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That's exactly why i don't watch that shit
Too much cringe

I personally never root for an EU player that went to another major region (or mini-region). For example i'd never root for ardiis now.
If i were brazilian, i would never root for sacy and pancada but that's just me, everyone is different and free to root for whoever they want

NA supports anyone going against EMEA
It's their right tho

100T kept FOUR players from last year and LEV kept 3 (the core), they're favoured to win IMO

Trophy this year and a very high placing in ALL 3 LANs this year or the coach needs to be booted, and FNC need to bring in an assistant coach and an analyst all year long. The lack of coaching staff compared to other S tier teams is laughable.

It was so funny watching Derke crumble and perform much below the standards he made for himself after destroying during previous matches. As soon as the pressure goes high, he just disappears. While alfajer, a 17 year old that had his first big LAN performed so much better when the pressure was on.

After watching xms cypher, I have 0 hope in this mf to do anything

Yes +1000000000000 Riot emea need a hard look into this and need to do only 3 leagues or 4 if we include turkey
Turkey gets its own league ok
north european league
western european league (france, spain, benelux portugal italy etc)
and eastern league
With no import restrictions, and the bigger leagues (like western for example) get more than 10 teams, maybe 15.

The way it is rn, nobody is watching anyway. They can't apply league of legends program to valorant, as league of legends is at least 10x more popular than valorant. ZERO viewership, less leagues please and less import restrictions within the region

Tbh he's not even playing full-time (they switch between taco and keznit)
I think KiNg is the special one here and nzr is a very good IGL. Also they work harder than any other team. From listening to streams and to sean gares, they are scrimming so much more than others. + Ofc Onur who's like top 3 coach.

I'm really looking forward to it.

been slapped as hard as he got slapped as when he scrimmed against them : https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/118eeqa/s0mcs_on_stream_predicts_leviatan_will_win_lockin/

:0000000000000

Those tracker gg are not the monthly active players man

Valorant's monthly active players are a probably lot lower than that. Riot will not release the numbers, and to my knowledge there is no other way to know

to any of the NA teams : Any opponents they have taken specific note of, from scrims ? (You can probably word it better than me i am terrible, but basically if there was one team or something that destroyed them like Gambit 2021 used to destroy the visiting teams in scrims, stuff like that)

To LEV : How do they decide between who plays which map, between Tacolilla and Keznit ?

FNS said 100T are better since sean gares left
so no way EDG win this
Aren't they worse than FPX?

I've watched yinsu interview him, his english is broken, however maybe my standards are too high
IMO it's ok english for a normal player, but for an igl, it's not that good for a team that coms in english. I'm happy to be proven wrong of course.
Let's go Liquid !

There is no way RRQ lose to FUT
FUT struggled so hard to win VRL finals last year and they didnt make a single change. Nope, not good enough

It depends on two things :

• Can redgar be the GOD igl that he was in 2021 while speaking his broken english ?
• Can zyppan out-aim the TL players consistently, cause when zyppan isn't hitting, NAVI games look so much harder to win and suygetsu and shao have to do some inhumane shit to win

Fnc take over a year to even learn a map properly (not any player’s fault, this is coaching staff issue) + i have heard multiple players talk shit about how much they hate pearl and how little they play it. Derke literally sais dodges when he gets pearl.

If pearl isnt fnc’s permaban ill be surprised.

Lev will qualify fo semis

Open circuit better than this shitshow we have for tier 2 right now

These are the kinds of threads we need.
Very good thread and translation, thank you.

Thank you for the very detailed post
i was very curious about FURIA so ty

I see 6 players on the player list
do we know which are the starting 5 and which one is the one sitting on the bench ?

Who is Noyn ?

