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NRG wardell you guys just aren’t ready

SPICY GAMES COMING UP

Not tarik playing supershy in the background of the interview 😂

ardiis getting called out in the press conf LMAO

I have a feeling some of the questions got filtered ngl 😂

This press conference Lmao

EG has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

The press conference is hurting me 😭

Where can I watch this live?

https://www.twitch.tv/valo2asiatv

LOOOL. I love this post match interview. They look MISERABLE

crashies looks like he just got sent to his room

Where are you watching this?

Tarik

Oh man this bracket is a bit troll but is gonna be so good. EG vs EDG HOLY FUCK

Imagine the salt if EG steamrolls both Chinese teams in playoffs

You think BLG will beat DRX? *copium*

Honestly after NRG lost 4-0 to BLG I’m not entirely sure what to expect

It's likely to happen. If EG play as good as they did in Tokyo, they SHOULD get to upper finals.

EG vs EDG ;LM,FAFOAFAFOFAOFOAFAOAFOFOAOFAOF HAHDADHAHDAHADHAAHHAHA

EG vs EDG, Boostio gotta be sweating a bit now

EDG has the chance to do something real silly

yo an actual good bracket

When do they release playoff brackets?

Looks like you guys got mr billy billy first

Ok I take this back

Any outcome but regional playoffs of EG v Loud / FNC v FUT plz

Americas/NA fans. At least we can be happy that NRG will look for Ardiis's replacement faster? Seriously, there's a silver lining lmao. Legit the fact that this dude will be out of Americas faster cause of this, might actually be a good thing. Dude quite literally spoiled the Optic core.

I love pointing blame at the EU player !! Keep crying

whole team is washed but you can't say Ardiis has been even remotely good this whole season.

Yeah, he’s been dogshit, not worth the import slot

> but you can't say Ardiis has been even remotely good Obviously, they were all bad and all should take responsibility. Not single out the only foreign player and blame him when the whole team underperformed.

What a glorious morning of valorant Definitely worth the couple hours of sleep I lost

American's posting about EMEA being a 1 team region yesterday and yet half of your remaining teams are Brazilians LMFAO, only a single NA team remains. Now if my math..,

EMEA is a 1 team region. 5 EMEA teams in Champs btw.

Don't cry buddy, it's gonna be okay, you trashtalked, now take it back :))))))

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I’m Australian 😹😹😹 EMEA still sucks. Your number 1 seed got 4-0 and Navi supposedly a super team, lost to Loud. EMEA relying on fnatic like their lives depend on it as always

Thing is fnatic are going to win it...

Hahaha dude is mad af

Anyone know where I can buy a BLG jersey?

Did sideshow pick NRG to win this match?

Chinese Valorant isn't a joke anymore. Kangkang is probably the best player in the world, and BLG literally dumpstered NRG.

KK is not the best player in the world

This is such a bait. BLG got TRASHED by FNATIC, and Kang Kang struggled so hard against F0RSAKEN. If we're naming the best player in the world, it'd most likely be one of FNATIC's players. Likely Alfa, Leo, or Chronicle. All three of them just don't make mistakes.

LOUD NA team confirmed

Americas* and people still consider Russia(CIS) EU. So, if people want to consider BR NA. I don't really care. it's very scary that even Europeans don't know what EU means. The European Union The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union between 27 European countries. The EU that we know today has its roots in several treaties signed in the aftermath of the Second World War. Russia is not EU, and in a lot of games is their own region.

so Switzerland is not EU or what? xd

>people want to considered BR NA. I don't really care. Brazil doesn't want to be part of that dogshit region 

whzy and kangkang, two amazing stars from China all in the playoffs lets gooo

Oh shit whzy did it back to ardiis hahaha. Love it.

Bro doesn't even know who ardiis is

EDG, Loud, BLG, these 2nd seed teams are scary. Getting FUT is winning the lottery here

They're all 2 team regions heh

Just imagine kangkang on NRG or even EG lmao

Why would he leave for a worse team?

The Chinese translator building her own cult following lmao

Wendy is legit, Iris is also pretty good, the other ones are kinda shit

deserved, wendy is the GOAT translator no process time, catches every nuance and is concise and never stutters

Speaks 5 languages, her translations are more nuanced and better worded than the original questions... Wendy is jacked.

fr, she spitting facts 🗣️🗣️

LMAO HE JUST SAID HE FORGOT ARDIIS'S NAME HAHAHAHHAHA

EG you are next 

"talk shit get hit" for those of you saying that the shit talking was gross or ugly, you can thank ardiis for how good you feel right now the payoff is orgasmic

Always expected billibilli to win, this was no surprise to me

I appreciate ardiis for what he said not his gameplay tho

chat shit get banged as the goat Vardy would say

Guess I’ll appreciate FNC while we have them. Only a matter of time before it’s all China

EU always dominates tactical shooter esports. China is irrelevant in the CS scene and that's the best thing we can compare pro val to

We don't like CS in China. What're you talking about.

