https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/03db3396

this guy has an almost flawless pickem so far at champions

the only match he picked incorrectly was PRX over LEV in group A winner's (he picked TL over LEV in the decider so he still got points for TL winning)

i'll try this with a max of one player per team
Chamber - yay
Duelist - zekken
Initiator - trent
Controller/IGL - vanity
Flex - Asuna

"While OGLU secured upset wins over G2 Esports and G2 Esports,"

should say Guild the second time

and

you're saying FURIA and 100T get eliminated in groups, but that FNC and DRX "might" qualify. if you think it's certain that both of them get eliminated, shouldn't you be certain the other two qualify?

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pretty sure she's going to be an analyst again at champions

i got 122 wpm and got asked to take an anticheat test

he's saying he's been a 100T fan since first strike, and that's he's happy 100T are finally attending a LAN, you're misinterpreting his words

I'd like to think my list is a little bit more detailed, but I really like your list too! Here's mine:

ZETA DIVISION
Leviatán
FNATIC
Paper Rex
DRX
OpTic Gaming
LOUD
XSET
BOOM Esports
EDward Gaming
100 Thieves
Team Liquid
FURIA
XERXIA Esports
KRÜ Esports
FunPlus Phoenix

this should be a very competitive match, both teams will be extremely prepared with their respective coaches and 100T definitely has huge potential to beat FNC, especially if Will shows up and if bang plays like he did against FaZe.

even as a 100T fan, I think it's safe to say that FNC should be the favorite, but there's a high chance that it'll be a very competitive match that 100T is definitely capable of winning.

also consider that meta shifts can impact teams a LOT. there's a good chance both teams will be highly prepped for pearl unless one of them plans to ban it, and we haven't seen either team on that map yet so who knows what will happen. the chamber nerfs might also end up helping or hurting either team, depending on how they adjust to them.

I don't think it's fair to say that it'll be an easy game for either team, but we'll see what happens.

why would they not? they've proven literally nothing, and even in their LCQ run they got 3-0'd by KRU, a team that most people have in B tier anyways

EA LCQ won't be in the top seeded pool
BR Circuit Points #2 should be replaced with SA LCQ #1, not #2 right?

actually, they qualified because masters 2 gives more points than masters 1.

GRD got 200 points from masters 1 for 7th-8th, XSET got 250 points from masters 2 for 7th-8th.

sure XSET got 45 points for 4th at challengers 1 and GRD only got 20 points from challengers 2, but even if GRD had gotten 3rd, they would've gotten 65 points which still doesn't make up the difference

even if XSET had gotten 11th-12th in challengers 1 (15 points) and GRD got 3rd in challengers 2 (65 points), XSET still would have qualified with a tie at 265 points since the tiebreaker would be stage 2 points

100T 2-1 C9

respect to him, he's the only person out of thousands of users who has a flawless pickem for the APAC LCQ, and according to him BME will be qualifying to Istanbul

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/8fb0fc5e

stats are displaying very strangely for this game, they're supposed to be sorted by ACS but they're not

for breeze JonahP and neT should be switched and ShahZam and shroud should be switched
for ascent Sayaplayer and neT should be switched
for icebox neT and trent should be switched and dapr and Zellsis should be switched
and for al maps dapr and TenZ should be switched

going back to masters pickrates, you're right about jett > raze on ascent so fair enough (32% to 18%), but raze was picked a lot more on haven (55% to 32%)

sure jett is a top 3 duelist but did you see the duelist pickrates at copenhagen?

Raze - 54% (2nd)
Jett - 17% (13th)
Neon - 14% (14th)
Yoru - 3% - (16th)
Reyna - 0% (18th)
Phoenix - 0% (19th)

raze had a higher pickrate than all other duelists combined (54% to 34%)
also all duelists combined had an 88% pickrate, meaning that out of the 5 agents per team, less than one duelist was picked per team on average

jett >= raze on ascent
raze >> jett on fracture
raze >>> jett on bind
raze > jett on haven
raze >= jett on icebox
jett >> raze on breeze
jett > raze on pearl

neon is an agent that is basically viable on every map but raze is the safer and usually better option

edit: changed ascent comparison

best of LATAM > best of BR (as of right now), i would take KRU + LEV over LOUD + NIP
rest of BR top teams > rest of LATAM top teams, i would take VK/LOS easily over FUS/EXL, and FUR + MIBR easily over whoever the 5th-6th best LATAM teams are

trexx and yacine are both raze mains, although trexx does have some flexibility, is it known if trexx will flex on more maps to let yacine play raze, or is yacine going to be playing a new role? i'm assuming it's the first one, but still an interesting move considering that someone like zeek (i know he's overhyped but he's still a very solid player) would be able to step right into russ's shoes in terms of agent roles

