Hate it myself. DM isn't and shouldn't be a competition and the fact that some people type "gg" after dms just shows that Valorant DM is a failure.

Doombros and Mini

Not specifically VCT, but I love these(just Aleksib one since first that came to mind):

Ali “Aleksib” Sabiid is a Pakistani CS:GO professional, who currently plays for Omad Ghazi (OG), an electric sports (E-sports) organization in Islamabaad, Pakistan. He is a part-time street barber on the Fatah Jang district.

Depends is it 1st, 2nd or 3rd game. OpTic seems to always start bit slow, so I could see team like FPX upsetting them.

Kind of sad they didn't get Bonecold. They are already kind of all over the place and not as much structure, so Bonecold would have been perfect for that.

Hiding strats for 1 NA game just to play 2-3 more important games in masters groups 5Head

Pretty unlikely. Vitality isn't playing in VCT so points don't matter, but I'm pretty sure they want to scrim against international teams if they get a chance, since they are clearly aiming for high spots in VRLs.

Who cares? Both vaxxers and anti-vaxxers are just living normal life right now. No difference unless you are traveling to some countries.

True if OpTic plays like this NA will be 0 team region

Just get 2 monitors 4Head

Grats! Something I wouldn't be proud of! Oh wait...

FNC, FPX, GLD

Considering that he came from tier 2 and instantly performed this well. Sure.

gg sad that it didn't go map 4

Shao has always been good on Jett, but so is Ardiis. They don't play Jett much anymore.

idk my youtube clips are broken for some reason. Always just showing live vod with clip overlay, but clip doesn't show. Been always like this.

they never work just show full vod. On Twitch you just click clip and that's it. On Youtube it goes to live vod and then you have to exit the clip even tho its not showing it and then go back clip its weird for me.

Youtube clips wtf I still don't understand how they work

I think we will get back to natural order. Minor regions or at least some will perform worse (BR, KR, APAC, JP), while EMEA rains superior. NA gives fight for EMEA, but fails at it.

EMEA got so unlucky in Masters 1. G2 fluke playoffs run, Fnatic with 2 subs, and Team Liquid didn't even deserve to be there and doesn't have proper IGL.

Congrats Sentinels for being the first back to back Masters winner

Raze ult is good for space making even if you don't get kills and it was nice try from Zyppan just good re-positioning by Boaster.

Yeah let's ban that over their perma ban and map where FPX are good

because TenZombies is honorary EU citizen

Why would Fnatic ban Ascent over Breeze?

Ukraine is in active war. And Ukraine has banned most men from leaving the country for obvious reasons. I don't know the situation with people like ANGE1 as "athlete", but I would imagine it being quite hard to get permission to leave. And I don't even know how he would leave the country even if he got permission. Don't know about the transportation inside Ukraine right now.

This "Fnatic LAN choker" narrative doesn't make any sense and I don't understand who even started sharing it? Historically Fnatic has always performed better on LAN than online outside of last Masters with 2 subs. 2nd EMEA seed in Masters 2 2021, but still got to finals and performed better than 1st EMEA seed Team Liquid. For Champions they miraculously made it as 3/4th EMEA seed just because Gambit won Berlin and no one expected anything from them, but they still managed to top their group over C9(best NA) and DRX(best KR) and placed 5th-8th after losing to KRU. Like I truly don't get this narrative. Losing to KRU in playoffs when no one even expected you to even get out of groups is not a choke.

That is actually true. Weird to think about it. Only 1 team made it to top 5-8 in Champions (2 got grouped) and The Guard didn't win single game last Masters.

