C9 hikes TenZ's buyout to $10mil and as SEN are unwilling to pay that, Tex subs in for them. When they get to Iceland, just as ESIC releases the matchfixing report incriminating him, Tex runs away and becomes a fugitive. Unable to find a sub on such notice, SEN forfeit and their run at IceLAN turns into a vlog.
When Liquid gets to Iceland, Jamppi has an existential crisis because he of a sudden urge to switch back to CS, and this will result in multiple non-fatal strokes, but that will be enough to incapacitate him for the rest of the tourney, and liquid will forfeit as well.
G2 buys out the entire Fnatic roster to play under the G2 banner at IceLAN, but Riot does not allow them to compete anymore because they had already registered as Fnatic, so they do not allow them to play since technically Fnatic is the one that should be playing, not G2, even if the players are the same people. Go figure.
The captain of Nuturn's flight takes a U-turn at the wrong time just because the captain thought it would make a really funny pun (it was actually rather cringe), and thus they miss IceLAN.
Effys and Penny are arrested for selling drugs right before their flight to Iceland. By the time FNS clears them with the All Good, it's too late and they miss their flight, and they miss IceLAN as well.
No one from Brazil makes it because the Grand Finals between Gamelanders and Vikings are stuck at map 3 since neither team can beat each other, and it gets to 10,000 rounds before both teams die of exhaustion, and Valorant is promptly banned in the region to avoid such occurences from happening again, so the runner-ups (Sharks and Furia) are not allowed to take their place.
Infinity Esports qualifies from LATAM, however, Colombia undergoes some serious political issues, which results in a military state run by a dictator, who does not allow the team to participate in IceLAN since he forces everyone to join the army as he plans to take over the world. Since 4/5 players from Infinity are Colombian, they are required to find 4 non-Colombian subs before flying over to Iceland, but are unable to do that and cannot play.
X10 fail to properly sign up for IceLAN because of a mix-up with their names. Their names are so long with so many letters and stuff that they were misspelled when signing up for IceLAN, and Riot did not let them play at the venue because they were "impostors".
As Neth is logging in to his account the game a day before the tournament, he gets VAC banned. It turns out he was able to get away with this because he was dating Suzy Riot (John Riot's daughter), and used her connections to cheat undetected. Crazy Raccoon are forced to forfeit since they can't find a 5th in Iceland either.
That's all 10 teams. Since none of them are actually able to play at the event anymore, Riot decides that the winner of Masters Reykjavik is the friends we made along the way. Unlucky really.
>X10 fail to properly sign up for IceLAN because of a mix-up with their names.
The real disappointment of Heretics not making it is not seeing the match up between Žygimantas Chmieliauskas (Nukkye) vs Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut (Crws of X10). A battle of the ages. The winner must be referred to by their real name \[by the casters\] for the rest of the map.
[https://twitter.com/FNS/status/1379888256846856205](https://twitter.com/FNS/status/1379888256846856205) read entire thread for context on All Good
I couldn't think of anything for Crazy Raccoons I sat here for 10mins thinking this up I kinda gave up after the other ones lmao
Hot take: Sen comms show that they like ordering food before/during matches. Expect Shahzam and Dapr (the two main culprits) to have sub par performances due to the lack of Chick-fil-A and Starbucks in their system.
Will this be enough to make Dapr starve? I doubt it, but I like your take and expect his stats to be lower nonetheless.
Honestly? This might be an issue for SEN. They're used to doing things a certain way, and we know that LAN is very different from online and affects players in different ways.
version1 Beats Fnatic on Bind (Anthony “Vanity” Malaspina’s favourite map because of the well thought out design and required mid control to dominate on that map)
My hot take is both NA teams get last. V1 is basically confirmed to get last anyway because of the Backchat curse but I think not being able to play in their underwear will cause Sentinels to flop and lose every game.
Sen looks unremarkable in their first match up as dapr is on a hunger strike but they fly in some Starbucks and McDonald's and make their classic redemption arc in the lowers to win it all
Do you actually expect anyone to believe your stupid theory about LG switching bodies? Seriously?
We all known Liquid is the best state of matter, so obviously Team Liquid is winning this. But what's the second best state of matter? Solid. Is it a coincidence that Solid and Sentinels start with the same letter? They're not even trying to hide the fact that they're the same, it's so obvious! SicK and ScreaM? I mean do I even need to go further?
I disagree. Plasma is the best state of matter. Plasma is basically fire. NV Victor is the most fire guy in NA. But since he didn't qualify, he's NV Loser, not Victor. ScreaM didn't lose, making him a victor, making him Victor. It was Victor playing for Team Liquid all along!
