yeah just close the chat, thats what I do because its just terrible takes, regional supremacy arguments, or just overall toxicity. You enjoy VCT way more by closing the chat for the whole match.

EMEA: FNC, GUILD, FPX/M3C (toss up)
NA: OPTIC , 100T (could fall out based on how the rest of the chaotic group stages go)
BR: LOUD, NIP
LATAM: Leviatan
JP: ZETA
KR: DRX
APAC: PRX, ORDER

the entire LG roster
also someone needa get girl kissers (former renegades) an org too

BBG, GenG, Misfits all feel like good contenders to pick up the roster. We'll have to wait and see, pretty sure LGs roster are technically qualifying for LCQ at this point so someone will likely have to pick them up.

Luminositys parent company lost 8.6M in Q1 2022 and have been doing cost cutting all across the board, so thus I guess alot of the LG esports end up getting cut. Is it a shitty decision yes? But their players aren't boring and are easily in that top 8 of NA so hopefully their roster gets picked up by another org.

so the whole NA tier 1 scene, LOL

jonas is in LA now, so I don't think that'll happen sadly

best take, I've never found myself getting bored watching pro games even if its in a language I don't understand because every region ends up being drastically different from eachother. Its what makes international LANs great. Cause if everyone played the same it'd get pretty boring I'd think

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top 8 hell no, but NA has never been just a one team region so I dunno what ur tripping on about either. Outside of this year where Guard bombed out and Sentinels and Optic choking at Champions every other event has solidified that NA is still a pretty competitive region.

Berlin: EMEA and NA both had 3 teams in top 8.
Iceland: NA has both titles so.

handles, I dunno, I think those two teams could easily be the grand finals of Copenhagen. But I don't think it would be a 2-0 or 3-0 like say what happened with Optic and Loud at Iceland.

Fnatic right now is kinda similar to Optic in a sense that both of them don't have alot of rep matches against teams in the others region.
Optic has only ever played Acend at Champions.
Fnatic has only played Sentinels, Cloud9, and V1 and they're 2-1 against NA teams.

Its definitely a match to look out for that I think could go either way.

mans rlly said steel 💀x7

ranked and esports are two very different styles of play though. 90% of ranked games are nothing close, even on the highest level. Currys a good player but he still has yet to show it on the tier1 level, hopefully he does otherwise C9 is gonna look stupider than they already do for trading Xeta.

NA has 2 LANs
EMEA has 2 LANs (with 1 more important being Champions)

But this is indeed a yikes from babysasuke

Optic prob goes undefeated in NA groups, either flawlesses playoffs or makes a LB run like they do, and then go to Copenhagen and hopium continue to prove that they're the best in the world right now, but Fnatic is honeymooning hard right now and are easily on the same tier/level as Optic rn. Either way if they play at Copenhagen it should be a fire matchup

Vandal attack
Phantom defense
Vandal on most agents
Phantom for smokes
Vandal for Crisp
Phantom for Consistency
Vandal 100% for Breeze Icebox
Other maps it can be mixed.

Aka it comes down to playstyle and preference, I use both pretty consistently but I personally prefer the Vandal because the one tap headshots being really satisfying

is there anyone other than genghsta tho?

best take

I don't rlly see how, I'm just saying its good by comparison to other disney star wars content. Just obviously has a few MINOR issues that depending on how seriously you take the show will either be something very noticeable or just gloss right over you.

Coming from a huge Star Wars fan I think its pretty good thus far, outside of a few minor gripes with how disney tends to ruin crap. Its definitely got its flaws like how they've messed with the canonicity of another disney show they made, some cheesy chase scenes with young Leia, and alot of bad writing on the villains outside of Vader. But thus far through 3 episodes I've enjoyed it and it definitely has potential, like its atleast better than a fair amount of other disney star wars content.

whatever teams have the biggest round/map differential

DRX are easily like a top 5-8 team ITW they just end up choking at a masters event but they very likely will win a title one of these days. Theyre just one of those teams that have alot of the pieces but just need to put it into execution

doubt

2-1 hopium for NRG just so we can get all of group A into a cluster fuck of 2-2. Ethan revenge game and prob gonna be the best game of the weekend

s0m, tarik, xeppaa, flexinja, averagejonas

hm: vanity, boaster, prod

its almost as if everyone has been calling for it for a year now and that Riot has acknowledged that he will eventually get a buff/rework theres just no timetable.

isn't a super popular team when theres boat loads of bandwagon/big team fans in NA.
Teams like EG, Ghost, NRG, Knights, LG all have fans just not as many compared to 100t, tsm, sen, optic.

We exist trust me

Good for practicing good habits/mechanics but it plays out so awfully with people just footstep camping.

Stuff that others named like crosshair placement n what not should be the main focus

Honestly just having a much more competitive region overall in NA is good. And we arent the only region seeing that. Competition levels right now in tier 1 are pretty damn tight outside of maybe 1-2 top tier teams in each region (optic, fnatic, prx, loud).

Outside of Optic realistically any other the other 11 NA teams could qualify to M2 with how groups are going.
But it would be rlly funny to see everyone being 2-2 next week but I agree on the last point where whoever ends up being 5/6 in the group itll really suck for because every match has been pretty tight

facts

fair assessment tbh, but as #3 pointed out, ranked 2-11 are all toss ups due to how UNPREDICTABLE the groups have been, the amount of upsets we've seen really goes to show that NA valorant is really competitive for that 2nd top spot behind Optic. Which in all honesty is great to see just is really damn hard to rank

would be really funny if that did happen

lets count how many times sentinels have fallen off since Iceland last year

only thing sentinels have now is them being consistently bad

Optic is a lock, but outta every other team it could be really anybody right now. NA competition is pretty close outside of that.

sentinels fan is one to talk

Yeah I have no idea whats going on right now, not to mention they JUST started bootcamping.

Either Ghost are just built different or NRG is just having a really bad off day. Hurts to watch at times tbh.

yeah alot of people missed that in the middle of the action,

Tex didn't have bomb he had to go and pick it up after koala collat sniped eeiu and s0m

this hurts to watch

fair, tbh theres alot of really quality controllers in NA.

fr boomer mans is popping off

this round was nutty for both sides, match is gonna be a certified banger

Marved and Bang are the best 2.
Honorable mentions are Depph, Valyn, Hazed, Aproto, Vanity back when he was on smokes but he's since switched

Gonna be a banger, we got S0m Yoru

what the hell is C9 doing lol

Hoping NRG wins but this match should be a banger either way

That last round was the biggest clusterfuck i've seen in awhile

true, but NRG wasnt bootcamping for its first two matches and now they will be, so they might be next level compared to when they were against TSM and XSET is what I meant by that

Watch parties probably, that and the main stream being English which likely isnt most russians or turks first language of choice

its called TSM is the kryptonite of 100T but shit the bed against everyone else in simple terms.
Thats not saying TSM or 100T are bad just that TSM is at the bottom because they can't* beat any of the other teams in their group.