The ratings only make sense after tournaments. They're based on elo, after all, so it is only a reflection of recent form (except in the case of a team like Sentinels who won for so long, so consistently).

Jamppi love!

Dude, you have to try it. Trust me.

UK haters never had a roast dinner? Never had pie? Never had beef wellington? Never had Haggis? Never had Cullen Skink? Never had Welsh lamb?

You 12 year olds have a long way to go!

UK cuisine is great! You just have to, ya know, open your mind to the possibility that you don't know anything about it beyond stereotypical dishes like Fish and Chips :P

He has more NA-like aim - lots of quick sprays with the phantom. He isn't very tappy. I wouldn't put him in the same conversation as ScreaM.

great stats, unlucky, wp!

Cap. Breeze is so great.

I feel like he will take over oping duties, so maybe Jett, and Jamppi will move over to Sova more or less full time. Either that or Nivera will play Sova.

I mean, the Valorant was better, but these games weren't really very close apart from Bind.

Why do we care about regions? Is it not because we're sticking up for the players, the teams, and the organizations that thrive in our ecosystem? EMEA teams all play each other. EU teams have CIS players. CIS teams have EU players. The same can be said of Turkey. Our EMEA teams scrim each other daily, and they play and have fun alongside each other in ranked games that take place on servers across EU, CIS, and Turkish servers.

Gambit is an EMEA team. Europe is part of EMEA. EMEA ecosystem and 'scene' > NA.

Nice thread, bro. Maybe remove the Gambit flair since you have no idea how your team even plays.

I mean, ffs, it has taken insane yay clutches to even make this competitive. lmao.

Dude, are you for real? They are absolutely owning Envy considering it is their permaban. They are literally rushing and trolling. This is scrimbit.

So what? G2 only played four different teams at this tournament, one of which they got utterly boomed by.

That's not scientific at all, though. That's just opinion. Derke might be playing great right now, and even better during LCQ. You have no idea. Fnatic has had plenty of time to think up new strats.

wrong, and NV has a big advantage because they are Team A and choose which map to ban. Gambit will have to play Haven, which is NV's best map and Gambit's worst. Not good for Gambit.

You say it so factually as if everyone said that. I don't anybody who said that.

How does Fnatic not deserve it? Both teams have been to a single major LAN event, and Fnatic placed higher. 1head logic to think otherwise.

My point is to reply to dim wit above who seems to think people who are defending kyedae are in the wrong. They arent. It's no big deal. Geez, cant believe I had to spell that out. Shall i include a diagram next time?

If it was a male streamer, literally nothing would have happened, wdym? If some chad streamer called someone scrawny everyone would laugh and move on.

I don't know what that means. Geographically and historically, western Russia has always been considered part of Europe. The same, but different -- sorta like the UK and Europe.

CIS basically is EU, mate. I'll be flamed for saying this by NA fans, ofc. But EMEA is a united region; Gambit scrims teams like Liquid, G2, Fnatic, etc every single week multiple times. They all play ranked together. They all know each other. It's different from, say, Brazil and NA.

... that Liquid was one round away from beating Gambit, knocking them out of the EMEA finals, and coming to Berlin to win the whole thing.

Ok, that last bit was a stretch. But can we collectively all look back and agree Liquid isn't as bad as ya'll continually make them out to be? EMEA is insanely competitive.

Also, ggs to Gambit - best team in the world, no doubt.

It isn't 'the Valorant scene' at all. It's only the scene if you choose to believe it is. This is about people in the public space being talked about by average joes, which is completely normal. People will talk about other people, especially when there is drama.

But I thought cNed was an onliner? That's what every kid on vlr was saying a day ago. KEKW?

1head take. They have a consistent oper, lol. Jamppi is one of the best in the world at oping. They need a proper IGL and a Sova player is what they need.

huge mistake to ban haven

I think that's a big generalization. There are a lot of middle-class black people in America, too.

You think CR will take a map from Gambit after having lost 13-1 twice? That is... a hot take.

lmfao, no.

It still has a consequence, though. either way, you're still mad if you think a professional player just "doesn't care" about a LAN tournament game with hundreds of thousands of people watching. It's just copium pure and simple.

Seeding games do have stakes, though. This is the difference between potentially playing, say, 100T or Vio Keyd. I know who I'd rather face.

Do you believe in ghosts and fairies, too?

so wrong, lol

fair enough

Of course they care. No professional wants to lose. You think SEN wants to throw away it's 100% record? You think they don't want an easier seeding? Just absurd to think otherwise, honestly.

EU is short for Europe, mate, lol. It is not short for European Union in this context.

Dude, you need to accept that all of these teams are close in skill. With the exception of maybe the Japanese and Brazilian teams, Val is very competitive worldwide. Paperex and SMB are great teams who could beat VS and Acend on a good day.

Because lan is a high pressure environment? it's very different playing from the comfort of your own home to being on an international stage with 500,000 people watching. Surely you can understand that? Also, just maybe, Paperex is much better than you thought.

ah, here we go - the reactionary threads that make sweeping conclusions based on 3 minutes of gameplay. I love vlr.

I mean, Turkey is a huge, thriving Valorant scene, with hundreds of thousands of players. Japan is not. I don't think you will see the same type of improvement.

Mate, that's cap. He is not passive at all, lol. Don't jump to conclusions based on a single game, or even a couple of games. He is an insanely aggressive Jett player regardless of whether he is using an op or not. I don't understand who you have been watching if you can honestly disagree with that. Give the kid --yes, he's a young kid-- a break. He will bounce back and then you can all simp for him again.

Ya'll really watch one Acend map that cNed plays poorly on and you're suddenly making sweeping statements? He's one of the best in the world who had one bad map playing other players who are among the best in the world. Chill out.

The average age of vlr users can't be higher than 13, right? Really embarrassing forum to be a part of.

Not Link? Probably their best player on a consistent basis, lol....

Because the lack of moderation means that any braindead monkey can make a thread about literally anything on vlr. Don't get too excited by the activity - it's a blessing and a curse.

kryptix hate comes from clueless kids.

That is completely untrue, lol.

Although the rules are very strict, to me that actually sounds very promising. You want total COVID security if you're organizing and international lan event. And I suspect that's why Berlin has been chosen - it is suitable precisely because the rules are strict and the level of control is high. You obviously don't want a situation where players/masters staff get infected because the COVID rules are too relaxed, as they are in the US (for the purposes of organizing an international tournament, not for everyday life).

People play differently when there is nothing on the line. Think DM peeks vs ranked peeks. The movement is totally different and people play with high confidence in DM, whereas in ranked they tend to take fewer risks and spray more. It is a similar situation in scrims in the sense that it doesnt really matter if you lose a round trying something funky.

Not to mention many teams practice strange compositions, try weird eco strats, force buy tactics, etc. Scrims give you only a very rough idea of whether one team is competitive with another.