DRX throwing so many rounds so bad

Korea bad non competitive region and they beat FPX playing new comp with sub

DRX can't play anything else than Fracture. RB so bad and inconsistent when he isn't playing Neon.

EMEA vs EMEA is best by far

So you are admitting that NA is bad region?

Not overrated, just lost too hard opponent. PRX just has everything to win games against anyone. Insane firepower with unique super aggressive gameplay that will be so different for anyone who isn't scrimming against PRX regularly.

Guild would roll XSET

True... they are just not used to this type of gameplay.

People overreacting. Even OpTic would have a lot of troubles going against team like PRX who play completely different style than what they're used to.

They were good at adapting, but just feels like Fnatic had it but threw couple rounds.

If only they didn't lose that 4v1 and Derke didn't miss all those shots... and also Fnatic looked so unaware during some rounds. Like not expected mindfreak to push through smoke like yes no one would push in EMEA, but its fucking PRX you have to be more aware. They caught these EMEA teams off guard so many times.

Enzo has had pretty bad game. Feel like he might not be good LAN player. Online his aim is so crisp, but LAN he is so shaky.

such bad round from Fnatic... first Boaster doesn't react where the shots are coming from. Then Mistic peaks for some reason even though he could have just played time and then Enzo doing something and not expecting

There's no way they let them on stage if rest of the team has caught covid no? Haven't they been practicing in same rooms -f0rsaken?

FPX 100%

doombros >

Poetic.

The moment Guild got eliminated, XSET's fate was sealed.

Yeah that round overall was one clusterfuck. Maybe XSET didn't realize they had the spike? I'm not sure.

Feels like weak map pool is problem for Leviatan. They got rolled by DRX outside of Ascent. Or they almost made a comeback it wasn't looking good overall.

Not his day clearly

Good representatives.

Usually their Yoru Breeze comp looks good when they played it in EMEA, but playing bad right now. While Guild prep really good.

My copium is that maybe FPX haven't practiced this comp much for some time. They played different comps and only had 1 day to pracc this after week or two.

I don't know what FPX are doing. They played this comp well in EMEA and legit looked good, but here it looks so messy and Guild has good read every round.

Russ was actually having pretty decent map so that is good to see

yeah pretty bad from Guild, but also hard angle tbh

such close map

Derke can play Raze so more flexible

I feel like full FPX has more potential to do damage going forward, so that is why I want them to win. Guild relies too much on good preparation and their firepower is weaker and more inconsistent due to Russ tbh. While FPX being heavy antistrat team they can still perform well with short prep time and has more firepower if everyone is on. They can also play whatever and that can caught teams of guard.

And overall FPX got so fucked for last 2 Masters, so I want to see them do well here.

Depends. I would kind of want to buy it for campaign, because IMO MW2019 campaign was pretty good and overall cool experience. A lot of unique missions that felt like something new and beautiful visuals. But multiplayer was pretty dogshit outside of ground war (like battlefield) mode that I played quite a lot when it came out, but got bored after a while. I guess it depends how the beta feels like if there is one. CODs have been so bad for most part, so I'm not hyped of this at all.

I wonder why these NA teams like The Guard and XSET (unless they play better today) completely fall over when they come to international tournaments. Because it can't be them just having LAN jitters, because it has now happened to 2 teams and it doesn't even look like individual problem as much. Overall the teams just play much worse. Do they just get rolled in scrims so much that they lose confidence or what. Someone said that zekken has apparently said that their EU scrims were going bad, and remember there being something similar with The Guard.

classic

FPX 2-1
LEV 2-0

Yeah its bit confusing tbh I remember struggling with it myself too

No picture because I'm too lazy to do it at 3AM, but did around 1 1/2 month ago and it was 130. But online IQ tests are irrelevant for most part. They don't show true intelligence more just pattern recognition that obviously is tied to intelligence but isn't anywhere near everything.

VLR and kind people don't suit each other, but maybe in the future it will

True, but we saw some of their weaknesses on that map even when they faced OpTic. They historically aren't good Icebox team and even if its better now it still isn't that great.

COPIUM

OpTic only made it close because Guild are bad at closing games and OpTic heroic plays. Also playing Icebox that is historically their worst map. Can't rely on Yay always.

and I guess you can then also say that the KRU that LOUD and Guild played against looked way better than the one OpTic faced.

FPX, Guild > XSET though

If XSET don't get their shit together then that may be the case. They just look quite nervous as well. But I just don't know how deep LEVs map pool is. They dominated on Ascent, but got rolled on Breeze and their Haven started really slow.

Yeah thinking about it you are right. Really common in Valorant and LoL especially.

But I doubt that many are immigrants though. Most of them seem to be American born, but have Asian or Asian heritage American parents.

Could be I don't know because I haven't been there. Actually thinking about it Asian heritage Americans are really common in all NA esports. In LoL you have Doublelift, Dan, Jojo etc. In CSGO there isn't too many but still have people like Osee. Its just seems to be really common and significant amount of American esport players have some sort of Asian heritage.

I actually wonder why there's so many Asian heritage(or whatever the word is) players in NA Valorant? Is it just random or is there some connection to social status or possible cultural difference or something. No hate and I don't know how far their family trees go just curious and interested.

Its not about affording its about being smart. Plus ACs are super bad for environment, so you should be crateful for every household that doesn't have one.

OpTic is playing well, but XSET are looking pretty meh as well. Let's hope they will start looking better in map 2 otherwise this is going to be flattening and could be bad for their mental for rest of this event.

True, because FPX is Chinese org not British.

XSET looks bit shaky their positioning just feels pretty awkward.

Every coach should wear suits looks so badass. Imagine all the cool suit combos you could do with team colors etc or just go full John Wick all black look.