Is hard to join LATAM+BR due to high ping. However, if you consider only SA, then is feasible. Perhaps north LATAM can compete at US

I would be happier if Riot gives one slot for BR and LATAM and the third slot is decided similarly to SA LCQ

Regions are naturally uneven due their distictive caracteristics. EU, for example, are richer, have a huge pool of players and have a better esports culture. These caracteristics makes them almost always the pinnacle of FPS. Most of regions cant compete against them because of this. However, if you give enough Tier 1 experience, any region can produce title contender teams. BR, for example, have historically a good performance at CS. These teams only managed to reach the top after bootcamping for long periods of time in better regions. If you dont give the opportunity for smaller regions to send their best teams abroad and, consequently, not having international experience, this process simply doesnt happen and we tend to have an esports more centered in a big region than globally. So isnt like they are simply bad, maybe they didnt get the oportunity to get better.

What if Riot do both things ?? They could give at least one direct slots for the regions and the remainder is decided in a tournament within the region, similarly how EMEA works right now. So, considering masters 3 slots allocation, Riot could give one direct slot for EU,CIS,TR and the last one be decided in a tournament with the three regions and may the best team earn their way to masters. For me, it would be much more fun with they expand this concept to others regions like SA, JP+KR, NA+OCE+Central america

do you know if CR bootcamped in EU ??

TS is better than VKS on the individual side. However, as a team i think VKS is better. I would say is like a 60/40 for VKS

What are those rules you talked ?

Yeah, maybe having a play in stage similar to Worlds and Major

Maybe in short term this would make international tournaments better. However, once you take the bigger picture i feel like giving slots for Japan better. If you gave tournaments slots solely based on their performance, teams from smaller regions wont appear as much in the beggining, leading them to have less tier 1 experience. This actually centralizes the competitive scene on the major regions(EMEA/NA), just like what happens at CS GO. Also, the might not still compete toe to toe with the big regions, but the definetly evolved since Iceland. Lets bear in mind that on masters 2 EMEA and, specially, NA was crazily ahead from others regions, but now its clear that the gap between regions are diminishing. Maybe by next year, due to the experience that Japan had on previous tournaments, can have a more competitive team. BR scene is a good caso of sucess on this

The thing about sacy is that quite often he doesnt seem at first hand playing pretty well. However, once the scoreboard is shown, hes like 20+ kills with many assists as well. It reminds me of coldzera, where he wasnt as flashy as s1mple, for example, but he managed to consistently get like 1/2 frags per round

From my experience watching plenty of csgo ive came to the conclusion that good players/teams doest take long to start to keep up with their expectations. About the brazilians teams, they were always good teams, but lacked experience on the meta. After training for 3 weeks on the best region, they started to grasp how the game should be played and get comfortable with this playstyle. The biggest problem right now, for me, is that BR teams needs to have a better mental fortitude and more experience. Both problems are solvable with time, so im positive about the future.

People just need to chill out. A good banter can spicy up things and make good storylines to follow. However, now i think that the situation escalated too quickly due to actions off both parties (BR community and SEN team). Some people simply take declarations or tweets too seriously.

" everyone is taking these tweets way too seriously" yeah man, a good banter is so fun when properly used . Imagine if theres an actual rematch of Furia vs SEN, it would be hella fun.

I personally despise any type of violence. For me, anyone who threats others should respond their acts for the police/society. I just feel like that the fight between BR and SEN makes a possible match between SEN and any of BRs teams much more exciting, though i acknowlodge that too much toxicity in the scene can be tiring and troublesome

For me, all this drama is just making me want to watch more. Now we have plenty of storylines for this tournament.

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its impressive how good are the 5 players. Individually speaking, they probably have the best duelist, best sentinel, best controller and the best flex player. All of them can singlehandly carry games quite easily. Reminds a little bit of current NAVI CS GO

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Actually is much bigger than that. I would say that is all come from brazilians being much more emotional invested than avarage. This leads very good side like having maybe the best crowd in the world, bigger will to do things than avarage, has a good hospitality, makes big connections with people. However, theres the bad part that when something goes wrong all that energy is invested of bad things like fights, death threats etc. Im not trying to justify these types of actions, which im against, just want to show for non-brazilians how things works around here

The biggest problem that BR region needs to adress is to have a bigger mental fortitude. Feel like Furia and VKS losses was mainly caused by it

its indeed a shitty behavior. What i can say is its hard to explain this more on the logical side. We, brazilians, are much more emotional invested at ours hobbies, teams, famility etc than most populations, maybe this explains our sucess on many things like football, volei etc although lack of investment. If you ever go to close to south america, i would recommend you to go in a brazilian soccer match, specially if its between big rivals, maybe once you feel the energy of the crowd, you can understand it better

Here in Brazil is kind of common soccer fans from rivals teams to go into a physical fight, many times leading to people dying in the process, so when you talk about sports in general, death threats after a team loss or something similar are on the lighter spectrum of possibilities, though 99.99% of them are just people angry and they wont do nothing

EDIT: I personally think that actions like death threats are something awfull to do and should never be tolerated, should, actually, depending on the case, be treated as criminal act. My point here is to try to show how thinks works

Its against Riot Rulebook to Brazil be happy

Maybe its against Riot Rulebook to Brazil be happy ...

