This entire bracket is SEED FOR SEED with exception of seed 1 and 2 being same side, and seed 3 and 4 same side. Everything else is the seed you would give each team.

Nvm I thought about it more and it's

PRX and Loud were probably the only random part to decide who gets 2 (higher of the group loser) and 3 (lower of the group winner), as in DRX and EG.
1 + 8
2 + 6
3 + 7
4 + 5

With riot math it would make sense.

But I dumb

Shoutout to me saying, 8 months ago, that EDG are an insane fracture team. That mf knew his shit.

Mostly talking about the ex-fnatic players still being very good after they left the team. it seems like most other trial-and-error in the history of EMEA has been a definite downgrade when compared to how other regions can get the right talent. Mostly talking about the top tier teams in EMEA not being able to find decent talent.

Loud is a San Antonio Spurs superteam. Build throughout the years and conger a beast of a squad.

Fnatic is a Miami Heat superteam. Have a decent core, find the two single best players out there, and sign them.

Both superteams, just one was built in 2022 and the other was bought for 2023.

I said after the EAST ASIA LCQ last year that Zmjjkk was one of the best op-ers in the world.

He is the same animal, and a different beat.

He was him, he is him, he will forever be him.

The whole ex-fnatic squad is gonna win ascension too. It's funny as fuck that fnatic is the only team that's actually DONE anything in EMEA.

It took EMEA making the single greatest superteam in Val to be competitive with Loud and NRG. Now, because of the reward format, it rewards the obvious weakest region with the most opportunities. Like, I am confident that the bottom 4 teams in EMEA are worse than Kru. It's actually sad.

I was legit gonna put this but it's a little too troll.

Kru would have done better than Giants tho.

Thank god the one team region can finally have their one team play.

Hope to god that Fnatic lose masters so that a consistent 2 emea teams get grouped at champs instead of the alternative 3.

I guarantee that C9, Sen, and Furia would have all done better than Navi.

With all the DSG problems it's unfair to blame it on Yay's performance. He's a great talent, but look at Ardiis. Similar playstyles, but one has a crazy good core to support them. I think Yay would be plug-and-play equal to Ardiis or Cryo in their situations. Leaf, Demon1, and Tenz are much more aggressive than Yay has ever been comfortable being, they're just a whole different style.

Plus in Franchising you don't get as bombarded as NA T2. Like, the dives in Franchising compared to NA T2 is like comparing a wave to a tsunami. That's why NA T2 looks like a mess, because it IS a mess. It's really hard for passive opers like yay to do well.

DRX gotta figure something out, but Fut are about as linear as DRX are. It'll come down much more to which team executes better. EG had plays on plays to counter each team, they're an incomparable beast. Plus DRX permabans lotus, a staple of Fut's map pool. It'll be close, but you can't really say either team in their current form can distinctly beat the other.

Me when the One Team Region has their One Team play

:0

It'll be really fun to watch 3 EMEA teams get grouped instead of 2.

I see why you say this, but Liquid was more of a bounce back since they were expected to be a top 2 team in EMEA at the start of the season, I don't think C9 (after roster change) and the T1 roster were expected to be even near the level that they got to. T1 wasn't even expected to be the second best Korean team. Liquid just stopped shitting the bed, C9 and T1 reached a new level. I'm not denying that the bounceback by Liquid wasn't a ton of growth, but it was their expected level to began with.

T1 were probably (other than C9) the team with the most growth. They've always had the potential to do really well, now they are actually following through.

Nevermind

If NRG win, theoretically, they would hop EG due to regional seed (nrg #2, EG #3) and get the 5th seed. 5th seeds get to verse the 4th seed. Who would be the theoretical 4th seed? Fnatic. NRG fans gotta pray that it's gonna be a random draw.

I think we have seen in the first two days that EMEA is straight up behind on the overall meta. AM has revolutionized that Harbor-Viper comp, and not even Fnatic are playing it. EMEA still has a sentinel on split, while every AM team runs the same double dive + double smoke. If EMEA want to stop shitting the bed in Masters, they have got to watch... any AM vod really. Even the T2 scene in NA is running better comps than EMEA does.

(EMEA copium btw)

So what if Loud won Lock//In and got the extra spot? We'd still actually get Fut vs EG, but NRG would have got the bye and we'd get Fnatic vs C9. Clearly, Fnatic vs C9 has the bones to be a better matchup than Navi vs NRG.

The point of this is that it's kinda unfair to throw the top 2 from a region into playoffs and nor expect their 3 and 4 seeds to do worse in the groups.

(End of EMEA Copium)

I am confident tho that teams like C9 and Furia could have done decent at this event. DRX looking beatable, and how the Chinese teams have looked, C9 and Furia could have fought to make playoffs.

But hey, that's all a dream world, and we don't know what would have really gone on.

Lets Go M80, time to prove why Canada is truly the best region in AM.

I have ASE going through in the lower bracket, I believe brother. I just like watching Foxy9.

double agent more like double negative

I blame the brits

Thank God Foxy9 is back AND Tenz is watchpartying. This is gonna be insane.

Do you mean only getting 2 rounds against the best team in Tokyo? I'm going to assume that one.

