PRX won't perform as well as some expect.

Why would Liquid need flex igl, when they have Jamppi and Soulcas who can play everything? And even outside of that I doubt it. Leo has been with Sayf since beginning and power wise both TL and Guild are pretty similar.

True FPX is underrated going into Copenhagen. like many rate Fnatic as 1st or 2nd favorites, but at the same time say that PRX, DRX, LOUD etc would easily win over FPX. Even tho they were the 2nd best in EMEA and gave the most competition to Fnatic even when Fnatic were playing well. They are also hard team to prep against like you said so international teams are going to struggle when trying to understand how they play.

Acend most likely dropped him because of money. Either Koldamenta was free agent at that point and chose G2 for money and clout, or Acend accepted G2's offer for good money.
And maybe G2 just didn't see future with Koldamenta considering that they weren't looking good after Masters Berlin.

but true he definitely has pretty good track record, but isn't talked much about. Based on what I've seen it feels like he is good at prepping for other teams and pre game stuff, but maybe lacks in mid rounding and adapting looking at even Guild's struggles. Could be wrong.

1. Why would Guild ever get rid of Leo or why would Leo leave Guild?
2. They still wouldn't have proper IGL.
3. They have a coach already or at least are trialing one.
4. Never going to happen

again one "Fnatic are chokers" with no explanation

anyone who takes dm as competition, camps with 100% sound on is cringe

Turning Red was trash. Soul was good. IMO

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.