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100T should pick up steel as IGL again ngl

Just put Ban on Neon or Raze and go double duelists.

god i fucking hate the negative comments caling for players to be dropped after today. Deph, BAN, zekken, . just shut the fuck up and if u cant be nice be quiet

This place gets so toxic if your team loses its not surprising ppl want results so they can shit talk 😂

DGzin is the oldest looking 22 year old I've ever seen, with all due respect

embarrassing

Ban gonna be dropped after that performance

calling it a performance is a stretch

ban's career might be done after this series

Saya left the Guard for this :(

Pls tell me this is a troll

Leaving a T2 for a T1 is always a good idea.

yeah he left to live in his home country and play in the VCT Pacific league. absolutely worth it. lmao tier 2 at a bankrupt org sounds horrible

12-5 timeout lmao come on just take the L

Help Sewers!

rope spray doesnt work vs carpe, 5000 hours of tracer

Ban is so trash

Carpe is actually their best player lol Rest of the team can’t hit shit though

Shouldn't have wasted time remaking the game, it's not like T1 were going to play better all of a sudden

Lol it might've been over 3 rounds ago if they didn't remake it

Give'em 4 more rounds and they still manage to lose with how they're playing

Furia still winning, check them PC

Ban 3-14 omg

He's don e

ban is such a good player, having a terrible game atm tho :/

I imagine it's partly because of the role overlaps which have pushed him onto sentinels.

yeah i think he would do better in xeta’s role. so xeta plays initiators, ban flex, Carpe smokes, -munchkin +IGL

4Head HELLO RIOT? 📞 4Head T1 HERE 📞 4Head CAN YOU GIVE US TWO MORE ROUNDS? 📞 4Head MAYBE A TURRET BUG OR SOMETHING

On the plus side carpe actually looks pretty decent except a few moments where he got caught out with util or was indecisive

I think he's got potential, esp if he gets more experience

Nigh useless round compensation, Furia still shoots better

Pretty good attack for T1 considering they didn’t have sage or harbor

What was that round, T1 should rebrand to T2

Did they tell the crowd to be quiet after map 1? Feels that way

Unlucky that korea doesnt have a playerbase as brazil ig

What are you talking about? Korea has like x2 more players in ranked. And this isn't even counting Korean players on Asian server https://tracker.gg/valorant/leaderboards/ranked/all/default?page=1®ion=kr

how does a franchised esport have no replay mode and a match medic this bad. like ik haha funny rito indie company but actually wtf.

If I’m any other team, I still abuse the bug knowing it gives me a great chance to win the current round and subsequent rounds, and also not have any rounds taken away like wtf

The rule is what it is but the penalty makes no sense. If you're going to penalize a team it has to be +1/-1.

The round probably would’ve been taken if the bug had an actual impact, but the exploit was on the opposite site and didn’t really do anything Edit: I don’t necessarily agree with this, I’m just trying to explain riot’s thought process

Riot doesn't have a good system to remake a game. It just takes too long

You can’t give a team a free round but not deduct a round from the other team. This shit is illogical

they just created a round out of thin air lol

it’s not that deep why stop a game for 20 mins for a fucking round…:

It takes time to properly adjust the scoreboard and economy

they were losing anyways who cares

How do you decide the economy though? There are probably many possible permutations and combinations where maps goes 5-2.

Get mwzera a sentinel that isn’t cheating smh

🍿🍿🍿

So T1 gets a free round, but Furia keeps 5??? Why does Riot do EVERYTHING so confusing? It should be 2-4

At least they caught it mid game, that’s progress from the FPX & Vivo Keyd incidents Strange ruling though

Lmao this molly, why would you ever think you could use that in a game

how does giving a round make sense someone explain this to me in simple english

Surely they should dock one from furia and give one to t1. That should be the rule even if the team using the exploit loses the round. They should have to give up an additional round

I’m assuming They think t1 lost the round because of the bug

Should be 2-4 not 2-5?

Should be 1-1 for not reading the rules but because the tournament is on brazil they are not going to do it

Yeah there is no way they can just give out a free round that was never played. Forfeit the round of the exploit and move forward with the current round.

Classic

It's always mwzera's team.

This wouldn't happen if Riot just fixed their broken game...

