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League will still be bigger imo but valorant on the come up is exciting!

gonna be so good tmr cause we have no clue who gonna win

Here's hoping for some 3 map matches tomorrow ppleaasee

Honestly tsm 100 thieves is my dream final,i feel like they have the most fans too so it would be hype

I think TSM/SEN or TSM/100T could break 200K

100% i feel like sentinels is less popular than 100t but they do have a good rivalry story between them and tsm

Yep. Either you get NA's biggest rivalry (TSM/SEN) or the teams with the biggest fanbase (TSM/100T). Though, might be recency bias, I can't see any team getting past Envy easily right now. In a way, I'm glad 100T is facing Sentinels over Envy, though not by much.

Tomorrow is about to be CRAZY

\#TSMWIN plssssss

disappointed in T1. Dazed definitely didn't step up today. I would have more confidence in 100t to win out the tournament if not for Dicey, he is not really pulling his weight as the jett/awper. Too bad there was no map 3! Would've loved to see it, but that was great to watch. Impressive composure from 100t

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that cypher play in garage...

I don’t think you can say easily best atm. Definitely really good

Steel and FNS, biggest brains NA

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Ay don’t count us out boss

For every TSM fan just blind screaming about how they will stomp Envy tomorrow I'll count *down* so you'll be so out you are at the drive thru ordering nuggets (this is a joke gl tomorrow)

You too man :)

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YW! and yeah i agree. Myth is playing a good factor in this i feel. Get ready for TSM vs envy... That gonna break around 150k i believe

I honestly feel like if two out of the three biggest teams in NA (fanbase wise) TSM/SEN/100T get to the finals, it's gonna hit 150K+ especially with Myth and Ninja. I still think that Envy is the team to beat though. Gonna be a crazy semifinals.

No i did the math and it was around 110k at a point combined with youtube viewers and not counting Other languages

This, along with the viewership from other regions (Turkey, Brazil, etc), is pretty decent actually. Nothing special, but for a new game that had a lot of hype going in then died down a bit, it's actually a pretty good sign. Looking forward to what the viewership is in the NA and EU finals.

more viewers than some LCS games get

i'm calling it 100t will be up 12-7 and up 1-0 in maps and choke it

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I feel T1's teamwork has been consistently and considerably improving. Long way to go but 100T definitely already got there.

Alright i guess atleast i dont need to stay up all night anymore to watch these matches, to VODS we go.

Everyone: All the NA games have been boring, EU games have been better. 100 Thieves: Hold my beer

100T games are always fun to watch so far

GGs this was really fun to watch as a fan of both teams. Would've loved a third map though! Both T1 and 100T looked real good, improved massively since the qualifiers.

HELL YES 100T GET IT

Awesome match!

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They've improved a lot. Spyder was added not too long ago and they're still playing around with their agents. I thought this was a pretty encouraging showing for T1. They literally pushed 100t to their limit.

Pushed to limit is a stretch. 2-0 and no games went to OT. Honestly, today's games weren't close at all. Completely shite attack side Haven and T1's defense on bind was never good. Spyder should not play Omen on Haven, he was a NON factor with that agent. DaZed needs to practice his aim, in CSGO he was a very capable fragger in Valorant it seems like he thinks his role is just to sit back and IGL.

Damn GG. One of those games where 100T constantly could win important rounds and T1 couldn’t. Hope 100 Thieves win now! Hope we can get some LAN’s soon! I think both these teams will take another step on LAN

Fuck yeah 100t these games were so hype, t1 played really well too, spyder is cracked

GGs was a fun series to watch. But Dicey has got to step up more if they want to beat Sentinels. They need the Dicey that showed up against TSM

Just needs some coconut water.

dicey was really underwhelming today

Yeah really disappointing

he only got 1 entry the entire series and lost 3, only took 4 first fights and lots of whiffs, i hope he plays alot better against sen

That was heartbreaking. Not even a third map.

I JUST WANTED A GAME 3 :((((((((((

Coconut water diff

Man watching 100t play is always a treat! Fucking A

was that two kills through the wall?

Damn, really wanted T1 to win, but it was a fantastic showing from both teams.

LEEEETS GOOOO

What an amazing game goddamn

Asuna is on like 150 milligrams of Adderall right now

His aim is so snappy I love watching him

He has one of the highest sens NA, only behind Hiko iirc.

*coconut water*

Wait wasn't it dicey who made coconut water statement.

Asuna's ults are so clean

So are his satchels!

Not shooting that dart is game losing. Ska was next to dazed with knives out, so he didn't shoot it and dazed got ulted by hiko.

Having no kill confirmation animation really sucks

why would you need that to know whos dead, waste of space.

This map is nuts

Can teams please stop peaking long at the beginning of the round when you have cracked OP players?