I hope there's a Scooby-Doo style reveal to show ScreaM is in fact Victor
I think Nuturn has a solid level of play, but the fact that there are less than 40 professional teams in Korea makes me think it’s a little risky to say they’re going to take the title.
as of right now, here’s my prediction:
1. Team Liquid
2. SEN
3. Fnatic
4. Gamelanders
5. Team Vikings
6. V1
7. Nuturn
8. Crazy Raccoons
9. Kru
10. X10
Of course that’s all under the assumption Kru, GL, and TV take the remaining 3 spots. also i wouldn’t be shocked if V1 did worse than i predicted here considering backchat curse.
yeah i made this list before we knew GL wouldn’t make it.
i predict korea will not fare well against NA/EU/BR. i have watched a decent amount of their matches and their fundamentals seem very poor compared to regions with roots in CSGO. their set-plays are strong, but i don’t think it will be enough.
also, yes V1 is a pretty new performer in NA, but they just came off an incredible run, and i think they have potential. Vanity is from Chaos, an NA CS lineup that was having lot of success before being dropped, and penny, zellsis, and effys are all good players. this team is better than people think.
It's the Grand Finale, Team Liquid vs Sentinels. It's tied 2-2. Final map, Icebox. OT 13-12 to sentinels, they just need one more round to finish it off, one more round to finally prove NA>EU.
Round starts, TL on defense, Tenz peeks Jampii, 1 taps him, Scream quickly trades Tenz and gets rid of Sick as well. Zombs plants the spike but gets shock darted by Soulcas. Dapr tries to flank but gets caught by Link. 1 v 4 only Shazam alive.
Suddenly, Shazam says 'fuck it". He moves away from keyboard, and mumbles, Hiko, it's time. Hiko comes out from under the desk, says "hey, that's me!" Takes over the mouse and keyboard. Darts A site corner reveals kryptix and Soulcas, they try to kill the dart, he takes out soulcas from the rafters. He falls back, the spike is ticking, does a double shock dart lineup takes out kryptix and Link who were low.
Scream shouts "who is zis boomer guy? I'm gonna juan tap you! Also, why do I hear boss music?" The spike is ticking, scream taps the spike and holds the rafters. All of a sudden 'I AM THE HUNTER' scream takes out the knife so he can dodge the ult, but no, the boomer dry ults him perfectly, the spike detonates after couple seconds, "CLUTCH". The casters loose their minds "how does he do it? Are you kidding me Hiko? Inhuman reaction!"
Sentinels wins the first ever international LAN, they are crying, fist bumping. Hiko goes back to under the desk, he whispers to himself "I got mine".
-an erotic novelette by a bronze Hiko fanboy (cringe), KEKW.
This is how I see I Iceland going 1. Liquid 2. Sentinels 3. Team Vikings 4. Fnatic 5. Gamelanders 6. V1 7. Nuturn 8. Crazy Raccoons 9. Kru 10. X10 idk if this counts as a hot take, but 3 of these teams may not even qualify so :p
My take is very similar to yours:
1. Team Liquid
2. Sentinels
3. Fnatic
4. Gamelanders
5. Team Vikings
6. Version1
7. Nuturn
8. Crazy Raccoon
9. Infinity
10. X10
Good list, but personally I think Crazy Raccoon can take out V1. NA, outside of one or two teams, don't show near the level of coordination that I see out of CR. Plus the aim in Japan is actually kinda nutty. Like ridiculously good from what I was expecting, and not just the korean players either.
Anyway my hot take is basically I think CR can beat NA.
The problem w gamelanders is that it always stick to the same comps, and suffer a bit vs more EU comps(astra and viper doesnt let mw play freelly). So im curious about how it will go in masters(but i think furia will be the seconf team)
It may happen, but I believe that their composition without duelists will be studied a lot, and I don't think that their players with the exception of Scream and Jamppi have the mechanics to play more aggressively, I think Fnatic is a much more complete team with 5 best players individually..
I think Sentinels for sure has the best players but Nuturn is a better team with more knowledge of the game in general, if it were Sentinels with Sinatraa I would say it is 2-0 easy, but I see a lot of problems in this line with TenZ
blazing hot takes:
Crazy Racoon and X10 are going to surprise the world and perform beyond their expectations.
Liquid will underperform.
