Agree. He just needs a lot of experience in the team and I hope NTH can nurture him as his starting point.

Holyyyyyy f, NTH is the winner. They did a lot for today, I can see that. They tried 2 duelists in Ascent but they lost so hard and finally they played in Fracture (either they ban the map before or the enemies ban it), they went to OT. And after a big loss against FL yesterday in Breeze, they switched roles between Derialy (Cypher --> Sova) and Moothie (Sova --> Cypher), also BlackWiz performs really good today unlike days before. So, good job for NTH. It must be a great feeling after that big loss against FENNEL yesterday. To be honest, I was thinking that it might be SG's win after yesterday.

He's actually decent as duelist but it's only his Jett as far as I know. His Raze is meh and his Neon is kinda inconsistent as well. As flex, I remember he usually plays Skye but still not that good either.

They can't do anything but to put 2 duelists.

NTH did a lot of tweaks for today's match. If they can win against SG today, it will be huge for them.

Also lack of preparation as a team because Maufin only joined at the beginning of January if I'm not mistaken and he's a Fortnite player.

They don't have JoxJo anymore (IGL) and Meteor (the carry).

During 2021, they still had Seoldam, Meiy, Astell, TENNN, and SugarZ3ro and you deserved that ban actually. XD

At least one of these teams will have their first win in the main event.

Actually no idea about who's the IGL for NTH.

Unlucky for NORTHEPTION today, CLZ is getting better since their past games. And overall, FENNEL is just better as a whole.

He was the MVP yesterday in Fracture map. 😵‍💫

Actually before they announced Fisker, SG already had 5 starter roster for them and it was Npoint. He is a controller and at some point, they somehow put in Fisker in the team for them and Vici moves to controller role (I'm actually surprised). I don't really know what happened with Npoint.

GG SCARZ, they're better as a whole imo. 🥳🎉

I think it's TORANECO but I can be wrong. He introduced himself as the leader but doesn't mean he's the IGL.

I feel like he went downhill starting last year in split 1 when he moved back from CR to FAV again.

Harbor...?

Rooting for SCARZ! 🎉

GG CR! I thought we're going map 3 lol.

Too one sided on the first map, I can't feel the fighting spirit from IGZ. But maybe it will be different on the 2nd map because CR never play in Pearl before.

Bro, don't be too honest about F LUL

not @ hiroron again. he threw so many rounds actually even though he's cracked, always lost 1v1 by dry peeking, fighting alone, or where he faked defuse even though he has his turret with him.

I've been watching him since in FAV and he shouldn't play Raze imo.

It feels like 2v5 on the 2nd map... smth and Vici hard carry the team.

Edit: I'm curious about Fisker's first death on the 2nd map.
Edit: Holy, 30% first death.

Yeah, Valorant is really popular in Japan plus there are some watch parties as well.

CLZ is feeling it but let's see how far he can bring today

GG CR, too strong today!

Holyyyy, makiba won those clutches 1v3 too much.

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40k on Twitch, more on YouTube and watch parties as well.

Jemkin and Yoshii are too strong today! GG SCARZ~

SCARZ with their unlucky first map. Nice clutch to win Fracture from TORANECO. Can't wait to watch Pearl.

GG CR!!!

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They keep trading thrifty on the 2nd map. It's already 1 AM in Japan, they need to do something about this schedule.

The first game went OT. neth 1v5 everyone and won the round for CR.

neth.....

Nice SCARZ! Nice comeback, and I love looking at Kr1stal's expressions ngl XD

Kr1stal what the hell... nice clutch

holyy that was a banger 1st map.

Not sure about NTH but the top 3 will be CR, FENNEL, and SG.

who tf is sugygetsu?

Language barrier and they don't have solid IGL.

I don't know about Reyna, but the Viper comp. with no duelist was used by NaVi before in G-Loot Clash event. And I believe Team Heretics also brought Viper in Ascent.

In the introduction video for Sengoku Gaming, Misaya introduced himself as the "half" IGL for the team. XD

I wanna add that the IGL for CR is neth because as far as I know, neth became IGL in one game because he mentioned in his tweet that he has to entry while IGLing that he lost his voice and in the new introduction video for CR, neth mentioned that he's the new IGL for CR as well.

Lotus - Astra
Ascent - Astra
Bind - Brimstone
Breeze - Viper
Fracture - Brimstone
Icebox - Viper
Split - Killjoy
Haven - Astra
Pearl - Astra

Yes, I know this already. It was because of popogachi in particular, saying demon coach to Astell.

I thought CR would surely ban Haven (I saw neth's tweet) but I can see that they still permaban Fracture at the beginning so that's why FAV picked Haven. CR did a comeback to overtime holy, to get those 5 rounds for overtime. 😵‍💫

Edit: Nevermind. Apparently, CR picked Haven. Their coach (Astell) asked them to pick the map. 🤯 Source: Meiy's tweet --> He said that it's crazy to pick a map that they lost 2-13 to the same team. And neth quoted his tweet saying that 'devil's coach' 😭🙏🏻

I like Astra in this map.