The Real Rundown

EMEA have better concepts that they attempt and execute, but as a whole they fail because their win conditions still rely heavily on individual success(and I dont mean hitting their shots). Long term they will succeed if they actually get through this issue.

NA have better competition which forces the top teams to exist under very specific conditions. The concepts NA teams run are much more based on the individual but because of this, they are much more practiced at what situations the individuals will find themselves in.

~people like scream and derke tend to cause fear in their opponents(from what ive watched of EMEA regional games), another great example not at the event is chronicle. Man is an ego challenge LEGEND. But when you go international suddenly people don't have these feelings when they face eachother, and you begin to realize your gameplan relies more on you just popping off and winning 50/50s than you thought.

EVERYONE is bad. That is why there has been so much back and forth-upsets and such. Every region loses rounds they shouldn't, not just talking about ecos. And I include each regions top teams in this. Nobody is as disciplined as they will be in a year from now, 2 years from now. The game will look different and only THEN will emea have an advantage. Right now you are just as nooby as NA.

Tl;dr: EMEA will only be better when they stop playing like NA.

why wouldn't you watch if you were american? you think you're that boring to watch?

EDIT: fair. i dont want an opinion on this anymore.

EDIT: nvm i dont want an opinion on this anymore

broadly. maybe a little diff from your message but mostly the same. liquid definitely dropped the ball as a whole but they arent exactly a gem normally. thats probably the only addition i made. the rest is agreeable.

bro theyre not bad because they lost they lost because they're bad. They played so individually that they are the most NA team there. stop stealing our issues. the solo peeks and hero plays are OUR culture.
~Dima peeked yay on bind and then repeeked 2 MORE TIMES. AS BRIM. VS THE HIGHEST RATED CHAMBER IN THE WORLD. VS ECO.

Scream has ingrained the fear, that his team normally brings to other EMEA teams, into his playstyle and it is visibly clear he was not adjusting vs optic.

Soulcas-I don't really know its not really him throwing first that much and I have trouble blaming a domino-effect-decision on 1 person that heavily.

Nivera- fun to watch ill be honest but not visibly seeing much of his growth with how many solo plays are seemingly allowed or encouraged.

Dima plays like a reyna on smokes but i will admit i have no idea what goes on in their camp so clearly not all of it can be as bad as it looks, but that doesnt excuse much of what happened at this tourney.

Jampi- nuts and definitely the most EFFECTIVE flexible player on the team.

FNC is just better, its a derby(regional) game where you have very few outs, and FNC didnt give them any.

On top of everything I've said above theyre still better than anyone here can even know and virtually none of you see any of the actual breakdowns of teamplay. Have fun with it. call them shit. call na shit. do whatever. Don't pretend you know what to criticize though. Everyone here earned their spot to be here and are above wannabes on forums.

lol

i think he has t1 aim but he probably struggles switching from brain to aim mode which is what usually happens to igls that have struggles mechanically. Also he sacrifices himself into situations to ensure the trade A LOT(which is very important to have). most of the people here dont even think you can buy a functioning rifle if you lock smokes so i dont expect people to know what im talking about.

Or just don't separate the best active duo in the region? Probably the world if you get specific about your definition of duo.

yea i use the new deathadder and im prob gonna stay on it for the 4khz wireless thing but if there was another shape ive ever loved that much, its that mouse.

Roccat Kone Pro Air, idk why i stopped using it tbh

defense is stored in the balls

this place is a zoo. this mans didnt even play another agent today but chamber, and im still getting downvoted for that part-which isnt even the actual bm part

lan experience isnt as relevant as crowd experience.

.02 seconds away from u knowing our names like any other VCT team. your current flair's roster for instance.
have some respect you fuckin weirdos its not like anybody gets hurt by recognizing shit others actually know about

If i have to go hunting for a nonchamber game its close enough to comment it on vlr i aint puttin in werk like dat

you would think the 1 trick would teach the flex igl how to play an agent

and last time he said he doesnt plan on switching anytime soon

thats the secret to power

yay will actually be replacing T1 steel as igl. this comes in part of steel retiring and moving to the desk of tariks stream, analyzing every ranked game so tarik can perform to the top level of NA radiant.

7 in 2 days and only made plans to go at the dallas lan sub 2 weeks prior

pog

good scrims. eat that up

id ask which team was he talking about but theyre the homies, also i was stretching for every ounce of impact i could get so truuuuuu

if ur not playing for stats ur not playing valorant ofc

only 3 ppl in a 21 round game that are positive in first duels. doin gods work

pog

JSUNG WILL REVITALIZE CARPE NOCTEM. CARPE NOCTEM 2023 CHAMPIONS. THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE. FAIR WELL.

EC1-C

shawn

id talk to them about the match not you. but i can imagine they dont need confirmation about how the L went down, it was pretty clear.

nah bro it wasnt lost in the maps

i went 8-1 vs him ez forum post god

yaboi loves ascent u feel me?

learned from u

pog +5 FB

pog temperature 2 1v4s

aww

im 90% sure ur referencing a post I made to my own loss.

tl;dr not every reason is an excuse, not every result is a change of reality/ability.

i didnt have to read any of them but not all hate is bait. some ppl do just suck.

#4

They're kinda opposites, as much as you can be at the top level anyways, XSET is probably further along/developed with their brand of play than Faze is with theirs though, so assuming 1 of those 2 make it I would imagine XSET sHoULD(?) do better.

everyone talks shit about how bad our community is, I would rather attempt to improve it than sit back and bitch. No matter how futile it may seem I never lose faith, whatever im doing.

If you haven't played near a high level of teamplay, you need to understand when you have an important player to your team's structure/support player that is [not fully mentally/physically available] your whole team suffers. Icebox has always been yay and friends for them for whatever reason(outside of some of marved's lurk highlights), but on both maps so far its very clear that they are not at their normal level of cohesion. Give them a break pls, jokes are jokes but a lot of people take it too far.

XSET ARE GOOD. THE RESULT OF THIS MATCH DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT EITHER TEAM. XSET have been working for this, if they get it they earned it; that doesn't mean this is Top Tier Optic rn(also doesn't mean XSET are trash if they lose). Nothing bad will happen because we accept this.

reported

neon, kayo, fade, astra, chamber

smoke pick not as relevant as the core 4

i dont think nivera is better at any of it but chamber, but its also the only things [nivera] CAN play at ALL.

i was gonna say it