as well as that bleed are a team that would benefit from getting a day to anti-strat while onic really didnt mind
and yeeeea.... bleed had an interesting game

the good ol' fpx special

problem is they didnt have much time to practice with the new roster, so we dont know how many strats will be there yet
switching 2 players before a big tourney is always risky, though i have very high hopes for them

theyre a team that just lost 2 of their core players so theyre very much on the weaker side of the competition

Maru have never really been impressive with their gameplay; theyre good but never look like anything special, so I have 0 idea how theyre gonna match up against a lot of these niche teams

This is gonna be an interesting test for EDG to see how far the region is; they're playing against the weakest ONS we've had in a while, losing King was huge and they just didn't have much time to practice with their new roster

that's an understatement, there's a huge difference in onur kru and no onur kru
(like they're still a good team, don't get that wrong, but they just haven't looked nearly as good as they did during masters since he left)

trigger discipline like that is usually good, you dont expect your opponents aimbot to work 360 degrees
supamen just got that premium product

Feel like both teams watched the Split of m3c vs Acend and saw it as a challenge
The chaos is amazing

he said on the interview that playing smokes wasnt what he was unhappy with, rather being that he was playing breach on almost all maps
(5:17:20 on the vod, since i cant clip on Yinsus channel)

lmao nah
even if we try we peeps on vrl would end up talking bs anyways (go look at reddit lul) so might as well embrace our bronze brains ;3

? I can fully say its out of place for a professional to directly and publicly insult players that didnt do anything to prompt him; its your choice how you represent yourself regardless on what talkshow you go on
And considering he never contested the translation, that people were losing their mind over, as misrepresenting him, I have to assume it was accurate

so we're all professionals now?
Eyyyy i finally get to flame teams without having to be careful about talking bs, im a professional after all!

Except he was completely wrong; g2 most likely were spending more money on their team since they were currently paying for 1 more staff member, while really not standing out whatsoever compared to Guild (who we're using as our baseline for "paycheck stealers")

And no neither team were paycheck stealers, both were consistent t1 so it was just so out of place

I agree with g2 (though theres also a lot of personal bias in there since i hate their style) but OGLU wouldnt be out of place in NA lcq whatsoever

OGLU do well on fundamentals and have decent strats, but lack fire power normally (apparently they have amazing aim this series so ???) so I dont think they'd be a favorite in NA either but theyre def no blowout regardless of region

wtf are those "corners" you speak of?

Oh 100%, xeta was amazing

And another thread thinking that curry being added suddenly made everyone in the team preform so much worse that Vanity is now their best fragger
Like come on guys at least try to watch the games and see that they're "struggling" as a team instead of "curry bad reeeeeeeeeeeee"

I really dont get why people focus THIS hard on curry when the team in general is just struggling atm;
their star player in leaf has been preforming meh for a while now
same with mitch, meaning they dont have a top tier chamber abuser
The amount their igl has top fragged is frightening (though its Vanity so ya know)

Theres just a lot going on with their lineup atm, so blaming it all on a single player/roster move is just disingenuous

I think it depends on what region you're playing in; if you can manage to consistently qualify in EMEA that's SO much more valuable than winning a single event, because on average you will make it to a decently high ranking in the international event
For a small region like Japan on the other hand the run Zeta is invaluable because you now set the bar for future Japanese teams (and also prove that your region CAN do damage at international events and shouldn't be dismissed)

I mean considering a ton of the toxicity is directly towards bleed players and their analyst its on the line
But its also not like APAC fans are less toxic to other teams when they're against their fav team so it is what it is

Classic bleed and being the 3rd best team of the event
The perfect finish to their year, 100% consistency

you mean like their academy team?

Roster changes also tend to motivate teams by bringing a breath of fresh air into what is now a very long standing roster, so im def not opposed to the idea

Their players seem fine, so while sure you can swap some peeps out for potentially better players it wont make a difference since fragging wise they've been doing fine
The thing they need to work on is strats; executes, telling your team when you want to peak and waiting for util and then just practicing double swings so they can start trading effectively
Its not like theyre a bad team atm but they just feel like theyve fallen behind on teamplay

Good news is that not having time to prepare is gonna favor onic, compared to bleed who have effective antistrats
Only question is how tired players are after the last series

This game is slightly tilting to watch, both teams just dont feel like using their util, with the majority of round being decided by an aim duel (or an lurk because people dont check corners apparently)

Imma be real Vit should have gone out way earlier with their map pool in my opinion (welcome to getting screwed by a bo1 format ig) but just pulled through by being what is essentially a t1 team