TS 2-0 ORDER one close game one not so close game

I picked ORDER to get here but I think TS is too much for them

because they won in UR1 and the team they lost against had a bye so they prefer to put 3rd-6th seeds into the first lower round rather than 1st/2nd seeds or teams that have already won a match

why are you getting downvoted

NA
Chamber/KJ/Neon/Raze
Vandal usually (I still use Phantom situationally) and Judge sometimes on defense depending on map

where is zekken

100T 3-2 NRG

i'm not even trying to say that LEV is a terrible team, being 7th in the world still makes them an incredibly strong team, i just don't understand how you can use the excuse that it was their first ever LAN match to justify putting them at 4th in the world above teams like OPTC that have proven significantly more than them

so... FNC barely managed to beat a team... that barely managed to beat XSET... and that justifies them being significantly better than OPTC... how?

you're also changing the subject, i'm asking how you're putting LEV at 4th and you're trying to change it into an argument about why FNC is better than OPTC

but if you want to talk about FNC, then sure.

what has FNC proven?

so you're using the valorant community's expectations and predictions for teams to justify making excuses for teams (LEV) while simultaneously using them to bash on others? (XSET)

you're berating XSET for performing badly while also applauding LEV for barely managing to beat them, when they were both in the same situation? how does that make sense?

okay so why aren't you making that excuse for XSET?

and why is LEV 4th for barely beating the "mighty XSET" and LOSING to "ChokeRX"?

no actually they lost against DRX, the same team that OPTC "barely" beat.

what's your point?

for what though? sure they beat OPTC but both maps were down to the wire (11-13 and 14-16) and you can't tell me that OPTC played up to their normal level considering yay was literally at the bottom of the scoreboard for both teams combined.

they also lost against a clearly underperforming suygetsu who was playing his first match with FPX after they had played their last 10 maps with a sub, and obviously was taking some time to get back into the feel of things

didn't LEV lose to DRX?

also didn't LEV almost lose 4 different times to XSET? (XSET had series point 4 different rounds)

1. PRX
2. FPX
3. OPTC
4. FNC
5. GLD
6. DRX
7. LEV
8. KRU
9. LOUD
10. XSET
11. NTH
12. XIA

I have OPTC over FNC because while OPTC's wins were against easier competition (XSET and DRX), you can make the same argument about FNC, since they only beat FPX without suygetsu and they just barely scraped out a win against LEV (who in turn only managed to barely beat XSET). I think you can fairly swap 3rd/4th but I would personally put OPTC higher.

There's no way LEV should be considered the 4th best team in the world right now. How are they 2 spots above OPTC when in the two common games they had, OPTC handled XSET and beat DRX, while LEV barely beat XSET and lost to DRX? It's fair to say that OPTC had the easiest road to upper finals with wins over XSET and DRX, but you can't then go and put LEV at 4th for performing worse against the same teams just because they had a close match against a clearly struggling FNC.

edit: grammar

are you talking about when your team got punished for using a known exploit that other teams had been punished for in the past?

LATAM's performance at Masters:
5th-6th, 9th-10th (lost in groups)
NA's performance at Masters:
3rd, 7th-8th

LATAM is so much better than NA right

LATAM's 3rd best team (FUSION) has 2 NA players on it that were tier 2 at best when they were in NA...

LATAM's 2nd best team didn't make it out of groups and their only win was against their own continent...

LATAM's best team barely beat XSET...

are you okay?

ascent is FPX's best map and it's just okay for PRX so they probably ban split and ascent, both teams are kind of iffy on icebox and PRX is pretty good on fracture

maybe FPX picks fracture but I think PRX banning split/ascent and picking bind to start is a safe bet

how is FPX gonna ban either of those maps LMAO

how does 1st -> 3rd mean the 1st place run was a fluke???

was M3C's run at berlin a fluke too because they didn't repeat at champions?

PRX bans Ascent, PRX bans Split
PRX picks Bind, FPX picks Haven, PRX picks Breeze, FPX picks Icebox, Fracture remains

Bind: PRX 13-8 FPX (1-0)
Haven: PRX 11-13 FPX (1-1)
Breeze: PRX 13-6 FPX (2-1)
Icebox: PRX 12-14 FPX (2-2)
Fracture: PRX 13-10 FPX (3-2)

PRX wins 3-2

CITY BOYS 2-0

how is gambit more consistent than optic? they went to 2 LANs in a row and to their credit, did incredibly well (1st place and 2nd place) but they haven't qualified to either of the LANs this year, whereas optic has qualified to 4 LANs in a row, and outside of champs 2021 has done incredibly well in all of them (2nd place, 1st place, guaranteed top 3 at copenhagen)

first script is a repeat of reykjavik, OPTC loses the upper final to PRX 1-2, then comes back to beat FNC in the lower final and PRX in the grand final to repeat as masters champions

second script is an EMEA comeback to foster the NA-EMEA rivalry, both FPX and FNC fell victim to substitute issues in masters 1, one of those two teams (let's be real, probably FNC) makes a crazy lower bracket run to beat OPTC in the grand final, either a 3-0 (like each of the 3 previous masters) with close maps or a really contested 3-2 to give us a really close international grand final which we have only ever had at champions

although maybe PRX says fuck the script and holds W into the trophy, that could always happen too

no.