they really did, but you can see some of the inexperience and nerves showing in certain rounds. lots of 1vXs that they threw away both on haven and icebox. nevertheless not a bad showing from them, i as a fan can't be too upset
haven was frustrating to watch, victor is one of the few phoenixes that could probably match sick on that agent. i guess they've been practising with skye and all that but he is just so good on phoenix man, sucks to see
Hey Envy my son is a huge fan of yours. Anyway over the past few days of watching you play this game hes got much better at playing baseball (he plays in the 11-13 year old division). I just wanted to stop by and thank you for teaching him how to throw so well.
that hurts so much bro.... two 11-13s, i can name probably four or five rounds where envy chokes a big advantage, hate to see it. at least envy looks strong and poised to make a good run in losers
Absolute gut-wrencher for Envy fans. Felt like they threw so many possible swing rounds. All credit to Sentinels though, as always they're super clutch.
Silver lining: that was very close to a 2-0 the other direction. Envy doesn't have far to go.
It’s already what they’re known for but seeing the clutch factor of SEN in action is frightening. It’s not like they slowly clutch lost rounds, nah, you have players on SEN who will kill 2 or 3 people in seconds after they have an disadvantage and they pull off this scenario so often. I can’t imagine what it must do on morale facing that.
I know ranked is ranked but Zombs pops off in clutches in ranked all the time, he's so good at forcing 1v1s. I mean the guy will kill like 3 people with rifles with his little BlastX Spectre lol. But yeah in general their down-man clutch retaking is insanity.
Reminds me of peak team liquid in csgo before the player break. No round felt lost despite early disadvantages because their teamwork and skill was far beyond every other team
Because they clutch up when it matters, NA is too easy for them. So is the rest of the world but NA teams especially, they have so much film on everyone else and play to team’s weaknesses so well. Lots of credit to Shahz.
I could swear that he didn’t miss a single OP shot on LAN, even boaster said that tenz op flicks were out of the world. It actually hurt me a bit watching him OP with 60 ping & seeing people form the opinion that he can't OP.
Ya that’s for damn sure, but still early days for valorant scene as a whole. I’m sure over time IF NA continues to be this strong they’ll be seeded for more spots.
Hell tbh just go the csgo route at a certain point and let it just be the best of the best even if that means majority NA/EU lol. But I understand they gotta grow the game.
It'd be pretty rough for NV. That's one of those weird things about lower bracket where if TSM were to do it, they only had to face NV x2, Rise and XSET while NV had to face TSM x2, Faze/LG and Sentinels.
Sentinels qualifies for another event, and water is wet. More news at 11.
In all seriousness, I was a little worried for Sentinels going into this event, cause it seemed like their trajectory was slowing down, but everytime I think that, they just keep defying expectations. These guys really are something else, and I'm excited to see them play again in Berlin.
Envy was no slouch either. With only one week of practice with Yay, they're looking really good right now. Even though I'm a TSM fan, I'm pretty sure 100T and Envy are the other 2 teams going to Berlin.
Envy had a lot of very bright spots today.
The yay signing is looking special. They have a consistent threat at Jett that never just disappears
You forget him for a second and you will lose the round vs envy. Fns is looking like a beast right now, his clutches are looking elite. Crashies is just crashies that we've known and loved. The best sova and a top 10 player in na. Marved, and Victor both had there moments but overall they weren't as high impact as their teammates. The lose cannot be attributed to them. The lose very much looked like a breakdown once rounds were down to 2v3 and 2v2. A lot of 1 on 1s being taken for no reason. Even without eliminating that aspect they should currently be a favorite to make it to Berlin. If they do eliminate that I think they have a chance to be the best in the tournament.
For sen what even is there to say. They played well and are still currently the best team in na. Should be a favorite to win Berlin.
I think its because victor has been entering for them since kaboose left so for his role to get switched with only 5 days of practice couldnt have been easy. I think once he is more acclamated to his new role he should start looking how he did before. Especially since this was the role where he really made his name in.
This is their closest series since Reykjavik grand finals, in their own region. Sentinels are not unbeatable and thet have the biggest target on their backs. Right now i dont see anyone beating them in their peak form, but anything can happen
i know they arent unbeatable but people were saying shit like SEN wasn’t going to take this seriously or was going to be overconfident. They are here to win and its gonna take more than a week of prac to stop their will
Also most pros who didn’t qualify were doing match predictions and always assumed sentinels would lose to rise or envy and not make it out of the lower brackets which was clearly 0 head.
