How discriminative many still tend to be and how parents will strongly push ideas on their kids without a choice. Suicide rates are also pretty awful

Give it a name, I’m sure vlr.gg can come up with a good one…

He’s literally in everyone’s top five list without even playing a single LAN, barely anyone except for die hard NA fans are saying he’s not impressive
If you can’t find people hyping him up, you’re not looking hard enough, just read through this thread

I like the Plat Chat boys and watch Sideshow and Bren’s streams often, but they did an awful job at ranking the Korean players. This guy at least realized that MaKo and BuZz are the best players while Plat Chat still believe stax and Rb are better, which just shows how little they watch the region

I doubt they’d be salaried, since it would be more similar to C9 or T1 dropping their KR rosters than the M3C situation

Aleksandar or al0rante

Both are toxic, it’s crazy how so many people can’t see both sides of the issue

They weren’t a fluke but were onliners

‘By far’ yet only won because of a 0.04 defuse and than a 3rd map in double overtime

It’s not ideal to take slots from other regions, but in a 12 team format, I still think the LATAM/BR LCQ slot should’ve rotated between South America and KR/JP

How would fans feel about Riot using the MSI format for Masters instead of this weird groups bye stuff? Obviously the amount of Bo1s would probably be lowered in favor of actual Bo3s, but do you think the format would work for these 12 team tournaments?

Swiss format is still better in every way, but I think this format approach could be interesting

Put bcj in a conference with stax, Benkai, and Boaster

Could make for some perfect content

VV

I meant to reply that to the ‘curry to C9’ comment

Lakia to VS

Glitch post

yay to NV

vlr stop simping for asian teams challenge

Funny coming from EMEA’s biggest dickrider

XIA beats Guild in my opinion

Phenomenal match, that last map was really fun to watch

VLR has the times wrong, this’ll be the opening match

It’s better then when we got two EMEA teams as the opening match in Berlin

Group A: Western Teams
Group B: Eastern Teams

DRX had two EMEA teams in their Berlin group, an NA and EMEA team in their Champions group, and Zeta in Reykjavik. I don’t think all of those were easy groups, but I agree with the rest

Bail could never figure out the solution to beating DRX, will this be his first time?

If FPX have subs, I could see them being weaker than Guild/XIA

OpTic
Loud
DRX
XIA

Swap FPX and Guild and than I’d say that’s most likely

Masters Berlin had the best format and the best slot allocation, they should’ve kept it at 16 teams

RNG are interested in BOBO

I have a feeling they aren’t going to put Loud and OpTic in the same group

Should also let Nth and DRX play against PRX for a playoff slot

From Champs MVP to sitting on the bench, this team has really fallen apart

DRX vs XSET

Maybe Velocity than or an org like S8UL, since I don’t see Godlike making it anywhere near franchising with what’s happened recently and Riot tend to dislike orgs connected to NFTs, like GE

There’s literally more regions than slots possible, it’ll be one massive shit show no matter which teams Riot select

*Keep in mind that this is not confirmed, just his opinion. That being said, these are the teams I’d expect to see:
Order 🇦🇺
DRX 🇰🇷
Damwon Kia 🇰🇷
Zeta Division 🇯🇵
Crazy Raccoon 🇯🇵
Xerxia Esports🇹🇭
Bleed Esports 🇸🇬🇲🇾
Team Secret 🇵🇭
EDward Gaming 🇨🇳
Orangutan??? 🇮🇳🇵🇰

Maybe PSJ for one of the SEA orgs as well

KRU so we can see possibly the dumbest group stage yet

STATS

mwzera https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/VK%20mwzera%234324/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all
cNed https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ACE%20cNed%23carry/overview?season=all
TenZ https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/SEN%20TenZ%230505/overview?playlist=competitive&season=all

DEATHMATCH STATS
mwzera - 86% win rate (thats the insaniest thing ive seen in a while)
cNed - stats not availiable
TenZ - 73% win rate

RANKED STATS
mwzera - 66.3% winrate (MVP of 95% of the matches) proof here https://imgur.com/StiJmpg
cNed - 53.5% winrate (MVP of 13% of the matches)
TenZ - 60.4% winrate (MVP of 15% of the matches)

can you take your time to appreciate how insane mwzera is? without a doubt the most talented player to ever touch the game

I'll try to explain briefly why I think he is the best player in the world
Despite his insane aim and movement
The best way to know if a player is a good duelist is RAZE. There is a BIG difference between a good duelist and a jett abuser
If he is a good duelist, he needs to be good with raze.

heat? not good with raze
aspas? not good with raze
xand? not good with raze
tenz? not good with raze
cned? not good with raze
scream? not good with raze
d3ffo? not good with raze
derke? not good with raze

Thats why I think he is undoubtely the best player in the world. If RIOT by any means decides to nerf jett and shift the meta we prolly not gonna even hear names like cned and tenz again :>
He is not killing 40+ per map because when he joined VK he was forced to play a different role because heat is already a main jett... and lets be honest, every single duelist nowadays gets 20+ kills per map because team and setups are basically built around you (even steel managed to get 20 kills with it https://www.vlr.gg/29398/sentinels-vs-100-thieves-champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-playoffs-gf/?game=46692&tab=overview)

Do you need to be reminded of his stats?

Hmm, you’re right

Europe: 6
Asia: 4
Oceania: 1
Africa: 2
North America: 3
South America: 1
Unknown: 2

Rito EU biased actually…

Didn’t they at least get the bag for that trade though?

Their top 6 is pretty good but they fumbled it with the bottom 4 imo, since I’d rank players like Cryo, MaKo, and Leo all higher than those 4

I hope Meteor will prove himself this event as a top duelist

Rip MaKo, PlatChat always overlook him

stax’s breach is much better and he literally invented the meta

I’d assume an average of 8-10k a month, with larger names/streamers getting payed upwards of 20k to 30k a month

Not picking SugarZ3ro for controller is criminal

What’s even crazier is NiP going 0-12 against Loud, I’d just forfeit at that point to be honest

dude's talking to himself