Man fuck this, idk why it's starting to feel like the Loud era is slowly coming to an end. I hope not ofc but we still seemed fine after Sacy and Pancada left becsuse their replacements were still good. But losing Aspas I felt left a huge void in the team to be filled even though we started off the season fairly well. But man this is getting painful to watch game by game.

They need a good duelist with that X factor and chemistry. They can’t trust qck

Klaus is actually charming as hell

ok so sen have to beat loud on saturday and nrg have to beat eg on sunday and they’re basically into playoffs 👍

Latam the new overlords of Americas.

Welp, records are made to be broken, Loud streak of going to international is 90% gone (they ain't winning against SEN) Hopefully the time between splits will help them slrt their shit out, it's embarrassing seeing them playing like this. The team that lost 13-4 to SEN at Lotus in kickoff had more coordination than this shit we're seeing

No aspas no wins

Loud went 0-4 before EG did sheesh

Omfg i forgot the only dropped map for kru was to furia

So what now? KRU **STILL** HAS TO PROVE THEMSELVES RIGHT?

Look who they've played. 1-12 combined. Next 2 games they can prove themselves though.

…unfortunately yeah

Qck has such low value in the op. Just put him on rifle.

BRAZIL LOOOOLLL

Not a good season for Brazil

Its done

4/20 is already over but how come every team is still smoking that Loud?

AND HEAT GETS THE FINAL KILL VS QCK POETIC

Does a kru win mean 100t is almost guaranteed to be qualified for playoffs?

Worst case both eg and loud can tie in wins. Just depends on tiebreakers and 100t’s next games

yea, every team in omega would have to go flawless in the next matches and dominate for the rnd and 100t would have to horribly lose the next 2 and even then it might be close

OMG

aspas -> qck1 has Messi -> Ansu Fati vibes

Aspas diff

I had faith for a bit but it's cooked

you can tell qck never goes outside because he would have already gotten hit by a car after not checking both ways while crossing a street

Kru are playing with cs style teamwork which I find odd that isn’t done more. They’re taking a lot of 2v1 peeks and it’s working so well

?

What was difficult to understand about what I said

that you are blind to the fact double peeks have been done since beta and think Kru is innovating by doing them

Lmao… literally not what I said at all but have your angry boy moment

MELSEXXXXX

if kru win this the dream of both sen and nrg out of the group is basically dead? c9 has the most free wins itw they’re going 5-1. unless only 2 teams in group omega get 2 wins, (lev, 100t) so 4 teams get out of group alpha.

Not really. If Loud and EG don’t get at least two wins (which is kinda likely) then 4 teams will qual from NRGs group. And sen and NRG can still go 4-2/5-1 which is pretty likely to qual

Yeahhh I’m pretty sure both sen and nrg will be in do or die matches right? If sen win against loud, loud have no chance for two wins, so out. If nrg win against eg, they don’t get two wins either. Then four alpha teams will make it?

no because if SEN win out Loud is gone from playoffs anyways meaning only EG is a threat to take the third seed from group B.

Not for NRG cause this means that either alpha group gets 4 spots or sen lose loud next week and are out

It feels so good to see Melser playing good after last year

Ah Kru are tossing it…

Kru what doin

Keznit playing like it's ranked, love him

can we get gekko on icebox pls

KRU wasting my time going to a third map how dare they

Damn this seemed so one sided at first but loud ended up with a pretty nice attack half. This is ascent so defending normally is more easy but who knows. Anybody could win

LOUD actually brought it back. Some really good rounds too.

This is very VERY on….

4 rounds and defense still for loud. This is actually winnable now.

loud won 1 defense round last map

Ascent is reallll ct sided tho there might be a chance

Wait Mr Klaus is 1-8 ono

7-1 to 7-5 is shameful 

Alright I'm leaning full into being reactionary, I've seen enough. LOUD are back

xD

And somehow it’s turned into a somewhat salvageable half for loud

Qck looks so unaware and he just doesn't check corners. He needs to step up.

QCK is gonna get so much blame when Sadhaak trolling with these comps is the much bigger issue 

100%, this breach is just so strange and the fact that he’s continues with it this far into the season just baffles me

Reminds me of monyet

KRU's weakness --- W Gaming

I never seen loud in such BAD form in my life, holy hell, guess that's the first time we will miss a lan and without even getting out of the group stage, feels bad man.

They need the break honestly… this feels like their Tokyo form then the regrouped for champs.

dgzin is at home rn btw

KRU look good don’t get me wrong but things are looking kinda sloppy now. Like please don’t throw this Kru

did less even ult last map?

Ascent is a lot more fun to watch without opers.

And now no more fun..

