brazil oh no no

What is this downtime between games what the fuck? Feels like DRX game ended ages ago. I understand production needs time and teams may not be ready, but holy this break feels long. At least have some funny skits between and not desk talk.

No one knows. Depends a lot on the form of Zyppan and Ardiis I would say. Zyppan can be bit inconsistent at times and usually they have Suygetsu to fill that.

Both good, but I have to admit that TMV has more info about all of the teams and statistics.

Not completely. Fade is just good on Ascent.

PlatChat - overall
Sliggy - analysis (also focuses on positives and isn't biased)
Tarik - clout aka most active chat

Sounds like Leo

We will have technical timeouts worth of 29.6 minutes during the first day. That is my prediction.

Every region has their own crazy players. Its just that these already play in high ranks while players from other regions start bit slower and have to climb up.

DRX wins
LOUD wins
Guild wins

Pretty cool, but bit underwhelming style compared to old ones IMO. I wish they made one more chill and artistic one like this and then hype one that is closer to the style of Masters 2 Reykjavik and Masters 3 Berlin last year.

forsen

That's cool. Have fun time and enjoy and hopefully we will see Fnatic in semis and finals!

Good to hear! Just question why did you go to Copenhagen like 11 days before crowd games? Just wanting to see the city? Its cool place tho if you have money*

37% for Guild. First game of the tournament. Also people are sleeping on Guild. The cap isn't that massive. Its almost like saying team like XSET would have no chances against OpTic in BO3. Because for some reason people have started treating Guild like if they were meh team.

On paper SEIDER seems to be the best individual out of the sub list in my opinion. Wasn't there rumors that he was scrim demon during some of the Masters? I remember some international team praising him. Maybe he can finally get a chance at good team and could show his potential.

SEIDER I'm pretty sure

Depends on team

True, but Ardiis can still save it
In Ardiis we trust, in Ardiis we believe

edit: they should just have EMEA players in every one because they are always the one carrying and bringing some spice.

perfect

Nah FPX isn't as dependent of Suygetsu as Fnatic were of Derke.

True. I remember there was constantly stuff on Twitter, Instagram and Twitch from the players, and VLR and Reddit were tracking every move the players made. Like their winstreaks, K/D etc on EU servers. It was pretty intense, there was constantly content to get hyped about.

But it has gotten weaker and weaker as LANs have gone by and right now its really dry. Also some of the teams arriving 1 week later takes away from that as well.

I guess it was just because first international LAN so more hype and players had to quarantine for like 2 weeks while now they just play almost instantly. But its still pretty sad because it added a lot to the whole viewer experience IMO.

Good for marketing: yes
Good for performance: no, unless he grinds shit ton and manages to fit into the team. Like I could see him doing decent against some teams with fragging because he still has good mechanics and has common game sense from his time in CSGO, but its unlikely. Like he could just smoke X spots and add some supportive fire, but that's kind of it.

but whatever the case is they won't qualify to Champions and won't perform well.

idk

He is/was overrated 100%, but its still going to be really interesting and weird watching Shroud play professional Valorant.

Crazy... I guess he just got bored of being millionaire streamer and wanted some content to his life

What does it have to do with controller though? Xbox is the default controller on PC anyway. Both controller have same buttom layout outside of like touch thing that doesn't even work on PC I would assume.
some video idk didn't watch it fully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JARgdD5jZc&ab_channel=GameTechPlanet

Wait I'm so confused. Is this joke, Shroud joining Sentinels as streamer, Shroud joining Sentinels for LCQ because they know they won't make it anyway>??

You can't use Xbox controller on PS Plus Cloud? Unlucky if true, but I try to look online if I find something.

Sounds good! Planning on getting drunk at home tonight and just listening to music or something.

True. And I think some people are undervaluing how big this is for FPX. Shao is really important considering how much of Fade they play. We should be happy that at least one of the Russians will be able to compete.

He used to. I mean this guy can play any role. But nowadays he plays Astra on Split and has for most part been their initiator player.

Shao isn't even their smoke player tho outside of Split. Also I think you are heavily underrating Shao. He has been beast on this team since the beginning and his utility is top tier. FPX plays a lot of Fade and Shao is arguably the best or 2nd best Fade player in the world right now. Replacing him is harder than replacing Viper/Cypher/Sage player IMO. Don't get me wrong Suygetsu is amazing player with a lot of firepower, but Shao is no joke. Actually kind of crazy how some people seem to have forgotten that after Suygetsu started performing.