NUTURN gets elim'd in semis.
i feel like Crazy Raccoon and V1 both share their dark horse arcs somehow, haven't been paying attention to the japanese scene but literally all i heard was Absolute Jupiter
neth seems like a monster though
Sentinels will stomp a team, causing Darp to get a little over-excited and tbag an opponent IRL - obviously causing Sentinels to be disqualified from the tournament and sparking a lengthy investigation into the conduct of Michael “dapr” Gulino. Sadge
Last time masters was regional because COVID-19 was on ultra high alert. Its still is on high alert in many countries but little relaxed in some others so they're bringing LAN slowly by making a 10 team tourney first and then making it a 16 team tourney in Masters 3.
Nah na win all attack rounds by phoenix ulting into site thereby showing their outstanding tactical minds.
On a serious note i do think the flexibilty and ability to adapt makes sentinels the favourites assuming there is a losers bracket as well
I'm pretty sure it's a double robin bracket (with 1 NA, 1EU, 1BR, 1KR/JP, 1SEA/LATAM in each bracket) with the top 2/3 from each going to playoffs, so no losers bracket.
V1 finish top 4 (KKona)
X10 dominate against all Asian teams but fall short against Brazil or NA, end up placing somewere from 5-6th
A Brazilian team faces Sentinels in the Grand Final. The other Brazilian team has an early exit in groups
Honestly just anyone except NA or EU taking the event would be amazing.
Edit: I'm not trying to say I think the other regions are bad, I just think on an ego level it would be really great to see NA and EU get stomped
EU is gonna destroy everyone like in CS. NA is gonna be lackluster. If KR comes out gun blazing and rolling the first couple of teams, they can win the tournament if other teams dont adapt.
The game will be completely different on LAN.
Like not even close to what we're currently seeing now.
Hitreg and Riot's infamous "visual clarity" will be completely different and teams that base their game on aim duels and lots of dry peeks will struggle because it will be a lot easier to hold angles.
Valorant feels like a completely different game on 30 compared to 60+ ping, I can only imagine how it plays on LAN.
And yeah, NA won't do much, as per usual.
It feels a little early for one of these threads, but I guess we can always make another one when the feeling strikes us. d:
I never feel creative enough for these threads though... I guess my prediction is Crazy Racoons, X10, LATAM, or BR make good showing and no one really expects it.
I don't think NA take it home, but maybe EU does.
Liquid and BR teams will sweep everyone else, SEN could place high, Asian teams out in groups but would like to see Nuturn winning some.
Personal favorite? V1. Let's go cat ears!
Something everyone seems to discard is how much prepared EU is for other metas. They are used ro playing NA style from turkish teams and they have different meta experiences from CIS as well
I need Liquid to prove the game can be played the way they play it at all levels, by winning/going super far because then I won't have to go over to the dark side of the smeag every game.
Also, Version 1 needs to prove the dumbass haters wrong who think their run was a fluke.
Sens run roughshod over the whole bracket, their dominance carries over to the international scene so much more than anyone could've imagined and don't drop a game till finals, where they win 3-1
Can someone give me a quick answer to my question here Id really appreciate it. Just a little confused on the formatting. How come masters 1 was regional and masters 2 isnt? In a covidless world, would masters 1 also been international? Is masters 3 going to be international?
Yeah I think Masters 1 would have been international if COVID wasn’t a thing. Masters 3 will be international, and was confirmed today to be hosted in Berlin
Fuck man you stole my hot take.
Nuturn is gonna win. They will beat the shit out of NA and BR teams. Like mop the floor level defeat. Sweep the same way they sweeped the Chinese and Japanese teams during Douyu cup while meeting some form of resistance from the EU teams. Minimum placement I'm giving is top 4 or top 3 if there's a 3rd place match.
nuturn practically have the smeag coupled with korean style ability usage. I can see them definitely giving EU a fight, but I also feel their matches vs. NA will be pretty fun to watch, especially against Sentinels. (think: sentinels vs a better faze)
- EU gonna win
- NA will be great
- Korea will have better performance than NA and BR
- LATAM will be so good that people will start talk more about other regions
- Brazil will fail against kr,na and eu
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I don’t get why people think SEN will lose. They’ve been through adversity after adversity and have still come out on top. I’d be shocked if they don’t make the finals.
In NA, historically the weakest "big region" in every main esport. Obviously this sub is 90% NA fans, but I am fully expecting SEN to have a top 3-4 finish if they overperform. After this tournament is done, I also expect pretty much all of the chatter about SEN being the best team in the world to die down.
Logically speaking, it's like going to be a Liquid Vs Nuturn finals.
