how is this even fair?

It's fair because the government there only approved the release of Valorant in China this january

It's fair because Riot has only been giving China chances to compete internationally since last Champs

It's fair because they're the only country in the world who is 3 years behind in experience

even their game vs PRX after they qualified to champs was close af too

HELL YEAH WE THE OG EDG FANS

Let's be real, EDG was always a good team and it was obvious only if you watched their matches. People only seeing their stats and the fact they've not won don't realise how close their matches are and some of the great plays they make

Gotta love the sportsmanship from TL and how highly they thought of EDG. Even nats thinks EDG are great team and can make a deep run in lower bracket

Wait you might be right watching this rn he is really biased against EDG wtf

Nah sideshow the goat caster

EDG has always been a good team, even back when they played against PRX and 100T. Not a cinderella run imo.

W

Fax, wasn't expecting to hear this from a Liquid flair. Studying the enemy are we ;)

No my point was that they do use strats, maybe not as much vs NAVI but their game vs T1 was an excellent display of a more tactical style

Sliggy had said that if the names were taken away he'd think EDG were NRG with the way they were midrounding and manipulating the rotates. But yeah, we'll have to see. I see EDG vs Liquid as a 50/50 imo.

Although EDG do have insane mechanics, dont misunderstand them as a strat-less team. In fact Sliggy breaks down their playstyle here and they have incredibly good midrounding on par with NRG, their attacks are very slow and methodical, with aggressive plays built on top.

Great timing on util and reads too

He does have twitter

Nobody is incredibly underrated

EDG vs LOUD
(KangKang vs Aspas)

Ngl I think EDG is just good at making other teams tilt and look bad especially when you're against a jett who pushes past your smokes and literally never misses an OP shot

cry

I live in UK and I though I dont really talk trash about EMEA I do hate the fans, espefially the NAVI ones - but I do think people are starting to underrate FNC

When a trophy and so much money is on the line they're not just gonna save strats bro that's dumb af. Chronicle just had an off day

Might be wild but I'm calling EDG 2-0 very close maps though

T1 almost beat NRG and EDG just demolished them I don't think NRG will so easily humble them ngl

As expected lets fucking go Edward

I need to see Aspas vs Kang kang bro

Well well well

suygetsu is half the reason they didn't lose earlier bro did you see his clutches on pearl?

who almost beat NRG even

For context: https://youtu.be/2xafYRHU3cI?t=82

nah FUT don't even get a map

half of EDG love boaster too

ngl I still fell like they'd cheer and clap for any region making an insane play

?? haodong is the one keeping this team together, and he's still fragging out

this, his timing on using his util is criminally underrated

bro you got T1 beating EDG

oh damn it's a LAN?

Don't count out Haodong, he's insane

If it makes you feel better sure bro

you gotta be trollin

LMAO

Honestly no, I think this team is perfectly fine as it is. Nobody still has incredible impact even though his stats aren't the best

China has only been allowed to play at internationals since last champs bro

it's a lot more entertaining though ngl

absolutely, their attacks were slow and methodical. Haodong is a very underrated igl, he had the perfect reads

there are tons of vods of china tournaments and teams have definitely used them to try and antistrat, but yeah everything else I agree with

Tbh let's not count out that EDG's tactical is also still excellent
They just build on top of that with aggressive plays, but not all the time

I also called EG winning vs DRX and EDG winning vs NAVI
Next EDG beats T1 in their rematch trust

No KK would just pushed the walls like he did against T1, he did better against viper + harbour honestly

cry more

You argue about the idea of it not being fair. If we really consider "fairness" then maybe you should consider the fact that the government has only just approved of valorant at the start of this year, and it still hasn't even released yet in China. This means they are 3 years behind the rest of the world, they clearly already have players with insane mechanics, decision making (kk, chichoo, life etc.) and the potential to be top contenders. All they need now is experience and international exposure until that's made a reality. Giving them less international chance is not gonna help with how they've not won any games yet - it'll do the opposite. And let's not forget that EDG did dominate the East Asia LCQ last year in order to qualify for Champions - they earned that, without dropping a single map to ONS (who's core is now GenG) and NTH who's been at a masters.