If SMB played like this during EMEA they wouldn't have made it far. Like wtf is this level of gameplay?

I never run so I don't have data

You need to take the groups into consideration and the amount of games and against who.
Heat vs Envy, ZETA
F0rsaken vs VS (weaker VS)
TenZ vs G2, F4Q
Yay vs VK, KRU
Asuna vs HL, Gambit

post useless shiet and get upvotes

Acend, VK, Gambit

No hate towards PRX, but I think people are really overrating them after their close game against VS. VS were doing pretty default stuff against PRX and still managed to take the win. It was clear that VS had spend most of their time studying Acend and making strats against them instead of focusing on PRX. SMB also struggled a little against Acend, but as long as their players are somewhat awake they should just be able to team diff PRX without much of difficulty in my opinion.

Currently maybe T1 and Team Liquid. FaZe, G2, FPX and Fnatic are good candidates as well.

can't go wrong with nitr0 or zombs

SMB 2-0 PRX (VS didn't care for PRX that's why it was closer than we thought)
VK 2-0 KRU (Close game, but Heat diff)
SEN 2-0 G2 (G2 could take a map, if Sentinels play too similar to their past matchup or if Sentinels doesn't care that much)

I come from future
:
----[nV vs ACE]
----------------------- [ACE vs SEN]
[SEN vs GMB]
------------------------------------------- [ACE vs 100T] ------- [ACE]
---[100T vs VK]
----------------------- [100T vs VS]
-------[VS vs G2]

MVP: Cned

that's true. SEA > LATAM makes sense.

NA > EMEA > KR > BR > LATAM > SEA > JP (maybe swap LATAM and SEA). KR only has VS, so that's why they are below EMEA.

I mean they could have a shot against Envy. Realistically they either want to face against Vivo Keyd/Kru as #1 seed or against Envy as #2 seed.

Koldamenta is the IGL of G2 and used to be the IGL of Acend. Also Soulcas was the main IGL of Team Liquid with Scream, and now he is secondary IGL on Team Liquid. Also Soulcas is still young and I feel like he will just get better and better at IGLing. He is smart player. Soulcas is best candidate for the initiator/IGL role IMO.

Boaster is good because he is IGL and his Sova is decent, but I'm not too sure about his fragging power. He looked good on that field during Iceland, but domestically he hasn't looked that good fragging wise. Now when I look back at it I would most likely take Soulcas over anyone else. He can frag, still has one of the best Skyes and he has even played Sova on maps like Ascent. He would need to play and learn Sova more, but I think he has potential. He also used to IGL for TL and at least to my knowledge he calls quite a lot in TL to even this day.

ScreaM has better aim and he is more carry than Nukkye, but Nukkye's agent pool is better. ScreaM never plays Raze and I feel like its essential for flex player to be able to play that agent. And I feel like learning Phoenix for Nukkye is easier than learning Raze for ScreaM.

Why not? He is one of the best sentinel players EU has. The fact that Fnatic signed him for 3 years tells a lot. Only someone like nAts would top him. pAura is good contender as well, but I see more potential in Magnum.

EU super team:
Entry - Cned
Rifler/flex - Scream/Nukkye (Phoenix or Raze)
Controller - Avova
Sentinel - Magnum
Initiator - Koldamenta/Starxo/Soulcas (depending do you want Sova or Skye specialist, Soulcas best fit IMO)
I would pick Chronicle for initiator role if he speaks good enough English
And even though I think nAts is best sentinel player EMEA, I would still pick Magnum, because I don't know how nAts would work on this team. Also some of the players would need to learn new agents. For example they don't have proper Viper player.

NOT TRUE
COPIUM

G2 win over nV, GMB win over Sentinels and Acend win over 100T
....
GG

Going according to plan

EMEA teams still have decent chance at making it far. This is exactly what happened in Iceland. Both EU teams dropped to lower bracket pretty early while NA were on top bracket, but NA team ended up getting eliminated before EU team did. GMB could win against VS/nV. Acend still has a chance at beating 100T/nV. Copium or not that can happen. And now they have time to go through their mistakes.

