✅Fluke, Mickey, or Legit: The Truth

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sentinelmain377

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2021:
Reykjavik - Legit✅
Berlin - Legit✅
Berlin - Legit✅

2022:
Reykjavik - Mickey🐭
Copenhagen - Legit✅
Istanbul - Legit✅

2023:
Sao Paulo - Mickey🐭
Tokyo - Legit✅
Los Angeles - Legit✅

2024:
Madrid - Mickey🐭
Shanghai - Neutral🔵
Seoul - Fluke❌

2025:
Bangkok - Mickey🐭
Toronto - Fluke❌
Riyadh - Legit✅
Paris - Fluke❌

2026:
Santiago - Legit✅
London - Legit✅
Paris - Legit✅
Shanghai - ?

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reasons for everything that is a "Mickey" or "Fluke"

2022:
Reykjavik - Mickey🐭 (no FPX, no full FNC)

2023:
Sao Paulo - Mickey🐭 (invitational + mickey prize money)

2024:
Madrid - Mickey🐭 (kickoff regional format)
Shanghai - Neutral🔵(close grand final: 3-2 with double map ban vs team with a sub | GEN.G were doing good throughout the year though so eh)
Seoul - Fluke❌ (close grand final: 3-2 with double map ban)

2025:
Bangkok - Mickey🐭 (kickoff regional format)
Toronto - Fluke❌ (PRX faced Gen.G in Swiss instead of playoffs, unlike FNC -> no double map ban for FNC)
Paris - Fluke❌ (Alfaghost got sick -> ruined practice -> no double map ban for FNC | also a close grand final from NRG (3-2) while having double map ban)

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2 sneak

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reasoning behind brazil?

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sentinelmain377

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Mickey invitational event. Not a fluke win though and deserved trophy.

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Waleb

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but EVERY SIMGLE TEAM IN TIER ONE WAS INVITED. How is that an "mickey" when ALL THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD OF T1 PLAYED?

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how are istanbul and LA legit

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LA legit cuz EG 23 was the best team itw
istanbul legit cuz Loud 22 was the best team itw

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eg dodged fnc

loud dodged fpx

both had the easiest riot hand crafted brackets known to man

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i think this guy js doesnt like NA

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seoul was not a fluke, edg had the best mindset on how to play the meta at the time just like fnc in 2023, they clearly were the best team around and not a single one of those players put up a bad performance in the end, all pulling the weight needed for a trophy

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Toronto - Fluke
Riyadh - Fluke
Paris - Fluke

Elite ⚽knower

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sentinelmain377

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yes sir

Toronto: fuck 4th pick draw and Gen.G (PRX are lucky they faced Gen.G in Swiss instead of playoffs) -> no double map ban
EWC: Team Flukeretics flukiest reverse sweep oat
Champs: Alfaghost got sick -> no double map ban

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Euw

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I'm not gonna say it

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i knew the take would be bad when i saw the name🥀

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mondely

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how is optic win mickey?

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fpx not allowed to attend bc of ukraine war

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mondely

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so tokyo mickey cuz no something?

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sentinelmain377

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PRX were way behind FNC

unlike FPX 22 (beat OPTIC at Copenhagen), TH 24 (2-3, 2-3), FNC 25 (1-3 super close grand final, 2-3, 2-3) who actually put up a fight (or beat) vs the winning teams

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we acting like 2022 champs didn’t happen?

also PRX were better than FNC at champs so ur logic makes no sense

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FNC had LOUD as kryptonite.

just like GEN.G was PRX and FNC's kryptonite at Toronto

FNC 23 would've won Champs if they threw vs Bilibili to play the non-LOUD side of the bracket.

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so all this is telling me is that tokyo was mickey cuz fnc didn’t meet loud.

isn’t this ur so called reason prx toronto was mickey cuz no meet geng?

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sentinelmain377

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PRX did meet Gen.G and lost.

https://www.vlr.gg/490310/paper-rex-vs-gen-g-champions-tour-2025-masters-toronto-r2-1-0 (GEN.G 2-0 PRX) in Swiss
https://www.vlr.gg/498624/fnatic-vs-gen-g-valorant-masters-toronto-2025-ubqf (GEN.G 2-1 FNC) in Playoffs

rigged against FNC (4th pick in playoffs)

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mondely

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talking about meeting geng in playoffs.

not prx fault wolves beat geng. remmember that prx had to qualify to playoffs from swiss. fnc fault for deciding to be seed1 and get the curse.

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yeah

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no FPX (best team itw)

even OPTIC had an interview glazing FPX when they played them in scrims during Reykjavik and Victor admitted EU > NA in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOI6WjHVKM&t=2295s

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FPX was emea best team, not best team itw. explain fpx falloff at champs? optic was top3 at all events in 2022

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Whatever fits your narrative buddy

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how is shanghai mickey when the best team won?

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mondely

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he just mad memea lost

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w saudimain

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sentinelmain377

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2025 should've been 1 trophy for G2 and 3 trophies for FNATIC (the actually good teams).

Not trophies for the 4 chokers of Valorant: (ex-DRX Stax and Buzz, Pooper Rex, Team Hereshits, and NRG's Cove Master)

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mondely

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talking about choke when fnc lost 3finals in a row

explain how ewc wasn’t a choke. up 2-0 then 2-1 only to choke 9-3 on haven and then lose the series

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All of 2025 is just fnatic being slightly not good enough and that somehow makes them flukes? Biased list, how is it a fluke if fnatic choked all 3 times

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Densi

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mostly correct but:
2024: Seoul -> not fluke, EDG got top 3 at the next event
2025: Riyadh -> i'd argue this is more of a mickey than a fluke due to bo1s and single elim
2026: Santiago -> idk how you consider this regional qualification format mickey but not the EWC ones?
2026: Paris -> depending on how 100T perform in champs this could be considered a fluke. Too soon to say.

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how is paris fluke

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shesh_

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us military paid off riot to give na a win

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shrike-

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NRG is no longer a fluke, they’ve shown they can win more than once this year

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Iceland 2022 Fnatic with their full roster got swept by G2 3-0 and FPX even lost a map against G2 and we all saw how G2 did against the other teams they got 2-0ed by PRX and 2-0ed by Loud while PRX lost to Zeta meanwhile Optic swept Zeta 3-0 and swept Loud 3-0, FPX was not being Iceland Loud lil bro

he calls the mickey mouse Bo1 infested group stage of EWC 2025 legit but Madrid and Paris mickey mouse hahahaha