nah yall just dumb only looking at the scoreboard. Kanpeki getting picked up doesn't change that sen has been constantly going down in trajectory. Zombs bottom fragging was never a problem for sen at their prime yall just used him as the scapegoat for why sentinels started losing. Literally, 2 support players who just do their job well and play for the team. They get out of so much from pure firepower but the problem is there are teams that just frag as decently if not more but also just have a better understanding of the game than sen. I get that people say just let Tenz do what Tenz does and just run it down but there's a reason why they lose with every little thing they do. People call the game random cuz teams like sen get upset but just literally stop peeking. Players constantly making t2/t3 mistakes in t1 Val and losing the game and people still complaining that the game is random. Dapr and Bdog have good decision making for example.
Nothing can ever be perfect but your goals should always be perfection and to keep it that way.
Kanpeki is a great player for his role.
Zombs is still an s-tier controller for NA. He was always bottom fragging anyway nothing changes that he's great with his role

Bro literally no one cares. They'll be back to moaning each others name's in pre scrim lobbies 3 weeks later. Just creating drama for something as common as a daily coffee in NA valorant.

TENZ BatChest

Nah but people don't understand like watch this guy's best players like holy. He is that level above "another t2 jett/chamber player'" mechanically like actually. People don't understand there are duelists in t1 that can be differentiated from the rest with their decision-making or/and literally mechanics just being better. The only problem right now is there isn't too much of a balance in the top players where someone is literally prime simple with 10 years of t1 experience in decision-making yet. Bdog seems to be the best one yet with actual good decision-making and being able to pop-off. Literally every other jett except maybe less than a handful of jetts just run it down, peek everything and just rush/forget too many situations. Maybe sometimes u won't see how talented a player like Bdog is because he decides to be a little more conserved compared to the other jetts but still.

huh eg just zoomed the next 2 maps? thought it was gonna take awhile

I'm starting to like you more every single day.

T1 will only qualify if they qualify

Holy fuck most boring pick-ems i've ever seen in my life

I have sacrificed my 4 stars for this.

UB:
100T
Knights
LB:
V1
BBG Academy

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5c83fe74

yeah but like better than losing round 1 or not even making it into the open at all ig
edit: nvm they got first rounded

v1, knights, 100t and sen are favourites just cuz placements but fr geng, eg etc have potential to beat those teams once and that's basically all you need if you make it that far.

How big is the difference between the main league and gc in sa? LIke feel like the only team i've seen in opens is the liquid team in br and they've done decent I think right? Maybe it's just cuz they're one of the only teams that kinda get far but still. Is it considerable enough for t1 teams to not want to scrim the gc teams? Cuz ig it's valid in the end of the day if the teams just don't think they'll get decent practice against them. There are teams like c9 who'll scrim anyone basically but it makes sense for top teams to only want high-level scrims when possible. Then again feel like no one in br except maybe top 4 should be considered top teams even domestically.

oh man i forgot tenz existed mb. but dapr still has good decision-making. I think I took if they are a good player in general as more of a factor but then I just half-assed it like a stat andy and added some decent support players.

1. yay
   2.leaf
   3.xeppa
   4.zellsis
   5.victor
   6.marved
   7.zander
   8.saya
   9.Ethan
   10.cryocells
   11.sick
   12.xeta
   13.trent
   14.bdog
   15.s0m
   16.zekken
   17.penny
2. asuna
   19.wippie
   20.dapr
   21.net
   22.skuba
   23.rossy
   24.zombs

yeah but doesn't psg own talon or nah they're just a partner for league?

What's an oil club? Does that mean they're sponsored by oil companies and stuff? Or they just run by old greasy men or something.

Thought it was confirmed that they had a Filipino roster with a couple of Koreans in it? or is that some other team

feel like if you are hardworking you shouldn't be considered a paycheck stealer

It's true dapr has had rough stats for a while and pretty much hasn't looked at his peak for a bit. His decision making is still great tho aside from maybe some trolly things he's a good player. We can talk about stats but androids stats were pretty nice compared to tex's so probably has to be some internal things that affected who got removed for Ethan. Maybe he was just doing rougher in scrims compared to tex in the timeframe or tex brings more communication-wise inside the game. All is speculation but from what I know dapr is a pretty smart player who is probably way more important to sentinels internally than we think. Dk if he deserves more credit but think he does. Sentinels as a whole are slumping but feel like for the future of sentinels he has to end being the sacrifice or the igl of the team if they can't find a replacement. Only if shahz ends up leaving the roster. I'd trust him more than anyone else to be the igl and leader if he was given the opportunity.

nah i'm korean so by default just a fan of tottenham

Let's share our pain knowing they'll both never win anything. Unlucky

Actually cursed in the sense that it ends up being him who throws the most crucial rounds even when he's having insane games. The universe aligns to find the most impossible way for wardell to throw just veeeerrrrry unlucky. + every other player on tsm to be fair

I'm not that really informed about soccer but am excited about the match tomorrow. What should we expect from the match tomorrow as man city is already ahead in aggregate? I am a Tottenham "fan" so I only know a couple of players in Madrid and Benzema. Does Real Madrid have a chance? Will man city choke the lead? What are your preds?
Also, why does every Tottenham player succeed after they leave Tottenham?

fr didn't even know top 4 got to challengers 2 cuz they don't say anything. Tiebreaker soon too but good they are giving this award to the top players. Interesting that with the most korean teams signed up ever they are essentially fighting for the fewest spots available.

