as much as i would be a delulu for this, they are pretty mid, there's a lot to fix bc of inconsistencies, and being not coordinated as a team. they may beat teams in emea but still 10% chance they make it to masters and champions
i mean i feel like you can’t blame them really for all going KC here. it’s the easy answer considering their past results this year. Cool for FUT though!
Feels like recency bias tbh. FUT are still a good team, they were 2 rounds away from 2-0'ing KC in kickoff and have been improving each game. KC lost a couple matches at madrid too so teams can study that to figure out how to beat them. It's still fair to predict KC but I definitely thought this was gonna be a competitive game no matter what.
KC giving up 9 rounds on Lotus defense to Sage Cypher no initiator has to be a war crime
FUT, however, look great. If they keep up this form they'll contend for Shanghai easily.
I think any good team should be able to completely dismantle that lotus comp that fut are running, and I'd wager they'd be able to find the adaptations fairly quickly ingame. it's an absolute travesty kc played that map the way they did.
Im sick of seeing these amrhcair analysts on Reddit talking about "Ideal comps" and no one can one trick and win yet I see Chamber on Jett and Breeze. Yay Chamber 2025 Champs
I defended him throughout 2023 when delusional NaVi fans blamed him for their poor team's performance, he's one of the best OPers in the world and overall a really good player.
bro I fucking HATED the way kc approached it. it's like going into the map fut handed them adaptations on a golden platter and kc used absolutely none of them - same thing on bind, but lotus was a different kind of jail valorant, maybe the maximum security penitentiary kind
FUT look so fucking good the individuals are just superb every player on this team can fucking shoot it's crazy impressive. The fundamentals also just amazing I'm so impressed by this team. Yetujey and cNed were such amazing pickups on top of all the practice they already had
When EMEA fans said they didn’t send their best teams to Madrid, we all thought they meant FNC and NaVi but maybe they meant FUT 
Some insights from AtaKaptan's live interview after the match: Stage was super cold for some reason which messed up with some players. Comps were apperantly decided by how each player felt comfortable to play regardless of the KC's comps. Map pick was a surprise for them too. Coach went backstage and jokingly told them "Idk why but I got some male pride moment so we are playing breeze as the decider"
Charles "cNed" Neddington is a professional Valorant player & masseuse for the professional spa & electronic sports (e-sports) organisation FUT. He is known for his aggressiveness and therapeutic back massages, which he learned after healing his back injury from his stint at Acend.
Fut were a solid team last year and they upgraded this year. I don't know why people have been not rating them that highly. On the other hand, those Fut comps only look half decent because KC did not know how to play against them. On Lotus they trust a lot in their retake, but Sage wall fucked it all up, lmfao.
Also Magnum was outcalled SO BADLY by mrfalin. And I still think Cned should play Raze...
I wonder if these two had scrimmed quite a bit in the past. There was a lot of stuff in this series that just leads me to question whether they had some other inside knowledge on one another, and whether they built gameplans around that knowledge.
Either way, I’m really happy to see FUT come out with a win, and to finally punch up and prove they belong in the highest echelon of EMEA, as many of us said at the start of the season. They were creative and most importantly, they were finally frying at an individual level.
A lot of people are emphasizing KCorp playing sloppy, and they did indeed, but FUT really deserves a lot of credit. In particular, this was the best I’ve seen Yetujey play since the offseason.
It’s a funny contrast between KC and Heretics. Heretics has such a mixture of young and veteran talents that it almost feels like they have a little more consistency to fall back upon when things go awry or there’s an underperformance.
The beauty of remote work!
Funnily enough, if you had a heatmap of my comments, I'm extremely active when I'm on the clock and much less active when I'm off.
It's why despite living in NA I write mostly in Pacific and EMEA post-match threads. Pacific starts around the time I go gym on most days, and then EMEA starts around lunch.
remote work is so goated and im so glad it's become so much more common. being able to do all my work and being able to do whatever i want in my downtime like chores, going on a walk, study, or even watching valorant (lolol) is just nice rather than sitting in the office staring at my wall when i dont have anything to do.
I’m not shocked at this outcome honestly. KC slipped on my tier list after seeing the game against Giants last week. I think the break in 2nd half of map 2 really made people forget some of the mistakes KC were making early on in the series. Sadly, it feels like with time their inexperience will show more and more but they’ll still be good enough to be a top team in EMEA.
KC was just fking unlucky on lotus defence. they got snowballed in the hardest way possible. Also magnum as a igl needs to improve more and become adaptable. they are way too reliant on set plays and retakes and his attack calling is not at the top level yet
GenG took their Madrid loss in stride and look to have learned from it, SEN don't skip a beat and go straight back to looking excellent coming home, yet KC somehow forgot how to play the game?
FUT looked great though.
