hopefully opening matches are bangers

when are groups being announced, all challengers ended

b8

I think it wasnt that much that the other teams improved but fnatic trying new things that didnt work and not using what had worked for them, they played triple controller on bind

mf called smb, acend, gambit and g2 avarage teams lmao

b8

agree

even between eu and na, other regions are dogshit, all fnatic vs sentinels maps were either ot or 13-10/13-11, fnatic too inexperienced tbh maybe if they were more experienced they could have closed out maps and take the w + sen shit on everybody in NA aswell, i said NA not sen

Really nice to have EU vs NA rivalries in this game and both regions being pretty even, as a CS fan it was kinda sad to see the NA scene to get dominated by EU

On a serious note tho, what are your expectations for Berlin? I think it will be pretty even, I guess it depends on how each team adapts to LAN. NA has the most experienced players no doubt but imo EU has 1 more teams but the better players/teams but probably they will all but G2 struggle a bit like Fnatic did

Maybe at speedrunning to airport any %, not sure about Masters 3 tho... As a fellow American I think Europeans are just better than us, kinda of expected when we are the descendants of European rejects, losing is in our blood......................

no keznit? wtf

Yes.

Glad to not be the only man of culture on this NA biased forum! Glad NA dogs will stay quiet and stop watching Valorant after the historic rape they will suffer in Berlin

Not my MVP! + almost lost against vlogger, 2 fortnite players, rust player and cs prodigy lmaooooo NA should be ashamed, too bad it was not online and they choke....... What are NA players gonna do after they become irrelevant in Valorant aswell???? They killed their CS scene just to get dominated by superior europeans in another esport, wait for Berlin murican

They are all true tho?

ye, NA best region at going broke if you get sick

dogshit tbh, would be surprised if they took maps off any of the EMEA teams

read title

Thats not how you type NA

sentinels did, NA sucks tho, only 1 good team

ur indian, i said NA

Do you guys genuily think you are winning Berlin? lmao

SEN > EU > NA
EMEA and EU are the same, doesnt make sense to put EMEA > EU since EMEA is basically EU and turkish+cis teams so obviously it is stronger than EU brotha, but still "EU" alone without turkish and cis teams is stronger than NA as a region, although I must say most strong EU teams like BDS, FPX, Fnatic, NIP, Alliance, Vitaly have been doing crack on Stage 3. Stay away from drugs kids or you will think Phoenix + Breach combo is good

ZOMBS LMAO

agree, just seeding, 4 teams groups 2 go to playoffs lmao, playoffs gonna be 4 emea teams + 3 na teams + vision strikers either who cares about seeding. g2 literally lost to gambit cuz of a 0.01s plant, if g2 had won every1 would be saying g2 best team in emea, idiots dont get how close these matches have been

berlin is gonna be sick now that the format is not shit

its fine for playoffs imo

Honestly g2 just had an off day, I doubt they would let smb destroy them like this again. They also got destroyed by FPX in Challengers 1 and then beat them the next day, I think they just have to work on their mental

I dont understand why they dont put Shao on jett, he was insane on challengers 1. Hopefully FPX discovers the duelist role soon enough

they are not lmfao, tier 3 emea is better than any jp/latam team

envy

wdym just look at their individuals lmao, they have fucking mixwell on flex playing viper on some maps, g2 is fucking stacked

?? G2 is a literal superteam, they were the only ones able to compete against ACE with almost no practice

If EMEA gets Acend, G2, FPX, Gambit it will be EU>NA 70%

I agree that EU seems really sloppy atm but I dont think the other NA teams apart from Sentinels are looking any better

ye, korea are good but i dont they are good enough atm to win it all

No G2?

agree

I didnt say that m8, learn to read. I said it would be nice to have XSET at Berlin if Envy/100T doesnt make it.

Who do you guys think is going to win Berlin? EU or NA? (dont be delusional and say shit like Korea or Brazil)
Its certainly going to be interesting, Iceland was kinda dogshit since teams like V1 and Liquid fluked their way there but this we are going to have 3 NA teams and 4 EU teams so even if 1 team from each region flukes their way to Berlin we are still gonna be able to have 2 and 3 good teams left. Hopefully there is no flukes like last time we get:
NA: Sentinels, 100T, Envy (Maybe XSET instead of Envy)
EU: Acend, G2, FPX, Guild/Gambit (I feel Liquid is just gonna be shit again like in Iceland) (It would have been ideal if we had Acend, G2, FPX, Fnatic but Boaster tried to change everything and they got fucked, unluko)

al0rante, unreal talent, he has potential to be a top5 player in the world

not really, they are very different players, derke just pushes everyround and goes for a lot of high risk high reward plays, just watch him play jett on ct side he is just pushing and trying to get picks doesnt give a shit if he dies

if you had actually watched the podcast you would know that he also said that even if they counter him he is still gonna be insane because he is just a monstrous player, they cant counter him to the point he is fucking useless, they can just make him feel uncomfortable, not let him exploit mistakes etc

nah, cned is not an idiot, if he gets countered he will adapt and destroy, doesnt matter how good their igl is or if the other teams has a lot of firepower, you cant counterstrart brilliance, he is just the s1mple/zywoo of valorant

No particular order:
cned
nukkye
scream
zyppan
shao
derke
leo
mixwell
avova
starxo

Honorable mentions: zeek, doma, magnum, yacine, al0rante(is he is able to keep up that level against top eu teams), kadavra, jady, chiwawa, vakk.
Any of these guys could be top 10 if they are in good form

how do they not kick potter, she is fucking terrible

what about potter and clawdia lmao

they arent even good, clawdia could be decent in women valorant teams but potter is just complete dogshit she should just go back to analysts on dreamhack open cs events

they dont even have impressive aim dont lie