Why do you have three duelist mains here

Dep being the child of God goes so hard icl

I have like a billion different keyboards I switch constantly
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How is Tempura still on the team dawg

No wonder SCARZ dropped his ass

Leo literally had the highest rating on three different initiator agents last year

I was complaining about a similar merger in SEA because regions like Vietnam have no other pathway to Tier 1 outside of Ascension

I can't imagine how much worse Portugal and Italy have it

So we're counting the US and Canada as two different regions?

will i be attacked for wanting BRIAN to make it into franchising

...it's just me, isn't it

thank you bettervlr for exposing the bait

y0y

Even if Vietnam ends up being the best subregion to come out of SEA, the merger still screws them over.

In most of the other regions, good Tier 2 players who just barely missed out on the Ascension slot still had a shot of making it into Tier 1 through their region's respective franchise reps (hiroronn to ZETA, CR to DFM, Wild0reoo/NDG to TS, iZu to T1, the list goes on). Vietnam does not have this luxury; if the team can't get in through Ascension, that's it.

Can an org from another region sign someone like YESicaN into their roster? Sure, this has happened multiple times. But what results out of it is a mixed bag, and ultimately not an ideal way to grow Viet talent.

The only silver lining here is that SEA will get more Ascension slots (Ideally it should be ~4 slots for how big this region is), but this still worries me.

I don't think people here realize just how screwed Vietnam is here

• ID, MY/SG, PH, and TH all have teams already in franchising
• HK/TW players can play in China without having import status

Challengers was quite literally the only pathway for teams like Fancy United and Team Flash to get into franchising and Riot decided to make that damn near impossible now

cmon man it was already a struggle to get a Vietnamese player into franchising

round diff over Global (-1 vs -22) and won against GenG through some divine intervention

If we were still in Split 1 I would say FENNEL/REJECT but I think Riddle is taking this

I am in severe pain

There's a few tournaments that a team needs to go through to get from Tier 2 to 1

Open Qualifiers: Several teams, originally from signup but will be taken from the Invite division of Premier going forward, go into a double-elim bracket in one of 8 different groups to qualify for the first Challengers Split.

Challengers Split 1: The top 8 teams from OQ will first fight in a regular season. This is either done through round robin (each team plays against one another) or group stages (same concept, except with two separate groups). The top 6-ish teams from the regular season qualify for playoffs, as well as a direct spot to Split 2, while the bottom two get put into relegation. Winning this split is only really necessary if Ascension qualification is dependent on points, which some regions do.

Promotion/Relegation: A second OQ is ran where the top two teams from the qualifiers face off against the bottom two teams from the first split. The top two here qualify for Split 2.

Challengers Split 2: Same format as Split 1, except the winner of this split gets the Ascension slot for their region (Assuming the region doesn't do a point system)

If a team does a point system, the team with the most points after Split 2 gets the Ascension slot.

Ascension: The final Tier 2 tournament. The winners of each region fight for the franchise slot, first through group stages, and then in playoffs. The winner gets to play in Tier 1.

not to mention G2 were almost certainly mental boomed after Masters

I work at a hospital does that count

I feel like it was a case where neT wasn't the problem with kickoff G2 but Icy ended up kinda being the solution

y0y fan talking about washed

she could take a silver 5-stack and somehow get them to win a match

ngl it would've been really difficult for the split 2 version of bleed to work out role-wise considering they have 2 info initiators, then again their season's prob over so ig gg go next year

Kinda just sucks, really wanted Crazyguy to prove his worth more

t3xture isn't a rookie, he was on GE last year

Both Japanese teams in Tier 1 were stated to be the two worst teams in Paciic

• Neither DFM nor ZETA have any chance of making it in Champs now, marking the first Champions tournament with no Japanese representation
• DFM gets outaimed, ZETA just look like ass

Tier 2 is also a mess rn

• REJECT and FENNEL are one loss away from not making playoffs after being the top 2 last split
• TENNN getting flak for supposedly ruining the team even though his addition to the team was due to factors outside his control
• Everyone's mad about import rules especially with SCARZ + the fact that pretty much everyone else has 2 Koreans on the team
• Murash fanbase thinking they're saving Japanese Valorant by attacking anyone who makes fun of their players (My perspective on the fanbase, might be wrong tho)

I don't know if this is me overreacting but it doesn't seem very good for the region rn

if he didn't bottom frag both maps he would've been so real for that

unfortunately crazy raccoon money and clout is too strong

In their post-match interview one of the members (i forgor if it was haodong or after) said that they get like no meaningful feedback when experimenting against other chinese teams because they just beat them anyway

Akame if you're reading this plz save us

trace are looking good

lmao just wait for them to choke at playoffs again, i love FengF but I have little hope for them to make Champs

This feels like an overreaction from Murash's fanbase ngl, this isn't the first time something like this happened (Wolverine's thumbs-down from last split left a bad impression on me)

Thinking DFM 2-1 here

DFM has some good ideas but often gets mech diffed outside of Meiy
ZETA just look like ass in both aspects

Asked the same thing, apparently muto was doing a little shittalking to million

no clue about BRIAN tho

(VCJ watchers come)

Was there something I missed from last night? There’s like a billion qrts on muto’s post-match tweet taunting him.

REJECT

Akame and BRIAN are insane, shame that they’re getting Molly whooped rn

Dplus is pretty much the only current KR challengers team to have a major presence outside of Valorant (LoL and PUBG mainly)

Meanwhile all of the JP challengers teams either have regional dominance in another esport (REJECT even won an international Apex Legends event not too long ago) or have major streamers backing them up (Murash/Riddle). That plus the salary thing makes playing abroad much more enticing.

I hate that I can see it

Before the match: Devise team comps and strats for different maps and test them out against other teams (If they are tier 1 teams they'll usually scrim against decent T2 teams in the region). If the coach finds that the team struggles on a certain map they will select that as their permaban. They may also review VODs of the team they face up against, see how they play out certain maps, and devise strats to counter the enemy team (anti-stratting). They also usually serve as a counselor to maintain the players' physical and mental health to keep them in the best playing form.

During the match: Watches the gameplay and analyzes how both their team and the enemy team play out certain rounds. If they notice anything the players should capitalize on they'll call timeouts. Coaches also call timeouts to give the players a mental reset if the webcams show noticeable distress.

After the match: Review the VOD and spot out any errors in either IGL calling or timeout calling. This feedback is then applied to the next match.

On your question about fraud coaches, those kind of coaches will not call timeouts (Termi), put players on non-comfort roles (LEGIJA), allow permaban maps to go through (Chet), and overall puts the team at a strategic disadvantage.

honestly they've been pretty decent considering that in any other universe apeks would've won ascension

ez for BRIAN my goat

first full match I went 6-18 as Sova on Haven with 0 HS percentage. I had like negative FPS experience

dawg it's privated

Anyone tried it out and have thoughts?

I find the paper transformation mechanic very fun but i have no idea how any of the guns shoot so I go like 3/13 in scrimmages

never really found the appeal of it outside the bullet and kill counter

wouldn't buy it personally but will pick up off the ground because i like stealing other people's skins

truest thing i've read all day

chill it's still the old patch

Both of these teams need to be executed

hasn't received any offers for challengers teams

Perhaps there is a reason for that

syouta's liquipedia says he can speak english

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/amBrian%23yee/overview im deep in the trenches here

With the Blazeking situation I started to wonder if there are any players that their own region doesn't fw

idk if ascension counts but jemkin got 0 kills on bind during ascension gf