on a real note, with partnerships refreshing next year, i think riot's shown that teams who have had financial problems since the start of the partnership league will probably be booted out

if any of this stuff with BBL's financials is true this could be worrying signs for the org

link from alejandro: https://x.com/anonimotum/status/1840537038984302624?t=unD61xX-2PNfchridDryKQ&s=19

purple SSG

back to back 13-0? insane

dude just compare the graphics this year is so much better?

ohnepixel on the vitality game might go crazy ngl

yea according to his tweet in OP's post but i hope we see him back o7

nah they do have 12 ur right

3 from winning kickoff
3 from winning masters
3 from the 3 match wins in stage 1
3 this stage

mako

oh i forgot round diff lmao you right

winning 1 map only puts them at WORST at an 8-5 map diff (assuming they somehow get reverse swept by KRU)

8-5 map diff is worse than 100T's map diff of 7-4

so they need to win the series

no

dont forget to add a point to GEN, DRX, and KRU for skipping the knockout round in playoffs and getting a bonus point!

Let's be real: C9 will likely not lose their next two games, KRU also will be alright with their map diff / round diff.

Realistically, SEN makes playoffs if:

1. G2 loses to LOUD 2-0
2. NRG loses to both EG and 100T
3. SEN beats FURIA

G2 and NRG's losses would have to be massive round diff losses. SEN also would need to win with major round diff wins.

This would mean that EG qualifies, giving Alpha group only three playoff seeds:

KRU and C9 realistically will both qualify.

G2 will end with a 3-3 record and 7/6 map diff
NRG will end with a 3-3 record and either a 6/6 map diff or 7/6 map diff
SEN will end with a 3-3 record and a 7/6 map diff

Then it's a three-way tiebreaker between G2, NRG, and SEN -- comes down to round diff.

glhf

yeah that's exactly what it is -- cuz escharts doesnt read 1.8m but if leo is saying it officially from rito comms then it must be chinese viewership

:(

yeah two games a day

maybe but i also remember Leo Faria saying somewhere that they wanted to use masters to maybe test new formats

ye: https://valorantesports.com/news/masters-madrid-tickets-on-sale-january-12/

surely at the end of LOUD / SEN finals today riot will do the draw for the opening swiss matches right?

i remember all the hype during lol world's when the draw was done, hope they do the same

it should be two games based on schedule

March 14: Swiss Stage
March 15: Swiss Stage
March 16: Swiss Stage
March 17: Swiss Stage
March 18: Swiss Stage

5 days of swiss, 2 games per day means:

14+15: opening matches
16: 1-0 qualification matches
17: 0-1 elimination matches
18: 1-1 qualification matches

grubinho on movistar KOI... koi best team EMEA??

that would make sense - i assumed so cuz he was saying some basic things about sticking on bomb n stuff but it's cool to see how he'll learn the language a bit more (if he stays on the roster long term)

most chinese teams (at least speaking from what ive seen in LPL) operate on predominantly mandarin-speaking roster. some of them that import heavy korean talent have half the team comm in korean and the other half in chinese, and a sort of blend for most important comms.

in the match highlights rb was speaking mandarin - does anyone know his proficiency in mandarin? it sounded ok ngl

STATS

mwzera https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/VK%20mwzera%234324/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all
cNed https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ACE%20cNed%23carry/overview?season=all
TenZ https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/SEN%20TenZ%230505/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all

DEATHMATCH STATS
mwzera - 86% win rate (thats the insaniest thing ive seen in a while)
cNed - stats not availiable
TenZ - 73% win rate

RANKED STATS
mwzera - 66.3% winrate (MVP of 95% of the matches) proof here https://imgur.com/StiJmpg
cNed - 53.5% winrate (MVP of 13% of the matches)
TenZ - 60.4% winrate (MVP of 15% of the matches)

can you take your time to appreciate how insane mwzera is? without a doubt the most talented player to ever touch the game

I'll try to explain briefly why I think he is the best player in the world
Despite his insane aim and movement
The best way to know if a player is a good duelist is RAZE. There is a BIG difference between a good duelist and a jett abuser
If he is a good duelist, he needs to be good with raze.

heat? not good with raze
aspas? not good with raze
xand? not good with raze
tenz? not good with raze
cned? not good with raze
scream? not good with raze
d3ffo? not good with raze
derke? not good with raze

Thats why I think he is undoubtely the best player in the world. If RIOT by any means decides to nerf jett and shift the meta we prolly not gonna even hear names like cned and tenz again :>
He is not killing 40+ per map because when he joined VK he was forced to play a different role because heat is already a main jett... and lets be honest, every single duelist nowadays gets 20+ kills per map because team and setups are basically built around you (even steel managed to get 20 kills with it https://www.vlr.gg/29398/sentinels-vs-100-thieves-champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-playoffs-gf/?game=46692&tab=overview)

trembo ofc

we are experiencing technical difficulties.

:(

tough match for SR ngl

NOIA TOO LFGGG

YOOO ISO

MY GOAT

also cuz back in the day when he was on knights he was held in contract jail (according to ddk, ex-100T gm) - who knows? maybe oxg will do same thing? i mean he's really fucking good

fair enough i do still think CR should've made it through but given the circumstances if riot wanted two JP orgs DFM should still have made it alongside zeta

counter point: go to their twitter and look at their banner and count the sponsors

W sources cuz yeah it's been essentially radio silence out here so good to know

wait this sounds epic esp the JDG-RA stuff. where'd u hear this?

title. that trailer was a banger

add MaKo too. 3c?

LMAO no jus messing with you dexter, i was w/ u but saw this thread yesterday and thought it’d be funny if it actually happened

this aged really well

crazy win for EG

lud said mxm has no plans on leaving val either, unlike DSG. even more respect

thanks lud and moist for coming into the scene you all did great considering the other teams o7

flyuh is a bit of a demon btw

no EG needs 100T to lose to MIBR to make playoffs

teams will probably start investing in t2 talent more like this next year ngl

we saw how it helped C9, EG too, i think there's definitely some benefit and americas teams will def pivot towards this

tbf i think loud spent way more energy prepping for SEN game (since that roster had much more potential to upset than EG) and EG prepped hard to counterstrat.

fair play tho they look clean rn

their assistant coach, mikesHD

KJ - her ult seems kinda busted for site takes rn, and flank util will be important since CTs will push out extremities control
astra
kayo
breach - i acc think breach is a pocket pick for this map, lots of strong stuns can be used
jett or raze duelist

what happened here

this is some bullshit it's a million dollar event and an org like xset may not be picked up next year for franchising

you're hella weird if you decide not to take this opportunity to perhaps win - it doesnt matter if the issue has been there for a while riot deemed it a legitimate bug

if you're malding about it you can't blame XSET and their players for wanting to win, blame rito for the bad decision