Riot made this seedings in a way in which all the regions are considered to be at the same level

Pretty much the crux of the problem and why everybody is indirectly calling for region power rankings to influence the pools. Unfortunately, Riot in their attempts to be as objective as possible are not gonna add region power rankings weights based on a sample size of 1 international tournament.

G2 being #blessed with easier groups, just like Lewis Hamilton in F1

lol if you think EU/NA fans are a problem, what about Pakistani fans(and vice versa, Indians towards Pakis)? Legit tuned in for 5 minutes of the VCC tournament to see twitch chat wildin' in terms of Kashmir, Modi and other stuff that you guys politically beef about.

ngl, was pretty entertaining though

That would be like a cherry on top of the cake in terms of circuit structure

yeah I messed up the summer times

ok

There is nothing special about this game tactically, you can be among the best even if all you do is "rush a/b simulator".

That's all you really need in this game tbh. It all comes down to how cohesively players can play with each other whilst making plays together - i.e. how well they are covering angles for each other, how well they are trading each other out, how well they are stacking utilities to set create possibilities for power plays and so on.

13:00 Monday, Central European Time (CET) is
07:00 Monday, Eastern Time (ET)

13:00 = 1pm
07:00 = 7am

oxygen esports is an american organisation that has signed a turkish 5 stack that plays in TR region, no reason to not have the same scenario with an american org and F4Q

plus1, that's what I keep repeating on loop myself

Italian pizza is over rated anyways, Swedish kebab pizza drenched with garlic sauce is where it's at.

literal baiter

Mans literally saw 14000605 timelines

That is all forgiven, considering that Riot is a small and independent indie video game developer company

THE TECHNOLOGY IS SIMPLY NOT THERE YET TO ENSURE THAT EVERYBODY IS REASONABLY HAPPY ABOUT GROUP STAGE BRACKETS

This only confirms that Volvo > Rito

RIOT IS A SMALL INDIE VIDEO GAME DEVELOPER COMPANY, THEY ARE SIMPLY NOT BIG ENOUGH TO AFFORD TECHNOLOGY THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO CREATE GROUP BRACKETS THAT EVERYBODY WOULD REASONABLY BE HAPPY ABOUT

Riot: hope nobody saw that hehehe, we are a small indie game developer company after all

That's good, ty for figuring this out

Has anybody come up with ingenious throw scenarios in group stages to have an easier path to the finals in playoffs bracket, yet? Specifically talking about teams wanting to throw games in group stage to ensure that they place 2nd in groups, thus increasing the likelihood of deeper playoff run during single elimination playoff bracket.

Déjà vu
I've just been in this place before
Higher on the street
And I know it's my time to go

Sooo, what are the logical $322 throw scenarios in groups, considering Riot already published the complete playoff bracket too? By this I mean, specifically place 2nd in groups to get an easier path to finals in the playoffs bracket

telling how it actually be like ))

Fucking hell, fuck this virus. Rest in peace

Can't confirm, the shit I do to my food would have landed me in Italian concentration camp long time ago

That's true, I suppose

Okay, this is becoming even more confusing. What does a Tenstar affiliated assistant coach got to do with this mix? :o

/r/valorantcompetitive reddit threads, those nerds are the first ones to get their hands on this stuff

niesow departure was the real nail in the coffin for that team

who hurt u

Fair enough, your points are reasonable. In the end, Valorant is pretty volatile and I think that in this game in particular, a specific team, or a specific comp can counter whatever the opponent has prepared before hand. I hope that other teams are now going to be underestimating EU's teams, only for EU teams to hit their stride on LAN, despite the current EMEA result

Dunno, these 1 hundredth defuse/plant scenarios sound like excuses to me. First of all, those particular rounds were exceptions, but what about the rest of the rounds that ensured that a lucky defuse/plant was gonna determine the winner of the game? I'm pretty sure teams that are contenders for the title of the best of the best will want to make sure that they win rounds to an extent where lucky outlier defuses/plants do not change the final outcome of the match

Because popular to contrary belief, CS:GO is not yet dead in stronghold regions and arguably not even in NA tier 1 scene. The issue with NA is that no new orgs want to enter CS:GO when they can enter Valolrant instead.

.01 seconds away is irrelevant when G2 were 12-8 up at one point imho. They still had at least 2 more opportunities to properly close that game out, but they didn't and instead let Gambit win in OT.

EDIT: perhaps people are also misinterpreting my comment. What I mean by reality check is not that EU is completely done, but rather that EU big orgs are gonna have to do something about their praccs to make sure that they are better. Like G2 spent a whole July praccing and even had a bootcamp, but their play still relied heavily on somebody popping off just like in Challengers 1 qualifiers. The game against SMB really exposed G2's flaws when they literally had no counter to SMB's utility set plays and I think it's simply down to the fact that G2's preparation wasn't as good as it could have been.

I think there is definitely an ego element involved. My impression is that EU big org names don't take scrim beatings(generalising here based on scrimbux rumours and attitude of some players during their streams when they talk about these) against TR teams and Gambit seriously, because they think that for some reason the teams they lose against in scrims will not be able to repeat the same things during officials. Well it now appears that they've been wrong and hopefully will lead to some good old reality check.

You should open a betting advice group, tell people to place bets against teams that you support

You first heard it here folks, EU is totally finished and there is no way they can ever recover from this

Hopefully one of gydom galva guys sees this here: Who discovered Humble and how did he end up playing with you? Dude looks promising if he keeps playing like this

Valorant equivalent of C9 tank top boost, mb mb?

Lithuania - DELUSIONAL_NUKKYE_FAN

Who discovered Humble? That guy is a pleasant surprise for Lithuanian scene

Yeah, hence hekzy saying "riot induced".

this. Do have to admit that this is a lowkey genius move from them though, definitely promotes the intra regional competition between big bad EU teams and underdog hero TR/CIS that probably translates into increased viewership

twitch chat was just cosplaying the India-Pakistan diplomatic relations

tHESE aRE JUst sEeDING gAmE yOU guys, NO OnE cares abOuT SeediNg mATcHes

Yeah, not even mad about the plant. Maps 2 and 3 were amazing to watch, but I'd rather forget about map 1 :D

It's clear that G2 has a lot of homework to do before the LAN itself though.

ngl, I thought that G2 won when I saw the round timer being at 4.1s left.

huh, must be very difficult for 2 gambit players to not line up and go through the smokes the very next round

Imagine barely winning against a lucky spray, damn