NA has some really good OW players, but its still dominated by Koreans. And you can find really good EU players as well. NA is good with battle royals I have to admit and those games suit NA playstyle. You can't say that NA is better than EU in R6. And Halo and Cod are console games so irrelevant.

They just catched on. V1 finally got good IGL and The Guard just started rolling after getting rid of psalm.

That is true, but NA can't talk shit. USA alone has the population of UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Denmark (just some sub 8 million country) combined and still gets diffed in most games lol and majority of you speak same language as well

C9 just got aim diffed multiple rounds. Not their S game either, but good from Guard.

Cope

Nice bait

Way too early to say that. Being best in NA doesn't automatically mean you are best in the world. Team Liquid, Acend, Guild exists.

The ban (or whatever) isn't meant towards Russian players. It is meant towards Russian organizations and NaVi is Ukrainian org.

Darers or something like that. Came to mind from Who Dares Wins SAS motto.

Yeah emote only mode sucks so much ass. Like how can't they moderate 30k stream lol. LEC has 130k and they have no problem.

are G333 good?

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With Valorant and maybe CSGO that is true. I was talking about other games.

Because over(dot)gg has never been popular. VLR only exists, because HLTV does and is still way less popular in comparison. I'm pretty sure other games don't have such sites anyway. People mainly use Reddit.

Yes, but CIS was weaker back then. Even during the time when Derke was already on Fnatic Gambit wasn't seen as crazy officials team either.

SMB did well before they hit LAN and did nothing. I think its pretty clear that TR is easily the weakest of EMEA. CIS was weak, but they have really improved as region. While TR has been on downward trend for some time. They just recycle same players and can't find success. Old SMB was arguably the best roster TR could make minus cNed.

Representation is good, but its clear that SA teams can't compete in APAC level and TR teams can't compete in EMEA level. Or at least not well enough to give free spots. TR getting 2 slots for EMEA Challengers while one of them hasn't won single map yet just feels weird. I personally think its good that there's Turkish representation, but I understand frustration and jokes.

Yeah that is true. But tbh Gambit wasn't as good back then.

Who ever does scouting for Fnatic is genius. Scouting relatively unknown Derke, Magnum and Braveaf is pretty fcking good.

I legit think some VLR teams (outside of TR) would do better than SMB and maybe even BBL.

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Its not my favorite look wise, but its the best feeling Phantom skin. For some reason the bulky look + attachments make it feel more accurate and comfortable to shoot.

cool strat from Fnatic

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Brave vs Brave as fuck

of course was this ever an question?

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Fnatic vs SMB = sleeper
BBL vs G2 = sleeper, even though I want to see G2 improve
Liquid vs FPX = banger
Fnatic vs Acend = banger
G2 vs Guild = could be banger since G2 looked pretty good against Acend at least improved.
Liquid vs Big = sleeper
Guild vs SMB = sleeper
BIG vs Navi = sleeper, but I want to see NaVi play more
LDN UTD vs FPX = most likely FPX win, but LDN is super underrated team and they are super entertaining to watch. Could be good game.
BBL vs Acend = sleeper

this weekend is going to be so good

and Navi oh nvm

i need some sleep i can't go on like this

Great news! Overwatch is great game just ruined by bad lead.

Idk what this means but Kalevala is full of old Finnish myths like how world was created, after death etc. Idk about current ones.

Guild 2-1
DRX 2-1
C9 2-0

Ancient is pretty fun map to play, but the visuals are terrible and look bad IMO

True. At least CSGO maps are overall better. I play Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, Overpass, Dust 2 and Ancient and as a pack its better than what Valorant has to offer currently. But, obviously 2 different games and CSGO maps wouldn't work in Valorant.

And CSGO maps are superior when it comes to DM.

You can one trick any agent in ranked. Its just better to one trick agent that has much impact (don't just one trick duelists unless you are good mechanically). Kay/O is pretty good for that.

SEN > XSET imo and even if XSET were better they would still be barely top 5 in NA

XSET isn't even top 5 NA though or maybe barely if you don't count The Guard in

Finland:
Derke (Jett, Raze) - possible agents on some maps [?] - maybe on some maps if desperate)
Jamppi (Chamber, Jett, Killjoy, Breach, Astra[?], Sova)
Bonecold (Omen, Brimstone, Sova, Astra[?], Kay/O[?])
Hoody (Kay/O, Breach, Skye, Sage, Reyna, Viper[?])
Kaspe (Astra, Cypher, Killjoy, Sage)

Flexible team that could easily make workable comps for each map. Feeqn (Cypher mainly) or H1ber (if he goes back to Sova) could be options if they want different agents. Also both Bonecold and Jamppi (partly) are IGLs for their teams.

This. Some people are still hyping him up like crazy even though last time we saw him in pro play was during when no one had any idea how utility works in this game.

I only watch Nordic and Spanish some times. Nordic seems most stacked. Some of their production is pretty cool like those small segments with players from different teams. I mainly watch Spanish for KOI. Spanish production is good and casters are cool even though I don't understand them. Also Spanish good viewership.

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I mean Spanish casting in Valorant is good, but I don't understand it so I don't know how much it differs from English when it comes to words (support words or whatever), speed etc. Spanish is pretty fast language. Same happens in sports as well between English and Spanish.

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Na: C9, V1
Br: ???
Br/Latam: Loud
Latam: Kru
Emea if russia situation is fixed: Gambit, Acend, Team Liquid (i think both ACE and TL will perform well when it matters)
Emea if russia situation is not fixed: Acend, Team Liquid, Guild
Kr: DRX
Sea: ???
jp: zeta

What I mean is that LoL team fights are fast so you have to turn into beast mode to cast them. In Valorant you don't need this.

Valorant casting isn't as good compared to CSGO and LoL (LEC) IMO. And its not really even about the casters being bad. A lot of their styles are just more "passive". Good example is Pansy/Hypoc duo. They are really good, but their style just isn't the best for me at least. I love casters like Medic on LEC who will just go crazy rap god hype mode in middle of fights etc. while still being entertaining and being good with words, doing banter etc. Obviously LoL is different type of game. Still no hate towards Valorant casters and I appreciate their work.