Im kinda mad if we end up having 3 Turkish teams in the league.

nah he was Ana goat back in the days, but kinda fell of after OWL

VCT EMEA: Every team outside of BBL and FUT. Most excited of Vitality, Giants and KOI because I rate them as 4th-6th best teams and I think their rosters are really exciting and underrated in my opinion. Especially GIA and VIT have some individuals that are relatively unknown/overlooked now internationally, but will be making big waves in 2023 I believe. Guys like Molsi, Twisten, hoody, Cloud etc. But ofc NaVi, Fnatic and TL are going to be really exciting as well.

VCL EMEA: Polaris, at least for now watching most especially Apeks games. Human Tripwires got interesting with ec1s and Polvi addition. Fokus and bonk are also teams I will follow somewhat. Spain, watching some games here and there especially the top teams, at least checking the scores afterwards. Turkish also checking scores mainly. East, watching Acend games. Overall just watching if nothing better to do, but interest will likely drop after VCT starts.

VCT NA: not any team spefically, but will watch if I have nothing better to do and at least have open on 2nd monitor. Not super excited of any roster, but watching guys like Ardiis will be fun.

VCL NA: Same as with VCT, going to watch some hype matchups, but not super interested.

EMEA Ascension and likely NA Ascension

Hello Europe, VIT fighting!

Good luck! Post here when you post first content

27.1.2023:
Fnatic 6 - 2 [unknown]
Giants 3 - 6 [unknown]
KOI 6 - 4 [unknown] (like week ago 10-8 vs Apeks, started 0-5 down if I'm not wrong, take with grain of salt)
Liquid 5 - 4 Apeks

nah I don't think there's huge gap between emea top 3 and 4 especially if team like KOI is 4th like they should right now I feel like.

pretty vibey album really nice so far

ofc they can beat NRG both rosters are pretty equal -Wolfen for now

Who even follows these people and why?

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead for me because of nostalgia

NaVi likely, but I could also see Liquid taking it.

he competes under the name "TenZ" nowadays

having audio on in DM.... imagine

I understand your point, but I wouldn't say that they have faltered much. They placed 2nd in EMEA LCQ with a new player and placed 4th in EMEA Challengers 2 only behind FPX, Fnatic and Guild who all did well in Copenhagen. While guys like nAts and Sheydos have been some of the highest rated players in these EMEA events.

but yeah every player has to prove themselves on new teams

nAts was M3C's best player(or 2nd after Sheydos) in 2022 as well and one of the best individuals in EMEA overall. Redgar has to prove himself though, because I thought M3C's calling wasn't that great overall.

Genuine question: don't LCS Twitter post post-match result graphics like LEC does? I was trying to find one from their Twitter, but couldn't only some interview clip. Its always nice to see those because you can easily see the result and its fun to read the comments, but that doesn't seem to be the case with LCS?

drop

Then what he is doing on American team and I doubt that his English is that bad.

Good additon, but this guy has been jumping from team to team lately while not finding a spot from any franchising team. I don't know why, but there must be a reason no?

He got replaced by NaVi academy player npl. Sdy was pretty meh for team that wants to win everything and historically NaVi academy has produced some insane players like B1t and M0nesy.

Literally every NA Valorant pro stream: listening to rap while once in a while signing the lyrics and shouting "bro!" "sheesh" "no glizzy" and laughing/shouting at dumb teammates or enemies.

He isn't. He is really flexible and his mechanics are really good when he is on. He is maybe bit inconsistent at times and its not too rare to see him bottomfrag, but people also forget that Soulcas has always sacrificed so much for this team. He plays anything the team needs him to meaning that he can never get super comfy on one role. Its easy to be someone like yay playing Chamber all of the time than jumping from Raze to Astra to KayO to Fade.

He isn't a superstar, but really solid support player that deserves his spot in Liquid. Can't wait to see what he can do under actual IGL (even tho I wasn't high on Redgar in 2022)

Its not crazy. He was like first pro to actually master Skye and was strong candidate for the best Skye 2021. And had really good Skye in 2022 as well.

