If you know the answer why even create the thread? :)

It's not about good and bad days.

It's more about the fact that it seems that SMB are onliners that thrive on online competitions but not good on LAN.

Still, I agree that it's still just one game but they gotta work hard to prove their mettle on LAN.

Here is my point -

Japan and SEA are both unlucky and get extremely bad seeds.
Because of this, they cannot perform to the level they can.

Paper Rex was placed into the death group.
Bren was placed with SEN.
CR was placed with Gambit.

If you put such teams against each other, obviously they will underperform.
ZETA division's group was much more evenly matched and hence you saw them actually give a fight.

Even in Iceland, X10 was placed with Vikings and later SEN. In the lower bracket, they went against FNATIC.

Crazy Racoons went against V1 who literally upset Liquid.

You cannot judge a team's capacity by placing them in such disproportionate groups.

On the other, a Brazillian team lost even to Japan.
They fail to win matches be it against NA or Japan.
The only victory they got was against a Japanese team.

Well, technically it's still SKRossi as the other 2 are not even South Asian but just South Asian descent.

Did you watch today's match?

Before Japan gets slots taken away, take away the BR slots.

Apparently, Brazil can be beaten by Japan.

Korea has proven its worth.

Paper Rex gave a bit of competition to VS

South Asia has not been given a chance yet.

China has not even released valorant.

Asia is literally the largest continent?

SEA has a larger population than NA.

South Asia has a quarter of the world's population and china occupies another fifth.

Korea is a powerhouse in esports and deserves recognition as a separate region.

The physical distance between any two regions is so large that tournaments and games just cannot be played against each other.

EMEA on the other hand is compact and densely filled with servers. Games can be conducted with fair ping with both sides on 50 or less ping.

My bad it was another team.

Let me do you one better, they clapped the entire tournament.

Exactly which part of my argument would you call delusional?

1) I expect GE to get 4-5 positions in LCQ but SkRossi to prove his jett skills regardless.

2) A small region like Korea can produce pretty good teams like VS.

3) A large region like SEA's seed no. 2 went toe to toe against VS. Arguably one of the top 3 teams in the world. Results are results and you see them. forsaken also proved with his high ACS against VS that he was not a guy that was just "farming t3 regions" but a genuinely talented player.

You are the one who thinks that VS was "not trying" and "pugging" and "saving strats".

Secondly, you believed a troll statement made buy a troll guy that VS 24-0's PRX. Who needs some fact-checking here?

Dude, maybe you save strats in playoffs in your region. Once you are in Berlin you are on the international stage and clearly, VS was not very comfortable in the win against PRX.

Also BTW, I know that GE won't win LCQ.

But you thinking that the game will always remain between NA and EU is just dumb.

I have been watching all these regions and seeing what they are capable of.

I was supporting forsaken even before he played internationally cause you can just see the talent.

If you are still willing to blind yourself to new and upcoming players around the world, you just get what is happening to EU right now.

Korea, a region people sleep on, and called overrated more than any other region, just beat Acend. Get yourself out of the EU copium.

Honestly, if I was not stuck with JEE I would have XD.

Yeah, make the cloudbursts last 0.01 sec.

Sentinels with a couple of days with tenZ clapped Envy.

A week is still too long.

LMFAO, despite all that Benkai said in the interview you seriously think what Benkai says is true? Benkai just said it so that he could pass that "I broke VS's wrist" joke, if you seriously thought VS 24-0's PRX, you got baited hard and trolled by Benkai.

You are living in a cave, my man. Touch some grass.

Once again, you just don't watch SEA games if you think that's pugging. Do you know what's a good execution against teams like PRX? What k1ng did inside the Viper's pit on A-side on Icebox. It happens so fast, you cannot even comprehend it. VS uses strats all the time but you only get to see them when you have time to analyze what happens and the cameras can actually follow what happened.

If that's pugging for you, sure. I don't need to prove anything here. the entirety of EU is still trying to understand how Acend lost. While I am trying to put a point forward to VS and SEA teams. I don't even need to though since I think they have done enough.

If you are still in the copium that PRX is a weak team, I just don't know what to tell you man.

Even if SEA was a really weak team (even worse than JP) there is no way you can win against a pro team unless you use strats. Especially when they have a star jett like forsaken and you are not the best known team for mechanics.

Hiko got that LAN buff. I wouldn't be surprised if he knives dapr with this buff.

You just need that Patiphan/Benkai dose every game man.

Here is why you think that VS was not trying against PRX.

You just don't watch SEA or Korean Valorant enough.

You are just used to EU or NA valorant. Where people communicate to the team before taking an action. In SEA it's the opposite. Actions are taken by duelists first and then the team tries to adopt.

As such, there is a lag between information transfer between both teams and these teams look unorganized. That you "see" as VS not even trying is just VS trying to cope with Paper Rex taking very quick decisions that even their teams cannot process fast enough.

If you have a Jett like forsaken or Patiphan who is just mechanically "built differently", you generally manage to secure an advantageous position while both the teams are confused. By the time both the teams have recovered and reset, Paper Rex/Other SEA teams are already at an advantage.

It's a different style of playing valorant which I do not expect an EU/NA/KR-only viewer to understand.

Secondly, VS technically cannot even save strats against Paper Rex? Dude, Paper Rex and VS scrim each other very often. GE and other teams also scrim Paper Rex very often. How do you even save strats against teams that you scrim daily? You have gotta test those strats against them at least once right?

Nearly all teams are having their first LAN valorant experience my friend. Paper Rex is no exception.

