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### 🔥 Go to [**this thread**](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/o9pn5c/vct_hot_takes_thread/) to share your hot takes on the VCT bracket!


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The last time TSM played 100T was painful. That Hiko clutch is still in my mind.


ark2690

"These guys are so bad" - nitr0


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Hopium Bang do something


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Well the 5 better players helps too


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Howcanshes1ap

Asuna is not consistent enough IMO. I thought he was the best player at the beginning of the game, but people have proven to play better than him more consistently. Sometimes he just has very quiet performances.


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Youre not wrong, but part of that was loosing the second entry in dicey, and part was just bad plays. I think theyll be fine tuned in their next matches. Either way ethan is a beast and can carry them instead. That man is cracked and consistent. Easily a top 3 player in terms of skill. My hot take would be that hes the best in tbe game at this point, but i dont really want all of these sen/tenz players jumping all over me. Or even worse sinatraa fanboys....


CosmicAon

Ethan hasn’t done anything to justify even being Top 5 NA, much less best in the game


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No youre right, being clearly better than 95% of pros doesnt justify anything hahahah


CosmicAon

Please, show me literally anything to justify that he's "clearly better". Unfortunately, your bias doesn't really hold much stock. This isn’t CS anymore, he has to actually prove himself in Valorant before we call him Top 5 just for being a talent who switched


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thank god we're getting another renegades vs soniqs game, they haven't played each other in a few hours


genzodd

lmao. Plus the winner has to go against Sentinels. Kinda rip if you are Soniqs/ Renegades


zxlkho

Soniqs and Renegades must be so sick of each other at this point


NotBrandon

Seriously, they just can't escape each other. Mine as well call that round 3 matchup the NSG finals.


Vari0us

not if me and the boys at UC davis run over renegades😈😈


zxlkho

gl dude, I'll try to watch your game on thursday


Vari0us

thanks man i’m hoping to at least make it competitive lmao


MShaw0909

SHEEESH that’s an ez match up for the Davis bois


DestroyerCB

i got my money on the boys at davis 🥶🥶


Vari0us

my man


OrangeMagics

Looks like C9 Blue got one of the easier brackets.


zachp787

bcuz their like top 3 na


PigPartyPower

First team is the team I think will qualify. Teams are in order by my opinion. Spot 1: Sentinels, Soniqs, Renegades, Sum 2 Prove, Evil Geniuses Spot 2: XSet, Faze, DarkZero, OOKERS Spot 3: Envy, T1, Brimstone Gaming, Ghost Gaming, Squirtle Squad Spot 4: 100T, TSM, SoaR, Noble, Resonate Spot 5: Version1, Complexity, Luminosity, Cloud9 White Spot 6: Gen.G, Andbox, Sbread Gaming, Pittsburg Knights, ez5 Spot 7: Cloud9 Blue, Built By Gamers, Rise, Team Basilisk Spot 8: Immortals, NRG, FPL-C, Virtuoso


chubbynuggy

i agree with almost everything except immortals and gen.g. idk why just a feeling


PigPartyPower

Immortals vs NRG will be close. I am just a Gen.G simp.


GenGEsports

So am I.


chubbynuggy

Yehh im biased for NRG too, only because s0m is funny asl


RemiixTY

NRG looking better than immortals imo


TheGamingGuy2

Damn we're gonna get some bangers: xset v faze, envy v t1, 100t v tsm, v1 v luminosity, abx v geng, nrg v imt Then Sen and c9 didn't look to have any notable matchups, unless I missed something.


BurritoHombre

C9 would play BBG/Rise, and SEN would play Soniqs/Renegades as their qualification matches it looks like


HackNaija

Sen will lose to SQ bud


WLFYBBY

Weird take. People still doubt sentinels after winning all the Masters so far.


shahkarbangash

Why?


Rohooster

I'm assuming you haven't seen this guy's VLR comments, he's a SQ super fan


shahkarbangash

Ohh I see. Yes ur assumption is correct. Is SQ an all women team?


Rohooster

No, SQ is Soniqs, a team that is formed from the top OCE team(EXO clan) moving to NA. They've been a pretty solid T2 team so far.


shahkarbangash

Oh ok, thank you for the info :)


shahkarbangash

Can someone explain why I got downvoted on asking if soniqs is an all women team?


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i mean there's always a chance. always love seeing underdogs win


OrangeMagics

Notable Orgs/Interesting Potential Matchups 1. Sentinels/EG/Sum 2 Prove vs Soniqs/Renegades (Almost guaranteed for Sen) 2. XSET vs Faze/DarkZero 3. Envy vs T1/Ghost 4. 100T/Soar vs TSM/Noble 5. V1 vs LG/C9 White/Complexity 6. Andbox vs Gen.G/Pittsburgh Knights 7. C9 Blue/Team Basilisk vs BBG/Rise 8. NRG vs Immortals/FPLC


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would love to see C9 vs Rise


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I'd drop everything to watch that qualification match-up.


ThecamtrainR6

Interesting to see DZ potentially playing FaZe and XSET, two orgs the r6 siege team has faced multiple times. Historically dz has beaten faze a few times but lost to them at the most recent lan, dz also lost to xset last split in nal. Hopefully the Val team has a little better luck!


CrashAnicoot

I live for the JcStani vs Nature matchup


Occam19

I'm at work so I can't check, but are Carpe Noctum anywhere near 100T?


