rent free huh

terrible night market imo

I mean the teams they played today were not all that good. He seemed rather comfortable on it but the real test will come tomorrow going in the round of 32 games.

George Geddes made either a post or replied to a tweet regarding sinatraa, he's basically been blacklisted by riot and riot has told teams not to go for him. There was a bit of interest from a couple of tier 1 teams but it got shut down quickly and quietly. George then said that there were potential VC (Venture Capitalist) teams not connected to an org that may look to build around sinatraa but it would be a while.

Ultimately riot didn't want him around the game and most tier 1 teams don't want him because it is just a pr nightmare. The few that did want him I'm sure probably have smaller brands and believed they could potentially dance around his personal life issues but if riot is blacklisting him, no team will risk their chances with the developer of the game that they are trying to build a competitive esport team in.

literally me. Never played CS but Val looked really cool and he was the best and biggest educational streamer. Learned so many fundamentals from him

if you know you know

why does hazed not spam the box. Where he is at, he would die if neon doesnt get it. But then instead of trying to stop him he just stands there. Idk if he could have ran and killed him in time but at the very least spam the box no?

lol

who is this guy? like where is he from/who he play for?

Boi statistically was actually fine today. Ethan had a terrible series, nitro was not great either but gets some slack as he is on a new role and is igling. To be complete honest idk who is in charge of moves but whoever they are should be blamed for this. I just don't believe things were so bad with steel that a change needed to be made before LCQ, no way. That being said if this is on LAN 100T still probably win this. But it wasn't and they lost. Boi is a downgrade no doubt about it. And there seem to be compositional problems on almost all of the maps. Luckily there is nothing to do until 2022 ig because there are a lot of changes that need to be made

https://tiermaker.com/list/valorant/remaining-vct-teams-1228666/1709494

Leave Abramovich out of this

Discussing eras in this game is really weird as majors happen few and far between. It's not like in CS where the top teams from around the world always play in so many majors. in Val there are 4 international tourneys a year. So it would be very hard to create an "era" per say. What i would say is that their NA dominance may be in question, but the era talk is kinda gray area imo

What I have noticed is that the first map for smaller regions (Not EU/NA) have been incredibly lackluster largely due to nerves IMO. Both Iceland and Berlin have showcased this. Then the second map is usually competitive at a minimum maybe even a win. But they can't take the series starting so far behind. Just remember this for the rest of the tourney, it usually plays out like this I think.

I think the big thing with Acend is not only are they a good team, they player for player match up with SEN effectively. They also definitely have proven to be at the level of a Gambit or SMB even though they got 3rd in challengers finals.

One reason I believe Gambit are not being rated highly is their lack of a superstar duelist, they have Nats and he is great but not the entry. I feel people equate team success with how good your #1 duelist is and for Gambit that can lead to them looking lackluster. Realistically they are a well oiled machine that is very balanced but idk.

SMB is due to how new they are. Also, they can flop the most out of the 3 due to their heavy aim duel playstyle. that will get shut down by SEN as no one can out aim that at this very moment.

groups of death are not a problem in sports. Happens in the CL all the time. Why we see no outrage is that in the CL, even with a group of death, once we get into knockouts, all 16 teams are usually deserving of a spot because there are enough good teams in Europe. In this tournament, there are 8 good teams that should be in knockouts yet only 7 can qualify because of group of death. That is the problem

Groups of death in most sports are usually very very healthy. The thing is though when they happen, at the end of the day when a knock-out round occurs, every team there is still deserving of a spot to be there because there are enough good teams. In this case, as the scene is right now, there are only 8 teams that deserve to get out of groups. Unfortunately, this group of death means that 1 of the 8 teams will not make it out. If there were 9 good teams then it would be fine bc even if say VS got knocked out in groups, there are still 8 great teams to watch in the quarterfinals. Now, it's likely someone like Vivo Keyd or KRU get out which while they are the best in their region, they have shown not to stack up with the rest of the top teams around the world. If Vivo Keyd does turn out to be a competent team then there is no problem. But as it stands riot has effectively messed up the knock-out round bc of the group of death.

this is accidental, it is supposed to be #2 BR Havan Liberty, they fixed it

Lucky for them as the 1 seed they only have to beat either ACEND OR SUPERMASSIVE so fair lol.

What a shit list lol

I hate it personally lol but a lot of people like it so up to you. I just think its too distracting

While I think NV has potential more so than 100T let's not overstate this new player thing for a couple reasons.

1. Duelist changes are usually the easiest in valorant, especially like for like changes such as Jett for Jett as duelist are inherently selfish and thus their utility oftentimes is either incredible straightforward in its use or completely meant to be used to aid themseleves. If it was a sova for sova change or sentinel for sentinel there becomes more credibility for the new player argument as entire setups/execs would change with support character swaps.

2. Yay in for Mummay is one of the most objective upgrades we have seen in Valorant up to this point. So chemistry issues due to them not being a team for that long during this Challengers finals was imo made up for by the difference in quality Yay brings to the table.

That being said, they probably due have the most potential in the region but one could reasonably argue the team's talent is comparable to the next direct "rival" to SEN

Asuna=Yay
Ethan=Victor
Nitr0=Marved
Hiko<Crashies
Steel>FNS

Whether you agree with the player comparisons or not is entirely up to you but the fact that it is not outlandish is proof enough that at minimum they are comparable.