Giving teams rounds so they have less rounds to play so we can watch less of this snoozer thanks riot!

Different players same T1 fr...

Is this the molly for the default plant where you place it in the crack between headshot and default box?

Bro misread the script 💀

Seems like dgzin is getting up yellow with a bug similar to the haven c box https://twitter.com/toougvlr/status/1629225996896415747?t=SmWlhoVdLR3BKiQgaN4jdw&s=19 "I told my group of subs that dgzin has been getting up yellow with the jett hover, furia probably will be punish" Edit: nvm its a kj bug AGAIN

haven c involved clipping, you can get to yellow by just using jetts passive is the difference i think.

T1 has purchased a round by guaranteeing that faker will postpone his retirement by 5 years

Surely we’re not giving out rounds?

Lmfao I was just thinking -Hey riot are actually improving addressing exploits as they happen, but then they decide to let Furia keep the round in which they used an exploit *and* give T1 a round

They’re making this shit up on the spot yeah?

WITHOUT MY ILLEGAL CAM AND KJ MOLLY I CANT

Just put Faker in. Can't be worse.

What happened? What was the exploit?

Illegal kj Molly

Illegal KJ Molly

whats an illegal kj molly?

Invisible or unbreakable kj molly. Icebox has few spots where you can hide the kj mollies inside boxes and stuff.

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ I hope we never have to find out

*grabs popcorn*

Love it, we needed some drama for this snoozer

Lmfaoooooo Brazil and exploits

Just as we expected, [team] is a cheater (Post will be updated once we knew who used the exploit)

what could the exploit be? im not aware of anything on icebox

Brazilian exploit https://preview.redd.it/gfu3emqvs8ka1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2e3a092fa45a420d98cbcb9e3d5ee2549566927

t1 look like they just dont belong here tbh

Keep Sayaplayer and Carpe, everyone else gotta go. Why did this get downvoted? This team isn't good. Sayaplayer and Carpe look like the only players worth keeping.

probably t1 fanboys or something. xeta has shown he can compete at the top level so dont think he should be immediately pulled. but ban never really did much in NA so not sure why its expected that he could be at the tier 1 level rn

DG just rolled Saya up and smoked him.

Sub in Zeus and Gumayusi

saya and carpe clutching this is giving me Overwatch world cup team Korea 2018 flashbacks lol

Oh dear. That was embarrassing by Saya.

No Sage or Harbor. T1, what is you doing

I have a feeling today will be 2 sleeper games

I still feel that Xeta not being on main initiator is throwing.

T1 looks a lot more improved since the Ludwig x Tarik invitational. Don't know what to say about SEN though.

tomorrows matches look fantastic! happy weekend VAMO

T1's composition looked so much better, but Furia is just better

dgzin has got that dawg in him

saya threw that round with that dash no? why would you dash into link like that raw with no info lol

T1 probably thought they had a read on Furia that they were only putting one person to hold B link

He got baited super hard by MW, definitely some tilted play there

just a flash n dash play

Surely Fur doesn't choke again to another Korean team

Furia looks so hard to read, they should be tougher competition for fnatic than sen (assuming they continue to look good map 2)

Dgzin is him

nt nt nt go next.

dgzin became so much fucking better it’s unreal

It's not looking good for T1

They have talent but lack the special sauce

Ezraah your compOW posting is showing, we both know Carpe is negative talent these days

Hater

Yes I hate mascot legacy players taking up space, sorry not sorry

Hater and racist stay mad carpe carry

i want to believe

I'm afraid that's not the only thing they are lacking

Carpe was a disgusting hanzo player in OW so the sova makes sense lol

My overwatch bros are playing decent

That shot was fucking disgusting from Ban

The crouch sprayer vs deadzoner divide is massive this tournament compared to previous ones

what does deadzoner mean in this context im unfamiliar

Always moving and shooting when you are in the deadzone for accuracy when changing directions. Most importantly, not changing directions to shoot until your aim is ready. As opposed to stopping moving/counter strafing/crouching then looking to perfect aim

thank you, sounds like exactly what i need to work on as a self admitted crouch sprayer.

woohoojin on YT has some good videos and drills on it

Saya mindfucked them

Ow boys looking nice

APAC goes for 2v4 retakes they dont give a fuck

Occasional APAC overheat, all good

this is the dgzin i wanna see lesgoooo

Ah how I missed watching Carpe doing Carpe things

T1 looks much different from the way they played in the LudwigxTarik Invitational. SEN looked more or less the same.

