the fuck was he thinking

Had 8491489148 skills
Just peeked out a smoke
You could've just aftershocked the fucking spike braindead

C9 wins this still

LOOK WHO'S BACK THE GOAT THE GREAT

FNS actually threw the map and potentially the entire game for NRG now. Oh my god

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Ever since Loud i think Less sometimes is too confident on peeking. Yeah he has a crazy aim, he can and likely wins but sometimes he's TOO agressive and that annoys me. This was really evident in 2024

i would change my pickem's last minute but i didn't thank god

Starting a thread to record the great matches from this year for later

Help me with China and Pacific cause i usually don't watch it because of timezones. Also i would like to add EG x Loud because i really liked that match but idk if you guys agree so give your opinion

January 17th: Vitality 2x1 Karmine Corp (VCT EMEA Kick-Off - Upper Quarter-Finals)

exactly

sure buddy

VERME GOAT

i felt like i was watching a T3 match both teams were so bad

unironically saadhak prob wanted to see the game