Top 2 in champs points, besides them, go. (so not necessarily 3rd/4th place)

Canezerra will be able to play stage 2 next year

Watch any interview with either. It's pretty clear.

Tex and Okeanos. They're repping their ethnic flags on VLR but they were both raised in NA.

LEV is 3/5 NA

You're already up, might as well stay up

Just seems like there might be a massive tier gap between the top 4-5 teams and everyone else. We'll have to see how the following weeks play out.

95% of "fans" being overly critical of players/teams don't actually have any idea what they're talking about. They're just being negative and regurgitating stuff they've heard personalities/streamers say at some point. All while they genuinely couldn't analyze a single valorant round accurately to save their lives.

2nd place one event into winning the next event.

lol

no

Heretics

LETS GO SHOPIFY!!!!

The loss of the Tenz-Zekken synergy doesn't help either. And Tenz just by himself had really impactful rounds pretty regularly.

Dumbass take. Pretty sure Jawg was born and raised in the states. Demon1 has spent the majority of his life in NA too.

Uhh yes. Esports is ridiculously huge over there. You should go in person one day if you can, it'll make sense. You should have seen how people reacted in 2021 when EDG won LoL worlds, it was insane.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But now that MIBR has crashed out of Toronto, aren't G2 officially locked in at champions? I think only MIBR and Sen could pass them in champions points with an extremely good placement this tournament.

Congrats to them.

It's kinda crazy looking at the stats. Verno is top 10 with all 4 of his teammates literally bottom 4 of the tournament thus far. Just crazy.

It seems to be the majority that did that but yea, I really don't understand that lol. 2/2 gang atm for me.

It's just a fantastic anime that elevates its' source material. The characters, animation, music and the story itself are just wonderful. It's slower paced which might turn off some people but it has no real flaws. My #1 anime of all time and I've been watching anime regularly for ~15 years.

Everyone has a chance, those chances may not be perfectly equal but they exist

It was a good signing with a lot of potential, which we got to see. No way for them to know all this stuff about her.

It's really not subjective whatsoever. Any pro or analyst would tell you that the level of play has risen in general. In fact, many pros and analysts say that all the time actually. Just look at the way most teams abuse and snowball ult economy today. That was only being done by a few top teams in 2023.

Definitely not true. Teams in 2025 across the board are significantly better than they were in 2023.

huh?

G2 has been in every Americas final since stage 1 of last year. Tejo or not, they'll be just fine.

It's not. The format has changed. Groups are re-drawn.

So? Boom were the 2nd place ascension team and Bleed got removed. What exactly were they expecting riot to do? lol. Very strange.

Lol what? Why??

They all knew the ruleset before stage 1 started and how important H2H was in 2way, 3way and potentially 4way ties. Pretty silly to complain about things once everything has already played out.

Wouldn't it be crazy if none of them made it? And It actually looks like 3/4 not making it is the most likely outcome atm. Crazy.

Compared to expectations? Sure. Still 4th internationally. That is a good team.

Forgetting G2/100T in 2024. They still placed 3rd/4th at Shanghai (4th for NRG at 2023 Tokyo too).

sure why not

Definitely not a caster. Do like his videos but his game knowledge isn't there. He could manage as a host probably.

Talon may have already locked in 2nd even if RRQ loses 0-2 but not sure. It depends on exactly how the 4 way tie works. If you go to 3-way tiebreaker rule as soon as 1 teams comes out in first in the 4-way, talon is 2nd no matter what. If you have to see through all criteria of the 4-way tie before seeing if any ties remain, they'd get 4th in that case. I would have thought it was the latter based on the tiebreaker rules displayed on liquipedia but they have em locked at 2nd.

Hot takes? Solar flare takes more accurate.

Not sure what's going on here but the scoreline was:
13-6
11-13
13-6

With Xi Lai taking it in 3 maps

Too much results based analysis. You need to look at how the teams are actually playing. C9 is easily top 4 at the very least and maybe higher based on what we've seen so far in stage 1.

Sure, but being in contract jail doesn't mean you can't touch the game, which is what he was doing for a long ass time. That's just a fucking terrible idea in this game.

Ngl, feels like his fall off began with his engagement near the end of 2023. Pretty sure he was overseas on vacation to Japan+other places for most of the off-season(and didn't play ranked). Honestly started to worry for him then.

Lord of the Mysteries and Release that witch are my favorites. The lore and world building in LOTM is amazing. Same is true in release that witch but it also really scratches that itch for kingdom building narratives which I love.

Sure, everyone is ultimately free to say whatever they want and use whatever words they wish to. Doesn't change the reality that different people will face different consequences when using said words in public depending on who they are, where they're from and what they look like.

I don't actually really care but no, you dont get the pass from simply being african, it's from being black.

It seems like you're using words while not actually understanding what they mean. Tenz doesn't have some official title. Him being considered an icon ultimately has nothing to do with the merit of his extended pro career. It helps but isn't essential. He won the first masters, streams and has developed a huge fan base as a result. Even before his resurgence last year, he was still the most popular pro player in the world. Nothing artificial about that.

What exactly is artificial about it? He's easily by and far the most recognizable pro in the wider Valorant community (probably globally but at the very least in the west) that doesn't pay attention or even know anything about valo esports. And he's been one of the best players in the world at several times in his career and as recently as last year. That's what an icon is.

If you're thinking he needs to have been hands down the best player in the world throughout his entire career for that to be true, well, you're just wrong.

They just didn't wanna commit the util that early into entering the site. Maybe didn't wanna reveal info too. /shrug

First round of swiss, yea.

yup, same format

Thinking about it, this might actually be a pretty big factor. Surprised I haven't seen too many people talk about it.

Don't really follow the T2 emea scene at all. Will Gozen have a chance to enter any closed qualifiers directly like shopify/Flyquest/Mibr for a chance at challengers any time soon? Or will it have to be through the next premier act?

lol