if ur a world champion contender, u gotta win those man

fair, bombing this split might be a blessing in disguise

use the month off like a mini offseason and reload

doesn't change the fact they are falling off

Current SEN up there for fastest falloff, with there with ACEND... EG doesn't count since their roster was separated

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LATAM, Turkey, APAC and CN have never won any lans
Imo aside from china, this is the strongest LATAM, turkey, and apac have ever been

Do they win their first lan and who will it be

depends on how they look imo

EG from last week yes
EG from weeks 1-2 that kept trolling man advantages no

but also, even if eg plays bad I will be happy if nrg call a non troll game (which they didn't do against mibr map 1)

i cant have any faith in nrg until they beat a half decent team

if loud, sen, nrg were in form, it would be doomed for them, but americas is in a slump imo
still, pacific looking strong af and LEV might be Shanghai favorite rn

edit: imo fut and TH with woot are emea best chances

vit 2 weeks ago was looking super nice alongside navi undefeated and fnc MAYBE returning to form

instead vit looks lost, navi not as good as we thought, and fnc just farmed up some shit teams

the good news for emea is fut is nice af, woot is the truth and maybe BBL is actually good

you tricked me. I knew you was ass but my word you stink

concerning week for emea, if vit chokes this its bad

vit should have been a good team, maybe even Shanghai contender in emea. how this team beat fut is beyond me

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brazil (outside of loud maybe) need to go the emea route of finding random t2 players and have them farm

Brazil current record: 0-9
Map record: 2-18

DFM 2023 record during regular season: 0-9
DFM map record during regular season: 2-18

😭 😭 not even trying to hate on Brazil it’s just this rough for the region rn

Edited post to add source, I saw it on liquipedia

Source for those asking: https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2024/Americas_League/Stage_2

In stage 2, all the teams play the teams in their current group (we all know this). BUT, teams don’t start with a 0-0 record, they start with the record they had in stage 1. So say Loud goes 1-4 in stage 1, they wouldn’t start 0-0 in stage 2, they would start 1-4.

Also, top 6 teams in the leagues OVERALL qualify, not the top 3 from each group.

Maybe this was common knowledge but I wasn’t aware of this, and it has huge ramifications for teams like LOUD and T1 who will not be getting a fresh start in stage 2

Source: https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCT/2024/Americas_League/Stage_2

DRG solid in china as well

Maybe but idk if this would be true it prx had jingg or th had woot

PRX without jingg
TH without woot
KC doesn’t look like a top 5 emea team
Loud struggling heavily with qck
Sen struggling and might not even make the playoffs
GenG with 2 losses (agaisnt good teams tbf)
China rn is fairly weak (edg took a step back)

Unfortunately I think this will be the highest of 2024 due to timezones of the next 2 events. That doesn’t mean Shanghai and Seoul will be bad though, should be even more fun than Madrid

Maybe but we wouldn’t know, since escharts doesn’t track Chinese viewership

https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2024-masters-madrid-valorant

Last updated number: 1.417 mil

Record is 1.5 mil
2nd place 1.44 mil

This number is NOT up to date. It’s like 30 mins old, so it didn’t take into account the end of map 4 which was very hype

Btw APAC and EMEA fans, you guys join the clout party too

APAC broke their 2023 record by 70k (highest 462k this year)

EMEA destroyed their 2023 record by around 120k (highest 419k this year)

These numbers of course are lower than Americas by quite a bit but the substantial improvement is super promising

Welcome to the clout era of valorant

823k viewers for the final of a REGIONAL event!

https://x.com/EsportsCharts/status/1764614264612884798?s=20

U right, I should say historically great cores

They both dismantled the regions best team just in different ways

Fnc vs navi vs drx… who yall got?

I personally got Fnatic 3-2 NAVI in Masters CANCUN GRANDS

It was prob around 150-200k, i believe that is what eshcarts said mid game

I’m an NA fan but anyone with a brain knew loud was winning this… sadhaak is the goat and nobody cares about off-season results

Tenz and 12 year old boys
Panccc and 12 year old girls

Love you MIBR <3

Mid season playoffs took out so much hype from this playoffs ngl, I wish it never happened

I agree but NA format sux too. Whole split 2 was useless. They shoulda just did 1 big split and playoffs

How many games do Union/VK need to win in this bracket to qual for ascension?

I think she’s meta not bc the individual util is strong, but bc she fills a unique role in a comp as the only agent with info + flashes. Look at LOUD’s pearl comp, they can run double controller and sentinel because of Skye (otherwise they would need a flash agent and an info agent).

They should prob leave Skye alone but give fade a very slight buff tbh. Or just redesign Pearl B site

Nrg with sayf would actually be nuts, but can’t blame them for picking ardiis

I think it’s too early to tell, the first year of franchising was always going to be ugly with new rosters and as such, fnatic navi and drx just have 0 competition. Also we haven’t seen the ascension system play out yet.

Hopefully this first year of franchising weeds out the frauds and replaces them with actual promising talent. On paper franchising is awesome because the top 50 players from each region should be insane matches, but teams are still sticking with bad players/bad systems

no, but new LOUD has potential ofc. come back in 1 year and we can compare them fairly

Americas: Aspas, runner up leaf
EMEA: Sayf, runner up literally anyone on fnatic
Pacific: Mako, not sure who would be second (I don’t watch pacific that much)

Update: many of the commenters have pointed out very critical mistakes in my analysis. Here is my new list.

Americas: skrossi
EMEA: skrossi (🗿)
India: rossi with pajamas

Is map 1 loud. (Maps 2 and 3 loud is the best team)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqYGtKx9WM

fut definition of very solid team...MAYBE they can make it to tokyo

g2 shahzam

Same reason why there aren’t many, say, Jamaicans in the top level. There’s far less # of female pros than male pros.

Fnatic- 2nd in Masters 2 2021, didn’t make it to masters 3
Optic- 2nd in Masters 3 2021, grouped in champions
Gambit- 2nd in champions 2021, didn’t make it to another lan
Loud- 2nd in Masters 1 2022, grouped in copenhagen
PRX- :(

honestly could be the best team in masters if they clean up some mistakes, like they almost let guild back into the match by throwing some anti ecos. They have the skill and unique playstyle to do it but they sometimes need to keep themselves in check.

rn I STILL THINK they can win the tournament but I would not be surprised if a mistake like that costs them. But this was a very good win against guild