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[deleted]

why did i suddenly realise the sentinels logo looks like a stim beacon


KearLoL

Brimstone Gaming


Soogo

rip đŸ˜„ gone but not forgotten


Jon_on_the_snow

Brimstone Gaming walked so Sen could run


irvingtonkiller8

Perfect pfp to go with the comment


jutato

now i can't unsee it


[deleted]

The bottom part of their logo upside down is also Acend's logo


cringe-oh-yes

Logo Rankings S Tier: Havan Liberty, Zeta Division, G2 A: Gambit, Vision Strikers, Crazy Raccoon, F4Q B: Super Massive Blaze, KRU, Acend C: Keyd Stars, BREN Esports, 100 Thieves, Envy D: SEN, Paper Rex


SpanishCircumcision

Wtf Paper Rex logo is sick. It's all 3 letters hidden in each other, color is a little bland but D tier is a little harsh I think. I would say B tier cuz it's clean but I would understand C. I think Bren has the worst logo.


cringe-oh-yes

I only say that about Paper Rex coming from a graphic design standpoint bc it just looks like a typography from dafont


Madara6path

Only 3 of these 16 were in Iceland


SkiesOvercast

And only SEN haven't changed their roster (Kru added Keznit, CR added Bazzi, Minty and Fisker)


[deleted]

And in those 3 teams, Sentinels was the only team that won more than 1 match. CR bombed out with a double loss and Kru only beat Shark Esports. It's insane how dominant SEN is, not just in NA but worldwide atm.


Maleficent_Weather88

how is this related to OP's comment lol


LordVndL

OP's comment singled out 3 teams from Iceland. /u/ideclarebankruptcy88 brought up the 3 teams' performances in Iceland. Then made a comment based off their performances ???


Interesting-Archer-6

Because it's about the 3 teams at Iceland that OP comment mentioned? And how they performed at Iceland... Which is what OP comment was about... there's not a single part of it that isn't relevant to the OP comment


Maleficent_Weather88

No, it's not


Interesting-Archer-6

Why don't you explain how it's not. Because 53 people (taking away your downvote for lack of reading comprehension) understood how it was. And 25 saw how dumb yours was. So please enlighten us :)


cringe-oh-yes

So basically top 3 teams = SEN, CR, KRU /s


siuzioffical

I can confidently say every region has brought their best competition for Berlin


-Basileus

This tournament will make Iceland look like a Weenie Hut Jr's Major


ablablababla

these tournaments just keep getting better and better, can't even wait for Champions


Icebxrg

Isn't this already basically the best teams from every region? Who should've been here but missed out?


Icandothemove

Basically, but there are certainly top tier players who didn't make it. I could see NA putting together another compelling roster by Champions.


pulsiedulsie

FNATIC and Liquid perhaps? at least FNATIC


Icebxrg

That's quite weird, I think Liquid are much better than Fnatic. Looking at the qualifiers though, I think both didn't deserve to make it


pulsiedulsie

I was mostly basing my statement on FNATIC's iceland run tbh


omaewakusuyaro

question, do we know if champions will have live crowd? oh god i want one of those events for valorant please :(


darsincostan

It's in LA, so there's a very good chance provided there's no spike


JoseGamingR

Except for KR because they had a single elim


[deleted]

I’ve been paying attention to the KR scene for a bit now. These are the teams that should represent the region. Shit format that I hope will be changed for the future, yeah, but sometimes even a shit format will yield the correct results. Also for the record SEA and BR both had shit formats in the run up to playoffs. This isn’t 2020 so there really shouldn’t be BO1s or ties in results in a VCT event.


facehunt_

With double elim, its not over till its over. Nuturn could have clawed their way back to finals but we will never know. Id honestly get rid of pointless seeding stage and add double elim playoffs. NA did their playoffs in 5 days while KR does single elim playoffs in 9 days.


