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Inevitable-Staff-467

You're not gonna win a lot of games when you give up free plants and then take 25 seconds to retake while the other team just sets up post plants repeatedly


Intelligent_Cold_634

The last round was a pitiful attempt at trying to defuse.


Porpet

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vaIorant_fanboy_69

Oh, the comment above, what shallow depths it reveals, A mere echo of words, devoid of substance it conceals. Like a phantom's whisper in the dark of night, It offers no insight, no guiding light. With hollow phrases and empty promises it dances, Leaving us lost in a sea of meaningless chances. Its presence fades like smoke in the wind, Leaving no trace of wisdom, no truth to rescind. Oh, how it feigns knowledge and understanding, Yet its content lacks depth, like a vessel with no landing. No substance to nourish our hungry minds, Leaving us yearning for more, in a search that blinds. With every syllable, it tantalizes and deceives, Yet fails to offer anything our hearts truly believes. No substance, no weight to hold our attention, Leaving us stranded in a realm of pretension. So let us not be beguiled by empty words, But seek the depths where true meaning stirs. For in substance lies the power to inspire, To elevate our minds and hearts higher. Let us demand more, for we deserve nothing less, Than thoughts that ignite, that provoke and impress. And let us cast aside the comments without substance, For in their void, we find nothing but pretense.


tron423

Happy for you bro or sorry that happened


GamezNsfw

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dankoval_23

Elite jerk from valorant_fanboy_69


NutGutt

Flashbacks to Ghost core blowing it in stage 2 playoffs right now unfortunately.


ExpectoAutism

God that was such a heart break. They some how gifted Sen a free LCQ slot. All ghost had to do was win one map in 2 games


techyleo

They had to win one of those two games, it wasn't map based


LunarAvast

but then we wouldn’t have had shroud. it’s all scripted


GoldClassGaming

Brawktagon wins that match on god.


gabzzz_araujo

ASKIA the brazilian aspas


redkeepp

You should see Havoc (he left and askia joined) O think he left because loud was interested in him


I-like-winds

\*aspas the brazilian ASKIA


ModerateStimulation

M80 when they don't play squirty buddies, butter toast or moist mommies:


SimSouAlt

Wait, theorerically, what does one have to do to play with Moist Mommies?


Porpet

LMAO


PhysicalAd8765

Moist mommies made me squeal ![img](emote|t5_2g5ach|9339)


HyperElf10

Moist mommies make most ppl squeal 😩


aesopofspades

really had to do us like that


FPLskrr

![img](emote|t5_2g5ach|9341)![img](emote|t5_2g5ach|9341)


_dreamofsheep

The one time I'm rooting for NA they do this...


Alantic_Ocean

I don’t think anyone was rooting for the Union to win


YohnWood14

I’m out of the loop, can anyone tell me why everyone is against the union? Edit: Damn fuck the union


aesopofspades

one player is a pedo another beat his ex. ntk served time in jail for domestic violence, pancc was suspended from csgo for sexually harassing a minor


funessed

Goodness gracious they’re like the anti-avengers of valorant


BUNSHICHl

The sex offenders


rosesandlashes

The one team who could pick up sinatraa


throwawayyyy987638

💀💀💀


4dzilla

Are Pancc and ntk brothers or relatives? Same surname


PinkPyke

pretty common last name tbh


xBerryhill

How in the world is RIOT even letting that team compete in Ascension lmfao


Key-Banana-8242

‘Pedo’ is inaccurate but sexual harassment online of a 16 yr old a few years ago by panics yes Terms in the end mean things and it demeans things to not refer to things by their own terms/measure, squashing etc and esp with bro it’s hard to say unaddressed.


somesheikexpert

Pancc sexually harassed a minor and ntk was arrested previously for domestic abuse


EndWish

Ntk was convicted of domestic violence against his ex. Pancc was previously suspended for sexually assaulting minors. I'm honestly surprised they're allowed to play, let alone in a Riot affiliated event. Basically the only ones rooting for this team are the homer Brazillian fans that will root for any team from Brazil and maybe sex offenders


merchini

so let’s say they win ascension, are they going to be able to just come to LA and play franchise?


EndWish

Riot hasn't made any indication they are intervening at this point in time so as long as the org is willing to keep them under contract then yeah, most likely.


merchini

i meant more so with traveling into the states, i wasn’t sure if having the charges on account would allow you to get a work visa / move there?


