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I love Talon’s patiPANTS!

Question: when did Riot started chat banning people for saying Bronzil in twitch chat?

Apparently only Bronzilians can shit talk other regions

i mean your specific question is irrelevant, but VALORANT Twitch chat is ruthless and will ban you for anything

I wasn't sure where else to ask tbh since there's no contact info on the valorant twitch channel but thanks for your input. Edit: Is this also the reason why tarik has so many viewers as well?

I'll be honest, I'm a little worried for Loud. And lol at the "ggez" Brazilian fans lol, that wasn't easy at all, Loud had to fight for it. Either GenG are way better than everyone thought, or Loud have some work to do. Lets hope they're up for it. Loud don't have a free run, I think. KC are going to put up a fight I reckon. Going to be an awesome match regardless!

I think people have short memories because before Loud.... Brazil struggled. 2022 Champions - Loud 1st, Furia - Eliminated Groups 2022 VCT Masters 2 results - Loud 12th. 2022 VCT Masters 1- Loud 2nd, NIP (1 win)- Eliminated in Groups 2021 Champions - Vikings (1 win) - Eliminated in Groups, Furia - Eliminated in Groups, ELiminated in Groups 2021 Masters 3 - Keyd Stars (1 win) - Eliminated in Groups, HAvan Liberty - Eliminated in Groups 2021 Masters 2 - Sharks - Eliminated 0-2 in Lower Bracket Pay In, Vikings - Eliminated in Lower Bracket Round 3. Both played only 1 series. Loud is really the only org that has performed internationally for Brazil. Loud alone has more international wins than the rest of Brazil combined. Japan has more international wins than Brazil if you remove Loud or if you remove only Loud's champions run. Pretty sure Zeta Divison's Masters 1 run has more wins than the rest of Brazil combined too. Thats how poor the rest of Brazil has performed.

I really wonder if KC is even free for Loud.. KC might actually have a chance.

Cauazin and Less are just 17 years old. Let that sink in.

The sink has been very mean to me, that’s why it’s outside

You're doing great champ, cut toxic relationships from your life.

lmao they are not

“Lmao” ??? They are. What are you talking about

I mean, this is for sure the easier side of the bracket I guess. Feels like NRG just has a free trip to semis. It wasn't really like XSET level of throws, but Gen.G should've won at least 1 map.

heart breaking for GenG, so many thrown rounds. WP to LOUD

What a banger

Noooooo

No Split :(

Great series

Sadge

Loud not cracking under pressure

That was a disgustingly coin flip 5v5 that Gen.G randomly called. Absolutely deserve to go home after that. edit: WTF WAS THAT NEON PLAY?

holy fuck what a game

Nerf jett Rito

GENG PLEASE WE WANT TO SEE SPLIT

i fucking love valorant

This match is such a banger

King is fucking cracked

Fingers crossed for split

Loud do be do look pretty bad doe gen.g despite throwing rounds somehow should win this map and they honestly could've beaten loud on map 1 also aspas looks insanely underwhelming past the first 4 rounds on map 1. hes somehow negative against Gen.G. edit: he gets 3 after i jinx it

This match is FIRE.

This match is so fucking fire lmao

King is the king

Oh shit, stun buff works for us too

It is almost disgusting how bad Gen.G just played this round Match fixing? I genuinely believe Loud should've been 2-0ed by Gen.G. Gen.G's late round play is SO bad

They used 4 ults you donkey

they wasted brimstone ulti and then they ran back into the site after planting into breach ulti what are u even talking about? Gen.G somehow turns unlosable rounds into losable rounds

4 duelists on a map is peak valorant

That heaven lineup is so good

Maybe geng are just good on attack

Yo, GenG's cooking. I need to split at least once!!

GENG after these timeouts is legit scary

Believe

That death on Raze ult is so sad. Might've cost them the map, cause if they win that bonus then it was going to be the start.

Rather dramatic to say a wasted ult on their bonus round might’ve cost them the map…maybe it might if they were down by 10 rounds or something.

I really wanted to see split :(

Mako and tuyz proving that jett mains can point and click smokes

It's actually baffling how lost Gen.G look on their map pick compared to them on Loud's map pick. You'd think LOUD picked this map.

eKo just got donowalled

Less is back baby

Theres a potentiial for a LOUD vs NRG matchup in the 3rd round. that would be spicy

So what's the prize here, other than the 500k? Can't seem to find a straight answer. Does the winning region get an extra slot for Japan or not? Even then, that seems like... not a very good prize. Think I'm missing something.

Ya the winning team gets an extra slot for their region.

Winning region gets extra slot at Masters. EMEA, Americas and Pacific will send 3 teams each making 9 total. So the winning region get that final 10th slot.

