I looked deeper into them. Only top 10 team they've faced in XSET and they have gotten a max of 5 rounds on a map versus them. They seem like more of a mickey mouse trounce than a serious team at the moment. Love their development and strength as an academy team, but I really don't think they are near top 5, nor top 10. MAYBE top 15.

I saw them being high up on the leaderboard. They haven't participated in any open qualifier. Until then, I'ma keep them out. I know it's because they're an academy team so they can't participate in VCT due to that, but i'll give it until they can verse and beat any top 10 team to place them there.

1. Lan Optic
2. XSET
3. C9 when they are playing serious
4. Lan FaZe (Supa is a top 3 controller in NA when he doesn't have power issues)
5. 100T after Bang can commit full time to Valorant instead of also dealing with school.

Just cause:

6. NRG when they are VIBING
7. EG, just EG
8. Ghost when Nismo is on with whatever wack shit he was on in groups

Then, hopium.

9. Gaurd when they've dealt with whatever stopped them stage 2
10. Sentinals when they FUCKING EVENTUALLY DECIDE TO FUCKING SUPORT TENZ INSTEAD OF GETTING HIM TO RUN IN AND DIE EVERY ROUND WHEN THEY ARE ONE OF THE BEST 5V4 TEAMS BUT THEY SEND THEIR BEST FIRST BLOOD PLAYER IN TO JUST DIE WITHOUT A TRADE. ITS SO FUCKING UNIAGINABLE HOW USELESS THEY ARE SUPORTING THEIR BEST PLAYER. HE DOESN'T NEED TO BE ON CHAMBER, HE JUST NEEDS TO GET SOME SUPPORT AND THEY CAN FINALLY SUCCEED.

ok

Yeah, Sentinals and Gaurd if they figure shit out are top 10.

I think its fucked, Brazil is a much larger region which riot usually gives more favor to ahem, cough EMEA cough, ahem. Brazil should just get two slots and LATAM should be a one slot like Japan and Korea. The simple FACT that LOUD/any brazilian team that dominates their region can be forced into playoffs as a major region is just fucked.

1. PRX (fun team, crazy entertaining to watch)
2. DRX (Super creative and meta defining - also very entertaining to watch, i literally stayed up an extra 2 hours to watch them on nights they played)
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3. Fnatic (Marginally less cheered for, but they are, again, entertaining as well as the de facto best team in the world right now in my opinion. Also, very deserving of winning, I'd say they deserve it way more than anyone else, only two teams that are close are LOUD and FPX as one was second in the last masters while the other was snuffed while in their peak form)

I don't watch LATAM or Brazil much (I mean I watched some brazil yesterday, but not enough to grasp the region) so, with KRU down 2-0 to Leviatan, can Kru beat NIP or if KRU pull a 3-2 can this Leviatan team beat NIP? And more importantly, if that happened, is it ethical to have LOUD - ya know THE TEAM WHO GOT SECOND AT THE LAST GLOBAL EVENT, ALSO DOMINATED THEIR REGION UNLIKE ANY OTHER - to be forced into playing the group stage?

Also, I know NIP beat Leviatan last time. Just has the LATAM scene caught up more with brazil?

The winner of the latam vs Brazil spot gives their top team a bye, just for context

shmeage is the ultimate mindset. Truly unexplainable. It's just everything babybay is and ever will be.

Ange1 is whatever the fuck he feels like

Shmeage on lan is enough to beat FPX

what about DRX...

13 - 4
13 - 5
13 - 6 vs the second best team in the region?

fuck it, LOUD just playing scrims at this point. Aspas on the viper, Sacy on reyna, Saadhak on phenoix, Less on Breach, Pancada on the cypher and they'd still win like 13-6 on any fuckking map. Well deserved for them.

FPX vs FAZE

FPX: calculated. Worked on many different counters over multiple hard weeks of work. Counterstating everything faze has ever produced. Neverending work cycle of practice and developing strats. Discipline to the extreme. Zyppen will produce more streamlined entry play than any other organism. Suygetsu will lock down sites more than an American prison could. Overall the team will be insanely drilled and endlessly developed.

