TMV for the consistency and sovereign for the quality

i mean it already did in NA and AS, probably will in SA. EU is probably gonna stay closer to CS in terms of pro play but casually val is beating cs in some countries already

honestly never seen them play but maniek definitely faced better competition (Vitality, Case) and was performing well against it. i'd also mention Jas in terms of oping, but i've only ever seen him play against VRL east teams tbh

Molsi

Molsi, Zeek, Starxo, BaddyG, Maniek and Patitek on the bench

Maniek oping, Baddy on smokes, zeek IGLing and playing dog roles, Molsi duelist/entry and starxo mainly as initiator.

need better igls in poland man

or magnum?
although i'd go for monsterr if i were you.

G2 Petra?

there also was someone on Dsyre i think? idk how good they were tho'

last year he was the best itw i agree but for months now he has been underwhelming af - alfajer in 2022>cNed 2022

going fine, watching the major while pro valorant is absent and enjoying polish players winning - hopefully they continue to do so, how bout u?

yup. oversimplified only covers real stories, to my knowledge

madlad trick just doesn't care and leaks it all like a gigachad :D

do you shoot her cat tho'?

imperial will win the major, mark my words

imagine saying based on consistency and not putting scream up there

who treated val as "a casual game to play with friends"?

Yaboidre nooo whyyyy
gl in your new carrer path tho'

fuck marvedfixer, Leorge Ledden all the way

NatanK was amazing last time they played, H1ber is pretty bad indeed

Nukkye and Hoody definitely find a team, the rest probably should do as well.

FNC Zeek?

What an L list of teams, sad day for valorant, hopefully things will only be getting better from now on.

is there a place to see all confirmed teams in and not in?

Jady lmao

chronicle and nats will easily find teams, sheydos should as well, we'll see about redgar. also what's up with purp0? was he there just for 1 map or was he part of the team?

https://twitter.com/xccurateCSGO/status/1571572350428102657?s=20&t=jr4XQwqJW06d6gd-nx16-A

W, no doubt

what is case doing?

935

never seen anyone put in this much work into a vrl post, great list and actually seems to reflect reality pretty well

accidental 8/8?

rare trembolona W

well for some reason teams just seem to forget how to play the game when facing xset. Xerxia was missing kills from behind, FPX played quite possibly the worst breeze i have ever seen in a pro tournament, no matter the tier and Fnatic had it's worst streak of form since that current roster came to be, with boaster throwing every two rounds. Optic was the first team that played somewhat well against them and suddenly it was almost a 2-0 if not for cryo's heroics on ascent.

so in cocnclusion, xset's opponents simply never played well during this tourney and yet all of their games were fairly close :3

0/8

people who aren't into val esports but know tenz are cs players, i'd have no idea who he is if not for my general interest in esports. anyone interested in it tho' will know that both players i mentioned outshine tenz nowadays, unless they are just too biased.

S1mple and from what i know Faker are both at least near the top of their respective esport, tenz is not.

yay or forsaken are probably the closest rn, people saying tenz live in the past

are they ever not toxic? crazy stuff.

useb to be a 100T fan, i feel you man. just ignore the community and focus on the players, you'll be happier.

great content, glad some people make learning fun just like that guy

huh?

xset fan speaking?

i just put DRX above Fnatic bc DRX will look good in groups before flopping imo,
and had edward go out 0-2 with leviathan beating lqd twice

other than that, everything checks out lol

good, i wanna see him try new things with how poor his form has recently been

disagree, best team in 2021 was the one that one champions. But they were a close second with their M3 win.

right click classic is cringe overload

lmao pearl is the most split like map in the pool
fuck icebox tho', most brainless map ever. hope they bring split in for it.

one of the best maps in the game wich actually requires a brain, of course vlr hates it

that was exactly what i was wondering yesterday. it's fucked up but so many pro teams are trying to just overcomplicate their icebox playbook when in reality it's the simplest map in the game.

can you then show me a version of this that is better formatted?
also the formatting was a little different but i just noticed vrl seems to have messed it up a bit so I gotta agree. but i dunno what i can do if the site itself is gonna be changing it lol

another one of those long posts no one will read, nonetheless enjoy.