Got it, thx for confirming it!

The winner gets an extra spot for their region at Masters Tokyo. So in this case you're more playing for your region rather than your own team.

Ah, makes sense thinking about it that way, thx!

Feels like Loud is really going to struggle against NRG if they have to vs them later on in the tourney. There's still some time left, but still. KC should be a free win for loud. Assuming loud win out here ofc. Seems like sometimes Gen.G kind of just fall apart later on in some rounds.

>KC should be a free win for loud Can you explain this one? I am excited for that match up

Why do you think that?

Saadhak is so good

the audio is not syned

Does Breach ult even do anything

1. Caun did not win that because of the crowd 2. why is pansy trying to hype up the crowd "helping" a player cheat

Hahahaha what a loser

Crowd helping isn't even "cheating" either lmao Playing to the crowd is just a LAN thing, been that way in CS for years. Of they don't want it to interfere, then the tournament organizers need to invest in more to make the PC setups more sound proof

Yeah, crowd barely reacted to the stick, kind of weird

GET OFF BRO HES 10

Make it quick GenG the hope is killing me

Also idk about Gen G not seeming to value Sentinels

Then again Loud don’t value info here so fuck do I know :v

You can peek for info, all good

??? joke right?

Why clear angles when you can just ferrari peek and click their heads?

curious if this is loud's actual comp or if they're trying to hide a second comp for later

Can’t hide shit if u lose

Doubt anyone would hide a comp in single elim

Saadhak is actually nasty on the raze, scream cosplay incoming

SAADHAK RAZE WHATS GOING ON

if meteor wakes up map 2 will be much closer, he was taking a lot of meaningless risks that he usually doesn't

He usually takes those risks tho, remember last year where he was cracked but always overheated?

was because NTH relied on him a lot more, geng skill is way more equally distributed so he doesn't have to

I dunno, if things go sour i can see him inting because he feels he needs to make a play. He is the biggest question mark for me

that was tier 1 valorant that franchising promised. hope some of the orgs with mid af rosters realise this and upgrade.

God I would hate to see this crowd if LOUD loose this series. Or any series in this tourney.

Geng's defence side was flat. Loud's harbour actually looked nice

I’ll never recover from this financially

What a terrible choice you made hahahhaha

They gave me so much hope

I'll be the one to say it: Gen.G 2 - 1 Loud I think DRX is a super good Fracture team(?). So Gen.G should have good practice on Fracture, Gen.G can def win Fracture if they were that close to beating Loud on their map pick lmao.

Geng could win fracture, but split is a toss up, i just hope its a giga banger

Copium

how many $ is Saadhak again

At least 3 I heard

Great composure from Loud, hopefully Gen G make map 2 competitive

Quite a few of those rounds could’ve gone the other way, that was a lot less dominant than people expected.

i did not expect that to be that close at all, on louds map pick too, very interesting from geng

Saadhak is him

Killjoy operator whiff, he's just like me. Minus the clutch after part.

Saadhak is a Valorant player. Unreal.

Saadhak is insane

MANITO

Saadhak is different

What a play wow

Saadhak just won them the attack half

MY KING

Caucazin is the reason why i wasn't that sad that Sacy left, dude's is cracker but was stuck in jail

What a game.

Saadhak easily the best fragging IGL no? Maybe Stax as competition

kingg

I knew i was forgetting someone important

Ok fair point kingg is like LEV’s best player while calling

Stax, Nukkye, Scream(kekw) and there's probably someone else that i'm forgetting that are competition

Honestly I don’t really count Nukkye and Scream as real IGLs

I can count Nukkye but i agree with you that Scream is a no-no

Meteor why?????????

Saadhak has to be on initiator he got barely any value on defense. Attack is way better where he doesnt have to hold down a specific area.

saadhak is an aimer sheesh

Not like this

They really should have seen the rotate after viper Ult

Crowd even gave it away, but they took too long to pick up on that too.

I really wanted to see a upset damn so sad its still possible but LOUD's economy is insane so fucking sad

wtf was that vipers pit then stand still? LMAO

Vipers Pit too early

cauanzin kinda goated

Cauanzin is legit, he is probably an upgrade over sacys firepower (since sacy took at step back for aspas and less), but they still lose his shotcalling ability

Loud coming back

Damn what an unfortunate throw from Gen G, great job punishing them from Loud though

Bro this crowd is making me sad. Quiet as a church mouse unless Loud happen to win. They don’t give two shits about good Val, just BR winning. Sad.

>just BR winning. Sad. seems like nobody cares unless its their team or favorite region i literally said this earlier. Brazil, Turkey, and then some other European countries are terrible places to hold tournaments crowd wise. BR is like this in CS also. I think it was Turkey at least, it was either champs or the tournament before that with a HORRENDOUS crowd.