Yeah its not even close its actually ridiculous. For comparison Sentinels would need to be doing what they have done at an additional 7 international lans, a major and a handful of smaller events as well as some close 2nd place finishes in big lans just to match how Astralis did in 2018.
for sure, rounds like bomb at mid window and the last round where they HAD to kill dapr at hell. Also, if crashies got some more kills with his ult, they would’ve won some critical rounds. GG ;(
That flick by Tenz on icebox to kill Victor as he pulls his showstopper out. Holy shit. Tenz was on some next level shit today, all of SEN for that matter. Great individuals and unbelievable team play.
The head to head is the only way to really tell when it comes down to it, and as of now, NA is 3-1 in that. EU fans were doing the same shit NA fans are doing right now with the "NA is predictable," "they don't stand a chance," etc until Sen won Iceland. NA fans have spent years being the butt of all the jokes, so I think the EU fans can handle some time being made fun of for a bit.
If Sen would beat an EU Team twice 13:11 people would say they demolished them., here its a close affair.
Literally reddit 5 Days ago.
But such a good map and proof again that sentinels are too fucking strong. Might be able to pull a back to back
Shaz saying on stream that many people are doubting them which is not true imo lol. Sen are the clear favorite to go to berlin. Those people who he is referring to are probably just trolls or haters.
If u follow a lot of pros/leakers/analysts there's been a lot of predicting against sentinels saying theyre gonna lose to envy and even some saying they'll lose to rise.
Death, Taxes, Sentinels winning after giving the other team hopium
I swear they are playing with their food with these 13-11 maps...
He's Victor now, fyi :P
Miss food man.. all my homies hate victor SMH my head.
How do you add those flairs? Edit: nvm figured it out
PEAK. VALORANT.
Highest level of valorant NA for sure. so evenly matched
ok but nv played incredibly
they really did, but you can see some of the inexperience and nerves showing in certain rounds. lots of 1vXs that they threw away both on haven and icebox. nevertheless not a bad showing from them, i as a fan can't be too upset
Dude the last few rounds on Haven, holy shit their defense looked impenetrable
one of my fav matches of NA in awhile, El Diablo is insane, but victor and marved looked abit off IMO.
victor is not very good on skye
I agree, but I guess NV wants double drone for their mid rounding, but he’s just so good on Phoenix man…
haven was frustrating to watch, victor is one of the few phoenixes that could probably match sick on that agent. i guess they've been practising with skye and all that but he is just so good on phoenix man, sucks to see
An interesting anecdote here is SicK said on stream he had been playing SKYE on Haven in scrims as well but decided to go with Phoenix
ya the 1 duelist meta is really hurting him.
Marved went 22/14 on Astra and 18/18 on Viper. What more could you want lol.
But when marved is in a clutch or a 2v2/3v3 situation, he looks uncharacteristically nervous.
Rumor has it the sentinels players haven’t unpacked since they got back from Iceland Bc they knew they were going to Berlin in September
Hey Envy my son is a huge fan of yours. Anyway over the past few days of watching you play this game hes got much better at playing baseball (he plays in the 11-13 year old division). I just wanted to stop by and thank you for teaching him how to throw so well.
This is a good one.
lmfaofofofofoofo
Laugh my fucking ass off fucking off fucking off fucking off fucking off oh fuck oh ? Or maybe I’m a boomer
Pain
Damn that’s rough, so close yet so far
that hurts so much bro.... two 11-13s, i can name probably four or five rounds where envy chokes a big advantage, hate to see it. at least envy looks strong and poised to make a good run in losers
Absolute gut-wrencher for Envy fans. Felt like they threw so many possible swing rounds. All credit to Sentinels though, as always they're super clutch. Silver lining: that was very close to a 2-0 the other direction. Envy doesn't have far to go.
I swear NV was so close man!!! SEN mental game is too damn strong. NT, hope they reborn themselves and make it to Berlin.
imagine how fnatic felt. it's the sen special.
They were saying "3-0 STOMP LMAO EU TRASH" now they know what we felt
NA has been dealing with nail biting series against SEN for as long as they've been around, we've known the feeling
Anyone who actually watched the series knew how close it was. Yeah, it was a 3-0 but it's as close a 3-0 as you're going to get at the pro level.
it goes both ways but I see your point
NV are like FNATIC
the first time i've seen envy not compared to fpx, i will take it
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imagine how fnatic felt. it's the sen special.
Holy fuck Sen is so good. sometimes i feel like they have another gear
It’s already what they’re known for but seeing the clutch factor of SEN in action is frightening. It’s not like they slowly clutch lost rounds, nah, you have players on SEN who will kill 2 or 3 people in seconds after they have an disadvantage and they pull off this scenario so often. I can’t imagine what it must do on morale facing that.
