Watching the EMEA playoff games and then the NA events, left me optimistic actually. There's a lot of minutia that NA do well (ex, sova drone looking down to clear 2 corners at the same time). The top NA teams are definitely closeish in skill level to FPX, FNC, Liquid, Guild even though they might not be adaptable enough for the meta. I think your take is wrong my friend. Now I haven't watched many BR games, but from what I can see in terms of stats and what I've been hearing from BR fans, their aim and strategy are both on point. That said, it may be another region that we hoped would do well but didn't.

Because NA makes valorant the most money

SEN is the best team from the second qualifier, so they get the 5th seed. 100T is the first seed and plays against the 8th seed ABX, the winner of which plays the 4th/5th seed matchup because that is the way brackets work

That score isn't possible tho lol, the matchup isn't possible either

Huh?

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babybay and it's not even close?

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I got downfragged to -3 btw.

oh IDK man either way

The winner of C9/SEN tomorrow :)

Upcoming events --> challenger finals NA

So... what?
1) Zombs isn't top 4
2) Omen utility is the most straightforward in the game, and he doesn't even have to lurk

I could write a paragraph but don't feel like it

bebop makes 100% correct takes, 0% of the time

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Yes, but the odds are for 100T, so you would win less money if they win. You want to sometimes picks underdogs where the odds are better than you think because you win more money if they win.

In that case, SEN would be 7th seed and against Envy

If you were into betting, I might put some money on C9 and XSET, low odds but good chances between both of them. XSET is the best team for the current meta and C9 just looks unstoppable.

Well, I mean, if you look at it technically, there are four teams ahead of them in Challenger Finals (Envy, XSET, V1, 100T) and right now they're probably going to get 2nd or 3rd seed out of Challengers 2, so 6th or 7th seed!

Right now they're technically like top 6 NA... YEAH ANYONE WHO ISNT TOP 5 DISBAND I AGREE DUDE HAHA!

If you have a friend group who doesn't constantly "sheesh" you must be like 40 years old. Good for you (I guess?)

The only team that is consistently great in EU is FPX and they didn't even make first strike finals... BR top 4 is consistent but the order is always changing... KR is just VS and Nuturn... TR is mostly just BBL and FUT... CIS is just Gambit and ForZe...

What is your point, exactly? Cuz if it's just that our top few teams are changing, that's more evidence that our region is better and not worse. And pretty much only EMEA is playing scrims cross-regional.

Baiter keep baiting!

I'm just saying, if floppy keeps playing like this, C9 Blue might be one of the best teams in NA...

Just cuz I like them doesn't mean I don't think they're dogshit

Yeah... why?

sigh OK DUDE

First of all, 100T strategies are pretty see-through, at least on the offensive end. "Look out for the steel lurk! Set something up to catch Asuna when he blast packs in and is far away from his team! Be careful of Hiko ults!" Credit though, they still somehow make it work. Secondly, they are super inconsistent. Every single game, there is someone who isn't getting up to par and (usually) someone who is picking up the slack. Changes every game. They need to be more consistent in terms of aim and even though they have some insane cs players on their roster, it seems they are always getting out-aimed by one team or another. Thirdly, they need more diverse agent pools. They're not going to win by using the same 5 agents on every map. Especially if one of those is always sage. There's other things I want to say but I'm going back to trying to hit immortal in 2 days cya.

Neither of those things are the problem with 100T, if you want me to explain what's wrong with them I can but it'll be a paragraph

EU > CIS > TR

isn't dicey the same? or did they release him fully

You clearly haven't watched fpx vs gambit

C9 2-0 NRG

Predicted both participants and the winner... sheeeeeeeeeeeesh

wow, I stand corrected

1) There's a lot more people in NA, EU, SA so it makes sense to break those regions up
2) Distance, especially in Southern and Eastern Asia and South America people are far away from each other and there's no common servers. Imagine Korea vs Japan

C9 vs NRG

Not completely unexpected. Wasn't a very flashy player compared to some of the other top NA jetts. I wish GenG the best with whoever they pick up :)

mmm aged well, your comment has not

Actually true

I agree with you, but for the sake of the argument, TenZ usually has the highest damage numbers on the team and there's always another problem when he loses. What do you say to that?

Well, the problem is that, even I, have literally 0 clue who the NA representatives are gonna be yet because overall the region is pretty close in skill. But the best NA rep is definitely not going to be below 8th in the world...

You could get rich on my behalf though, just bet on what I predict. I haven't predicted wrong in a while in the main events.

I'm not 18 yet.

NRG 2 - 0 IMT

SEN 2-0

SHEEEEESH

SHEEEEESH

C9 2-0 ABX

I didn't comment on any of the matches beforehand because I wasn't on my computer for a while... Doesn't mean I wouldn't have predicted C9 2-0.

Even floppy is averaging higher numbers and it's his first EVER game in pro val...