They will lose in playoffs to the playins winner which will be Loud or Leviatan imo (maybe Sentinels)

Single-elimination playoffs would not be a problem if it were best-of-five matches tbh

Would be nice

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ac3f7c31

Sorry Sentinels

Group B winner v Group C winner wtf? (unless playins winner is from group A)

EMEA:
That most likely means Navi v Fnatic so one of those teams would not make it to Masters Madrid
(Vitality (group c) will most likely win playins)

Pacific:
That most likely means Drx v Prx so one of those teams would not make it to masters Madrid
(group A (Bleed, Zeta and T1) looks stacked tho and will probably win playins so might be save?)

Americas:
is save since group C won't have one of the top teams in it (Lev, Loud, Sen, NRG)
(Group C will be EG-C9-G2 I assume)
(Group A will be NRG and a bunch of weaker teams)
(Group B will be stacked as fuck (Loud-Lev-Sen-100T probably))
(or the other way around for group A and B)

Not a single NA player that's better than those 10

What a banger immediately (assuming Vitality beat Gentle Mates)

B03 SINGLE ELIM TO DECIDE WHO GOES TO AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT WOW!

Assuming Jingg ain't playing it's gonna be either Monyet or Something on the Raze for sure no?

Forsaken is too good on other roles to try and experiment him on Raze instead of the other 2(4) (Mindfreak Raze xd)

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING BLUD?

2nd placed team v 10th placed team - 5th placed team v 8th placed team (in the same group)
etc.

Makes way more sense.

Nah this is just silly
Putting the teams that performed the best last year in the same group is exactly what they're gonna try and avoid

it's gonna be:
1-6-9/11
2-5-8-10
3-4-7-9/11
in the same group or something very similar.

• Sen has been hinting that Sacy is on Gekko duty now that Skye is nerfed

I genuinely believe they will make every international event again as always.

Don't think they will go past top 4 at those tournaments tho

Well let's hope both Navi and Fut got better.
I fully believe that's the case

Nah this is just wrong
They're not gonna place the 2nd to 5th placed teams from last year in the same group that would be as dumb as it could possibly be

I don't think any team coming from the Americas region will be as good as last years EG

NRG
Ethan as IGL will probably be worse
Crashies can be insane but was meh towards the end of the year
Victor has been very inconsistent
Marved can still be Marved but not too sure if that will be the case
Demon1 is Demon1

Lev
I don't see them working out to be honest
They might reach semis through individual brilliance but won't be good enough to win a trophy

Sen
at their best maybe can reach that level but I very much doubt it

Suygetsu
Less
Alfajer
Scream
Demon1

Those are also EMEA t2 teams
NA logic strikes again

Objectively only Chronicle can be viewed as the GOAT
Only player with 2+ international trophies while being one of the top performers on his respective teams and also was cucked by politics for a full year but still has the most trophies out of any player in the world.
Only argument you can have against him is that he hasn't won Champs yet but that's a weak argument because only 15 players have won champs till now.

Nah since the guy is legit one of the only duelists in the world that can play both Jett and Raze on an incredibly high level.

Lmao just because he's had 1 bad tournament?

He was top 3 rated at almost every tournament he has played.

He always popped off in the big games aka playoff games at international events.

Chronicle is easily the GOAT of Valorant right now.

I rest my case.

Jdg making moves as expected

Well, well well

If Loud doesn't manage to make any international events it's gonna be an easy 3-peat next year

Fnatic owns every region in the world except for the Brazilian teams which they struggle with most of the time

Guy hasn't had a bad game ever
Not even in ranked

Future world champion or at least EMEA champion

Apeks really is a massive favorite against a T1 team

1 game and making conclusions okay

We don't even need it

2024 biggest rivalry will be between Fnatic and Navi

they're gonna win this tournament easily now

There are 11 US states bigger than the UK just pipe down with this narrative

Facts

Americas = Premier League
A lot of good teams that can all beat each other and some world class teams that could win international trophies.
EMEA = La Liga
A lot of good teams but a bit less depth than the Americas league but with the actual best teams in the world like Fnatic (Real Madrid).
Apac = Bundesliga
Paper Rex is Bayern and basically the only team that matters and that can win international trophies while Drx is Dortmund the eternal chokers.
China = Ligue 1
EDG = PSG a team with world class players but will probably never win an international trophy and the rest of the teams are kinda meh but can pull upsets here and there.

How did he get surprised that Jingg was there?

Hahahahahaha so true actually

Bruh 💀

Mary is so far ahead of the competition
She can retire and come back in a few years and still be the best

Which will happen just wait and see

Mary clears

GC GOAT

16 year old with no former experience won a world championship while hard carrying

Thank you for not being biased

Mary still the goat for sure

Mary clears

Sub him in

1v9 at the moment

NA has to cheat to win

They're back

Pressure will be fucking high so I'm expecting stomps ngl

Bro called me handsome

I look lot like these guys

Thx bro

Who's gonna join
EMEA
1 champs
1 GC champs

Brazil
1 champs
?

NA
1 champs
?

Mimi clears both

Most trophies
Y'all are happy that we ain't winning constantly lmao hahahaha

Damn
Apac choke
Team Liquid GG's girls

Yes but it's still an illness so you're not at 100% which is a disadvantage for sure

More teams for sure and it could easily be more spread instead of 3 games every day and fucking lower and semis and finals on the same day

At least those were not 1 week tournaments