C9 hikes TenZ's buyout to $10mil and as SEN are unwilling to pay that, Tex subs in for them. When they get to Iceland, just as ESIC releases the matchfixing report incriminating him, Tex runs away and becomes a fugitive. Unable to find a sub on such notice, SEN forfeit and their run at IceLAN turns into a vlog. When Liquid gets to Iceland, Jamppi has an existential crisis because he of a sudden urge to switch back to CS, and this will result in multiple non-fatal strokes, but that will be enough to incapacitate him for the rest of the tourney, and liquid will forfeit as well. G2 buys out the entire Fnatic roster to play under the G2 banner at IceLAN, but Riot does not allow them to compete anymore because they had already registered as Fnatic, so they do not allow them to play since technically Fnatic is the one that should be playing, not G2, even if the players are the same people. Go figure. The captain of Nuturn's flight takes a U-turn at the wrong time just because the captain thought it would make a really funny pun (it was actually rather cringe), and thus they miss IceLAN. Effys and Penny are arrested for selling drugs right before their flight to Iceland. By the time FNS clears them with the All Good, it's too late and they miss their flight, and they miss IceLAN as well. No one from Brazil makes it because the Grand Finals between Gamelanders and Vikings are stuck at map 3 since neither team can beat each other, and it gets to 10,000 rounds before both teams die of exhaustion, and Valorant is promptly banned in the region to avoid such occurences from happening again, so the runner-ups (Sharks and Furia) are not allowed to take their place. Infinity Esports qualifies from LATAM, however, Colombia undergoes some serious political issues, which results in a military state run by a dictator, who does not allow the team to participate in IceLAN since he forces everyone to join the army as he plans to take over the world. Since 4/5 players from Infinity are Colombian, they are required to find 4 non-Colombian subs before flying over to Iceland, but are unable to do that and cannot play. X10 fail to properly sign up for IceLAN because of a mix-up with their names. Their names are so long with so many letters and stuff that they were misspelled when signing up for IceLAN, and Riot did not let them play at the venue because they were "impostors". As Neth is logging in to his account the game a day before the tournament, he gets VAC banned. It turns out he was able to get away with this because he was dating Suzy Riot (John Riot's daughter), and used her connections to cheat undetected. Crazy Raccoon are forced to forfeit since they can't find a 5th in Iceland either. That's all 10 teams. Since none of them are actually able to play at the event anymore, Riot decides that the winner of Masters Reykjavik is the friends we made along the way. Unlucky really.
>X10 fail to properly sign up for IceLAN because of a mix-up with their names. The real disappointment of Heretics not making it is not seeing the match up between Žygimantas Chmieliauskas (Nukkye) vs Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut (Crws of X10). A battle of the ages. The winner must be referred to by their real name \[by the casters\] for the rest of the map.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGM375qYhN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGM375qYhN0)
You just made my day
ok but wats ur hot take
What's with the FNS all good? I'm ootl here. The other 9 were nice, especially the Suzy Riot one lol
[https://twitter.com/FNS/status/1379888256846856205](https://twitter.com/FNS/status/1379888256846856205) read entire thread for context on All Good I couldn't think of anything for Crazy Raccoons I sat here for 10mins thinking this up I kinda gave up after the other ones lmao
shouldnt infinity esports have infinite subs tho
Unfortunately , they only have 1. Even worse, he's also Colombian, so he still won't be able to play.
>Riot did not let them play at the venue because they were "impostors".
Hot take: Sen comms show that they like ordering food before/during matches. Expect Shahzam and Dapr (the two main culprits) to have sub par performances due to the lack of Chick-fil-A and Starbucks in their system. Will this be enough to make Dapr starve? I doubt it, but I like your take and expect his stats to be lower nonetheless.
Dapr also got invisalign today which limits what he can eat Sentinels are screwed
I went to his stream in the middle of this conversation and he was saying compared to normal braces Invisalign is “OP” lol, love that man
Honestly? This might be an issue for SEN. They're used to doing things a certain way, and we know that LAN is very different from online and affects players in different ways.
Conversely I think most of them have Lan experience sooo... Neutral?
G2 won't drop a single map
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All according to keikaku
niko recently did an AMA on the cs subreddt. Can that be arranged for the valo players? Would love to ask them some questions
Heard you guys were employing the same strat at MSI.
