Neither of them will make it likely. If EMEA wins Tokyo its going to be NaVi and Giants who make it. Vitality would have been good candidate but I doubt they will perform well with a new player after what happened. NaVi just has to get more comfortable with normal comps and they would become good again. Giants had some stinker games and looked pretty bad in playoffs, but have potential.

Yup he keeps doing same stuff and getting shit on. Also that round on C defense where EG Astra ults C. Redgar from platform just Omen flashes in and solo peaks through Astra wall and dies. And then Jamppi just Breach ults from backside and walks in gets 1 and dies(unless I missed 3rd TL player). Like maybe peak together or combo utility? Annoying to watch at times. Like they look over confident while also looking shaky at same times its weird.

So you are saying EMEA 2nd just shat on NA 1st yesterday?

Liquid's teamwork looked bad today. So much individual stuff from them while not having the mechanics to bail out. While EG played well from each other.

America's 1st seed is back at Brazil already.

Flair checks out

Not really. NRG won one of the pistols and they won like 3 rounds with lower buy. Gun rounds were not that close at all.

Ethan utility is really nice. You can clearly see he is a experienced ex-tier 1 CSGO player.

He is high confidence based type of player. If he starts well he will likely perform well rest of the match, but if he gets shit on early then he will continue playing poorly. You can easily see this and even Sliggy said that he needs confidence.

He played bad, but Liquid's strats and teamwork looked really bad as well. So much individual playmaking and they looked pretty lost with this comp.

terribly played by Liquid like what the fuck was that

soulcas has been so bad so far

Kinda but tbf Derke doesn't really have to do any heavy lifting because of his team. While Sayf had to carry Liquid at start of season and is still big part of their firepower. Derke just goes in and entries and can sit rest of the round.

such a dumb take

Would put EG 2nd, TL 3rd for now

we will be getting the real el classico in the finals Fnatic vs Liquid

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Yes but it will be slightly nerfed after bullet update

playoff 2 team clears

Didn't Alfajer just destroy NRG? I guess they should be moved to EMEA next year.

LOUD will get diffed by KangKang

Alfajer was best rated VCT EMEA player for a reason

easy

Fnatic were throwing some rounds and losing vs low buys

I don't even want to know what they are shouting at each other

I don't know but in last 5 games I've had like 2-3 Russians every game on my team only speaking Russian and its annoying af. Seen many enemies with cyrillic names as well. How to escape these guys?

EG I would say

Less better for now, but IMO Alfajer has looked like the 2nd best.

Sayf is really well rounded duelist. Flexible(in the past used to play anything), from duelists can play good Jett, Raze and Neon. Good rifling and good oping. Good entry while also being really smart and plays well with angles etc. And even outside of skill he seems like vocal player and hypes team up. Actually really close to players like Derke when you look at it, good skill but also vocal.

EDG type of teams are the scariest ones. Antyhing could happen.

EDG is scary team to watch they just do things you never expect with insane firepower

Yup

Ascension will be so hype this year can't wait

Same problem. Liquid are good but I can never trust them. Team outside of Jamppi and Soulcas is complete different to last years, but seeing what happened in Lock In doesn't give me much hope(they've imporved massively but you know). There's something about this team and org actually that can never be trusted lol

Every event should be hosted in Japan

True, whoever built KCorp and Heretics should get fired. KCorp random French 5 stack with Scream IGL while Heretics thinks its 2021. BBL mostly keeps their old roster instead of signing good Turkish talent. Rest of the rosters are understandable but have weaknesses. KOI took big risk with Wolfen and signed Starxo.

EMEA has been EMEA since 2021 and even then is solo carried by Europe(+Turkey if you dont count them in). Americas or Pacific (leagues) weren't a thing until this year. Also NaVi isn't CIS team.

I was originally talking about subregions but typed regions so I had to correct it. I just think its fair and gives better context. Having LOUD in there really bumps up NA.

They just need to join European teams. Every EU team could easily have cracked Turk on their roster. The amount of crazy individuals Turkey has is insane.

Yep but there isn't single 3 team (sub)region so its fine

True usually showing good mental and seems like nice guys.

EMEA 1st(2nd) clears NA 1st so its fine

Yes very upset that EMEA 3rd and 4th couldn't win series vs NA 1st and 2nd, KR 1st and CN 1st.

That is what happens when you are merged with Africa instead of Brazil and LATAM

Yeah he is bit of KayO one trick. Used to flex more in tier 2, but haven't much this year.

Good for rest of the regions. Imagine if both of them made it to playoffs.

They won some rounds they shouldnt have

I'm not the biggest fan of that signing even though it would be interesting, but you are true that his mental seems really good. Went from really known Fortinite pro to joining small VRL East tier 2 team to start competing in Valorant and I watched his stream he seems like positive guy. Seems like he is constantly thinking of the game and trying new stuff while also having really good comms. Watching like Suygetsu play comp he is just silent all the time but Benjyfishy is comming about small details. Nice to see and hope he does well.

FUT finally getting their confidence back and look more like themselves. Agree that DRX are playing bad tho.

Delusional