FAZE : Neon go brrr

2-0 FAZE.

I was going to use my copy and paste of "Blank has a higher ACS on chamber than Other Guy does. He literally said it was based on stats in the first sentence can you fucking read?" but Supa is not the statistiaclly better player. It is Bang too. Bang is #2 controller NA idc what people say.

Dicey has a higher ACS on chamber than Yay does. He literally said it was based on stats in the first sentence can you fucking read?

Dicey has a higher ACS on chamber than Yay does. He literally said it was based on stats in the first sentence can you fucking read?

Dicey has a higher ACS on chamber than Yay does. He literally said it was based on stats in the first sentence can you fucking read?

Dicey has a higher ACS on chamber than Yay does. He literally said it was based on stats in the first sentence can you fucking read?

Run.

Kill.

Lose.

Then Win.

3rd map.

Its possible but most likely a very overcomplicated approach to the game. Really, what does removing a dedicated controller accomplish?

For example, you now (probobly) need a Jett AND a cypher to accomplish just a single controller role. AND those two need to stay alive and can't lurk. Yeah, lurking. Viper is probobly the best lurker in the game. You lose that just to play cypher with the team instead. On top of that, Controllers have a lot of site taking utility - Astra suck and Concuss, Viper molly, Brim molly and stimmy, Omen's decent blind and TP's for entry help.

TL ; DR - Triple controller is more viable than no controller.

I jinxed it lol

I would like to apologize. ACEND playing like Champs ACEND and not stage 1 ACEND RN.

FPX, and it's not close

Derke vs Yay is enough to be exited. BUT THEY ALSO GOT
Alfajir vs Victor (who can bust in this shit better)
Boaster vs FNS (call diff eachother)

then there is Crashies and Marved vs Enzo and Mystic. Both sets really flow around position wise so you can't really set up a 1v1 type beat.

DRX have improved since Masters 1. I see DRX, OpTic, LOUD, and Fnatic as the only real competition in Copenhagen

Its a worse team, yet its still better than what 90% of countries would pull up with.

Alt Canadian Team (Cause they can have multiple good enough to compete at an international level)
--- No use of those 5 above, i feel as though they are a very good team ---
Will - Duelist / Entry fragger
Koalanoob - Chamber
Zander - IGL + Smokes
Eeiu - initiator (i.e. fade / sova)
JohnaP - Flex (Sage - Secondary Smokes - Flashes)

THEY GOT BOB?? Bob is insane wtf

Split is just too damn linear teamwise imo. Games like the 23-21 are historic, but it does kinda show the huge flaw in split : the defensive side (yes ik that after a while they could ONLY win on attack, boaster finds cracks ok?). When you see a team on split only get 2 on attack you go "man they need to make a comeback!". They win pistol and they almost guaranteed an overtime after 1 round. No other map has such dry sperts in competitive play. Slow work mid, slow work site, slow work heaven. Its just so slow. I see split and I just get bored. Also, I'm a color based guy (i know it sounds bad) but i perfer brighter maps and the fucking endless beige on split just kills my mood. At least Fracture has a green space. At least Icebox has a nice blue sea and brighter colors. Bind and Split just stuck in endless drab and it bums me out to no end.

Split is the worst.
Haven is just kinda boring.
Bind is fine tbh.
Icebox is too slow early but makes up with some of the most entertaining postplants.
Breeze is just icebox postplants but with better midround play.
Ascent can be really entertaining or really boring depending on the comps.

so basically :
7 - Split
6 - Haven
5 - Bind
4 - Ascent
3 - Icebox
2 - Breeze

and with some of the best agant varyations, single best map to see different individual playstyles, a decent midround - great midround moments, and the single best map in terms of clutch potential

1 - Fracture

Fracture is so fun to watch when 5 individuals practice on it daily. Slow, fast. Heavy push, playing picks. Defensive aggression, strong site holds. ANYTHING GOES. FRACTURE IS TRUELY A BATTLE OF IDEOLOGIES. plus I'm almost 100% sure that through both NA and EMEA, fracture has the most clutches per match. Fuck man, anyone can win behind that fucking B pillar.

