I’m pretty sure that, back when ShahZaM was telling his chat that they got shroud (and no one believed him), he also told them that pokimane was their new analyst (ig to make it seem even more unbelievable), so I think this post is just in reference to that.

Cryo could work, but idk how zekken would fit in unless they drop Asuna which they would never do

Actually hilarious that you were the one to respond cause I was born in Brazil lol, I just use the U.S. flag cause I live here and go to college here. I know that Brazil and the U.S. are both very flawed, that’s why I want people to think about their own states rather than instigating pointless fights.

I don’t want to start a whole chain of people roasting other countries’ governments, cause we all know that would never end, but there’s just so much hypocrisy in you saying that when it still illegal for two men to have sex or get married in Saint Lucia.

Their last loss on Ascent and Breeze were both to C9 during Champions. They have a 15-map win streak on Ascent and 11-map win streak on Breeze, so idk what LEV were thinking.

I don’t think that’s true? It was true in the NA playoffs, which is why we got a rematch of FaZe v 100T, but I don’t think that’s the case in Copenhagen from looking at the pick’ems.

This makes me wonder what the highest ACS in a single match has been on LAN, cause Derke getting 357 just now is insane but TenZ got 384 against F4Q during Masters Berlin. I feel like that has to be the highest but I don’t want to go through the effort of checking.

He got covid

OpTic won 8-13 13-11 15-13 last time, so it easily could have gone the other way and we’d have DRX placing top three at Reykjavik. I think both teams have improved and it’ll be really close again, but on an individual level the DRX players have been looking better than they did at Reykjavik and that might make the difference.

Victor, Rb
Benkai, Zest
Mistic, BuZz
Marved, MaKo

If DRX don’t do well I’m screwed.

Jet lag isn’t about how long you were traveling, but about how many time zones you cross. The farther you go, the more difficult it is for your body to to fall asleep and wake up at the hours that were normal for you in your original time zone.

nvm Champions had 1,089,068 apparently, but close

I’m pretty sure it’s 1,065,887 for OpTic vs LOUD at Reykjavik

They mean that there will be an EMEA v EMEA match in the lower bracket if PRX wins, so an EMEA team will necessarily be eliminated in 7th - 8th place.

edited, thanks

Out of the 13 perfect ones that remain:

• 6 predict OpTic and FPX winning
• 5 predict KRÜ and FPX winning
• 2 predict KRÜ and NTH winning

None predict the OpTic and NTH combo, so it’s possible that none of the 15814 total participants will be correct. For reference, if everyone just flipped a coin for each match you would expect 15.44 people to be correct.

It was the most uneven map at Reykjavik with a 59% win on attack. Every other map was at most 54% in either direction, so yeah T.

DRX beat PRX 2-1 after losing the first map, so there is precedent.

shroud wasn’t signed to an org, so signing him was probably much cheaper than people think

OG went 26-0 against Spanish Mix (link) and Vieux Touristes (link) in back-to-back matches on June 28th.

Wouldn’t that just help TenZ if everyone starts leaning back to Jett?

Coming soon to an event near you: sinatraa, zombs, SicK, Kanpeki, and Dani.

I haven’t watched much of V1 in quite a while, so I was wondering what people thought of these two? To me, they seem to be the only viable replacements for Kanpeki (i.e., they have high-level experience and are not already on an LCQ team), so do you think SEN made the right choice (if they had a choice) in choosing Zellsis?

For Stage 1 of 2021, there were three Masters events in EMEA (EU, CIS, and Turkey).

It’s generally true for all high-level competitors. Every World Cup winner since 2006 has failed to make it out of the group stage of the following World Cup, and Gambit is the only Valorant team to place in the top four at two consecutive tournaments.

Is it really an upset if KRÜ is now 5-0 against Brazilian teams?

I don’t have the clip, but he said something on his stream about post-LCQ being undecided right now. So the current deal is for LCQ, but it is possible that he could continue to play with them for Champions if they were to qualify.

now i’m annoyed again that we have to wait until november for the world cup to start

I think EG or SR have a better chance than TSM.

anything from Wild Force (2002) to Mystic Force (2006)

While it is possible that Will can improve, or that 100T can modify their gameplay to put Will in better situations, I think it’s unlikely that they’d keep him if they had the opportunity to get Sayaplayer or koalanoob. Both have significantly better FK/FD and would likely have a pretty immediate positive effect. I think the rest of the team is solid enough, and I doubt they’d be able to get other top duelists from more established teams, so Saya and koala are my picks.

