I got home from movie theater at 8PM and hoping that I could still catch KC vs BBL at least, but didn't imagine I would be still sitting here at almost 3AM watching KC and BBL battle it out lol

KOI only had a month, but Giants had longer than that. Obviously they only had coach + 2 players compared to NRG coach + 3 players(with IGL)

there's too many, but Jamppi is my favorite because been following him since CSGO and he seems like really nice and down to earth type of guy

Weird list, but maybe I'm crazy but I actually kind of think that KCorp would have close game if they faced Leviatan. I think their style is just so different that it would catch Leviatan off guard and IMO Leviatan play more for their own strenghts rather than trying to adapt/mid round too much and that style could be bad vs KCorp. KCorp had relatively close game vs LOUD even and I think it was partly because of this.

Not sure about that yet, but its definitely nice to see some life in them. Didn't looks as terrible as they did in Lock In.

Timothée Chalamet & Zlatan Ibrahimović duo kinda good

Hard to say in my opinion. Vitality didn't look very good and seemed bit lost and were losing most duels.

Vitality fans

FUT would have 2-0d if it wasn't for that round they lost vs force/half buy. And 100T didn't look very good either.

I don't get whoever is building these Heretics rosters. Their LEC roster makes 0 sense, pretty much just signging old guys like Jankos(he is still good) and Evi with no clear vision and in Valorant they mainly signed players who were good in 2021. Both rosters should have kept experienced guy like Jankos and Mixwell and add young promising players for rest of the spots. Feels like both teams are built by someone who slept last 2 years.

i mean the funny thing is that Mixwell arguably had the best 2022 out of Heretics players

this is what you get when you sign players who had weak 2022

Heretics 2-1

Have to agree, but I'm interested to see if Heretics can improve and apparently Zeek is IGLing so its going to be interesting.

Nah his Raze is really good as well. He was like FPX's best performing player in Champions. He is quite a lot like Victor IMO where he does his job and doesn't have to frag out hard.

dude I'm big Cloud believer and think he is the most underrated player in EMEA, but saying he is better than Crashies for example isn't just valid for now. He is up there, but as I said that is like saying Trent is 2nd best Sova. I would actually take Cloud over Trent, but point stands. He just doesn't have the same track record obviously he played in weaker teams.

Cloud isn't 2nd best Sova(maybe in EMEA actually), but he is still really unknown by many and is really insane. He is like EMEA Trent. Insane Sova, can play anything and always does well.

I actually really like the blue jersey. Overall blue jerseys are kinda sick and reminds me of Mad Lions Worlds 2021 jersey that I really like.

hahah

can't really blame him when knowing whats happening in his home country

yeah it isn't great. So light so hard to see anything I feel like

EMEA baby at least teams try stuff

Pacific stage looks really basic I feel like, like really similar to those group stage ones from last year. At least EMEA stage is bit different and unique even if I'm not biggest fan of Valorant stages.

He was also a beast on both Guild rosters and both of those rosters were top teams in EMEA

Pretty much same but Acend for East. I think they will experience diff in high stake games like finals where they actually have to do proper preperations. Feels like they are at times trolling their regular season games, but could be wrong. And Turkey is just hard because they have multiple teams that could take it, but FF looks really promising on paper. Many regions have at least like 2 teams that could take it especially the ones outside of East and Polaris IMO.

RRQ or DFM don't really see any other team going 0-9.

IMO even if KOI or Giants won it wouldn't be a upset or at least not a big one. Both Giants and KOI still have good rosters and especially KOI had really low amount of time to practice before Lock In. But I do think that Fnatic and NAVI will take it today. Fnatic having a sub could affect them, but rest of their roster is just so good.

Reminds to be seen. Its likely just differences in styles and something that will get better as time goes by. Sayf worked just fine with Koldamenta and he even had some great ideas in RedBull Homegrounds while leading. Maybe he is just used to doing calling as well while maybe Redger has always been the strong main voice on Gambit/M3C.

Also I'm pretty sure at the start of this roster some of them said how they all share the same vision and want to be straight honest with each other rather than staying quiet if someone sees something they don't like.

yeah but its nice to see because they looked so down and nice to see Rekkles win some games and Oscarin got so much shit from his early performance

Finland:
Derke
BONECOLD
Jamppi
hoody
+5th H1ber, Famsii, Polvi, Iluri etc depending on how flexible they can be

For what I remember he looked good in tier 2 but his role doesn't really match up to Alfajer's. I still think he will do fine and is supported by amazing team.

France vs Norway...

2-1 for NaVi and Fnatic

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 still my favorites because of nostalgia

Cloud > Trent

DRX, GenG, Talon, PRX and not sure about 5th yet. I don't think T1 looked convincing, but they might be 5th.

DFM coach

Actually kind of funny video and well made ofc

Valorant and techpauses

I feel like most of the clips were people either whiffing or getting caught off guard

HELLO KOREA, GE FIGHTING!

nAts maybe

I played it for like 30 min and refunded because playing with controller felt so awkward atfer almost exclusive playing PC for 4 years. But got used to controller with Jedi Fallen Order so was planning on picking Elden Ring up at some point. Never played other From Software than Bloodborne, but that game was really good.

Usually just 1 or 2 DM. But overall I don't play ranked unless I feel good and relaxed. I never know what game I will be playing that day just go with the feeling. So I usually want to eat, take shower in morning like all basic things that I would do even outside of gaming. I might quickly check some of my saved lineups just before game starts.

https://twitter.com/valesports_emea/status/1639348780515352578 (English broadcast)

Pansy, Hypoc, Tombizz, Mitchman, Zescht, Milosh, Yinsu, Kaquka, RyanCentral, Dezachu, ExWarrior, Lothar, Ender

bad take

Bonecold lol

True, but hes flexible and if I'm not wrong practiced with Fnatic for a while because they weren't sure of Alfajer's situation (if Mini was talking about Alfajer can't remember)

Yep sad, but I'm also excited of seeing kamyk play

I actually thing the complete opposite. IMO CSGO clips are more impressive than Valorant clips.