Damn I was just off. I thought since IMT hadn't been playing Ascent and when they did, losing on it... Well it seems Rossy might be what the team needs since jcStani the aim god is on Omen. Either way, WP on the first map so far.

well no1 slept on them in masters and first strike so maybe it's time to sleep on them for good luck :o

Guild is the first team in challengers finals! poggies!

rara
sharky
boostio
kanpeki
fiend
roca
rebo
makkaloff
pr0phie
koalanoob
pretty much all of kooky koalas
azk
supamen
psalm

If I was to create a team?
kanpeki, rara, supamen, sharky, rebo??
or something similar

Yeah, this is a hard one. For at least part of a list, you could look for teams in the Rankings tab that aren't under an org, and look at their players. Kooky Koalas, rice and meatballs, ez5, and cute fat boys are good teams that have good players potentially to be signed.

So Astra is actually still being experimented in the meta. You have some teams immediately making a switch because it suits their team and they have good strategies with it, like XSET. Other teams are taking a slower approach and making sure they know what they're doing and that they have right number, like Sentinels, who only use Astra on split. However, most teams are not running Astra at all. This is probably for a couple of reasons, the first being that they haven't liked her enough to run her, and that they think Omen is better. The other, and probably more likely scenario, is that they haven't explored her capabilities enough and don't feel comfortable straying from their Omen strategies. Also, Omen is still good. His blind is a core for a lot of good strategies. Either way, this is a bad take. EU is likely using Astra more because their strategies are slightly more advanced and they were able to find good use of the agent quickly, or they just don't like Omen. I personally think both agents are very in-meta, and I'm sure a lot of you agree.

F in the chat for what could've been

YEAH WHAT DA HECK MANNNN WHATS GOING ON WITH NORTH KOREA

The points in the Masters events only matter for the end of the year. They are supposed to help to show the best team across the year as a whole. For now, for Iceland, you just need to worry about Challengers. There should be three challengers, and a challengers finals to decide who goes to Iceland (for BR). The format for the Brazilian events goes something like this:

CH1 --top4 auto qualify--> CH2
CH2 --top4--> CH Finals
CH2 --bottom4 auto qualify --> CH3
CH3 --top4--> CH Finals
CH Finals --top2--> ICELAND

Correct me if I'm wrong or if it's too confusing I can try to explain again.

It depends on the relevancy of CSGO and other shooter games imo. Right now it's pretty popular because it's flashy and streamers like Shroud and Sykkuno sometimes play it.

Is it 1 2 1 3 with outline thickness 2 and opacity .5? Closest I could get other than what was suggested before.

Magepunk knife lowkey dope

Literally just stole my tier list LOL

Sounds like your ranked problem

Ok take march madness for example. The fans of fuckn Hartford, a 16 seed, are going to say "oh Hartford is the best team in the tourney, Baylor, no SHOT", or, "great that we got in the tournament, just glad to see them here" and there's pretty much no in between. Can you see where I'm going with this? Pretty much anyone unbiased about the subject can safely say OCE < NA, but doesn't mean everyone's gonna believe it or hope that it happens.

SAY SIKE RIGHT NAH BRO. Gimme dat script.

Close game, can't win em all.

roca's a free agent :ooooo, same as rara

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticInventiveDragonfruitPlanking-duR0WxCr50cwj_xN

Bruh I don't even get why they picked up brax. WHERE IS THE IGLLLLL

You mean most loved?

Sadge

I think he meant "steel" ;)

I don't even speak the language and I like it better than english casting just cuz of how hype they are

I've played league for like 4 years and I can tell you if you implemented a system like that into the current valorant system it would be awful. 30+ agents, then we'll talk.

They do that. It still doesn't make a difference. You have to remember, TSM were #1 in North America during most of First Strike with like 2100 rating iirc, and XSET had about 1600 rating at that time. That's a lot of rating to recover.

To judge teams right now, because it's hard to judge the region, you kind of have to judge teams based on what actually happens in game. Like, can they adapt well, exactly how good is their aim, is their map pool solid, do they have good coordination, just things like that. Based off of an analysis like this, Vision Strikers would probably fall into the low end of Masters. This is especially true because they haven't even played against any teams outside of the region so it would take a lot more effort to prepare. Either way, I would love to see some of their set pieces in action in Masters.

EZ4EZ5

Bro this game looked so good
WHY DIDNT IT GET STREAMED AAAAA
16-18
13-6
14-12
AAAAAAAAAA

Semifinal in ro16...

Clawdia is literally a 50/50 almost every game and she is a huge baiter, Osias and potter are shit. EG as an org knew this when they signed the players, they just didn't care.

I'm not arguing that they're top 10. I'm saying that they accumulated a lot of elo/points in the vlr system from months ago, so they are still a top team in terms of the rankings. TSM were first in the rankings for a while and got a lot of important wins in the early stages of valorant. Same for G2, who aren't really a top 10 team, but are also still on the rankings.

I mean TSM was great for a long time. They were first for a while I believe

Well I thought it was two maps, but that works

A duo doesn't have to have a good chemistry for them to be considered a duo.
du·o
/ˈd(y)o͞oō/
noun

1. a pair of people or things, especially in music or entertainment

Thanks, very helpful!

Agreed

Probably. Also ABX have experience against Noble, something LG didn't have.

I mean maybe he doesn't know. Wasn't trying to be mean, I even said my own comment lol.

I love version 1, but Victor and crashies are still the best duo in NA (apart from maybe sick and tenz) and they're lighting kids up like it's christmas. Ascent and Bind will both be taken by Envy, not sure which one will be banned. I'm fairly certain Envy bans Icebox, but leaves open Haven, which V1 is probably going to steal. Envy 2-1

13-0 both maps.

Dubbed up Soniqs

This.

As much as I want to hype BBG up, I think their performance was maybe a one-and-done. Happy for them to prove me wrong though. XSET have looked more consistent. They even have identified Icebox as their weakspot, and are always banning it. I think maybe BBG, with enough preparation, could make it close, so, Haven goes to overtime, but XSET wins it 15-13. Next map would be Bind, XSET cleans house. XSET 2-0

If BBG took SEN's spot, then why are they playing XSET? XSET should be the fourth highest seed, putting BBG as the 5th highest seed. SEN would've been first. Also, then, wouldn't C9 take GENG's spot? Or V1 take Faze's spot? No. More likely, the tournament organizers either seeded the last four teams randomly, or asked some sort of expert on how he would rank the teams and that's how they did it. Because in terms of seeding, BBG < V1 < C9 < ABX, so that's not how they did it either. It's not something like Game +- either, because then C9B would be the highest seed and be playing XSET.

Cloud 9's strongest maps are Icebox, Haven, and Split.
Immortal's strongest maps are Icebox, Bind, and Split.
Neither team really likes Ascent, but since IMT really seems bad at it, wouldn't be surprised if C9 left it open.
Wouldn't be surprised if C9 banned Bind. Also wouldn't be surprised if IMT banned Ascent.
This leaves Icebox, Haven, and Split.
Thus, I think C9 have the advantage.
C9 Take Haven and Icebox, IMT take Split
C9B 2-1

XSET VS ENVY

Also, what the hell is this seeding???!?!?!?
Why is V1 < ABX < C9 < BBG???
How the hell does that make sense????

100T VS C9

Edit: I'm gonna use this top spot for my prediction too :)
100T bans Split, C9 bans Bind fairly obvious, both teams hate those maps so far
100T's favored on Ascent
I'd say Icebox and Haven are both pretty 50/50, so we'll say 100T takes Icebox for the other map and 2-0's it
100T 2-0

100T VS ENVY