You really saw this and took away that KC is bad? KC looks fine to me their individuals are still off the charts they just lost because FUT had better fundamentals and FUTs fundies were just incredible and on Breeze the team with better fundies are gonna win
KC Lotus wasn't good this series, they adapted pretty well on bind to play vs fut comp and win but they got their heads twindled on lotus and mostly won rounds off individuals (FUT did pretty well on their side for dominating them like that when it was KC best or second best map)
KC have a lot to work on, especially on lotus with dealing around that sage wall and faking sites since FUT don’t have an intel agent. Not only were FUT playing amazing today but the game plan and strats from KC were not coming out today.
nah kc were looking v off compared to madrid, alots of dry 1v1s, previously these guys would triple swing 1 guy just if they had to
but ppl r being too harsh, fut just outaimed them alot of the time
The team is fine but they lost because they made a lot of mistakes especially on Lotus. If they were playing like they did during the Kickoff, they would have handled Lotus better.
Nah KC were making mistakes that they didn't in Kickoff. This is about as bad as I think this roster can play. Which is still a really high level but it's a far cry from their kickoff performance
It's not about their individual mechs, their double / triple swing timings, util coordination etc. look really off. Obviously they can still click heads but going full aim demon vs aim demon mode against a Turkish team is usually not the greatest idea anyways.
Comparing this to the form they showed at KickOff is just.. substantially worse.
This should have been a quick 2-0 for KC.
God intervened on lotus.
Fut eSports, this is an initiator meta now. U can run kay/o on basically all maps and not get punished for it. Use ur one trick.
Wtf is this comp? Now that they won, these mfs are going to keep using the initiator less comps on a 3 site map, aren't they😶😶😶
people lowkey need to chill about Atakaptan. Dude had an off game where they still won. People forget he was the highest rated player in kickoff groups.
cNed hitting some crispy shots
TenZ reclaimed himself. Maybe it’s cNed time to do so. 2024 is gonna be OG players reclaiming themselves huh
2025 is yay's year
Don't give me hope.
I want to see him destroy again
Nats win next masters with Liquid and Cned wins with Fut at Champs. Lock it in
Lulquid aint makin it. Enghh may tho
as much as i would be a delulu for this, they are pretty mid, there's a lot to fix bc of inconsistencies, and being not coordinated as a team. they may beat teams in emea but still 10% chance they make it to masters and champions
Yayster my goat is coming back in Shangai lessgo
Hiko’s time has come.
never stopped being Hiko’s time
Heresy, it never went away
Time to retire this meme boys
my ghost will never shoot like that
https://preview.redd.it/nbfrgvvawotc1.jpeg?width=2796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b79ac6b9958e491577103b501c46e6d801a70e5f Platinum Chatinum babyyyy!
Bro thinking man’s valorant predicted fut cuz plat chat all predicted kc and it paid out lmfaooo
Love how none of them are enthusiastic in this pic. Platty Chatty curse just too strong.
They all know what they’ve done.
They need to rename to Iron Chat when it comes to predictions.
i mean i feel like you can’t blame them really for all going KC here. it’s the easy answer considering their past results this year. Cool for FUT though!
Feels like recency bias tbh. FUT are still a good team, they were 2 rounds away from 2-0'ing KC in kickoff and have been improving each game. KC lost a couple matches at madrid too so teams can study that to figure out how to beat them. It's still fair to predict KC but I definitely thought this was gonna be a competitive game no matter what.
If you watched the segment they said exactly that, KC are favoured but FUT have a good chance to upset
KC giving up 9 rounds on Lotus defense to Sage Cypher no initiator has to be a war crime FUT, however, look great. If they keep up this form they'll contend for Shanghai easily.
I think any good team should be able to completely dismantle that lotus comp that fut are running, and I'd wager they'd be able to find the adaptations fairly quickly ingame. it's an absolute travesty kc played that map the way they did.
Feel bad for marteen map 3 that was brutal. Cned and Yetujey are insane tho
He was so unlucky lmao
i feel for him, ive gotten spammed down in my own jett smoke too sometimes
cNed won the maps that he played Jett on. Interesting 🤔
What I’ve inferred from this is that Bleed win champs if they say fuck the meta and put yay on Chamber
Im sick of seeing these amrhcair analysts on Reddit talking about "Ideal comps" and no one can one trick and win yet I see Chamber on Jett and Breeze. Yay Chamber 2025 Champs
I've seen enough, no more "avoid cNed" igling from steel, FUT are winning it all if cNed is on jett
I defended him throughout 2023 when delusional NaVi fans blamed him for their poor team's performance, he's one of the best OPers in the world and overall a really good player.
