me and literally everyone? VLR was full of people complaining about how underwhelming group stage and early playoffs felt for Seoul, and that was because it laked a big and hype crowd. Like try watching any competition with no crowd sound at all and see how horrible it its, even games like FIFA have a fake crowd to hype you while you play lmao

i definitely trust the Paris crowd i think Champs this year will be fire

Like how do yall think the live audience will be? How many people? Will all the games be played on the big arena or no? I think the live audience for internationals is perhaps the most important part. Thats why Champs Seoul, for example felt underwhelming up until the Top 4 at least. Bangkok was hype but im doubting Toronto will be like that for some reason...

both lose somehow

idk they just feel lost. Like on paper yeah the roster is decent-good, but this is just not how a team with good management and preparation should be moving man, it just doesnt feel like a calculated thing and more like a desperate measure.

lmao

Lock In is the very definition of a mickey mouse tournament

Tokyo you are literally just wrong

also 2021 Valorant lmao lets be serious

so basically every international ever is mickey mouse

I think SEN wins Stage 1 but MIBR does better at Toronto

i didnt say its shit just that they would rather play other maps at the moment

this game was a literal scrim for MIBR, if anything it was even less important then a scrim because Aspas said their energy in comms was lower than in practice. In a game that actually mattered they won pretty convincingly against 100T

I feel like there's no reason for SEN to pick Split if they can just pick Haven first which they looked much better at. Also they just got demolished on it so they will be having some things to fix before wanting to play it again

yeap its an easy pick for SEN i think

just got rolled on + MIBR is good at + Their Pearl is better

This is a really weird game to try and predict the vetos because there's so many variables to consider. Both teams have the same perma-ban (Fracture) so i think they will float it initially, especially SEN who should just ban Icebox if they are smart. You would think MIBR would like to ban Ascent, which they are winless on, but they definitely have a comp prepared on it they saved for playoffs, Aspas hinted on this already. Maybe MIBR could pick Lotus because SEN are winless on it, but that was a long time ago so its hard to believe SEN didnt fix their Lotus already... So like, what are we even baning or picking initially? Because every map here seems extremely unpredictable or could go either way.

My guess:

SEN ban Icebox
MIBR ban Ascent
SEN pick Haven
MIBR pick Lotus
SEN ban Fracture
MIBR ban Pearl
Split remains

or

MIBR ban Ascent
SEN ban Icebox
MIBR pick Lotus
SEN pick Haven
MIBR ban Fracture
SEN ban Split
Pearl remains

Lets be real its gonna be a pacific team again

So if Aspas is Itachi who is Sasuke

why shouldnt we praise participation? You do know only the top teams for each region qualify right? You gotta be doing something right if you make an international. Also the DRG comparison is just stupid because China was obviously a weaker region at the time, these comparisons only work for same region teams

unrelated but does anyone here know a youtube coach called Woohojin? I used to like his content somewhat but i remember losing my respect for him as a coach entirely during a 100T vs LEV vod review he was doing last year where he said something along the lines of

"Asuna and Aspas are both cracked players so they CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT and what trully matters is the support players around them." basically saying Asuna was just as good as Aspas LMAOOO literally never watched him again. Later on i found out that he lied about having reached Radiant by himself and actually hired an elo-job guy to do it for him or something like that LMAO what a clown

i mean i wasnt wrong at the time, sentinels clearly improved a lot since group stage so good for them

Spacca ja falou que viraria coach se um time brasileiro apresentasse um projeto que ele considerasse sério + malote potente + autoridade pra ele comandar o time. Nao vai acontecer na FURIA pq é a FURIA mas em outras orgs br eu acho possível sim, dificil mas possivel

they will go negative against each other somehow

Primeiramente pqp bota papo de lunatico nisso, mas tudo bem vou entrar na sua disneylandia.

Sato pra duelista e Urango de iniciador IGL, se nao quiser o Urango pode deixar o Heat mesmo, mas ai o IGL sei la. Sobre ser o melhor time do Brasil, nao é dificil se o MIBR mudar muito, o que eu acho que é provavel considerando que o Verno e o Aspas tenho quase certeza que saem mesmo que tenhamos resultados bons. O problema é que a FURIA é incompetente. No papel esse time atual nao era pra estar essa vergonha tbm, mas tamo vendo ne. O problema é mais embaixo do que so elenco

if EG beats C9 they are getting second at Toronto, if not they are going winless for the rest of the year, literally no in-between

They had one impressive win this year which was against MIBR with 2 days of practice and NZR still IGL'ing lol

FNS and Boostio will both go negative against each other somehow

the coal for the steam machines they run the servers on runned out they went to mine more

it depends because americas is fine for the most part and China looks like its living in 2077 so depends on the region, i guess its just Europe that its still living in the coal era for some reason

Literally just throw every piece of equipament away and buy new ones. Destroy your local server and make another one from scratch. Honestly explode the entire EMEA arena as well while you are at it, just fucking nuke everything bro because theres NOTHING that can be salvaged at this point

The version of NRG that beat LEV should beat 100T as well

Bro your team just got farmed by koalanoob and angel why are you talking 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Aspas=Aspas
Verno>Com
Artzin> mazino

you said yourself? How is that 4/5 for lev???? LMAOOOO bro forgot how to count mid thread 😭😭😭

Let me get this straight: Your way of proving MIBR is bad is by demonstrating that they have better players than a team that finished 3rd at champs? LMAO baiters are so funny these days

It was one of if not the best map for then at Kickoff, but then they proceed to perma ban it through all of group stage? Like surely there were better ban options... This is so weird that im inclined to believe they were cooking something amazing on this map to show it on playoffs because if not than this just makes no sense to me

i mean Yoru is undeniably the best duelist on Pearl right now, so makes sense they would at least try. Also Aspas is not the type to stay in the confort zone and just watch everyone learn do new things while he draggs his team's versatility down

this is what i mean when i say VLR gets insufferable during EMEA games, scums like you keep showing up. Fuck off idiot.

On defense im not worried, attack is when it gets tricky. Even then, i trust that he'll only pick it when he's confident and comfortable enough

mark my words, if Pearl gets picked, we are seeing this man on Yoru 100%

funny how you chose the only one of my complains one could say about Americas as well, but didnt mention the exclusively EMEA ones.

im not wrong

im not gonna lie EMEA is getting on my nervers recently. Call me what you want but really this region just irritates me. They dont win trophies since 2023, their production is shit, the games are boring for the most part and VLR becomes insufferable during their games for some reason

most first engagements by far out of anyone on the server on that record breaking series btw

most first engagements by far out of anyone on the server on that record breaking series btw

and no one came even close to beating Aspas' 47 kills record still, even thou that SEN x LEV Lotus map had >12 rounds less<. The 82 one for the entire bo3 could've been beat by Lewn if there was a 3rd map but... Yeah, insane stuff, i think we'll need a 32-30 game for someone to finally beat it LMAO

G2, MIBR, C9 and maybe KRU

SEN map pool is not reliable right now to say the least, they only have Haven, Pearl and Split as maps they can trust

giantx AND eg supporter bro choose your struggles

In all fairness MIBR should 2-0 this, we are just better at everything. That being said im scared pls dont choke guys

nao entendi nada fala portugues alienigena fdp

C9 absolutely dogwalked G2 and played MIBR 13-11 on Haven, they would be lunatics to ban it. Also SEN hasnt beat an actual good team on Haven still

c9 is NOT baning haven lil bro, zero chance, if anything they could even pick Haven. C9 is baning either Pearl or Split.