FPX went through group stage with a sub and after getting Suygetsu back they went undefeated IIRC and won the whole thing. Why would you discount their victory? Masters 1 2022 didn't have EMEA's first seed and Fnatic were missing 2 of their players one of them being their star. Like I'm pretty sure you can argue that M1 wasn't the most competitive Masters and the final results could have been different with FPX and Fnatic in.

and I'm talking about regional games here. Last year NA teams got so many praises for beating each other week after week, while EMEA teams got shit because we actually had some consistent teams who didn't lose to teams they shouldn't.

Its legit always been the opposite. EMEA team wins = they won because enemy bad. NA team wins = they won because they were good. Even your comment shows this with "first time in EMEA league they’ve actually had some competition". So nice try.

Cloud used to play Sova, Fade, KayO, Skye, Raze etc he would be good fit role wise.

nAts better Cypher IMO

187cm

Yep I thought Fnatic and NaVi being locked, TL likely being locked and last spot was for any of the rest. Predicted Giants, but FUT definitely looked the strongest out of GIA/VIT/FUT.

Burritos. I hate eating those crunchy tacos so messy and breaks easily. Soft tacos are good tho and close to burrito.

because EU has good Cypher players

Just a guess but in Americas there's many pros with Asian background and most Asian countries are short on average and if I'm not wrong South Americans are pretty short on average as well. Even Canada and USA aren't that tall on average compared to many countries in Europe. And for Pacific like I said average height in many parts of Asia is pretty low. Like compare South Korea average height of 170cm to Sweden's 180cm etc.

Yep its good and would imagine being really nice when in actual raid(still haven't played DSC). I personally love the songs that play while you afk in menu with your ship just floating there. Really cozy songs in that game.

"Wait for FUT"

• random Turkish fan 2021

I don't get people who call them disapointing? I've believed in this roster since leak, but pre Lock In everyone was saying how this team will be bad, 0 firepower etc. But now out of nowhere them not making it to top 4 is disapointing like what? And I said this before but they looked really bad vs FUT and BBL in regular season but were pretty close vs all the other teams Fnatic and NaVi included.
and FUT have been playing well and definitely deserve to go to Tokyo

Football - to watch
Ice Hockey - to watch
Floorball - to play
Tennis - to watch
Badminton - to play

Also always like watching Olympics so all of the sports there are kinda enjoyable, never been sport person so that's why watching>playing

best sport to play
you get to play with a stick, on your feet instead of skates and also playing with light ball is better compared to buck IMO. You can do cool stuff with it.

BR LOUD
US SEN/100T

Destiny OSTs overall really good

Lime >

I would likely go for:
Boaster - smokes, IGL
Mistic - flasher agents/flex
Soulcas - initiator
Ardiis - duelist
Lime - sentinel

you could also consider players like Keiko, Luzuh, L1NK, Russ etc

cereal first

Yep but tbf Americas just uses the LCS studio so they shouldn't have many issues while EMEA one is completely new studio.

plus 1

I could be wrong but I feel like NA teams rely way too much on preperation. Cloud9 likely spent most of their time preparing for NRG and when that didn't happen they look pretty bad. We already saw this during last years when NA teams would beat each other left and right because they got 1 week preparation time before every game.

I mean it was either Giants, FUT or Vitality with the top 3(if NaVi qualify should right?). I would have predicted it being Giants but they looked pretty off. I think FUT is the most likely out of the 3 and I kind of hope that they qualify.

what a shit show

gap between Fnatic and any team is huge

My go to, but chat isn't very good IMO but can't really expect more from Valorant chat and definitely upgrade over main or other watchparties.

Finnish - most goated language and it isn't even close.
English - so used to hearing and really neutral language in my mind
Latin - just sounds cool af and mighty
Japanese - meh but sounds kind and smooth
Swedish - couldn't think others because most languages suck ass but Swedish definitely best out of Scandi languages and sounds happy

Worst is Dutch or Vietnamise

bumpa

How is his mid rounding bad? I don't know how vocal every player is but Fnatic's mid rounding has been really good since Lock In.

OWL Season 1 and 2, easily for me. Astralis era was fun even as shit and boring as it felt during that time. Having that one super dominant team win everything and then being defeated felt so satisfying(when ENCE broke their Nuke record etc).

confidence player seems like

Overrated agent and EMEA teams rarely play Pearl. Like only map where Harbor and Viper are proven meta is Pearl. Harbor hasn't been main meta on any other map.

Looks so nice one of my favorites for sure based on what I've seen. Only gun sounds are kinda meh.

If I'm not wrong FUT hasn't been that good on Ascent or at least not on the level of BBL. But overall Turkish teams are good on it. Not really ego pick tho.

Blessings to the controller mains

Giants should just stick to basic comps instead of trying these weird ones that look awkward.

I didn't say it was good, I said it was enjoyable. I would rather watch EMEA Pearl over boring as B Harbor simulator any day of the week.

Unironically like 16%

No way you call EMEA boring. We have arguably most enjoyable Pearls because no Harbor and overall teams avoid that map, NaVi and even some other teams cooking all the time like we have seen so much Yoru from NaVi and even Heretics. Turkish teams going crazy on duels and Liquid and Giants following them with pretty similar style. Kcorp is just fun and sad team to watch especially earlier. And overall I feel like EMEA has always had bunch of aggressive games where rounds end in blink of an eye but people still call the whole region slow and boring.

Wait theres press conference for playoffs?

true

No way they allow Sentinels to make roster changes. It wouldn't make any sense. They are only lacking 6th man and they have at least 2 coaches and one of them could just step in if needed. KCorp doesn't have 6th and is playing with their coach... Same with Heretics. Hopefully these teams are allowed to make changes because seeing them like this sucks, but Riot just sucking Sentinels would be so dumb.

Yeah in VCL but KOI is VCT team and Russians shouldn't be imports when they are literally European(most at least). VCL teams need 3 players from that region and Russia just doesn't belong to single existing one currently. This isn't the case for VCT as long as they come from EMEA.

Leaf
Less
Leo
Laz
Lauress (/Luzuh/L1NK/lurzy/lowel)

momentum stopped after first 4, but those are some decent tier 2 players.

Shao can play smokes no problem

But how does that affect anything? There's multiple Russian players in the league and there's no region limits like in VRL outside of imports ofc.

I really want to see vo0kashu on a good team.

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Because there's many insane Turkish players out there, but they seem to be lacking good IGLs and coaching so full Turkish teams aren't doing too well in high tier 1. But when you put some of these guys to teams with good IGL and coach they can shine. Also even currently Turkey is the most competitive EMEA VRL league and even FUT won last Ascensions.

True. Also doesnt help you always have those franchised orgs who completely threw with their roster building. Also we even have stuff like region locks that affect EMEA tier 2 even more (French VRL teams have to have 3 French players etc). Its system that might pay out later on but currently it feels so shit at times.