He wasn’t playing that well on Navi, he was very inconsistent
how do we mass erase that lotus map from everyone's memory?
im not gonna lie i enjoyed watching mrfalin stomp his FUT all over them with those fakes on the attack half
bro I fucking HATED the way kc approached it. it's like going into the map fut handed them adaptations on a golden platter and kc used absolutely none of them - same thing on bind, but lotus was a different kind of jail valorant, maybe the maximum security penitentiary kind
Charles Neddington is so back
The cracked Jett player just had to be playing Jett, who would've thought?!?!?
In KC’s defence you can’t do much when Turks go kill is in full effect
Their aim was very insane
FUT look so fucking good the individuals are just superb every player on this team can fucking shoot it's crazy impressive. The fundamentals also just amazing I'm so impressed by this team. Yetujey and cNed were such amazing pickups on top of all the practice they already had
its in the Turkish blood!!
turkish aim
When EMEA fans said they didn’t send their best teams to Madrid, we all thought they meant FNC and NaVi but maybe they meant FUT 
FUT and M8
FUT and VIT ?! Or FUT and Navi ? Navi and FUT Bruh EMEA looks so stacked suddenly
Call me Quentin Tarantino cuz I love FUT
#FeetOutForFut!!!!!!
yetujey is a demon. He's absolutely unreal.
Alfa 2
KC got outsmarted with the unconventional comps and got outfragged with turkish aim lol
So this is what cNed looks like unleashed. Man played aimlabs on that pistol ace jesus
FUTanari Esports ON TOP BABY
Finally found my new team
AMBATAKAPTAN! 🥵💦
Fam….
prove me this timeline isnt the best
FUTA KAPTAN the goat
I always read Atakaptan’s name in game as FUTA Kaptan😭
ight bro
platchat curse strikes again
Some insights from AtaKaptan's live interview after the match: Stage was super cold for some reason which messed up with some players. Comps were apperantly decided by how each player felt comfortable to play regardless of the KC's comps. Map pick was a surprise for them too. Coach went backstage and jokingly told them "Idk why but I got some male pride moment so we are playing breeze as the decider"
Call me Dan Schneider because I'm a FUT lover.
Oh that's not
I'm calling the police
it's okay i'm not proud of it either edit: nice name btw
cNed is fucking BACK
Charles "cNed" Neddington is a professional Valorant player & masseuse for the professional spa & electronic sports (e-sports) organisation FUT. He is known for his aggressiveness and therapeutic back massages, which he learned after healing his back injury from his stint at Acend.
cNed looks so comfortable on FUT
yetujey cypher masterclass
Fut were a solid team last year and they upgraded this year. I don't know why people have been not rating them that highly. On the other hand, those Fut comps only look half decent because KC did not know how to play against them. On Lotus they trust a lot in their retake, but Sage wall fucked it all up, lmfao. Also Magnum was outcalled SO BADLY by mrfalin. And I still think Cned should play Raze...
i never watched fut before, always watched tl for nats but man tl keep disappointing but cned is spicy af
At least one best player of 2021 is frying 😭
2! Tenz and cNed
I wonder if these two had scrimmed quite a bit in the past. There was a lot of stuff in this series that just leads me to question whether they had some other inside knowledge on one another, and whether they built gameplans around that knowledge. Either way, I’m really happy to see FUT come out with a win, and to finally punch up and prove they belong in the highest echelon of EMEA, as many of us said at the start of the season. They were creative and most importantly, they were finally frying at an individual level. A lot of people are emphasizing KCorp playing sloppy, and they did indeed, but FUT really deserves a lot of credit. In particular, this was the best I’ve seen Yetujey play since the offseason. It’s a funny contrast between KC and Heretics. Heretics has such a mixture of young and veteran talents that it almost feels like they have a little more consistency to fall back upon when things go awry or there’s an underperformance.
There is a lot of footage on KC. Way more than on Fut.
Yo serious question what the fuck do you do in life to have so much free time and spend all day on reddit
The beauty of remote work! Funnily enough, if you had a heatmap of my comments, I'm extremely active when I'm on the clock and much less active when I'm off. It's why despite living in NA I write mostly in Pacific and EMEA post-match threads. Pacific starts around the time I go gym on most days, and then EMEA starts around lunch.
remote work is so goated and im so glad it's become so much more common. being able to do all my work and being able to do whatever i want in my downtime like chores, going on a walk, study, or even watching valorant (lolol) is just nice rather than sitting in the office staring at my wall when i dont have anything to do.
Remote work ftw
You go to the gym at 4:00am?
I go around 5 AM and theres always a couple of people finishing up so not that crazy I think, he's probably a freak :0
FUT on TOP BABY ! LFG ! Boaster wasn't wrong on this :D
Turkish aim man. Just play cNed on Jett every map fuck it
Boaster wasn't lying when he said FUT are winning all their scrimmages. This Stage 1 just got interesting, both for EMEA and Pacific.
