what causes this?

• relatively new team
• buy good players, good coach
• team works hard, practice day and night
• make strats, analyze gameplay
• finally manage to win a masters/champions
• people call it "fluke"

genuinely what causes this?

Kickoff being a fluke event

Idiocy

Talking about edg??

people needing to cope about their favorite teams losing or their least favorite teams winning

The only events that could ever be called a fluke reasonably are Lockin and Toronto but they were both won by storied teams

Only fluke is first masters since there’s only 8 teams. Champs and 12 teams masters are valid. Fnatic kickoff+ Sen Madrid + t1 Bangkok are flukes

Because valorant is a volatile game. Yea you can work hard like every other person does, but you cant account for factors in valorant cause its RNG bs. EMEA should be the best region by talent, but valorant is too luck based for true talent to shine.EMEA players work hard, are genetically gifted, and are aim gods, but cause this game so shit we get fluked by shitters.

it’s mainly because of pre season expectations

for instance furia has had doubts even despite getting the 1st seed because they had a bad off season and everyone ranked them low which is a mixture of them playing for the org furia which has had no success up til now and the players not being exactly great on paper

if those teams perform well beyond expectations from the community, their first instance is likely to call them flukers

NRG did fluke and you know it