Just like EG and Sentinels, LOUD also released a video pre-event: https://twitter.com/LOUDgg/status/1641923345292697601

(it has subtitles)

Don't worry, Sacy GOAT with Omen. hehe (If this actually happen I will go The Joker style ngl)

You already know...

VCT MURICAS

HYPE

Imagine waking up in the morning and thinking: "what kind of shit I can type in a thread today?"

DEF NOT ME

HE HAS TO KNOW

it's not April fools for some people yet brother...

I like that, especially that KAST specifies trading kills which is something that almost never happens at ranked because people don't look at maps or communicate to kill on contact to trade kills.

What do you guys think Riot should do to compensate more ranked when it comes to not playing duelists? Most of the points are related to kills. Sentinels, initiators, and controllers are the ones doing the most support part and not getting many kills.
There are not many smoke players at ranked, people prefer to instalock duelists and you will often see 3/4/5 duelists in your comps.
I know it might be fun to go crazy killing people but there are people that actually would like to play more strategically in other roles but it doesn't compensate much.

hduahsudhasduh

gimme some BBL good watch parties...

Saad já falou isso em live também inclusive, que acha que a Fúria tem mais mira que a LOUD.

@edit

Os downfrags de um negócio que o cara falou na live é engraçado. Relaxa pessoal, isso não muda em nada, não precisam ficar doídos, eu torço para todos os times do BR. Inclusive eu acho que o frz da MIBR tem mais mira que o Khalil, por exemplo.

"WE ARE NOW THE FAVORITES TO WIN ASCENSION"

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Both at 90 miles per hour, who is the worst single-man cheerleader?

That would be a good move but I don't think the coach will kick dephh

They all speak English, what you mean with mix language? lol

He is playing smokes in rankeds and pancs only sentinel 👀 I really wanna know what crazy shit SEN is cooking

Eu sempre vou confiar nos times BRs. Eu falaria tranquilamente se eu visse inferioridade mas não estou vendo. Pode perder mas não acho que exista esse gap que o pessoal acha que existe por puro achismo ou na maioria dos casos a famosa síndrome do vira lata sem nem mesmo assistir e entender o nível competitivo envolvido (não estou falando de você).

Eu tenho PRA CARALHO, tenho acompanhado todas as ligas e te digo que estou até feliz com que estou vendo.
Você até comentou acima sobre o top 3 Challengers NA poderem competir contra times das franquias. Os times daqui do BR também treinaram contra times das franquias e receberam muitos elogios. DRX x TBK, TropiCaos também teve treinos fortes e a 100T recentemente colocou um vídeo no Youtube (ontem) que Asuna fala que não espera o NA ganhando, que a The Union é muito forte e Pancc é diferenciado.
O jogo é jogado, BR evoluiu bastante até comparado com o que era antes e tem muito fator LOUD em volta disso com o talento já do Brasileiro em FPS de forma geral.

I've been telling this the entire thread, I knew it wasn't that but crazy role changes.

Respeito mas discordo. Eu quero realmente saber que jogo você está assistindo pra achar isso. M80 e The Guard mostraram uma inconsistência TREMENDA, enquanto os jogos do BR foram bem mais organizados e com boas execuções, não vou nem comentar no fator mira. Não que não teve erros no BR mas te garanto que foi bem menos caótico do que eu venho assistindo.
Inclusive recomendo você assistir novamente porque meu amigo, acho que você está bem louco (com todo respeito rsrs).

Pior que a final da VKS x The Union foi jogão demais, PEGADO para os dois lados. Teve gente matando quase 100 na série, LOUCURA rsrs.

Honestamente, comparando os jogos aqui no BR e comparando com os jogos que a G2 teve até agora, não tenho nenhum pouco de medo.
O da G2 que eu mais gostei agora foi a organização na defesa, mas isso dá para estudar.
Não subestimando, obviamente, só acho que vão ser bons jogos e consigo ver um leve favoritismo para os times do BR. Se fosse HOJE, The Union x G2, teria nem discussão.

Jogando em LAN contra esses times BRs eles vão passar mal viu, te falando desde já rsrs
The Guard, M80 são bons times, de fato pra mim acho que a G2 é um pouco mais organizada mas não vejo os times BRs atrás deles.
Serão bons jogos definitivamente e um BR ganhando pode ser uma realidade totalmente possível.

