Even if it did its so shameless to whine for tech pause when its clearly his fault for not clearing tree.

Bro he is the reason why there is a tech pause right now. He thinks seekers shouldve detected bang but it detected 2 players outside A and a chamber outside B main

I know so many people point to VIT as successful superteam and see MIBR as a failure. While I agree that MIBR is still a failure, their region is waaaay harder to qualify from compared to EMEA. Just look at their playoff matches, they are only losing to teams who end up in top 4 of the internationals. I think if you put MIBR roster on EMEA this year they wouldve had the exact same and maybe even better results than VIT this year.

If LOUD win champs, SEN will be one of only 3 teams who have ever beaten this LOUD lineup in official VCT match.

I watched him a lot last year and seeing it again this year that I think Ive noticed something he does pretty frequently when he uses his tps. He always fakes his tp 1st time and tps for real 2nd time. This is the case for like 90% of the time

I feel like G2 reach their highest ceiling when Trent is playing at his peak. Even in Bangkok when G2 was arguably the best team in the world trent was the best player on the team.

I think it should be worrying if valyn or babybay is the performer on the team.

As a SEN fan today is gonna be a lot of fun to hatewatch. Whoever loses either I am happy

Its pointless to include already qualified teams on the stat because every region has 1 team in playoffs so it doesnt change the comparison. Only difference is 2023 Tokyo thats it.

Qualifying to Playoffs rate of every region in Franchising:

Total Events: 11

Americas: 22/30 73%
Pacific: 16/30. 53%
EMEA: 14/31. 45%
China: 8/29. 28%

Champs needs to have play in tournament just like Worlds.

My suggestion is 3 teams from each region directly qualify to Main event.

4th and 5th seeds of each region play a Swiss double elim to qualify for playoffs. So 8 teams in Swiss compete for 4 spots.

In this scenario, region strength will be shown more accurately and teams dont feel like they dont deserve to be there, stronger regions like Americas can have 5 teams and China will have 3 teams. Or vice versa if Chinese teams win in Play ins.

Its not even gonna take that much time either, lets just say 1 extra week max and its gonna be a lot of fun.

Do you know that SEN is the only reason why China didnt go 0-8 in back to back champs? Idk if its worse on SEN or China

So far every team who has beaten the chinese team in the 1st round have lost the following game to qualify for playoffs. So based on that 100T are winning this game.

On a sidenote tho, what does this mean for China? Nowing that the team you lost to isnt even the best team in the group

There has to be a talk for dynamic spots for regions next year. We cant have 4 shit chinese teams every event, it ruins viewership and the excitement for matches.
My suggestion:
2 spots guaranteed for every region for every international but the last spot for Masters and the next 2 for Champs should be contested between regions. There needs to be a ranking system that measures the regional strength based on intl. performance. I think point system like Tennis could be good with 1 year decay on points, it fits perfectly for VCT year.

Its such a bad ult in 2 v 1. Gives xavi too much space and freedom. If you look at xavi's cam after patmen dies he sighs as if he lost hope but after hearing foxy's ult he stops wasting time clearing spawn and just wins the round

Its no coincidence VCT's peak viewership occured between late 2022 and 2024. Pro games were actually interesting to watch, igls actually had big impact on teams with their calls, smarter teams won, you actually learned something when watching the game. OPTIC vs LOUD rivalry was more about saadhak vs fns than Aspas vs yay. All the top teams during that era, Optic, LOUD, FPX, FNC, EG, SEN, GENG, TH and even DRX were all slow midroundy teams, PRX were only exception.

What is getting 0-2 ed by championship team in the opening week of Premier League in Valorant terms? My guess is like C9 losing 2-0 to Bestia

Mechanically it isnt tho. Brim ult wastes much more time compare to techo ult. If you try to do the same with tejo ult, opponent ciuld get half, get off and defuse again. But with brim ult + molly it is pretty much like 15s gone off spike.

It is easy to dodge tho and it doesnt guarantee space like KJ ult does.
Your point about brim ult is kinda wrong tho because brim ult is much better at postplants vompared to tejo ult.

It isnt hating if it is the truth tho. If FNS dropped suygetsu numbers we would say its expected but we naturally expect much more from suygetsu because we have seen how high hid peak can be. It is a praise if anything

It is probably the best ult in ranked below inmortal but in pro level other ults are much better. For example, kj ult is guarenteed bombsite but breach ult isnt necessarily, there might be guys in the smoke with shotguns, pros hit hs even stunned in like 30-40% of the time anyway. I would argue even Fade ult is better cuz you get info+more combos with no sound + 2 body shot kill.

Why is suygetsu getting hate again? What did i miss

Is it the neon ult now? I feel like neon ult 5v5 retake is almost a guarenteed win everytime with how good pro neons are rn. Other candidates are Viper ult (best postplant ult imo), kj lockdown and phx ult. But I wouldnt personally count phx ult because phx wouldnt be played in pro level if ult costed 8 or 9 orbs so it shows it isnt necessarily the best ult in the game

After getting destroyed by demon1 and babybay/leaf in the last week, I think I get why they perform so well against mid to ass teams like us and struggle against Pacific teams, especially against PRX. (I know demon1 in his prime demolished everyone but I would argue com and jawgemo had much more impact against PRX)
Pacific teams just dont give space for these players to breathe. They always fight as group of 3/4 against those star players who shine holding angles and they are pretty much forced to sit in their spawn. It also helps that every player on PRX can hold their own in 1v1s but still fighting everywhere and denying them space is the reason why G2 is struggling against Pacific teams lately

Demon1 shouldnt be able to walk into sites every round and hold spawn in an off angle. My point is if they dont play retake every round, demon1 wouldnt have that much space to shine

It is annoying how its the same problem that cost us every game. We just let our opponents fo whatever they want, play retake on both sites on every map and get caught off guard with our util on both attack and defense. When will our team just grow some balls and fight the opponent in chokes/mains? At least lose with dignity if you are gonna lose.