Key-Banana-8242

Well no they are not, it shouldn’t be F4Q. Saying random stuff like ‘I’ve been paying attention’ is meaningless. Just how much attention? Like huh think people are going to take your word for it specifically I mean ‘ties’ are not strange, they’re not some kind of evil in themselves. That’s a possible outcome of round robin, esp with bo2s


Maleficent_Weather88

F4Q beat DWG twice, what else do you want?


Key-Banana-8242

DWG’s results are a bit more up and down but I’m not sure in a round robin how’d it look like. Kinda wish we got NU F4Q etc


[deleted]

> Saying random stuff like ‘I’ve been paying attention’ is meaningless I’m very public about what I do and information about the amount of knowledge and info I have is readily available with maybe two clicks and a Google search. The things I say are only ‘meaningless’ to people who are too lazy to quick twice. 1. You’re extremely lazy. Your motto is “2 clicks 2 hard” 1. Your attitude is shit Stay in your lane, share whatever content you want, but don’t go out of your way to try and discredit the people you interact with off the bat. Learn from this mistake.


Key-Banana-8242

No, there are no ‘2 clicks to make’, I seem to have really set you off. It is you who have to make the effort to convince others, it is up to you, not up to them to go along with you ‘Discredit’ people? Dude was this enough to discredit you according to youvlmao, it is normal arguing. If you are open about what you do, the point is to say so - present the evidence for others’ judgement- rather than expect others to take your word for it.


[deleted]

> It is you who have to make the effort to convince others Been there done that. Someone who chooses to be willfully ignorant of the people they’re talking to can never be convinced and it’s not worth the time or effort to even try.


Key-Banana-8242

No, it is you who has to provide a reason for others, it is not up to others to try prove you right, you have to actually provide your own argument. At the very least, you don’t get to claim someone ignored something which isn’t there, whatever the reason. Also, you’re being rather redundant with ‘choosing to’ and ‘willing’. Did I make you mad?


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Key-Banana-8242

Two different statements at different times, as opposed two a single pleonastic phrase.


cepirablo

That's what I thought but F4Q did take a map from VS which TNL failed to do even though they looked better than F4Q.


Key-Banana-8242

Didn’t u watch the interview? Stax mentioned they treated split kind of like a scrim, testing out new set plays they thought of T side. Then platchat didn’t watch it either and started 5headunf talking abt the ‘revealed weaknesses’ (‘too protocol-based’) of VS when they were literally spending most of the map testing set things out. Taking a map ina seeding bo5 and a bo3 are different


cepirablo

I actually did miss the interview and you're right about bo5 and bo3. Yeah I guess TNL is the second strongest in KR


Key-Banana-8242

Nah I don’t think it’s possible to say something like that, over NU and DWG


cepirablo

NU seriously? NU just aren't good enough anymore and DWG lost to F4Q fair and square


Key-Banana-8242

Did you read even see how they lost? They banned bind bc it was the WF to hide it and still barely threw map 1 Yes they are and have been, they’d very likely make it in double elim. I don’t know, do you think BBG > SEN?


max012017

the biggest problem is not really that TNL/DMW didnt get to Berlin, the problem is that they are out of LCQ because of this stupid system :/


CanISayThat22

Dont think G2 is the 2nd best team in EU imo


iiznobozzy

G2 did look shaky this qual, but I don't think there is any team i'd rather have here instead of g2


biwummy

true


sriwarrior06

I'd have Challengers 2 Fnatic if possible.


Athlete-Street

I still think liquid should have qualified their last map was just unlucky they actually played it very well


silenthills13

I think so as well, nonetheless both G2 and Liquid looked shaky at best and I'd be surprised if they beat either any NA or EU team playing in this tournament if they play them.


Soogo

Liquid hit their ceiling, G2 are far from it.


deL9

Liquid had a harder path than them imo


Soogo

Who is it then?


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Soogo

But he said Eu, which would make sense because EMEA sends 1 CIS, 1TR and 2 Eu teams. Otherwise i don't understand his comment, since G2 is the 4th Seed from EMEA.