XSET don’t play until the 14th or 15th so they’re fine. Same with PRX, LEV, and FNC.

This is starting to border on the “trans women in college sports” argument. If y’all want to actually learn something, maybe just read up on that instead cause you’re not going to get very far talking about something this niche. There are also plenty of other cases outside of Valorant where something is meant for a particular group of people but there isn’t really a way to prove that you belong to that group. I mean what are they going to do, make you take a DNA test and trace your ancestry to make sure you’re Hispanic or something? There will always be some level of honor on the part of the people participating, and anyone who thinks that players will just lie about their status for something like this is super disconnected from reality.

I believe it is possible to get seven kills with only two orbs:

1. The enemy Sage starts the round with her ult ready, and you (Sage) are on defense with at least three ult points.
2. You kill an enemy and the enemy sage revives them.
3. You kill four more enemies, leaving only the enemy Sage alive.
4. The enemy sage kills all of your teammates, you revive one, and she kills the one you revived.
5. The enemy sage collects both ult orbs and plants the spike, then revives another teammate.
6. You kill the last two enemies.

No? If Fnatic don’t win any matches at Copenhagen they could still be overtaken by FPX and GUILD. Same for FPX. One of them is guaranteed to qualify for Champions but not both.

Cryo is 37-19 against yay this year, so not really. OpTic is just better overall.

I’m pretty sure XSET automatically qualifies for Champions if they win playoffs (assuming first seed gets a pass to the top eight like they did at Reykjavik).

Gambit: 3-11 to 13-11 on Icebox
Acend: 7-12 to 14-12 on Breeze
FaZe: 4-10 to 14-12 on Split

Nadeshot must be giving them steroids to boost their clutch gene.

I’m not saying they won’t, but they also went 5-0 and only dropped two maps in Stage 1 before falling in the playoffs.

But NAVI won against BIG and BIG won against M3C, so isn’t H2H pretty useless as a tiebreaker in this case since there’s a cycle?

should BIG win against BBL next Sunday and M3C lose against Liquid, therefore placing both teams at 2-3, BIG will go through to the playoffs.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe NAVI can still qualify as well if they win their match against GUILD and end up in a three-way tie with M3C and BIG at 2-3.

FNS has played 16 matches (39 maps) on LAN in Valorant. Boaster has played 12 matches (29 maps) so idk where you’re getting this idea.

If NRG and TSM get eliminated from Group A (which seems pretty plausible rn), I think SEN qualifies for LCQ. This is assuming there are 8 teams in LCQ, since they’re already guaranteed to be above Knights, Version1, and Rise on the circuit point rankings.

I am currently a junior at Caltech (majoring in CS) and I just want to say that my financial aid has been amazing. That being said, financial aid is harder to get for international students at any U.S. college, so your experience may be different. Also, the ‘t’ in Caltech is not supposed to be capitalized but tbh I don’t really care.

The only correct pickem for the group stage: https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/8424b56a

SEN has won Bind 12/13 times since TenZ joined. ACE has won 28/31 over that same time period (not including the current game against Envy). If they meet in quarters, surely Bind will be played, right? I think SEN takes it as long as no one significantly underperforms, but that would be a banger of a map either way.

I don’t see what’s confusing about this? He repeatedly claimed that their region was being insensitively attacked before zombs said anything, and was clearly trying to rile up his followers and make SEN look worse in this scenario than they were. Yes, things went way too far, but he definitely helped to escalate the situation so this tweet just reads as someone trying to avoid culpability by trying to claim the moral high ground.

And before someone claims that I’m just some dumb NA fanboy, I was born in Brazil so I’m not biased against them, I just have the US flag because I go to college in California.

I mean that’s pretty hypocritical after his previous tweets but ok.

I believe that the NV v X10 match was moved to the end of the day to make it easier for them to accommodate COVID quarantine gameplay, so the schedule on here looks correct to me.

All of the answers so far have been memes, but in reality I think it’s just because Turkey is the second-largest country in Europe by population (slightly ahead of Germany) and its players are concentrated into fewer teams because the Valorant server in Istanbul is pretty far from other servers in Europe, which also forced them to be their own VCT region. Other European countries don’t get as much attention because their players are split across several teams (aside from GUILD) so people don’t focus as much on their nationality.