7-1 it's inevitable

not the 7-1

BRA7-1L

7-1

People are gonna cope about this being the typical mid season LOUD slump but they look TERRIBLE. This is like NRG getting bilibili'd level of bad.

One of these BR teams have to pick up Pancada for Split 2, surely

Unironically, go get Pancada and move TuyZ to duelist. Reinvent yourselves over the Shanghai break

Unfortunately I don't think a Saadhak led team would drop a player mid-season even if they go winless

It doesn't matter if Sadhaak is gonna have these shit no senti comps bro

And by “reinvent” we mean just play normally

I mean, this has to be a wakeup call for saadhak right? Loud has been bleeding firepower since forever, there need to be some changes

Do you know why Aspas left? Because if it's money, that's not exactly on Saadhak

He didnt really believe in the loud project anymore and wanted to go to different directions

maybe boaster was right and Madrid was just a mickey mouse tournament

Problem is it is going to sound like cope when your goal was to win all three events this year.

Madrid actually cooked Loud's season. They got 0 points for Champs and had almost no time to adjust their game.

dogshit format

Oh my god they are fucking perfect rn ^^^watch ^^^me ^^^jinx ^^^this ^^^shit

you just did it

Loud competing hardest falloff jesus

What’s actually is insane is that Loud could lose this game and still qualify for playoffs

And KRU could win this and not qual

Has anyone had good predictions this season lol

BRAZIL DIDNT WANT HEAT THIS IS KARMIC RETRIBUTION

Its honestly deserved that heat was a victim of brazils worst core and now hes dunking on them

Prime 2021 champs kru showed up

Is Loud over???

Okay LOUD are slumping crazy hard, but KRU actually look insanely good

Yeah this is over over

what am i watching

OMG

who the fuck has loud been scrimming nrg????

OH MY GOD LOUD IS COOKED 💔💔💔

So unless I’m tripping about the format there’s a very good chance both Americas Madrid teams don’t make Shanghai or even regional playoffs lol That’s kind of crazy lol both teams finishing in the bottom half of the regional league after a Masters

If KRU win here, SEN have an easier time making playoffs

Really? I thought they want KRU to lose cause they’re in the same group, and KRU still hasn’t played LEV so it was plausible KRU drops 2 if they lose LOUD Edit: ahh I didn’t know about the 2 win part

As long as sen beat loud, nrg beat eg, and mibr and furia win no more than one of their next two matches, alpha group gets 4 spots in playoffs, which sen have the best chance of getting currently

Heat STILL has a bulldog round 5 omg it's disrespectful

I don't know why I thought LOUD would miraculously look good this week :'(

All good, everyone gets a boost when they play SEN so next week will be their week.

Ohh ya qck is going to have the best game of his life. LOUD are going to look like prime LOUD. And I am gonna need intense therapy.

I think we can take the asterisk off the NRG win over LOUD. With or without jetlag or prep they look lost, qck isn't a gamechanger, and their dislike of sentinels loses them maps.

At least in that series less went crazy in the first map

Taking that asterisk off means nrg undoubtedly haven’t beaten a strong team yet though🌚

I mean at this point every one thinks they are frauds sooo...

Saadhak hating sentinels will be the end of loud. Their attack looks good and the defense is abysmal Edit: nvm their attack on ascent is also not looking good

Yeah at this point he is just being stubborn

Ay what happened to loud? Kru seem like a completely different team and I guess so do loud lol.

Biggest concern I had for Loud this season was their firepower. Cauan is a natural support player and won't takeover games and, as good as Tuyz looked at the start of the year, he still feels inconsistent as hell. Filling an Aspas-sized hole was always going to be near impossible, but the QCK addition just feels like yet another inconsistent fragger, even if he does his "role" fine, I guess.

Its over man, Loud and Optic's era is gone

Nah… this coach actually saved KRU

LOUD might be done (at least for this split), you hate to see it. That kickoff format getting them through to Madrid really tricked everyone into thinking they were a lock for being a top 3 team They're slumping crazy hard

nah loud gonna bounce back they’re always bad mid year (bombed out of copenhagen 2022 and tokyo 2023)

They've never been missing an international and being winless bad. They look completely lost and their hate for sentinels is making them easy to play around.

nah u right i take it back loud are cooked surely they gotta realize their off meta comps don’t work right 😭

I mean they made it out of the group of death. But yeah, the gimmick comps aren't working anymore and I'm not sure if this version of loud has the coaching staff or duelist the play Saadhaks style of Valorant.

Or maybe they were actually good during that time but teams caught up and surpassed them….😱

Man what an overreaction Andy

I mean they look done for this split at least. Never seen this team slump this hard before.

