Absolutely false. His stats have always been only slightly better than FNS and Steel.

5800X3D is different from the 5800X, and it costs more then the i7

Plus, that i7 is $350 compared to $420 5800x3d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNcJ0GuJCpw&ab_channel=TestingGames

i7 12700k is comparable to 5800x3d, and the AMD is more expensive. Intel generally performed slightly better for gaming in that video.

The real tldr: both comparable in price and performance, either one will be good

To be fair, C9 did become worse after the trade for curry. They're going 2-1 against Academy teams and lost 0-2 to Soniqs.

NA doesn't always get destroyed though. This past tournament yes, in their fight for 1st/2nd place, but they still placed 3rd. They also placed 1st at the last Master's.

PRX and FPX are great teams right now, there's no denying that.

I'm not pissed, I was curious. It appeared obvious other regions viewed a lot of NA Valorant, but NA watchers don't reciprocate as much when EMEA and other regions come on. I mean, it's quite obvious when you see the amount of EMEA teams in here getting upset by my question. Try and pose the same question during EMEA VCT, and the response simply wouldn't be that high from people of NA.

Yeah, that makes sense

Thanks for an actual response. Honest question, does EMEA and BR not have big streamers? I know I've seen Boaster stream a few times with a large amount of viewers. I'm not too certain where BR players stream (assuming it's not on Twitch).

I guess to be fair, Sentinels and some NA players get flack for streaming so much, so I'm assuming EMEA doesn't stream that much.

Indonesia Flag but you're a fan of Faze. I don't see as many NA flags with EMEA/BR icons. There are some DRX fanboys out of NA, but that's about it.

I don't even know what you mean by that statement. Considering you're getting so upset and triggered by my comments on a forum where an anonymous user is asking a question, you likely the one who needs therapy.

Best of luck.

Take a look at the amount of viewers. EMEA for certain has more fans and a larger population, yet their view count is nowhere near NA Valorant view count. Couple that with the amount of EMEA/BR icons that create threads and post about NA VCT matches, but very rarely do we see NA fans posting about EMEA VCT matches.

You have a DRX icon. You're in the minority of NA watchers. Are you really going to pretend that there aren't A LOT more EMEA/BR people watch NA VCT, then there are NA people watching EMEA/BR VCT?

A VERY small amount of NA Valorant fans watch BR and EMEA games compared to BR/EMEA watching NA. Why is that?

it's a very small NA audience that watches EMEA and BR, sure. Relative to the amount of EMEA and BR people that watch NA Valorant, it's not even close.

If you want to deny that, go ahead, but it's quite obvious.

I realized most people in NA, BR, etc. don't watch EMEA Valorant. NA and EMEA don't watch BR Valorant.

but for some reason, I see more EMEA and BR Valo fans talking about NA Valorant and watching those matches than NA fans.

Why are you guys obsessed with NA? Serious question, because from an NA perspective, we don't bother watching your games.

I mostly agree with this. That's what happened these past 2 Masters and I'm hoping another NA team can step up. Unfortunately NA keeps going against NA first in the bracket. This means no matter what, 1 NA team will start 0-1 before facing an international team.

At the same time, The Guard had to go against Paper Rex as their only international team, and we all know Paper Rex is a top tier team.

5v3 that quickly turned to 4v3 (although not a trade). IF that's your example of the biggest "mistake", then that's not bad and I could find a clip of this in any region within minutes.

You had 3 EMEA on one side. That's a 3/4 chance of making it to the lower finals, and a 3/8 chance of winning Master's. You only had 1 team make the top 3 this tournament, and no teams make the top 3 the tournament before which is statistically very difficult to do. You're lucky to have FPX bail out your region.

Most top level gameplay wins are based on capitalizing on improper play by the other team.......... that's how it works. Otherwise the only difference is reaction and aim.

NA won Master's not that long ago........

Also, NA had to go against NA first in the bracket the past 2 Master's. Plus Optic got 3rd this past Master's, so your statement makes no sense.

Scrims don't mean anything

I've heard Patiphan is doing amazing in Overwatch League, unsurprisingly.

