I believe in whz to stop the OCE buff

you wanna bet on that 😂

Australia moment, reminds me of the overwatch game where both OCE teams were just dcing

Also CN has scrimmed APAC teams which are actually closer to Australia so I'm not sure how you can't scrim them, CN is always playing on high ping anyway. And you admitted there are no good OCE teams? There is def at least 1 good CN team (EDG and maybe KONE).

Bro imagine if TenZ was put in a Tier C EMEA tourny where everyone there only had Val exist for 2 months. Him farming the rest doesn't mean NA > EMEA?? Its a 3 year difference in experience, how is that so hard to understand. Also these are just open qualifiers rn, almost all of these teams are WEEKS old, they haven't scrimmed either - do you think WBG is gonna win the playoffs? They went 13-11 twice against DYG yesterday, that's pretty damn close. Do you think they're gonna win against actual teams with experience?

About the population - 39% is rural, of which 21% are under 18 (so 3hr games weekly) and 27% have no access to internet. That leaves us with ~500 mil people. Now considering the game hasnt even RELEASED in China, the playerbase is incredibly small. They are 3 years behind the rest of the world. Dont forget there's no young-talent for CN because of the video game ban. In the end, don't think of it as a region farming another region, it's more like lvl 200+ radiants farming lvl 50- diamonds. The teams they're beating are WEEKS old.

EDG managed to qualify using VPNs, playing off a TW val client and using KR/JP servers. OCE has had it far better, not sure how the org isn't giving you support, but at least the government ain't fucking you up. Remember that these are only the qualifiers too, let's see how WBG do in the playoffs against some more experienced CN players and teams.

East Asia LCQ? Qualifying for Champions on China's FIRST ever chance to appear internationally - not to mention they sweeped all JP & KR favourites, without dropping a single map, causing huge upsets.

What about OCE?
APAC 1 - Lost in groups
APAC 2 - Lost in groups
APAC LCQ - 5th place

Hoping both regions develop ngl, but you can't be saying that when you've been given more chances but can't make it to an international..

bribed

Saya sucked

How do you see btw, did he change it recently

Ain't no way this guys name is "I love valorant"

Booster is the best guy there what you on about

100T almost lost 💀💀

yet almost lost 💀💀

EDG made even more mistakes lmfao. They're both very good teams regardless

way too inconsistent though, missed the easiest OP shot which led to losing haven in the invitational finals vs FPX

You're missing Yuicaw (from FPX), this guy was both diffing zmjjkk on chamber OP and also far more consistent across all maps. If you haven't already you should watch most recent EDG vs FPX invitational finals.

Oh so there are 4 regions now? Maybe they will franchise those 2 teams then, can only hope so..

China viewership def won't be bad, did you hear about the owl issue? I think it was that China made up the majority of the viewership which was insane

Valorant was finally released in china, but only after they decided on the franchised teams. Riot only says the Chinese teams were "invited", so not exactly franchised. But it could be a sign it'll happen, however it'd be pretty weird for there to be more pacific teams than other regions..

Two teams from China just got invited to sao paulo, maybe they had this in plan because idk how tf they would make brackets with only 30 teams.. Either way it said they only got "invited" to the event, this could be a sign that they'll be franchised later but that would also be unlikely as it completely disrupts their format (more teams from pacific seems pretty unfair for other regions), but this would also mean a huge L for china region which looks pretty promising. Thoughts? or who cars ig

Heart says EDG 2-0
Brain says 100T 2-0

OK neither were correct

yeah TSM looked seriously good on ascent there, the calls hazed were making were insane, and let them clutch multiple times preventing guard from getting 11 on the board

Huh bro chose to reject the offers he got himself, he wanted to stay with guard

he was given offers, but he rejected. Respect to him for wanting to stay with his guard bros

OK this is just wrong, how can anyone hate Boaster

This. mCe coordinated them and their teamwork so well, which was honestly their best part. We'll have to see how good their new coach is, but I doubt they'll adjust to a new style of play even if the new coach is good

He was struggling hard on chamber too actually, tex would have def been an upgrade but now that metas changed it may not be so much

They had to intermingle roles because of chamber and only chamber pretty much, they could not find the right person to play him. Now that he's not as meta anymore they should be good, I mean they're bringing in a chamber player anyway.

2-0 easy for edward
13-9
13-4

Looks like EDG were just saving their strats and playstyle during groups lmfao, now they're actually trying to deny plant with util. Only Edward can play the game like its ranked and go 4-1 in groups

They're saving strats and playstyle either for international games or playoffs. Probably since they got hard antistratted in champions. I mean just look at EDG vs NTR today on icebox, they actually used util and played smart. In groups, it honestly looked like either Haodong wasnt IGLing, they aren't comming (because of covid), or coach Muggle is testing the players individual performance, and stress testing them by going OT.

The smoggy arc has begun

predicted it from the start, I'm already rich af

Wild guess: SR 3-0 G2, missing coach buff trust

Wait this could turn out to be true, that'd be hilarious

Abo insane wtf, EDG always got cracked subs

Abo is just a sub filling in for nobody who can't plat atm, Life did leave tho but Smoggy can replace his role.

Nobody was part of the reason - but life not really, smoggy can replace his role as the jett. And lots would say he's actually better, but for now he needs to play initiator for the team until nobody can play again.

EDG roster in shambles rn without nobody, they might at least lose one map

Hopefully nobody plays in this match, otherwise smoggy is forced onto initiator again, meaning KK forced onto primary duelist. Ideally they have KK on chamber and smoggy on jett etc. Otherwise they might actually lose this

But why?? Looked on his socials and he gave a leaving message but no reasons for why. The team was perfect, and now with him leaving it puts EDG in an awkward spot with KK forced onto primary duelist, and smoggy now in main roster. Which means their only player chamber is the sub Abo.. unless nobody can.

no shit team play is off with someone who they don't usually play with. Smoggy's performance + synergy on pearl was pretty bad and given they didn't throw that one round where mindfreak 1v5 ace clutched they would have won pearl so 2-0d PRX. You can use that same argument against your own point lmao

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/2a2772f0 HOLY real gigachad sigma W pickem EDG>PRX predicting the upsets mark my words

they... owned?

you crazy bastard for thinking CR wins against DWG, but they actually did. This pickem is it, this is the one.

Bro you're hating on a group of young adults playing valorant, not CCP officials

DRX trashtalks a lot??? Have you seen what kang kang was saying??

me wanting a slot for CN.. I need to see EDG

Unbiased, although I'm judging this based off the assumption that guard was trying out different comps against t2 scene instead of losing for real..
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9122896d