This. He actually looked pretty damn good with OP yesterday. Hopefully he can keep that mode on.

Zeek - he is good and everyone knows that, but I've been doubting him a little so seeing him pop off was nice to see.
Zunba - I'm not even sure was it this guy, but at least he was Asian player who played Astra and seemed top class.
there was other players like heat, f0rsaken, murizz, ethan etc.

or just replace him with Cned or Yay straight away

I think they shouldn't have any problems getting out of groups, but I don't know can they win against ACE, VS, SMB, GMB, SEN or 100T. Like even teams like G2/F4Q could give them challenge if I'm honest.

You realize that NA/EU/KR are all above BR and Envy/G2/F4Q are all favorites over VK.

Envy got so lucky multiple rounds tbh. Random Frenzy 2K, Yay timing 1sec before Sage wall etc.

Oh I didn't know. After their bootcamp nAts posted that he arrived back to (name?) city and that city was in European side.

There's no such thing as EU, TR or CIS in Berlin. Only EMEA, since all of these fight for same spots. Fnatic and TL were playing under EMEA as well. Also all Gambit players are European, so who cares.

Gambit and Acend are the strongest contenders with 100 Thieves, but no matter what Sentinels are the favorites.

I originally predicted both 1. Acend and 2. SMB to make it out of groups, but after seeing SMB struggle yesterday I don't think they will make it out of groups unless they get better out of nowhere. Some of the players clearly had nerves, so there's a chance they will do better against Paper Rex and then VS/Acend.

What are you smoking? Havan Liberty by far the worst team we've seen so far.

What is this? He was literally asked what is the weakness of NA teams and he just answered "they are cocky" that is pretty true if you look players like Dapr. Also anyone who follows Valorant a lot knows that G2 and F4Q are closest to each other in terms of skills and potential. EMEA #4 vs KR #2.

Keloqz is playing so well. He has clearly improved a lot from EMEA games. His aggression is way more controlled this time around.

Cned is the best OP player currently

2.5 KD is crazy. Interesting to see how he will perform with OP. He is known for that, but Izzy was missing so many easy shots even though he is crazy OP player as well.

I mean isn't that kind of how Bind works simplified? You smoke/viper wall, skye flash and run in. On B Raze can just satchel in.

Clearly

true

That is because anyone who watches EMEA knows that Gambit, SMB and Acend were really equal and any of the could have won on the right day. Its not like NA where Sentinels is the most dominant team and easy #1 pick. Also Gambit's playstyle differed a lot from their normal gameplay during seeding games. While especially Acend made a lot of dumb mistakes during those games. Like holding site 4v1 and then just taking 1v1s one by one for no logical reason and ending up losing the round.
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Also we know that Gambit has always struggled in games that matter. They were even close to losing to Liquid. And their roster is young with really low LAN experience. SMB in the other hand suffers from the fact that they are still fresh team and we still don't know how they perform with low ping (most likely shouldn't affect much, but anyway). While core of Acend has stayed together for months and they even won Masters 1 as the underdogs. They can also struggle on LAN, but I'm more confident of them bringing their A game than I'm with Gambit and SMB.

PlatChat is by far the best watchparty IMO, but I will most likely mainly watch Shroud's since he gets most viewers and even though his watchparties are kind of sleeper its still fun to hear his reactions/opinions because he is ex pro and big streamer. Tbh I will most likely have his on main monitor, main stream and platchat on 2nd monitor and then have couple of other watchparties open on tab like last time KEKW. Its cool to see multiple people's reactions and their chat's reaction to cool plays.

If I'm not wrong Sentinels is pretty fresh org, or at least they were pretty unknown until their player Bugha won Fortnite WC. I guess they had like Halo team or something, but that won't get you any major sponsors I feel like. So, that might be a reason why they don't have major sponsors yet or at least ones that they would partner often with (like having logo on jersey).

this

Obviously I would want it to be Acend vs Gambit/G2/SMB. But, for hype and everything Sentinels vs Acend.

Dapr vs nAts
Cned vs Tenz

More like Acend is the Sentinels of EMEA.

