holy crap, a goated australian team and some team named funcrew
my goat cloudy will farm

aint no way that just happened

I used to pray for times like this
Autumn will take us to the promised land

Oce going to the masters! Thank you autumn
You are the goat

riot please find a way to give us this match
you've got the big three of karon, texture and meteor vs the big 3 of n4rrate, tomaszy and marteen
it is like the 2013 miami heat vs the 1996 bulls
it would be an all out aim fest

Fpx 2-1 (thank you riot for not having edg vs fpx)

please keep fpx and edg on opposite sides of the bracket

pl1xx take us to madrid, do it for everyone from oce

to be fair, nova is also better than tyloo

guess i'll just have to see it for myself when wolves beat edg

No way I missed this match, but I’m so happy for plixx

miniboo, karon, keiko, flashback, oxy, n4rrate, governer, rossy, mta and liazzi

china: guang, a lot of the nova guys look quite good, and bear

wolves and fpx are going to madrid, its happening

scrims soulcas clears unfortunately

Please funplus Phoenix give us a dope looking Phoenix for the player card, that would be fire

plixx and autumn supremacy (im delusional edg is cooking everyone)

The giants kc game was a 50/50 coming into it, so the result isn’t surprising, and heretics just played better than fut. sliggy has said multiple times that the competition looks a lot better than last year in all regions, and the teams expected to be bottom tier might be better than we expected

its midnight, and as of right now, bleed doesn't deserve proper grammar

i watched the game against drx, the one against ts i was kinda half watching half studying, so most of my opinion comes from the drx game, where they demonstrated some good ideas and comps that make sense regarding player roles, while bleed looks like they are trolling with their comps

they made global seem like a great team, thats the problem, in my opinion, dfm probably win that matchup - and this is coming from me who has supported bleed when they were in tier 2 for such a long time

disclaimer: I've seen every pacific match besides rrq vs geng as that was at 1-2am for me due to the day 1 tech pauses
1- prx- obvious number 1 choice, as of currently they are the best team in pacific, but they definitely aren't untouchable. They were pushed to three maps by an impressive looking geng
2- t1 - I was really impressed by how they look, rossy and xccurrate look fantastic, and their lotus might define their identity
3- drx - , honestly foxy9 and flashvac look amazing, foxy9 looked so disciplined and comfortable on the flex role. I was considering putting them above t1 due to their potential, but they are good at 3
4- Geng- good lord these guys are aimers, texture is looking like the greatest player to ever touch the game at the moment, and meteor is still having large impact. Karon looks great too. I'm excited to see how far this team can go
the next three teams can go in any order
5 - zeta - they seem like the most middle of the pack team, like giants from last year, will beat the teams below them, and lose to the teams above them, but hopefully they can incorporate the tier 2 talent well
6- talon - such a fun team to watch, ban and governor seem to be really comfortable on their roles, lenne can be the greatest player sometimes, or just lenne most of the time, and crews and jitboys are still really good, this team has so much potential, cant wait to seem them play against other teams
7- rrq- coming into the season I was really high on them, but watching the highlights made me realise that if jemkin isn't going off, this team might crumble, similar to scarz last year. Hopefully they can create a more unified play style, and they should start to go up the rankings a bit
8- ts- they looked awful in their match against Talon, like they just got outplayed on all aspects, however their match against dfm was a better showing. I don't know what to say really, I don't think they're very good
9- ge- #gewonamatch. I don't know what they did to turn some igls into some cracked aimers but they did it. The most interesting team on this list, they can definitely punch up, but also I would not be shocked if they lost to dfm if they ever play
10- dfm - they look decent, sucks they haven't really shown much yet, I am excited to see how they go in the splits
11- bleed- good lord, I don't even want to rank this team cause I can go on all day complaining about this team but there eliminated so I'll save the hassle

im excited to see how he performs

hes in china, on tec (tier 1)

He must have saw this, thank you 🙏

yeah the bonkers match was at like 3am Australian eastern standard time, absolute nightmare

Most tech pauses have been on this map

• wrong patch (nrg v furia)
• t1 vs bleed
  -now this one (ts vs tln)
  Why would we like this map when the systems don’t even like this map, just remove it

Good god that was awful, like this is fine compared to that

tbh jakee did save xeppa earlier in that round

jemkin bind map 2 against bleed

Watch as mwzera goes positive and everyone else on furia goes negative

I have the script, but only for when soulcas goes off

Sign me up! (I hate this game)

Don’t worry, we’ll most likely see autumn with fpx in an international this year

Soulcas Masterclass incoming, he’s going to go nuclear

yes, very dead

second this, they're so good

They just ignored the rankings, it was kinda troll

No, I don’t want fpx s tier, i want them b tier, as imo they’re the second best Chinese team rn after Edward

God damn this is why I love this scene so much

Yeah I do watch him, his rankings match with my own and it’s good

Yeah but the top 4 are still the same going into 2024, and fpx got better imo, jdg got worse, and te made no changes

I agree that 100t would smack ge, but the tier list was done by sideshow’s wacky way where basically given 100t were in the group of death they’d play minimum matches despite being good

Well as an Australian, I have an ungodly bias towards fpx, so that might taint things, but secondly, watching it, it seemed like they really did care about the Cn teams placements, they just had no idea how good they were, and that’s what annoys me

I love platchat, I think they’re all quite funny, entertaining and knowledgeable about Valorant, except for Chinese Valorant
These guys at this point must be trying to avoid looking at anything Chinese Valorant related because it seems that week in week out they know nothing about the scene outside of Edward Gaming.
They’re live currently and doing a tier-list of all 44 franchised teams. In which saw them fumble around the Cn teams. Anyone who watched Cn val in 2023 understood there were 4 consensus top teams (edg, fpx, ra/jdg, te). Yet in their ranking they put blg and drg above fpx because I’m assuming the only Cn val they saw was ascension, a quick vlr search would show you the current standings of the Cn teams.
They even had a ranking from a guide to follow which had fpx in s Tier, yet they kept fpx in C. I assume the think it’s the same team from which they saw at champs cause they wouldn’t know any better.

This is long so I’ll put a tldr: why rank the Chinese teams, when you clearly don’t have any knowledge on them, or who’s on them, you just end up doing silly things.
And if you’re doing a tier list, do some research into the more unknown teams

What previous tournament are you talking about? Ascension? Where they beat dplus as an unsigned team and btw might have beat scars too if they weren’t playing at 2am Thai time which was like 5-6 am oce team (it was the first day of the tournament)
Then they matched against boom, another team obviously better than them.
As the only unsigned team there, that’s further than everyone thought

honestly id argue that apex and csgo are both bigger than val here, probably rocket league as well, and fair enough

we are better than the sa region and i will stand by that any day

that and, the 10 orgs chosen were wise on riot's end, like despite our size our population is still small, and bigger countries population wise like the Philippines and Thailand only got one org, same with Indonesia, and India. We just fell outside the 10 and that our only possible org (order) pulled out right before franchising due to bankruptcy

fpx 26-9 nova
autumn goes 34/9/7

we dont, riot just watched our region just shrivel up and did nothing about it, honestly grouping us with asia and then forgetting we exist in that league when we have players all around the world killed the oce region.
even with casting talent like conky and komodo, who are a lot more entertaining than many other pacific casting, just got no opportunities from riot