So, are we cheese under the patty or over the patty type of guys. Or no cheese, which is respectable. I like it over the top.

Faze beat C9. If C9 wins 13 - 0 over both maps and FaZe gets 13-0'ed by EG both maps it doesn't matter. Same record is settled by H2H.

It's mid day bro

Also stupid, not stupider. The more still applies so you're saying more stupider which is quite the dumb comment.

To be fair, at least my favourite pros are still playing matches.

Depressed Naruto simp is hunting me down wtf

Emo Naruto simp

Your opinion was invalidated when you named yourself after one of the 3 sad Naruto clones from that anime.

This was taken as a fucking copypasta now so that's... interesting

I made that!

Tbf I'm FUCKING CORRECT.

If you mean to ask I've I'd rather be hit by a bus or watch Naruto... I'm gonna be bussin no cap.

If this man says Naruto I will kick a child.

Over 90 days you'd only have to watch 12 episodes which takes 4 hours. It's not that much.

It'll only take like 3 months man, that's not much.

Simple. Get them an entry fragger so Tenz doesn't have to die while getting 50% of their first kills.

Yay is great. He has Victor to entry.
Bdog is great. He has Mada ro entry.
Cryo is great. He has Zekken to entry.
Corey and Seven switch around and do both.
Dicey is great. He has Babybay to entry

Will is great, he has Asuna to entry with him.

Tenz has to entry, get the first kill, stay alive, and then clutch it for his team. He has the second most first deaths per round, but still has the second highest clutch % in NA. He performed when he's not forced in a position to get 1 kill or lose the round for his entire team instantly.

This is honestly the only solution. Give him a teammate who can get a first kill, put them in an advantage (which they are the second best NA when in a 5v4) and let tenz thrive afterwards where he is all the more lethal.

So... have ya heard about One Piece?

Thank God EU has 3 spots cause if they had anymore we'd see they're lack of depth on the international stage. They got fnatic and fpx. That's it. That's all. Rest are worse than most NA teams.

Fnatic wins masters tho.

Fnatic > FPX > All NA groups = Guild > every other EU team

Derke is the only Euro player who can keep up with apac... maybe he IS apac???? Potentially... just theory that's big... derke = multi country existence... I'd believe.

I'm not arguing with any points, I'm just saying that Fnatic can beat any team in the world 3-0. I love PRX, but... Derke man. He's insane. Fnatic is, similarly to PRX, a really REALLY great mental team too.

EU is trash other than Fnatic and FPX.
NA is trash other than 100T, Optic, and Ghost.

Korea is a 1 team region, but I feel they beat themselves in M1 rather than losing to their opponents.

All I'm gonna say is Derke is the best player in the world and if he doesn't get covid (like last Masters) him and Fnatic will win M2.

Lets start with First kills and Deaths per round
Sen TenZ - C9 Leaf - Ghost Nismo - OpTic Yay - EG Boostio - FaZe Babybay
ok lets go
Quickly -
Sole Fragger = I no frag, we no win
Entry fragger = I run in, i get kill, i die (team on site tho)
Hold Fragger = They run at me, i kill

Babybay - 0.19 FKPR, 0.15 FDPR
5th in First Kills, tied 4th for First deaths
Role : Entry Fragger
Teammate : Dicey (HF)

Boostio - 0.20 FKPR, 0.11 FDPR
Tied 2nd for first kills, low FD in comparison
Role : Hold Fragger
Teammate : jawgemo (EF)

Yay - 0.24 FKPR, 0.14 FDPR
Highest first kill PR, Tied 8th FDPR
Role : Hold fragger
Teammate : Victor (EF)