You saw forsaken, you saw Paper Rex. Remember that Paper Rex got closer to VS than Acend did and Bren 3-0ed Paper Rex and are the better team. X10 is not even playing in this tournament.

GE has beaten Bren multiple times recently in scrims with a ping disadvantage. Also, GE has some really experienced LAN guys playing since CS1.6 to SkRossi who was the dark horse in Indian CS around 2018.

SkRossi and his team is not much behind SEA. Almost 90-80%. I won't have my hopes high as GE will probably not even reach the finals but from what we are seeing in this tournament, these Jetts from smaller regions are really proving themselves. Anything can happen.

The thing is you haven't even seen him play yet. Why judge so quick?

(This post is really optimistic for GE I do know that guys, but just let them play internationally first.)

Honestly seeing that Paper Rex got closer to visions strikers than acend, I think they can even possibly lose to Paper Rex.

Envy also seems to have the easiest group out of all of them.

Korea is pretty much gods at every game they touch. Half of the people on this forum weren't even born since Korea has been dominating the scene.

If you think LoL or Dota2 are the biggest esports, man you gotta be kidding me. Yes, modern tech has brought the viewership up but starcraft was the real OG esport and the clout that the game had was unmatched. Korea was so dominant that the finals, semifinals, and even sometimes the playoffs would be between only Korean teams.

Also, something else which is different in Asia in general compared to the west is that Asia has a gaming cafe culture. Where people go to play in gaming cafes where you can rent powerful PCs for dirt cheap. Rather than have their own personal PCs. This also includes LAN culture and playing in teams.

As such you are really inclined to play games that are already being played in the cafe/are installed on the PCs rather than creating your own interests.

I don't know the exact details behind this but CSGO is not a preinstalled game in almost all the cafes you go into Korea. As such, getting into CSGO has a barrier of entry.

Compare that to esports that Korea is actually into like RTS, MOBAS, and Rhythm games, they are practically gods.

Just a year into valorant and Korea is already beating some of the favorites to win the tournament.

Honestly said, If you get into the details of Office you will realize it unironically is tougher to master than learning any programming language.

NGL Monika was the closest waifu that came close to existence yet.

If you have multiple regions there will always be the weakest region.

That was a big brain analysis.

1) Zeta actually gave a fucking fight to KRU.

2) Crazy racoons was against Gambit who manhandled 100T on ascent and pretty much the first half of Icebox.
CR doesn't have a Hiko with them to consistently clutch 1v3s nor are they experienced enough to stay calm and think of comebacks after an 11-1 half. Your mental is just gonna disappear into thin air.

Yes, Japan is weak but not as weak as the Gambit vs CR match made it out to be. That being said tbh yes other regions do deserve that extra slot imo but that should be Riot increasing total slots and not taking away from Japan.

ohh man such a humble take. Just like Gambit players. Flair checks out.

You have no context lol go read the other threads

Man the 9-3 curse is real at this point.

I think it would be a plausible strat to just end the half at 8-4 rather than 9-3.

XSET obviously gotta be better than G2. They are no.4 in NA, G2 is just a meme that somehow made it to berlin.

That means SEN will also struggle against a streamer team. KEKW

The tech pauses have been made so cool as well tho.

Just a good day for VKS. SEA now is much better.

LATAM is literally losing RN to Japan and yet Japan is the worst region in the tournament.

Mumbai is less toxic than Singapore where you get railed by racial slurs if they discover you are Indian. Does not matter if you are literally carrying the team.

IRL Anime battle lmao

I played on 120ms ping. Yes, I am a masochist. I have also played on Australian and EMEA servers.

I do it for the experience in unranked games. Compare gameplay etc.

BTW if you have a good connection high ping is not that big of a problem. Packet loss is. Packet loss causes you to teleport and lag. On high ping, you just get delayed peeks and peekers advantage.

Not that big of a factor in low to high plat-low diamond lobbies I am used to. A much bigger issue in pro matches.

Ohh and BTW I clutched so many rounds on Tokyo with this ping with Jett the team was really hyped up and fun to play with. So it's not as if it's unplayable.

This aged like sour milk + ratio

It was Gambit. Gambit could possibly even win this tourney.

Crazy Racoons are not that bad guys. They had a good game against V1 as well.

What I will say is that their mental is very fragile. They are pretty much the quickest tilters.

X10 tilted them so much. So did loosing so many rounds to Gambit.

Japan hands down is the least toxic region here.

I have played many games on the Tokyo server and those guys hands down are some of the most encouraging people you will see.

Some people are really swayed quickly.

One bad day by one bad team especially when you have 0 experience going against maybe the best team in the tourney. That is what Japan went through.

Give em teams a chance.

wrong priorities.

Even if you get IIT, go to a college that is willing to give you Computer Science.

I was one of the guys that thought that you study the subject you have an interest in.

You are basically useless unless you have skills in CS.

Every Indian family has a member who has gone through Roorkee at one point.

Ok Zeta got sweeped on the first half but Laz hit some nasty deags.

Is a redemption Arc coming?

Edit: The first half on split looks promising.

CS is alive in a single region on earth and that is EU.

NA pros shifted to valorant at the right time as their scene is dead.

EU pros don't feel half that pressure and most of them haven't made the switch.

All IITs are crap. Go outside if you want a good college.

If you even compare it with universities from Asia itself, IITs are a joke.

BTW we get single rooms with ACs and better food compared to all other IITs. What else do you want?

Brazil no cap is worse than SEA at this point.

IIT Jodhpur

My dude just does not know that the physical distance between Japan and Singapore is huge to the point that they cannot be merged as a region.

Korea and Japan is much more doable.