Random thoughts on maps, not in order. i think its going to be close if FPX wins the maps they should.
Bans: Breeze(FNC), Bind(FPX)
Icebox: Fnatic should win
Ascent: FPX should be slight favorites
Fracture: Fnatic slight favorites
Haven: Really hard to call 50/50
Split: Really hard to call 50/50
in 50/50 situations Fnatic should be slightly favored, because of their their firepower.

anyway I think it should be close 3-1 or 3-2 for Fnatic

FPX are hard team to prep against anyway, so playing against them for first time is going to be pretty hard I would imagine. They are also doing a lot of unique stuff. If they go with full roster*

In EMEA they always fly some of the players to Berlin and does promo stuff for Challengers. Its nothing crazy, but EMEA players have to fly from other countries. But I agree that it should and could be better. I guess it will be better for next year when maybe all players are in same country and production becomes way easier.

Both shit, but DC lows are way lower. Batman and maybe Joker are only good ones from DC. Marvel pretty shiet as well, but at least their movies are somewhat watchable if you don't have anything else to watch. Watched Aquaman and went to sleep midway through, watched Thor Ragnarok(or whatever Marvel movie) that was pretty shit but at least I didn't sleep.

Ange1 is the creator of Valorant.
He is Valorant.

I think any out of Guild, M3C, Acend could have qualified. Guild just so inconsistent. But they deserved it!

Good idea, but kind of useless compared to effort I think

No shit. Every country has bunch of culture. That was my point. So don't say some don't.

I would imagine players like dimasick and Shadow could be pretty high on list considering that they played in FPX

This stage yes

Being curious and wondering = racism. Using word manlet maybe, but I don't get how rest of the comment was racist? Yeah if it was made racism in mind, but no if it was legit question. We don't know that. Again if you haven't had interactions with people from other races you may have these questions in mind. Happens in every single race.

Yes, but forums are for that type of stuff. People are going to type what they think without much thought. Let it be questions, opinion or discussion openers. Half of any forum's content would be non existent if people just did their own research.

True its definitely ignorant from some people

Obviously its ignorant and offensive, but maybe he is just wondering and just wrote it just in a way that looks offensive. I don't remember what it is called but its really common that you will usually not find other races and their people as unique as you find yours. Someone who doesn't have interactions with Asian people may easily find them less unique look wise and vice versa. And in general the average height in many Asian countries is shorter than let's say European. Maybe he doesn't know this.
So if you are European(assume) and bit ignorant and spend most of your time with these people and watch them (like most csgo pros) its understandable why someone could be wondering these things about other races.

Does Indonesia or Asia have culture? If yes then every country and continent has theirs.

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Just unlucky, he was spraying smoke and when it faded he just continued spraying and couldn't hit. No consistent spray patterns unlucky.

No hate, but IMO Brazil/LATAM only brings 1 really strong team to Americas aka LOUD, but rest are pretty average and I don't see them as strong contenders.

Nah. Fnatic as core was perfect for Alfajer. They have been together for long, have proper structure and have proper IGL/system. While Acend doesn't have proper IGL I'm pretty sure. They brought Vakk in as IGL, but zeek said that he is doing calling now. And the way how they play doesn't have as much structure (seems like) and their comms are so crazy when listening to voice comm videos so I don't think Alfajer would have suited that team. Also Monsteerr is insane as well, not on Alfa level, but he has done great job in his role. Acend just needs some time with this roster and they will do well.

I wouldn't say Acend needs Raze. They have zeek who is really good Raze when feeling it and starxo has done good job on Raze so far.

Based on little I've played (I know pretty crazy comp):

Brim/Omen/Astra
Neon/Yoru
Raze
Fade
Chamber/Cypher

I would try some of those combinations. Depends what you prioritize. I think Brim and Yoru are underrated. Brim fast smokes and stim can be good for aggressive space taking and Yoru has a lot of placed to tp to and hide in to cause threat around the map. Also his fake and flash seem to be quite good in this map.

Derke, because in current meta aka Raze and Chamber carry he is unstoppable. He is better than any other when it comes to those 2 combined (dunno about what f0rsaken plays mainly nowadays and dunno about Aspas either). nAts maybe good 2nd since he can play sentinel and controller. All others are more restricted to 1 role in team comp for example Yay can't play Raze even if his Chamber is insane.

every region is 1 team region