All this to say I really can't see anyone beat SEN in NA for quite some time

Somebody said it already but posting this on Valorant competitive subreddit would do you wonders as it is very well thought out post!

Most of us don't even know what to do to get a gf... good luck man

Hiko's probably the 3rd best sova in NA. IN TERMS OF USING SOVA UTIL. I understand that his fragging can be a bit frustrating at times but as a pure sova, good shock dart lineups for things like KJ ult, strong ult usage of hunters fury good recons, he is insane. You could argue he is the best sova at using sova's kit but his fragging capability puts him 3rd behind crashies and BcJ. (Not forgetting Shaz but shaz is essentially a fill sova which is why I don't really count him)

agree about aproto. Feels like he is a one trick cypher in a cypherless meta. Tough ig

4/8 obvious bait but it worked still. Good for you

Surely this is bait. Yay diffed Asuna? This is again statistically not true. But even disregarding stats if you watched the game you could definitely tell there was no diff in either direction. Also, you citing the 1 duelist comp showcases the difference between Tenz and Asuna. Asuna is the sole entry for the team, if he doesn't get entries or create space for 100T the rounds are more likely than not finished. In fact, they were so reliant on him (around stage 1 stage 2) that they didn't even run execs or setups to be able to trade him. Steel mentioned this on his streams back during this time. Conversely, SEN running 2 duelists allows for double entry setups where you can play off of your other entry fragger. Tenz does not have nearly the same importance level as Asuna to 100T because SEN constantly has support around Tenz via Sick, or Shaz to create openings. Just because they don't run skye does not mean there is no support lol.

Lastly, people who claim 100T is simply just the "Asuna show" either don't watch the games or do not fully grasp the way 100T plays. 100T play in a way that enables Asuna's rifling in a way that TSM enables Wardell's op. The difference being Asuna on a rifle is much less of a crutch for 100T than Wardell on the op. The goal is to set Asuna up for picks as he is one of the best riflers in the world but it is not simply him just running around wide swinging and repeeking everything. There is way more structure than that and if you can't see that then I'm sorry but idk what else to tell you

This is simply not true, and I know my flair makes me less credible. But prior to yesterday, the last two times 100T played SEN Asuna had the highest ACS for 100T, and in one of the matches, he had a higher ACS than Tenz, with the other being like 30-40 difference. To say Asuna gets diffed by Tenz and SEN as a whole is just not true. In fact, he is one of the few NA duelists that doesn't get diffed by SEN/Tenz. Am I saying he is better? No. But he is not getting diffed lmao.

Also, I agree that Ethan is very very underrated, he was a top 20 CS player on HLTV before switching. Idk if he is an entry tho. Just my opinion on that.

explain your reasoning? Because the B05 made it pretty clear 100T has a deeper map pool

LOL I am trolling, forgot Vic played skye. Most definitely their real comp. NV are commited to Victor transition to skye, which somewhat forces crashies into a weird fill on this map

100t ban Bind. My theory is that this is NV's real comp. The reyna pick is to have flashes to entry with as they have no skye. The only thing I don't understand is not playing skye/picking cypher over her. Could be FNS choice, could be Crashies not being comfortable, could be the coach wanting to utilize cypher on arguably his best map.

They are not a good split team anymore. Split is Envy's perma ban now from what used to be icebox. Also my guess is this is their comp. The only thing I don't understand is cypher over skye. Cypher over skye is why they have to go Reyna over jett as reyna has flashes to make up for cypher not having any. That being said split is cyphers best map, maybe FNS just prefers a strong defense to make up for the lack luster attack?

Crashies was a cypher 1 trick back on T1. Obviously this is well over 8 months ago but not his first time.

I mean having an org and not having an org is a big difference even if it is still the same 5

100% agree

This makes zero sense, to send death threats to people after a loss is just sickening. Especially over something as trivial as esports. Like you literally know that there will be multiple other chances, and ultimately it is just a game, these players have lives outside of it. Like really? This is the level that you stoop to? It just doesn't make any sense to me :(

Props to you. I thought maybe they make the change for LCQ if they didn't qual with the roster for berlin in finals but they felt ready now.

Tangent to the tangent but I'm so glad someone said it 100T not playing sage on icebox will hurt them the further they go imo. Granted their icebox is already really really good as is so good that SEN bans it against them but it could be even better with sage over kj imo.

wrong flair :)

Wardell is still a bit too high for me and I think Vic could go ahead of both corey and leaf. Ultimately I think what every list has lacked, yours included is the importance of team success as good as a lot of these guys are the team success should be something to discern the good from the great. In sports like basketball, the top 10 are usually all comparable in skill but one thing that sets them apart is how they impact their teams in terms of winning. I think it should be the same in Val. Outside of Tenz and somewhat Asuna to a certain extent, the top 10 are very comparable. I mean are we really gonna objectively decided who is better between people like yay and corey or Victor and Sick? But what we can do is see that a team like Faze has seen a bit more success during VCTs in comparison to ABX and we can adjust the rankings accordingly. IMO at least