Holy shit that's such a stacked group. Also Lev instantly in playoffs??? That feels bad to me.

I don't think they'll make top 4 but I also think they'll get some wins. Remember before Zeta, Japan hadn't won a SINGLE series at international events.

Genuinely impressive nice job

Hell yeah, hope we get to see him pop off at masters

fax

In terms of viewership and production ABSOLUTELY. In terms of top teams, not quite yet. I think only NA and EU are "major" regions at the moment, but I have really high hopes for every other region in franchising.

LMFAOO A FNATIC FAN CALLING A ZETA FAN A BANDWAGON RIGHT NOW???

Consider this: teams get better. G2 beat M3C AND Fnatic (with full roster). Thus they went to Iceland as the number 1 team, and proceeded to get shit on by Loud and PRX.

....I'm so sorry man....I really care about your opinion....I'm sure guard does as well....how sad you don't like them anymore...

Nah he was calling and playing way worse than usual

I like it overall! However, I will say Optic definitely have that extra UMPH, and they just had a rough time against XSET this one match. Don't think anyone should count them out (altho they're definitely losing to Xerxia)

So he's like NagZ?

I'm not hating on Trent: "Trent 🤡"

I agree actually

‘//,
Excited to see em at champions!

Just make every regional final like the Japan one! That production was insane.

Absolute facts. That’s why a bunch of the current Fnatic and Optic people piss me off.

Damn people love hating on Trent

Optic will win the rematch as always

Half of your posts include the words Brazil or Bronzil lmaooo

The first good point you've made in your life

Who's gonna beat them? NIP?

He's got the shakes dw about it

LCQ

Yeah no

C9 quite possibly, but we'll have to see

First of all, their year isn't over, we'll see what they look like in LCQ. Secondly, I think calling them a fluke team undermines how good they were, and how 2 unfortunate games caused half the community to mock them.

Calling teams flukes is stupid. Sometimes things click and a team makes a deep run, and then never is able to repeat that performance. Calling them a fluke implies that they were never good when in fact, they WERE very good, but then something changed afterwards (either other teams got better, players developed personal problems with each other, etc, etc). In a game as new as Valorant we will see MANY "flukes" (especially since there's so few tournaments and qualification is so difficult), but that doesn't mean those teams were undeserving of their placements and shouldn't be respected for their great runs. Obviously a consistent top team is better than another that made it once, but we haven't ever had a consistent top team internationally (with maybe the exception of Gambit from last year).

TLDR: It's stupid to call teams flukes and belittle them for it; they deserved their wins.

I'd put them all on the same tier

Also when I supported Guard throught stage 1 they went from losing to Knights in an NSG to beating Optic to become NA champs. It was only after they lost in masters that they had a rough time with the meta change. The Zeta thing was unfortunate tho :(

Wrong because I supported Optic at the end of Masters

I think NTH and Xerxia will have close matches but still not make it out of groups

Alright 61Hiko from Turkey. I bow down to your genius opinion. Obviously you know better.

"Natural order" bruh. Why can't you admit other regions get better?

Fnatic either looks shaky and goes out immediately or make it to finals
Optic makes it deep
Loud makes it deep
DRX sadly get figured out after groups and lose in playoffs again before reaching top 4
Guild and XSET maybe get one upset in, but don't make it super deep
Kru doesn't do well
FPX (without ange1) does awful or FPX (with ange1) does reasonably well

My predictions for potential finals teams:
Optic, Loud, Fnatic, FPX

Really hoping I'm wrong about this tho, I want an upset!!

They've increased their map depth a lot since last masters, PLUS they got unlucky to face the most focused team in valorant history at a point when Marved was hitting an all time high, FNS was going insane calling wise, and Yay was even more yay than usual. Next time, they'll be better plus Loud switched around roles a bit, incorporated the Fade, and Less on Chamber is insane.

Loud

Yeah someone didn't watch the game. Sure there were some mistakes, but NTH just beat them

I fucking hope not. We deserve to see if any team can beat full strength fnatic (I think Optic and Loud are equally matched)

This thread is now done, after reviewing the options, I am firmly on the LOUD train

Bet

I like them but I need to see them beat a top tier team with style before I support them

I will after masters

So if you wanna eat at a good resturant, but you're not sure what's good around here, you shouldn't ask around becasue you need to make your own opinions?

I don't really have a connection to NTH because I don't know them that well. Also, even tho Yay is one of my favorite players, I don't wanna just support the best team in NA because they're the best. XSET is meh too.

I wanna hear what other people say my dude

Obviously my #1 team is Guard, but they're not going, so I switched to Zeta, but they're not making it either. What team should I support for masters?

Right ofc Optic too. Idk how I forgot about them.

I’m so excited to see the full team in franchising against the best of NA

I’m so sad