it really isn't

leigo

They're playing coachless btw, their coach is having visa issues (who would've thought) and he's still in Brazil

ngl if nrg keeps playing like shit they might

are you jinxing on purpose you might be a hero

I told you

Looking surprisingly good so far, great resilience and good on adapting to situations
Team seems more much coordinated then they were on off-season
Split is a bit icky they need to work a bit
Haven't dropped a single map so far btw
Not international level yet but they have more potential than i anticipated

I told y'all

thank god

what does that mean

jinxed it

the black panther

Loud absolutely crushed this damn

they are tho

Woke up, comeback win incoming

keep coping

loud having three good maps in a row what are you on

they have americas at least

RESPECT HIM.

he was a bit shaky on first game but he's back now

respect him.

lmaooooooooooooo what was that drone

insane commitment to the bit

brother why would you do that
don't bet on any match from americas they're both a coinflip

Heretics and Vitality from EMEA are really the only contenders

tbh KC played really well and almost won against Vitality so they could also be a contender

i'd argue americas playoffs 2023 was the only time loud was decent on fracture tbh. 2022 it was ban pick, 2023 it was their permaban pre-playoffs and they got wiped so hard on masters it became their permaban again for champions, 2024 map was off. maybe they're stronger now but they did ban it on first round so i dont really believe that but who knows

historically fracture and bind are not very strong maps for BR teams (and loud specifically)

this looks like photoshop designs i did when i was 12 years old

just 2-0'd faze on cs

they had a gc squad a while ago but not a mixed one for some reason

its a good team but will probably choke when it matters (brazil moment)

W org wish they came back to valorant but they were ass while it lasted

sorry cant hear you from lower bracket

im pretty sure fracture is loud ban

LOUD have the best map pool

also dont know about that

RJ is a shitty city but we actually are very competent on event production

they boarded last night and are probably arriving later today

honestly there's not much jet lag from SP to LA (5 hours if im not mistaken) and there's a day to rest so i dont think there will be much jet lag

2-2 in Americas
4-2 in EMEA (Fuck you BBL)
1-1 in Pacific
Forgot to do China

Rio de Janeiro >>

honestly i think most people just havent figured it out tejo yet hes good but not broken
otherwise i think its healthy most teams have a different style and comps

i mean yeah the org might not be great but i will never not root for a team with brazilian players

there was the weird phoenix/yoru comp loud used too at the beginning of the year
later there was cypher-deadlock
probably not ideal but it was a start

ascent was already having some different comps last year tbh we might see some cooking
i hope so

Why

prob map pool? emea has a yoru fetish on "jett maps", americas don't pick abyss at all, split jett meta is outdated, rest of map pool not really viable... only being used in pearl and abyss sometimes

there's a bit more to that but i honestly don't really want to discuss it
it's past
i believe he's a better person now

i honestly do believe dgzin time in T2 was very good and necessary for him
he played with a more established IGL and evolved a lot under him (Raafa)
it's been only one match so i can't say for sure he's better now but on furia he had too many silly mistakes

just to be clear keznit actually has some history with racist comments it was not only that incident

THAT SAID it's been a while he seemed to have changed since then and apologized, i honestly believe him and believe people can evolve too (https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1867042500185059647)
also yes dg was a bit egotistical a while ago but he seemed to really mature too

they could actually qualify to bangkok lmao

did you watch the game with your eyes closed?
they played it like a ranked game, pushing smokes, run n gun, 100% aim no brain
any actual decent team would have punished them way more
2G were pissing themselves too much to do that
they had a lot of mechanics i can tell you that

they could work on pearl, yes, specially that troll comp, but their defense was at least half-decent
and their split looked good, didn't win because loud made a great comeback

oh yeah
yes its scheduled as the first

i mean to anyone watching closely only NRG really disappointed