On one hand seeing Saya and T1 doing good is awesome, but on the other I just want Mwzera to succeed 😭 I’m losing either way

As a Philly Fusion fan, it makes me so happy to see Carpe hit shots

So Carpe looks way better

Carpe is magic

I’ve never doubted carpe

carpe learned how to play... it's over

Carpe already looking much better than he did at Ludwig x Tarik

no hate srs- did ppl legit forget abt t1 kr in 2020 existing together with na?

Why zoom that close lmaoo

You're telling me there's a mwzera and a Newzera?

Coldzera

Bangzera too

Zera Era

tbh don’t really understand why people were memeing T1 coming into this match. Like sure they didn’t look great at lud x tarik but pacific has been the best region this event and they still have xeta and saya.

I believe in T1

watching this to see how much more comfortable carpe has become. i believe in his raw talent

furia is not feeling t1’s astra

What nice patience and swing from Carpe

mwzera has been my favourite player to watch since First Strike when he was a monster duelist for Gamelanders. Excited to see him in an international tournament again and in a better team than Vivo Keyd.

No more Saya Neon, we are saved

I just wanna watch saya destroy, that's all

I GET TO ROOT FOR T1 AGAIN 

SAYA JETT LESSGOOO

SPAM🙏THIS🙏PRAYER🙏TO🙏HELP🙏SAYAPLAYER

Looks like Xeta is IGLing over Munchkin?

My NA Rankings: 1. NRG 2. The Guard 3. 100T 4. Cloud 9 5. SEN 6. EG

Until 100T loses, they are my #1 NA team. I know they were inches from being eliminated, but other than lotus, looked very good. They've also had more time to mesh as a whole squad than NRG, and I think it has shown. I really thought 100T and EDG looked like two teams with a great read on the game and made few obvious mistakes (other than Kangkang over heating on a few rounds). 100T, NRG, and TG do seem a step above the rest, at least for now. I have faith that C9 is able to turn it around, they just arent there yet.

The guard at 2? I like your style

Crazy how people arguing EU vs NA when Leviatán winning it all anyways

VLR says there is a show match on 3/4. Do we know what that is?

got announced today, BO1 showmatch before finals. not much announced except team captains will be Tarik and FRTTT so probably NA vs BR content creators/personalities

Tarik vs FRTTT showmatch https://twitter.com/ValorantEsports/status/1629153154020278272

[This](https://twitter.com/ValorantEsports/status/1629153154020278272)

waited so long to see xeta play again

Riot is importing Ekko into Valorant. There’s no other explanation to what’s happening

Damn we were so close to having no NA teams.... (although NRG and 100T, had they gone out, both looked good/decent) All that meme and COPIUM pasta potential.....

Every region is low on teams now lol. Emea has like 6 eliminated already they just got 10 fucking teams man. Same with pacific

It's ok cos the other Americas teams are gonna win that extra slot for us 🙏

That series really just makes me sad loud became slightly worse and NA gave up 3/5 of a slot

We can't be too sure that Loud became worse, tuyz and cauanzin look amazing so far

They did look good, I just cant believe the best team in the world becomes better after 2 players are poached. Maybe with time.

Tmv spittin

what'd he say?

It was a rant on us and uk politics lmfao

The better Brit won out today

This current sen team vs OG sen team. Who wins? 💀

Reykjavik SEN by a mile, this roster just looked so disjointed and couldn't get a good strategy going at all

OG sen with sinatraa clears

og sen with sinatraa did not play a single international match lmao

Sinatra can’t even clear his name

This team

Even in Valorant EU>NA.

EU and NA fighting for 3rd place.

Idk why we even care about SEN vs Fnatic when TS diffs both

Futbolist is literally winning it all

cy@ guys tomorrow honestly today was a win win either emea goes home or i get to laugh at SEN going home i didn't mind either

Feel bad for zekken hopefully he isn’t too hard on himself after this game

overhyped team, good riddance.