if FNC is so much better than all the other teams, then why are they in lowers? like, I'm sorry but it's so ridiculous that people will say one team or another winning is a fluke bc they didn't face a team - if that team was so good, then they would have won and they would be in the upper bracket. like, I think FNC is an amazing team, and is the best valorant team that has existed so far in the history of the esport, but you can't discount EG's wins just bc FNC cracked in their first game of playoffs. the transitive property does not work there.

It's typically very aggressive to be fair. Some of it is calculated aggression, but it's rare that they play a really slow round.

Nobody cries lol, it's a game. You're projecting lmao, no one gets that worked up over pixels on the screen

You have to be able to play different speeds, even PRX slows down sometimes. If EDG can vary their style, they'll improve a tremendous amount as a team.

They were down 11-1 lol, map 1 was close but if you can't even take a map off a team the series wasn't close

I mean, kangkang just genuinely played poorly. Everyone is so fuckin soft in this site.

bro what is this fake news lmao, the US is generally not that racist. California is the closest to Asia, so it has the largest amount of Asian migrants, since it's the easiest place to migrate to in the US, and Asians are generally a wealthier demographic, which makes them more likely to go to an esports event which is a more niche thing.

the logic does not follow lol, there is not similarity between the two things, and shit talking does not translate in any way to integrity. there's no link between the two, you're just saying random shit lmao

did they win ascension?

stop watching valorant

so people who talk shit don't have integrity? it's a fuckin game dude, have an ounce of perspective. as long as talking shit doesnt go into people's personal lives, it's literally nothing. let's not get too serious, we're talking about pixels on a monitor here.

again with the quality of his players, he probably should have a trophy by now! like he had leo, trexx and sayf, how do you not have three of the best EMEA players this year and not at least get a pedestal finish. now he's got sheydos, trexx, and starxo - two trophy holders and his best player last year. if he was a good IGL they wouldn't have gone 1-8 during the regular season. they even lost to KCorp bro. I'm sorry, it's just silly.

language barrier is the problem imo, i think dephh is an ok IGL with the talent they had it should not have been super hard to get to playoffs at least. i think at least pancada should be on a Portuguese roster. Sacy seems to have great english, so maybe not him tho.

-Sen +M80 roster

yeah idk what the kolda dick sucking is sometimes, the guy has never done any impressive IGLing in his valo career.

Fut got a map against FNC last time, they didn't against EG. this type of equivocation is just dumb. say EG lost 3-0 to FNC last time, that's really the only evidence we have.

yeah they were humble when they couldn't win shit internationally, there was nothing to be arrogant about. they should talk their shit now, they're winning - nothing wrong with that when you're the kings. just don't pretend they're not lol, it's better this way.

should be fun honestly, trash talk makes all the games more fun. all the weak knee pearl clutchers about boostio should really chill, this kinda talk just hypes up a match even more. people are too sensitive, as long as it's all in game and not getting personal about lives and shit it's all just a good time.

zekken to NRG to replace ardiis would be a championship fuckin team

trexx op was ok on jett, but he's nowhere near as good as sayf on either jett or chamber tho so it doesn't make much sense, and sayf has always been kinda mid on the sentinel roles besides chamber. i mean, it's tough to say that when kolda has never had pretty much any success as an IGL to a large degree. G2 got 13-0'ed by Gambit after beating a dying Sentinels, Guild got one win over Optic in groups and then got shit on by PRX and FPX, and then Koi has done literally nothing of note. Like, he's not an awful IGL, but for the quality of players he has had under his lead he clearly is just not good enough.

trexx wasn't very good on the op tho, he failed really hard during their first run at qualifying to Reykjavik when he was put on chamber, and sayf was just okay on the other sentinels besides chamber. trexx was pretty flexible, and sayf was really good on the duelist/chamber role, and obvi we all know that Leo can play any initiator the best rn. kolda was just a shit IGL honestly, whenever you watched a Guild game he would run the clock down to the last 10 seconds without taking a single bit of space, and then just mass up and entry on sites, with no info whatsoever most of the game. it was pretty much the individual skill of leo, trexx and sayf that got that team to events, just like with Koi's run at LCQ with sheydos, trexx and starxo.