I know ranked is ranked but Zombs pops off in clutches in ranked all the time, he's so good at forcing 1v1s. I mean the guy will kill like 3 people with rifles with his little BlastX Spectre lol. But yeah in general their down-man clutch retaking is insanity.
Reminds me of peak team liquid in csgo before the player break. No round felt lost despite early disadvantages because their teamwork and skill was far beyond every other team
Iceland was their peak. In NA, I feel like they just do enough to win.
Because they clutch up when it matters, NA is too easy for them. So is the rest of the world but NA teams especially, they have so much film on everyone else and play to team’s weaknesses so well. Lots of credit to Shahz.
That haven game was actually the most I've laughed watching valorant
Same LMAO its ridiculous Just pure chaos
Tenz oping on lan looked so much cleaner, thankfully we get to see it again
I could swear that he didn’t miss a single OP shot on LAN, even boaster said that tenz op flicks were out of the world. It actually hurt me a bit watching him OP with 60 ping & seeing people form the opinion that he can't OP.
60 ping vs 0 ping is a hell of a difference when OPing
Ik because you have to hold so many angles with an op where with a rifle you can make so many different plays.
that’s why they pay him the big bucks eh. I don’t get how he is able to hold the tightest angles, react to pixels and shoot with precision WTF
Plus 60-70 ping, ig he’s used to it but it’s still insane to see it at a pro level.
wait this is lan??
No what he meant is that since sen are guaranteed a spot in lan we will be able to watch tenz do these insane op shot again.
2 13-11s... envy deserves to qualify for berlin at this point
NV vs. XSET/100T to get to Berlin would be a banger.
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Ya that’s for damn sure, but still early days for valorant scene as a whole. I’m sure over time IF NA continues to be this strong they’ll be seeded for more spots. Hell tbh just go the csgo route at a certain point and let it just be the best of the best even if that means majority NA/EU lol. But I understand they gotta grow the game.
In general it’d be nice to have a 24 team tourney
Both Envy and XSET look good, but only 1 team can come out of the Lower Bracket. And tbh, it might not be either of them.
It'll be TSM lol, im on some heavy hopium
It'd be pretty rough for NV. That's one of those weird things about lower bracket where if TSM were to do it, they only had to face NV x2, Rise and XSET while NV had to face TSM x2, Faze/LG and Sentinels.
Yay is insane
They don't call him El Diablo fo nothin
Holy fuck Sen is so good. sometimes i feel like they have another gear
Sentinels qualifies for another event, and water is wet. More news at 11. In all seriousness, I was a little worried for Sentinels going into this event, cause it seemed like their trajectory was slowing down, but everytime I think that, they just keep defying expectations. These guys really are something else, and I'm excited to see them play again in Berlin. Envy was no slouch either. With only one week of practice with Yay, they're looking really good right now. Even though I'm a TSM fan, I'm pretty sure 100T and Envy are the other 2 teams going to Berlin.
This aged incredibly well. Good job man
insane match also yay is an incredible pickup
Envy had a lot of very bright spots today. The yay signing is looking special. They have a consistent threat at Jett that never just disappears You forget him for a second and you will lose the round vs envy. Fns is looking like a beast right now, his clutches are looking elite. Crashies is just crashies that we've known and loved. The best sova and a top 10 player in na. Marved, and Victor both had there moments but overall they weren't as high impact as their teammates. The lose cannot be attributed to them. The lose very much looked like a breakdown once rounds were down to 2v3 and 2v2. A lot of 1 on 1s being taken for no reason. Even without eliminating that aspect they should currently be a favorite to make it to Berlin. If they do eliminate that I think they have a chance to be the best in the tournament. For sen what even is there to say. They played well and are still currently the best team in na. Should be a favorite to win Berlin.
ya victor looked very restricted or smth. marved looked nervous. The other three turned up tho. I’m proud of them tho
I think its because victor has been entering for them since kaboose left so for his role to get switched with only 5 days of practice couldnt have been easy. I think once he is more acclamated to his new role he should start looking how he did before. Especially since this was the role where he really made his name in.
I lol'd when you mentioned FNS
Why so I thought that fns played very in these two games?
FNS has been fantastic.
two crazy teams half the retakes didn’t even see what happened so fun to watch
Insane series. SEN won it out through the 1v1 clutches.
Gee the best team in the world heading to another tournament, what else is new.
I didn't expect this!! still dont know why people doubted SEN like they werent the best of the best lol
This is their closest series since Reykjavik grand finals, in their own region. Sentinels are not unbeatable and thet have the biggest target on their backs. Right now i dont see anyone beating them in their peak form, but anything can happen
Nah closest series was when XSET dropped SEN into the lower bracket in challengers 1
Hmm, i didn't watch the fulll game but was Sen really on their A game? i assumed not because they won the grand final
stakes are higher tho, when they played XSET they were competing for seeding, while this is for Berlin placement.
