flair = fan or I mean yeah I am fan but not like that

The Guard looked pretty bad during the finals though.

Sadly Enzo has been really disappointing in every LAN tournament so far. He looked good during stage 2 of EMEA but never delivers on LAN (outside of couple clutches). He just looks shaky and kind of clueless often. Its not time for replacement yet, but he needs to step up.

Grats! First win against EMEA team in 350 days!

yeah they are getting fucked by smgs every time

light armor....

Yeah, but I think they have time to improve and I liked this comp change a lot.

he has been performing so well so far

will is lanimal

Risky map pick from Fnatic that ended up costing them first map

You can believe that you have good idea of it but it can still suck when playing officials. Why do you think teams come up with crazy comps and strats that end up sucking in officials? International tournaments are where metas get defined.

Its still new map with really limited amount of international games. Teams are still figuring out how to play it and it will evolve much during Champions and after. 100T just had better idea and that's it.

I mean its no brainer considering that 100T came out of LCQ so little time to prepare. But my point is that even with more prepare time you may still have worse idea of the map.

first Pearl official for both of the teams. Fnatic had more time to prepare and scrim but that doesn't mean they are automatically better when it comes to prep and strats etc

looks fun so far

they want to give 100T a chance

more like Furia mental weak

only because Furia mental fucked under pressure

thnaks

Best coach and alfa

Whoever wins TL vs EDG will get out of groups because of 2nd place curse. Unlucky for PRX maybe should have threw against OpTic or won over FPX.

What does VLR mean in Valorant?
Frags. VLR = Valve Lost to Riot.

Shao clears crashies

True, but people are still for some reason overrating OpTic or underrating other teams. They looed completely beatable during Copenhagen getting shit on on some maps by teams like PRX, FPX, DRX. They are not on their prime anymore.

I assumed he meant that if these Champ teams were playing CSGO instead of Valorant because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Why not type "who will win next CSGO major" if that was the case. Nothing to do with Champs or Valorant.

I'm not Liquid fan. I'm EMEA fan and support every EMEA team as much (outside of Turkey). And how is my take wrong? Team Liquid as whole has arguably most experience in CSGO and talent.

If same players played CSGO then maybe Team Liquid?
Jamppi and Nivera were both young prodigies. Scream has long history even tho he was bit washed towards the end. Dimasick also used to play. And soulcas has played CSGO before but don't know about his career outside of that he likely wasn't great.

Do you mean if same teams and players played CSGO instead of Valorant?

Optic Pause

match isn't over yet so stop these posts plus OpTic already looked pretty beatable in Copenhagen so team like BOOM winning map isn't unexpected

with core of Cloud and 7ssk7 they can come up with something nice

Does Twisten speak Russian? I doubt it.

Yeah Zeddy's stats may not show that, but IMO he was pretty good. Really hoping he will find a spot in other team because he has potential.

They got it 4 days ago and if none of them have any symptoms then it shouldn't matter.

They will have like 3 days before game vs EDG so they have time to fix mistakes. Its going to be hard especially because EDG plays really unorthodox style, but it isn't impossible.

The problem is that there isn't many IGLs out there and even less as free agents. IGL situation is always problematic in pretty much any game that requires them. So little amount of players actually become IGLs and only little amount of who become does well at it. Like think about EMEA right now: what IGLs can you name outside of Boaster, Koldamenta, Redgar, ANGE1 and BONECOLD who all are in good teams or orgs already (Koldamenta and Redgar likely changing teams for franchising, but before)? Yes there are some others, but many aren't proven.

If Liquid's form is this then 2-1 or 2-0 for EDG. But tbh I don't know because EDG's map pool is bit unknown for me. I think they might have benefited for playing against familiar team against PRX today. But Liquid can still bounce back and perform better so it comes a lot down to form that day. Like I would say I'm more impressed by Leviatan than EDG.

Yeah Leviatan played really well while Liquid played pretty bad. Unlucky just have to hope they will pick it up for next game.

Soulcas isn't bad player though. He performed well in EMEA. Able to flex to any role while putting up a lot of impact. I didn't really check his performance during this game tho.

Liquid losing every round against stingers

Doesn't sound bad, but Nivera is main sentinel player. If Cypher/Viper/Killjoy become more meta then Leo/Sheydos wouldn't work plus Soulcas' Fade is good for current meta.

What? TL attended Masters 1 because FPX couldn't and TL won fair and square against M3C. Yeah it was Scream and Jamppi diff while M3C ran purp0 on Breeze but still. Deserved spot. Its just team that gets carried a lot by individuals but lack on strategic side.

There's good options for TL and G2

??? Guild did really well and got eliminated by the finalists

Unfortunately so far

Yeah Nivera hasn't been that great for some time. He has his moments, but overall he has been pretty mid. Obviously he is role player and has shown high peaks, but yeah he hasn't been amazing.

Way too many solo plays and dying first early.

What is he doing most of the time? Just pushing alone without any support.

good first showing from them

Juan Pi and Juan Tap against the World