Good representatives.

Usually their Yoru Breeze comp looks good when they played it in EMEA, but playing bad right now. While Guild prep really good.

My copium is that maybe FPX haven't practiced this comp much for some time. They played different comps and only had 1 day to pracc this after week or two.

I don't know what FPX are doing. They played this comp well in EMEA and legit looked good, but here it looks so messy and Guild has good read every round.

Russ was actually having pretty decent map so that is good to see

yeah pretty bad from Guild, but also hard angle tbh

such close map

Derke can play Raze so more flexible

I feel like full FPX has more potential to do damage going forward, so that is why I want them to win. Guild relies too much on good preparation and their firepower is weaker and more inconsistent due to Russ tbh. While FPX being heavy antistrat team they can still perform well with short prep time and has more firepower if everyone is on. They can also play whatever and that can caught teams of guard.

And overall FPX got so fucked for last 2 Masters, so I want to see them do well here.

Depends. I would kind of want to buy it for campaign, because IMO MW2019 campaign was pretty good and overall cool experience. A lot of unique missions that felt like something new and beautiful visuals. But multiplayer was pretty dogshit outside of ground war (like battlefield) mode that I played quite a lot when it came out, but got bored after a while. I guess it depends how the beta feels like if there is one. CODs have been so bad for most part, so I'm not hyped of this at all.

I wonder why these NA teams like The Guard and XSET (unless they play better today) completely fall over when they come to international tournaments. Because it can't be them just having LAN jitters, because it has now happened to 2 teams and it doesn't even look like individual problem as much. Overall the teams just play much worse. Do they just get rolled in scrims so much that they lose confidence or what. Someone said that zekken has apparently said that their EU scrims were going bad, and remember there being something similar with The Guard.

classic

FPX 2-1
LEV 2-0

Yeah its bit confusing tbh I remember struggling with it myself too

No picture because I'm too lazy to do it at 3AM, but did around 1 1/2 month ago and it was 130. But online IQ tests are irrelevant for most part. They don't show true intelligence more just pattern recognition that obviously is tied to intelligence but isn't anywhere near everything.

VLR and kind people don't suit each other, but maybe in the future it will

True, but we saw some of their weaknesses on that map even when they faced OpTic. They historically aren't good Icebox team and even if its better now it still isn't that great.

COPIUM

OpTic only made it close because Guild are bad at closing games and OpTic heroic plays. Also playing Icebox that is historically their worst map. Can't rely on Yay always.

and I guess you can then also say that the KRU that LOUD and Guild played against looked way better than the one OpTic faced.

FPX, Guild > XSET though

If XSET don't get their shit together then that may be the case. They just look quite nervous as well. But I just don't know how deep LEVs map pool is. They dominated on Ascent, but got rolled on Breeze and their Haven started really slow.

Yeah thinking about it you are right. Really common in Valorant and LoL especially.

But I doubt that many are immigrants though. Most of them seem to be American born, but have Asian or Asian heritage American parents.

Could be I don't know because I haven't been there. Actually thinking about it Asian heritage Americans are really common in all NA esports. In LoL you have Doublelift, Dan, Jojo etc. In CSGO there isn't too many but still have people like Osee. Its just seems to be really common and significant amount of American esport players have some sort of Asian heritage.

I actually wonder why there's so many Asian heritage(or whatever the word is) players in NA Valorant? Is it just random or is there some connection to social status or possible cultural difference or something. No hate and I don't know how far their family trees go just curious and interested.

Its not about affording its about being smart. Plus ACs are super bad for environment, so you should be crateful for every household that doesn't have one.

OpTic is playing well, but XSET are looking pretty meh as well. Let's hope they will start looking better in map 2 otherwise this is going to be flattening and could be bad for their mental for rest of this event.

True, because FPX is Chinese org not British.

XSET looks bit shaky their positioning just feels pretty awkward.

Every coach should wear suits looks so badass. Imagine all the cool suit combos you could do with team colors etc or just go full John Wick all black look.

Ok I guess that makes sense. How can you even switch names? Contact someone on discord or what?

Depends on name, but lowercase suits more names and is safer IMO. Just wondering why are you switching? Was thinking same as well tbh, but don't know is it worth it. If its even possible.

True. I used to love Overwatch World Cups when that game was my main esport. It was so hype when Team Finland almost beat South Korea (best OW country by far). But sadly those haven't happened in couple years and will never make return.

Yes, but world cups always have problems. Usually during breaks as well, so many are too tired to compete or tryhard. Maybe in Valorant where international tournament are rare it would be good.

Leviatan weak map pool? FPX even with a sub and playing new comp got more rounds on Breeze than Leviatan who have momentum buff.

You realize that mandate and vaccine are completely 2 different things? Other is specific substance that is injected into you and other is like social structure that forces people to inject this substance into them or otherwise (in some places) some of their basic rights will be denied from them. Was it like in Austria where people weren't allowed to leave their houses if they were unvaccinated and if they got caught they got fined? That's terrible and being against stuff like that is right thing to do. Obviously mandates differed between countries.

I feel like PRX playstyle only works because no one is used to playing against team like them.

League of Legends production >>

Zero

L1NK and Zeek come to my mind first. But I bet there's good talent out there in VRL as well. Even someone like d3ffo could be decent shout if he is comfortable playing in English speaking team. He already started playing more supportive agents in M3C.

It depends how long it takes for FPX to become real FPX if that makes sense. How well they will be playing with Suygetsu after not practicing with him and can they return back to original comps even if they haven't practiced those comps for little while. I 100% believe in this team. IMO they have potential to win the whole thing if they play to their true potential. ANGE1 has to step up though, but also something that many don't mention is that ANGE1 has had to change his roles the most because of sub. This team has good individual talent if everyone is on and great antistrat and decent map pool.

Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, China highest according to some site

but IQ is pretty irrelevant thing anyway IMO as long as it is past certain point*

Indonesia average iq: 78.5
Malaysia average iq: 87.6
Singapore has one of the highest average IQs

so I wouldn't say that as a fact for whole region

• According to World Population Review

2-1 for Fnatic, because PRX will likely pick Ascent and that isn't Fnatic's strongest map. But it depends a lot of Enzo's and Alfajer's form as well. Enzo was really good Ascent B anchor in EMEA, but looked bit shaky today. They need him to perform if they want to win against PRX execs.

and both use/have used Glitchpop Vandal

Sadly got diffed by TenZ, but at least he evolved while TenZ didn't

Yes you can when you are Fnatic. They know they will win anyway.

When he pulled up ulti in 1v3 its like "yep he won" lol

Smart play. They know they can't win and would just lose weapons so better to save.

Boaster usually puts up good numbers on LAN. Unfortunately it feels like he starts always underperforming on individual level on high stake games.

Both Alfajer and Enzo looked bit shaky and didn't perform to their online performance, but still won. Just shows the firepower this team has. Similar to team like OpTic who still play close even if yay or Victor isn't performing. Really hope Alfajer will start hitting though. But Shao also had bad first game and look at him now.