I wouldn't call TH top 5 EMEA yet. NaVi, TL, Fnatic, KOI, GIA, even VIT are all in contention for top 5 in my head, but ofc their potential is high if the players are having good form.

Mixwell good when he doesn't have to be the star. I think he will do fine as support player. Brings a lot of experience.

True lol I just woke up when this game was about to start, but managed to get up, take a good shower, eat something, make my bed and still made it in time

I think this duo and esp Pavlos has a lot of potential. Really like Pavlovs voice and he is pretty hype.

bump

G2 -Petra +bob

Nothing, sometimes really rarely bread

im from canada and my favourite team is C9

Vitality for victory

Lethal Gaming Gear Saturn
and Xtrfy GP4 if you like some decent designs (graffiti style)

I have always played with short sleeve but had to switch to long sleeves lately due to it being cold and my arms being cold. Overall its better because my hands get warmer and I can instantly notice better performance because of that. Overall I like short sleeves more because sometimes my sleeve hits the edge of desk/or and mousepad so it can cause some issues. So overall prefer to play with short sleeve, but long sleeve adds warmth but can cause small problems. Also I really dislike wearing any other shirt than t-shirt while home.

close range phantom more satisfying but vandal takes the win long range

apex clears

yeah I thought it was just some team bonding thing but no they are there for a tourney.... legit no info or marketing anywhere

All Quiet on the Western Front

Heretics ofc

Yeah its pretty bad like I had no idea this was happening. Only saw Heretics players flying to India, nothing more. Overall all these off season tournaments seem to be really lacking with info.

Klaudia

Chinese and Philipinne imports > American import
sad really

Yeah if these teams keep performing like this its easy G2 vs C9 final.

true G2 looked a lot of better than these 2 teams

I like Mary as name. It comes from her real name and is short and sounds good.

what is the name of the event do you know?

Name? I saw Heretics flying to India but not sure which tournament or are they just on vacation there

Happy birthday! My bday is so close to big celebration day that usually I'm just chilling doing normal stuff and going to store to buy stuff for the next day. With family we usually eat cake at morning and then continue day normally because as I said its busy. Overall trying to have chill day and eat chocolate and drink beer or something.

don't know exactly what type of ice cream we talking, but from the "packet ice creams" (if u know, sold in packets) that are sold in every day store I used to love Banana Chocolate and Mint Chocolate flavors from this one brand. Overall chocolate flavors let it be chips or whole chocolate are always good and my go to. Cookie ones are usually good as well but sometimes slightly too sweet.

Meh. ScreaM as individual is insane and going to add a lot alone. I wasn't impressed of Nivera for most of this year. He just felt really inconsistent and his awareness and decision making was really lacking in some games. Maybe if he got back to oping role he could do better. XMS was really good on Chamber, but is going to change to smokes so I'm not sure. I think he will be decent at least. And I haven't seen much of Shin or Newzera but for the little I have seen they weren't eye catching by any means. Average tier 2 players.

Its actually crazy that there's 13 year old difference between Juliano/Petra and Mary

Yeah their players were really crispy and especially their Pearl was really nice. Will see can they continue performing so well on that map considering that the comp may get figured out.

Maybe couple in Ascensions, but tbh I think its too early to tell. bob dominated NA GC and has been playing really good here as well, but to what I remember she was pretty mediocre on Soniqs. They were Ascension level team for sure so don't get me wrong, but we will see if any end up in Ascensions.

Yeah I think individually x10 look better and less shaky but again its really hard to say because both games were so dominant.

Hard to tell because so far both games have looked so one sided. Like KRU gave the site free for C9 with no duelist comp so many rounds on Ascent.

50K on main stream is pretty good tho? Better than what I expected. Also first games and no finals yet either (not sure how the format works).

Linears aka Reds if talking about basic 3. Ofc there's better ones and would really want to try Yellows.

True. In my opinion, no hate, the "talent" or whatever you call casters, hosts etc is really really mid in Valorant. IMO there isn't single top top talent in any category. Like even esport like Overwatch has better caster talent (esp Uber&MrX) they have better host/desk talent IMO. Pretty much all other major esport titles clear Valorant when it comes to talent. Valorant has some good pieces, don't get me wrong but just look at like CSGO they arguably have 4 or 5 caster duos that are better or min equal to Valorant's best. And then you have duos like Machine and Spunj that are so much better than top of Valorant.

KRU just lets them into sites with no defense

They should also take notes from Blast or even ESL and do cool content during breaks. Current Valorant system is so boring.

Good change tbh, but C ability is just kind of shitty to use because you can't rotate the wall IMO. You have to be in perfect position to use it effectively and if you don't you can accidentally bait yourself or teammates with it. But having 2 charges allows you to make quick plays with it like at start of round etc while still having 1 extra for actual site exec or something.

Underrated. I have a lot of faith in this team. I think they could do really well. They just have really low clout so some people put no respect on the players. Tbh I was also big believer of OGLU and I believe that they could have been really good with extra firepower. I really liked their style and then Salah & Strong came in and added a lot of depth. Having 2 players and 2 coaches from OGLU gives me a lot of hope. I'm also Twisten and ceNder believer and I think guy like ceNder will do fine in tier 1 and he is ready. Molsi & Twisten duo could really surprise a lot of people who don't follow EMEA closely. They could be shit as well, but I think they have potential and its going to be interesting team to follow.

At least he signed with Liquid. They seem to be good org that actually cares about their players.

Yeah most likely. Sheydos and starxo have been playing a lot together.

No starxo for KOI?

no, OWL only did because they thought they would become mainstream

good expected from gorillaz

True, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Champions was the biggest Valorant event yet and 2nd Valorant official event ever with actual crowd (Copenhagen was pretty small crowd wise, so in a way it was supposed to be the first proper one). They even flew bunch of content creators there. While crowded events aren't new in CSGO and finals was played by 2 not that popular teams. So it is good for Valorant but there are factors that might have increased the viewership for Champions 2022 while there was factors that decreased the viewership for Rio Major.

love both games and the esport scene

Not really. Valorant masters are pretty comparable to CSGO Majors considering that there was only 2 of them + Champions in a year while CSGO has 2 Majors in a year. Champions is more special with skin release etc, but Valorant Master isn't like ESL Pro League or something. Way closer to Major than to 3rd party tournament. At least in my opinion. Like no one talks about "ESL Pro League Champions", but you hear people talking about Masters Champions and even MSI Champions in LoL that also has 2 aka "minor"(MSI) and "major"(Worlds) system.

Let's be real:
Stockholm 21 - NaVi vs G2
Antwerp 22 - NaVi vs FaZe
Rio 22 - Heroic vs Outsiders

Its almost like going from top EU vs top NA finals to XSET vs Xerxia finals in Valorant. Also this Major has been fairly boring if I'm honest. Many top teams and big names got eliminated before expected and there hasn't been many memorably moments so far. Also the crowd has been pretty meh outside of Furia games so its almost like watching online match lol. Really underwhelming major so far outside of Furia games ofc.

Crowd looks decently packed but sadly it sounds really quiet. At least on stream.

We went from NaVi (s1mple, Electronic, B1T, Boombl4, Perfecto) vs FaZe Clan (Karrigan, Twistzz, ropz, rain, broky) major final to Heroic vs Outsiders lol unlucky really but it is what it is

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