Tournament ends in like 2 days. It's all good

The slot allocation for champions is different to Berlin.
Whichever region wins Berlin effectively grants an extra slot for their region.

Lmao this forum is different xD

I'm cool with this haha. Though the NA teams realistically have the edge. Vamos EMEA !!

Tough run of form for sen atm

70 kills. Team/experience diff. Hopefully ace can learn from this

Yikes gg

If Acend play like how they did Vs SMB. This will be total destruction by 100t 2-0.

If they have fixed those mistakes / calmed nerves, it's anyone's game

Well played KRU, big improvement from Iceland.

Happy to see G2 move forward

silver kneejerk take

The scrimlords came out to play!

you do realise G2 got pounded in the first game. Stop embarassing EMEA, you're making us all look bad.

hahaha xD xD

If they make it to the finals I'd say EMEA = NA.

It's single elim afterall, and if the games are close, it means they could have gone either way. We'd need consistency to trully put 1 region over the other.

Is that even official yet? As far as I know it's just rumoured, I haven't followed it / seen anything from liquid

I agree with you, but the caveat is. Are SEN currently at full strength? Tomorrow will tell I guess

Only on VLR.GG (epic rivington voice)

Big Respect. Glad they're on for champions

Vlr.gg is full of clowns

I'm now on the train of thought that, all teams are much closer in skill than we thought.

We've seen too many close calls with top teams and lesser teams. Not just this LAN either. If you have good reads on your opponent and you're not completely trash, you can have a close game.

Valorant could do with a wider skill gap.

Very good try by CR. I hope they don't feel bad about the loss, see them in champions!

Agreed, they have an important experience to draw learnings from. They can get much much better.

By the way man. Supporting a team becomes 1000% easier when you recognise and accept the fact that they're not as good as you want them to be. The good thing is, if you support them getting better, they will level up. And you won't have to waste time responding to people online who just feel like shitting on them for no good reason. Let it goooooo

Dude, I promise you. They played FAR below the level of an EnVy. Perhaps you're not looking for the right stuff when watching the gameplay. Like I said, I am an SMB fan, a big EMEA fan in general. But the level we've shown, apart from some brilliant moments from G2 and Gambit has been poor. Especially in this SMB vs Acend game.

Perhaps they'd smash KRÜ, but the NA teams are way more disciplined. If Acend are to stand a chance, they need to compose themselves and clean up alot of their mistakes.

Dude be rational for a sec. They farmed weak teams, but apart from SMB's aim, they showed us nothing else this tournament.

I was genuinely rooting for them too, i love the idea of a TR super team beasting an international LAN. But both them AND Acend played pretty poor valorant most of the time.

Dude get over it. Both Acend and SMB have played mostly awful this tournament. It is what it is.

The level at which both teams played at was awful.

But I don't know what's worse. How they played? Or that Acend qualify to playoffs by ONLY winning against SMB. They're yet to win an international matchup

there is no hope for you

silver level take. He's not having a great map, but he played awesome in the first match vs SMB and even played well vs VS. they just got out played as a team. don't @ me. I don't reply to silvers directly.

Get over it.

We had 2 EMEA teams in a single group with VS.

If you are not black or don't have a black family, you can't comment on this.

just wait until the mobile game comes out.

There are still alot of casuals who have never even heard of valorant

Yes, he is black. He is of Somali descent, east african

No more or less than white parents. Once they understand it's an actual career and see the money coming, it's a different conversation.

Competitve PC gaming top regions and population % of region that are black / mixed race:

NA - 13% (that's all ages and genders. so a tiny tiny portion of those would be pc gamers, let alone be good enough to be pro)
Europe - 1.3% as above in brackets
East Asia - less than 1% as above in brackets

There's your answer.

There are several / high level gamers that are black, they are mostly on console games though. Sonic Fox for example is one of the best ever Beat em up players.
Also I think GUILD - Yacine is mixed race / lighter complexion of african descent +yaboidre

I like this. Much better than the group draw. Every team has what they deserve.

Envy fans, stop feeling bad for them, they were in the softest group, now it's time for them to face a top team.

10000%

This is not like the group draw which was messed up. This one makes sense.

it's really not that crazy. it was guaranteed to be 2 NA teams on 1 side of the bracket (3 teams 2 brackets). The 3rd being there is because they came group runner up.

definitely not as crazy as 2 EMEA teams in 1 group.

NV and group free

Sick - Reyna
Tenz - Jett
Shaz - Sova
zombs - Viper
Dapr - Sage.

But tbh, rather than this, They're better off banning it.

SEN lost yesterday you imbecile. That is why they're all on the same side of the bracket.

At the absolute least, there was going to be an NA vs NA matchup before the finals because there are 3 teams and only 2 sides.

Go back to school you clown.

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Gambit, SMB, G2, Liquid.

I don't even know if this is possible points wis (i haven't looked it up) but a man can dream.

Very true, people are a bit fickle, and at SMB's best, they're at LEAST as good as Acend

yo..... you good?

7/10 for execution, 8/10 for the idea

Always good to see rational humans exist.

I was rooting for G2 all the way, but Sen played well on map 2, and honestly, anyone who isn't completely shit at this game, knows how impossibly difficult it is to have a consistent result. G2 earned this W, but let's not get carried away, SEN are still them GUYS.

Losses happen, g2 the better team on the day. It's all good

Absolutely. I feel the need to highlight this because overreactions on this forum are embarrassing to read haha