That's the spirit!
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| Registered: | February 7, 2025 |
| Last post: | April 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM |
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and it wouldn’t be fair to emea players to rush them!
You shouldn't have included this part, imo. It doesn't exactly share the same feeling as the rest. Cohesiveness is important for rage bait threads, no?
A lot of people were also saying TLN would win against GENG after the first map yesterday, probably. We don't know how the rest of the maps will go yet. Both teams have a high ceiling.
Who said they would win this easy? That's the real trolling.
An improved GenG looking good on their map pick doesn't make BOOM disappointment lol.
1st seed of Kickoff Pacific was DRX 💀
He sounded quite confident about winning Pacific. I like the attitude and he has the strats to back it up.
He was actually cooking silently on Fracture (as Raze) today too. He's just playing really well today.
EDIT: But his KJ looked surprisingly good.
They could have been second seed if they won 2-0, I think.
Though in a map they haven't played in this Stage, where TL is one of the best in the world? Unlikely. Still, a bit unfortunate for the players.
What a weird complaint. You can mute the stream and do something else. They are actually not happy about the situation themselves either.
Hyunmin & Free1ng have the edge as their performances have been great in Bangkok as well. For now, Free1ng is the front runner I think, but Hyunmin and Famouz might be in the leading spot towards the end of the year, especially with the Tejo nerfs and whatnot.
Kaajak is doing very well in EMEA right now, with Cyvo0ph/Xeus/Lewn being in the conversation too.
Xenom/Cortezia/Lukxo for Americas. All three are insanely talented killing machines in the game, super fun to watch but Cortezia is probably in the lead for Americas top rookie spot because MIBR is actually winning. Big sad bur Lukxo, I think he had one of the most impressive debut performances (in all of his T1 matches so far, really) but LOUD just can't win.
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We are not winning anything without getting second or third a few times, at the very least. Korea or China would be my first guess as well.
Well, such a Turkish team would have the tools to win something big. That statement doesn't mean they would definitely win it and be better than all other teams though.
They are already cooked at this point, I don't think they are even thinking about "We got nothing to lose" mentality. Their showing on Ascent today vs against Heretics, for example, should be a clear indication of that.
I think the most popular Apeks opinion (that is not negative) is that they can run double duelist comps with Batu on Yoru and Flor on any other duelist, which looked good against Fanatic (a team some think as the best in EMEA).
No idea. People are speculating that the arena will be used for another event, but I haven't actually seen any confirmed info.
For Toronto, Americas and China teams will have 2 weeks more than EMEA teams, and Pacific teams will have a week more than EMEA teams.
Americas/China will have a month to prepare, Pacific will have 3 weeks and EMEA will have 2 weeks.
This is a REASONABLE schedule.
Undeserved Serial slander. Bro just had a bad debut match, otherwise he has been okay to good in the following matches. And with him playing a second sentinel, Liquid looks like one of the best in the world on "two" maps, and really solid on many others.
TH - They have a better map pool and better strats.
MIBR - Could be a close banger series based on the maps.
BBL - Potential chaos but BBL should have a better team play, I think.
EG - EG's slow style will tilt Apeks even more than KRU.
NRG - KOI can't even win a map.
Not the perfect valorant but it was so chaotic that I genuinely had no idea who would win a round. Clutches after clutches, nice reads and insane throws... I think everyone's brain was frying towards the end. Glad I was witnessing history live too :D
Fair enough, it's honestly my bad for taking it seriously when only a few people are actually defending this take.
FUT couldn't survive either 6-11 gaps without Yetujay lurks and flashes of insanity from qRaxs. BBL was just better, it's not just Xeus underperforming.
Flaming Sliggy is always allowed, and Jamppi would know that better than anyone XD
Yes, but the claims were made before that. A bit of a shame that he's playing so "off" today though, probably the difference maker of the first map. On Icebox, FUT is back to playing weird comps, so I have no hope for them.
He didn't exactly have the best game against Liquid either.
I think this negative pushback is because of all those threads that hailed him as the best rookie in 2025 so far, because he popped off against Gentle Mates and KOI, the two teams that didn't manage to qualify.
I personally favor C9 in that match, but the difference in experience does make people question that decision a lot.
Narrate and bang were two of the biggest question marks for SEN coming from Bangkok, there must have been hundreds of "They can't possibly replace TenZ and Sacy" posts here and on Valcomp. And since those two are also doing really well right now, people are optimistic.
I don't personally put any stakes into the "C9 always chokes in play-offs" narrative and maintain the opinion that they looked very competitive against stronger teams (could have won, even), but you never know.