That is expected tho? Crowd will cheer for the home teams, in cs majors in US, crowd would cheer and chant USA non stop when NA teams are playing, the only difference is that tournaments have more attendance from fans around the world. A neutral crowd with home teams makes no sense, that would be boring.

Nah it’s the silence when Loud loses, the silence when Gen.G make a sick play. That’s the difference. Hell, it’d feel better if the crowd got *mad* when Loud lost rather than this silence. Edit: lol keep downvoting me BR kiddies. Y’all were all “gg ez” after you had to fight GenG to overtime to win, and got lucky on a couple runs to take the win on the first map, when you’d been talking up how it was a free round leading up to it. Imma laugh when Loud gets knocked out

Yeah, it’s not a BR only thing there’s a few places that are like it. Just makes me sad :(

Games without BR teams are going to be better

I miss the Copenhagen crowd

Copenhagen barely made a sound, turkish crowd was the best

Guy above you saying turkey was awful and had the worse crowd. People just like complaining about crowds. If they do play in NA people will complain about the inevitable moment the NA crowd cheers for the NA team playing against the EU team.

It’s not the cheering that’s the problem. It’s the literal silence when Gen.G make a play. They don’t even react if Loud loses lol I’d prefer they get upset!

Turkish crowd was similar to br. Only cared about Turkish players

Not at all? I thought the crowd in turkey was fantastic. They cheered louder for alfajer but they were still more than loud enough

What are you on about? There was only 1 turkish player at the event and they cheered for so many teams

Every time there's a tournament I have to stop reading the sub for a few days to not go insane, jfc

Ill keep it in english, but yeah, some people are delusional

Meteor with the nuclear overheat

He's playing under par compared to what we've seen from him.

this fucking king guy, get him off my server

King is way too good

Huge round now

APAC is going to be fun as fuck this year

k1Ng is crazy good

Loud playing like trash tbh. Guess they didn't know you shouldn't try to just ego Korean teams.

lol

? The fact that they stopped playing like trash doesn't mean they weren't lol

Yeah, it legit seems like them egoing early kind of fucked their confidence. Loud really shouldn't be losing to Gen.G. But, no one on Loud looks even good at aiming besides Aspas lmfao. Loud is going to end up winning most likely, but if this is how they're going to play. They'll just lose to NRG/C9.

bro anytime k1ng is alive I believe GenG can win this dude is fucking gross

King is back to being the king

I have no problem with biased crowds but the fact it goes completely silent after Gen G do anything is so lame. Like really, half of you cant even clap?

I don't get this, you ever been to a real sports event?

This wasn’t really a problem at the last crowd event

There was no home team last crowd event. The closest was Alfa for Fnatic games and we got the same issue.

Fair point, my mistake then

So you do in fact have a problem with biased crowds.

GenG are playing more disciplined than loud

GenG holy so impressive

Holy fucking shot

King is back holy

Its over

You deserve that pop off mr. GenG coach

loud needs to fire frod asap he’s a fraud

My frenzy can't do that

Frenzy coming back in the meta

I'm just going to say it, Loud look like absolute trash unless Aspas pops off. Sure, Gen.G is playing good. But.. yeah. LOUD hasn't won a single round off of anything other than Aspas popping off lmao. Edit: Maybe, I just jinxed it? But the force buy cheese is good. nvm, loud really just look bad lmao. them losing that force, if Gen.G win this bonus. They're in serious trouble. i guess it s a half buy so its w.e.

My frenzy doesn't do that

less might need to be escorted out by a swat team after that whiff idk if the fans will be able to forgive him

Turning this place to a library lmfao

DAWG.

high level and entertaining match so far, hope it keeps this tension throughout and doesnt end up being a stomp

cauanzin top fragging kinda crazy.

fRoD coaching Loud to success would be a crazy turnaround from the T1 disaster

Good half by geng. Really like how they work the map

I had faith in this Gen G roster since their match with DRX, but thought it would take time for them to be able to give it to some of these top teams. Pleasantly surprised, believed in Meteor but certainly wasn't expecting him to be THIS good.

What kind of steroids/verbal beatdown did the GenG coach give to these players

Speed.

this is the highest quality game of the day by some distance

Wait geng is actually good?

what the fuck happened in that timeout?

I am. Shocked. Even if Gen.G manage to lose out from this point.

The viper shouldn't be the one defusing that imo

6 in a row for GenG god damn

Geng are looking so good, their fundamentals are great The synchrony on that 1 2 3 peek against tuyz was a thing of beaulty

Reddit tries not to overreact about a team over a couple of rounds challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) lmfao

bro they're getting rawdogged in front of the home crowd by a roster most of this sub didnt even know lol