Americas orgs are acting more like how I expected the Pacific orgs to act. You have EG and SEN doing some sketchy shit behind the scenes, C9's upper management imploding their roster after 2 games and trialing not even T2 players, and now KRU dropping xand and keeping nagzet (it's gotta be nepotism at this point, right?)

I wonder how Riot is handling this cause I think a few orgs definitely need to get a slap on the wrist like RRQ did

GENG and TLN shockingly upset DRX during the round robin stage but DRX still qualifies 1st
TS falls off from what people expect from them
T1 end up qualifying for playoffs

GE 2-1

I know they're a prominent org but I don't watch PUBG in all honesty. I put them low just because if the league only has 10-12 slots, I think Riot will prioritize orgs that have some kind of pre-existing investment in their games, especially the LPL orgs + NOVA/JT.

Looking back I should have at least given them better odds than Tyloo though for sure.

Well now that CN are confirmed to get Masters slots, I'd say it's pretty inevitable for them to get their own league. So what orgs do you guys think get partnered? My confidence in each org getting partnered would be:

EDward Gaming - 100%
FunPlus Phoenix - 100%
Royal Never Give Up - 100%
Bilibili Gaming - 100%
Rare Atom - 100%
Invictus Gaming - 100%
J Team - 80%
NOVA Esports - 50%
Tyloo - 50%
NewHappy - 20%
Four Angry Men - 20%

Also how many slots do we think CN will get? Will they get the LPL treatment with 2x the slots of other regions?

KR, TH, and ID all have deep talent pools too make at least 2-3 good teams
PH and JP have less talent but could make 1-2 solid teams
SG has some really good star players but barely enough talent to make a full team
VN is just FCY + crazyguy
MY and HK/TW are kind of irrelevant in Valorant
No comment on India until I see the VCL

bruh we have 3 slots in total so 2/3 isn't bad. JP and SEA both also have a 'wasted' slot in that regard to be fair in the form of DFM and RRQ but nobody ever complains about their slots.

also don't act like EDG wouldn't have steamrolled their way through the APAC LCQ too

Yep let’s all peak the gap in the lockdown one by one, actually painful to watch

for being a core for so long this MAD Lions team still has awful chemistry

Didn't happen, so this is a strawman argument.

Go back and watch the episode. When they placed 100T, Sideshow said that they actually should be bottom of A. When LEV were getting rated, Mimi said that they should be above DRX. So yes, it did happen.

I have so many questions but glad I can hear them say that "100T will be good with time" for the 100th time.
They never said that

Once again, yes they did. Go back and listen to Mimi talk about 100 Thieves.

yeah I could see direction where he was at least trying to go with the upper tiers, even if I disagree, but from A-B it looks like the teams were randomized

i don't normally cause I like Bren/Sideshow but i can only listen to balla talk for so long

Genuinely might be their worst yet: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/11m3f54/platchat_post_lock_in_tierlist/

They place NRG and NAVI in S tier but say DRX is only A tier because they dropped maps to other teams.
Didn't NRG literally drop a map to GIA and nearly drop a map to a less than 1 month old KOI or am I going crazy?
Is going 2-3 against LOUD not worth anything too?
Even if you think NAVI and NRG are better than DRX, you have to admit that the 5 teams are all a similar level.

Also how is TLN and FUR counted as B tier teams when they played so much better than LEV who is in A tier. Both looked much better than VIT who ended up above them too.
Lastly, how do you advocate for LEV to be put above DRX and almost put 100T in the same tier as them?

I have so many questions but glad I can hear them say that "100T will be good with time" for the 100th time.

Gambit - while in Reykjavik, Zellsis said that Gambit were by far the best team Version1 had scrimmed and that if they didn’t win the next event they were doing something wrong. Turns out they won the next event.

1. Leo
2. Less
3. MaKo
4. Shao
5. Derke
6. aspas
7. crashies
8. Chronicle
9. kiNgg
10. cNed

Furia
Liquid
LOUD vs. FNC
LOUD vs. NRG Fracture
garnetS
Seoldam

overall definitely, but specifically at lock//in I think it's more clear

Initiator - Leo
Duelist - Derke
Sentinel - Less
Controller - MaKo
IGL - Boaster

yeah aside from FNC/LOUD, everyone else is interchangeable. honestly just depends what region you cheer for because Pacific fans put DRX #3, NA fans put NRG #3, and EMEA fans put NAVI #3 lol

LOUD vs FNC (4)
LOUD vs DRX (6)
NRG vs LOUD (10)
NAVI vs FNC (13)

Number on the right is round differential. If we look at it that way, DRX did better against LOUD then NRG and NAVI are the furthest from the other 4 teams, although they did play the best one.
Round differential isn't everything though, so I'm not going to act like this 100% proves anything, just my take.

Gutssz and hating drx, nothing new

agreed

i said the region(s)

the regions are so top heavy that it feels like whoever gets that slot is getting shit on

too late

DRX had better round differential but it's really close

depending on how this map ends, DRX might've been the team to give LOUD the best fight

cry is free

should've been nrg in quarterfinals instead of navi too

crowned themselves the #2 best team before the end of the match lmfao

he's calling himself a dog lol

SEN was not that bad but I also better not see people try to justify SEN as top 10 still since they also didn't look particularly good

2022 FPX got 4-0'd by DRX

they're gonna have to pull out some crazy shit to win

didn't DRX just beat Loud on the next two maps they're playing?

NRG was put over drx beacuse their performance against world champions were better than drx

better performance? NRG went -10 against Loud while DRX only went -6. I swear people forget NRG got destroyed on Map 1

1. LOUD/FNC
2. LOUD/FNC
3. DRX
4. NAVI
5. NRG

Reasonable?

fellow k1Ng believer

Monyet
Jinggg
SugarZ3ro
invy
garnetS
Sayaplayer
Emman
Reita
MaKo
k1Ng

TS looked good but I'm not confident they'll do well in the Pacific region since I think they'd honestly rather play against EMEA play styles rather than Pacific ones based on their track record.

Well I’m assuming that they’re definitely playing Foxy9 in the Pacific League for starters since they’ve been scrimming with him a lot even in BR. Secondly, may be copium but playing in Tokyo could help them a lot too since it’ll be the first time they don’t have the crowd cheering against them.

Furia is better than Leviatan. Leviatan just got fortunate that nobody exposed their weak map pool before NAVI.

If they don’t make a grand finals this year, absolutely. They are currently 0/4 on semifinal matches now and I think the team may be reaching their ceiling, which is why they got Foxy.

I thought I was about to see some actual character development

one day 🥲

true, even Turkey was less biased. I just want to see a crowd that actually cheers for Drx man

T1 3-0 RNG
DRX 3-2 EDG
T1 3-1 JDG

Cope

The fuck you mean league, where do you think DRX and T1 are from

They’ll finally have a big crowd to cheer for them

DRX aim was the worse I’ve ever seen it on that last map :(