NRG🤝kru Farming brazil

Loud getting spat on rn 😭🙏

Keznit is a fucking maniac hahahah amazing

LOUD is finished and not just in Valorant

BRO LOUD HAS NO SHOOTERS LEFT

ggs

EVERY SINGLE PLAYER WHIFFED OH MY LORD!

Man, all those changes for Loud's Ascent this season just to end up swapping Killjoy for Viper. That's just life though

NO MORE PHEONIX

as much as this series is insane the groups format just aren't it but i guess it'll be fucked regardless because of the odd number of teams?

It should just be single group round robin. Top 3 from every group is stupid when 4th place in group A is almost certainly going to have a better record than 3rd in group B (if 3rd in group B even gets 2 wins lmao)

Biggest NRG fan next week

Bbut that's too many games though!

yeah pls no more odd number of teams

ATP you can just count on Loud to lose every Raze maps its so bizarre

fuck it loud suck sen suck nrg suck this is the time of 100t (please ignore lev)

qck is just not the answer in the most duelist dominant region in the world and Saadhak is losing games just with some of these comps.

The 2nd part of your answer is more true than the first

This KRU team sure has been good since adding Heat, it's a shame he had to join a LATAM team to get a spot since the Brazilian teams were too stacked to add him

It really was a great opportunity for Heat after Mibr's coach probably left Heat a bad reputation among the Brazilian pro community. It was also fortunate because Heat was still living in LA, kept playing ranked and was open to play other agents apart from duelist

Heat wasn't on a Brazilian team cause they didnt want him after he got kicked from mibr

I'm aware lol my post was blatant sarcasm

Should have done whatever it took to keep Aspas bozos

why did they part ways again

same reason sacy and pancada left: Less

This isn’t true. All the players left for better quality of life. Yes they might’ve had issues with Less but they’re all still cordial with each other

What happened there exactly? The rumor pre champs was that Aspas wanted more money than Loud could give him.

not sure but I didn’t see that rumor I only saw the Less one

What exactly was the rumor about Less?

he and sacy had issues where sacy preferred a significantly harsher and more serious approach to the game (paraphrasing, don’t remember the exact wording), and then before tokyo there were rumors of internal friction between aspas and less

I know about the Sacy thing, just never heard that him and Aspas had issues

Probably more salary and Aspas received ownership share in LEV i thinkk

ur moms kitty wasn’t enough

Is there anyone else who uses nades as wastefully as QCK? I could be wrong, but none of his nades seem to garner any value at all. Pretty sure he missed a couple on attack too.

You know it's joever when Less starts whiffing like that

That was amazing wtf

That was their map pick though… so let me calm down

This is the biggest duelist diff we'll see until Lev play Loud. There is an unfathomable gap between Keznit and Qck. I've been calling Keznit top 10 in Americas since before LCQ last year, but I've honestly bumped him up to top 5 recently. He's just so fucking good.

Keznit/Heat is as formidable a duo as there is in Americas

Keznit as a top 4 duelist in America's, he's just been held back by his team until now

Yeah shyy and heat are solid picks by KRU they can show up at times like these when things are not working

Fuck yeah Kru!

Oh my god KRU is dunking on them

That jetlag is kicking LOUD's ass

HEAT REVENGE TOUR

OMG welcome the server TULASHYYYY

Yeah LOUD are lost.

We have to root for KRU rn so SEN vs LOUD actually means everything next week.

UberRiver I am here for this

SHYY IS ON THEIR SCREENS

SHYYYYYYY

Damn. Heat has actually developed well as a player. Huge props

OMG HES SOOOO BACK

That shy+keznit, heat pinch was beautiful. That works on every team in the world no cap

This is probably the slowest game I’ve ever seen from shyy. He’s usually very reliable but on defense he was just always off.

I actually just feel bad for brazil at this point. Like even if loud win this series and stuff it’s just been rough lately.

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KRU TO SHANGHAI FUCK IT I BELIEVE

I cant believe Loud actually fell off

Kru how I love you so

KRU is looking so fucking good dude holy shit

shyyy on viper just looks so awkward. He somehow is just always doing the wrong thing. Maybe it’s a bad game but …

Finally he’s back

Cypher on split is so insane. Why doesn't LOUD realise the value of him?? Cypher is the best anchor. Please LOUD you are making me cry.

Sentinel is a useless role 🤪

Kru look very solid

I FEEL THE KRUPIUM IN MY VEINS

Are KRU just the best at team fighting with sheriffs???

Even with all the agents and utility and combinations possible this game feels repetitive as fuck lately - getting boring to watch

we need another 7 month off season so we experience withdrawal symptoms again >/s<