True.

My biggest issue is I've seen Victor get behind the enemy multiple times and should get at minimum 2, only to whiff and get nobody. He panics in certain situations unfortunately. Great player at times, but also under performs heavily at times.

I mean, it's just DarkZero's old roster minus ScrewFace and Drone. They were a pretty good team. OXY seems to stand out as a potential come up though. I can imagine them making it to the T1 scene.

Yeah. It makes me wonder why they decided on Astra. Logically a Viper makes more sense on defense and it's not close, and it's still pretty good on attack.

I'm almost surprised they didn't take Brimmy to get that Stimmy for Yoru/Neon

cringe

I mean yeah, forsaken and jinggg can both entry and play an aggressive style. Almost every team doesn't have the capability of realistically playing yoru/neon and without a chamber. PRX can, and that's why they're quite unique with 2 amazing entry duelists

They have an attack only comp. No defense with Yoru, Neon, Astra, Breach. They're going to struggle with that, so I imagine their defense strat is being the aggressors

I hate Faze as an org, but Dicey is a solid Chamber. Too bad he's a Chamber crutch, so he's never going to entry on attack

FPX about to get humiliated by the biggest troll comp on Breeze

Yeah, not overrated. The issue is their consistency internationally. They're not good at adapting mid-round when things are going wrong. They either dominate or bust.

Still a super young team and have done decent internationally all things considered.

Every game that has multiple champs/agents/heroes/etc. needs to have its mediocre characters, but still somewhat viable

This should be a great game. PRX have only dropped 2 maps in the past 24 maps played. They've been killing it at this tournament, but now they'll finally have real competition being outside of the EMEA-side of the bracket

It's as much of a joke as xset's strategy being cryo and zekken go kill, but I found it quite funny that Boaster's the one who ironically said that's Fnatic's strat

You do realize Boaster stated he has 2 strategies, right? "Derke go kill" and "Alfajer go kill". You proved a point, lmao.

https://youtu.be/h8f4dGqUxJQ?t=12

If anything, I wouldn't be surprised to see Zander join another team and V1 falls apart.

One player who stands out is Shanks. He was the only one on Rise to not get picked up, and his Chamber statistically was good.

Sen used to shit on every region and guess what, they're irrelevant just like EMEA.

Optic won the last tournament and EMEA didn't top 4. This tournament EMEA might not top 4 again. That's with 3 slots in the Top 8.

At least xset lost to Optic and then lost in two double overtimes to Leviatan. Your top team looks on par with xset with this Leviatan game.

They had 3 in the top 8

3/8 is 38%.......

Classic EMEA excuses and math

3/8 = 38%

EMEA math, oof

I know, I only stated that they'd deserve to lose a spot. 38% of the slots but can't make Top 4 in 2 tournaments is insanely unlikely statistically. It would prove that EMEA is a bottom tier region, and that's a fact.

We can consider them a bottom tier region. That would be 2 major tournaments in a row that they have 38% of the slots in a tournament but can't even make Top 4.

If I was EMEA, I'd be nervous. These games today decide if they deserve to lose a spot.

Other teams are used to adapting mid-tournament to the enemy. They have to do it because the competition is tough and any team can win/lose in the big regions.

DRX dominate their region and haven't had as much experience needing to adapt mid-round, which is why they fall off and don't know how to come back.

DRX just went 1-2, dominating one map, getting dominated another, and being super close the third map against the Reigning Champs. Chill.

Sure, but you'd have to be braindead to want Indonesian money > Singaporean money

Unfortunately he doesn't know how to go non-braindead on Yoru when it stops working, and he's throwing it

Ehhh, FNS has .80 kd or worse and still wins from big brain plays

Jinggg = Ray4c copy

PRX look solid and will put up a good fight against any team, but I think Optic can handle them. They'll adapt to their strats, something Fnatic doesn't know how to do mid-game.

We already saw how bad Yoru was after being used by Guild, and Fnatic are actually losing to it. KEKW

The only team EU has been able to beat is another EU team KEKW