*be good and live evil

crashies is very vocal in midrounds from what I've heard

trexx kinda looks like he forgot to sleep last night

I don't really like them that much anymore but I don't like anyone from Americas any better :(

On almost every team you have someone playing recon initiator and someone playing flash initiator, typically a flex player. This guy plays it all—and at a very high level, too. His Sova, Fade, Skye, Breach, and KAY/O are all world-class and I never see him get any credit for it. It's not easy to name another initiator that can be this flexible within their role.

k1Ng is currently arguably the best Pakistani VALORANT player in the world

No but seriously how did he get H3ENnZ right and not 1243

There you go ig

Help me please he's keeping me here I haven't seen daylight in eight months I have loved ones back home

EDG might not have been at their full potential this offseason and the G2 game might have been close, but FUT is a top contender in EMEA and T1 beat them 3-1 on aggregate, C9 was at their peak at this time having beaten FNC and TH and demolished G2 2-0 in the past two days, and ZETA/RRQ/TE are all very very solid teams with a ton of potential

0mins

LOUD / ZETA / KC / XLG

30 seconds and only 2 downvotes, bro fell off

I would love to make my enemy highlight colour as unreasonably vivid as possible

https://i.imgur.com/LdTsULX.png
These aren't bad teams by any means; they're beating some of the best from every other region

Quatro

You should see him when he gets Evori Dreamwings or Spectrum

See, if it was just in the stats, I'd've agreed. But KC played SUPER well, their ideas and comps and prep were all super unique (ENGH absolutely cooked), the synergy between the players looked fantastic, and even the maps they lost were very close (what you haven't mentioned is that their two losses at Madrid was a very intense 2-0 against eventual winners Sentinels, and a down-to-the-wire 3 map banger against Paper Rex)

The cuatro is a sort of Hispanic guitar, mostly played in Colombia and surrounding countries. It's probably the instrument that was playing in the first teaser, now that I think about it

Not sure what to make of this teaser, though. Jett, Chamber, and... (is that a cowboy hat with legs?) running through some abandoned architecture. You say French, and I kinda see that, but I think it looks more Spanish than anything. iIf this is a map, I really hope Harbor has some geeky voiceline for it like he does for the other maps (god, I love those)

I'm definitely biased but I have a terrible history with both Acer and Walmart so I say don't go for it

Based

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I literally can't tell what you're saying

I agree with all of what you're saying, except there's no way you don't think Karmine Corp looked good early in the season

Ye
Like this

Brim ult is horizontal

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Ye I thought it was a Woohoojin reference too

Lime is actually really good

They won Champions and ZmjjKK was the grand final MVP and also tournament MVP

Wait this is crazy good. Ascension contention for sure

Brimstone + Astra is an idea I hadn't considered

Astra intuitively felt like the direction teams would go to me—I hope it's Astra and not Brimstone because frankly I think Astra's a LOT more interesting.

Also Deadlock does seem like she'd have a lot of merit on this map, now that I think about it

Of course the NEW AGENT wow I didn't think about that!! What if the NEW AGENT is REALLY GOOD ON FRACTURE thanks for pointing that out Two_Percent there's no way you're referring to anything else

What comp? Who's playing what?

The first games of the season are just over 9 days away.. And we're gonna be seeing Fracture for the first time since EG won Champs.

Since Fracture got taken out, we got Deadlock, Iso, Clove, and Vyse added to the game. We got massive buffs for Gekko, Cypher, and Astra, and massive nerfs for pretty much everyone else. And we have an entirely new generation of top teams, with ideas and comps no one in 2023 could've imagined.

So what's the Fracture meta gonna look like this year? What is your favourite team gonna play on this map? What will work, and what won't? And who will be the best Fracture team of the year?

Brother what unranked game goes to 100-87 😭

This roster seems CRAZY good

I feel the same way about LOUD with no Saadhak. I still love cauanzin and tuyz but it's just not the same anymore :(

At least on VLR it has

Long time no see, mi amigo. Happy new year :>

"It feels like a default location" is so relatable, man

Yeah it was kinda half baked, and I didn't really account for how comfortable we all were on the agents we were playing. I have a feeling that with enough prep the comp could work, but frankly I'd rather play something where everyone's comfortable on their roles.

I'm not hesitant to come up with some goofy wacky stuff for Lotus. As of now, it's sort of our fuck around and find out map, because we haven't played it for a while and we don't know what the meta's gonna look like but we are familiar with the map itself and how it tends to play in our games

Nuh uh you can't make me

Hny tserc! Wish you all the best this coming year :)

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Bind Pearl Split are definitely our best maps, but don't forget we're playing all 7

The first Lotus scrim, the one where match history was turned off

Also that wasn't a scrim, that was them lying about their ranks and then smurfing on us for half an hour

It's too late, he's already changed :(