I've never watched a single FURIA game
How good/bad are they ? How do they compare to loud? do we expect them to beat T1 or what

which team accused him (i mean what's the team's name) ? Surely not his current one?

yes but you can always make a better roster. In fact just getting Valyn instead of Stellar to IGL for you guys would be an upgrade.
Of course 100T are already very good

what do you mean ? Do you think the insane money that NA orgs are spending aren't gonna attract players from BR/LATAM/EU ?
NA salaries are legit like 10x EU salaries, can you imagine how much higher they are than BR orgs ? NA orgs pay franchise players like 70k/ a month

Money is money

? any region does ?
If you go to EMEA, and scrim emea teams, high chances the emea teams will share the info between themselves or if they're tier 2, theyll share them with the EMEA teams at the tournament
If you go to NA, and scrim the NA teams, high chances the NA teams will share the scrim info with the other NA teams

Why do you think so many EMEA teams for example, pick a specific group of tier 2 teams to scrim against that they have already made sure they could realistically not be sharing info.
It's just standard logic, what's wrong with it ? Gotta hustle bro. You either win or lose, and you gotta try everything you can (besides straight up cheating) to do it.

Not my fault, you think your region is full of only saints and none of them, not a single one would ever share a single info with their friend on another team (delusional lmao, we are humans and humans do these things)

Yes, u got any ? I can provide my life savings (0 euros)

Imagine If messi was born 10 years later : OOOOO

which cheeks ?
Just asking

Legit, think for 2 seconds :
Compressing all your bestest players in FIVE teams instead of 10.
NOW IMAGINE NRG with Trent instead of Victor ? Or Nismo, who is a bit worse than trent but top top tier and his kayo is godlike
Imagine instead of Ethan's current teammates he had supamen, Eeiu, valyn

Next few years are gonna be really rough for the other regions.
Also NA has more money than all other regions combined. Before NA goes to EU to import in the next few years, they're gonna pillage the Brazil teams instead just like sentinels did. So now imagine if 100T decide to kick derrik and stellar (subpar IGL and there is much better in americas than derrik) and instead just get SAADHAK to IGL and whoever plays sova/Fade in current LOUD. They could also just steal Tacolilla, and kiNgg from LEV.

It's overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I give NA like until start of 2024 to pull ahead of all other regions simply by combining their already existing talents with imports from other regions and that's gg.
Money wins

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, i was bored and decided to write this

Too far
I'm suing

Thank you thank you

in whose chat, did mistic say this ?
Also thank you very much for info. I alrdy knew about PARLA performing in scrims at an insane level, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy above what they show in officials.
but cool info about LOUD, not surprised at all, aimer teams do the best in scrims

tbh he has no choice this time, because he's not in emea anymore and can't only scrim tier 2 EMEA
He has to scrim other teams.
It's eitehr teams at the event, or brazilian tier 2 teams (who will share the info with the BR teams that are at the event) so info will be shared REGARDLESS

If a LAN isnt in EMEA, he has no choice but to scrim teams at the event. It hasnt happened yet, because all riot lans have been in emea so far, that's all.

I hate all of you guys for doing this to me
Sad ;'(

...Bro don't play with my feelings

Surely some player said something in a press conference, or on stream or something about who is shitting on people in scrims or literally ANYTHING juicy

And please don't give me troll answers, it's not funny : (

Derke about to be sent home crying

Where did you hear that these teams made offers to sayf ?

Why would he refuse that much money ? NA salaries are like 10x emea ones, this is hard to believe.

Also am i the only one disgusted that NA is already trying to import when we’re barely 3 years into the esport ? Like bruh, valorant is the most popular in NA out of all regions, and NA has so many cracked Oppers wtf is wrong with that dumbass region ?

But they havent won yet
So why on na, before that even happens

Just sit back, stop hating and just enjoy the games.
Even though i believe nrg will 2-0 today, i still think loud will give us viewers a very enterta Match

Nice try
Then dont get a venue where you cant use AC
Wtf kinda logic is that

Stop

? Loud aren't getting through NRG in the first place lol
They wont have the opportunity to play DRX

W

I can't believe people have been hating on teams like KOI, C9, Giants, EG, MIBR etc
This event sucks, stop hating, the format isnt good

Dont support them. They dont deserve it.

The players are innocebt but if the staff is treating you like trash + they cant even get a venue with a working AC instead of everyone sweatibg their ass off losing their body weight in water, and all the other bullshit then they dont deserve support.

Good luck, hope the matches are fun at least

Really need scrimbux, especially with the omega bracket teams being there now