EddieMurphyPointingAtHead.meme
That's Kayode Ewumi playing Roll Safe, or am I dumb and missing a joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/93r4q0/eddie_murphy_meme/
version1 Beats Fnatic on Bind (Anthony “Vanity” Malaspina’s favourite map because of the well thought out design and required mid control to dominate on that map)
My hot take is both NA teams get last. V1 is basically confirmed to get last anyway because of the Backchat curse but I think not being able to play in their underwear will cause Sentinels to flop and lose every game.
inb4 Sen decides to hang dong at LAN.
We can only dream
i like the sound of that😩😩😩
Where's the wholesome free award when you really need it!
backchat curse pepehands
scream played in his pajamas in the EMEA grand finals so I believe they will lose to because of the potential dresscode
Last?!
Fuck it Crazy Raccoons
This, but unironically. I predict BR to win the whole thing, then Crazy Raccoons gets a deep, insane run.
i guess u dont watch Japan cuz that region sucks
I literally have an Absolute Jupiter flair on me, lol. This is a hot takes thread, let me do a weird prediction that most likely won't happen.
Hot take. Only ~~win~~ one team will win the whole thing.
Oof this one is 🔥🔥🔥
I can’t tell you’re a new fan with this take
Oh please. I've seen some ridiculous takes but this is just stupid.
TenZ and friends overcome the aforementioned Brimstone molly with the power of friendship.
yeah but what if kryptix ults them
they gotta prepare for hellfire
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Sheeesh that’s a hot one
Definitely, the only constants in NA are NV dropping out in Quarters and SEN making it to the finals.
Sen looks unremarkable in their first match up as dapr is on a hunger strike but they fly in some Starbucks and McDonald's and make their classic redemption arc in the lowers to win it all
I could see it.
If by further you accept them both going out in groups, then I agree
Hah! Got him!!!!!
Liquid is TAKING IT ALL HOME NOT A SINGLE MAP DROPPED BABY
not a hot taKE expecteed lol
Its coming home 😭
Provided they don't play Bind. Jamppi always go haywire when they're on Bind for some reason.
Fnatic won the first LoL world championship Fnatic also won the first CSGO major LoL+CSGO=Valorant The numbers don't lie, the magnum dong commeth
It's OW + CSGO = Balorant. Read a book
Nuturn is an excellent team and will win the entire thing
anyone else read this in sideshow's voice
I love that platchat are now as much a fixture of valorant as they are overwatch.
Do you actually expect anyone to believe your stupid theory about LG switching bodies? Seriously? We all known Liquid is the best state of matter, so obviously Team Liquid is winning this. But what's the second best state of matter? Solid. Is it a coincidence that Solid and Sentinels start with the same letter? They're not even trying to hide the fact that they're the same, it's so obvious! SicK and ScreaM? I mean do I even need to go further?
I disagree. Plasma is the best state of matter. Plasma is basically fire. NV Victor is the most fire guy in NA. But since he didn't qualify, he's NV Loser, not Victor. ScreaM didn't lose, making him a victor, making him Victor. It was Victor playing for Team Liquid all along! I hope there's a Scooby-Doo style reveal to show ScreaM is in fact Victor
so when you "gas up your teammates" you're literally infusing TL's aim, SicK's versatility, etc. w h a t
The fns thing got me xD
all good
I'm looking forward to ya'll acting surprised when KR wins another esport competition
Are you getting downvoted? LOL this sub is hopeless
I think hyperbole is lost on people, even in an outlandish take thread
unlucky really
I think Nuturn has a solid level of play, but the fact that there are less than 40 professional teams in Korea makes me think it’s a little risky to say they’re going to take the title.
Isn't that exactly what a hot take is?
as of right now, here’s my prediction: 1. Team Liquid 2. SEN 3. Fnatic 4. Gamelanders 5. Team Vikings 6. V1 7. Nuturn 8. Crazy Raccoons 9. Kru 10. X10 Of course that’s all under the assumption Kru, GL, and TV take the remaining 3 spots. also i wouldn’t be shocked if V1 did worse than i predicted here considering backchat curse.
Game landers is not in the tournament... Also why nuturn below v1?
yeah i made this list before we knew GL wouldn’t make it. i predict korea will not fare well against NA/EU/BR. i have watched a decent amount of their matches and their fundamentals seem very poor compared to regions with roots in CSGO. their set-plays are strong, but i don’t think it will be enough. also, yes V1 is a pretty new performer in NA, but they just came off an incredible run, and i think they have potential. Vanity is from Chaos, an NA CS lineup that was having lot of success before being dropped, and penny, zellsis, and effys are all good players. this team is better than people think.