He also had a tough series against DRX, unfortunately.
mine is sentinels with crazy aim like leaf, meteor, cortezia, yetujey, CHICHOO
Definitely. I would also add Less and Lukxo there as well.
I have probably enjoyed watching Chichoo, nats and lukxo the most in 2025 so far.
EDG played some successful antis, like against T1 Split and G2 Fracture. And their Pearl, while could be better, was fine from a game-plan angle, if I remember correctly.
I mean, they apparently had issues, but still. Saying they just aim-diffed other teams is a bit of overreaction to their recent performance, in my opinion. I think you are right about them overheating a lot, but they are also trying new (and sometimes very strange-looking) strats. And at the moment, they are just rebuilding their map-pool with their new member. KK on Neon was obviously a good thing for them but they had a lot of nice setplays and counters in their Champs 2024 run with other agents too, so I am relatively sure that they'll deepen their strat book with time.
Also, I will point out that T1 is not exactly doing too hot right now either. They really coasted the group stage with their superior firepower. Another example of big teams showing some stagnation after big runs?
And my reply was specifically to the person above, saying they will potentially struggle on Ascent because they are not likely to run double initiator.
EDG is playing double sentinel (Vyse/Deadlock) on Ascent.
Their Split comp was a bit troll.
To be fair to the doubters, EDG trolled their defense side the last time they played this comp on Ascent against DRG and lost. I was not at all sure until the score was like 11-8.
EDG also lost this map to DRG with a good defensive comp. You never know
My comment was mostly a jest, I'll admit, but GenG looks really solid enough to beat this shaky version on T1.
I think these roles are mostly to put Freeing on Tejo. Also, BeyN is doing well on Omen.
This map (Lotus) seems like a bit of a prep-time-with-comp/roles diff and Foxy9 being a lot more comfortable in his role in GenG.
Foxy9 rn: "Who is the best team in Korea now?"
As the second seed in your group, you can't face the leader of your group even if you win the first round match. In this case, you either wish SEN was more successful earlier so that they could lock in the first seeded position earlier, or less successful so that they could be seeded lower. Because there is no other way for SEN to avoid a tough bracket in their position. At the end of the day, it's a bit pointless to be stressed about it. SEN was going to face one tough opponent before guaranteeing play-offs in any case.
Also, I wish people would stop being so timid against G2. Yes, they are strong. And yes, they are favored to win against you. But C9 literally showed that (in Haven) once you take the fight directly to them head-on, it's entirely possible to beat them. Who knows how Pearl would turn out if C9 weren't so cautious in that one 1v2 round? As it stands, I would say G2 Haven looks weaker than SEN Haven and then you just have to try finding a way to beat G2 in one other map, either through anti or a new comp. It's tough, but not impossible.
That is, if SEN is actually willing to beat the best teams in the world and win a title again. They were going to face G2 sooner or later, does it really matter it's in the second match instead of the grand-finals? And even if they lose, it wouldn't be a shameful loss.
Also, it's not even guaranteed that they'll face G2. As it stands, C9 should be favored in my opinion, if you have seen all of their performances so far in this tournament. This is excluding those who think "nah, c9 never get out of play-offs" of course.
I mean, it's not that bad. Definitely not like his other tweet. .They did show the willingness and outlasted TEC in the end, especially after that Ascent nightmare.
Serial was playing new roles for the first time, no? A bit different than M8 players. As one can see in the next weeks, they are rebuilding their map pool accordingly and he's getting better.
On the other hand, M8 started on fire, but they been losing confidence with every close map loss, the defeat felt inevitable after Lotus today.
TL is rebuilding their map pool with Serial. It's not that weird that they looked a bit off in their first match.
That said, Mates are losing confidence with close every loss. Also they are relying a lot of individual pop offs; Kamyk Breach with only 2 assists (14/15/2) on Lotus OT (12-14) is very surprising.
FUT looked awesome on Pearl, but won Lotus 14-12 because Xeus went crazy. Hardly an obliteration.
Fair enough, though in my head I thought of his new role would be more token and maybe giving some suggestions here and there, rather than being an actual coach. Probably a bit like patrickWHO, who was sitting next to the GE coach when he was replaced earlier.
Not gonna lie, I can see FNS taking the Haodong route; stepping down from the main roster but being the assistant coach, still being part of the team that makes a run. He can retire fully afterwards if he wants. Lowkey, that would do a lot to change people's opinion about him, if such a new NRG manages to make a successful showing, that is.
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