there's no point in making an Americas superteam where they don't speak the language and they don't have an IGL lmao. we all saw how well it worked for OG Liquid, you need a fuckin IGL in this game. Replace Tenz with FNS and have Chet as coach, and you've got an Americas superteam, but you've still got the language issue. there has never been an NA super team yet, besides Optic I guess, and I still think zekken has always been a better flex than Victor.

the real Guild OGs remember trexx was brought on as a sentinel main and played cypher on their breeze before sayf jumped on the chamber and he played raze on entry, they could have brought on either a sentinel or a flex to replace Russ, trexx could do both.

i mean, i think all of them have their moments. i think sideshow is a little too rigid in believing that numbers can explain everything about predicting a game, and bren is much better at talking about the macro storylines of valorant than about the actual micro strats and plays; but balla and wyatt are certainly the most consistently good with their takes.

ur just wrong lol. guy was a top player in tf2 and literally owned and ran an esports org.

lol who tf is downvoting your shit sleep schedule D:

Doug is honestly very talented. I agree that balla's dry laughter and lack of energy can break the tension of a good match, but Doug is extremely passionate and has had some really great moments. And even though I wish Balla would bring a different energy to his casting, even if you don't like him you have to admit that there are VERY few people who have as much knowledge as he does about the game, even throughout the entire scene. He really knows what he's talking about.

now you see how the NA times worked during the EMEA tourneys, it's rough out here.

he said one of the favorites, not the only favorite. i dont really care very much, but let's use reading comprehension brother.

We've only seen Union's Pearl and Fracture until now. Their Ascent looks trash. Are they good at other maps, and if they don't have both maps in the pool can they win? Genuinely asking, I haven't watched a ton of Union matches, so hoping Brazil can fill me in.

VLR don't get baited challenge: impossible

Should he be on a team, fucking come at us then. Get pissed at that team and call us hypocrites for that team. You're just making up random bs, he got removed from a team over the shit he did.

Good ass game whoever wins. Both teams are white hot rn.

Franchising rosters who got shit on are going to be looking for new players once LCQ is over, so any good teams who don't make it will probably get their best players poached by franchised teams. So it will probably be ok. Kinda the way the ecosystem is supposed to work.

Is sinatraa on a team? Lmao that is such a false dichotomy. I think all the NA fans whining about the union when they've loved sinatraa for years are dipshit hypocrites. But it's a little different when the abuser is still actively on the team, if we're being honest. Come on.

We can be friends now, idc. We have to stop FNC getting all these slots for their dogshit region.

Thanks man, would have forgotten without your help.

Nismo is God's gift to Valorant, imagine if he was playing this game at 18. Man would be as valuable as zekken.

Chill out bro, first game of the LAN. Really thought the rivalry would cool off a little after how Loud got shit on 😬

Xeta and Autumn wanted to go to T1, they knew they were making franchising and wanted to join a Korean team.

#SENWIN brother

Dipshit, I said I didn't know. I'll have to look into it more, I'm not going to take some random VLR poster's word about it. I qualified just fine
Regardless, I don't support the Union, so it doesn't affect me. If that's all true, I hope the offending players are removed from the team. But I can still appreciate a good game of Valorant, one way or another.

Idgas about the community lol, I just saw a lot of people shitting on NA fans when I think that most NA fans who actually watched a single Union game knew they're really good.

If the guys did what they were accused of, fuck em. Unfortunately, I don't have enough evidence and afaik they haven't been charged or convicted, so idk wtf you want me to say. Innocent until proven guilty is a thing, sorry.

Y'all are such downers. Sorry some NA fucktards were down on the Union without even watching them - maybe don't listen to them next time. This is a banger game with two banger teams, seems like we should be enjoying it instead of shouting how everyone is stupid or coping.

absolutely not banning lotus lol. obvi pearl and fracture. EG lose bind and lotus automatically, so their only chances are on ascent, haven and split. they lose any of those, and it's ggs for sure.

tf is blud waffling about, i never said that PRX wouldn't beat EG with something. I don't know that to be true, but you're just a moron lol bc my only point was that Talon was a pretty good team at Lock In. nice job destroying that made up argument that only exists in your head lol.

Talon was legit at Lock In, they actually pushed DRX hard lmao. Wtf is this revisionist history, they started trolling in the regular split but that team is good.

People act like Optic was the only ones with access to the cheat code of chamber. Everyone could use him, yay was just better.

literally the reason they won lock in haha, the players are obviously crazy good but the econ strat took them a tier above at that event.