From what alecks said on Spike Talk, maybe that drive has gone down since they won an international event already. This happens with a lot of teams as I said, where they become complacent after winning a tournament and don't have the hunger to do it again

Well, not really. They only won one trophy
Legends are teams like T1 in LoL or Astralis in CS
Or if not legends, at least solidify yourself as the best team in the world at Valorant by trying to win Champs.

Fight by fight, kill by kill, round by round, game by game, track by track

There's no universe where NRG even makes an international event lol

On the recent episode of Spike Talk, alecks and something talked about how they felt empty after winning Toronto, and that alecks himself had no more goals in life since winning a major tournament was his ultimate goal. I hope it doesn't kill their drive to win Champions and solidify their place as the best team in the world. This tends to happen to a lot of players and teams that have been trying for so long and finally succeed. They don't have the drive to become LEGENDS.

Why is it that, despite all the shit this guy does, he's still a very likeable person and a coach lol

He's so entertaining to watch on Spike Talk, and as a coach he's good too. Made a TLN team that had both b0n and G0v0rn0r go to Champs

It's "Wo0t" with an o and a 0, get it right 👍

-HYUNMIN
-Estrella
-free1ng
-Flashback
-Flicker
-BeYN

+BuZz
+stax
+Zest
+Rb

Run it back...

You could've said any player and you decided to emit the words "Boostio"

I don't need to see more of your shit and puke ass games anymore... Just forfeit from VCT EMEA and go back to tier 2 you donuts...

When we were 0-3 in Stage 1 of this year and everything looked over. People were calling for a complete roster revamp, "J0nggg" was trending everywhere, people had lost hope in this team.

VLR mods? Add the GOAT of NA to the team page. This is embarrassing from you guys... How dare you disrespect the guy that farmed NA tier 2 before becoming a caster cuz tier 1 teams didn't see his potential?

You'd be surprised by how little people know about tier 1 China right now, let alone 2 years ago when they didn't even have their own region...

Ok buddy good for you
I don't play the game 10 hours everyday and just play like one or two games per 3 days if I feel like it

I also don't have a stack and just solo queue, so it's even more of a pain in the ass cuz I get throwers on my team every other game

I'm Plat, ever heard of rank reset?

I'm actually Plat but rank reset threw me down

Bro WHY IS EVERYONE BEAMING HEADSHOTS FROM ACROSS THE MAP IN FUCKING SILVER WTF IS THIS GAME RIOT FIX YOUR DOGSHIT ASS RANKED SYSTEM YOU FUCKING LAZY ASS SHITHEADS

5 YEARS IN AND CAN'T EVEN DO RANK RESETS PROPERLY

Is it just me or it feels like they're being hella overworked this year?

Pilski and BigTime are the only analysts and they basically have to show up everyday. Achilios-Paperthin and Quack-Komodo are the only casters, and they cast two games a day. In fact, Achilios and Paperthin also casted EWC, and not even 3 days later they had to cast Pacific, and they've casted 4 days in the super week for some reason instead of it being evenly split between the other caster duo.

In 2023 and 2024 we had way more casters and analysts and it felt like people weren't having a burden on their shoulders.

Look at Americas and EMEA. They have like 3-4 caster duos and each caster duo only casts one game for the day they're assigned. It's the same with the analyst desk as well. People actually have time off over there.

BuZz bouta flame Persia for not smoking heaven or shooting his gun

And Sylvan gonna absolutely fry on Gen.G because he finally gets a team that treats him like a human

What God did they pray to for this type of performance in Stage 2?

Chronicle will always be the GOAT

Does bro only have "Meu deeeuuus" and "Uuuumaaa maaaquinaaa" whenever someone clutches up or gets an ace?

Brother nAts is already on a good team lmao

spike 🇧🇷 or Dambi 🇰🇷

By spike not being there for them in Stage 1

With the way they've been playing, I extremely doubt it lol

RRQ just look lost in this current meta

LMAO it feels so good to return the toxicity back

I remember when people would downplay f0rsakeN as a player so much by saying "How many trophies does he have"?

