in n out double double animal style

no way you just said TSM did better than C9

I can't believe that they dropped neptune, asuna, and dicey

The Guard Tier 1 team?

Korea is overhyped, they weren't that good, it's not hard to get an 100 game win streak when the region you're in sucks

I would think they keep seven on jett and make him the dedicated jett/awp player the way yay is for envy

Gambit was imo the team of the year, they won CIS Masters 1, Masters 3 Berlin, and they were runners up in Champions. Acend had a very up and down path to Champions and only really became the best team in the world after Champions, through the rest of the year it was SEN and GMB that were consistently in the conversation for best in the world

The Gambit over Acend pick I can see but VK and VKS over all the SEA and NA teams? That Brazil copium must go crazy

1. EMEA
2. NA
3. LATAM
4. SEA
5. KR
6. BR
7. JP

I don't know nearly enough about SA and China to make a comment about them

The way I see it, LATAM is a one team region, and while that one team is insane, it doesn't put it over the all around talent that NA has

Korea is mad overrated, they are a one team region

SEA is insane and as the game gets more popular I expect to see them be even better

Now that NIP is in BR, I could see them climbing the rankings but this whole year they have consistently underperformed considering the expectations, but they showed promise in champions

EMEA is really easy to say, been in all Masters Finals, all 4 EMEA teams in Champions playoffs, Champions Grand Finals was all EMEA, semis was 3/4 EMEA, they look far and away the best region in valorant

I trust NA to come back to being a top 2 region, after getting rolled in valorant I expect there to be a new surge of young players getting the chance to shine as teams rebuild in the off-season

Considering how many resources are going into the Japanese valorant scene, their performance at champions was hella disappointing, I think they should just combine regions with KR

Japan is easily the worst team that was at champs

I have yet to find any other source of valorant content that has that perfect combination of serious analysis and stupid shitposting that they do, they are insanely underrated especially for the costreams

if SEN qualifies for a brazil champions there will be riots in the streets and SEN would need to hire the secret service to make sure the players can even make it to the venue

alright bro calm down, Secret played insanely good, but look at their group, it was Vikings and Crazy Racoons, Vikings may have been decent but they were not anywhere near being the best BR team at the event, and Crazy Racoons was one of the worst if not the worst team at the event. VS got thrown in the group of death with FNATIC and C9, VS may be overrated, but Secret over VS? Secret is at best the 2nd or 3rd best SEA team, PRX and X10 are equal or better than them

There’s no way you have BR over KR SEA and LATAM after what the SEA and LATAM teams have done in this tournament and how shit BR teams have done this whole year

KR and JP are already so connected with all the Korean players on JP teams, might as well just combine them and put SEA and SA in their own region

VS or SEN, both were tournament favorites and then they just drop out of groups, SEN Was more of a disappointment bc VS was in the group of death and SEN just had to beat KRU and Furia

I actually got a copy of the script, and it looks like Secret will 2-1 Acend and Liquid and KRÜ are going to 2-0 FNATIC and then 2-1 Gambit, trust me guys it's going to happen

the worst meta of all time was the stinger meta in like February, I remember watching an 100T game and it was just force buy wars the whole time because Stingers were able to compete with rifles and the buy rounds and eco rounds lost all suspense bc they all blended together and were insanely repetitive

It stopped being banter a long time ago with Brazilian fans, at least the NA vs EU rivalry is a kind of friendly rivalry where both sides respect the players, Brazilian fans send death threats after their fav team loses a game lmao thats just ridiculous

why do they keep trying to get the Brazilians mad

Team Secret and Crazy Racoons

Maybe it's bc of the hype of it being the first international LAN and we had absolutely no idea how anybody would perform at LAN on the big stage

I always enjoy reading these articles, nice job

look at the first stickied thread

its bc the up and comer circuits are ESEA anyway, and all the actually good FPL players are in Europe

they are def making it out of groups, I do not trust FNATIC to be good at all, and they could make some noise in playoffs but I will be shocked if they even make it to grand finals, let alone win it

S1mple and Zywo0 are both better than Device

My predictions are LA, Shanghai, and then some EU country again

that's why I said mostly in EU, I know in some regions cs was already dying, and cs never really gained popularity in Asia in the first place, so imo that's not really much of a surprise

cs is far from dead, the game is still alive and well, especially in EU. Now overwatch is a different story

officially a major is that but Kato, Cologne, and World Final are all kind of on the level of a major bc of the competition level

comp is a hell hole, spike rush is very chill

They got a pretty sizable crowd for PGL Major Stockholm, as long as nothing completely terrible happens in a month then I don't see why no crowd

I'd say the only majors are the stuff like IEM Katowice, IEM Cologne, the Valve-sponsored tourneys and the Blast World Finals, the rest are basically qualifiers to get to the big events

Furia is actually a Brazilian team that qualified with the NA slots

All the NA teams are ass atm, the last time an NA team was actually competitive at a consistent level was Team Liquid in like 2019, the rest of the big teams either dropped their CS roster bc of the pandemic and overall lower competition levels in NA compared to EMEA and CIS or are in a rebuilding period

I know that a shit ton of low elo players are like 12-13 year olds, and for some reason they always are the shittiest players that talk the most shit

GMB
TL
ACE
C9
Rise
XSET
SMB
FNC
Tenstar
V1

it's all pregame to build up the hype and build the storylines, it won't actually effect the time the games start

EZ for NaVi 2-0 cry about it, S1mple the goat, number 1 in his name, number 1 in the game

In a 1v1, I'm taking Skye or Jett

Rise is hella impressive, considering that at the beginning of the year they weren't even in the conversation for LCQ, to be runner up in NA LCQ is insane.

TSM will make a huge revamp with Wardell in the center of it again, 100T will try something funky again, I'd say very confidently that b0i is gone and possibly one of the other old heads, Rise will try and get some big free agent, I'd say that most likely Shanks is on the chopping block, depending on how C9B do in champs I can maybe see some change but probably not, basically I'd say that everyone from LCQ will try to make some major free agent signing

The b0i change was not a good idea, dropping your igl before a major tournament will never be a good idea no matter how skilled the rest of your team is. The b0i 100T I would say are on the same level as C9B, but the steel 100T is I'd say clearly better than C9B and is a top team in the world

https://imgur.com/a/zexs9oB

I think it’s just a huge coincidence, plus the teams like G2 and Liquid and kind of 100T that had success in league are some of the biggest esports orgs in the world, it’s almost impossible for them to fail considering the amount of money they put in

That headhunter one looks really balanced, it looks perfect for some pistol demon to go and get some kills on a save round but isn’t so busted that it could win a round by itself

you are braindead if you've never heard of recency bias before

I remember people were saying FaZe was going to go deep in LCQ and they got knocked out in last lol, they're hella overrated

why do people act like money shields people from criticism