OH WOW!

i don't get what's funny? the better team won...

damn, i guess Victor still got Covid

Not even remotely close. Back to the drawing board

It's inherited from other games. Is what it is my man! Let there be war.

#FuckNA

XD

Jk

Money > championships.

Stay mad brokey

Don't try any weirdo techniques.

Learn to not give a fuck about outcomes.

Be respectful and don't take shit too serious.

Listen to listen, not to try and impress.

What's his beef with rhyme

Dickhead thread. Swallow bleach

Get over it.

We're hoping for the best for you

8/8 no cap

Gl for the future kiles

Group B is just full of rematches. make shit interesting damn it?

I'm assuming you're pretty young and/or have no idea how this business works. So I won't flame you.

Riot internally know and plan many MONTHS in advance where they are going to hold an event. At this point, contracts are signed, commitments are made, money is exchanged, staff and things are allocated. Alot goes into hosting these events...

Expecting them to change the location after all of this is set in motion is unreasonable and ignorant. It's not that they're lazy. Thinking that they can just switch a location on the fly is plain silly and unfeasible dude. This business does NOT work like that.

Very true point.
But let's be honest.

Russian players probably aren't attending any LANs this year.

Right, thank you

Good format, and whichever way you cut it, the groups are gonna be nasty

Hundreds, maybe thousands.

Stoppp stoppp, he's already dead T_T

Deluded unreasonable emea fan. Not one of us, a troll in disguise.

It's somehow looking even more competitive than champs last year. I really don't know who will take it. I'm rooting for EMEA, but would love to see LOUD and APAC put up a strong fight

Ohhh noooo, not more news about solid competition

Champions was emea dominated for sure. But masters 3, can't really say that at all

Hey, howcome they're already playing for stage 2 before masters 1 has happened?

Are playoffs double elimination?
It would be weird if not for this tournament, because the top seeded teams could literally be out in one bo3 since they skip the groupstage lol. What a waste of time and money that would be

Have you been living under Rock? This is nothing to do with organisation...

No. Winning an event doesn't mean domination.

Only champions was domination by emea.

Masters 3 Berlin was very even. 100t beat acend and gambit. Acend got rolled by vision strikers. SMB got grouped. Just because gambit won the event doesn't make it 'domination'. They didnt even have a flawless run like Sen in Iceland.

Domination is an exaggeration

Thanks for confirming. Makes sense at the end of the day

Emea has only dominated 1 out of 3 events. Why is everyone losing their shit.

Be ready for a rough year for CIS players and fans. I anticipate a year at least.

Guys relax, it would only be the 3rd event won by an EMEA team. Valorant is supposed to be around for a long long time.

It's such a sad situation. Dominance in Valorant is hugely influenced by current meta.

Combine this morale boom with the fact that there will be a new meta come masters 2. We might never get to see this high performing version of fpx against international competition.

Fuck war. For many reasons, including this small one.

Very sad for fpx, as a liquid fan. EMEA top seed as well, by quite a strong margin.

Don't be mad at liquid, no team would refuse the invite, and you know they wouldn't want to make it to Iceland under these circumstances.

And to everyone else. eSports is a microcosm in the grand scheme of this Russia Ukraine shit. Don't expect the situation to be much better by masters 2.

Hopefully riot will place less emphasis on LAN and make the event accomodate teams to play online from Europeab bootcamps if there are slot of players unable to attend.

i am bronze. but wait, isn't jump noise on landing?

it's a stupid thread. but the dude is talking specifically about the future, and you're going to the PAST resukts, i laughed, ngl

while i don't doubt this to be the case. What proof do you actually have? I'm just curious. Do we actually know that these guys pracc more than say an LG or V1 or XSET?

potent counter+ L attempt

potent copium

counter+L+bozo

Crazy shit man

I saw haha xD

His age has absolutely nothing to do with it. Maybe if he was 50 you could make an argument.
But the narrative that older players can't perform as well Is dumb and unproven.

M3C also lost to the same team.

Lol, nvm, edited

Bo5 for seeding game? I thought we were over this

they look fucking terrible. their plan is to get sprayed through smokes in mid / B, then burst B with no visibility

they really have no strats. All they have is a default and alot of hope

embarrassing by liquid that round

Don't drop him.

Just drop this sageless icebox shit they keep trying.

I see no sage on icebox. I know which team is losing.