He's reaching kaajak levels of good on that agent ngl

Also thank god he's stopped using the Gaia Vandal. He's now hitting his shots with the default / RGX one.

something in Ranked is just a different beast ngl
He was THE #1 APAC player before primmie

Chinese players just go through the English dictionary, pick a random word and go "Fuck it, I'm slowly"

-TMV

Real ball knowers know that TYLOO were like the 3rd/4th best team in China at one point, and they had a dude named SORRYMYBAD who was ironically one of their best players

PRX vs DFM has the potential to be a banger 3-map game like in Stage 1, or an absolute beatdown by PRX 2-0

Just hope it's not the latter

VCT CN is just a bunch of surprises, not promises

Every now and then you'll see upsets and deep runs by teams you would have predicted to go out the earliest, but never consistently good teams that can pose a threat to the other regions every time they make an international event.

The only team that was consistently good was EDG, and they aren't as good anymore, so unless we get a team that can be an EDG, China will never show consistency on the global stage.

Do they go 5-0 in the group stage? Because then they'll have to play a mentally dead Boom, a clueless ZETA, and an inconsistent TALON. I'm sure they're good enough to beat all of them, except I have my doubts about the TALON game as the players can just wake up and diff PRX left and right.

DFM in my opinion could pose a threat if Meiy and Jinboong play the way they did against ZETA. Not to mention Akame is lowkey the GOAT, and somehow DFM become prime Gambit when they play PRX.

It's a reference to the way 100T played against Acend at Masters Berlin in 2021 on Breeze, where 100T were actively trying to avoid going to the site held by cNed since they were getting absolutely destroyed by him
In the end 100T came back and beat Acend 14-12 to make the semi finals, and that strat proved to be mighty effective

primmie can speak decent English for comms

Ikr I swear this mf is the most protected player in all of Valorant

Even Chronicle or nAts aren't this protected bruh, you will see some people thrash on them if they play bad, but for Dambi he can go -20 and people will justify it by saying "He's not the fragger of the team anyways" like please sybau

Why do some accomplished players break down in tears when they lose a grand final?

Faker against SSG in 2017 Worlds (he had won three worlds by that time)

Boaster against PRX at Toronto (only IGL with two trophies and multiple grand finals appearances)

Serena Williams at US Open 2018 Final (she had won 23 Grand Slam titles before that)

Like brother you've already accomplished so much, and everyone recognises you as the best in your line of work lmao

Not winning a Championship once doesn't mean your past accolades are gonna be completely invalidated

PRX ban Corrode
DFM ban Bind
PRX pick Lotus
DFM pick Haven
PRX ban Ascent
DFM ban Sunset
Icebox remains

This is what I think the veto is gonna look like, and if you ask me, PRX are gonna destroy DFM on Lotus, lose a close Haven, and win Icebox 13-7 or 13-8. However, PRX could just end up winning Haven if they get a good enough lead on their defense, or if they get enough attacking rounds, given that they're playing the Waylay Yoru comp of course...

How does he ONLY get a 2.23 with 509 ACS, 302 ADR and 85% KAST?????

THAT PERFORMANCE DESERVES AT LEAST A 3

Title

delz1k, Dambi, yosemite and Spitfires

Autumn flaming Sylvan for apparently "not hitting his shots" and BuZz flaming Sylvan for "not holding heaven" when iZu was clearly holding heaven and was at fault for taking a risky angle and not hitting his OP shot
Basically showing that BuZz is a chronic tilter and Autumn has no idea what to do as a coach, and that they're constantly blaming Sylvan instead of treating situations maturely, like Meteor who takes Sylvan's side and tells Autumn, the coach HIMSELF, that iZu missed his shot and that's what caused the round loss.

NOOOOOO MY TEAM'S GOT TO PLAY A FULL 5V5 NOW FUCK

"Bro bro I swear bro these guys bro, they are cooking me bro, bro I can't do this shit anymore bro, put me on Jett and I'll fokin farrrm these guys bro"

SHIBAL TAE-OH WAE PEEKING????

NOOOOO MY FREE 1V1 AND MY FREE WIN

This has got to be one of the worst decisions by him

Imagine putting your fragging sentinel / duelist main on an agent that's supposed to be played by a supportive player. Even FNC tried with Alfajer on Tejo, and it didn't work, so they resorted to not making him play that agent, and look how much he's fragging...

Actually terrorism bro how does this guy still have a job?

I know invy is a super good player, but dude cut PatMen some slack. It's his first year in tier 1, and so far he's done decent. One bad game doesn't call for cutting him from the team smh
If anything he can be the next invy given some time in tier 1. He's mighty talented