FNATIC vs. Guild Esports | Champions Tour Stage 2: EMEA Challengers Playoffs | Main Event | Valorant match

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yes fnatic are winning 1 map

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ravissant

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clearly u cant catch a break up here at #1 dog u gotta wait before commenting next time xd

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I hope fnatic will win this game. If not they might have to face FPX for qualification to iceland

Gomes255

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would be a big loss if emea lost fnatic or fpx

xaboff

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(plus)1

AdN-

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Fnatic vs Guild?????

Vonik

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LETS GO GUILD

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LET'S GO FNATIC 🧡🖤

Swiftmal12

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GUILD 2-0

Kevwah09

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This will be a so good game, hopefully Guild wins!!!!

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PicKaRuu

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2-1 Fnatic

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raka_gg

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Fnatic bans Haven
Guild bans Bind
Fnatic picks Icebox
Guild picks Ascent
Decider Split

GUILD 2-1

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after last night, i don't know who will win

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ranker11

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Tactical throw to avoid facing FPX in semis

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Olofboost

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It's exactly the opposite lmfao, in case FPX win Liquid (which is most likely to happen).

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oh no. why bro

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kirashi

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Guild <3

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kil

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Fnatic 2-0

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RNG_Fan

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Let’s go Fnatic!!!🖤🧡

#18

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this is basically the masters finals really

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Easy prediction. Better team wins.

Edits: Congrats to the team, that loses this game!

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hekzy

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British org with swedish players vs swedish org with british players

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kocunar

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Fnatic is a british org as well

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ManMakingMistakes

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yes. Their only swedish team is the cs one. But they are pretty international and their HQ is in London

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teemu

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guild win no cap

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FIreFistOM

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Guild EZ 2-1

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xLinksz

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Fnatic 2-0

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Creaz

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Fnatic 2-1, gonna be close tho

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1RustedSilver

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Fnatic make it through, just. EZ4DERKE.

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ravissant

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FNC get either bind or icebox pretty freely, then ascent and haven are both probably 50/50 therefore 2-1 FNC #GetYourBoastees xd

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fitthora

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imagine if FX lose and those two teams gonna try to throw xD

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Don't have to imagine anymore.

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Olofboost

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Hopefully Fnatic lose this, so that my 3 fav teams (Fnatic, FPX, Gambit) don't happen to be on the one side of the semifinals. That would be sadge.

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Queefbreath

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FNATIC gnna tactically throw to not face FPX in semis

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fitthora

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guild should win this, I think they want to take revenge for the last game vs fpx

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The optimal timeline.

#37

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team who picks viper win

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raka_gg

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GUILD wins ascent
FNC wins bind
GUILD wins haven

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Playing ascent, bind and haven against fnatic is dangerous

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KylieJenner

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Viper > no viper

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KylieJenner

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Sayf has gotten overrun and destroyed every round lol

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ValdemieGC

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LEO SAVES THIS

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kyLeria_

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what are these drafts tho? Guild no flash, Fnatic 1 flash (but its omen) ?? my eyes are bleeding rn, after seeing TL preperation today.

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AdN-

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MonkaW

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BARRYALLEN

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Ah damn, it had to go 9-3 before fnatic realised fpx lost kekw

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ValdemieGC

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LEOO!!
ez predict

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-1

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Boaster threw that one round man... but it’s ok let’s go fnatic

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STRAWHAT

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Fnatic is so solid these days

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Dameossan

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What is with Lothar this game? Normally, I give the casters a pass cause casting is definitely a tough task but it really took the enjoyment out of this game for me...

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KylieJenner

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I really don't think he knows what he is talking about alot of the time, also I dislike most casters if tournaments offered a secondary stream with just ingame sound and no casting I would 90% of the time rather watch that stream

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Dameossan

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Yeah, I guess some would prefer watching it that way. I do think the Pansy and Hypoc casting duo is very good though.

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i love watching eu just because hypoc and pansy lmao

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His analysis is fine(although a bit long-winded). But the problem is the fact that they coupled 2 analytical casters. Lothar would be totally fine with a hype-caster, like Uber carrying him in the intense moments.

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jayy

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i hate european casters

except pansy and hypoc

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za1x

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lothar talks too much and its cringy

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pansy hypoc so good thooo

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Vonik

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lothar makes the game so unenjoyable, he tries to be some 200 iq analyst but it's just rubbish

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cokeandyoghurt

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damn I hate that budget tom holland

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cokeandyoghurt

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beautiful game nonetheless, I love EU Valorant so much

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deww

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what a game

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A very bittersweet win for Fnatic... They have to go against FPX.

This is exactly why this type of GSL tournament structure is not appropriate for qualifiers. It's fantastic for actual tournaments. But for qualifiers in a game where antistratting and prep play a significant role, it's garbage. The only fix is a finals losers bracket, but I guess that's too many resources(?).

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NA HAS FINALS LOSER BRACKET . WOW SO COOL RIOT. VERY NICE

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hekzy

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Guild just threw better. But goddamnit fnatic why couldn't they just troll? I wanted fpx, fnatic or gambit in iceland but now only one can advance. Fucking smh my head

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-1

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It's actually insane. Considering fantastic teams like Acend, Heretics & BDS got knocked on single elim and Turkey gets 3 slots.

I mean it's easy to say, that the format is fucked knowing the outcome post hoc and knowing the actual region diff, but still. If EU wins Iceland regardless of all that, there is no doubt in my mind, that EU is easily the strongest region.

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kyLeria_

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Even if there was no TR slots, whole EU would have only 2 seed anyway, i dont know how people doesnt get it lul, if TR had 1 slot instead part of EU, probably everything would be okay ..

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This isn't to say Turkey doesn't deserve a shot. What I am saying; is that there should've been something in the other EU challengers, for example losers brackets(like in NA) instead of single elim so the best quality EU teams would've been chosen for challengers finals. The Turkey comment is in reference to the region diff, that is apparent only after the regions vs each-other, not much Riot can do for that.

Single elim is just too brutal in such a strong region, when there are only 4 slots for EU in challengers finals. On the other hand NA gets losers brackets on EVERY challengers + challengers finals + they don't have to compete against any other region + they get the same amount of slots.

And in this GSL format, if either top 1/2 team loses for some reason, they get placed against each-other in single elim, which is what happened. And then the top 3/4 teams get placed against each-other. The outcome is poor selection.

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kyLeria_

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Then i agree with you but your sentence looking like elimination of other top EU teams, is fault of TR teams .. Like you said, for some reason riot is not very interested with EMEA regions, i mean whole qualifies looking like a formality, seems like they just want to make a qualift as quick as possible and go !! Just like NA does they should keep going with this 2nd part streaming ( like nerdstreets) and lower bracket matches must come too

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pampire

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it's not about strength of teams. Dunno why but riot wants to keep tr, cis and eu separate for the most part which is actually genius from a marketing perspective. Allows storylines to grow and stuff.

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I understand the incentive to keep the regions separate to maximize potential viewership, it's good for the scene. The only problem I have is the way the format plays out when you combine the regions & the way EU was handled in general.

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