NA

SAD FOR SUYGETSU BUT LETS FUCKING GO SHAO ON LAN

Scenarios that could realistically happen to OpTic:

• Optic starts slow like they usually do.
• yay underperforms and that gives Guild way better chance.
• Victor doesn't show up. He has performed well lately, but he is still kind of inconsistent player especially on LAN at time.
• OpTic runs weird comps that actually aren't that good. Like Neon on Bind. Or they keep playing same comps that teams in NA have already started countering. They might still work against international opponent, but there a lot of footage.

obviously all of these points could happen to Guild and their players as well, but I truly believe that Guild has a decent chance. Also map wise Guild likely gets to play either Haven or Breeze that is good for them, OpTic likely picks Fracture I would imagine and then Ascent/Bind/Split could be anyone's game tbh depending on comps as well, OpTic are favorites on all the 3 maps I would say, but the cap isn't crazy high. I would assume that Icebox and Haven/Breeze gets banned but either one could surprise. Guild could also try to run FPX like Fracture comps with Omen because they kind of got fked by FPX, so it would be interesting to see how that would work against aggressive Neon comps. And its also bit hard to valuate OpTic right now.

OpTic should be favorites, but all things considered Guild 37% - 63% OpTic.

2 wheelers are easier IMO, because you have way more visibility and you take less space. I haven't driven actual motorbike, but moped.

babysasuke and Revlo they are the best baiters hands down

Obviously everyone knows what Valorant is, but CS is way more popular game in comparison. Pretty much every person I know who have tried playing Valorant have eventually switched back to CSGO.

I use this sometimes actually but its kinda shitty as well

Viper & Neon

patuj, but I've been planning on changing it for long time but can't just come up with good username

1. FPX
2. FNC
3. GLD

Best of luck with your life!

What source? I haven't heard of this. But yeah it definitely would be better than one of the 3 rumored stand-ins I would imagine. As long as they have practiced together for around same time.

clip? He last time streamer month ago?

oh yeah that's very true they are even more unlucky
they got giga fucked I guess I forgot about them because their problems were expectable.

I've been saying this exact same thing. They have been really anti-EMEA this year. I guess some of it makes sense, but some of their points just don't. I kind of compared this to situation like if EMEA was the oldest sibling in the family who always gets shit for mistakes and anything they do isn't seen as that impressive by the parents aka they focus way too much on the negatives, while most of the other regions especially NA this stage is like that little sister who gets all the attention and praises from the parents even for the smallest stuff aka they focus more on the positives(didn't happen in my family, but you get the picture). Everyone knows that EMEA was really successful on 2021 and especially Champions, but now when other regions have started to catch up and EMEA didn't have good Masters 1 for obvious reasons I think some people started to believe way more on these smaller regions while taking it away from EMEA.

But I also think part of it is just that they are keeping certain personalities and try to bring comedic value. Also majority of them are now working on NA staff so they spend way more hours around that scene and because of that has less time to focus on others. So even from that perspective it kind of makes sense why they see way more positives on let's say NA because they have to for work.

Fnatic has to be the unluckiest team in Valorant in 2022
Masters 1: War breaks out so Braveaf can't attend, Derke gets Covid
Masters 2: Alfajer's visa place burnt down, Mistic gets Covid(luckily seems like he can still attend tho)

so by following this Fnatic will have some sort of visa problems when attending Champions(if they get there) and then someone catches a covid. Unlucky really.

Guild is underrated. I get where they are coming from with groups situation, but still if you base it on power. People are focusing too much on the seeding games. Guild literally had just qualified to their org's and 4 of their players' first LAN event after trying for long time and always being so close. They didn't have anything to prove going into seeding games. They pretty much won already no matter the seed going into Masters. FPX had to prove that they truly are the number 1 team in EMEA after stage 1, and Fnatic obviously wanted to prove that they are the best team in EMEA after going undefeated in groups and overall being in the scene for long time. This is what even Sliggy said about Guild's seeding games performance. And yes it might be the basic "seeding game" excuse, but I truly think they didn't go full in.

And I also understand that these are the best teams from all regions, so EMEA #3 being high up wouldn't make sense, but who out of these teams would place top 2 in EMEA over Fnatic and FPX? Because I wouldn't be too sure about teams like Northeption, Leviatan, Xerxia or KRU and arguably even teams like DRX, PRX, XSET are in ? area aka I think that FPX could win over them.