I mean SMB was formed in the same month as Reykjavik was played. Like maybe 10 days earlier, so that could be true, but I'm not sure. Why would any international team scrim against such a fresh team when they have bunch of other EMEA teams to scrim against.

Oh I forgot that Sharks was in EU for bootcamp, don't know about Vikings though. But, I'm still pretty sure that he was talking about Berlin BR teams, since they have scrimmed for sure.

Boring list, but IMO
S: Sentinels
A: Acend, Gambit, SMB, 100T, Envy, VS
B: G2, F4Q, VK(?)
C: KRU, HL
D: ZETA, CR, Paper Rex

I for example think that you could make any matchup out of A tier teams and either team could win it on right day. Envy and VS are maybe like A(-), and B teams have potential of challenging A teams. C and D teams won't make it far and I'm sure of that, hard to rank them too.

How so? I think he was talking about HL and VK

I feel like Nivera will take duelist role instead of Jamppi

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Cypher = nAts or Dapr
Skye = starxo

I'm just not sure about the roles. Seems like Jamppi will be moving to controller or sentinels role? This move could be huge though.

They say that because of Steel's Kay-O, but they completely forget that nAts is smart player and his placements are always really good. You even have that Split clip where he kills like 4 guys without using his utility while having godlike placement. They need to watch and analyze a lot of Gambit footage to be able to counter him as well as PlatChat makes it seem like. They play against NA teams all the time, so they know where enemy players like to play.

Gambit. Sheydos and Redgar could 2v5

Really good list. Only changes I would make are Sova = Crashies, but Russ is good choice as well. They play really different. And then I would maybe give best Sage to someone like Starxo, Turko or other EMEA player, since that hero is played a lot in EMEA.

This is really unpopular opinion, but I agree with you. Last time he had like 2 weeks+ to adjust to living in hotel etc before tournament, but this time around he has less time. He never showed up on LAN during his CSGO days and I feel like part of the reason was that he struggled with travel life. I could be wrong though and I mostly likely am.
Even outside of that he has huge pressure of showing up and even slightly weaker performance could be seen as underperformance by majority.

skins look like ass, but has good sound and finisher

tbh that ain't too bad. F4Q plays shit ton of Ascent while Acend has always struggled a little on that map. Even lost to G2 that played super fast just like F4Q. But nice info

Tbh majority of those chatters are literally iron-gold players who think they are better than what they actually are. Its common thing where people see their gameplay as higher level than what it actually is, while seeing others gameplay as lower level. Silvers thinking they stand a chance against diamonds even though they would get wrecked even in the weakest region ladder kekw

What? Guy tried to hit Sheriff flick and missed. Completely normal. EU seems to be living rent free in your head KEKW

True. But tbh that's all of Dapr's personality. Dapr, Sick and Tenz 3 stacking Diamond ranked and talking shit lmao

I mean no matter what that is going to be really high quality match. Maybe should have been the last game of the day though. Usually first games should not be so high quality. To kind of build the hype up.

I don't know about rest, but they clearly won against TL. The players were instantly like "They are S tier no question they are insane" and based on their reactions/comments I got the impression that Vikings destroyed them. And when you think about it TL and SEN went 1-1 in scrims and they weren't as hype about them. Obviously SEN isn't known to be scrim gods, but anyway.

I don't think that is the case. If you watch Team Liquid's team rating video from Iceland it seems like Vikings destroyed Liquid in scrims. And when you think about it TL was the "favorites" to win the whole thing. Winning (possibly destroying) the 1# EU team before officials should bring them more confidence no matter how much they struggle against some other teams. But, you could be right.

They are literally using Riot's own accounts. So it doesn't matter. Unless all SEN players made new EUW accounts, but I doubt that. I'm pretty sure Riot knows about this and Avova account most likely wasn't active.

No disrespect, but isn't bowl cut really really popular in Korea? For example in Overwatch literally 99% of Koreans have bowl cuts, so this new style looks unique from Korean.

Russia, Turkey and UK would be real competitors. France and Sweden could do decent as well. I believe in my country as well even though they wouldn't be the favorites.

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