But oml I SO wanna see Fut in t1 now, I still believe MrFalin in the best igl turkey has, since hes been making amazing calls without falling behind too far on frags
qraxs was a beast this series with a great agent pool too, like not even close on the last 3 maps
And yea... like the entire team was so impressive this event, that I feel like they could cause upsets in lcq, with their only visible weakness being the lack of a top tier chamber abuser

https://clips.twitch.tv/SmallTemperedEggplantNerfBlueBlaster-6s_Q13zy08UUEepu
So according to Jamppi, Dimasick isn't the igl atm (since that was one of the theories of why dimasick was getting picked)

last stage was a bit wild with xerxia dropping down to lowers round 1 vs TS (who got rekt by Bleed 2 games before so gl judging their power level in that event) and then just eliminating everyone

ya just had to do it smh

uncharacteristically funny too... almost as if... nah must just be my imagination
https://twitter.com/mooseloff/status/1555313132712693766

we havent seen much bind from them so gonna be interesting how they changed things up
their last bind game vs xerxia was rough to say the least

This game has me a bit worried for onic going forward, was sorta expecting this to be more dominant
GGs for pulling through though

Ender for both EMEA and NA is a bit weird, id rather have them take one of the VRL hosts if they wanted to mix things up from Yinsu
At the end of the day ender isn't bad so not like we're missing out here, so seems like a great lineup regardless

With how the mith onic game is going there's a decent chance secret makes it 3rd again though
Like i agree that TS have been struggling hard but they're still getting really good results

Was a great match and makes me very hopeful for the regions future
Being able to push the top Philippines team within a year of international play is great; lets see if they can surpass them next time

more hype yes, but pansy + hypoc provide more in depth commentary
As long as there's a healthy mix its fun to watch, so we still need at least one of these APAC duos at masters

not 100% sure about NA rulings, EMEA has split for lcq but Masters wont have it anymore

I mean its better than VRLs atm so ya know... its a really good starting point for the scene

What a statement, FUT looked amazing this game, both aim wise but also anti-stratting on Haven
If they can show up like this tomorrow Fut have a really really good chance of winning this
Also MrFaliN might actually be the player Turkey needs to break back into the top of tier 1 in vct, hes looking amazing as an igl while also fragging

Idk how much you can really interpret into this since picking up a game changers team atm is pretty much the best investment an org can do in Valo; new scene so no huge buyouts for top teams, decent viewership and international tournaments for top teams (and currently no risk of losing that investment to not getting into partnership)

Bleed have been pretty consistent in VCT events, only losing to the 2 teams that qualify so with PRX and Xerxia not being here they have a really good chance.
With Team Secret you gotta remember that they're not the top APAC team that they were a year ago; they come into this event as 4th/5th "seed" tied with MITH, so while I agree that they've been looking bad its not like they came into their match vs Bleed/MITH as favorites

Also pretty much any game order wins atm is an upset since they just dont have the same results and experience as the rest of the teams here, so watching them is always super fun

And yea Onic, Bleed, Boom matchups should all make for good matches since theyre the 3 favored teams by far based on results

Its even worse tbh, based on what we saw from TS this far Order would actually be favored
Good news is that last qualifiers they lost to bleed too and started playing well again after so should still be ez for TS

afaik boosts arent allowed in vct atm
I doubt theres gonna be much of a punishment here since raze can get up there on their own, but it depends on how many rounds they did this on

Today wasnt ment to be the day of stomps, wtf is going on
Edit: Map 2 didnt help wtf

which is fair as long as it doesnt lead to people hating an org
I cheered for Ovation in DACH too since they're the only full DACH team, but that sure as hell didnt stop me from cheering for AT afterwards since they very much are still part of the region

I dont really get why importing players into the region is that much of a problem here; if an org starts replacing all their players and stops trying to grow talent in the own region then yes, but bleed has an academy team and only imported players around their previous teams core

Well that was quite the showing ngl

The only argument that hasn't been explained/debunked when context is added is that he has a troubled past with racism in cs (though Ive yet to see a proper documentation on that either)
Otherwise he's just a toxic player in ranked/scrims so people are bound to get upset with him eventually (see the reply above for the case that started the hate train)
That being said from an outside view the hate he gets seems unproportional to anything he did in Valorant and seems to rather be due to a lot of info spreading by word of mouth rather than researched articles
The main problem this whole situation caused is that actually good information keeps getting drowned out by already explained/out of context clips/situations, so if there is a bigger problem here people outside of Brazil will never see it