Liquid threw so many rounds they shouldn't have lost. It was really frustrating. So many times they would just snowball to losing rounds. That 5v3 postplant vs Sentinels on Split was the biggest throw I've seen in a while and summed up their short comings pretty well IMO. Looked a lot like classic Liquid even though its almost new roster.

But overall outside of Sunset that looked like ass from team to individuals, they looked decent and first event for this roster. In couple months they could be much better. Even Sentinels has changed a lot from their first games. I also think guy like Keiko was choking a bit maybe due to pressure missing smoke/dash with Jett etc.

I don't want to disrespect but MiniBoo or Kamo would look like godlike Yorus in GC.

nAts had good Haven, but his negative impact has been really high this tournament I feel like. So many times he just ends up dying in stupid situations or getting caught off guard for no reason and that end up snowballing to them losing rounds. Like you can always blame someone for losing rounds, but there's been so many where I'm like "nats cmon" where his death has had clear impact or something he should have won.

tier 2 prospect playing against experienced players on one of his first LAN tournaments

I haven't watched him in a while, but he played in VCT 2022 on OGLU. Before that I thought he was good tier 2 sentinel. So overall I would say he is decent pick for the role. At least tier 2 level. I don't have super high expectations for him, but I think he will do fine.

Americas, LATAM or/and South America

If you like the shape. Don't know aboutr Superlight 2, but Superlight has shit side buttons and one of the reasons why I got different mouse

I don't know how it actually works, but depends on situation in my opinion
For example Fnatic would work as UK team imo because of that's where the org is from and its European team.
But then again Liquid is EU team in Valorant because well they have European roster and play in Europe, even if the org could be considered American(founded in Europe).
Again like FaZe in CS is usually considered as European because majority European players.

I have no idea of Kajaak and Molsi's IGLing, but this roster is good on paper. Great to see that Apeks keeps investing into the Valorant scene and building competitive teams. Also this means that they will be playing in the East league. Apeks production good as well.

Jamppi has played so well today. Good fragging and good utility.

Not his best day for sure, but only way up

Don't know anything about Skullz, but Twistzz, NAF, YEKINDAR, Cadian is really strong when in form. Likeable team for sure and going to be fun to watch.

Didn't play, but the hype was massive so seems like it was a great game and deserved to win easily. But overall the Game Awards event was shit this year in terms of announcements. Gaming in 2023...

Has anyone outside of f0rsaken had master class performances on Yoru? I don't think so. I don't think anyone else on the list has done anything crazy that couldn't be overtaken by likes of MiniBoo and Kamo for example.

True, but at that point there would only be like 1 player on the list. How is Florescent there? TenZ with couple of games? At least Bipo has been playing Yoru for long even when it wasn't meta on maps where he wasn't meta. His understanding of Yoru easily overtakes most on the list. IMO there's more good Yoru players from tier 2 than from tier 1 because Yoru hasn't been very relevant in tier 1.

Not fully proven yet but MiniBoo and Kamo played pretty well in their recent games. But like I said previously this year we will see a lot of Yoru esp on Breeze I feel like.

Maybe because he is decent tier 2 players who is known for his Yoru.

Wait until we see EMEA teams. I feel like many will be playing Yoru on Breeze.

keiko for me
I have pretty high expectations for many of the tier 2 players coming in, but realistically some will fail

qRaxs and Cloud clear

Pacific import anyone who is willing to join them. N4rrate is just tier 2 prospect among the many who got promoted from tier 2 EMEA.

I think it was pretty promising showing. Maybe not score wise against weaker opponent and not sure of Split and especially comp. But it looked like they were playing as a team. They clearly had idea of what they are doing and supported each other well with utility. Keiko and Mistic looked good and Keiko has clearly been practising Raze a lot and that's good. So well way too early to tell, but this Liquid looked like a team and that's most important takeaway imo.

Happy to see that his Raze looked pretty good. Bit of a question mark because he played mostly Jett in tier 2.

Definitely more comfortable on controller, but had to switch for Boaster

Valorant Community Cup is likely the best but I dont have link but someone posted it couple days ago IIRC

Flex and there's no doubt about it. Liquid has the most clearest roles on paper. Mistic smokes, Jamppi flex, Keiko duelist, Enzo initiator and nAts sentinel.