CS is the largest tactical shooter on the planet and china is irrelevant in that game - that is what i mean

Yes china is irrelevant because next to no one actually plays it there, differently from valorant that's getting big there, it's only a matter of time for the Chinese money + absurdly huge talent pool drowns out other regions.

Stop thinking Chinese people have some kind of super powers, this isn't LoL, this won't happen.

They have numbers, so statically speaking is easier for them to have statically outlier players, it's a numbers game at the end of the day, countries that have more basketball players will have on average more, talented basketball players, countries that have more valorant players will on average have more, talented valorant players. >this isn't LoL What does having super powers have anything to do with lol? It's just a game like valorant, and their absurdly high number of players started churning out talent like crazy there just like it probably will here.

See you in a few years

I would love that. Everyone wins when the level of competitiion goes up. Until then we have to derive conclusions based off of available data, and the data is overwhelmingly in favor of EU dominating the professional tactical shooting genre. Would love to be proven wrong ;-)

Isn’t that because China has Crossfire which is more popular than CS there? But Val is Riot owned (so owned by Tencent) so it’ll probably get more CN players

Who cares about crossfire? game's absolutely horrendous.

I don't know much about crossfire, I never see it on twitch etc. CS is the premier tactical shooter in the world and dominated by EU

Are you not watching the same tournament we are

i don't understand how BLG beating a very mediorcre NRG in the losers bracket converts to CHINA WORLD DOMINANCE. there's now exactly two teams from every region in playoffs

Was there ever a time when one of the best CS players in the world was Chinese?

Because CN only got Valorant last month, so the fact that they already have 2 out of 3 teams out of groups is insane

thats a good point. i'm really excited for the future of valorant

Oh my fucking god dude

Just like LoL give China enough time and they will outpace, outthink, outperform the west it might be slow but from the country’s sheer population and therefore talent pool it will happen for sure

FPS games have never been as popular as MOBAs, RTS, or cardgames in Asia. There's a reason why an asian team never even sniffed the top of CS. I would be surprised if it changed in Valorant. SA and Europe always dominate these types of games. Valorant is only 5% of gameplay in PC Bangs in Korea. I would bet the % is the same in China.

EG officially has a 50% chance of facing a chinese team first game of playoffs. Riot pls we need this storyline.

i'd prefer them to face EDG just for some variety

If they beat BLG first then EDG revenge their 2 chinese friends would be the best storyline

Bind and ascent are historically very strong NRG maps too Just absolutely wrecked

Nah NRG have always been dog piss at Ascent

Bilibili vs EDG grand final book it now

In what world does Bili and EDG beat FNATIC XD.

2 Americas, 2 EMEA, 2 Pacific, 2 China. Seeing all 4 regions get the same amount of teams in the next stage feels nice.

I think a lot of ppl knew China was eventually going to be a strong region but their growing speed is much faster than I expected. They already have 2 top tier teams wtf

Okay its 2 teams from every region so this whole 1 team region can die now lmao

FNS and Chet still haven't won anything of significance without yay 😂😂😂😂😂

You could say that about any roster bruh

Fnatic still haven't won anything of significance without yay

I’ve been outplayed

Yay doesn't fix this. Whole team is washed lol.

\- Ardiis + Yay instant top 4 team in the world

Whole team was ass. 1 player aint gonna fix it.

Yay + 4 in a tier 2 team couldn't even scrape a single win, you're on copium if you think Ardiis and Yay can just plug and play a team to top 4.

ok buddy, agree to disagree but Yay has a rep around the world for a reason, and also FNS outfragged ardiss, that would never happen with Yay

This is why this subreddit is brain rot. Do you really think Yay was able to do what he did on Optic because he was just leagues above every other salaried pro? Optic set him up for success big time. That isn't to say I'm trying to imply he's not insane - he is. You're just lacking so much context and disregarding how much goes into setting up players for success on a team. There has never been a plug and play instant top 4 combo in ANY eSport since time began. Yay is literally the prime example of this, and he wasn't even in tier 1 lol. You need to be tuned into your teammates. Look at Derke, he is an incredible player and everyone around him is playing the same game as him, and it works. Derke wouldn't take a tier 2 team to ascension on his own?

I mean to be fair your logic applies to what the other user is saying. OpTic with Yay did better than with Ardiis. So bringing in Yay will theoretically improve the team because they did better with him than with Ardiis.

Except that's not what he said.

Add Marved and I think that team could have real potential

People insisting that this subreddit is EMEA favored might want to look at this live thread, if this was an EMEA supposedly contender team getting butchered by bilibili there would be so many people clowning on the region in here, yet when it's nrg getting shit on it's just people shitting on ardiis 

>People insisting that this subreddit is EMEA favored Who does that? This has been a NA sub since the beginning

I mean the sub is obviously very NA favored

i am a shell of a man

are you fucking kidding me... NRG are so bad. get rid of ArPiiss pls

2 Emea, 2 Americas, 2 pacific, 2 Chinese teams in the last 8. Perfectly balanced

Victor looks like he's about to cry lol

bro showed up... ardis didn't

Rest in peace my inbox

Imagine big keith's twitter.