Vocês estão assistindo o Challengers NA? Está muito feio de assistir. The Union, VKS, Red, ODK, promoveram jogos mais interessantes e bem jogados do que isso. Isso me dá confiança nos times do BR indo disputar essa vaga da franquia.

C9, Kru, they can manage to win against EG, also can upset 100T, Sentinels (depending wtf they are doing)

"Someone take me out of this shit here please", it's part of a video they created.

A Sentinels teria que ser muito drogada pra tirar o Pancada lol
Não foi isso que aconteceu, deve ter sido umas mudanças de role loucas, nada além disso...

I honestly don't think it's that, I think it's a role change. The bomb cause we know Pancada and Sacy are really good in their roles so maybe it's that.

As a sentinel fan, how would you feel about that movement?

You jinxed it, congrats

Maybe they didn't change the players but changed the roles. I would expect anything from Sentinels to be honest hahaha

But dg said that Tenz is crazy, meaning that he is scrimming. It wouldn't make sense for him to scrim if he is not playing right?

True

I hope they don't...

It would be sadge for the org

What do you mean, wtf, did you watch Sentinel games? He was top-fragging in most games and playing really well.

Noyn is a known leaker from BR and he proved himself a lot of times by knowing internal things about the teams. He just tweeted:

"My friend, what a bomb, watch out for the Sentinels game on Saturday kkkkkkkkkk 💣💣💣"
"One thing I can guarantee: Sentinels is the org of the meme and the content, you will see the absurdity they made"
"I can't say because it was the team's strategic decision, and that could put them at a disadvantage in Saturday's game."

Perhaps Pancada KJ is confirmed?
Perhaps Pancada in the bench?
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

Source: https://twitter.com/Noynvlr/status/1641529870751506445

Less

The best in the role (Sentinel) and the best overall
His performance since Champions hasn't dropped but improved, he is even playing a second caller now

W way of thinking, especially the "graduate with as little debt as possible".

It happens my friend, don't dwell on that, you are totally capable of achieving your dreams no matter what.

Thank you guys for the replies.

That is sad :'(

Send me a good watch party to watch this TL vs FUT.
It doesn't matter if they are speaking Turkey, I wanna see the emotions.

Thank you kamisavitar, you are a friend my friend. +1

The chances were indeed high for them to lose (mostly because they didn't know how things would turn) but it doesn't change the fact that LOUD is the current Champions winner and the expectations will always be high for them. They wouldn't choose two new players that weren't a good fit for the team to continue winning.
I understand Saadhak's point of view, thinking that they would lose even the first match is understandable because he knows there are no weak teams and they have new players - every new team thinks the same, believe me -, everyone can surprise, yet they had time to practice and create new compositions and if it wasn't for Fnatic good reading they would've won the finals as well. That is just a fact.

Thank you Nbs. Congrats on winning Challengers East by the way.

It's not that hard to recognize when someone did something great. LOUD was the team to lose, they are the actual Champions winner, even tho they changed two important players they maintained the core players but it's not an excuse. FNATIC did a really good job studying and playing how they played this LOCK//IN.
I hope they both qualify for Masters because one thing I'm sure of: it will be a banger...

Thank you for the bump tho

LOUD was 22/1 at Ascent, playing the comp they mastered a long time, with good executions and setups that made the comp really powerful for a long time and played the same way from a lot of teams throughout the year because it was effective.
This year LOUD tried new things at Ascent like using Viper and Skye. It was obvious that the LOUD playstyle at Ascent was so used and studied that they had to change, people studied even the shampoo Saadhak was using before playing the map (haha).
With the change, they made DRX sweat, winning 13-8 with DRX asking for timeouts to try and adapt this new playstyle but it wasn't enough and they lost.
Here comes FNATIC, they did a great job studying and playing against such a different composition and giving LOUD their second loss on the map. (FNC good).
I like this from the teams, creating new compositions and playstyles, like Vision Strikes, Optic, and LOUD.
This year is promising, I think LOUD will make their comps and play styles even better and more teams will do the same (I see NAVI trying new stuff too, even tho it's not working that well yet but they can get there).

This is one thing I like about Valorant, the different things you can do in the game, it's almost never the same and is not boring at all. Not only the opponent team but the public can be surprised by something new/crazy by some team at any moment.

(btw: I hope Riot puts 1 champion ban for each team so we can have more types of variations and strategies).