I still think that Bleed are better, just because a team wins against another team once does not mean that they are indefinitely better, if that were the case then this game would be incredibly boring.

The two top teams in NA are always some iteration of the old OpTic core alongside a pretty new team

1. T1
2. Talon
3. Bleed eSports
4. Global eSports

COOK

desperation lmfao

Dude has been watching the past 3 years of Valorant eSports with a blindfold on

DRX management happened

understandably, i can imagine he's super uncomfortable on this english speaking roster as somebody that had never spoken english before

If this guy's career gets ruined by this I'm going to be distraught

KOI, Global eSports and I'm sure there's a Chinese team that's worse

Zest has been put in a terrible spot though. He can barely speak English I can't imagine he's comfortable on this team.

Jemkin clears 🥱

RRQ would unironically shatter Team Liquid

I understand that if you aren't doing well, you'd naturally want to make changes to your roster, but I feel like the Ascension teams should have to keep at least 3/5 of the players that won Ascension for the first year that they are in partnership because after all, they are the players that earned it. With BLEED it feels so strange because only 2 of these players were on that Ascension team and if this iteration of the team competed in Ascension now, they would not have won that tournament.

Is this guy goated all of a sudden? looks great on Apeks

france

why are you reminding us

WHAT THE FUCK LMFAOOOO

keep it in ur panties dude

There's nothing wrong with a 30 year old man twerking and doing Tik Tok dances on stage and crying on camera

Every grown man I've ever met does this and thinks its normal!

We must not accept it!

At least he has personality lmfao. I don't know why vlr loves to complain so much especially considering most others pros have the personality of a wooden plank. Seems so fragile to complain about somebody dancing on stage

You'll live

It's not that deep

Right!

FNATIC literally watched GIANTX vs Karmine Corp on Breeze, saw that GIANTX suck on this map and decided to pick Breeze versus them without second thought lmfao

And I said that we can't say that it's Elmapuddy's fault

What I'm saying: we can't say that it's not Elmapuddy's fault just because mini is there.

I'm not saying that it's not Elmapuddy's fault just because Mini is there, but the fault is not entirely on him; which a worrying amount of people are saying. You're being so aggressive for no reason, stop being a butthurt loser and shut the fuck up.

so you're barking up the wrong tree.

I think you need to take a lesson out of your own book because I literally implied that we can't say that it's Elma's fault lmfao

put him on raze for a reason

Why wouldn't we be talking about Boaster? In my original comment I literally referred to Boaster, he is of equal importance to Elmapuddy.

But I feel like with practice regiments and development of protocols surely they'd stick with what worked last year? that's not something that they have to switch up or change; but again with our level of uncertainty of what goes on behind the scenes we can't really talk much on it- for all we know they didn't change it at all, though regardless I can see how feedback during timeouts may make a difference.

I'm just tired of seeing people throw the entire blame onto Elma, when he isn't the only one providing concepts and strats.

They won Tokyo after this btw

That's not exactly the case.

1. Every team's coaching staff has different structure; sure, the method which you brought up is one of the most notorious ways to run your coaching staff but you don't entirely know what goes on behind the scenes.
2. You're limiting both Boaster and Mini to submissive little robots who don't offer their own opinions regarding concepts that Elma comes up with or concepts that they come up with themselves. Sure, Elma is the head coach, but Boaster and Mini aren't going to go through with a concept that they don't agree with or believe in.

Chronicle has previously played Raze though

I have faith in Alfajer Raze though

This just feels like they've panicked and made last second comps

Is it wrong? lmfao

Aspas could dropped 40 kills a map and you guys would still find a way to call him washed

nAts and Sheydos to GiantX!

It probably was, but regardless they're now months behind

You really think that he has entirely silenced Boaster and Mini and they're only listening to his concepts and ideas?

context?

I mean yea, makes sense for them to continuously lose and I hope that this serves as a wake up call for them

I think it's a culmination of a couple of reasons. Whether that be their approach to the game- I think Boaster's approach to the game is becoming more and more outdated (his opinion regarding using ultimates on low economy rounds is a pretty good example of that I think) and I think it's imperative for him to re-evaluate his approach, the development of competition in their respective region and in VCT as a whole or the pressure of being a back to back title winning team.

I think CHICHOO is honestly the best player on that EDG squad. His movement is incredible

Any team of that standard is bound to become inevitably washed

And you're making VLR threads about it?

can't wait for them to stomp FUT

NRG looked great against LOUD? Only reason map 1 was so close was because of TuyZ and Less having incredible games

Gen. G look insane
Paper Rex are the same Paper Rex that went to Champs finals and they looked good vs T1
DFM look promising
RRQ look promising
DRX look good
Despite their recent loss, T1 almost went to Madrid
Team Secret look pretty standard

I think the upper half of Pacific look good, especially compared to last year in which the region was primarily dominated by two teams

Good for them! Competition in Pacific is only getting better seemingly