AMER: LOUD, Sentinels
EMEA: Fnatic, Liquid
APAC: PRX, DRX
CHINA: EDG, ?
I predict that some teams will fluke their way to Madrid

Depends on situation. Likely and hopefully nothing. Can't really win. I wouldn't blame someone slapping back though, but I usually try to thing the power/strenght difference.

I like it

I think loli stuff is weird and imo much worse than furries. You mentioned zoophilia to the other guy, but I don't think they are really connected. Its quite different to furry stuff.

I think its bit weird, looks dumb and laughable, gives me secondhand embarassment etc but
they follow their own passion and aren't afraid to express themselves. Pretty respectable I think. If it isn't hurting anyone or isn't legally or morally wrong then fuck it. Do whatever you want. Even if that is dressing up as giant walking dog. I think they should keep the sexual/fetish side to themselves tho (not only furries but some other similar groups as well).

Top 10 NA is different than top 10 world

Yeah. He has bright future, but I think there's quite few players who are better and more proven as of now.

Hot take but I think he is bit overrated. You would imagine he is competiting for best player in the world title by how some talk about him.

What did people expect?

Lock In > Reykjavik 22 any day of the week. Reykjavik 22 was the biggest mickey mouse VCT event there was. Even Zeta made it to top 3.

Better be shit than be shit with imports taking half of the spots
but at least we can acknowledge both shit vs Korean and China

LoL came out 10 years ago and still the goat of esports and not even close.

Not sure because first tournament, but I think people are sleeping on Liquid a bit. Keiko is the truth.

I have Steelseries Apex Pro that isn't as good as Wooting, but pretty similar. Stopping instantly while releasing the key is a feature some keyboard including mine and Wooting have. But overall I haven't noticed any clear difference and I think its pretty overrated feature for most people. Ofc its nice that you can change settings and make keyboard feel bit different and fit you. But it might feel different to you.

First Europe doesn't have 100+ countries.
Secondly do you realize how big country like US is? USA alone has the population of UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden combined (+Canada of like 38 million). To compare whole Northern Europe -UK (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) has the combined population of around 30.7 million.

Afreeca = afrika?

Berlin 2021
Champions 2021
Copenhagen 2022
Lock/In 2023
Tokyo 2023
= 2

Who knows how the gaming industry looks in 2 years. Could be extra +$10 for every game. And even Take-Two's CEO (who own Rockstar) said in a interview how videogames are cheap for what you get. So all things considered I wouldn't be surprised if its minimum +$10 of current triple A prices if not even more. And they are likely going to push their subscription service especially for online.

Not really. They will make bank on release date even if it was Nintendo Switch exclusive. And everytime they release it on new platform its going to make them a lot of money. That happened with GTA V on Xbox 360/PS4, PS4/Xbox One, PC and even PS5/Xbox Series X. The amount of copies they've sold is crazy and by splitting the releases they are actually selling even more. And when there's next gen consoles aren't coming out in years they are likely going to do it with first with current consoles and then PC and then later on next gen consoles etc.

I mean GTA world has always been full of irony, stereotypes, darker humor etc stuff that is part of the franchise's core. And overall craziness, silliness and not taking itself too seriously and overall not just giving a fuck. And nowadays most studios and companies are so careful with everything because there's always someone getting offended or they are too scared of article made by some of these very people. Impossible to tell from one trailer alone, but it looks like they aren't changing that at least not too noticiably and its a good thing. A lot has changed since 2013.

Any confirmation for this? Took 2 years before GTA V got released on PC and 1 year for RDR2. That's the thing they will get shit ton of money from whoever "partners" up with them (likely Sony) and they know they would make crazy money from console versions alone because there's many who would just buy the console to play this single game, and then just release it on PC in year or two and make shit ton of money again. I highly doubt they will release it on all platforms at same time. Both GTA V and RDR2 had major releases twice and they are going to chase that bag.

2026 for us PC gamers....

but trailer looks great and has that GTA vibe to it and I was bit scared they would change because of the current year.

N4rrate not even best on his team

People always talk how this and that choked or underperformed in events EMEA wins, but always ignore that EMEA teams are Champs chokers. Fnatic form was worse than in Tokyo. Same with FPX in Champs 22.