This Sakurai dude looks like he is matchfixing, dude is not using his smokes at all on defense and going for solo peeks

Sick first map, tons of clutches, crazy setplay and insane comp by Murash that had a surprising amount of legs to it

I kinda wished they used Aace as their main duelist, he is doing well on the flex but just like Syouta he could probably have more impact on a duelist role instead.

It comes down to inexperience, Caedye is really feeling the jitters in his first broadcasted game. Yatsuka and Aace were very calm in this match, they both just struggled a bit on the Omen. Not sure what to think of the double duelist usage of Riddle tho, both Seoldam and Caedye need to work on their synergy and entries, they seemed partly lost in the match and just didn't get enough space for the team. At least they overcome the hurdle of qualifying for the Split2 stage. Varrel also looks way more cohesive as a team with kAyle, he seemed like decent pickup for them.

Caedye really looks bad on the duelist, dude just doesn't use util, clear corners or gains any space as an entry. Aace and Yatsuka seem like the way more talented Zeta academy players

Seoldam MUGA

Click masterclass match

xero is the truth, next upcoming player, crazy ranked demon!

dude was smurfing on them wtf

Statistically he was one of the best sentinel players in all of APAC, what are you on about?

Bro put Egoist 1st when we have never seen him play in tier1

what do you think about Tonbo as a player? he seems quite promising and is definitely better than someone like Takej

get Spring a better team or save him from NIP, this dude's talent is wasted rn on NIP

Then I misunderstood and am sorry. I was more pissed off of Ascension being kinda put aside. But yes Bleed isn't a masters winners candidate in all likelihood, I was more thinking of them being able to qualify to like one tourney or more throughout the season.

I don't get how PRX is that much worse when they have insane enough time to adjust and prepare with Monyet who also had unbelievable stats and a debatable better apac season individually than Jinggg. He isn't Jinggg and Nobody is and plays like him, he probably won't pull out rounds win out of nowhere like him. But it is also not like you are giving him even the chance to showcase the skill he has and the potential he brings to the team. He has a way bigger agent pool than Jinggg, he doesn't overheat as much as him but he is an incredible smart and good player that could change and benifit the gameplay style for PRX in the long term. They will be able to flex more crazy agents comps and could profit of Monyet not doing the same mistakes as Jinggg does against eco rounds.

Even if you are assess matchups, you are probably being wrong. Teams like Jadeite and Mith had been romured throughout the year that they had been destroying tier 1 teams in scrims and both of those orgs didn't even make it to Ascension, you are very presumptuous in claiming Ascension and tier2 in APAC was bad and believing they wouldn't be able to compete in tier1.

You are saying this as if Scarz, DK and Boom wouldn't have been able to beat teams like T1, GenG, Zeta, TS and RRQ. APAC only had two great teams throughout this year in tier1 with DRX and PRX, the others looked very unfinished, inconsistent rough and lacked achievements in the internationals. This next year should be just more competitive in general and Bleed is not bad at all, just because you think Ascension wasn't good in Apac, for my part I do believe that the old roster of Scarz and Bleed would have been able to make the rest of APAC tier 1 sweat aside from the top 2 . They have some real potential and have great staff that can make it work.

Yeah if Juicy was allowed in it would have been a even more crazier roster. T1's problem for me are them not having a real great Igl and their midrounding being somewhat lackluster at certain moments at Champs and Tokyo, this really put my expectations lower for them. Aside from that the upgrades are really good tho on paper and Xccurate should be able to bring in some experience, if they fix the igling issue they could and should compete for top 3 in APAC. I also somewhat expect RRQ to be a real dark horse tho for this next year, Jemkin and Estrella are some real great upgrades over the old players they had, their coaching and adjustments throughout the season also were superb, I am kinda excited to see what Ewok is gonna bring out with this improved RRQ.

There is so much crazy doubt on Bleed with Yay for some reason, they really think Bleed's old roster would not have been able to beat T1 even tho they were smoking them before in pracc.

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Bleed gets Yay, has Sscary and Crazyguy -> says they are midtable???
They should be easily top 3 in APAC

Yay owns these frauds at RRQ and T1

Jokes aside APAC might become very exciting next year 👀

At 52:13 for the Vod in the next game on Sunset they matched together again with Flipz, you can clearly hear two voices out of the Fade which Deryeon is playing.
Match Id: https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/d53b91ba-2bf7-4005-a8b5-735f1e15e457

Ez for Les Sixz!
JP orgs need to try out more new talent if a f/a team is this good and filled with cracked aim players

Spread the word, Tonbo is a real Japanese prospect that should be on bigger radar for the Japanese orgs

Tonbo is so good!

Tonbo is really crazy!!! Someone get him to tier1

https://prnt.sc/Xv6C3KFMCDL5
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The TS manager is the wife of Jessievash and Jeremy is her nephew.

This region is so dead, they will never learn to produce home grown new talent.

EDG were trolling before, the moment they took the games seriously they 3-0ed both BLG and ASE. They are by far still the best Chinese team. They lost a series or two, but are still without a doubt the most experienced team in China and if you watched the last two matches they are a lvl above the rest in their region.