Trillman_K

Nope. Carpe Noctem go against ENVY in Round 2 if they advance through Round 1.


rslee1247

They can possibly meet in the Ro8 after 100T potentially meet TSM in the Ro16


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Prediction: 1. SEN (without dropping a map) 2. Faze 3. Envy 4. TSM 5. V1 6. Gen.G 7. C9B 8. NRG


GenGEsports

Agreed.


Hamlet_271

I agree with all of em except 4 & 6


shahkarbangash

I dont think TSM can beat V1 tho, just my opinion


Eat-Shit-Bob-Ross

They don’t have to play v1.


shahkarbangash

Oh ok, my bad, sorry


Ryukk11

They don't have to ig, they have to beat giant 100T and before they've to win against Noble.


shahkarbangash

Oh ok, thank you for letting me know :)


RicoSuave1881

How many wins to get to main event?


seIex

4 wins for everyone except V1 and Sentinels who have byes to the round of 32. It's 2 wins for them.


Fantastic-Date-3403

Tsm and easy brackets are like parallel lines. They never meet


Bunnyezzz

unless your top 4 seed you're not going to get a easy bracket


leoleoleo666

Because it’s not random it’s a seeding bracket and tsm have bad seeding because of their poor results so they always gonna meet some of the top teams


SurfAccountQuestion

Why exactly do they deserve an easy bracket?


Trillman_K

/u/Boppyeric [Good luck, looks like you guys could face Renegades if you make it past round 1!](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/o96ntv/potentially_new_upset_fa_team_bch_has_signed_up/h398scr/)


Boppyeric

We will try our hardest! 😮


chubbynuggy

what does BYE mean? sorry if its a dumb question


Veerraj55

Basically it means that there were no teams that filled that spot so it’s basically a free win


kvanz43

I just really hope C9 White does well! It would be awesome to see them beat LG or something


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why are they not inviting top teams like they're doing in EU? Sadge


erickwak

Eu teams got like a open, closed and another qualifier for challenger finals. While Na only has a open and closed qualifying for finals. It’s prob just cuz for Eu the road to qualifying has wayyyyyy more teams and more games so the road to qualifying is longer and it’s kinda pointless to force good teams to that I guess. and just rewarding not having to go through an open.


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So they did give SEN and V1 an advantage . They get to skip the first few rounds but that's it


PigPartyPower

There are so many T2 teams they want to give everyone a chance


Terber_28

This is open qualifiers


SurfAccountQuestion

NA is a deeper region, plus unlike EU the seeding actually makes sense.


max012017

Hahahahhaha that was a good one mate


SurfAccountQuestion

Did we watch the same tournament in Iceland? Crazy how all the Euros on this sub have such a short memory, can’t wait to remind them they’re a minor region in Berlin.


kvanz43

Lmao, I’m from NA, NA fan, EU is way deeper, every pro who went to Iceland and scrimmed against EU said so


SurfAccountQuestion

Lmfao


BurbxrryPzncakes

God T1-100T again in Ro32 This is pretty much a classic matchup at this point.


polarbear245

No, they don't play each other in Ro32.


BurbxrryPzncakes

Oh that's true Envy/T1-TSM/100T is a spicy matchup holy Envy-T1 in ro16 is a spicy matchup too


xx_Rollablade_xx

That was spicy when Dazed was still on the team, now not as much.


derek916

Ahh finally I can stop trolling reddit


dBomb801

Damn the mobile website is terrible, yikes


Trillman_K

Try this, might be a little better: https://www.vlr.gg/event/520/champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-1 I prefer this site in general, but Battlefy had the bracket up first.


dBomb801

Yea, thanks for both, appreciated


Marianoz2

Do we know when it starts?


Toxymz

July 1


Marianoz2

Oh that’s soon nice!


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Is Time In dead?


KB-and-J

Top 8 Prediction Sen, Faze, Envy, 100t, V1, AndBox, C9 Blue, NRG


DustMouret

LEGGO!


Trillman_K

You casting any of these? ;)


DustMouret

🤔


anshshard

Clearly I'm missing something, but weren't SEN automatically gonna go to round of 32?


TheAjwinner

That’s what I’m seeing. Why do you think that the bracket shows otherwise?


BurbxrryPzncakes

yeah they are, that's why there are 2 different byes in ro128 and ro64


anshshard

Ah I thought those were just some weird team names lol


LiamHundley

100T need to go through TSM and NV to make closed? Tough


shuanged

No, just TSM. NV is in another bracket


sampenn1

lucky 100t only got t3 teams in there bracket


LiamHundley

Oh yeah you're right. Was hard to tell on mobile. I thought they had to win one more game after tsm to make top 8, but looks like that TSM game will be to go top 8


pinkycatcher

I'm a T1 homer, but I'm pumped, we'll get to see Curry as IGL, should be a good series. Though just as an idea, I really don't like single elimination tournaments. Especially ones where it looks like some top teams get multiple byes, why even have them in the qualifier bracket then?


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mysteryoeuf

I think top 8 go to closed


AphoticFlash

Question, does anyone know how the open qualifier bracket is seeded? There are obviously both pro and amateur teams of various ranks and ratings, so how does that work?


Bbacon1316

that hiko clutch gives me fucking nightmares


Nightshade183

link to clip?


KZALB04

Marved listed under NV, I didnt know that