Cned is a god tier player, Bonecold had such a bad tournament I don't think it happens again at champions to be fair

Honestly a great signing for the boys at 100 Thieves

Might be my match mvp

yea I get you, hopefully they can reset and go far

No team should be scared thats how you lose you should be prepared and confident CR got smoked and instead started to prepare and became confident and now they are putting up a fight against GMB. The SEN loss should be a reality check and could help them like CR

They played each other to qualify for berlin lol

They are not chilling LOL

This is their map pick… wtf is going on with that team

I honestly just think that F4Q's playstyle is unconventional enough/matches up against SEN well to push them a little harder. Also competition is alot more fierce here at Berlin you can't just expect them to stomp through here the entire world got better

JP scrims SEA and KR and I don't really think they are on the level of those regions, scrims are good but playing in officials will def help too.

Not really a SEN fan just an NA watcher but I am rooting for VS to go far and maybe even win!

LOOOOL

every team plays a different style just because sentinels "struggled" today against G2 doesnt mean their style won't be better vs a gambit or an Acend and this goes vice versa too.

"this map would be a lot closer if G2 was better than they are at valorant"

Iceland had alot of hype early because by day 2 we already saw sen play fnatic and liquid play V1. So far in berlin the toughest matchup has been G2's 2-1 over F4Q. Also it was the first LAN everyone just wanted to know how everything played out. I think in these next coming days we will see more hype for Berlin, hopefully it gets to the highs of Iceland

I think SEN vs G2 will be close tomorrow and obviously 100T and gambit

Gambit is amazing please do not take this the wrong way but they are beating up on the 2nd seed JP team when the 1st Seed JP team got last at iceland. This should have been the expected result from anyone in EMEA/NA

its def because JP wasn't overhyped and their fans weren't really on forums like vlr hyping them up either. BR is an easier target for that reason

Thanks brother. Hopefully whatever team you support goes far!

Wardell does not entry lmao

I said group finals not grands

for sure, the top teams will make it out with this format now

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Korea (VS) is too low JP2 should be lower than 3 BR 1 being a 1st seed and BR 2 being a 4th seed also makes no sense

Ok thats still not how seeding works even then, SMB and Acend are from the same region lmao berlin is being seeded by the regional tournament

You dont put all the 1st seeds in a group thats not how a group stage has worked in any tournament ever, also both SMB and acend cant be a first seed they come from the same region lmao

do you not know how groups or seeding works?

congrats kru and kru fans!

if any NA team wins both envy and 100T go to champs not just sen

-Liquid was one game off of berlin they had a pretty bad performance though Idk if it was just a bad day or not

-Fnatic tried to innovate so much they ended up going backwards when alot of top EU teams thought fnatic was going to be a main stay in this stage.

-Version1 had a stand in until challengers 2 because of the ban and never got it back together they also werent as good at the new meta as they were back in iceland.

-lakia left nuturn.

-X10 is playing with their coach cause patiphan is injured

I don't watch the other teams so idk

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Iceland we didnt get a bracket till about a week out or closer

Thats one reason I can maybe get behind the decision but I feel like if riot doesnt seed the groups well it could be bad, like seeing G2 and gambit play twice to make it out of the groups when we already saw them in EMEA I guess it comes down to how riot handles it

This means there is a possibility that either Sentinels or Vision Strikers (or both in the same group) can be in a group without an EMEA team

according to fionnonfire they got insider info that it is a possibility that there can be a group with 2 EMEA teams in it while the rest of the regions cannot...

https://twitter.com/FionnOnFire/status/1428802281474981890

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm not really sure how I feel about this

I want G2 vs 100T so this is good, I wonder how 100T will match up against g2s style just need SMB/Acend to beat g2 if they win this

I would honestly prefer the solution seen right under that where the groups don’t always match up , but I guess riot wants 3 bo3 from 1 group each day

I dont agree, I don’t want to see 16 teams rematch each other until there is 4 left. It just kinda feels less like a meeting of the international masters and seeing different team styles clash

Yes but that team will most likely be reseeded and play a new team in the quarterfinals instead of losing to the same person in a group twice or beating then once and losing once. Your scenario atleast creates a new match up

This is not true, if they turn the current group final into the quarterfinals for the playoff bracket its still the exact same number of sets with 2 teams coming out of groups now

You can go 2-1 in a DOUBLE ELIM bracket in groups and not make it out of groups. Aside from the 4 team single elim playoffs it just doesnt even mathematically make sense lmao

Except if u have a bad day at the group final you get knocked out while winning 2 matches and only losing 1 making it not double elim anyway

shahz is also 27

dapr and soulcas. I like to watch s0m stream too because it has a pretty lowkey vibe

good

https://www.twitch.tv/nerdstreet

iceland had real competition that was how good teams were back at that time, since then everyone got better so yes the competition will be higher that doesn't mean the last tourney wasnt good competition though

Every region and every team got better

no they go LCQ

with gambit now in berlin, call back to this clip of dapr saying nats is insane and he stole alot of his setups. Also said he thinks gambit is best in EMEA

https://youtu.be/AWVGiKYQ_0A?t=1393

Its just people hyping up their favorite team/players after a win man let it happen