No Pressure 2-0 ForZe
Cloud is insanely good.
Oh its a Bo5?
In that case, 3-1 No Pressure

Acend 2-1 Guild.
Both teams are playing insanely well, glad to see they will both make it to Playoffs.
My predictions are FPX and FNATIC make it too.
Good matches coming up!

Predictions-
100T bans Split, V1 bans Bind
V1 pick Haven, 100T pick Icebox, V1/100T pick Ascent (Neither team chose Breeze over Ascent in Open Quals)

V1 take Haven, 100T take Icebox, Ascent could go either way, but I'm going to give it to V1. Their performance with Thief on the roster, who top-fragged as cypher, was extremely good. 100T, on the other hand, dropped a map to both Soar and Noble in open qualifiers
So V1 2-1

G2 2-1 Guild.
If FNATIC, FNC 2-1 G2

Well, GG Liquid. We'll see you next Challengers. Unlucky bracket for Liquid, they faced FNATIC, and FPX/Acend, arguably the three best teams in EMEA rn.
FPX 2-0 TL or Acend 2-0 TL
Either way Liquid is knocked out here.

TL and FPX are messing up my pickems:(

If Navi win this they have to sign this roster

FNATIC 2-1
Close match though

VAMOS G2!
Hahahaha

Umm Vamos FPX?

Also, no hate towards the Turkish and Brazilian fans, but before EMEA playoffs and Masters, those guys spammed every single NA and EU comment with replies like "FUck NA, shit region" and downvoted any non-BR/TR comments.
Chill out.

Lmao the G2 vs FPX match thread literally has 600+ comments at the moment!
Most of which are G2 fans hyping their team up.

Hey, I get it G2 actually looks really good after a long time since their dominance during beta and mid-2020.

But don't downvote comments from other fans that hype their teams up, then it gets annoying.

Gambit 2-0
I wanna see this team in Berlin!

Damn, I didn't know they were NAVI. Lmfao I was so surprised when I saw that One Breath was 2-0d by a non-org team. K, 2-1 Navi.

THIS THREAD HAS 600 COMMENTS JESUS CHRIST

Jett- TenZ and CNed (Insane fragging and entry ability), Shahzam (Passive oping)
Phoenix- Victor, Sick, Asuna (Entry well and have great ability usage) Idk about non-NA regions for Phoenix
Reyna- ScreaM, TenZ (he makes use of Reyna's dismiss to take aggro angles really well)
Raze- Leaf, Nukkye, Asuna
Yoru- Gtn( lmao)
Viper- Ange1, Jesmund (he kinda carries VIT on viper lol), Bonecold
Omen- Nitr0, Marved (decent fragging power and good utility)
Astra- Zombs, Akumaaaaa, s0m, Boaster
Brimstone- Boaster (Good IGL ability), supamen (hella underrated)
Sova- Sinatraa, Sacy, Zekken, BCJ, crashies, Lakia
Breach- Shadow, Suggest (agent is not played much)
Skye- Mistic, Soulcas, Subroza
Sage- Scream, Ethan, lowel
Killjoy- Magnum, ponkt (Team Finest), mitch, Paura, Koler
Cypher- Thwifo, Dapr, Aproto, nAts, sayf,
Flex- Mixwell, Sick, Thief, Zyppan, Skadoodle, Boaster

I don''t watch much of non-NA/EU Valorant so this list doesn't include players from these regions.

To be fair, EG is kinda cracked now with roca, temperature, and branted and got knocked out of VCT by SEN. But still, didn't expect IMT to even play in this tournament lmao let alone lose.

Yea lol, I just am hoping that SMB get whatever went wrong sorted out and live up to their potential because their team looks incredibly good on paper. So my TR bracket might be kinda biased lmao

The new XSET with Zekken is insanely good. I think that this roster with dephh and zekken is one of the most all-rounded rosters in NA. Dephh's IGL ability is also pretty insane. Also, 100T have been looking shaky, they dropped icebox which used to be their best map to Soar and Noble. That is why I put XSET over 100T. I am still kinda unsure about V1 vs XSET, both teams are playing incredibly well, and Thief is popping off rn as a sub on V1.

Nice one! Mine is almost exactly the same, except I have Envy winning the lower finals against V1.
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/afd683a3

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/afd683a3

Thoughts?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/afd683a3

Thoughts?

LG benched their best player and got destroyed by him on another team lmao. Thief, YaBoiDre, and Aproto are too good for this org, I think they should leave.

EU- https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/a9593e8f
TR- https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9f585c73
CIS- https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/623d5684

I haven't watched TR much in the past weeks so I am estimating based on EMEA Challengers before Reykjavik and on the players in SMB.

Thoughts?