with champs ending in late august, its pretty much confirmed that we'll get a gc championship and a valorant world cup for sure. the head of esports leo said that 4 months of off season is too much (in context to 2022), and now again its going to be 4 months long(unavoidably coz of allowing players and orgs to set up in new cities and countries) because of only one split and masters, so they for sure are planning to compensate for that with a world cup (as he also hinted this in some interview few weeks ago).

with the turkey earthquake, and by looking at alfa's twitter, it was obvious alfa was directly/indirectly very affected from it. mini also said in a press confrence that they had to play with their 6th instead for a few days (didnt mention the reason but its pretty obvious). so its honestly incredible how this team shaped up and showed up in 2 months of prac, with that too being affected in between due to some unavoidable reasons.

Ananas is a content creator i am pretty sure. He doesn't want to compete, it's probably that he is going to sign to tl or some other emea org as a cc

only trent and nismo are upgrades, rest are just middle of the pack players replacing othe rmiddle of the pack players

no you doughnut. saadhak has good mid rounding, has proven with results that he is good, this all combined while constantly fragging, its different. this is what makes him different. he is good at igl + he frags. angel is good at igl + he is fragging in lock in =/= him being a good smart controller

but angel having good stats doesnt mean he is being a good controller. angel is just outfragging outplaying everyone . but what people like mako and pancada do in a clutch or inside their smokes, when they hold sites , their util, thats what makes them so good

duelist: 1)derke 2)aspas 3)cned (cned hasnt proved he is a top " duelist " yet though)
recon: 1)shao 2)leo 3 crashies(a tier below other two currently)
flash: 1)king 2)chronicle 3)stax 3) mwzera 3)zyppan( but he has only played kayo which is much easier to play than breach support)
controller: 1)mako(my goat), 2)nivera(people need to realise what he did this tournament is not normal), generally speaking 3 pancada deserves to be there, and som when he eventually continues his good performance(which i believe he will)
sentinel: 1) nats
a tier below
2)suygetsu 3)rest dont even come close
flex: 1)king 2)chronicle 3) molsi(people wouldnt know him, but he has performed so well in emea as well) , *nukkye will be #1 if he plays raze for giants
oper: 1)cned( he is currently miles ahead of everyone, considering #2 here didnt go as deep in the tournament), 2)yay, 3) nivera (doing it consistently on a smoker is godlike)
igl: 1)saadhak, 2)angel , 3)fns (fns would be first if he was in top 4) , boaster needs to win this event and he'll be top 2

when its the top 4 of an international lan, it is never just about the individual gameplay, it never will be...

more like 4 times

sort of agree, but remember being a little worse than shao is still very good. shao's a 99 leo is a 97 while the rest of the initiators are at max 90

your first and second team aint doing shit. what was the opponent you had in mind when you were cooking this lineup? they are not facing moist moguls or dsg in the franchise lil bro

pretty sure dephh's wife made him write in the group chat

guys we dont need to create one cis superteam, when we can create 2 of them: nats derke redgar chronicle sheydos angel suygetsu shao cloud ssk idk add braveaf, deffo etc if you need replacements

derke full russian, but raised in finland(citizenship of both countries)

we have eyes, you obviously dont

OMG LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!! CHRONICLE NO NEED FOR THAT, HE'S ALREADY DEAD LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

bro who gives timings and random smoke sprays as an excuse. are we 10 year olds?

cryo raze isnt good

if mwzera wasnt there on haven, fnatic win it much more comfortably. guy's a menace

he just did, you have to make your case based on onlyh lock in. every team in franchise has potential after all

yea true, zekken will eventually find his way back , that guy is a prodigy

victor was always inconsistent (i rate him very low, easily the worst player on nrg/optic, the attack strats were made around him being traded and not him getting the first kill). zekken had a bad day. that guy is a demon and easily better than most other NA players in franchising. ( like better than cryo, tenz, ardiis, zellsiis whoever else you consider)

all he has to do is stop playing judge and everyone will be happy to let him into pro city. he goes to hard on his judge only character, which is annoying as well as griefing sometimes. just coz you get 2 kills every round even after playing judge, doesnt mean those 2 were impact frags.

lets fucking go man, this is going to be so lit.

ps: i really do hope i am not getting baited

prx down to c or d and you've made the most accurate list

jamppi to smokes might work, but it also comes down to the budget. pretty sure liquid have invested very heavily to secure nats and redgar visas and citizenship(not sure) for serbia so then adding a multi miilion dollar expensive player aint going to be easy, especially when they can grab a baddy g from acend for relatively cheap in emea itself.

pls no

number of years together dont directly equal better. after 6-9 months it all evens out and then it comes down to who actually is up on the meta, who is in form, who is working harder, the more normal stuff. so basically drx loud fnc are all similar, yes navi might be better then all of them but time together is not the factor(reason) here

cant make this shit up. the script writers need to make it less obvious

indeed

as an emea fan, the skrossi op didnt work on split only. on the other maps it was good. i am pretty sure this is something they have practiced in scrim so no one to blame. split was bad because the team wasnt ready for lan, replay the game now and you'll see what their goal with the op was

taco

hey mr rito, as an valorant enthusiast, i have been quite active on val twitter. and with all this hype around global esports, i would be really dissapointed if we get doug and balla for the match(love both of them, but they are the weakest of the 4 pairs of casters we have). i will like any of panpoc or brenshow.

the game might be totally boring and one sided, so i atleast hope for a good casting along the way

we do not live in a fair world. also if the chinese playerbase becomes as big as apac, then it is very fair, especially considering how secluded the country is from the rest of the world in terms of their policies and shit. and it would be better if you give up on this "unfair" and "earn their slot" naritive, it wont happen anywhere, not in real sports not in esports, not in business literally no where. this is how the world works

if china can give equal amount of viewership which rest of the world combined gives, then i think its a pretty decent bet. and also china will easily become good(unlike japan which is very new to esports), china has done it before in league so hopefully they'll get good quite fast. and yes with all this said, this is unfair, but understandable and good for the future of the game

dont remember asking

honestly, just get better

3 events out of 6, nothing much to change.

letsgo , i want to see a good battle. no friendships to be fulfilled today, go all out and put on a good show

https://twitter.com/NRGgg/status/1625207190553501696 what does this mean lol. my brain not good enough to understand this

sheydos plays sage -> sheydos will go insane. sheydos does not play sage -> sheydos may or may not go insane

alez

we cant play valorant while being upside down, come on.

why did you get downfragged? lmao

people wont know 5 players of that team, forget considering them being memed about = being relevant

but we havent seen a turkish team on lan in 1+ year. this may very well be their year

nrg: victor cant do enough on raze(no yay to trade him when he makes space and dies, other raze mains are consistent fraggers, victor aint that). ardiis may not be living upto his name. these are the things i can see that may be causing the issues in nrg

man travelled from the UK to USA to Brazil to play two maps of valorant. :(((((

i mean if it is a matchup between the top 7 teams of emea vs the NA teams, its almost everytime a 50-50. we dont know shit about these rosters. people calling it a 65-35 chance is a pure guess based on the teams performance on a previous patch with half different roster vs a newly formed team. eg can easily beat navi and giants can easily beat a 100t or nrg.

thats mentioning and highlighting, not complaining. complaining is what chet does everytime something is announced. complaining is asking for a change/reversal/removal. we arent asking for that