TL;DR
Case is not a bad team but their reliance on wolfen won't get them far,
especially as i'll be shocked if no bigger team picks him up.
they gotta cut their aim focused playstyle and actually develop a deeper
playbook if they wanna conquer top spots.
so they were great, until wolfen wasn't.

case coming into this thing seemed like a no name team for many people,
i've started following them a while ago so i'm hoping they will look at
least somewhat good, but i wouldn't expect a lot.

Case vs Excel

this game first took us to ascent - Case's map pick. while Case's very
agressive and reliant-on-duels style is flashy, it was clear that XL
was prepared for this map. they knew exactly how to contain their
opponents aggression.

Case failed to adapt and just decided to keep running into the same,
suprisingly managing to still get quite a few rounds. nonetheless they
were very stubborn and it was definitely what cost them the map.

as Haven rolled around, things were looking grim with a 4-8 defensive
half, and although wolfen started popping off and got some mad kills -
Excel handled it well. But haven is a rather attacker sided map so Case
seemed not to worry too much.

on attack they were looking very comfy with wolfen giving them just too much
space as he won what seemed to be every single aim duel. add to that the
struggling jett of Alive and what you get is an easy comeback.

Finally moving onto icebox, after a slow start Case take control of the
match and end up destroying excel with a solid plan and an even better
performance aim-wise.

case vs tenstar

Tenstar's bind was looking very promising after their Vitality game but oh
boy was it awful this time around. A 13-2 result in case's favor that
certainly wasn't an accident.

I feel like this map came down to wolfen A LOT. whenever tenstar were on a
full buy and tried getting some space, he would often single-handedly stop
them.

Haven had a closer scoreline but it doesn't mean it was a pleasant game to
watch... quite frankly i would call it one of the worst maps of professional
valorant i've ever seen. round 19 sums it up, you can look for a vod if you
wanna know what i mean, nonetheless both team played like shit - but case
was just less shit than tenstar.

Case vs A.Titans

honestly while the first map was fairly tasteless in terms of startegy for
Case, and the yoru of Bipo diffed them completely - the other two maps were
complete blow outs.

13-2 on haven as their opponents ran Phoenix and Cypher.

13-3 on icebox as they clearly knew how to play against the reyna of Lime.

they were just levels above.

Case vs Vitality

This was the first game where something i was worried about since the start
got exposed - their reliance on Wolfen.

first we had breeze and it was clear that Case were unable to gain space
whithout Wolfen destroying their opponents.

So since wolfen was not as good as before it was now exposed that this team
does lack layers. their gameplan relies heavily on a chamber gaining space.

also often it would be just wolfen going in, wich is weird when you have
ambi on raze or jett.

Haven was an example of Vitality's poor map pool i guess. Case looked good
there as usually while Vita was lacking in terms of good executes on attack
and made some poor rotations on defence and lost.

and on ascent it was back to the issues from map 1.
gotta give case one thing tho' - they were less predictable on this ascent
than they were against Excel, so they actually improved it and still lost.

Case vs FUT

Case coming into this was the favorite but FUT is a cracked team with some
experience on the T1 scene, interesting matchup.

and it's the vitality game again but to an even bigger degree.

i'll just sum up all 3 maps.
-Case never had enough map control (maybe except on haven)
-Wolfen didn't carry
-FUT was able to outaim them all

so biggest take away?
depth.
they lack depth.

Player thoughts:
Wolfen - guy has to get picked up by a bigger team. i could see him replace
Meddo on G2 for example as he's show he can play sentinels and tbh i don't
think he's good enough to play the star player role in T1.
at least not yet.

Falltw - great player but probably will remain in the T2 stage for a while
in the group stage he would sometimes pick up the slack if wolfen stopped
carrying, but calmed down a lot in playoffs.

Ambi - his switch onto dueslist was definitely a good idea but idk why he
sometimes just isn't the entry. cracked player, could see him in T1.

yurii - falltw 2.0

Roxie - probably the most undewhelming one out of the bunch. sometimes
reminds me of shao and sometimes of an average matchmaking player.
the biggest plus is that his util seem susually on point but he often fails
at an individual level wich for case's playstyle should be unacceptable.

lmao need remind you of chamions?
and every tournament afterwards that liquid played in, how many did they win?

biggest chokers tierlist?

