How many points do you guys have right now?
I got 92 points, which is top 11%.
SEN beating GENG lost me 20 points (although id expect most people lost points there)
0 perfect picks left, although a few people got very close.
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How many points do you guys have right now?
I got 92 points, which is top 11%.
SEN beating GENG lost me 20 points (although id expect most people lost points there)
0 perfect picks left, although a few people got very close.
You can't have teams from the same group in the same side of the bracket.
DRX VS EDG
TH VS LEV
TRACE VS FNC
G2 VS SEN
The Champions Seoul rulebook.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xfy0lbve0hdr0ju/AADJvsARxPlKGBHmsKFaKghAa/Rules%20and%20Policies%202024/VCT24?dl=0&preview=VCT+Champions+Seoul+Event-Specific+Ruleset.pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1
"Teams from the same group will be placed on opposite sides of the bracket to avoid a potential rematch"
Sentinels played very well, punished almost every misstep that GENG made.
They used all the momentum they had built throughout the game perfectly.
Sacy back to his Champs 2022 form.
It was derkin time.
Actually it wasn't that bad.
FUT vs PRX is just a terrible matchup for FUT.
Only map I would have them comfortable favourites would be ascent (which prx banned).
The rest of FUT's map pool is inconsistent at best, (all of their maps have a 50% or below winrate except from ascent and split).
They almost closed out sunset but it wasnt to be.
Can't be losing rounds like this.
Mental crushers.
FUT this map veto is ballsy.
This year is a huge success for talon, especially regarding expectations and budgets.
Qualifying for the biggest event of the year, integrating one of the most exciting domestic rookies.
Talon can build on this foundation to do even better next year.
Fr0st and the team have done well.
Everyone on vitality stepping up today, a good team performance.
runneR looked very comfortable anchoring his site on sunset.
Kicks getting a 6k.
Cender having huge value in his ultimates.
Trexx & sayf great as always.
Well it's JDGs fault they arent here because they lost to BLG in the playoffs.
Both BLG and JDG got a lot better domestically after roster changes.
Don't think either team would've got a win here.
This is actually a scary opponent for fnatic.
Both teams have overlapping map pools.
The map veto is going to be very interesting.
South Korea is still the dominant force in league by a long mile.
LCK has won worlds 8 times.
LPL has won world 3 times.
Every time the LPL (china) has won worlds was with 2 korean imports.
Verno and Bonkar should be locked in.
Mitch has a good shot depending on which teams do a full rebuild.
I like skuba but NA is pretty stacked with controllers.
Reduxx too young.
Really sad to see what has happened with oxygen, liked a few of their rosters.
Seems very similar to what happened to the guard.
Early predictions:
Group A:
Group B:
Always hard to balance the groups.
I would say Group A is harder.
Crazy game.
Icy turned up on the last map.
Yeah, i've been underwhelmed with his performances this year.
In the guard's ascension run he was arguably their best player, now he's probably like 4th best on g2.
He's been flexing less this year as well.
Ultimately the team has been doing well so its not a big issue, although if trent could kick on they could probably be major contenders.
Nope thats heat score.
Concurrent viewership isnt publicly available.
Heat score is a combination of viewership, activity, donations, stream length.
It's very interesting.
Super strong site hits.
Curious to see how it performs going deeper into the event.
Didn't manage to catch the first map, so I don't know how differently Lev played against it compared to Vitality.
Veto wise the Lev matchup is very nice for trace.
With the maps Lev perma ban it allows for Trace to replicate the same map pool they had versus vitality.
Slightly worried about trace's map pool depth however their bind and ascent is nice.
Ascent in particular, really good macro.
💵 How much money Riot gives?
🔫 New Classic for VCT teams in 2025
💬 Riot comments on the changes
Recommend reading the article some pretty interesting stuff by sheep esports (anonimotum).
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This was done by removing the content creation incentive program that each VCT team had.
Each team could earn up to 400k by reaching certain targets and goals in terms of content creation.
We will likely see the ramifications of these changes in the future seasons.
Haven and Lotus has been very good lately.
Moving towards a 7 map pool, allowing for a target ban.
Just need to improve on icebox and ascent.
Map pool is actually looking good.
Lack of british coaches.
Fnatic, Vitality, Heretics all have british coaches.
What about Giantx?
Added more russians and performed worse.
What a win from Heretics, getting the first seed from the group of death.
Incredible rounds from everyone.
https://twitter.com/FalconsEsport/status/1820521438765592621?t=LWEMlXR2_-1Htsy9jv_cXg&s=19
That is a shocking move.
Must be something major that made falcons pull out.
Really liked the roster.
FNC > EDG
Vitality < FPX
TH > TE
FUT > BLG
When you do the match ups seed by seed, I would have emea on top.
Although it is a lot closer than I thought when coming into the event.
What? EDG have beaten prx this year.
FUT losing every single shower fight.
That was a frustrating watch and i'm not even a FUT fan.
The individual decision making from cned is so strange today.
He keeps putting himself in unfavourable scenarios.
BLG beat nrg twice at Champions 2023.
FPX beat fut at Masters Shanghai.
Reminds me of the sin prisa comp.
Sentinels on bind can get a lot of value if not dealt with correctly, especially cypher.
Gonna be an interesting watch.
Chinese coach of the year versus Emea coach of the year.
Fpx vs heretics always delivers, what a game.
In split 1 the change from purp0 to sayonara was almost seamless, they didn't lose a single game going forward and ended up winning the split.
Kpi just haven't looked as dominant as they did since that point.
Map pool changes didn't help, they had a strong split.
Maybe the roster just lost momentum after split 1 with the time gap and the other roster changes.
Not even close and kpi won 5 pistols.
Kpi aint been the same since split 1, they've been way less coordinated way more loose.
A vintage Elllement display.
Paper rex core of d4v41/f0rsaken/mindfreak have attended 10 international events together, the most of any currently active core in valorant.
This includes a 9 international event streak, the longest current active streak:
Reykjavik 2022 -> Copenhagen 2022 -> Champions 2022 -> Lock//in 2023 -> Tokyo 2023 -> Champions 2023 -> Madrid 2024 -> Shanghai 2024 -> Champions 2024.
This year's pacific ascension is going to be even more unpredictable because of the format.
If the rumours of what i've heard are true, the seeding will be based on how each region performed at last years ascension.
Having some teams only play 2 games is rough.
(though i need to watch old vods/rounds to have a better idea of each team)
nt sns tomorrows games are winnable. been playing well recently
The issue lies in the differing region quantity and geography.
Almost the entirety of the EMEA ascension tournament is played online, which would not be something that anyone in the americas/asia would want.
Wrong twitter account linked.
https://x.com/loud_waved
People really underestimate how good chronicle was at gambit.
His performances at international events were neck and neck with nAts.
His Masters berlin finals performance is one of the best finals performances of all time.
In fnatic he hasn't been able to stand out as much but that is because the starpower is so much higher.
Not to mention he is doing all of this as a flex.
Leo is better, although Hiro is closer to chronicle type player than he is to Leo.
Hiro wasn't a 1 for 1 replacement for Leo, chronicle has taken a lot of Leo's old roles on certain maps.
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