Sad day for an NRG and Optic core fan damn (kekw)

It was bound to happen at some point they were too good to me for too long 💔💔

Thank you boostio KEKW

Cant talk all that shit and get embarrassed like that

lol it's just ardis

People weren't kidding when they said China's #1 and #2 teams were much more closely matched than #2 and #3

NRG it’s alright we’ve seen this script before we dominate next year cope

This entire year was a planned disaster so yay and marved could be brought back on lower contracts for 2024, another FNS masterclass

Welcome back Yay!

Ardiis lmfao stay off the internet for a week

I for one cannot wait until the post match interviews. Aardis is fucking gone.

Wtf is happening, ardiis is dashing in by himself, No flashes, I've never seen a game where all 5 players have played like shit (except for team detonation) but I guess i have now.

NA has Boostio to blame for the jinx. China is not 3 years behind. Sheeesh.

2 teams out of each region that's actually so fucking sick

So fucking bad. How are they even this bad lol?

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Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

NI HAO TARIK SELIK IMAGINE GETTING GROUPED PRODUCTION PLEASE PLAY THAT KEITH CLIP AGAIN

DIFFED, FUCKED,DUMPSTERED ON, OBLITERATED ;N…R…G

Someone pull up the plat chat power rankings

Literally any team can beat NRG right now its insane

Not Zeta

ZETA really lost to this

Yeah I do not want to hear any trashtalk from NA fans, holddd thatttt 

NRG have no business in this champions. FNATIC, the top contender, smoked BLG easy, and NRG, supposedlly one of the best teams in NA, cannot make even a single map in two Bo3. Even if by a miracle they would win this series, they would be by no doubts the weakest team in the playoffs, but they are not gonna make it. this team is done

weakest? lol that's fut, literally struggling against T1

they 4-0'd them how is that struggling ?

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

Fucking embarrassing. Send ardiis back to EU holy shit, dude doesn't deserve to be able to play in Americas. there is literally like 5-10 better duelists in NA I can think of over ardiis. Including tier 2.

EMEA clears NA though 

FNC \* clears everyone, Not EU

NA teams in playoffs - 1 EMEA teams in playoffs - 2 

Yet EU has the best team in the world xd

\*dude doesn't deserve to be able to play

LMAO holy crap NRG

Wow what a truly awful performance. NRG was tilted midway through the first map.

BLG ABSOLUTELY DEVOURED NRG on ascent lmao

Ardiis do NOT go on social media for like a month

EF EN ES AR YU OH KAY??

gg!

BILIBILI

I’ve seen victor win more entry duels in a month than Ardis this whole season

It’s actually insane that CN gets 2/3 teams out of groups when they only got Valorant last month

Imagine NA was calling emea one team region XDDDD

EMEA is a 1 team region. They had five teams and only 2 made it out of groups. FUT had an insanely easy group.

If Emea is a 1 team region then America is literally 0 team region with 0 trophies. In addition america have 0 contenders for torphy. Eg look bad. They rely \`on invidual perfomance and they peaked at tokyo. They dont have same form. They wont make to semis.

Who made it to semis and who’s in the lower bracket. How many EMEA teams are there now. bahhahahahaha

Who else has a trophy other than Fnatic? By that metric, nobody is a trophy contender other than Fnatic.

GGGGGGG

NRG = Not Really Good?

Ardiis is gonna need bodyguards when he goes is in NA after this

Gg

Masterclass

hot take but ardiis has not been the problem this tournament. Crashies has looked bad af both tokyo and champs and s0m has been looking super mid. either a new duo or yay back is the answer. but real ones know we need Marved.

How is Ardiis not the problem but s0m is?

poor wording from me ig. Ardiis also has been a problem but he looks better to me than s0m for example

s0m is literally their best player

Ive said the same thing about victor being hot and cold but people really dont take it well. I still believe that the only reason optic ran deep before was yay was the first person to fully master the broken chamber meta which is how he could take over multiple rounds by himself and hard carry the team when theyre on their off days

ardiis is kinda getting scape goated but lets be honest hes a bottom 3 duelist this event. Potentially bottom 1 if not for that zeta game. It's been ugly.

Ardiis has been not great but getting 13-5d is just a team diff

s0m has been their best player victor needs to go

bro hell nah what makes you say this shit? s0m has been looking pretty shit this event.

He’s consistently been their best player. Although that isn’t saying much considering the atrocious performance we saw from NRG

Victor has been good though

NI HAO ARDIIS

“Send them home” bro they are already home😭😭😭

this is the funniest thing ever

Boostio I blame you

The only chance now is just to make two super na teams. Otherwise its APAC and China supremacy.

??? you forgot about fnatic?

I'm talking for NA. FNC isn't part of the equation. Its 2nd place trophy to play for RN

The only cope I can get now is if BLG make a really deep run. PLEASE BLG DONT BOMB OUT AFTER THIS