Dope. Sounds like an incentive-driven update. Love to see it

DFM is like top 6 rn lol. it's look bleek for bleed ngl

not just won, Fl1p's team won a 4v5 HANDEDLY with that 13-5. What does that say about Bleed 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Derke not comfortable on Raze? Derke of all people?? That's an insane line that could only be written by someone who got memory wiped. Derke was goated on Raze and the clips speak for themselves. It's just him. He is just having really bad games.

Ooh, I was wondering too.. thanks!

All orgs are gonna see is that Curry was traded into C9 mid-season with Xeta/Autumn out & then C9 became shit after that. His stocks tanked regardless of how mid the other names performed since he didn't shine at all either

Rest in Peace DaveeyS. It was a pleasure watching you play, and your moments and memories will live on. Deepest condolences to the family, friends, and community 🥺

Hahaha that thought came across my head too. But I can see why they would make the original decision given some of their bizarre 1head rulings in the past (I'll never forget the bafflingly stupid 7-0 remake with Acend vs Vivo Keyd 😂)

doug is fantastic. balla is acceptable

fnatic lost twice. just better obviously

what more could you do? Win the most important tournament against tried and tested best teams in all regions. No one reasonable is going to weight a single-elim kick off where you play 5 matches more than champs.

idk why he's asking that dumbass question when map 2 is obviously where the stats for Loud are coming from

The first roster change needs to be fucking terminating Termi lol

oof

The only way they lose now is if they donate more ecos from overaggression

Looks cool! I definitely want to see redbull, maybe superdome, definitely ludwigxtarik, sgares, and maybe a few more if VCT teams get invited

Oh you meant specifically champs? The 2nd place curse is more broad, so they could still go out top 8, but yeah, i guess it's all right to say they broke the pre-champs 2nd place curse

Loud can surely beat TL and Navi if they're fixing mistakes and growing. However, it's more of a matter of if they have a team or if they have 5 players just contractually obligated to play together.

no that's not true. There are both optic/nrg and loud who went out at top 5-8 after getting 2nd place in the preceding global event. They didn't get grouped but bombed out very early. Sideshow didn't consider that a curse, but Loud went 0-2 in the tournament iirc

my man really tried to sneak BLG in there

unlucky pred

But KC's coach said on stream that Scream wanted to IGL which is why they didn't look for someone like Enzo. Scream's obsession with trying to fill a gap he's never been mean to fill shows a serious lack of self-awareness and poor leadership skills. He also had a say on which players he wanted to play with. He basically failed completely as captain and he's now refusing to go down with the ship.

He's still an amazing player and shooter, but he needs to take a step back and consider letting other professionals in to help him where he's weak

Scream owned up to his part with his abysmal IGLing, but then immediately returns to IGLing for LCQ.

I'd seriously like to submit a grant to the NIH to study the size of that man's ego

It's very possible they could succumb to the 2nd place curse and bomb out of groups. I think it'll be impressive if they just make it out of there

Didn't scream himself say the reason he went to KC was because he was going to be able to handpick his team? Even the coach said on stream that it was Scream's decision not to get a real IGL because Scream was going to igl so they don't need two. For all intents and purposes, this whole project represents Scream's failed leadership from the information out there

It's a general pickems bracket from basic game theory.

If you pick Furia to win its round, then you must say that they would win against EITHER Kru or MIBR. You don't get to choose which singular maps or which singular teams Furia is better at because it's based on a linear progression scale for simplicity. If you thought mibr was good enough to beat kru, but that Furia is only good enough to beat Kru, but not mibr, then that would be a very ugly and exhausting bracket to make for every single team and it would be unusuable by the general public.

So, to keep things simple, for each successive bracket, you are meant to assume that any team that you pick to win a round will also imply that said team is stronger than both of the incoming teams from the previous rounds

Oh, I see. Thanks for that info. Then it was a product of circumstance, no prob

Looks like the article was updated accordingly

But why is Focus in the same group as their regional competition though? Is Riot EMEA not following/paying attention to the global events?

Wait, based on the AVPA tweet linked here, I read it as LCQ teams were still gonna play on patch 7.0 but just with deadlock disabled?

