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lowest 1st place prize pool of any event
32 teams, and the path to top 4 was 3 matches
no qualifiers
90% of the teams hadnt played any officials together
no double elim
no group stage
the top 4 teams were literally just teams that stuck together, or teams that scrimmed 3 months before everyone (besides chad loud who lost their top 2 players in offseason and only lost bc of chokezin and pooyz)
all of the promotion leading up to this event labels it as a showcasing of the new franchised league, it wasnt labeled as a elite tournament

tokyo:
top 3 teams had visa issues

madrid:
team heretics always knew wo0t wasnt going to be old enough, this isnt the case here

at champions when loud, eg, and prx were at full strength fnatic was bulldozed

dont think sayf will be top 10 while playing smokes and igl

would be hard for flor to be top 10 with the team she has sadly they suck

the portuguese league alone has 40 pros lmfaooooo

yay hurts his eye and goes on break

why are you this retarded emea has 10x more pros than americas lmfaoooo the brain damage is insane

people gotta learn to admit when they're wrong lol

emea is objectively a bigger region in every aspect, yet has less champions wins. that is inarguable, and you're a retard trying to justify it with weird Comparisions to other sports lol, there is 9.4 million youth football players in europe compared to 5 million in all of concaf, so wrong again

just idiocy fishing for upvotes, it wont make what you say true lmfao

all of europe alone has a population of 800 million, then you add MENA lmfaooooooo

its not because basketball and football is bigger, its because going pro in the us means nothing for soccer, whereas in valorant the difference between emea and americas in valorant isnt there, infact emea has better t2

just loud and wrong, emea is the objectively richer t2, bigger region, more teams, more players

the cs argument is cool if you dont understand that americas just has less gamers

m8 was vs fnc on scream stream

tiny little emea: https://www.vlr.gg/vcl-2024/?region=171

massive americas: https://www.vlr.gg/vcl-2024/?region=174

emea has a larger playerbase, spans three continents, has more countries, more teams, 10x the tier 2 scene but somehow this cope is believable lmfaoooo

+cope

masters 1 is the april/march event, idk why i have to explain this to a retard but alguds

im not discrediting anyones win lol im asking why is there already pre-cope, it doesnt apply sadly go find another troll

https://www.vlr.gg/432764/1st-masters

wrong thread lil bro

sadly 2023 had no first masters just a showcase event for franchising then the event that is equivalent to masters 2 and champions

idek wym tho bc americas has more champs wins than emea too

as opposed to emea who never win it and also never do anything else for the rest of the year like 2024

the yearly pre-masters 1 cope is coming around since emea has never won the first international masters </3

incoming "they had more prac than us" "fluke" "qualifiers too short"

emea still has contenders too, but the inferiority complex is so staggering that even when you have favorites to win like gm8 heretics kc, you have emea fans pre-coping incase of loss

man if kicks wasnt on vitality.. the aura smh.. natank was right there </3

there will be a few teams who experiment, id imagine KC with engh and saadhak rush out leaders of the new meta and people will call the first masters mickey mouse because they're just better coaches/igls out there

but its possible the new agent just isnt game breaking, either way the only thing this does is increase the skill cap of the coaching staff around the league

orgs pay coaches to coach and apparently its unreasonable for them to do their job when it gets more difficult!!!

bold take from someone hyping up the 5th best gc player

natank could go -30 every map and lev would beat 2g and furia so it didnt fly over my head it just makes 0 sense

he will carry against big teams

idek what this means because aspas left lev lol

natank will be carrying lev in americas too dw

I just did upvote myself thx for the reminder

vitality wont suck but i just prefer the more balanced roster, with the better coach and with roles that are already defined, vitality has to integrate a brazillian into an english roster, sayf needs to learn how to igl + hes learning smokes, derke will be with a new igl for the first time in 3 years + their coach was being bullied in american t2 and got bailed out by talent

if a team spends the offseason just perfecting one comp and not working on systems, calling, synergy, etc then they're just relying on the same thing other teams are lol

ANY team who thinks metas won't change and is trying to dominate 2025 with 2024 strats deserves to lose, yall implying luck is disingenuous

its not like anyone was surprised by the new agent either??? Like why would you not spend the offseason working on things that you know won't change lol, then spend the weeks after announcement specializing your map pool and comps for the new meta, extremely poor coaching decision from any team that relies on metas being stagnant in a game thats defined by meta shifts (chamber, astra, harbor)

so essentially ur saying nothing because everyone is at equal footing and to even try to imply that teams will be overworked or theres not enough time is completely lame and a cop out,

the people who win will be happy and those who lose will not, does this surprise you?

wait so ur telling me both teams can just pick tejo and whoever is better will win?

again, theres no unfairness about this lol and if coaches or players are mad they just suck at their job

the good coaches and players will just adapt and be good, and the losers will go on twitter and cry

mfw professional gamers and coaches have to learn a new agent the horror omg!

liquid top 5 and koi top 3

racist eastern europeans never fail to make me laugh

just bc ur too retarded to understand that vitality with no igl, the fucking tsm coach who was getting anti'd in american t2 and probably all the comms issues that could exist isnt good doesnt mean we all are

good roster doesnt equal good team, m8 is a balanced team like heretics last year, they will easily beat vitality, like we easily beat them last year

kicks burner account

heretics was the best european roster and had t2 players last year lol

where is the fnc hate

https://www.vlr.gg/314629/sentinels-vs-leviat-n-champions-tour-2024-americas-stage-1-w2

watch this game, the vods, and youll probably understand why

we massively upgraded our roster and already owned vitality last year

this year maybe 7 rounds for vitality

thats literally a completely different(worse) roster

i was just clowning a shitality fan for speaking down on their owners

the only team you can make an argument over m8 is heretics

he has talon and drx below nonshim let him enjoy his n4rrarted list

foxy9 tax

he said furia/mibr and mibr are pretty likely to make atleast one

https://www.vlr.gg/318931/team-vitality-vs-gentle-mates-champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-1-w4

10 rounds against a tier 2 team yikess

all of these are pretty likely except for eg and yay

AMER
g2
sen
kru
mibr
nrg

EMEA
heretics
m8
vitality
kc
fut

APAC
prx
drx
talon
t1
spg

fit this into a sentence pls

single init gekko is asking to lose

just say no duelist comp tbhhhhh

arda guler is the only good thing about that shit club

idk why ozil liked them

fake flagging is you with any flag since you snuck onto earth

i mean its in the name, did u not realize it wasnt a masters?

brazil still choked it tho

galatsarary clear fernoobache