Oh I had no idea... I'd 100% put them on the list then.

Agreed but does TH have enough points for champs? They just got knocked out by Vitality.

I'll support my teams no matter what but I cannot see the current roster of Champs teams beating GENG. Closest thing NA has to a contender is G2. SEN has beat them before but their consistency just isn't there. Anyone I should look out for in other regions?

Touch grass holy shit

bumping twice a new low 0/8

Pain

"luck" when TH does it but everyone else just "team diffs"

Stay mad

TH haters about to be silenced

"almost beat" "offseason" you gotta be trolling

Lil bro got shortied

what 100t and c9 doing on your list

This feels the closest to being true. I remember watching GENG this past year and they are like a machine. Still, I feel like G2 matches that level of locked-in.

Isn't that strange given how much they practice? You'd think they'd find some optimal strat.

I'm mainly an NA watcher, but I was wondering what they main differences you noticed between NA, EU, and APAC gameplay and strats.

From other e-sports, I've noticed different regions often are more or less aggressive or play a specific meta.

oh I get that I just find it so funny to single out trolls as if their posts aren't obviously bait

Me after TS beats GENG

Weird ass thread ngl, do vlr users actually call trolls out instead of ignoring them

Chet is completely burnt-out, I expect he'll genuinely move to CS.

Great take, personally I still think Neon is over-powered due to the wall and speed.

Anyone else notice that NA observers have been lacking? I get that a map like Bind is hard to track everybody, but it feels like the observers don't even play Valorant.

Lurker about to make contact? Observer switches to the slow push through showers. Worse yet, let's stay on the duelist for a full minute while his teammate gets a 3K.

Chet confirms he used this forum to plan out NRG strats! This means our opinions actually matter and we should keep posting about removing crashies.

It's me.

G2 Oxy is more likely, we need a level-headed IGL like Valyn to lead him to a 2025 champs win.

whzy, judge, biank, viper wall, yosemite, fns-su r u okay, cove incident, sage wall, sage slow, breach a main, ardiis does your head still hurt from the headshot from tuyz, 12-5, sunset, oxy, x10, patiphan, classic b site, ascent, shanks, cgrs, zellsis, sunset bmain

Not necessarily, you have to realize that even cutting Victor and Chet was a big move that will generate publicity. They need to keep up morale too.

Yea, sadly it would take a lot more publicity to even get their attention, let alone launch an investigation.

What is riot gonna do lmao, chet is unemployed

If they don't want it then chet can not only bench the players for poor performance like he did with Demon1 and Marved but also communicate with leadership to kick them out. This isn't some fairytale he actively showed he could do this.

bronzil take ngl, if anyone leaves its Apoth

Genuinely braindead take, he was directly contributing to salaries and he has control over whether these players play or not. Acting like he has no control over this is just ridiculous and shows you've never had a coach.

Bait but yes he can, he can bench players at will and was responsible for paying for Ethan and Demon1

Chet: "Work ethic outside of games wasn't that good"

My guy you are the coach?

BLGWIN

who people keep forgetting was THAT GUY

how hard could it be to find a peak bronze II from the virgin islands

he is playing ranked that's the point

crashies dad

LOL I want G2 to do well but the pain of watching Oxy on C9 is just too much.

Oxy finally gonna be able to join G2 after icy chokes, come back to this thread when I'm right.

0/8

Like I said, it's easy to hate now, but on paper this team was top 2 in NA and I'm not ready to leave chet blameless for that.

You are saying that now, after they've proven to have completely fallen off, but NRG with Demon1 and Marved were easily one of the most hyped teams of the past year.

No offense, but are we talking about the same NRG? They had an absolute superteam...

In the livestream chet said he only left because of this article: https://www.hltv.org/news/39295/sources-chet-targets-counter-strike-return (scroll down for the comments)

Chet cyberbullied out of NRG confirmed?

12-5

They didn't just beat 100T, they beat them on Bind (their map) and then stomped them on Haven. 100T have never picked Haven since. I would argue they had such a bad split BECAUSE of this game.

Or because LEV has this habit of disappearing when their fans count on them.

I included PRX and TH is because the SEN match showed a peak G2 performance, so it's only fair to compare to a peak PRX and TH performance.

Peak TH is genuinely terrifying.

Anytime a team relies on one player to carry them, it almost always goes wrong. The game vs. SEN was so dominant because Icy would shut down all 1v1s. In my opinion Valyn and Leaf are the ones who will really determine whether G2 wins.