What the fuck are these orgs doing? Kicking their IGL? Young and inexperienced (in tier 1) IGL sure, but one that could be developed and has decent enough individual skill. Kamyk is decent, but not insane enough to replace your IGL with.

Yeah rest left because they couldn't compete. Only relevant country that didn't ever really care was South Korea and partly China and even then decent amount of the early Korean Valorant pros came from CS. For example both NA and BR has had many players and teams. Ofc nowadays issue is that you almost have to move to/spend most of your time in EU to compete in top CS.

imagine benching Kamyk and keeping Patitek. Patitek was by far their worst player in Bangkok on individual level.

No what? Kpop related accounts and communities are some of the worst on platforms like X. Don't care are they women or not. Its very cancerous and partly even unhealthy behavior.

Singing stereotypical song = racism? Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Is foreign saying Kurwa when talking to Polish or Cyka Blyat when talking to Russian racism as well? Pretty stereotypical afterall if its the first thing you say. What about people hating on countries like France every chance they get or calling British crooked teeths? But oh yeah those are European countries so its ok, but its not ok for my non-western countries. Like holy fuck this whole "THIS IS RACISM!" thing has gone too far.

holy this move would feed families (as long it wouldn't be vibe killer in team)

Kamo is far from their issue. Hes decision making is bad sometimes, but at least he can frag and have impact rounds. Patitek in other hand can't frag and can't even trade very effectively. Always dying to most stupidest things. And Kamyk can have big impact, but his utility at times has been very bad and decision making weak.

Play against good teams first this Liquid giving wins for free

WTF WAS THAT FROM TL

Crazy how many rounds they lose vs weaker weapons. They lose so much momentum by doing that. Same on Haven and even against EDG.

Don't get me wrong utility is very important and Patitek is good support player. But I think his low fragging is impacting TL negatively. Its different setting up utility for rest of team, and then losing most duels.

Kamo better and more proven. Florescent only played against M8 and weak TL while getting pocketed by Molsi utility. Shes good and potential, but Kamo has played way more games against better opponents. Kamo's decision making is bit questionable at times for sure, but Florescent overheats at times.

I don't want to sound like a hater, but hes always been bit overrated IMO. His utility is good and he is flexible, but his fragging has always been pretty weak. Reminds me of Soulcas a bit. He has some pop-off maps and then he goes quiet for rest of event. He doesnt win many duels and isn't the best for trading either. Even when he was on Heretics.

I thought G2 would ban Bind and to have it open and still pick Haven instead is weird. Especially when they didn't even have to show much yesterday and G2 looked pretty mid on it.

His fragging and awareness is so bad

Yep. Liquid gave them 3 rounds that completely changed the momentum. Horrible game from them and they are losing to themselves at this point. Also Patitek low value in fragging like always.

This is more Liquid losing than G2 winning

Liquid loves throwing rounds away. This game would likely be very different if they didn't lose 2 rounds anti-eco. Actually I don't think I've ever seen team that likes throws so much. And that's crazy considering they have made it this far. If they won even half of those they would win this event legit.

Lotus because TL will likely ban Pearl
I think we will see Split(TL), Lotus(G2), Abyss(decider)

Region matchup in internationals are always boring and this is even 2 full korean rosters facing each other.

Honestly both NA team mental seems weak af. Both getting rolled on 3rd map by similar level teams is insane. Both SEN and G2 suffer from this and we've already seen this from G2 core previously.

No. TL have some good stuff here and there, but both of these teams and especially Sentinels on Bind are playing very bad.

disaster

patitek just slow clearing angles while knowing theres low hp player who is likely holding an angle

its like christmas both teams just giving rounds away

yeah could be that zekken saw him wasn't sure at first. I thought he could have hid for longer. But tbf rest of Liquid fumbled hard.

wtf is kamo doing and rest of liquid

This game reminds me of Christmas truce of 1914

Not disapointing but Patitek. I dont care what anyone says but hes had a stinker of a event so far. Don't care how much impact his utility might have. Hes giving first deaths all the time, low fragging, no trading, bad decision making.

For Vitality, G2 and I guess EDG it was known because they dominated their regions. For Pacific not so much, but also their 1st is likely the weakest.

Patitek as the guy with utility and opportunity to support teammates with stuns is the one holding one-and-done angles(while missing) in untradable positions. What were they thinking? And Kamo almost no impact.

Both teams so bad. Sentinels doing who knows what and Liquid is throwing every lead they have and losing openers for no reason

Missed point completely. Theres teams with mechanically worse players who have better teamwork and fundementals. And you need both good fraggers and good fundemental stuff if you want to win events and currently Vitality doesn't in my opinion.

Yeah I agree. Its that type of team that has no problem dealing with most opponents, but when they go to internationals and face the best from other regions they might struggle. So far doesn't look like international title winning level team, but they will likely roll EMEA unless someone steps up.

I fixed it to "fraggers" because I mean they win duels because they are good mechanically, but their team work and even decision making by some is not top tier. Derke 30+ kills on Abyss and almost winning while team looking meh is good example.

This but unironically. Vitality just rely on individuals. If they had worse fraggers they would be middle of the pack team.

hes been very underwhelming so far. Understandable as he IGLs, but genuinely most of his kills are just bodyshot spam close range and he doesn't even frag much.

I don't know their execs feel pretty weak, but get bailed out by having good players. Spacing, covering, utility timing all look pretty average and not event winning team level right now.

That's true as well, but IMO they would win these games with better round diff if they cleaned up. And overall stuff like their utility and peak timings aren't the best out there. It isnt as much of issue against most teams, but if they want to win events then it might become issue.

I don't know I feel VIT loses rounds they shouldn't due to small stuff. I feel that they have quite a lot of gaps. Small things and their timings are not the best. They are constantly getting caught off guard feels like because they leave gaps for enemy players to play from. From my iron analysis.

Nah both groups are pretty balanced (if teams perform to my expectations at least).
Both Vitality and Liquid look good. FNC and TH are pretty comparable to FUT and KC(if they play to potential). GX, NAVI, BBL and maybe M8 are all pretty equal I would say with potential. And then you have Apeks and KOI who are likely bottom 2 teams.

Look for used market. I get that some might not like it because its been used by someone else, but you can easily clean keyboard really well. I bought my SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL for like 70€ used and It retails 170€+. Done that for a lot of tech and even clothing lately and its crazy how much money you can save by buying stuff people no longer need.

yeah Vitality that didn't have Derke and Less but runneR and cender instead

true

Pretty shit from both teams. Hopefully this was just off-game for Vitality.

Both EDG and DRX are their first seeds. Let's wait and see how Vitality and G2 perform before talking.

I mean it was 1st seeds vs 2nd seeds. DRX vs G2/VIT would make an argument. But I do agree that teams like SEN overrated.

Nice to see that TL still look good. I was bit worried they would look much weaker.

Very nice style with more chill approach

Nature is healing