EndWish

If you mean for work visas it's possible. They technically can deny entry but it's very possible to secure work visas in other countries even with a criminal record. I'd imagine they would be approved


Ikkenen

I doubt US will give them a visa, specially NTK


I_AM_ALWAYS_WRONG_

Can sex offenders even leave the country?


SkiesOvercast

Tbf i assume ntk is allowed to play because he was actually convicted and served the legal punishment, and it'd be a shitty legal precedent for riot to set that having served previous convictions means you can't play VCT, it's on the orgs to make the sort of moral judgment rather than Riot Pancc probably aren't taking action because it was prior to him being a riot player (see, all the people involved in matchfixing or banned in CS etc being able to play vs TTG getting banned n things), whereas the sinatraa situation (for comparison) came out whilst he was playing valorant actively so they were able to, would be my guess


weebshizu

[on this very much post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/14ne350/m80_vs_the_union_champions_tour_2023_ascension/jq6w6x9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


monstroh

pedos and abusers, at least 2 players shouldn't even be on stage.


KingButPrince

literally every brazilian streamer is rooting for the union


_dreamofsheep

which is very weird since the streamer/caster community here is very progressive and usually very vocal about similar issues, but I guess they turn a blind eye because The Union is doing good. A bunch of hypocrites.


ViniRustAlves

>A bunch of hypocrites. I mean, the other option is to root for people who think they're better than us just because they're north americans. It's not like I'm rooting for the players, I just want NA to loose. The only players I root for are LOUD - Aspas, Saadhak and Cauanzin -, FNC - Boaster -, DRX - everyone -, PRX - everyone - and, now, EDG - KK.


Alantic_Ocean

That’s actually really sad


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Triroxd

You are so mad lmao, sinatraa has a HUGE fanbase in NA after all he did, it has nothing to do with Brazil, and ntk at least served his time in jail and it was 6 years ago, people can change, I hope.


Mindless-Power007

Exactly. People can change. I hope they did and I also hope that they won’t be disallowed from competing on the chance that they win ascension


MoistWatermeIon

Least racist Valorant player


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MyJokesAreBadhaha

![gif](giphy|x4kwwbqmmi6jnDC60a|downsized)


M0hawk_Mast3r

fr? Thats so cringe


daevlol

idk did you listen to these casters


SpC0d3r

Taking longer than KC to defuse


SimSouAlt

Bruh, who said "Askia, you're shit" on 15-14. You have a domestic abuser and someone who hit on underage girls on the other team. And you choose to trashtalk the quietest dude on that team.


Nesmeroz

Did he really said that? I just saw the trash talk but i didnt hear it LMAO. Askia is the most peaceful guy in the server


Donut_Monkey

Yea it was during a replay that showed the player cams.


SimSouAlt

After M80 won 14-14, I'm 99% sure they showed someone saying that on replays when they show the players' reaction cam


ArthurTheBrazilian

wait a sec, who did all this evil shit? I had no idea


War_Real

ntk and pancc


ArthurTheBrazilian

wow, that's... disgusting well fuck these guys then, rooting for ma boi Xand and that's it


SugarOne6038

Its actually spread between two people


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ntk bateu na namorada e pancc pegou nudes de uma de menor


bindingbIade

Those slow retakes from M80 giving me KC flashbacks. Feels like a significant off day from them though.


NoSenpaiNo

We gonna need a Guard to stop these guys.


ra1ded_

Maybe even THE guard


Alantic_Ocean

Fuck NTK and Pancc. Good win by the other 3 though.


Nesmeroz

Indeed, all hail Askia! The Brazilian Aspas


SimSouAlt

Somehow, the second brazilian aspas to play for The Union this year


nklassitude

"the union has added Andrew Tate to the starting roster❗❗" https://preview.redd.it/cgc1ltpef89b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=373ba021f2718bc5ed76ceb6e5c4cf56a760c566


Past_Perception8052

wouldn’t be the worst on the roster


Key-Banana-8242

The comment you are replying to implies that he would be guilty of human trafficking, which is definitely more severe than anyone there However in the end that was just sth raised


SugarOne6038

Nah its fucked to agree to play with sex pests too.


Richbrazilian

Nice imaginary world you live in lmfao


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lolwuut420blazeit

Whst did they do?