Maybe its against Riot Rulebook to Brazil be happy

Chokezil, maybe we need to hire more psychologists??

Also if a KDA of 65

From what i understand, the exact Jhow camera wasnt on the rulebook, but it breached a more generic camera placement rule. Considering this, i feel that Riot should have stopped the match when it happened and evaluate the whole situation to understand if Jhow actually played against the rules (which, for me, he did). If so, they simply ought to give Acend the option to restart the round or to accept the result. This punishment after hours that the game ended is something kind of crazy for me. Which big sport handles these situations like that ?? For now i feel like the referees made a huge mistake, harming Champions competitive integrity and being unfair to Acend

Murriz said on twitter that this bug wasnt on the rulebook, so i wouldnt be so sure about it. If hes right i think it changes the whole situation

Murriz actually said the opposite on twitter, so i wouldnt be so sure that this bug was on the rulebook

I've also read on twitter that this book is poorly updated by riot, so who knows. However, it would be a hell of a storyline if VK wins the tournament now, considering that they can't lost a series by now

Maybe economy benefits can be used for better ruling. Jhow, for example, firstly use the camera in a eco round. Acend could repeat the round also having more money, perhaps enough for a full buy

I feel for this type of decision riot should act similarly to NFL. When an infraction happens, referees need to stop the match when the round ends and after evaluating then confirming that the exploit was used, they need to give the victim a choice between replaying the round or to ignore what happens. If a referee didn't notice the exploit at time, he should be punished accordingly, given the fact that his job is to protect the competitive integrity and, at this situation, he failed to do so

I don't know the truthfullness of Murriz declaration. I've just tried to make my best logical guess assuming this information. Perhaps they removed it from the list assuming it was corrected or the editor simply made a mistake. I don't know

According to Murizz, this bug wasn't listed on Riot prohibited bugs/exploits. Which could explain the reason why no referee stopped any of the 6 rounds which the exploit was used. Adding this to Riot giving one extra round for "economic purposes", leads me to believe that Riot fucked up on not updating their exploit book and they prefer to fuck VK instead of acknowledge their mistake

Would VK be the Brazilian old TSM( Wardell + Drone + Subroza ) ??

I feel like this is something that should be handled when it was happening, not after the series has already finished. Its the same thing if a soccer referee doesnt acknowledge a goal and after the match ends he changes his mind. Both teams at field played the game considering that it was tie adopting strategies acording this context. If theres someone to blame is Riot referee whose jobs were guarantee competitive integrity, but failed to do so.

I feel like this is something that should be handled when it was happening, not after the series has already finished. Its the same thing if a soccer referee doesnt acknowledge a goal and after the match ends he changes his mind. Both teams at field played the game considering that it was tie adopting strategies acording this context. If theres someone to blame is Riot referee whose jobs were guarantee competitive integrity, but failed to do so.

Honestly, i would take off Sentinels and Fnatic from that list

Honestly, so far, i feel like between the top teams BR and NA region are very similiar skill wise. However, as a region NA is much better. They have more investment, bigger player base and a bigger pool of good and experienced players

Is it true ??

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Lately, I didn't have the time to follow how well teams are doing at practices before Champs, so could anyone what's going on?? Maybe if there's a team that surprised or even how well the underdog regions are doing

The problem is that if 10% of the server is toxic that means, on avarage, we will encounter one toxic player per match, so we need a much lower toxic population

I feel like this change will reduce smurfing because, just like they said, many people create smurfs to play with lower elo friends. Now you don't need to have an alternative account for that and the rating gain/loss is diminished, so even the ones that want to hard grind won't be much negatively affected for playing with friends

I don't know if you ever watched an esports scene from the beginning, but those kinds of problems are normal. I would even say that Valorant first competitive year was the best one that any game has ever had because even though we were in a pandemic we had international tournaments with teams from most regions of the world, we had a great number of good matches, a decent format for the most part and although NA and EMEA are ahead from everybody, the gap between regions is not as big as others games and it's getting smaller by every international tournament. There were indeed some problems, but the pros vastly outnumber the cons. Also, the rosters change that happening right now in all regions, not only NA, is something ordinary at all major competitive games or sports. After a tournament cycle, teams that didn't fulfil their goals rearrange for next season.

If kennys actually switches for Valorant, i feel he would be a good addition for G2

Sadly, this type of movement is happening in all regions besides NA and BR with teams that didn't qualify to Champions.