E tinha cara reclamando do saadhak ir passar três dias na Argentina, de qualquer forma eu queria mesmo que os times todos já tivessem vindo pro Br treinar um mês antes q nem fazem quando é champions

Tarik is that kid that only gets to play because he owns the ball

Naah they might’ve just thrown the whole game rn no?

True, I’d say that if MIBR has any good performances at this early stage is mainly because of him and the knowledge he brings from Loud, but as the game continues to change I think his flaws will begin to show

Bzka isn’t a good coach, idk what else to tell you

Noyn posted his kickoff tierlist today and implied that MIBR was doing quite better than Furia in scrims

Does anyone here think highly of that team? Cause even though they did better than I expected against LEV I’m unable to expect much from a team with murizzz in it

Been a zeldris fanboy ever since I had to watch his stream to see tenz and sacy playing, so go ORE!

Q que rolou q Cs tretaram hj o dia inteiro

Imma be real, the more this team sticks together the worse it becomes

I’ll never get over how immediately after performing like THAT on jett they decided to put Russ on the initiator in SMB, and then he went from one failed team to another

Had such high expectations for that guy

Isn’t this gonna create a three way role conflict between foxy9-Buzz-Rb?

Didn’t say they’d win, just that since it’s single elimination and the first tournament of the year we have to see teams face up against tough opponents in order to see how they’re looking, and if they win they become plausible contenders for the title, not sure winners

Also, bro left us with a “to be continued”

Nah the individual firepower is just too insane, and consider that most teams in this tournament are also going to to be suffering with adapting to entirely new rosters while navi only changed one guy

Look at that G-loot tournament, they were a much younger team than any other franchised roster in there, had absolutely no strats and lack a lot of cohesion, yet they kept pulling rounds out of thin air and went on to win the whole thing. I’d say that if they can beat Liquid on the second round they’ll find their stride and it’ll be a clear shot to the trophy

Hoes mad

I live in a country rich with natural resources, so yeah I keep having to meet Brits against my will

Oh wow next you’re gonna tell me I need to look at facts and stuff in order to have an opinion

No cap, you’re my favorite user in this site

I explicitly said I don’t know if cryo will be up to the task, just that he’ll be put in that role and that he’s used to it since he was doing it on XSET

I said ardiis is the next best thing when compared to yay, because FNS obviously wanted but couldn’t get him, I also stated that his issues weren’t skill related, just that he wasn’t being in the “superstar” role in FPX that he’ll be put on NRG

I find it hard to believe that they’ll put victor on jett in ardis stead, mainly because he’s better as an initiator. NRG screwed up trying to recreate optic with the next best players but the meta just isn’t the same

It was revealed to me in a dream

Damn I’m really bored, also, I don’t believe in anything I’ve said in here

It’s all a matter of sports culture really, American sports have always been built around superstar players that have a team built around them with the sole purpose of putting the guy in a position to carry whereas in European competition the team’s overall output is prioritised a lot more than individual input

You can attribute NA’s successes in valorant when compared to their failures in CS to this, CS has very little role differentiation, making an overall good group performance much more effective than that of a single individual. Meanwhile in Val you have roles literally made to frag while others support, you can see that both extremely successful NA teams in Sentinels and Optic had an inhumanly skilled carry on their team playing chamber or Jett.

The issue now is that you don’t have a broken character capable of enabling individual carrying at such level anymore

As a quick note, brazilians are also very individualistic just like their northern counterparts, but unlike them there’s little to no pecking order here so every players wants to be the superstar, this ends up creating teams with a lot of overall skill but absolutely no cohesiveness in them, hence why the overall level of Br teams is very low. It does happen at times, like in SK/LG and Loud that a team just fits in perfectly and becomes really dominant, with every player being able to play and shine in their preferred style in a way that plays off perfectly with each other

Now to my predictions to this year’s NA franchised teams

NRG- has that really good supporting core of Optic, and while I do think Som is capable of playing really well as a support player I doubt ardiis will perform well in that superstar role that yay did. It isn’t even a matter of individual skill, it’s just that the style of play that is engrained into his game is European, hence prioritising the group performance instead of playing in a way that he’s the superstar. Will still be a good team but it’s cultural differences will prevent it from establishing itself as a top of the pack team

C9- will just be shit, getting yay was definitely NOT the right decision, while he does fit the superstar criteria perfectly and vanity/xepppa have supportive playstyles, C9 already had their carry player in leaf, who is now being put in a conflicting spot, being unable to carry as well as provide good support, I also don’t like the zellsis pickup, a good player but that doesn’t really fit into the superstar nor the supporting role. Pair all that with the death of chamber and this team is doomed to fail

EG- the biggest unknown, it remains to be seen how this team will work but if they can find the right stride they can be really good, there are some really good supporting players in there and I believe in jaw’s superstar potential, all in all, they’ll still have to really click together (hard thing to do in a 10 man roster) and will all have to improve 10 fold individually to be able to vie for something, have potential, but their clear lack of a structured plan and vision makes it so that I wouldn’t bet on it