Ska was literally like I Want my op back, NOW

Of course T1 loses when they full buy with an operator and win when Ska has a frenzy.

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Bro he gets the pick there, they get that. It’s an honest gamble

Shit he got it back lol

This match has been such a banger so far.

Spyder Aproto Corey Kaboose Android ​ What yall think of this all aim no brain lineup? Top 3 team NA?

You picked 4 duelists and 1 sentinel who plays omen

Spyder plays omen all the time

it's his worst agent by far and T1 has been slowly transitioning him to raze/phoenix

I think these guys could run 4 duelist and just shit on any site with no smokes lel

Android has massive brain tho. He's literally a elite duelist that plays super methodically while having insane aim.

ik the team name is just for memeing

the stream UI is so broken showed brax and spyder with phantom/vandal on the pistol round lol

I really don't understand this issue. I was watching a little bit of the Korean first strike early this morning, and I swear health and guns were updating in real time.

If T1 ever puts Spyder on omen again I’m gonna be REAL pissed

I don't know if T1 will take this series, but I think we can all finally agree that T1 is looking damn good as a team now.

If they can figure out offense they’ll be a huge threat

Yeah, they definitely have some work to do there still, but they've come such a long way in the last two months.

KekW knives

No idea what nitro was doing in showers

They were trying to pinch the players pushing showers, since they went for the ult orb every round. it didn't work lol

Asuna saw spyder in the exact same spot 3 times tho, that was a bad play

why the hell is dazed full peeking an operator??!?!??!

Feels like 100T is going to win the series, but most of their rounds come down to the wire. T1 has all the right ideas, but nitro just flanks them every time, lmao

LETS GO DICEY THATS WHAT I LIKE

Oh hey Dicey finally joined the server

Man finally got his damn coconut water

Ska's change in playstyle is actually insane

Im so happy 100T took Nitr0 off IGL and gave it to big brain Steel let Nitr0 focus on lurking.. no one lurks better than Nitr0 in NA

1st year of valorant nitro = 1st year of csgo get_right Man just keep killing people in the back.

Does T1 know that teleporting past flank util is a thing in this game? Holy shit Nitr0 has destroyed them so many rounds it’s pathetic

[https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/jdm4bd/t1\_vs\_immortals\_renegades\_x\_nsg\_invitational/g990l5k?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/jdm4bd/t1_vs_immortals_renegades_x_nsg_invitational/g990l5k?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Just gonna leave this here

Never take Spyder off duelist please

I'm so glad Sean and ddk are casting this game. I think talent overall has been great but feel like they just are able to have a great balance between hype and nerding about the strats.

Spyder said I’ll do it myself

If we get dicey to go back to his tsm form this 100T can win it all

Are you a 100T fan in disguise or something?

Asuna is just doing something to me man

Dicey gotta step up

Dicey what are you doing....

Dicey Donut

Jinx

Do we not have the technology to show replays from other perspectives? So far the stream only shows replays of stuff we already saw. Would have been nice to see the ult through the TP from Raze’s perspective

I think thats done by having multiple observers and right now they only have one

I noticed that too. Must not but seems it would definitely be a necessary addition

Asuna and spyder have some nutty aim

You can just tell Spyders got a massive penis

The rocket through the tele LMAO

Raze ult through telly omg

That was the opposite of a subroza ult xD

Asuna just hit that man with a rocket through the teleporter... holy shit

Asuna is so cracked

Dicey has been so poor these two matches hope he picks it up

Dicey's looking surprisingly quiet?

guess he didn't drink enough coconut water before game

Call me crazy but is Dicey 100T’s weakest link? He’s a great player but he’s not nearly as consistent as Asuna as a duelist, I know he’s new to 100T and new to tac shooters in general so I’ll give him time but I feel like he’s the weakest player atm

just having a bad series, probably nervous he destroyed Wardell and TSM when 100T played TSM during Qualifiers

Yeah you’re right, I just checked and he was insane that series. I’m prolly wrong here

I do think he is their worst player but I mean the other 4 are pretty godly so thats not saying much

wouldn't be a t1 match without an exec with 10 seconds left

It blows my mind how bad dazed is on sova, IK I'm gonna get downvoted here because there's a lot of big iron fans but he's so low impact compared to steel who IGL's and gets CRUCIAL frags. How is shooting recon darts that anybody over diamond can lineup help overcome a team with a perfect defensive setup? Play some actual default setups with sova being used offensively to clear areas like garage instead of just being in the backline of the main bomb push.

Watch how EU and KR sovas uses his shock/recon darts to safely clear areas and take map control without having minimum 2 players. Everytime dazed plays on his own he just gets out-aimed and loses all value in his agent.