Lil bro is high af

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Nice fast statement by Bleed🩸. Hopefully it clears out the things people have spread here in this thread.

Thinking about huge oversight of Bleed if the ban is not lifted yet, I hope they make a statement or reply in some form. I actually agree with Fayde on the ruling issue of Riot in cheating regards those are things that shouldn't be easily disregarded.

His bans have been lifted since then, otherwise it would not make sense for Bleed to sign him for the ascension roster. I can't imagine they put all the effort to create their academy team then promote him for it all to be cancelled because Juicy can't compete because of a going ban.

You are always spreading negativity for no reason. Do you think such threads are helpful?

There is a reason why there is so much hate for KR in VLR and you are one of the problems as always. You are not helping yourself and your region out.

For me it's about the image that you create for yourself and partly just makes KR fans look worse on this site.

With how things are going you won't ever see more than 1KR team on stage.

normally not, he plays more of an initiator role in his previous teams. He seems very talented mechanically and they have time maybe they put him on the duelist role but tbh they don't have anyone else who plays Raze in the team.

my reply kinda doubled huh?

This is my pickem
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9d9b5c86

I went for two really big upsets here, the first one is EDG coming alive out of group A which is tbh very hard to do and probably very unrealistic and the 2nd being Zeta beating Loud in a possible rematch.

My reasons are that PRX and EDG are scrimpartners who probably knew each other very well and when it comes to that PRX kinda struggles against teams who are generally prepared for the set-plays they have and also my absolute Hopium/Copium take on EDG being a team with a lot of potential and firepower. Realistically both PRX and Liquid probably win group A but with the 2nd place curse everything can happen. Also Liquid kinda don't lose to latam teams so they probably beat Lev.

In Group B you have my Zeta pick:
Zeta is a team that tbh nobody surely can predict how they will do, they haven't played in a while and are bootcamping in Poland since the last two weeks with a the young sub Xdll who is 16 year old. Also with them being a team that's like to anti-strat they maybe can cook up some stuff that just beats a team like Loud in a rematch. They are right now a big "?" and I would like to see them performing well.

Yep this news is for all of tier 2, it will be announced in about two hours from what I heard so far. It will be super exciting for teams sticking to the tier 2 scene.

They looked really great I think, I knew they would be crazy having myself some insider scrim info (which said they are at least as good as DRX and having the potential of PRX) but I never expected them to have this fundamentaly great style they showed throughout LCQ.

I expect them to make at least playoffs for Champions and have a similar performance what DRX showcases.
But what makes them really have great potential is the quality of the players, everybody seems to be able to step up whenever it is needed and no one being a liabilty is a unbelievable advantage to have. If KK is dead then Life can carry if Life is dead so can Nobody just clutch out the round and so can Chichoo and Haodong. What I want them to do is to straight up fly to Europe arrive as fast as possible and scrim much as possible, steal some of the utility setups other teams have and invest the resources to catch up a bit on the current meta.
That being said they are for me an incredible team having some of the best fundamentals I have ever seen from a team and also firepower that rivals the best of the world. I can see them make a top 3 run, but for now even reaching top 8-6 would be an amazing achievement for a region that only has an underground scene and nothing more.

as a BIG fan I agree with this mentality but mostly because BIG chokes 13-2 halfs in CS sometimes KEKW

I'm gonna honest with you I thought that Maru looked better stratwise than DK did. I think Maru has a better chance than DK does for a lower bracket run just because I feel like that Maru had the way tougher opponent than DK had in the first series.

He would be on loan says the article: https://dotesports.com/valorant/news/sources-russ-to-step-down-from-guild-for-vct-emea-lcq-twisten-a-possible-replacement
Also he extended his contract with BIG last week https://twitter.com/TwistenVAL/status/1549853057298604034?t=UjVDQB038Obxj4LAMCXEbA&s=19 so probably just a loan that goes till Champions or something like that

It's 50/50 with them either they roll East Asia LCQ or get stomped.
Scrim results are not easy to translate into officials.
They are stomping a lot of good teams in practice from what goes around and should still be a team to look out for, maybe not a straight up favorite but a dark horse.

they can't dude they were not allowed because of covid those were real rules. tf

you mean an arena filled with 20k people all using thunder sticks to make up for a fact that they are not allowed to be screaming are not loud at all? You guys can't be this delusional right?

What is even the point for this thread, are people just wanting to spread negativity for no reason?

you are just a lousy man trying to put the culture of other nations down, conventietly ignoring that there were rules set on that place and spreading negativity for no reason. Get back on earth on man, denmark is still a shitty place for Valorant because there is no fanbase (looking at all the seats that were not filled in the matches) the only reason it was picked was for the availability for visas in that country.

you guys are fucking weird man, the audience was insanely loud those thundersticks are no joke at all. People also always try to ignore the fact that JP has rules for covid like that you can't yell at all. Get the negative shit out here and just enjoy the fact that the soundproduction of riot makes it louder than it actually is.