These groups are just gonna make for a pretty boring playoffs tbh. Cant wait to see Optic vs xset and fnc vs fpx play again :)

They were declined franchising in LoL so i wouldnt be the most confident if i were a sentinels fan

George has never dm'd a friend before and it shows

It takes resilience and good mental fortitude to pull off 2 comebacks like that. I wouldnt discredit 100T for that, it was a hell of a match and you need to be able to close out. Its no good if Faze can only win the first half of a map

Bang Marved? will do

and Haven is typically well received by the player base and they'd recently made changes to bind so it kinda makes sense split was chosen

It was bound to be Split, Bind or Haven. They were only gonna chose from the original maps

Victor

TSM wasnt winning so it drove viewers away, Hiko was at his biggest at the earliest stage of Val and dropped as the community grew and more personalities were introduced. Both still peak fairly high but the drop off is bound to happen to everyone

I cannot believe how far SEN has fallen to be compared to old ABX LOL ur not wrong tho. It feels like from the outside looking in, there's a huge disconnect from whoever SHaz/rawkus on the read of the meta and not just comps, but how their mid rounding is called just feel so outdated and readable. Overall a team diff and both amazing individual talents

dont need an apology just let everyone unsee those msgs pls

Tenz doesnt have a team

Availability is a thing and this was probably made right after first open qual and tenz did qual yet

at least Hiko and Nitro moved onto other things LUL

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQ-oX9fXsAc4_EI?format=png&name=small

this man is so jaded with V1's current form he cant give anyone credit, i pray u see better days

DRX seems to really suffer when it comes to drawn out tourney formats. They always come out with new stuff but the further they go and more film there is on them, the easier they become to read. It was slightly better with Zest this time around but still need something more to take that next step

Stax the og breach god

Basically all of DRX is a bunch of Jett players they made switch roles haha

100T and V1 definitely look like the favorites to come out of the upper bracket, assuming theyre placed on opposite ends. As for the other 2 spots is a toss up, Sen can make it if theyre not really tested cuz i doubt much change is gonna happen LOL. Its really gonna depend on the bracket

they were on the 2021 Fpx hype train and expected Jett to drop out of meta lol thats why they wanted him to be more of their flex player after First strike and basically put him in a role crisis and eventually dropped him from the main team. Not to say he was F'd over but he kinda was :^) Unlucky really

i aint reading all that
happy for u tho
or sorry that happened

i want this guys copium

the difference is TSM had their core of Subroza Corey and Rossy working together since last year after LCQ, they had a team culture where the only real problem was integrating gmd since Seven is basically a 1for1 tradeoff with Wardell in roles on the team at least. 100T has a new core and its one core member of the team switching to a different role calls for a lot of change, theyre basically building from the ground up. Not excuses, just how a team environment works, nothing is fleshed out immediately.

by his org tho, not an actual legal team :^)

+Actual team culture +coach +igl with more than 1 strat of Tenz go kill +agent diversity +real practice -streams
and wow u have a team that wins

dont worry Sen fans! If they get eliminated, you can watch them play even more on their streams!!!

MY W STREAMER ISNT A ONE TRICK

Its almost like their team is putting them in positions to frag!! Crazy how teams work!!

thats what happens when you let daddy call

more than 2 years ago + doesnt matter, new game + L

no shot u thought this was a good comeback LOL

steel you cannot convince us you are a tier 1 player just because you have it in your name

Oh no!! A VCT NA playoff team, is gonna beat a team made 12 days ago?!??!! What an upset!!!

I need that rematch in grand finals, best match of the event

I feel like they are the most heavily affected skipping straight to playoffs cuz of that inexperience. Sucks their opponents had to be basically "lan veterans." Hopefully they can find their footing tho, I wanna see them do well on the big stage :(

its true, i was there

Well Iceland is one of the safest countries to travel to and one of the countries willing to host an event with international guests during the height of the pandemic, so its natural for Riot to go back to a city theyve had success in. Also atm, Turkey has a do not travel warning due to certain circumstances (google is free) so likely not possible if the warning keeps up

sadly theres more to organizing an international event than just choosing a country that is convenient. In a perfect world, that's a great scenario to accommodate those players, however, most of these things are already predetermined months in advance so who knows if they'll get that convenience

Too many ppl don't understand what cultivating young talent is and the effectiveness of buying into a system and what wonders it can do for a team. Love 100t buying in on hardworking talent and not conforming to just signing big names cuz of the brand they have

who was in paris???

thats what im thinking, no representation internationally

Makes these matches so annoying to watch, like one round was a 1v3 or something and it still showed all 5 alive on both sides

As long as scream isnt on skye

Cuz when liquid see a new meta they go batshit crazy and change everything that was working when u only needed to change one or 2 agents

depends on the casters for me, if theyre uninteresting i just turn on a costream since they usually have some sort of convo to go with it and some pros also like to give insight on some plays which is a plus

i think hes a tier 1 talent but i dont think hes as great as some ppl say he is. Ppl called him the best flex player in NA when in a whole year he could only player 3 agents, like he refused to play Kayo in matches when skye was so clearly out of the meta

people act as if bringing up coachable T2 players and having success isnt possible. We literally watched a team just do that with The Guard. Valorant is such a fresh esport that talent is still being discovered, plus just trying the same thing with the same roster probably wasnt cutting it. just cuz these guys arent the flashy names like Wardell its automatically not gonna work.

And get this, did u know that just putting big name players together doesnt always work! in a team game theres a thing called chemistry :D

If u read riots post, it says theyre still evaluating how many points they wanna give as well as money from the prize pool

He has a platform and influences his viewers, misogyny and sexism isnt something that should just be brushed off. Its a matter bigger than just video games and twitch. Just watch the stream and see how manipulative, and contradictive he is