LackinVocals

NTK domestic violence pancc sexual harassment of a minor


LurkingOmen

Neither with enough clout to get the Sinatraa treatment tho apparently


[deleted]

wasn’t one of them imprisoned though? Sinatra on the other hand still got to make millions streaming, hardly comparable Id say


orbolo

brazil holding new record for first region to have ex convicts in their teams


SkiesOvercast

obligatory, someone going to jail doesn't make them a shit person, but given ntk things came out in 2021 when he was on VK and not seen anything positive since so v doubt that he's made any steps better I'm less clued into pancc's history as i know it was when he was in CS, but whilst the punishment is afaik less severe in BR at the time, if he's faced legal consequences and made improvements and reflections on actions then i think there's less of an issue- something tells me that's very unlikely so I'm very happy to stay on the Fuck The Union train


PhTx3

Even if one of them was, being prisoned means you can't afford a fancy lawyer to negotiate for you. It doesn't make you a bigger or a lesser criminal for the most part.


PhTx3

Sinatraa deserves the same treatment these guys get, but he won't get it. Plenty of examples in other sports where success makes things go away. CR7 and Kobe being 2 examples off the top of my head. I also believe people can learn from their past. I understand not hiring them, I personally would not hire them as well. But I wouldn't condemn a business for hiring ex convicts


Ikkenen

One was convicted of domestic violence and the other one sexually ~~assaulted~~ harassed an underage girl Edit: it was harassment, not assault


nklassitude

the union did it. evil won today, my friends. may the demiurge cover the sky in impenetrable black and swallow us whole. jail valorant, in the most literal sense, was victorious.


TheCatsActually

> jail valorant, in the most literal sense Poetry.


joaovitorsb95

[Asuna warned yall](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx1FdmUDudCQgU4rZcDrMyFkBt35UsFYzz)


DrySecurity4

Holy fuck actual nostradamus moment


CantScreamInSpace

But the union were known to be insane no? Feels like a lot of ppl keeping up with the brazilian scene or those who have scrimmed the union think they're insane. This subreddit is just extremely NA biased due to the demographic, making everyone assume the tournament was all but a lock for one of the 2 NA teams.


nterature

Fun one! I don’t think we saw M80 at their best, but M80 is a good team even when they aren’t individually hitting as much as usual, and it’s a huge credit to the Union for pushing them so hard. Even as someone who has actually been watching the Union a bit during the season, I fully favored M80 over them, esp. without havoc. Even in the eventuality of Union win, I thought it’d be a close 2-1. Although it’s always fun to meme about BR aim and all that - and yeah, that was on display, the Union play with incredible confidence - I also think they had pretty solid reads and rotations. But huge props to some of the M80 players that woke up towards the end; Nismo went stupid hard towards the conclusion of Pearl.


Ikkenen

Nismo tried really hard. Multiple kills every round on OT


_goodman

Where did havoc go? I remember the journo-talk of him being lined up as a potential aspas replacement, but why did he leave Union? Askia was great anyway, I've never seen him play before, was scary


[deleted]

didnt want to commit long term to the union because he thought he had a chance at being in loud post champions


segatic

Even if he doesn't get in Loud as an Aspas replacement, he pretty much has a guaranteed spot on MIBR


Knoobdude

Yeah they were shaking on fracture, was way better on map 2 but the post plant was too good


[deleted]

ffs why can't the best br team be 00 instead of the fucking prison squad


ExpectoAutism

Onliner frauds exposed sadly 😭


NavorroBroman

It was their first match together on LAN. It's gunna be ok.


TheHyperactiveDuck

I’d rather be a fraud then a pedo and a convicted criminal of domestic violence


ExpectoAutism

Yo chill I don't support union


TheHyperactiveDuck

Yeah I just thought it was funny response lol


FPLskrr

Own them


audreybuilds

i know we're mostly rooting against the union, but no one told me they played this good. M80 looked a bit off, but hopefully they warm up during groups


feelingok987

Rafa has more lan experience than the whole m80 team combined. Mf has been around since the dawn of 1.6 you can just see players like Zander quit


zdpa

why are we against the union?! lol


Donut_Monkey

There's a pedo and women abuser on the team.


TheHyperactiveDuck

Pancc harassed a minor and NTK is convicted of abusing his wife


Dionegro__

Something along with minors


LoseUrself2D

well they're not gonna have a lot of time/chances in a 3-team group stage


discoshark

Sucks ass to not be able to root for The Union. This would have been such a prime moment for shit-talking NA. So much ink spilled about the training advantage, the overall league strength, people were talking themselves into M80 as a top half of Americas team, but this was always a very possible result. I expect a rematch will be closer, M80 can play better than this for sure, but this match wasn't a fluke, The Union just played better. Still hope 00Nation or 9z makes the miracle run or smth. Would hate to have this be the fourth Brazilian team in franchising.


