I'd say McE, Engh, MikesHD, d00mbr0s, and Mini are the best coaches rn. Who am I missing worldwide (I don't know enough abt KR and APAC)?

I think if any coaching staff can salvage them, they're it. Only NA coach who I think might be better is MCE

I want to see DRX vs TGRD or Loud. That would be so hype.

he's BALLING

Hopefully that'll change in the future, so the communites can amplify their good parts and drop the bad

I really hope so yeah.

Jesus there's so much wiffing from Optic already. Not a good sign.

. Yk what fck this site

I have not seen anyone apart from men supporting this dude and quite a few of sinatraa’s fans are extremely sexist. If that doesn’t say something about this whole thing, idk what will. Whatever you believe Sinatraa did or didn’t do, I hope you can see how this is perpetuating rape culture and is not good for the health of the valorant community as a whole.

Lmfao no I’m saying one key player needs to perform. For kru, that player should be NagZ who likes to sleep in the beginning of matches. If he’s fired up, Kru has a much better chance, but I think optic outclasses them strategically. That being said, Kru has much better mental especially on LAN.

Bro that was an example, look at all of Optic’s games. When victor is fragging hard, they win.

If victor plays well, Optic will win. Yay is consistently fantastic but only when he has fragging support from Victor do they dominate (see the 13-2 vs SEN on Bind).

Love Xerxia

Yeah it’s crazy. Never happened so close to me before.

Lowkey w gj

Same I love both. Most important thing to me is we get a close rematch.

I’m hoping they dont

Honestly yes because they’re choking at LAN although tbf it’s only happened against Xerxia. They need to play in the smaller LANs to get even more comfortable at it imo.

I think Cryo has to be on it. I’m half convinced he’s the best Jett in NA along with Leaf and Yay if not THE best

Tenz said the big issue is he feels a bunch of pressure and he’s working on that with some sports psychs. My guess is he’s staying.

Only in table tennis tho

Tbh I would be surprised but nip definitely would’ve made it super super close

Emotional support and his until + igling were good. Not in the nip match tho.

Ok you gotta give some credit to boaster’s IGLing and his utility usage to support derke. That’s what made the difference earlier this year, but collapsed in their match against NIP.

Yeah they’d literally get rid of everyone else first

No way EG gets Tarik lmao

Literally everyone on optic is great except Chet idk what’s up with that guy

Honestly bracket willing, I’m praying we get a Loud vs TGRD 3-2 match either way with at least two overtimes.

Zeta didn’t look great either

No cap I like glass skins. I just wish they had cool sound effects like spectrum or rgx.

Chimpy being a real one out here

I don't want your input lmao. I'm just saying my opinion.

You completely ignored my second point. Trying to fight tournament staff is obviously not something a stable human being does.

Optic 2-1 KRU (banger banger)
DRX 2-0 NiP
FNC 2-0 Zeta

Even ignoring the fact that he's antivax, he tried to fight multiple security people to the point where they had to post people at his door. That's a dick move.

Yeah he was a good coach, too bad he's an awful human being.

We'll see if Optic's mental bounces back. If it doesn't, they'll get pounded by Kru.

Yk what I'm proud of you, you've gotten out, you've escaped. Have a great life.

FNS on neon is actually too OP tho, Chet wouldn't be that bold.

Is Derke playing??

I want a close match I don't give a damn who wins

Plus I think they got shanks as a backup. No way they want another jett.

100T?

I lowkey agree but I think that'll light a fire under their ass and they'll win every one after that to at least the semi-finals

Welp I'm 0 for 2 but tbf I didn't think Derke would be absent. Xerxia was fantastic as expected but Liquid just edged it out. Such a great game tho.

Optic vs Xerxia pls I’m hyped

Lol does that mean BR > all?? You can’t base region strength of single games besides Liquid and Xerxia were super evenly matched. It was a great game tho!!

Honestly ggwp to both teams. This was a great game.

I want Xerxia to win this and I def want them to make playoffs but also an Optic Xerxia rematch could be awesome if optic rebound. I hate decisions so make it for me

Shaz aint better than boaster as an IGL, he does frag more tho.