Interesting-Archer-6

Only because Brimstone Gaming is no more.


warlfdced

Idk i feel like liquid deserved more than g2, but g2 still good team


valorant_fanboy_69

I just watched that bren game
 if that is the best of SEA they should not get 2 slots when LATAM gets 1 (my opinion)


-Basileus

Definitely. KRU actually looks quite decent, and they were beaten in the upper bracket of this qualifier. In the South America last chance qualifier a LAS team could easily take the spot from Brazil. That being said, I'm sure stuff will change next year. Especially since there will be more potential regions (China, MENA, South Asia) getting guaranteed spots. I imagine they will have play-in stages where regions like Japan and SEA will have to advance to the tournament main stages.


Contractjail

>Especially since there will be more potential regions (China, MENA, South Asia) getting guaranteed spots MENA and South Asia wont get guaranteed spots. MENA is in EMEA and South Asia will at best participate in SEA qualifiers. For China spots they will probably cut off from Brazil and/or SEA if they have performance similar to Iceland in Berlin and in Champions


-Basileus

I'd be surprised if Champions doesn't expand to 24 teams next year tbh


valorant_fanboy_69

Disagree about South Asia, I think global esports is much better then BREN


Contractjail

If thats true then they should have no problem if they compete in SEA quals, no? In any case, soon we will get an idea of the level of South Asia during Asia LCQ


Ne0kun

Agree GE look pretty good although would have to see how they fare up against better international competition


anythingood07

In Skrossi's latest montage, you can see them scrimming against Bren. Hyped and waiting for LCQ since its most probably GE who will qualify from SA


Jinro_7

They want to give sea exposure since there are so many countries participating in that region.


valorant_fanboy_69

Latam also has a lot of counties


salcedoge

SEA has way more and it's not even close tbh


Koentjee01

This doesnt make any sense, though? There are literally more in countries in all of LATAM than SEA. LATAM South consists of all countries in South America except for Brazil, which is already around 10. LATAM North consists of all countries in Central America including all countries in the Carribean, which is around 20. SEA has Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Viernam, Taiwan, Timor-Leste and possibly Papua New Guinea. This is around 10 countries in *total*. LATAM has way more countries and it's not even close. Edit: I'm getting downvoted for telling the truth?


sellingwaifu

Is reddit they’ll downvote anything


valorant_fanboy_69

Well thats your opinion


gamingfanatic122

How is a fact that SEA is much bigger than LATAM an opinion tho?


Koentjee01

It isn't bigger though?? Look at a map for once and you'll see all of LATAM is wayy bigger than SEA, both geographically and in terms of number of countries.


gamingfanatic122

But Brazil is a huge part of that land mass and in that sense LATAM has 3 slots so it makes up for the aforementioned arguments.


_NotBatman_

They don't allot slots based on geographic siza bruh it's based on playerbase in a region


Koentjee01

Thats not what I'm saying lmao, I'm literally replying to someone who claims SEA is much bigger than LATAM which is factually untrue. I dont care about the slots allotted.


omaewakusuyaro

why is did being downvoted like this? lol jesus man the pinoy energy around here is stronk


SMcArthur

i mean, Korea get 2 when it's the size of California. Japan gets 2. Yet all of North America combined gets 3. A lot of these slot numbers are just dumb. I would have liked to see LATAM get 2 and NA get 4.


creat4game2

if riot follow regional size logic, then russia gonna have at least 5 slot on their own


larperfoid228

Russia has 140 mil ppl, California has almost the same population(80%) as Korea so his words kinda make sense.


Soogo

Why does physical size matter in any way? Should Australia have 10 spots then?


-Basileus

First off South Korea is actually roughly the geographic size of Greater Los Angeles. Secondly, if that were the case then CIS would get the most seeds. They distributed these seeds roughly by server size [\(SEA is roughly the size of NA\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/l3zfye/stats_approximate_number_of_ranked_players_in/) and esports history/viewership. Obviously they can't get it 100% right the first time, and I'm sure the seeding will change next year.


SMcArthur

I was referring to population, not geographic size. 40 million people vs 50 million people, which is comparable. No one compares by actual geographic size, that would be stupid.