Nismo aka the statistically best player in NA, right beside Yay - 0.20 FKPR, 0.14 FDPR
tied 2nd first kills, tied 8th FDPR
Role : Entry fragger
Teammate : Koalanoob (HF)

Heres where my point starts

Leaf aka that worst performing player S1 vs S2 - 0.18 FKPR, 0.22 FDPR
Tied for 6th in FK with people like Dicey, Bdog (0.08 FDPR btw), and Koala, #1 in FDPR with 0.22
Role : Hold Fragger
Teammate : Xeppaa (EF)

TenZ - 0.2 FK, 0.2 FD
Tied 2nd for first kills, 2nd in first deaths
Role : Sole Fragger

This is a post targeting Tenz and Leaf, the two players in the worst systems in NA VCT.
Lets start with readdressing FK v FD. Ya know where teammate 2 is for each?
Kanpeki at 0.08 (8% he gets the FK) and Mitch, yeah not Xeppaa, at 0.08 as well. Lets tally the teams FK ok?
Sen = 0.44
C9 = 0.47
without Leaf and Tenz that is 0.24 for Sen and 0.29 for C9. Rn id like to shoutout @willminder who post valorant stats on Twiiter. He kind brought this on.

C9 coverts 77.4% (48 / 62) of their 5v4's. Middle of the road overall. They are decent in 4v5's at 26.8% (18 / 68). Which, overall, what C9's problem comes down to is most of
those 4v5 rounds are without Leaf, while most of those 5v4 are CAUSED by leaf (which likely leaves him hurt as a result). His production has dropped massively when looking S1 vs S2. His FK is the same in S1 as S2, but in stage 1 he was the first death 5% (0.05) less. He was alive more. Leaf is great in the clutch if you allow him to. From 31% clutch % in S1 to a 13% clutch in S2. Xeppaa had FK 7% more, Mitch had FK 6% more. C9 had major success by having the first kill (a 5v4) 60% of the time!

Sen. and. Tenz. Sen converts 81.8% (45 /55) of their 5v4's. Second best NA behind 100T (who are also the best 4v5 teams). Sen only coverts 23.9% of their 4v5's though, which is below average. But heres the problem. by quantity Sen have won the most 4v5's with 21. THEY HAVE HAD 88 4V5 SITUATIONS. 20 MORE ROUNDS THAN #2 IN C9.

This is the problem. These two teams are underproducing in the shear avenue of advantages. That's the problem. C9 succeeded when they were able to have most of the first kills, thus not forcing them into disadvantage all the time. Sentinals succeeded when Tenz was allowed to have a 22% FK and just a 13% FD. At that time the team just barely had advantage most of the time BUT AT LEAST THE ONE PLAYER FORCED TO DRAG THEM OUT OF EVERY PIT WASN'T DEAD AND OUT FOR 20% OF THE ROUNDS. At this point im just annoyied. Tenz is a remarkable player but he is not put into a position that allows for him to play anymore. He either gets the first kill and they win the round or he's dead first and his team just loses. Hell, he is STILL playing solo entry. YA KNOW WHAT EVERY OTHER PLAYER I MENTIONED HAD? A FRAGGING TEAMMATE WHO CAN MAKE UP FOR THEM DYING. THERE ARE TWO TEAMS IN NORTH AMERICA WITH THE AUDACITY TO STILL RUN A SOLE FRAGGING POSITIONED PLAYER AND THATS SEN AND GAURD.
HERE ILL RUN THROUGH IT
ZEKKEN - CRYO
VICTOR - YAY
MADA - BDOG
XEPPAA - LEAF
NISMO - KOALANOOB
JAWGAMO - BOOSTIO
ASUNA - WILL
BABYBAY - DICEY
S0M - TEX
SEVEN - COREY
TENZ
SAYA

ya know who are the twoNA teams that have amazing national success go to masters and get rolled out of the first round and then proceed to flounder in NA afterwards?

Gaurd. Sen.
Oly reason Guard hace a win is because of their better support for saya.

Thats it
rant over