I sound like broken clock when I say this but any team thats gonna win plays their game and dont give their opponents respect. They gave Babybay and heat all the space and respect they want when they wanted to lurk against us on group stage and now the same thing happened with demon1.

Oh man bring me back to old times when zekken just dry peeks mid and diffs opponents star player and tenz just gives 3k/4k hero rounds when we need it.

I dont know much about comics version of Secret Wars. I just need you to tell me one thing, does molecule man play a big role in the story or is Loki gonna get just 3 minutes of screen time just for Doom to get another mcguffin.

Potential Spoilers for Doomsday

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Apparently fans at D23 were showed the footage of Doctor Doom Destroying TVA and claiming the throne Loki was sitting on. This to me feels so bad because it doesnt make any sense given the powers they gave to Loki in the TV show. Loki can basically timeslip to any time in any universe and he can see everything thats gonna happen. So him losing any fight to any individual just seems out of logic.

Are Russos trying to pull of the same move they did in Infinity war by killing Loki at the start of the Avengers movie just to introduce the villain? I am so disappointed if thats the case cause I love Hiddleston's Loki.

Has it been this baf for past 2 maps as well. Both teams look horrid. So sad som&fns ranked session ended

Dictator and the whistleblower Koalanoob goes 0-8 in First kills to First death in yhe decider map in one of the most important series at the end of the year. They didnt listen to him i guess

I feel like tier 2 of Americas and Pacific isnt that much worse than T2 of EMEA despite the results. Its just that EMEA T1 teams are much worse than Americas and Apac.
You can just see from yesterdays game, suddenly NV roste looks like superteam against decent tier 2 team.
Its true that sub 18 year old prospects look really good in EU but other regions have that talents as well. I mean you can just look at LEV roster and that says it all

NAVI and FNC will be de facto the worst teams at the end of the franchising. Now just imagine telling this to someone in 2022/2023.

I dont think Riot will care about that. I thinm MENA will have a slot next year and only stable org from that region I know is Falcons

I didnt count them because we havent seen how they respond when they have bad results. So its tough to know if they are actually good. All the talent scouting and signing could all be down to just boaster and mini not the GM ing

List 4 teams that will make partnership that were not partnered before. (Ascencion teams like DRG, NS and G2 dont count as partnership teams before)

My preds: G2, Eternal Fire, Falcons, NS

There are lots of talks rn and we will se a lot more talks about how orgs manage their team after we say goodbye to many VCT orgs in the upcoming weeks. I think to actually measure how good the management is you need to look at the org when they are losing because its when the actual side of the org comes out.

For me, best managed orgs in partnership: NRG ( I dont think they ever made a bad roster move, almost every move made sense given the context), PRX (not giving up on the playstyle and the team even when they were 0-3 and losing 1-13 to DFM), TH (even tho they had some bad results, I dont think its because of roster moves).

Worst orgs: C9, Furia, Loud, GE (bit controversial given their recent results but lets be honest they just rolled the dice and blew up the roster every stage and luckily ended up with Patmen, xavi and autumn), TS, M8, NAVI, KOI

Furia exists brother. They went 0-5 pretty much every stage except 2026 stage 1 and they kicked 3 players of the only team who actually had any wins for the org

Alfa is way better player than him and he never looked this good on initiator. FNC were right to let him go

Leaf doesnt deserve the Niko praise lmao. Niko at least performed in Major playoffs/finals and was just ublucky to not have a major. Leaf on the other hand just goes missing in the important games. I dont remember him ever having a good game against PRX since icy left and he always gling missing in top 4 games

I do and I have seen this movie before and 100T unsurprisingly fucking lost against KRU last year in stage 1 and we got 2nd seed instead of 1st. I am never gonna count on 100T to beat a team

Best team itw my ass. Couldnt even beat C9 with a turmoil and they think they are the best in the world. I can already see 100T losing out in playoffs 0-2 and disappointing every fan as usual

There is still a miracle world we can make it to playoffs directly. For that to happen, we need LOUD to win vs G2 (either 2-1 or close 2-0) and LOUD to lose to 100T. We also need to beat KRU.

If I had to say 100T beating LOUD and us beating KRU seems possible but G2 game is unlikely.

But still its looking like we are still gonna go thru playins. We just need to dodge M80 and whoever the 3rd seed is from the other group

Idk man i am getting so frustrated with pretty much everyone rn. Jonahp is making some kind of round losing mistake every round

Serious question

Its so frustrating man they throw every fcking round for the fun of it. It should be 4-2 rn but no they just threw

What tf are we waiting for? Just retake for gods sake

Speaking from experience I assume

I see those shots at the end of the map. He got like 6 kills in 3 rounds ir smth. Hit up man we need to win this series.

I am not saying he needs to be out, its just that he has to turn up now

Its 5 maps in a row Reduxx isnt performing to his level against a better competetion now. We cant win any games against top teams looking like this

I hate this man I haaaaateeeee this. Now after they threw that they tilt forced and now its already 3-0 and nobody is even hitting body shots. Fuck man