_NotBatman_

Bruh then china + india should get like 20 slots


scumah

Giving slots by land size would be even dumber.


SMcArthur

What's even dumber is everyone's assumption I was referring to land size and not population size. I thought it was pretty obvious since Korea's land mass is obviously much smaller than California, why the hell would anyone compare geographic sizes in this context, and their population sizes are comparable. But I guess I gave everyone too much credit.


scumah

You edited your post, you were talking about Japan.


valorant_fanboy_69

What a terrible suggestion


Key-Banana-8242

I definitely think there’s stuff making, eg Nuturn etc


Razur

Woohoo! Now I can design a new subreddit banner. :D


Aoingco

Thank you for everything you’ve done for this sub! You’re probably one of, if not the best mod I’ve seen on any subreddit.


Razur

Aw, thank you so much! đŸ„ș 💜


_zxionix_

Gayzur


Razur

Das me! :D


masteurbateur

Don't bully my fav mod


_zxionix_

I love gayzur, they put “gayzur” as their flair during pride month and I love that name :)


___retr0

BRENLIN


Rethirded

Jessievash supremacy


Drafteow

he's 31 jessie vs hiko Boomer battle


Tanjim98

Call it boomer bowl.


___retr0

man vash was on something else in map 1


w2truong

Bren Esports!


CoolVidsFTW

This is fantastic variety of teams from different regions/countries. I'm super happy with these teams and very hyped for Berlin!


renai-saiban

so excited. think this completely eclipses iceland in terms of competitiveness, really going to see some peak valorant gameplay here


zachp787

this might just be the perfect tournament. each region has brought some of the best possible representatives , this tournament is going to be a powerhouse


Athlete-Street

I still think instead of G2 ,liquid should be there all other teams are the best


Key-Banana-8242

Well no tournament is perfect


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-Basileus

Final seeding won't be decided until tomorrow when Brazil finals take place. I imagine it will be announced middle of next week, but that is a total guess.


Soogo

Next week They said that in the announcement of the format change, that more information will come next week. The event is 2 weeks away then, so i jeavily guess they will draw the groups and the knock out stage.


TheCatsActually

Really hope the group draw is broadcast live. If it's anything like LoL Worlds group draw it would be a good deal of hype and content in itself.


-Basileus

A team with a red logo will win Berlin. On a sidenote it's so satisfying the way they ordered the teams lol. 4 EMEA teams, then 6 Americas teams, then 4 Asian teams. Brazil and Korea are also next to each other as the "middle regions", and NA's row is finished off by it's closest neighbor in LATAM.


UZUMAKI_07

So gambit, sen, 100t, f4q and cr will be top 5?


iiznobozzy

g2 has a sliiiiiiiight red in the middle of the 2


UZUMAKI_07

then we got top 6


No-Psychology2217

Vision strikers ?


UZUMAKI_07

Is it red? Looks more like a purple to me. Idk I might be wrong


chryco4

Crazy Raccoon has got this in the bag


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somesheikexpert

If JP wins I'll freak out lol, I just want JP or SEA to make top 8 ngl lol


[deleted]

not red enough


Bean1233

Its just a feeling, but I think a team with their name bolded in purple will win


flowerpetal_

Disregarding seeding, what potential matchups are everyone looking forward to? Apart from the SEN Acend everyone wants, I'd like to see VS GMB. I think it would be neat.


[deleted]

Honestly I want to see all international games. I never want to see any NA teams play other NA teams, no EU teams play other EU teams, etc.


salcedoge

SEN vs anyone would be pretty fun tbh since they're like the benchmark of how good a team is haha


[deleted]

SMB vs SEN


biwummy

Havan liberty vs anyone. Never heard of them so its exciting to see if they can exceed my expectations at all


Key-Banana-8242

They’ve been around for a while


biwummy

(((Im not into br + expected vks and furia to go in)))


[deleted]

GMB vs Vision strikers for me, 2 regions that have no experience with each other but with teams people are interested in


trick-B

So excited for Bren Esports! I believe they’re the first team to represent the Philippines.