But isn't it kind of logical considering the clout factor? There's still hundreds if not thousands of people who think TenZ is the best player in the world currently and people who think Shahzam is the best IGL in the world etc.

fucking reyna/jett instalocks who add no value for the team and don't fulfill their role

its not a suggestionl ol

same

DDOS attack aka simplified attack on Riot servers putting them down and causing issues

I can't even open Valorant. I'm pressing the icon with admistration mode and everything and still can't open Valorant and Riot Launcher says error. Apparently Riot is getting DDOSd. I was playing like hour ago, but after closing it and trying to open again I couldn't.

What are this shit and useless modes? Make retake mode, add 1v1, 2v2 mode or fix your shit dm but no lets add useless modes. What is the point of TDM in game like Valorant?

Its surprising that we don't see many German player in tier 1 of any esport tbf. They have like BIG in CSGO and ofc LoL has some players, but overall its pretty weak considering how big and advanced country they are.

Guild had an actual IGL though and Sayf's form was so good during Copenhagen and LCQ that he would have challenged the best Chambers in Champions. And then you ofc have Leo and Trexx.

its not as well made as artisan but it clears any steelseries, logitech etc- for pretty similar price

2010-2013 was goated, maybe my favorite years ever

Favorite agent : Killjoy
Favorite map : Haven
Favorite Player : Jamppi
Hobby : vlr

Lethal Gaming Gear Saturn
I would highly recommend, good brand for quality/price value. Pretty much one of the best quality pads for around 40$.

Balkans

KOI vs NRG. Overall any KOI, Giants or Vitality match. Teams I'm by far most excited of seeing. So much potential, but also so many questions.

just for fun, first come to mind, no language barriers etc:

Jugi - duelist
wo0t/tomaszy - flex/entry (young guys so can learn anything fast)
Mistic - controller
RobbieBk - initiator/IGL (I have no idea is he good IGL, but some people have praised him)
vo0kashu - sentinel

Its pretty much Last of Us 1st game turned into series with cuts from the game obviously. And Last of Us 1 is great game. I really liked 1st episode, but 2nd was bit meh though still pretty good.

Wireless ofc. Once you go wireless its hard to go back.

That is fucking cap. EMEA as a whole has always been stronger than NA. OpTic carried NA 2022 and outside of them only XSET did something and even that was only in Champions. Those 2 were clearly above rest in NA outside of The Guard during Stage 1 who flopped on LAN. EMEA was dominated by FPX and Fnatic this year, but outside of that you had Guild, Liquid, M3C even G2 who were all contending for 3rd spots, while NA was just shitshow of anyone outside of OpTic and XSET beating each other with week preparation time and showing how inconsistent and mid they are.

EMEA has always had clear tiers of teams in VCTs because these teams are actually competitive and actually good and while being so its messing up how you see the regions. EMEA has always been way more predictable, but that doesn't mean they are worse actually its the opposite. You could take any lower tier EMEA VCT team like NaVi, BIG, BBL etc and they would have competed among most of the NA teams.

NA 2022 in nutshell: "NRG won vs 100T omg! LG won over NRG omg! C9 won over LG omg! These teams are so competitive!!" while in reality it just shows how bad and not competitive these teams were and how most of them were just mid tier and couldn't keep winning like good teams actually do. While in EMEA you would never bet BIG over Guild or NaVi over M3C because teams like Guild and M3C were actually good on consistent level and were only competiting against best of EMEA. In NA these teams would have been strong contenders for 3rd if not even 2nd spot.

Some Asian language likely like Chinese, Korean or Japanese

Depends a lot on Wolfen I think. Rest of KOI is pretty close to NRG on individual level, but Wolfen is unknown factor considering that we don't even know for sure what role he will be playing(unless there's new info).

possible he is also so young wtf

He has been popping. Nice to see relatively unknown players like him with clear potential pop off in different leagues

Omen/Astra, Killjoy, Raze, Kay/O, Breach

true fluke tournament already

luzuh kinda good huh