Tactical defeat. They want to face Sentinels and now there is a bigger chance of that happening. Also Cned was getting offers from SMB, so Acend decided to eliminate them before that could happen. 200IQ if you ask me.

They are trying to get into VS's head. Or it was just ritual to activate Acend's true potential.

I love PlatChat

This. 200IQ. Why show true potential and strats on seeding games /s

Acend looks so lost idk like if they had no idea how VS likes to play. I hope they didn't only look at VOD of Paper Rex vs VS.

Bind is Acend's best map as well

I think their biggest advantage is their prior experience. EMEA teams for example are full of young players with minimal experience. While NA has bunch of players with tier 1-2 CSGO background.

Yeah like why people like DrDisrespect and Valkyrae have rights to stream when they don't stream a single game. Would be much more useful if they gave them to streamers who actually watch the games, instead of riding on name value. Maybe they will watch finals only?

EMEA just tactically losing. G2 will eat Envy first round of elims, GMB will eat Sentinels, Acend will come to who ever survived. SMB kind of lacking, but they could come for 100T if they wake up. SMB said "no" to this plan... but hopefully they change their minds.

I think it came down to the fact that Gambit always struggles closing games. They were pretty much going 5v4 (Jamppi had like single digit kills as Jett) against Team Liquid on Icebox and they had huge trouble closing it out even though they were clearly in control. They also struggled closing their game against G2. And now they couldn't close it out against 100T. Typical Gambit choking, but hopefully they will fix that.

Seems like in general EMEA teams have weaker mental or overall tend to choke under pressure. I don't know is it due to lack of experience or what, but that has been clear disadvantage so far. Team Liquid, Gambit even Fnatic in a way. While I feel a lot of NA teams so far perform better when it matters.

D3ffo underperforming bad and nAts' impact isn't that high either.

D3ffo actually got LAN buff

I think they lost against XSET, but no stake domestic games are kind of whatever.

1-2 is a W

Don't start this. Maybe if G2 beats Sentinels and Gambit beats 100T, but not now. There's still big chance that Sentinels wins and there's even possibility of 100T winning.

I don't know and why even stay there that long? I guess he didn't hear the drone due to white noise, but that was really bad play from him. Possibly cost them the map. Moment he heard the drone he should have dashed and smoked away.

This is true, but let's not forget that they lost 1-3 against Acend and even that one win was on Ascent that is known as G2's strongest map while Acend has struggled on it. Even the difference between those 2 is huge.

Typical Gambit choking. If you don't follow EMEA: Gambit tends to choke when it matters. They were in control most of the game, but ended up losing stupid rounds.

Dude I'm on that EU copium and even I knew that G2 would get shit on. They weren't even that impressive during EMEA games and barely qualified after beating Vodafone Giants. You can't expect that type of team to win against current best team in the world who even shits on teams like 100 Thieves.

I'm sorry, but EMEA #4 isn't even supposed to win against the best team in the world. Saying G2 has a chance is like saying F4Q has a chance. Even NA #2 gets fucked by Sentinels.

Yeah 100 Thieves vs Gambit is hard one to call. Gambit has habit of struggling under pressure and this game is just that. Strong opponent, winner makes it to playoffs, whole NA vs EU pressure etc. I actually predicted 100 Thieves to win over Gambit. But, I got more confidence after yesterday even though CR was weak opponent. I think it comes down to sides as well. Gambit's defense is S tier, but their attack has always been rather weak.

I could see Sentinels underperforming a little during their first game of the tournament. And while G2 isn't the best they still have pretty good roster with talented players. I feel like they weren't giving their best against F4Q either (maybe copium). Sentinels should still be clear winner here, but even 80% is really good.

G2 20% - 80% SEN
GMB 60% - 40% 100T

No Twitter dark mode is trash IMO.

Dark mode on every site outside of Twitter.

I mean its good publicity for them no matter what. This coming up match is so much more hype, because of G2's Carlos and Social Media team. EMEA vs NA is hype no matter what, but Carlos pretty much single handedly made a rivalry between them and the best/most popular Valorant team so that's W no matter how much they lose today.

I know, but Sentinels are arguable the best Breeze team currently.