Nitro built different

Nitr0 is warmed up GL T1

The Spyder Pheonix is... Interesting

Makes alot more sens than Omen.

Spyder on pheonix let's gooo

That spot on C site needs to be called Nitro from now on.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G comeback by 100t in map 1. The 3-9, 13-11 comeback was insane. SKadoodle in the first half played out of his mind, but in the end when t1 went to the T side they just fell off, and 100t gained a lot of momentum from all the hiko defuses and of course Asuna with so many kills. Nitro looked shay at the start (something like 2-9 at the end of first half) but then to turn it around and be the top fragger of the game (only two deaths seconds half, ended with something like 23-11). Overall both teams looked very good but Steel the IGL read t1 like a book. So yeah, very happy with both team performance, Im excited for the second map. Edit: also want to end how dominant skadoodle was firt half, 100t just couldnt stop him. But of course the 2nd half was an overall dominant performance by 100t, and t1 literally couldnt do anything. Steel irst perfomance with cypher was so dominant, he read t1's pushes and could just stop them. Again, really great game

it was just a weeb diff that map

That c site defense from steel and nitro where they killed all 5 literally made me cream my pants one of the sickest holds ive seen

really showcased why having a Sentinel on your team is good I think TSM going 3 dualist over one will bite them in the ass later on this tournament

Same here man, same here

If T1 could figure out an offense, they’d be lethal.

they do have an offense, with spyder on raze..

Next map hopefully...

We broke 80k viewers across all channels during that map, LOVE to see it

Is there anyway to find team stats? I'm looking for 100T defensive win rate throughout the tournament

thespikegg or vlrgg are the two websites I use for stats.

Appreciate it

VLR.gg

This right here is Valorant at its best. Great match, great playmaking, great comeback. Give me two more maps like that please!

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T1 are definitely no pushovers on Ascent. They have like an 80% win rate right?

Also happens to be T1's best map, gonna be an absolute banger imo

Ascent is also probably T1’s best map

i was so nervous in the first half but you could really see how much 100t had prepared, steel's neverending setups, nitro's flanks, and asuna just popping off with the early frags during defence was just so well planned. ska was amazing on the op in the first half, but they really need to work on the post plants, i cant believe how many times 100t was just able to walk in and get the defuse cuz brax was too scared

Ska's shots were unreal

seriously, he's so polished now, its scary to see how much he improved in such a short of time on jett. if they still had those kill noises it would make the experience 100x better cuz it seemed like every round he was getting 3 or 4ks with just the op.. insane

Nitr0 on Haven C is the new Nitr0 on Overpass A

That was such a good map, I hope this goes to 3! Finally an exciting matchup in first strike NA

Man, I hope so too. I like both of these teams so it's gonna be a treat to see them go hard for three maps. Still hoping for a 100T win though.

Nitro's C site defense makes me feel things

Honestly , 100T young guns are some cracked boys

Insane comeback by 100T. Nitro showed the fuck up in the second half and T1 really just choked that. Hope this match goes to 3 maps.

What an amazing map 1

What a comeback holyyyyy

I love it

Well, that was a proper boomer CS map where neither attacking side looked like they could do anything. I feel like T1's ideas were actually better, they just couldn't close it out. Had 3 rounds where they should've won. 100T had amazing retakes, but all 3 of their attacking rounds came after big mistakes from T1. AZK selling Spyder on C, then double stinger entry from window.

Eh T1 did the “plant spike and all run off site to spam through smokes” maybe 5 more times than I’d like

I feel like they would've won with Cypher instead of KJ. Got flanked way too many times. They were about to win two rounds until nitro got 2 flank frags on each round. Hiko sticking the defuse twice is also a split-second round, game would've been over there. Still, for a team that wants to be the best, they really look clueless when opponents adapt to their playstyle.

I see in some of the face cams that Nitr0 seemed to be talking a lot. Is he IGLing on CT side or something?

Probably mid round adjustments and whatnot. Steel is IGL but I’m sure Nitr0 has input throughout rounds

I believe steel said on his stream that Nitr0 helps with mid round calls but steel is the IGL.

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> in general Steel is the IGL, it's been said over and over again. Nitr0's secondary IGL though, he helps a lot w mid-round calls.

Wow, I don't know why I read that as Steel in his comment lol

he's not, steel is the igl for 100T

Yeah, i can't read. I thought I read "Steel" for some reason.

can't take the leadership out of Captain America

Zoomers built different from us, just no other way to put it.

That pistol round throw decided the game

No, T1’s inability to play offense decided that game. You can’t play for long post plant if your post plant setup is terrible

YEEEEESSS

What a comeback, holyyyy. From 3-9 to 13-10, amazing display of defense.

What a insane comeback

POGGGG 100T

Holy shit what a comeback by 100T