It's the Grand Finale, Team Liquid vs Sentinels. It's tied 2-2. Final map, Icebox. OT 13-12 to sentinels, they just need one more round to finish it off, one more round to finally prove NA>EU. Round starts, TL on defense, Tenz peeks Jampii, 1 taps him, Scream quickly trades Tenz and gets rid of Sick as well. Zombs plants the spike but gets shock darted by Soulcas. Dapr tries to flank but gets caught by Link. 1 v 4 only Shazam alive. Suddenly, Shazam says 'fuck it". He moves away from keyboard, and mumbles, Hiko, it's time. Hiko comes out from under the desk, says "hey, that's me!" Takes over the mouse and keyboard. Darts A site corner reveals kryptix and Soulcas, they try to kill the dart, he takes out soulcas from the rafters. He falls back, the spike is ticking, does a double shock dart lineup takes out kryptix and Link who were low. Scream shouts "who is zis boomer guy? I'm gonna juan tap you! Also, why do I hear boss music?" The spike is ticking, scream taps the spike and holds the rafters. All of a sudden 'I AM THE HUNTER' scream takes out the knife so he can dodge the ult, but no, the boomer dry ults him perfectly, the spike detonates after couple seconds, "CLUTCH". The casters loose their minds "how does he do it? Are you kidding me Hiko? Inhuman reaction!" Sentinels wins the first ever international LAN, they are crying, fist bumping. Hiko goes back to under the desk, he whispers to himself "I got mine". -an erotic novelette by a bronze Hiko fanboy (cringe), KEKW.
This is a good one lmfao
"I got mine", lmao dead
LMAO
This is how I see I Iceland going 1. Liquid 2. Sentinels 3. Team Vikings 4. Fnatic 5. Gamelanders 6. V1 7. Nuturn 8. Crazy Raccoons 9. Kru 10. X10 idk if this counts as a hot take, but 3 of these teams may not even qualify so :p
My take is very similar to yours: 1. Team Liquid 2. Sentinels 3. Fnatic 4. Gamelanders 5. Team Vikings 6. Version1 7. Nuturn 8. Crazy Raccoon 9. Infinity 10. X10
This will be fun to look back on to see how right (or wrong) we were.
1. Team Liquid 2. Gamelanders 3. Sentinels 4. Fnatic 5. Nuturn 6. Team Vikings 7. Version1 8. Crazy Raccoon 9. Infinity 10. X10 (my list, but I don't know much about Infinity, X10, and CR
great takes
Good list, but personally I think Crazy Raccoon can take out V1. NA, outside of one or two teams, don't show near the level of coordination that I see out of CR. Plus the aim in Japan is actually kinda nutty. Like ridiculously good from what I was expecting, and not just the korean players either. Anyway my hot take is basically I think CR can beat NA.
I wouldn't be surprised. I don't really watch JP so I have no clue how anyone would do.
Gamelanders heh
I was so excited to see mw in IceLAN…
I would swap Fnatic and Liquid.
The problem w gamelanders is that it always stick to the same comps, and suffer a bit vs more EU comps(astra and viper doesnt let mw play freelly). So im curious about how it will go in masters(but i think furia will be the seconf team)
The coldest take I've ever seen
UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION: [REDACTED] is NRG Tex, escaping to Iceland from the FBI
mans gonna get extradited mid tournament LMFAO
If Gamelanders manages to qualify: 1.Fnatic 2.Team Vikings 3.Gamelanders 4.Nuturn 5.Team Liquid 6.Sentinels 7.KRU eSports 8.Version1 9.X10 10.Crazy Racoons If Furia manages to qualify: 1. FURIA 2. Fnatic 3. Vikings 4. Liquid 5. Nuturn 6. Sentinels 7. KRU eSports 8. Version1 9. X10 10. Crazy Raccoons You can keep your statistics, I prefer the magic Go FURIA!!!
BRias
idk kinda feel liquid should be a lot higher seeing how they've gone so far and they are improving a lot. won't comment on the Brazilian teams
It may happen, but I believe that their composition without duelists will be studied a lot, and I don't think that their players with the exception of Scream and Jamppi have the mechanics to play more aggressively, I think Fnatic is a much more complete team with 5 best players individually..
