They pretty much destroyed Acend in Haven as well, but ended up losing to Gambit in the playoffs. Single games against weaker teams (FS is decent, but Acend is even better) don't tell everything.

But wasn't there rumor or something that groups are played in this stage and playoffs in other?

Pretty much. Also seems like those light strips are horizontal instead of vertical or some shiet. Didn't see much of it.

Its pretty much same stage with maybe different light strips.

Sentinels got intro and outro, while teams like Envy only got like 3 seconds even though they made it to finals last Masters lol

VS 2-0 FS
CR 2-1 VKS
C9 2-0 FNC

Fnatic isn't even top 5 team in EU. Unless they pull crazy shit they will get 2-0'd by C9.

Because he has a lot of delusional fanboys. He is most likely the most famous Valorant player and there's still bunch of people who thinks he is undisputed number 1 player. Popular among people who have no idea what they're talking about. In a way he is "player for normies". And BatChest in this context reflects those people and usually "I hecking love...." is used with that emote.

IM SO HAPPY HE IS IN CHAMIONS

Let's hope this is true

Hopefully, but it says Day 1 and they only have PlatChat and Ludwig from YouTube and there is chance they could give Day 2-? to someone like Valkyrae. Even though that would be mistake. At least YouTube seems to be more safer, since there isn't as much competition.

but this is only day 1... there is a chance that we won't see them during other days.

Didn't 100T Asuna and Hiko say that KRU was good team before Berlin Masters 3? Would kind of make sense if they truly think they are good, but at the same time doesn't make any sense.

Bonkar is going to win Champions and MVP

could be

Either they are just slow, have problems or have something "big" planned. Like maybe getting someone even bigger streamer to co-stream it or do some watchparty event thing with big streamers? Crazy idea, but maybe they want it to be hype and wait until last second? What is your bet?

oh yeah that can happen

Sad that we won't see TL vs SEN on LAN. They can't even face in playoffs if both make it out.

No

VS ("closer" than expected, kind of like VS vs PRX in Berlin, 2-0)
CR (close game, 2-1)
C9B (one map goes to OT, 2-0)

I don't think it matters. Liquid is really high energy team and obviously they would have that LAN brother buff, but I think they should still be fine. It could also motivate them since Nivera could get to play on LAN as long as they make it out of groups. And its hard to say how Nivera would play on LAN anyway. Is he shaky or possibly even better. Obviously this can be bad thing if they go to playoffs with Nivera playing on LAN for first time.

This will most likely happen. EMEA teams always choke. I'm pretty sure all EMEA teams outside of Gambit will lose their first matches and place 2nd in their group (outside of Fnatic). Same pattern from Iceland and Berlin. But, I still think both Acend and TL will make it out and activate in their elimination games.

yeah its pretty weird that we don't know any of the NA co-streams. There's been like one from EMEA that tells that there's different single streamer for each day, Korea announced theirs and has similar system, but still no idea how NA will work.

No, but now it is

Since when has Team Liquid only been "2 OP setup" team? That is just something they do once in a while, but Liquid is way more than that. Nivera, Jamppi, Scream are all good with operator and rifle.
edit: forgot you were on bait mood today

Viper - USA
Cypher - Morocco
brimstone - USA
breach - Sweden
jett- Korea
yoru - Japan
killjoy - Germany
astra - some African country can't remember name
chamber - France
reyna - Mexico
Skye - Australia
Sage - China
Omen - Finland
RaZe - Brazil

True, but ofc you want to play as many games together as possible.

I completely forgot about that, because Autimatic has been pretty irrelevant player after that. Playing in random NA squads that never achieved much.

Feels bad for Scream. Imagine getting to play together with your brother on LAN in big tournament just for the other to get covid and having to quarantine.

vlr and hltv user

That could happen, but again its like are Guild/Giants/Heretics/G2 scraps really that much better than current Fnatic? Like in my opinion Yacine/Bonkar/Draken aren't, Giants will most likely keep F1tinho/Ambi/Davidp anyway, there really isn't any Heretics players that come to my mind who would be upgrades and maybe they could get someone like Koldamenta from G2 or even keloqz (again I don't think he different much from Derke). All Fnatic players have pretty high ceiling, but are super inconsistent and Fnatic lacks vision in my opinion. And I still think they should at least keep Magnum and Mistic.
Actually would be interesting to see what Koldamenta could do with this team.

Changing Fnatic players is pretty hard though. Like who would you even replace? I think most of their players have potential as individuals and are at least decent at their roles. Like do you want to kick Derke and get someone like keloqz? Again I don't think that that would be huge upgrade. Kick Boaster, but lose IGL and Sova? Like its so hard in my opinion. And maybe I'm still little biased due to their Iceland run, but I don't know...

But how is it with rest of Team Liquid? Like I would imagine that they have spent most of their past days with Nivera, so aren't they in risk of having covid as well? And if they don't have covid then why would they spent more time around Nivera in same pracc room? I would imagine they tried to make setup for Nivera in his own room or somewhere else, while rest of them pracc in same room. Its weird.
or maybe it happened before they went to berlin.

kind of like how sentinels fans use shit tables and portion sizes as excuse lmao

Pretty good. Just question that do you stream or record your games usually? Because there isn't any replay system.

<3

I love these casters

Use sens that is between those maybe. I use 3.5 as well and sometimes I try higher because it feels more comfortable, but always change back. My aim just becomes too inconsistent.

Damn good list! Usually you see so much ignorance on these lists, but this was really nice!

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

ehh.. they were close, but they lost to Gambit on Haven. Against Chronicle Brimstone and Redgar Reyna. And last map wasn't that close.

Acend coach said they won 8 out of 9 scrims and only lost to VK unless he said something today

Mixture of both would be perfect. Valorant = too little, CSGO = too much. I would say I prefer CSGO's system, but obviously events like Masters, Champions, MSI or Worlds are way more hype by their own.

In finals Envy looked a lot like NA Envy though compared to their games against Sentinels and 100T. Maybe they hit their peak during those games. Who knows.

FPX is pretty new with this lineup though and they only played 1 map (NA teams are really good on Haven usually).

C9 out there copying Gambit Haven strats smh

There's been multiple Overwatch (or ex Overwatch) players who switched from games like CSGO or even LoL. Also there's Apex Legends players who played games like CSGO in decent level that switched. Tbh there's quite a lot of people like that. Most "early stars" are like that. They play on tier 4, tier 3 or even tier 2 level on some game and then switch when new game comes out. Not that many tier 1 players though.

tbh he probably said that because Derke is his old teammate.

Actually true. I like some Valorant casters, but their style is really different. CSGO casting is way more hype and intense. As guy said above Spanish Valorant casting was really good even though I didn't understand anything. At least all EU casters are really "passive". No hate, just different style.

I forgot that, but that was kind of it. Nothing huge after it.