Ngl the turks could run our shit.

They literally do this every time. They're a super hard attack sided team on Lotus, expecially versus America's teams.
10/2 attack vs Loud
9/3 attack vs 100T
9/3 attack vs Lev (4-2 on attack during OT)

Plus, if I had a nickel for a champs winning raze that has a life game vs Sen on Lotus, I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right?

This is an NRG off day? At least on a Sen off day they lose by 2 rounds each map, against a life game from the best player in the world. I just saw Ethan dry walk out showers, what the fuck is this.

Offday kekw.

Anyways, that's why C9 is the best team in the world.

Why not Demon1 good, and Aspas good, and Zekken good? Simple.

Many words, few braincells.

The best player in the history of the game had a life game to beat your squad in an off day. And, the Lev that lost to C9 looked wayyy different than the one that beat Sen. Solid bait tho.

I see your game. Underrate sen so we can glaze them all again even though they're still top 3 in the world. Try your best king.

Also wtf C9 clears all, best in the world.

Sorry for anything I've said about any EU team, those mfs clear AM in this form. What am I looking at.

But V1 had the goat Vanity on the roster, so if anything it was harder for Asuna.

But 48 is insane, which Asuna was able to get with more first bloods than Aspas got so really I'm unimpressed.

I'm so sorry brother, but they're my damn flair and it's on 3rd monitor duty.

I used to be a Prx fan, but then I started to watch more Japanese Val and my allegiance went to wherever the fuck Meteor ends up. Similar for Stew, I watched Korea a bit and recognized him when watching China. Can't turn on those mfs.

I cannot have anything.

I'm a damn Gen.G, JDG, and Vitality fan. All I have is saying "How in the hell did we lose that" and feeling endless deflation.

My theory is that Gen.G were prepping with him as Clove, but then they got banned for the bug and everything. But Omen does work better as an Op-er so this could have been their original strat.

If a team decides to go out third, they basically lose 1 point to the 2nd place team and 3 points to the 1st place team. It's better to tryhard and get the points before split 2 so you can save more strats and have more prep time before champs.

In AM it's basically just wheather or not NRG can win masters AND the split to overtake Sen, but in all the other regions it's still likely that you can overtake your peak team for the free slot. I mean, KC lost today - Navi and Fut have a huge opportunity to overtake them.

Btw I'm saying this with the ideology that if a team has the free champs slot 100% locked up, they'll kinda stop caring about split 2 so they can be their peak for champs.

Unironically, I'd love to see either Tenz on Yoru + Zekken on Kayo or Zekken on Neon for breeze. It already not the best map for them, and not the best agent for Zekken, so using a weird pace change might give them some spark.

As for ascent, I think they could run the DFM comp or legit just insert Raze. But, I think going Zekken Kayo + Zellsis Breach + Sacy Sova + Tenz Clove would be wacky.

Zekken isn't a bad jett, he's just a noticeably worse Jett than Raze. Just relative to a top 3 raze in the world, his Jett isn't impressive, so I'd love to see some different entry agents.

I'll call almost anyone my young goat, but Jingg never got there - even when I was at my peak PRX love back in 2022.

I have a lot of young goats of the game, but Jingg is not one of them. Monster, but no goat.

At this point just buy monyet to play fucking anything, he a young goat of the game.

Fuck that shit, can we talk about this FengF guy? Actual monster. One of my many young goats of the Video game.

Actual note: bad game from Gov and Talon still won. That's rough. My other young goat bounces back stronger.

These are just a bunch of tiny points I have the relate to nothing

• EMEA is going to be so much stronger in Stage 1, since Fnatic actually have to prove something, and Trexx + Wo0t coming into their teams. Gonna be scary.
• Do people talk about how mid the Zekken Jett is? 25% FK, with a 25% FD. It's like a 1.05 rating, 236 ACS compared to his insane Raze with a 1.16, 269 ACS. Regionally his Jett was even worse (0.91, 223 ACS) and his Raze was similar (1.25, 260 ACS). Like he's won a total of 3 maps on jett out of 12 over kickoff and madrid. On raze? 23-6. I just wanted to mention that.
• Can we get f's for RRQ? They were so close to beating Gen.G TWICE. Them and 100T got so snubbed.
• The funniest plot point in stage 1 isn't another Sen vs 100T game, it's the garbage bowl of Bleed vs DFM ON 04/20/24. That is too funny to me.

I said this like months ago, but GF map bans are still too strong. I'm fine with winner getting 2 bans, but the fact they can remove the opponents strongest and their own weakest maps is too strong, I think a way better system is:

Team 1 Ban -> Team 1 Pick -> Team 2 Pick -> Team 1 Ban -> Team 1 Pick -> Team 2 Pick -> Decider.

You still get 2 bans, first map, and a clear advantage. You can just remove a 2nd best (opponent) map or one of your weaker maps.

I legit just instalock Iso whenever I get on Lotus because I dislike the map so much. 4 out of my last 10 games, with 0 ascent and 0 icebox. Such a bad fucking map.
I do not want a Riot map rotation, at least let the players vote on our pool if we aren't able to choose our maps.

They should suspect test a multitude of different options, dome of my ideas are (all would just be the solo nerf to her):

1) Not being to have Orb and Wall up at the same time
2) Making Snakebite's use 25 fuel when shot
3) Increasing the fuel usage rate while viper is moving (forces her to be a lot less proactive)

I recently started (Microsoft) Edging, simply because my CPU is a fucking wonder of man and gets fucky wucky when I have too many chrome tabs open (literally 1) which crashes my pc due to some cpu and ram error that, the error code, says is cpu sided. Also tried Opera and it still crashed my PC with 1 tab open.

Yes, this is a cry for help.

But Edge has been solid so far, it feels the exact same as chrome but with lower ram usage.