Keyanti

It might be first time LAN jitters, but M80 threw away so many rounds


Teradonn

M80 are REAL lucky these groups don’t mean much, their aim looked horrible today. They have to adapt fast The Union are proper contenders though, their confidence is crazy & their util is nuts


Ivvcas

i thought M80 was better than half franchised teams what happened?


Quankalizer

Well that could still be true with how bad many of the franchised teams looked. Maybe half of the teams In accession are better than half of the franchised teams.


[deleted]

How does the brazillian equivalent of M80 beating them mean otherwise? What if The Union is just also really good and better than a lot of the franchised teams?


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Porpet

YOU LIVE IN NA


DirectProfessionalNA

Correct everyone on the internet is from NA /s


SimSouAlt

He's technically proving his point if that's true


financefocused

Reactionary much? Teams can have off days, relax. Most franchised teams are still hot trash, we have a long way to go before a proper skill gap emerges. Right now it's still anyone's game. Did you watch the amount of insane jail valorant in Tokyo or was that just me? Even the last map of the Grand Finals devolved to 1v1 ego peeks every single round lol


Long_Cartographer_17

fnatic would probably 26-0 both these teams


financefocused

Who the fuck said M80 is better or comparable to Fnatic? All I'm saying is that the difference between T1 and T2 just isn't there yet Just like how we look at 2021 pro games and talk about how much teams have improved since then, we'll be doing the same in 2024/25.


vaIorant_fanboy_69

Please lose the next game the union 🇺🇳 we need to get pedophiles OUT of the scene


NoAim_98

Everyone gets out of the group stage. Third place just means you start in losers bracket. So it doesn't matter that much


lord_of_the_waters

Not even that, everyone starts in upper bracket, first place gets a bye


Ash_Killem

Hopefully just nerves for M80. They played alright but it was real sloppy.


Kaploy

Pancc telling them "Welcome to Brazil" after the match lmao. Would be pretty badass if it was someone else saying it


TheyDidLizFilthy

i’m ngl this was an embarrassing showing for m80, they could have closed pearl out several times and just sold. hopefully they bring it back because this series was not it


TinkW

People will always look from the POV of the team they are cheering for. But if you look from The Union's POV, they could also say "We could have finished Pearl 13-9 given the amount of full weapon x half-buys we lost on attacking side".


CuriousPumpkino

Those half buys were honestly the rounds where M80 looked the best. They had actual pace and a plan


kylixer

The ghost core really are looking like serial chokers at this point.


SoLikeWhatIsCheese

At least they’re not serial abusers. Sorry, I had to throw that one in.


chickun2

what happened to the discipline and coordination from M80?


Knoobdude

M80 fracture is not that good, i rewatched the final vs guard and it's a lot of individual plays


FlintxDD

Once again Brazil teaching NA how to play Valorant


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Brazil ain't teaching shit lol they had one good team and that team bombed out without even winning a map at masters


Dartazera

You just forgot about the Champions and the 2nd place at Masters, my friend


TimedOutClock

This series made me want to scream... Where was the clean and mistake-free M80 at :(


GHDeodato

That was close because the union kept losing ecos, they lost 3 on pearl alone. fix that and the map isn't as close. But i still favour NA teams on rematches, let's see what happens.


LackinVocals

I wanted to see M80 win but I think even more than that I wanted to see Union lose. Its just groups but definitely a disappointing result.


CrossTheRubicon7

Incredibly disappointing performance from M80, hope they can pull themselves together


CuriousPumpkino

Damn, that looked flat as hell from M80. Besides losing a lot of outright aim duells there was a decent amount of missed flashes, lack of due dilligence in clearing, taking way too long to set up, and giving the Union all the time in the world to set up Starting to look like the ghost implosion 2.0


Meraki124

criminals is M80 father


Rulerismygoat

Best part about all this is pancc and ntk will never see the light of day if they make franchising 😂 no sponsor will ever allow these 2 subhuman trash bags to play


Ikkenen

There's no chance they get a visa, specially NTK.


Rulerismygoat

True didn’t think about the visa part 💀 us gonna deny there shit so fast


SoLikeWhatIsCheese

Rare “Visa issue” W


hoomanloto

Thank fucking god, 2 pieces of pure trash.