And we say goodbye to another team from the VRL finals, it's Angry Titans in 4th

TL;DR
It's a team with good fundamentals that doesn't make huge mistakes, but
their opponents seem to always be half a step ahead. some of their team
comps and agent distributions need work but they got a fan in me after this
tournament for all the fun i've had while watching their yoru, phoenix
or cypher plays.

Angry titans, for me, were an unknown team coming into this thing.
The only thing i heard about them was "they aren't the worst team,
they can upset someone"

A.Titans vs Flacons

Haven was a quick game, a 5-13 loss without any real gameplan shown by AT.

Saving strats maybe?

Bind was... something for sure. they decided to pull out the yoru, and while
at first it seemed to be a bad choice as Bipo wasn't doing much for the
first 5 rounds or so, after he warmed up a bit he was a clear MVP.

Falcons seemed lost in the world of our Japanese friends and once again,
my favorite proplay agent shines bright on bind. also i think this game
might pave the way for more teams to pick up yoru as AT has shown you don't
need to be PRX to be good at it.

Breeze didn't have much to write home about as Falcons picked jett AND reyna.
it was GG go next from the start so i barely paid attention.

overall not a bad game from AT, but Falcons aren't the biggest challenge.

A.Titans vs FUT

first we had them meet on haven where titans looked better than vs Falcons
but not as good as they had to be.

what i'd love to see for them here is a raze. Against FUT they ran
fade+kayo wich while good is just not at the same level. also overall i
prefer Raze over Kay/o on this map.

on Split i have another comp issue - Bipo on breach. this guy who was a
beast as a yoru is now gonna play an initiator?

worst part is, they have great fundamentals. it's a team that doesn't make
obvious mistakes that you see and immeadietly go "Oh my god! What are they
doing! they're throwing!". it's just that their opponents are always this
tiny bit better...

A.Titans vs Case

on Bind the yoru of Bipo struck once again, but this time not to that extent.
In the end some nice plays from fall and wolfen were enough to secure the
win for case.

now the other two maps is where the fun ends.

i was hype for haven as AT pulled out a cypher and... Phoenix!
they also ran jett at the same time.
unfortunately it backfired and i'm gonna double down on my raze proposition,
as they got blasted 13-2...

on icebox they went for their usual coinflip with picking reyna, and the
Reyna of lime didn't deliver going -9, final scoreline 13-3 for case.

A.Titans vs FUT(2)

i was curious to see whether they learned anything from their first FUT game.

we kicked it off with the icebox reyna pick, no suprise as AT lose 6-13.

qw1 popping of a few times as well as their stubbornness to keep going
middle led them to a mediocre attack half ending in a 6-6 scoreline.

since icebox is an attacker sided map they won nothing of defence, the
aggresion with the reyna is easy to predict and very 2020'ish, FUT just knew.

On fracture it just seemed like neither team knew how to attack often
coming into sites from only one entry on full buy rounds.

but ultimately AT was more coordinated and i think FUT's weird comp might've
fired back a bit. (Althought AT also picked astra to be fair)

On breeze at the start FUT was giving sites away for fairly free while AT
had great postplants, but as FUT started holding onto the sites more
aggresively the trouble began.

titans could only time their entries right half the time wich led to a
lackluster half ending in a 6-6 scoreline. Now on defence they started with
a very passive stance, wich changed after a timeout but they overdone.

it was that lack of another layer that got them here. once they got
aggressive they didn't stop while earlier they were always passive.
Fut read it and just waited for them to push in the last 2 rounds.

phew... this was a long one. felt like writing i guess.

player thoughts:

Bipo - give this man all the duelists. His Yoru is so good he should just be
the star player of this team, taking all those roles like raze, chamber ETC.
also wouldn't be suprised to see him get picked up by a bigger org.

hearthbeat - probably the most underwhelming performance. he's solid but
could be replaced by almost any other player with a similar role.

Lime - i feel like he could benefit from a role switch with Bipo on most
maps. He doesn't look comfy on duelists and it would also take some pressure
off his shoulders.

Eppz - was very solid this tourney, had some nice plays. a solid 6 or 7/10.

AFoxx - just doesn't put up the numbers a chamber should, but he is not bad
overall. another players who i'd love to see on other agents.