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Delusion Cured
an international trophy is an international trophy
Red bull != Masters Shanghai, Ten Global Invitational != Masters Shanghai, AfreecaTV != Masters Shanghai
We count Masters and Champions events, with Champions being worth more than Masters for obvious reasons.
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The reason we do this is because those are the Major Events in Valorant, having both a qualification system and competition format designed to select for the best team.
Guess what Lock-In didn't have?
A Qualification system - every franchise team was invited
A Competition System designed to select for best team - They had single Elim instead
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Do you know why they made these decisions? Because the purpose of Lock-In was to introduce and show off the teams in the new franchising system. A real format with a focus on competitive integrity would make the tourney last months - because they invited every team - which you wouldn't do unless your focus was just to show off the teams.
From the official valorant esports page, emphasis mine
https://valorantesports.com/en-US/news/vct-lock-in-everything-you-need-to-know
We wanted to kick off the next era of the VALORANT Champions Tour with an epic tournament that brought together the entire VALORANT community. With LOCK//IN our goal is to lay storytelling groundwork for the 2023 season while thrilling fans with high stakes competition. To build the largest tournament in the history of our sport, we had to consider different formats that could accommodate the largest number of teams we've ever had at a single event. After reviewing many options, it became clear that to be as globally inclusive as we wanted, a single elimination format was the direction we needed to take. While we think this is the best way to kick off the 2023 season, we plan to return to a double elimination format for future international events.
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They both have 2 Masters.
In the history of franchising it has to be the first iteration of Karmine Corp. Newzera literally looked like he was Imm2
lol they're downvoting but you're right, literally every franchise team was invited. It's not like they 'made it' to Lock In.
Any map pool with fracture
replace heretics with VIT (beat them twice recently, very decisively in bo5) and Paper Rex with G2
LMAO
If riot had a tourney where you don't select an agent its just randomly generated what comp you play, it would be hardest by far.
But would you be flexing it as more prestigious than a real one like a masters or champs?
Looking forward to hearing the answer!
Why is TH higher than VIT? They recently beat them 2 matches bo3 and very decisively in bo5
Name a team in the world that was better than SEN at the time of that 'fluke'
Actual Fix
Davai - Sova (this will take the most work since there's alot that goes into sova ascent)
Something - Jett (perfect match)
Forsaken - Kayo (perfect match)
Mindfreak - Omen (perfect match)
Jingg - KJ (see below)
KJ is literally one of the easiest agents to learn theres a reason all of the edaters put the egirl who's bad at the game on KJ or Sage. There's only like 2 setups you do for each site and a few molly lineups for execs which are all well known. Embarassing a professional player cannot learn KJ.
I see where you're coming from but I actually think that's what makes the map so great. Like I said, Ascent is the map where the team that is better at valorant will win every time. Not being able to solo-carry and bail out a team that is lost sucks when your team is clueless (same is true for every map to be fair), but conversely, it rewards the team that is playing better Valorant, which is a team game at its core.
Also, Ascent is by far the best Sova map in the game, if ever you could solo carry on init, its on Ascent and especially on Defense (learn your cross-map support darts and tell your team to play in the door smokes).
Ascent is no 1. If you dislike it it's likely because you're bad. It's the only map where the team that is better at Valorant will win every time (in ranked, pro play is diff obv)
Top 3 is
Lotus is dogshit, belongs bottom 3
hey man, liquid flairs are the only true loyal fans in the world. There is literally no other reason to root for them other than org loyalty. Respect.
The only good maps are Ascent and Haven. The rest all have major problems
bro got TLN as the winners but the most underrated as KRU
something don't add up here
winner: DRX (Hopium)
Most Overrated Team: FNC
Most Underrated Team : DRX or FPX
Most Overrated Player: Sayf
Most Underrated Player : Buzz
Team that is gonna choke and flop in groups: KRU (its a tradition) or FUT
MVP of Event : Meteor
Player that pops off on ass team : Aspas or Primmie
Update 8/7/24 : Looking good so far
Update 8/11/24 (end of groups): got most of it right so far, rip GEN.G Meteor MVP tho
Update 6/24/24 (top 2) : Overall I did pretty good i'd say
Mako, Sayf, Jingg, Forsaken, Buzz, Something, Scream, S0m, Cryo, Davai
https://www.vlr.gg/213198/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-gf
But I think the spirit of the question means international titles, ie: masters and champs events
judge is perfect where it is but stinger is a little too good mid rang
why not, it literally would not require anything of them
My list
real. also 3rd time and people still don't put the score lmao
ok are we gonna act like life isn't a fucking SHOOTER
Same as last two times, Rifle aim duel on Ascent mid, best of 10
lol what his jett is literally either better than or equal to his raze, past 30/60/90 days
https://www.vlr.gg/player/4004/zekken/?timespan=30d
The only issue is his awping
Tell me which part of it I got wrong
https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1657/valorant-champions-2023
https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1191/champions-tour-2023-pacific-league
Boostio
Demon1
Jawgemo
Ethan
Com
Potter and Ziks
Could do well
EG practicing with their sub for 2 weeks and Demon1 slotting in last minute (aka: wasted 2 weeks of preparation) was a smoke spam away from beating Fnatic in Bo3 and only lost the first map decisively in finals.
When both were at full strength, both did better than Fnatic at Champs, and both beat the team that Fnatic got cooked by.
PRX with something has also outperformed Fnatic at every single event since Tokyo.
The two star duelists and players on the two best teams of the other regions were both significantly nerfed by visa issues.
There is a Champs MVP and Pacific MVP sized asterisk on Tokyo.
if something and demon1 didn't have visa issues fnatic might not have even won tokyo
He was 3/14 (or worse) at one point genius
surely yay pi'd sometime during his falloff
The two that I know:
Leo (Bind) https://www.vlr.gg/112328/guild-esports-vs-funplus-phoenix-valorant-champions-tour-stage-2-masters-copenhagen-lr1/?game=91834&tab=overview
Chronicle (Ascent) https://www.vlr.gg/348468/fut-esports-vs-fnatic-champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai-lr1/?game=170800&tab=overview
Funnily enough both were elimination games/map
Will update with what you guys find
Nah EG was too special. Their team play was at least comparable (probably better) and they had wayyy more talent. If you didn't ban fracture you were already down a map.
The only correct answer is Chet
damn not even your own flair?
G2 is 2-1 in series and 4-5 in maps vs TH (peaked at the time and much worse now)
I was like the only person who had Sayf > Woot. Truly I am Nostradamus
do they though?
https://www.vlr.gg/329914/paper-rex-vs-gen-g-champions-tour-2024-pacific-stage-1-gf
Look at the difference in icebox. Exact same comps. from winning 13-11 to losing 13-5
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