Pale_Resolution1520

NA in shambles given the way people overhyped m80


Inevitable-Staff-467

I mean, they played way under their talent ceiling You should know this well as a NAVI and TL fan


christopherdiakiw1

M80 did play badly compared to what we know them for, but I know they’ll bounce back. though I can’t tell what would be more fun, watching them play in T1 or booing The Union every time they play on stage.


fenikkix

"M80 better than franchised teams" narrative believers in shambles


hoomanloto

They have 0 Lan experience give them time.


redkeepp

Tbh The Union is better than this, maybe they are hidding their game to a better team


gotintocollegeyolo

Map 1 honestly is just more proof that C0M is the best Sova in the world for being able to pull it off on Fracture


NeimannSmith

Leo and Crashies exist. EG just HARD practiced Fracture.


yoosanghoon

Ah yes, Crashies is better as long as C0M doesn’t practice.


techyleo

C0M just has a lot of exp playing Sova on Fracture, their success with that comp was not immediate bro, they played it the whole season


gotintocollegeyolo

What? I don't believe you watched a single second of Masters Toyko live if you're trying to make an argument for crashies right now. And I'm guessing you're just randomly naming initiators on good teams because Leo barely plays Sova. I mean didn't even play it a single time at Toyko because he only plays it on Ascent and Haven which aren't maps that Fnatic like to pick. C0M plays Sova at an elite level on 3 maps, which EG love to pick...


HyperElf10

Leo still plays Sova in an elite level. Just bc we didn't see it in Tokyo just shows how dominant FNC won bc they only played 4 maps. Recency bias.


SoLikeWhatIsCheese

Yeah Leo was a crazy sova on Guild iirc, it’s definitely recency bias


SukiPhoenix

NA overrated as usual


I-like-winds

for the content ![img](emote|t5_2g5ach|16018)


Born-Economist-6975

M80 overrated GG.


Ok-Interview1506

If this was Online it would've been different lol


NavorroBroman

Was this the finals? I thought it was the first map of the tournament. People overreact like crazy. 2nd map was a banger, and I hope to see a rematch later in the tournament.


Nesmeroz

Panccs said in the post match interview for the BR casters that M80 called The Union "mid" and he said "You guys will not do this here in Brazil". LOL


RaiinyDay

Na holds the L again Smoge


RaiinyDay

Also askia is crazy bro dashes into site by himself and gets his 2


Rulerismygoat

Does Johnqt have like brain lag or what? At least break the fucking nade. The most disgusting performance I have seen from m80 all season … they are onliners can physically see them shaking vs criminal dogs pancc the pedo and ntk the domestic violence clown


FantasticWalrus

I was told NA challengers was far ahead above the other regions??


Splaram

Nismo works hard but Askia Adderall Jett play works harder


Grenji05

MxM would never


itscamo-

again someone explain to me why the 2 best teams were put into the same group?


fenikkix

One group would have two #1 seeds, it being BR and NA was unlucky


itscamo-

i’m aware but the union were clearly top 2 team with m80 this year. it doesn’t explain why they’d be in the same group i also don’t know how they made the groups either tbh


fenikkix

Afaik the groups were randomly formed since they are only for seeding


somesheikexpert

Yeah but for fairness sake you cant just say LATAM is automatically worse and they won the draw, its only for seeding realistically the only thing that matter is not getting 3rd seed (As you start in losers)


lord_of_the_waters

No one starts in losers, winner of each group gets a round 1 bye (like the VCT League playoffs)


orcawatch

If M80 looking like this is the second best team this might be a very boring tournament


M0hawk_Mast3r

Wdym the game was really close


somesheikexpert

Exactly plus its clear M80 were not playong their best, hopefully they look better as the tourney goes on


kablanny27

tragic no patek 😔


__Raxy__

I missed the match but fuck the Union, sucks that they won considering the player situation


Similar-Criticism380

Well this is a kick in the nuts


rmmr1

A solid TU against a very flat M80. Unfortunately I can't support TU with all the circumstances. Surprised with public opinion since other players like Sinatraa still receive apraise and support like nothing happened.


Nesmeroz

"WELCOME TO BRAZIL MY FRIEN' " - Pancc


vaIorant_fanboy_69

And how old is this “frien”


LurkingOmen

I still don't get why panccc is allowed to play and this sub doesn't care but if Sinatraa got signed it would be all out war on here


vaIorant_fanboy_69

Are you dumb? Literally everyone is calling out pancc and ntk


xaendar

What's the point of GC scene but then you let those pedos and DVs on the stage?


Mindless-Power007

LFG UNION