After beating Permitta should be easy for Xperion, Spocki too good

Everyone in phase 1 is equally matched so this could be anyone's game

G2G 2-1 hopium

CS:GO days and their current core roster transitioning into Valorant + hoping they would do better in getting to tier 2 (and beyond) in this game.

If you are a tier 1 pro, regardless of your gender, Riot would make a massive mistake by forcing a downgrade on someone to (what I consider) tier 3.

Also, Game Changer players aren't locked to that circuit only, examples being TL BR/G2 Gozen trying to grab a spot in their respective VCL regions (tier 2).

Really unusual how flor gets all the flack and sarah doesn't get close to none despite both of them being trans

It's really close between Passion Project and FlyQuest Red, slight edge to FQR imo just because dodonut is an amazing duelist

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f24d239f don't think this is a surprise to anyone

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/90614dc3 the FLCV vs G2G game was probably a fluke but I also believe they can do it again

The reason for a separate circuit is to get them into the competitive environment. However, a separate ranked "bubble" wouldn't achieve anything. Women have hit all ranks in the game so I don't see a reason for any further separation.

Pleased to see G2 have someone comfortable on the duelist role, gratz to rezq for going 10-3 in her opening duels.

36 and 59 ADR on map 2 really disappointing, I was really hoping Burgerville makes a deeper run this time

damn

I don't think that's an underrated placement, the teams they're up against are really strong.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/69d90aa5

Don't really think this is too extra out of expected considering how OQ1 went

Never claimed it would be a miracle run, especially not if its within realistic reach.

oh i thought they were srs abt it, my bad LOL

1337 and Thinking Men are personally the ones that make it with SR finishing in 3rd-4th. Maybe it will be a different story now that they already qualified for GC and they don't play a lot of games in a shorter period. I also feel like SR heavily underperformed and gave away A LOT of free rounds in their losses, probably due to tilt. If they can stop themselves from giving freebies and hold a firmer grip when they have a lead, they have a chance.

Can they not enter DACH Challengers in march? Isn't Premier Contender league designed for that specifically to get a top team in during the middle of the split or something? They're 6-0 now so it might be very much doable

this is why i said, "yet to prove themselves". annja is already proven to be good (also she's "stuck" with NASR Ignite) and i don't have enough games watched to tell you certainly if smurfette is good or not.

It was always adora or rezq getting the duelist slot on G2G nobody else in the GC scene seems to be that prominent of a duelist yet to prove themselves and I doubt roxi would want to swap from sentinel. Also if the Premier contender thing still stands, they have nothing but wins so far and if they keep going they will qualify for DACH Challengers.

I've been watching rezq stream and the main role and what she's played in Premier with this roster was duelists, so I'll assume she sticks to it. Checking the profile on vlr.gg does indicate sentinels, but she's moved on past that. Regardless I think Jettra is still a thing and since rezq is the youngest she has the most space to become a walking highlight reel, so I agree when it comes to pick ups.

I think the gap between the top 3 teams in the global circuit has closed substanially now. The difference makers for these teams will just be the amount of games they play into stronger teams to gain experience and more strats tbf.

Amy - sentinel
Vania - smokes
rezq - duelists
petra - flex
mimi - flashes

On paper this is the best EU GC team you could possibly have (under the condition rezq proves herself, which I don't doubt she will), it's just a matter of them settling in properly and gaining competitive experience together as a core.

Super excited to see the roster rebuild and what players they end up picking up

There hasn't been enough praise for Momiji and sonofcar because everyone focused on the teams losing instead of teams winning. Crazy props to both for playing so well.

The only team I expected in all of qualifiers to be consistently dominant was SaD, rest are a bit more closer in terms of skill. This (as in their performance) doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to SR over the last year or so, however flor's performance has been a little bit muted in the series outside of the last round ace on Lotus and I'd say a lot of people expect her to be fairly more dominant.

This match itself isn't that unlucky, they won once (-andersin, +Jangler now) against them and flor put on a masterclass that day. If sarah keeps up her performance there shouldn't be any problems BUT I don't expect it to be a free win.

SR, SaD, BTR, YFP, QoR, Let us cook

All of potentially great teams that could make it but also some of them will face off against each other and that makes me a little worried, mainly for SR because the GC GF showcase was slightly shakier than it should've been.

Pretty sure SR is still going to play despite scheduling problems I think and Azure got eliminated in first round in VCL Polaris. No clue about others

According to an SR tweet, it seems like the servers they were playing on went down for that time and they should be continuing today just fine.

imo OS CARA CEGO take one slot 100% and the other one is up for grabs, I don't have that much intel on others, didn't have time to watch the games

EDIT: wow that was pretty unexpected, I think they have it in the bag now

Winning this match in particular? Pretty high, their teamwork is great and if they keep on playing the way they have in the previous games I don't expect them to be stopped

Pretty sure they are, if they win grand finals of closed qualifiers (which should be a must if they were to put up a fight in NACL), they have no GC-related matches after the 28th.

Me too! I am insanely excited for what this year will bring to the NA scene

Well registrations are going on at this moment (probably on Battlefy) so there's going to be a little while until we have concrete info, I've wondered the same as you before but found nothing outside of this.

They're probably hiding strats and comps for VCL which is really smart

SR 26 - 2 TA

I think both Vania and Glance are good players, but they both play differently. Makes me sad she didn't get to play how she usually does within G2.G and she will be even better if her new team lets her

alright thanks!

Since it's getting close to the qualifiers, does anyone have any info on the teams that are going to participate? I'm not exactly sure where to look and advice is welcome

With mimi, Petra, Amy, Vania and rezq playing Premier together this basically further solidifies the rumors and I'm hoping they become dominant in the EU GC scene again.

No, there's been rumors of rezq (16yo turkish duelist, prev. FUT fe) and Vania (ex-BBL IGL/smokes) joining G2.G and Juliano is looking for an org to have her and her core represented in CS2.

The Juliano thing isn't a rumor since she said it herself on Twitterthe tweet

I don't think flor will leave SR just yet, especially not when Challenger qualifiers are around the corner but I can get behind this

SR > G2.G and I think the difference is Juliano's performance only, outside of that could be pretty close. Should wait to see SR perform at Challengers and make a stronger decision off of that.

https://x.com/tarik/status/1731446223012237610?s=20

Not a clear 100% indicator that they will play or a confirmation, but both meL and Ludwig replying makes it incredibly likely

EG fell apart entirely, and SR doesn't seem to be in financial trouble to me. Anyway, if they were to be dropped by the org they'd be picked up by someone else in literally no time.

They just won the GC Championship, why would they be dropped?

Since Glance had some issues previously mentioned (#28), it comes off as her also wanting to leave rather than just her getting kicked so it's not as bad + the roster changes were IMO bound to happen since they didn't win GC on top of their weaker Series 3 EMEA GC run.

here she seems to be staying in CS2 scene so I'm guessing she's not coming back to Valorant. Besides, mimi has just recently been put on IGL role so the sudden switch-ups kind of lack sense to me. Roster change was imminent because they went 3rd though, but not with juliano.

Who do they even replace her with? Also wondering if they're gonna do some roleswaps again