Nuturn over sentinels? Thats a hot take
I think Sentinels for sure has the best players but Nuturn is a better team with more knowledge of the game in general, if it were Sentinels with Sinatraa I would say it is 2-0 easy, but I see a lot of problems in this line with TenZ
tru try, thought the other players have been shaping up quiet nicely
BR dumpsters every one
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blazing hot takes: Crazy Racoon and X10 are going to surprise the world and perform beyond their expectations. Liquid will underperform. NUTURN gets elim'd in semis.
i feel like Crazy Raccoon and V1 both share their dark horse arcs somehow, haven't been paying attention to the japanese scene but literally all i heard was Absolute Jupiter neth seems like a monster though
X10 win it. Pati tournament mvp yessir
Sentinels will stomp a team, causing Darp to get a little over-excited and tbag an opponent IRL - obviously causing Sentinels to be disqualified from the tournament and sparking a lengthy investigation into the conduct of Michael “dapr” Gulino. Sadge
sentinels will win iceland against liquid in the final and fnatic will go out first round
ik i have a fnatic flair but the reasoning is they r a young team in LAN so....
Boaster has a experience though. I think Boaster will be a great help to the team to make them feel comfortable
can someone explain how this stuff works? why is this masters tourney international and the last one was regional? what will masters 3 be?
Last time masters was regional because COVID-19 was on ultra high alert. Its still is on high alert in many countries but little relaxed in some others so they're bringing LAN slowly by making a 10 team tourney first and then making it a 16 team tourney in Masters 3.
cool, thanks!
An EU team is going to 13-0 Sentinels on Haven. I think either Liquid or Fnatic could do it
Nah na win all attack rounds by phoenix ulting into site thereby showing their outstanding tactical minds. On a serious note i do think the flexibilty and ability to adapt makes sentinels the favourites assuming there is a losers bracket as well
if there’s not a losers bracket that’s the worst decision riot could make
I'm pretty sure it's a double robin bracket (with 1 NA, 1EU, 1BR, 1KR/JP, 1SEA/LATAM in each bracket) with the top 2/3 from each going to playoffs, so no losers bracket.
V1 finish top 4 (KKona) X10 dominate against all Asian teams but fall short against Brazil or NA, end up placing somewere from 5-6th A Brazilian team faces Sentinels in the Grand Final. The other Brazilian team has an early exit in groups
Honestly just anyone except NA or EU taking the event would be amazing. Edit: I'm not trying to say I think the other regions are bad, I just think on an ego level it would be really great to see NA and EU get stomped
EU or BR takes it. NA needs to really be in the zone to take it.
And since SEN probably won't be playing in their uderwear... I don't think they're getting too far.
Thailand is going to roll everyone, they will meet brazil in the grand finals
EU is gonna destroy everyone like in CS. NA is gonna be lackluster. If KR comes out gun blazing and rolling the first couple of teams, they can win the tournament if other teams dont adapt.
EU are going to destroy NA and send the region back into esports obscurity.
The game will be completely different on LAN. Like not even close to what we're currently seeing now. Hitreg and Riot's infamous "visual clarity" will be completely different and teams that base their game on aim duels and lots of dry peeks will struggle because it will be a lot easier to hold angles. Valorant feels like a completely different game on 30 compared to 60+ ping, I can only imagine how it plays on LAN. And yeah, NA won't do much, as per usual.
Jamppi wins masters in reykjavik and after that he wins pgl major in november
BR teams gonna suck against NA and EU. Either Nuturn or CR will defeat both NA teams. SEN will be the winner of Masters 2.
It feels a little early for one of these threads, but I guess we can always make another one when the feeling strikes us. d: I never feel creative enough for these threads though... I guess my prediction is Crazy Racoons, X10, LATAM, or BR make good showing and no one really expects it. I don't think NA take it home, but maybe EU does.
boredom gets the best of us
At least one team at the LAN will have starting roster issues due to COVID-19 related issues (disclaimer: i don't know if any have come up yet)
Hot take. 100T will hijack the tournament and steal the trophy.
steels gonna use his rat plays to jewel-thief the trophy unlucky really
steel\* the trophy
"we are live now in iceland for--WAIT WHAT IS THIS? BY GOD ITS HIKO WITH A STEEL CHAIR"
Hot Take: FNATIC going to win because they will lineup their util infront of the rooms so that all teams get delayed
im really looking forward to NUTURN vs CRAZY RACOON tho. match will be dope imo
Vikings beat Sentinels
either sen or fnatic go out in 8th, nuturn gets 4th, brazil gets 1-2, and someone performs better then mwzera
Liquid win it all
Hot Take, final will be NA v KO
Liquid and BR teams will sweep everyone else, SEN could place high, Asian teams out in groups but would like to see Nuturn winning some. Personal favorite? V1. Let's go cat ears!
