Didn't stop reading at flukers OpTic?

OpTic is the team in NA that works/scrims the most, and TenZ apparently had troubles waking up for scrims/matches back in the C9 days. Maybe things have changed since then, but just because someone is very talented individually doesn't mean they have the playstyle/work ethic to mesh with different teams. Also, the loan would probably cost a ton since SEN bought TenZ for over a million and TenZ is basically 70% of SEN's valorant brand at this point.

Honestly pretty good but Knights, Guard higher, Gen.G shouldn't be on list, V1 kinda hard to rate atm

Going -2 is most Sentinels players' dream

Funny guy

0-2 incoming

The month has started less than two days ago...

Fun fact: the last time yay did not go positive in a series was April 2021, where he went +0.

I don't think it was boring even though the games weren't close, very cool seeing the "underdogs" in 100T, Ghost, EG, and Faze win and play great, and Guard return to form. There's so many great teams in NA, it's so unpredictable

OPTIC and GHOST

Feels bad for ScreaM, I hope he can still recover his older videos that this fucker deleted

MAP 1: OPTIC 13-9
MAP 2: OPTIC 13-9

People who actually think SEN are gonna take a map have to be trolling, #1 in the world vs the worst team in the group stage

lmao

Yes, and it's been a year since the first LAN. Where was M3C and Acend at Masters 1 2022, is EMEA a garbage region now because of all these "upsets"?

You can't be real

you could just say you're trying to bait

SEN are good on Bind and Haven. Even if they ban Bind SEN are still likely to win on Haven.

OK

No they won't.

I think Victor has a strange role because even though he is technically "flex", on a majority of the maps he's actually playing main duelist. However if he counts as a flex then I can't see how you don't put him at #1.

NA sure, not the world.

Calm down, he's a stand-in and he's not even doing that bad playing sage and chamber.

literally "tenz and friends"

I don't think so, FaZe's buyout for him will likely be really high since he's their best player atm and they care about making a good team, not just being a farmer org

This guy is so consistently insane, seems like he's always a top 2 fragger on FaZe every map while on flex, and he plays his role very well. Should be criminal that he sat on 100T's bench for that long.

FR! yay is such an individual player, that's why OpTic never win! You might be on to something!

I think they could definitely take down PRX/G2 (if G2 doesn't fix their mistakes). I think Loud and Optic might be a little too much for them in a B05 though, but I'm happy to be wrong.

ignore this comment

NPC take

0/8

Not sure, I think it has to do with my computer thinking that Valorant as a windowed tab even though its full-screened (and it says full-screen in settings)

I think DRX still wins, but it definitely could be a lot closer. Kind of how Gambit 13-1 13-1'd Crazy Raccoons, then on the rematch CR took them to two close maps.

It happens to my game as well. Sometimes when I click my mouse it will alt-tab.

I also like DRX and hope they do well but their Haven looked a little iffy, and OPTIC has a really strong Bind. I think both of those maps are likely to get in the pool, and even if DRX bans one of them, OPTIC still has a solid map pool elsewhere.

See you tomorrow :)

Zeta 0-2 Liquid
Paper Rex 0-2 Guard

Loud 2-1 G2
Optic 2-1 DRX

For 4/5 of the Guard guys it's their first map ever on LAN. Give them a break; they'll bounce back.

Ballsax28

Won Berlin, made finals in Champions, and looked really good up into the G2 game in Stage 1 Challengers (they missed Iceland by a 0.02 second round). Just unlucky that their one bad game/off day was the game that mattered the most.

that was probably 100TBoeJiden lmfao

edit: sniped D:

Depressed and delusional huh

He's a great guy, won the Nobel Peace Prize

OPTIC 2-0

EDIT: OPTIC 2-1 XIA

For me at least all of the hype videos ("fear me" and whatever) aren't actually interesting, I wish they could do it like CS where during the break they play interviews or maybe custom DMs instead of just 40 minutes of waiting. IDK how feasible this is but if they spent all the time on actual gameplay instead of getting the players to record for the trailers, the breaks would be more interesting.

Congrats DRX, hoping for great things from Korea this masters

Liquid and KRU both not looking the greatest after making semis in Champions, hopefully they can both return to form and give us a banger game

What happened to sinatraa and zander?

• LOUD and FNC make top 3, placing higher than FPX
• At least 1 NA team makes the grand final
• Both KRU and DRX fall in groups

What are your hot takes?