Who picked which map?

Ikr?

Like, OH MY GOD, THEY HAD TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE THREE TIMES IN A YEAR, POOR BABIES, GIVE THEM A BREAK

Same

There's only 35m people compared to hundreds of millions, what do you expect

It's just a regional rivalry, bur global friendship, the same way TR hates EU in Challenger Final, but then cheers for them in Masters, or rivals in small European soccer leagues hate each other to death in the league, but cheer for each other in Europa/Champions league

Yeah that's exactly my point with VS being top tier and the rest (maybe expect old NU) being kinda meh, and SEA being pretty good all-round, but no team on VS' level. And it's not just the group of death, if they made it in 2nd, they'd have to play TL, who are my biggest contender to win it all. And even back at M3, they were undefeated until they drew the eventual winner in Gambit in the QFs... they just can't catch a break man

Oh I think everyone agrees on them being top8, I think they're top 4/5 behind TL, FNC, C9 and maybe on par with GMB who look very flat compared to last masters

Man I just hope they get a reasonable draw one day and can actually make it far

NA has a higher ceiling if they actually practiced
VS would likely beat SEA teams, if they actually got a lucky seeding once and got the opportunity to play them
Buuuut, I can see the argument

Make a play-in for 16 teams, top 8 join 8 already qualified for main event:

Main event:
4eu
1na
1kr
1sea
1whichever other region did best in last event

Play-in:
3eu
3na
2kr
2br
3latam
2sea
1jp

My opinion for all of 2021, with having one very good team being valued more than 2 or more pretty good teams:
emea>na>kr>latam>sea>br>jp

Probably not, it was just a joke

Agreed

Maybe before, when he almost pulled his bodyweight and him not fragging a lot worked, but now, he's just anchoring the whole team

Welcome your new NSG Winter Series Runner-Ups: Sentinels

I expect KRU to do much better this time around. Probably still a 2-0 tho

Y'all need to cut C9 some slack, they've looked like they could've been top4/5, they just got an extremely tough draw for both groups and the playoffs.

Agree otherwise, after all, it makes sense. C9 streams the least of them and did the best.

The Sinatraa who got 13-0d by a mix team of Immortals? Or the one who got outfragged by women in the same match??? Just stop dude, ur embarrassing yourself

They can't even stomp TSM bruh💀💀💀

I aren't think that

ASIA IS THE SUPERIOR CONTINENT TO THE AMERICAS LETSGOOO

Unlike geg.g huh

Agree, on top of that, all three of the teams I cheer for made the playoffs

LETS GOOO ASIA!!! KOREA DIED FOR THIS

Zombs to retire from Valorant and play pro amongus

Aaah yes, classic raka 1head take my day wouldn't be the same without it

Aaah yes, classic raka 1head take

Tbh even though FNC is my favorite team (along with C9 and TL), I didn't expect them to make it out of the group

And to make it worse even if whoever wins this game would be top4, everyone will keep underrating both them and the loser, if they lose to TL

Zombs hasn't done 2 and 3 either

They're not overrated imo, it's just C9 is criminally underrated. If VS was in any other group (replacing any of the other Pool 1 teams - GMB, ACE, SEN) they would 100% make it

Why pretend they speak the same language? The team is gonna be much worse if they can't communicate

How do you know I'm not the one baiting

Can't even stomp KRU kekw

That's a good and truthful argument, but respectfully, I'm not going to

My application:
Bronze 2
Never played astra before
Can talk shit on twitter in 4,5 languages

Omg it all makes sense now

Sentinels saving strats for NSG Winter Open #6 Grandfinal against Soniqs keww

(accidental double post)

He should rename to klauz

Unless Gambit win Champs, then yes, Sentinels are the most successful teams of 2021, but there's a fucking light-year deep abyss between them and any other NA team, therefore EU >> NA

If they get TL in semis - 20%
If they get Gambit in semis - 50%
If they get Sentinels at any point - 65%
Otherwise - 90%

This is to make it to the final

Gotta say Liquid, man they've looked fucking strong
They have a 89 percent map winrate with Nivera - only dropping 4 out of 27 maps, 2 of them being in a bo5, 3 of them against Masters 1, 2 and 3 Champions

You mean the 100t that has 3 players, one of which is 50?

Bruh you know that calling a team onliners is usually an insult and not an excuse?

No

No we want swiss with good matchups and the deserving teams making it through

What's wrong with "S*ntinels"?

Yup, now they won't even make any event, let alone the playoffs

We need a play in like League has, where all the BR and LATAM team could throw away their hopes against T4 EU and NA teams, that way you keep diversity, but still get actual good teams in the main tournament

Nt