and now that the schedule has been posted our opening match is EDG vs TL, actually would’ve happened if TH hadn’t let Liquid through
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and now that the schedule has been posted our opening match is EDG vs TL, actually would’ve happened if TH hadn’t let Liquid through
ok but there's an established trend of at least one South American team always attending internationals so by that logic MiBR should've beaten SEN garuanteed
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sayf you fucking genius
honestly, TH started on what I think to be their worst 2 maps and could very easily take Fracture and Bind, letting them come into Haven (which they're good on!!) with the momentum to pull it off
EDG are the 1 seed from CN
TH are looking like they’ll be the 2 seed from EMEA
opening draw will have 1 seeds playing 2 seeds
so there’s like a 1/4 chance that EDG vs TH could be drawn as an opening match
Riot has the potential to set the first international game of vct 2025 as a rematch of the champs 24 grand final
absolute cinema
nah he did his job went 15/6 in fb/fd and let keiko clean up the rest after creating the opening
there has always been at least one South American team present at every international event since Reykjavik, and unfortunately for SEN, MiBR doesn’t look like they’re gonna end the tradition
in the EDG vs TH grand final last year, a series that went to all 5 maps, not a single Team Heretics player even got 80, and only 2 of EDG's players were above 82
pacific seems to be the only region where the gap between the top 1 or 2 and the rest isn't as big as the grand canyon tbh
I'm definitely being a reaction andy right now but looking at this series it's so hard not to believe that LEV made the right choice last year
And Crashies is also a very good player, he was on the best team of 2022, has gone to 6 internationals, and placed top 3 at 4 of them. But he's not Leo.
it would be like if Fnatic had willingly traded Leo for Crashies
i was so confused until i realized that someone had necroed a 2 year old thread lmfao
yup theres an announcement video on moistcritical's channel a couple of weeks ago i think
HE TOOK DOWN ACCESS TO THE DOCS NOOOOO HOW WILL I KNOW WHERE ICEBOX IS LOCATED NOW??????
edg? trash
trace? trash
blg? trash
drg?......... drg kinda good.............
he heated up so much after halftime goddamn something like 1/8 to 18/12 is crazy
that pearl was rough but I'm never counting out a team with 2 ex EG players on fracture
yeah but if 100T had won kuruk is saying that EG would've ran though LCQ like it was nothing
beautiful strat sent natank just to die and play post plat util thats hilarious
Last year:
We play 2-1 Valorant. Salt of the earth, punch the clock, consistent 1-map loss. We lose a map, guess what? We'll win 2, too. But don't get too excited. A few wins in a row, these guys will balance it out by dropping a map. That's my 2024 DRX. A good, honest 2-1 Valorant team.
Now, BuZz leaves DRX and they start winning 2-0, while T1 has gone 2-1 every match they've played this year. I don't think it was 2-1 DRX, it was just 2-1 BuZz.
just realized this was a 10 flag game :D
I think you're confusing yoru+duelist with double duelist
Yoru plays very differently from all the other duelists, it's so different from playing something like raze jett where you're just double diving, instead you're using yoru as a psuedo initiator and like he's a ghost agent on both sites. Very powerful, but fundamentally different from other double duelist comps
According to him in the post-match interview, he isn't a high management IGL, but the whole team does mid round calling with Sayf being the head voice and making the wider decisions, which sounds like a great solution to the new IGL problem - just have all you experienced players make smaller calls as a group while sticking to the larger plan Sayf provides
apeks has at least won a map and had close losses, 2g has gotten blown out every time they play, apk clears 2g
saw too many people calling them 2025's NRG but sayf can IGL much better than ethan and the team works as a unit infinitely better than 2024 NRG did
and yet still shorter than m4's doc lmao
Well yeah in theory, but last year madrid had only 4 or 5 good teams whereas both cn teams, team heretics, and loud all looked pretty dull leading to games like the 26-5 during loud vs EDG
This year looks like the average power of all 8 teams is so much higher and I'm hugely excited
Not too hot of a take but i wanted to throw it out there
If Bangkok has the 8 teams it's looking like will make it (G2, NRG/Sen, TH, Vit, DRX, T1/PRX, EDG, TE) then there won't be a bad game all tournament every matchup will be hype
thorns are genuinely so strong people sleep on them heavily
i tuned in last night just to hear them talking about "the chief gooner"
fl1pzjder had a 0 kill game (that he still won) where he had a 0.33 rating how do you even get under 0.1
the crazy thing is I think click is a really good player, he just ate shit that map frfr
Does anyone else see v1c's model? Shit is glitching like crazy
damn I didn't realize going 1-2 with one dominant map and one competitive map against a 2 time international grand finalist was fraud behavior
if you asked me I'd say m8 played pretty well, they were just going up against one of the best teams in the world and still held their own decently well, but what do I know
dread it, run from it, loud v sen arrives all the same
he's so good
everyone looks at sayf and derke and less on vitality but trexx gets slept on hard he's the secret component
those also do look like bangers ngl
still this game was peak
i mean for the rest of the month - are there gonna be any kickoff games in the next few weeks as good as this one?