if im not mistaken mwzera was the only player to ever ace against the original fnatic core

With the exception of AG, PRX have only played americas teams so far in the tournament

nah hes getting bullied bro genuinely unlucky

ever since that ace on skye (i think it was bind b site) ik he was like that

bro this is just plain bait come on

FNATIC 2023 LOCK/IN
edit : Tokyo as well

of the top of my head EDG champs 2024 and if we're talking masters then PRX Toronto 2025

yeah but even if skuba broke cam they would have spammed him from sound

and simond4rk

heart says BBL but brain says G2

socrates ahh question

yo you were cooking i was NOT familiar w your game mb

BBL obviously

I saw someone say that "for his last act he baited himself" 😭

unrelated, but he gave me major W0ot Shanghai vibes today so that says something ig

the next matches are what's difficult. M8 are fs getting eliminated by PRX/NRG and BBL vs G2 is like 50/50

in the beginning yeah, but not as much as BBL+ everyone switched up on EG when they started winning

that's what i said, im sure NRG would beat FUR any day

Truth is we still dont have a reliable top team, FNC are slow to start the season and our other top teams are good but not good enough to make it to GF, let alone win an international. I'll take a win tho, it shows improvement

I dont like it, but i also don't understand why so much hate. 2023 EG were doing this and they didn't get that much hate

not to hate, but yes china is obviously easy to rank

homelessness speedrun

Truth is that we cannot order regions given that the seeding itself doesn't seem to translate to internationals (NRG while #3 are clearly the best americas team, same with PRX and EDG) + many of the regions have both weak performing teams and world class level teams alike, making regions ranking impossible and not logical
Instead we should be ranking teams

by that logic BBL today threw a lot and still beat FURIA

they did almost beat nrg tho, how much closer than 17-15 does it get? Give them some respect

I mean unless they cooked something up after the PRX loss, its basically a tournament suicide to pick breeze, haven and abyss

what about BBL? Is their Breeze any good?

this series of words could count as cause of war

An EMEA team other than FNATIC dominating in internationals? I used to pray for times like these

they should hurry idk how longer i can bare to watch this match

nah forget about EMEA teams and so on, why on earth are BBL choosing PEARL against NRG, literally the best pearl team itw that even beat PRX in that map

oh okay i see, but still why peek NRG?

THEY COULD'VE JUST STUCK THE SPIKE WHY DO THEY NEED TO BOTH PEEK INTO ETHAN INSTEAD OF JUST HOLD THE ANGLE ?

i am legit convinced it's a team chemistry issue. Liquid are changing rosters every year and the players cannot develop coherent teamplay. If you look at this match they are throwing SO many rounds due to bad pathing and lack of trades/overheating

to be fair they are looking better right now, still two unfortunate match ups ngl

it's not really a region thing, but NRG=PRX if we are talking top teams

coming from someone whos rooting for EMEA, yea they are so entertaining+ good valorant fundamentals

NRG have mastered their teamwork, perfect util combos+ the best pathing in the world, literally always trading
Meanwhile TL make overheating mistakes and peak 1 by 1 and cant trade eachother

It's still over. NRG are the best team itw on Pearl, no way they lose that

it's not looking good ngl, hopefully Liquid cook up some insane anti strats or else NRG 2-0

i remember a 13-1 in TH-100T ( Shanghai) and a 13-1 in LOUD-EDG (Madrid)

it will be a good match regardless

the fact that they're even playing PRX for qualification at a masters event is due to Ethan's great igling bro what are you talking about

he's been like that lately, simply unstoppable ngl

i got bipo cause im new and i didn't know how the igl system worked

21 and I'm waiting for mada's points

LMAO YOU'RE RIGHT SORRY

maybe not the worst team given it was relatively close but clearly M8 were looking better

there's no way only 20% of players predicted M8 to win right?
edit: nvm i made a mistake it's the other way around

I wasn't aware, but i thought he wasn't really a favourite