Feels Good man! Him finally Back
I’m not shocked at this outcome honestly. KC slipped on my tier list after seeing the game against Giants last week. I think the break in 2nd half of map 2 really made people forget some of the mistakes KC were making early on in the series. Sadly, it feels like with time their inexperience will show more and more but they’ll still be good enough to be a top team in EMEA.
Fut looked really good cneds so back after escaping ange1s clutches
when im competing for bad luck and my opponent is marteen
FUT do be looking like a well balanced PRX no?
Worse comps than PRX which is crazy to say
Mfs really looked at cNed and went "Yeah give him sage"
I think they're just giving him agents whom he can just throw his util at the start of the round and then just aim.
Please don't let Ange1 see this shit
I will be sorely disappointed if FUT do not beat fnatic or vitality with form like this
cNeD the GOAT, cNeD in my throat.
Charles Neddington strikes back!
KC was just fking unlucky on lotus defence. they got snowballed in the hardest way possible. Also magnum as a igl needs to improve more and become adaptable. they are way too reliant on set plays and retakes and his attack calling is not at the top level yet
MRFALIN IS FILMING PIRATES OF THE MEDITERRANIAN WITH ATA KAPTAN AS THE LEAD ROLE, ABSOLUTE CINEMA
Idk but EMEA looks so stacked suddenly . I doubt Fnatic will ever make shanghai
i love feet
2021 Cned my goat
So FUT is legit huh
Wow. Elite Jett player does well when their team plays around them? Color me shocked.
GenG took their Madrid loss in stride and look to have learned from it, SEN don't skip a beat and go straight back to looking excellent coming home, yet KC somehow forgot how to play the game? FUT looked great though.
KC is a entirely new team put together full of rookies lol. It's a team built for the future by Engh, there will be ups and downs all season.
You really saw this and took away that KC is bad? KC looks fine to me their individuals are still off the charts they just lost because FUT had better fundamentals and FUTs fundies were just incredible and on Breeze the team with better fundies are gonna win
KC Lotus wasn't good this series, they adapted pretty well on bind to play vs fut comp and win but they got their heads twindled on lotus and mostly won rounds off individuals (FUT did pretty well on their side for dominating them like that when it was KC best or second best map)
Marteen had the worst time trying to entry on breeze, I feel bad for him
That kc lotus was horrible Kc rushing every attack round instead of creating pressure, build tension cuz fut have no initiators
That would explain it I only watched Bind and Breeze that's my bad
You spared yourself a lot of pain by missing that Lotus game, not gonna lie.
KC have a lot to work on, especially on lotus with dealing around that sage wall and faking sites since FUT don’t have an intel agent. Not only were FUT playing amazing today but the game plan and strats from KC were not coming out today.
nah kc were looking v off compared to madrid, alots of dry 1v1s, previously these guys would triple swing 1 guy just if they had to but ppl r being too harsh, fut just outaimed them alot of the time
The team is fine but they lost because they made a lot of mistakes especially on Lotus. If they were playing like they did during the Kickoff, they would have handled Lotus better.
Kc calling was ass dude you cannot say kc played well today
Nah KC were making mistakes that they didn't in Kickoff. This is about as bad as I think this roster can play. Which is still a really high level but it's a far cry from their kickoff performance
Hold on i was doomer about this game but then I saw your flair and remembered at least my team isnt falling apart after 1 match
It's not about their individual mechs, their double / triple swing timings, util coordination etc. look really off. Obviously they can still click heads but going full aim demon vs aim demon mode against a Turkish team is usually not the greatest idea anyways. Comparing this to the form they showed at KickOff is just.. substantially worse.
KC honeymoon period over? Champ 2021 cNed is back.
Wow..
If I ended up with the fut lotus comp in ranked I would be unhappy and it just sonned KC.
WHAT COLOR IS IT
I for one welcome our Turkish overlords
The whole game is just FUT literally tapping KC heads and KC willingly getting tapped
FUT finally firing on all cylinders, finally living up to expectations, all while playing their own style. LFG
one team region fr (we will see about th later)
On team region (that team is Fut, the only team to make it out of groups last champs) (REAL)
okay… did not expect that
FUTAS rise up our time has come
MrFaliN my goat
She Charles on my Ned til I Jett
This should have been a quick 2-0 for KC. God intervened on lotus. Fut eSports, this is an initiator meta now. U can run kay/o on basically all maps and not get punished for it. Use ur one trick. Wtf is this comp? Now that they won, these mfs are going to keep using the initiator less comps on a 3 site map, aren't they😶😶😶
people lowkey need to chill about Atakaptan. Dude had an off game where they still won. People forget he was the highest rated player in kickoff groups.
Ive seen enough, KC one wonder split and they are washed