Sentinels- dephh is British, which is a bad thing, but he has enough experience playing in NA to be a good supporter, not perfect, but sufficient, zekken and tenz suffer with being a duo of superstar but history has shown that it is possible to conciliate them, as in shaq/kobe or even zekken/cryo, they’d need the perfect environment and role definition to work as a monster duo but it isn’t unheard of. The main issue will be the Brazilians, as I said before their culture is to also be superstars and not just supporting players, this cultural shock won’t mean they’ll suck, just won’t be as good as they should on paper

100T- in theory the best team of the region, last year’s continuous failures made the org’s management put down their feet and change shit up, having to achieve success in little time they went the most certain route with an European style, prioritising group performance, it worked as they won LCQ but since that style went against their way of play they didn’t get far at champs. The org seems to have recognised that and brought in an actual superstar in cryo, now all that remains is to see if he’s up to the task and if his teammates will be able to play well around him, I still feel like cryo just hasn’t what it takes to carry the team to an international win but if you have to bet, I’d advise going all in on this hoodie org

Not a good Idea to get an opinion like this out of vlr, here we only got a handful of more extreme brazilians that are obviously gonna have strong opinions

But the larger more casual audience doesn’t really care, they still love and root for sacy the same way (except whenever he gets a match against a Br team, but that’s obvious)

Stream Br ta do mesmo jeito q sempre foi uai kkkk, só pegava audiência nos jogos da Loud fúria e VK com heat e mwzera, enquanto q os outros times ngm ligava

Vai continuar sendo igual

Braindead threads, just watched the clip and he said the while he preferred br rankeds, scrims in NA were a lot better since teams there took it a lot more seriously and the tier 2 scene is stronger than it is in Br

Another fun comment, they asked him who was performing better, zekken or Tenz, he answered that both since zekken was more up to date with how the game was being played while Tenz is just insanely talented. Also said that zekken was very intelligent and mature for his age, reminding him of less

Also, scrims have started to look a lot better this week and they’re improving at a great rate

He’s baiting

He wasn’t talking about pro teams, just about the average ranked experience

Damn, even then liquid’s losing

Top G behavior

What a dumbass, now I lost it lmao

No he fits a lot more on the entry role than on the opper + not having a duelist would just screw up the team even more

https://valorantsimulator.com/lockin

Cauanzin almost dropping a 40 bomb on the last map of the finals

Put less on the op then, he used the awp on some maps last year because he played chamber

I was thinking about how it’ll be this year but I guess it doesn’t work since the data is all in the past, so it’s:

Aspas- duelist

Less-awper

Saadhak- sentinel

Cauanzin- initiator

Tuyz- controller

Loses to loud unfortunely

Aspas-duelist and opper, although he doesn’t awp as frequently as his counterparts in other teams, he is the only one who does so in loud

Less- sentinel, the only controller agent he plays is viper on icebox, in every other map he’s a cypher/kj

Tuyz- controller, will always play a controller agent in every map

Cauanzin- initiator, will always play initiator in every map

Saadhak- flex, mainly plays initiator but might flex to a sentinel depending on the map but I’d say it’s unlikely

Idk how the simulator works because it seems every team must fit those five different roles, if that is the case, just change less to opper and tuyz to controller and it’ll be fine

Loud loses most of the times because their roles are fucked, their opper is also the duelist, less is the sentinel and tuyz is the controller, saadhak is also an initiator

As a matter of status, is winning kickoff worth more than champions because there’s 32 teams, Less than masters because it’s too random and not a part of the normal circuit, Or more than masters and less than champions because fuck it

Ngm nunca assistiu esses jogos T2 mesmo, só dava audiência quando era Loud/fúria/MIBR e VK com heat e mwzera

Na prática não mudou nada na audiência nao

Nah man bro was cooking but you guys are feral

Duel of the mid

Oh boohoo poor them

Bro doesn’t even try with his baits anymore

The only reason you’re not mad is because you don’t think it’ll happen to your team, imagine if all Br teams get eliminated on the first day

Bro we’re not here to look at stats and placements, I wanna watch them games

So you agree the viewers would be much happier if it was double elim

Y’all be supporting this format a bit too much considering your teams are going out in the first round

You’re braindead

None with 32 teams, they have the opportunity here to make the greatest tournament ever but instead half the teams that we haven’t seen play for the last 4 months will be getting eliminated in one match

Not that hard to make simultaneous matches, they did it in the Rio major

Just let the most hype matchup happen on stage while another game takes place in another room, yes we would lose on the excitement of some matches but it’s a small price to pay for a better format

I’m pretty sure that if we complain hard enough riot might change the format, it’s happened before

Maybe do double elimination until the top 4, with one team qualifying through the upper bracket and the other through lowers on each group, and then keep the single elimination BO5s for semis and final