I like how active lg is trying to be ig just cuz it's working too but Bdog has great decision-making on when to stop and when to back off.

To be fair think we said that about guard early this year too. 100t fr got potential too with that new roster tho ngl

It's fair that people get criticism but people don't realize how much it piles up to the thousands. It's never okay in the eyes of the media for shahz to stab back but you can't blame him for being human. He probably reads some of the most digusting messages on the daily about his personal life/self and his gameplay in NA as the sentinels igl.
It's actually kinda fucked how people dig up the smallest things about his personality to make him look like a shit dude. He's obviously a chill dude but cringe fucks like us on vlr and shit go too far tbh. Literally just screams alot on his stream and just gets pissed at ranked that's it. He built his stream with that happy and loud personality theme, obviously he's gonna keep doing it if it works. Someone who get's the most criticism and just in general shit for anything he does is obviously gonna end up getting pissed too.
Doesn't matter if he was a rat before. It's in the past and people should have just not done stuff to get themselves ratted on in the first place.
Honestly compared to us average vlr users, he seems more human to me.

Until they are podium finishers, they are not back.

I literally just said with the top 8 from the first quals bro

nah rn
t1: c9, optic, guard and v1
t1.5 xset and nrg
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.gap
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faze, tsm, lg, 100t and pks
t2/t3 everyone else.
genuinely feel like 100t has the most potential to get into 1.5 or above just basing it off of how good/improved they look 3 weeks with a new team.
Any other team can have a hot streak tho. Especially tsm or faze

These are possible groups with the top 8 from the first opens.
Thoughts? Feels like no matter what you do the groups will be stacked.

Group A:
optic, xset, faze, v1, 100t and sen
Group B:
guard, c9, nrg, tsm, lg, and knights

Group A:
optic, xset, nrg, tsm, lg, and knights
Group B:
guard, c9, faze, v1, 100t and sen

Group A:
optic, xset, faze, lg, 100t and sen
Group B:
guard, c9, nrg, tsm, v1, and knights

Group A:
optic, xset, nrg, tsm, v1, and knights
Group B:
guard, c9, faze, lg, 100t and sen

stopped reading at gtn

Nah this is team is actually the best iteration of 100t so far. Just based on the fact that the old team was gonna die and had already hit their potential. They had 3 old players basically falling off and 1 player that wasn't even on his best role. This iteration has so many young players that are basically at the start of their careers and are already at challengers level 3 weeks into prac. The roles make the most sense since ever and the players are in environment where they are comfortable role-wise and have the best coaching staff they could ask for to develop. Basically any top t2 team in NA rn could have beaten 100t's first strike team with how much everyone's improved game-theory wise and skill wise.

It's more like he was the only one who abused things and started doing things in beta/early-val that just became normal for certain agents. Like watching the guy in early ignition series he was some fucking magician. Literally the only guy to get shock dart bounce kills months into the game. It was just cool at that moment in time. Basically started the frenzy/stinger metas lasted months and sova/raze shit that still exists. Doesn't seem like a long period of time but it was a pretty important period of time in val until recently. Was literally one of the only unique players that brought something special to early val that wasn't wardells op or tenz running it down basically.

You're not wrong and people who think you are are wrong. Literally built the roster around Wardell for 2 years and no matter what they did it didn't work and as soon as they take him out they look better than ever. There is that slight throw sm stuff that happens once in a while but they actually got some potential. Wardell isn't a bad player and can be a star player but he isn't going to be on a top team unless he literally makes himself perfect. Teams are not going to approach him again until he shows that he can improve his decision-making/flexibility and is willing to improve. Everyone knows he's great but the problem is everyone else is great now too. They're not gonna take the gamble until he can prove he's worth the risk. Hope he can show his potential with his short stint on v1.

please just time out faze before yall lose the lead
literally just chill the lurks don't have to go first, especially when it's the astra

it's nice to see that eg qualifying doesn't seem too much like a fluke anymore. Good to see c0m fragging too

take it back rn before its too late

nice. Babybay's decision-making seems to have gotten so much better. It's not just run it down smeaging it's like calculated chaos and smart decision making when taking fights and in repositioning.

bbg acad players have great names tho

bbg academy fr going crazy down here

nt. I couldn't watch fully but i'm guessing it was a throw?

literally t2 decision making for a whole half by him. Ego swing good players and he gets punished

no that's the point

theres a difference between a good player and just a player that shoots gun good.

although wardell is great individually tsm really died and suceeded from his decision making. He can be the carry against any nervous t2 team but against good teams that know how he plays and are good enough to counter him he needs to change his game and not literally just be hit or miss. He can't expect every team to play for him with op buys etc when he's in a team where most of the players have better decision making and are just are better players in general the dynamic is interesting to see .

One of the big reasons tsm were successful at their peak was his firepower but one of the main reasons they were falling for a whole 2 years was tsm's decision making where wardell was literally one of the biggest contributors to that problem. Hope he can take this experience to try to get feedback from a good coach and players in the server and improve his decision making

Only thing i'm worried about is with zombs sentinels actually had a style and at their peak he was literally the rock of their team. Just worried if with kanpeki just because he's a decent player but whos only been in the t2 is if all he adds is firepower and it doesn't help with the fundamentals and just having an effective and unique style.

tsm has literally been irrelevant since first strike bro. They've qualed for 1 main event since and just bombed out last