Nah, they gonna lose to Attacking Soul Esports.

Then EG will lose to Attacking Soul Esports.

Then Attacking Soul Esports beats Loud.

Attacking Soul Esports now and forever.

JP is actually 30 seconds ahead, wtf

I hope this is a good omen for champs and the NA crowd. JP and NA are the two biggest regions by far, so it'd be great if both diplays good crowds, even when a home team is not present.

I think it's better than the alternative (lines) but I get that the overall ascents are the same, mixing that up to be a different look would have been cool.

nobody is prepared for the wronghand call. If this is the universe we get, then it's the best universe we could have hoped for.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c8415429

Mid ass song, very good animation tho.

Get like any top Japanese singer like brother c'mon. If they can get goddamn Minnie for a pacific song they can get like Ado for a fucking Masters song.

Bro, every fucking EMEA tourney required me to wake up at like 5 am to watch the matches. Now I can just sleep my normal hours and watch every match. This is so nice. This is by far the best tourney for me, time wise. Even brazil was like 9 am. I don't know why everyone is crying.

These match times are amazing, I finally don't have to wake up at fucking 4 am to watch a match.

I am a former PRX flair, so I'd go with them. I just switched to Gen.G after they got goddead, since I liked watching him and king in the past and Meteor is my favorite player. Plus I had lost all hope in Prx after they lost to C9, but It was before they brought in something so I think it's honestly fair.

It's hard so say. We have seen the core on ghost do well last year in NA, and now they are cooking the T2 schene. As much as The Union is hyped up to be a powerhouse, I think M80 (and bleed) are such wasted rosters being locked out of franchising. I mean, we saw how MIBR played, we might just see the union in franchising even if they lose.

But to answer the question, from what we have seen with them I'd put them as a radical 100T level. Slightly over 100T normally, and their individuals can peak over what 100T can do, but the team overall won't peak too much higher than 100T can. I think they are lower than Sentinels, however. But they are still a team I could see being Furia, EG, or Lev (when they look good).

NA would be:
1) NRG
2) EG
3) C9
4) Sentinels
5) M80
6) 100T

I had them as a top 8 team, but their bracket is iffy. EG are a lot stronger now with Demon1 back, ASE are (in my opinion) the coinflip of all teams in Tokyo, and DRX are not going to lose to them.

Fut is another kind of coinflip team, they (in all their 2023 series) have had 4 matches go to three maps. Out of 16 matches. Of which they went 9-7. They either win or lose. I think it's a byproduct of Turkish teams in how they are exceedingly momentum driven. If life just pops the fuck off, like he has in china, then he could ruin Fut's momentum.

EG and DRX are also going to counterstrat the ever living hell out of their maps. Demon1 really fucks it all up for Fut, but I'm still hopeful for them.

I'm just hyped for The Union vs M80, every pro literally talks about the two teams being the easy favorites.

Nobody will. It just compliments his playstyle.

Yay baack to his one trick of chamber, just like the good ol days.

Hotshot surprise turnaround team in AM? EG
Hotshot surprise turnaround team in Pacific? PRX
Hotshot surprise turnaround team in EMEA? Liquid

Cracked Jett on EG? Demon1, no visa
Cracked Jett on PRX? Something, Visa issues
Cracked Jett on Liquid? Sayf...

This doesn't look good for Liquid fans.

LFG TT out here as the relegation champions. Next year is our year.

Bro these two motherfuckers are in a 1v1 and WE GET SPLIT POVS?? That's hype as shit, why don't other regions do this? To be fair, I only watch NA, Japan and Korea, but two of those are the biggest regions in Valorant. Even the VFX of mysg is miles ahead of the other regions I listed (not talking about the Pacific holograms, but seriously why don't the other regions have those either?).

I'm just surprised at the high quality of the MYSG regional league. Good on them.

I'm going to be real and tell the story.

On a beautiful day in 2023, Ardiis was streaming. He got a donation from a user named Keith. He goes something like "No offense bro, but Keith is rough". Ardiis rags on the name keith for a bit. Then the chat just started to joke that his real name was keith. The rest was history.

No reyna or raze? no harbor or skye? Wtf this America's region is falling behind.

Of course, we are going to get a ton of "this match doesn't matter", but the best part of today was seeing Soulcas perform great and to see Jampii become unleashed. I didn't watch the most EMEA, but from when I did it was a lot of Sayf carrying and a ton of Soulcas underperforming. I'm very glad he was able to do well, and Liquid are an ACTUAL team when he does well. Jampii was also insane, which is great to see looking at how good he was last year. Liquid look like a way, way better team when they are all playing good then when a single player plays insane.

I see your Jett, and raise you whatever this shit is

I refuse to pay. I don't pay for shit. My main entertainment is youtube. Most of the games I play are free. If I had to pay for air, then I ain't breathing.

You say this like EMEA doesn't have 3/5 of the worst teams in Franchising. Those teams looked like dogshit.

Navi haven't looked good enough to be ranked higher than PRX.

I'm WAAAYYY more confident that PRX can get a map of Fnatic than Navi could.

these are so bad LMAOOOOO

To be real tho, just rotate NRG to 6th and it's perfect.