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Flukes

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#1
zardinez

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.

#2
asdfgh
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the way you described it first was always how it thought about flukes,if things just click once it is by sheer chance aka luck making it a fluke,it doesnt mean they just got entirely lucky and are bad team,its just they were feeling it more than the other teams

#3
APAC_jimmy
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you will admit JP is a fluke region when they get last place at masters 2

#4
fourlvalorant
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not really a fair take imo,
northeption have no LAN experience, could experience what happened to the guard and get LAN jitters. If it was ZETA again with LAN experience and you said this I would understand, but to say that to a team with no lan exp is unfair imo

#6
Barre
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So are you saying The Guard didnt fluke? Because they 100% did.

#7
zardinez
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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.

#8
fourlvalorant
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they are the only team besides loud to beat optic, so yeah I'd say they didn't fluke, I think their mentals got destroyed after rekjavik going out that early and trent started playing without music to practice that
also in their first 3 games they were trying new team comps. Its not a fluke, they are a good team. Just unfortunate of what happened that shattered their mentals
plus they still have LCQ and if XSET bottoms out they auto qual for champs

#9
Barre
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THE MUSIC EXCUSE KKKKKKKKK

#10
fourlvalorant
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I listed other reasons you actual bot

#11
Barre
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Im not saying that The Guard is completely useless, its just that they clearly went on a miracle run which I consider a fluke. They wont even come top 5 at LCQ.100T, C9 ect will do better.

#13
zardinez
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C9 quite possibly, but we'll have to see

#12
Barre
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