not surprising but sad for the acend players

doug is good for interviews imo

true, i still think its such a short amount of time to make a change considering they were at copenhagen

so quickly? lcq is in 11 days, surely it will only hurt them if they make a change right now? if they hope to qualify for champs with him then drop him thats even worse lol

i sure hope so

most good igls are older than the average valorant pro and most igls come from CSGO with years of experience. becoming a good igl isn't something you just pick up all of a sudden, you learn how to be a top tier igl over the course of your career which i think is why we dont see many. for many valorant pros this is their first esports and range from ages of 17-21 so i dont think it'll be for a bit until we see many new igls appearing. i do think there are some others that do deserve credit like koldamenta, bonecold, hazed, vanity but again these are players that mostly came from csgo with much more experience

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mostly filling smokes/initiator
phantom

m3c 2-1 ace 😵

they trialed multiple t2 pros/vlr players, alfajer had already been trialed by a couple other orgs aswell. it wasn't insane scouting, he just happened to fit with their roster

last thing i heard they were trialing dimasick but im pretty sure they also said they wouldnt reveal their 5th until LCQ, so who knows

NA: NRG/100T
SA: KRU + NiP/Furia
EMEA: M3C
East Asia: NTH/DWG
APAC: TS

alright

they're (by placements) the most consistent team in valorant currently? even if they didn't win, you can't deny theyre a good team

why cant regions swap their flairs to their winning team at the moment? it's not that deep lol

yeah i think it's really good, for what seems like a "test LAN" its looking nice

its smaller but hearing the cheering after plays is so much cooler than dead silence. champions will be sick

riot is allowing a specific gap at the end of the year to allow 3rd party events to run though? maybe it'll change in franchising though

also honorable mention fnc 2-1 m3c qualification game. that 0.02 haunts me everyday

m3c 2-1 kru is still the craziest game ive watched. favourite series of valorant with 2 of my favourite teams, fking insane i hope we get a rematch at champs

i was thinking the same thing and id assume it'd have an effect still considering there is a GC LAN coming up and they're a very dominant team who will probably attend it so it definitely gives them something above other orgs

leaks of heroic trying to enter valorant and the only viable teams they would pick up (unless they just poached players) would be either m3c, or if they wanted a danish team, who cars

Stage 1 they had a lot of problems, ranging from adjusting to new metas and personal problems within the team. their igl had a different idea of the team, certain players weren't putting up the same numbers as last year or weren't having enough impact and they ended up needing a stand in which did not help them.

Stage 2 they did better, looked relatively promising in group stage but as playoffs rolled around it seemed they'd already hit their peak and started faltering. maybe you could put it down to 2 new players who haven't played in a t1 environment (as far as I know) and I think there was many other internal problems still carrying on from the previous stage which is causing them to have another roster change for LCQ.

I think it's worth mentioning EMEA challengers, and the regional challengers stage in general, is incredibly competitive. many of the teams in it we didn't see for the entirety of last year at LANs or missed out on many. not even beginning to mention how Valorant's meta is constantly changing, this is not the same game as it was 1 year ago. We have yet to see a team win 2 LANs and have only had 2 teams manage to make 2 GFs, it's super hard to stay on top of this game

m3c and kru HOPIUM

True, think I blanked that out my mind tbh aha. he looked alright against Leviatan so hopefully the next game goes well

In this tournament specifically (not regarding any previous ones) I'd rate Marved over Yay. Yay is a great player but this event he hasn't had the same impact as other players like Marved, Derke, f0rsakeN, etc. I'm not sure whereabouts you'd rank him but I do think it's unfair to place him at the top currently when other players have had much larger impact. Still think he's insane though, top 5 for sure

I just wanna see a different region win a LAN : ' ) rooting for PRX

they definitely look better now with Suygetsu but they still have to go against Fnatic (once again). If they play to the best of their abilities and manage to take down Fnatic I rate them the same as the other 2, there's such a small skill disparity now with top teams in Valorant

I feel like the odds are pretty even between every team, maybe you give Optic and PRX slightly higher odds from the momentum of the upper bracket and their performance so far in the tournament looking the most stable (if you ignore Optic's 1st group stage match). Whoever wins I dont think it'll be a surprise. Optic and PRX looking the strongest though
30% Optic
30% PRX
20% FNC & FPX? Idk, I'd make top 3 around the same though

think it's worth mentioning i'm pretty sure the teams that work on valorant/league for the game, events, tournaments etc are 2 completely different teams so production may not be the same. id hope one day val events could look this hype though

gambit before the upcoming change

i sure hope the eu one is right😔

guild vs kru and xset vs lev are my favourites so far, very intense OTs and big plays being made

not rly, it's the ideal way to have competition imo. the best and most popular teams will be there but other teams have the opportunities to appear if they're good enough. i hope riot follows something similar and implements a way to qualify for larger events, maybe through vrls.

masters 1 last year was an regional event, similar to a challengers so they removed it from this year making it 3 LANS like last year. champions also finishes much earlier this year to allow for GC LAN and larger 3rd party events. (also time to get ready for franchising i'd assume, roster mania for sure)

2 completely different styles of watchpartying, but alright

from the clip it looks like 2 or 3 xset players were running up to heaven after the spike dropped but king already blast packed up and killed deph who within a like 3 second gap was the only one holding heaven, that's why king immediately dies after because there's 2 xset players behind him. also dont think melser fully realised he had the spike, fucking insane round nonetheless

EMEA qualifiers had national barriers with CIS, EU and TR regions being separate then pooled into 1 but what are you supposed to do to split it up fully? there would not be any competitive integrity if you made EU, ME and Africa all different qualifiers for masters it would be completely fucked. Even CIS EU and TR would still be fucked and the player base in these individual regions simply is not enough. Nothing stops other regions for importing 2 players from different regions and still following the roster rules. Atleast VLR has more regional barriers.

I'm not too familiar with Furia except from champions last year but they looked solid there. I think this lcq will definitely be one to look out for, lots of talent that could be very good on LAN

and good for them if they drop him but making VLR posts shitting on him when he's not even playing isn't gonna make them win

don't let this distract you from the fact they qualified for Masters AND the playoffs with russ. sure, he's not the best player ever but he has his moments and supports the team. he literally won OT for them against KRU. of course they could get a better player but so could every other team out there, as long as they are happy with him on the team then there should be no complaints

there's always a possibility of any team beating anyone, my best guess (if LEV qualify for champs) would be KRU and NiP qualifying through lcq, maybe im biased though haha.

SA lcq has 2 slots though, i cant imagine a world where KRU doesn't qualify through that so i think we'll be seeing both Leviatan and Kru at champs : D

grammar is fine, just the utter stupidity makes it a tough read

Im having an aneurysm attempting to read this

hes a good player and has a great personality. not to mention also an igl, hope he goes far

yep, he landed in copenhagen earlier

individual players cant take a team to LAN. you as a "faze fan" should be the first to know this

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vamos kru : ) really hope they qualify after their OT with guild

mate? how are you arguing with the fact 11-13 and 14-16 are close games? obviously guild were the better team but they were still incredibly close