Edit: never mind, article was updated

same lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5NY50BXvI&ab_channel=VALORANTChampionsTour
one example is champs 2021. See 0:40 where they talk about teams from same regions is a restriction for groups. idr if they did a playoffs draw show too, but I believe every single international lan except reykjavic 1 has had teams in playoffs from different regions on opposite brackets. You can check the tournament brackets yourself and let me know if that's not the case, i'm doing this all off memory basically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg02t8WVUak&t=1s&ab_channel=VALORANTChampionsTour
another example here is from masters Berlin where they did the playoffs bracket draw show & teams form the same group wre restricted from meeting each other early on in the bracket.

I haven't noticed them stray from these ideas since these draw shows even though the draws are now private, we can still see the results are usually consistent with the pattern above.

forsaken and jingg were flexing for the team before cgrs. Something is their main carry and fragger, so that leaves the other superstars to frag hard on support roles and combos with each other or smth. they will definitely be better with their originally planned roles

exactly lol

@FrostTree187 Nah I can't get hype for PRX while they're missing their MVP.. glad they beat DRX, but this just sucks.

if they could make this change, it'd be the best bracket possible

Riot has already established precedent that teams from the same region that went directly into playoffs get placed on opposite brackets. There's also precedent that teams from the same groups go on opposite sides of the bracket, it just sucks that the random draw put apac teams together and americas teams together. I almost wish they just handpicked the most interesting matchups instead but competitive integrity and whatnot

FNC can't face TL first cuz they both qualified directly to the playoffs. So they'll each face a group winner

It might be uncomfortable, but you don't need information to commemorate someone. You have their past achievements as everybody said above. Someone has to have the courage to take on the task.

Because how is Twisten's passing in "news almost missed" when it's literally the biggest news of the week? That's the big big problem.

Very interesting! Goated post. If anybody can corroborate or independently translate, would feel more reliable to discuss en masse

that strict set play/gameplan stuff came from sgares. If it's not Stellar, it's gotta be Mikeshd. Someone has got to go cuz the team needs a macro gameplan and discipline again.

yeah, idk wtf is going on w/ DDK as GM, letting Mikes solo lead this team of undisciplined, very young players. This is supposed to be the highest level of competition, how does 100T have one of the weakest coaching staffs in the league?

Asuna has been much more consistent than bang this whole split. I think those 3 at least are fine enough for now. Stellar definitely needs to be upgraded and maybe even Derrek sadly

He wasn't doing it nearly as much under sgares if memory serves right. I remember specific rounds where they would NOT overaggress and teammates would start playing together. I think his lack of discipline comes from the weak coaching staff and the preference for on-the-fly calling of the IGL which enables Asuna to sometimes make plays (which can too often look really bad and detrimental)

Dicey was supposed to be the main duelist until the boomers decided Jett probably wasn't gonna stay in the meta and they won't need to op or play double duelist so why not bring in a cs talent in Ethan (who is admittedly very good). Asuna wasn't originally going to be the star but he had to be since he was the tip of the spear for their shoddy execs.

Then 100T continued to miss every. single. meta. until it was too late (astra, chamber, double controller/harbor). As a team, they've only ever really looked cohesive under sgares and even then, WillFPS was supposed to be their star duelist and he underperformed the whole time until they got to a LAN. Maybe Asuna is the only constant, so that could mean he's the problem. But it just seems like from top to bottom, he's generally been above the middle for the team while everyone else around him keeps making the wrong choice.

At least that's the impression I get from having followed this team since Hiko joined.

I agree w/ this if Asuna was supposed to be their star player. Since it should be Cryo, Asuna probably shouldn't be getting compared to Derke and Mako. As a player, he's been more than fine for the team (though he could really use sgares' more disciplined coaching style over the on-the-fly stuff they've been doing since he left).

Sadge

yeah idk how he was overheating like that w/ such a crazy important game on the line (dry walking into a ct smoke???) and putting them down numbers.. I'm hoping the poor discipline is from the lack of structure because so much of their stuff is on-the-fly now that mikes and stellar are at the helm. I remember threads and praises for 100T for their discipline and togetherness (like on Breeze w/ Will) back when Sean was leading... it's so sad that he has a family and couldn't make the move to LA.

yeah i don't get the fingers pointing at Asuna when he did throw some rounds, but so did Cryo when he missed a shot or 2. Overall, they both did the best this match (and this split) in the whole team. The underperformers in the split were Derrek (could be cuz of role switches), Stellar,, and weak coaching staff (the initial off-meta gameplans, persistently poor map pool, poor execs/retakes/clearing).