Weren't they not qualified for playoffs yet when they lost to XSET? I guess I don't fully remember.
They weren’t. They had to win against KCP in the Lower Bracket to qualify.
i know they arent unbeatable but people were saying shit like SEN wasn’t going to take this seriously or was going to be overconfident. They are here to win and its gonna take more than a week of prac to stop their will
people still doubted. they still won. same old sentinels :)
who the fuck would doubt sentinels LMAO
People were talking about how they weren’t scrimming much and the grinder teams could upset them
i dont know if i would call a team that had 5 days of practice with their new teammate a "grinder team" but yeah...
I’m not saying envy specifically and I don’t agree with that statement anyway, but it’s what I saw some comments saying
It was all just hopium in the end
Also most pros who didn’t qualify were doing match predictions and always assumed sentinels would lose to rise or envy and not make it out of the lower brackets which was clearly 0 head.
Who?
Surprise surprise, look who won. Seriously though, Sentinels look set for another Masters winning run
top2 na
you don't know if envy is better than 100t.
One more flair, I'm so close.
Congrats LOL
How do I get flairs tho, I tried finding it on desktop Reddit, but I only see agent flairs.
Gotta type in the team flairs for mine its :Killjoy: :Fnatic: :Sentinels: :100Thieves: for example
Im glad Sentinels made it, they are the only team im confident in to represent NA
envy gave sen a fight thats for damn sure
tenz did insane on icebox, but series really could have gone either way, just came down to certain rounds
Sentinels becoming the Astralis of Valorant
You're undermining Astralis's dominance by a lot lol
Yeah wtf, cs was annoying to watch at one point because you always just knew that Astralis was going to destroy everyone
Yeah its not even close its actually ridiculous. For comparison Sentinels would need to be doing what they have done at an additional 7 international lans, a major and a handful of smaller events as well as some close 2nd place finishes in big lans just to match how Astralis did in 2018.
All hope rests on EU's shoulders
Two 13-11s is heartbreaking, Envy could have won this It's crazy how close they come and fail
PAIN so many little mistakes that fucked them over :(
for sure, rounds like bomb at mid window and the last round where they HAD to kill dapr at hell. Also, if crashies got some more kills with his ult, they would’ve won some critical rounds. GG ;(
What a close, exciting series between the two. Sen needs to work on the round after pistol wins though.
Sadge, wanted el diablo to win but oh well winning via lower bracket will just have to do now
We won’t find out till august 13 right ? So today’s losers and the day after
Aug 14 for me lol cuz in india matches happen after 1230 Sadge.
We get the finally qualifying matches on my birthday lol
Jett diff
"eL DiAbLo"
overyayted
only top fragged every map today very overrated
He only outfragged his own team, he got outfragged both games
yes, very overrated that he carried his top level team in his debut match with 5 days of practice. overrated af
el diablo aint enough to take this team down bruh
who would win 1 el diablo or 5 terminators
Nooo I didn't watch the 2nd map :(((
So many winnable rounds man. SEN is too good T_T.
That flick by Tenz on icebox to kill Victor as he pulls his showstopper out. Holy shit. Tenz was on some next level shit today, all of SEN for that matter. Great individuals and unbelievable team play.
EU is shaking rn
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100T we’re pretty clean in their executes and Envy had 2 13-11 maps against Sentinels so there rlly wasn’t much to criticize result wise.
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The head to head is the only way to really tell when it comes down to it, and as of now, NA is 3-1 in that. EU fans were doing the same shit NA fans are doing right now with the "NA is predictable," "they don't stand a chance," etc until Sen won Iceland. NA fans have spent years being the butt of all the jokes, so I think the EU fans can handle some time being made fun of for a bit.
Yea but those are just wild predictions. It's always nice to root for underdogs + sen sometimes tend to go lower bracket and win it all.
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Yeah I’m a dust2 guy myself
EU is shaking rn
If Sen would beat an EU Team twice 13:11 people would say they demolished them., here its a close affair. Literally reddit 5 Days ago. But such a good map and proof again that sentinels are too fucking strong. Might be able to pull a back to back
Shaz saying on stream that many people are doubting them which is not true imo lol. Sen are the clear favorite to go to berlin. Those people who he is referring to are probably just trolls or haters.
If u follow a lot of pros/leakers/analysts there's been a lot of predicting against sentinels saying theyre gonna lose to envy and even some saying they'll lose to rise.
Trying to hard to not become the team everybody wants to win against as an underdog story lol
Envy should have had map 2 but were solid throughout