At this point, Sen and Gen.G should go all out to win. Having 6 championship points going into split 1 basically guarantees making champs, so you can go the entire year with 0 worries.

The more controlled a team is, the harder it is for them to beat PRX. China is very lose, very chaotic, they match well playstyle wise to PRX - They are used to punishing the exact same style of play regionally. Emea, however, is a lot more rigid. They have a much harder time dealling with shit that PRX throws at them. They're used to facing teams like Fnatic who are insanely controlled, so when they face the opposite it's way harder. Even though KC is probably the most loose EMEA team, it's still a mentality diff. Not an excuse btw, just an explanation. Just how EMEA used to farm NA teams in 2021, it was just an advantagous style of play between the regions.

The hardest route possible for every, single, match.

From 1 team region to 1 group win region.

Don't make fun of w0ot, the last time the western world didn't take an angry european seriously was the 30s. Let's keep an eye out, I'm sure he's big man.

Drawn into pool of death, first match vs the other top team in in AM, qualifier match vs the 3rd best team in the region, round 1 of internation vs the 3rd best team and ROUND 2 VS THE OTHER TEAM RANKED AS TOP 2 IN THE WORLD.

To be fair, Karmine corp got the same thing just without the hard first round at the international event. Both teams 100% had the two hardest schedules. Actually really funny.

17 year old in the most stressful moment of his career, help me god, is emotional. Fucking boil him in a vat of motor oil.

They may not have won, but genuinely showed that they're one of, if not, the single most prepared team at Madrid. Their set plays and combos are second to none, imo. Sen and KC just edge them out when it comes to their mid-round play and looseness, but that will only get stronger for Heretics. Bright, bright future.

Shoutout to Zekken, finally got a kill with his ult.

It feels like everytime these guys shoot a smoke it gets a kill, it's so insane. Any other team I would call lucky, but the amount of understanding of the maps that Heretics has shown leads me to believe it's calculated. They just have a huge read on the positioning of teams, it's impressive.

If I'm going to give EMEA anything that they gap the world on, it's the anti-strats and Set items. These concrete ideas that they got are fucking insane.

1) Yeah the Sen map-pool is week.
2) We're acting like Heretics isn't a top 3 team in the tournament.

Those mothefuckers looked like aimers and nothing more regionally. You'd think it's a different team with the ideas they showed vs loud.

My top 3 was KC, Sen, and Heretics. People doubting Heretics is still insane to me. They aren't the guard, they aren't just onliners.

The only thing I thought about them was (at lan) maybe Miniboo would regress without the online peakers advantage, but riens would do better SINCE HE ACTUALLY GETS TO PLAY WITH THE TEAM.

I only put them lower than Sen since I thought their set plays would be countered more, but they just tripled their fucking playbook.

I'm a Gen.G fan. Those motherfuckers looked like half the team regionally that they showed against loud. And we were acting like Heretics weren't a top 3 team at this tourney. The global scene is really close at the top-top level.

Genuinely, what fucking european propaganda was spread to for the analysts to say Sen 1 and Heretics were like 5 or 6. I HAD THOSE MFS 2-3. WHAT THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE ON TO NOT SEE THESE TEAMS AS NECK AND NECK ON THIS 3RD MAP. EVERYTHING IS DOWN TO 1 OR 2 GUNFIGHTS.

Heretics are insane and the fact everyone was down on them is fucking braindead.

What are you talking about Gen.G been shit for ages. They just outaimed pacific, maybe they can outaim into top 4 but I ain't got no hope.

Also what color is it?

Basically every roster that we had serious expectations for disappointed us. Lev, NRG, Fnatic, Fut, Navi - All were supposed to, bare minimum, be a top 3 team in the region. I think it shows how well some coaches have done to build their teams correctly and to handle their teams correctly. Rosters with much more established frameworks actually were worse.

Even Paper Rex and EDG, both were supposed to dominate. If you watched them play their matches, it did not look like last year. Maybe it's the magic gone, but these guys all looked way worse than advertised. Again, it's just a thing of the world adapting with these teams just staying the same.

Of course, this excludes Loud who still look like a definite top 4 team in the world. My goat Saadhak would never.

EMEA has a lot of capable rosters at the moment, like current EMEA was alright (imo) but once it comes to champs time and we're fighting for team #4? I could see almost every team in that conversation. In AM for example, I only see Lev, 100T or EG really fighting for that 4th slot - So EMEA going to be so much more hype at that point.

We don't talk about pacific, seeing between DRX and RRQ: who can throw harder to get 5th.

I think EMEA and NA are fairly level at this point. I'd say that they'll probably be the entire top 4 in madrid baring Gen G just outshooting everyone (which they genuinely could do). Sen vs KC last year would have been a meme and clout matchup, but this year it would genuinely be the best quality game we could watch.

Don't compare these beautiful sculptures of Valorant to a washed ass roster like Gambit. Karmine Corp is expected to win madrid.

Statistically, Ange1 has taken less first engagements this tourney than he has in the past. If he starts throwing more rounds by peeking, then Navi may take a hit in quality.

I'm going to be nice cause EMEA looks way better this year, and just say that AM (2 of the top 3 in the last champs) and EMEA (not in the top 3 of the last champs) are equal enough that it's negligible.

To be honest though, the lower EMEA teams seem better than the lower AM teams. I'd just give a large enough edge to AM's middle-of-the-pack teams and to the top crop we have.

But again, EMEA looks so much better this year, I'm glad yall actually got rosters.

See, I dislike the format for the 1 team per region that gets put into the group of death when they could have potentially WON a different group. Of course 100T, but look at RRQ. RRQ had a group with both of the Madrid teams. They got placed as tied for last when they played, exclusively, their region's kick-off winner. That just fucking sucks for them and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.