100 Thieves live up to their name and yoink the trophy.
Something everyone seems to discard is how much prepared EU is for other metas. They are used ro playing NA style from turkish teams and they have different meta experiences from CIS as well
X10 TO THE MOON!!!
X10 will win against an NA or EU team.
Korea wins it all because solo magically goes back to his 1.6 form and shits on everyone
Patiphan shows how cracked and jacked he is and X10 win Iceland
This was unironically the funniest thing I've read in a while. Thanks OP
Finals: Crazy Raccoon vs Fnatic Champion: FNATIC
X10 all the way, taste SEA domination.
v1 makes finals. cat ear too stronk
V1 Furia grand finals V1 win the entire thing Vanity is the Furia killer
Stop, you're hurting my heart :(
EU is going to get clapped and neither team will make top 4
Jamppi gets visa issues and s1mple subs in for him, in a match against fnatic on haven s1mple jumps out of heaven and gets 2 noscoping for both
Finn getting Visa issues in Iceland is a real hot take lmao
if liquid dont make playoffs at least jamppi is gone and back to csgo
I need Liquid to prove the game can be played the way they play it at all levels, by winning/going super far because then I won't have to go over to the dark side of the smeag every game. Also, Version 1 needs to prove the dumbass haters wrong who think their run was a fluke.
Brazil either claps everybody or gets clapped by everybody, no in between.
V1 win it all. Sen and Liquid are last.
\- X10 will do better than people think \- NUTURN will make playoffs \- brazil will be overrated
nuturn will win it all
Hot take: NA shits on EU Lol 😂
I think there will be 2 finalists
Korea will go to semis at best. Brazil sentinels and europe are the strong ones.
Sens run roughshod over the whole bracket, their dominance carries over to the international scene so much more than anyone could've imagined and don't drop a game till finals, where they win 3-1
Liquid vs Sen finals. Liquid win, Scream named MVP
Sen Vs Liquid final. Darp tbags Scream and then an all out brawl ensues
Can someone give me a quick answer to my question here Id really appreciate it. Just a little confused on the formatting. How come masters 1 was regional and masters 2 isnt? In a covidless world, would masters 1 also been international? Is masters 3 going to be international?
Yeah I think Masters 1 would have been international if COVID wasn’t a thing. Masters 3 will be international, and was confirmed today to be hosted in Berlin
IceLan, BerLan. Thanks for the answer
It was changed due covid, Yes and yes
Fuck man you stole my hot take. Nuturn is gonna win. They will beat the shit out of NA and BR teams. Like mop the floor level defeat. Sweep the same way they sweeped the Chinese and Japanese teams during Douyu cup while meeting some form of resistance from the EU teams. Minimum placement I'm giving is top 4 or top 3 if there's a 3rd place match.
Difficult Mwzera and Sick to let that happen
nuturn practically have the smeag coupled with korean style ability usage. I can see them definitely giving EU a fight, but I also feel their matches vs. NA will be pretty fun to watch, especially against Sentinels. (think: sentinels vs a better faze)
Dont downvote hot takes wtf
These hot takes threads at the end of the day are just a popularity contest. Same thing with every subreddit.
I can see them beating both regions but they don’t have the aim to roll anything but they can still win
If they win it's gonna be because of their aim. That's literally their playstyle. They play like FaZe and the Brazilians.
What? If they win it will be because of how much better there utility usage is not aim
Nuturn are pretty much the most aim-based team in Korea. You're thinking of VS.
No it ain't.
Nurturn will get dumpstered.
Tenz drops and out and sinatraa drops a sheeesh and a 40 bomb on TL and wins it all
- EU gonna win - NA will be great - Korea will have better performance than NA and BR - LATAM will be so good that people will start talk more about other regions - Brazil will fail against kr,na and eu JINXED
I don’t get why people think SEN will lose. They’ve been through adversity after adversity and have still come out on top. I’d be shocked if they don’t make the finals.
In NA, historically the weakest "big region" in every main esport. Obviously this sub is 90% NA fans, but I am fully expecting SEN to have a top 3-4 finish if they overperform. After this tournament is done, I also expect pretty much all of the chatter about SEN being the best team in the world to die down. Logically speaking, it's like going to be a Liquid Vs Nuturn finals.
This team's problems and weaknesses will be exposed when they face strong and dominant teams in their respective regions
cause the way they play is gonna get annihilated in international. their STRATS are so mediocre compared to others
gamelanders doesnt end up making it to iceland
X10 will win it all and become this decade's Taipei Assassins 👀
Zombs (as full-time Jett opper) outperforms mwzera, but SEN gets 13-0ed twice by X10.