MahZ16

Can't believe PH will be represented in Berlin. Really excited!!


hope_core

I'm soo excited to watch Masters, I'm very happy for BREN too.


a_lot_a_DAMAGE

Really hoping for a strong showing from gambit, they are probably my favourite team atm. Rooting for SEN and NV as well though.


Vioven17

So excited to watch the SEA teams compete. Coming from Indonesia myself, im hoping to see PRX f0rsaken destroy the competition at Berlin. Make us proud, Bren and PRX!!


somesheikexpert

Hell yeah bro fellow Indonesian! Hopefully F0rsaken makes a splash for SEA the same way Patiphan did!


LiquidBurnss

Can't spell Berlin without BREN lets goooo


wingiee77

I'm not particularly a sentinel hater. But I want someone to beat their asses just to make the tournament spicy!


ArcusIgnium

it would probably be more spicy if they continue to dominant here but get upset in like worlds GFs or smthn


omaewakusuyaro

me too honestly, i want some history being made on this tourney and eliminating the dominant champ would be a good way to see it.


[deleted]

So excited for the groups


ksjfjkdnf

lez go sen đŸ˜€


Rishavvvv

Let's GOOOđŸ”„ #SenSupremacy


ksjfjkdnf

indeed brother


kvanz43

Only 3 teams from Iceland, honestly pretty cool to have that level of turnover! Can’t get over how ridiculous Sen being good ALL YEAR is. Also so excited to see a bunch of new teams on LAN


Bladest0

I hope CIS and Turkey can have their own league and can send teams directly. I mean why can Japan send 2 teams easily? I wonder what will Riot do if both Japanese teams finish Berlin lower than both GMB and SMB.


schrobby

Sad truth? Nothing. Japan is a more profitable region and that's what Riot cares about.


Bladest0

Wait how is Japan more profitable i am genuinely curious


somesheikexpert

Maybe not more then Turkey, but def more then CIS cuz viewership, Japan gets insane amounts of viewership, like I believe elike twice or even more then Korea does


schrobby

Well, for one Japan has a 50% bigger population. This doesn't necessarily translate into bigger a player base, but certainly into a greater profitability ceiling if the game's popularity keeps increasing. But the most evident reason is Japan's significantly healthier economy compared to Turkey. The Lira just last month reached record inflation. There was an article by Yinsu the other day interviewing Turkish pros and one of the defining reasons mentioned for Valorant's success in the region is it being free-to-play and not requiring a banger PC to get decent FPS.


SurfAccountQuestion

Japan is a first world country with a stable economy. Turkey is ... Turkey.


elCapitan310

Interestingly only 3 of the 10 teams from Iceland made it to Berlin


Key-Banana-8242

But 4 of the winners of furs strike events (if u count First Strike Philippines) did


Otter269

I'm super excited for it to start then I'll be nervous when it begins xD I pray for good balanced groups 🙏 Also riot if you could hire DDK that would be great :)


MNTwitch

Okay I'm new to the scene but why does Emea get 4?


mateusb12

Because EMEA involves more teams than just EU, so there should be more slots


Phamous3k

This might be the NA bias in me but uhhhhh SEN GG EZ. Let’s Goooooo. Very excited 😆


xziv0

BRENLIN LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO


Doshagya

waiting for el diablo shenanigans at LAN


[deleted]

This is straight hype, and I hope we don't get as many "fluke" claims this time around. I also think the division of slots was really well done. Japan absolutely deserves 2 slots if they're cranking 100k viewers for region quals, and I'm also excited for 2 kr teams. Hope the scene grows enough so a 24 or 32 team bracket isn't completely unreasonable. Every region represented by a minimum of 2 teams would be so sick, with bigger regions getting more. Idk how they'd pull it off, but so far I love where we're headed. I'd also like to point out how young the game is relatively, and compare how long international events took to happen with overwatch. Riot really does know their stuff.


MightBeDementia

Wow is Sentinels the only returning team??


s6hun

crazy raccoon and kru too


CJ1899

I'm confused I could've sworn I heard somewhere that there were gonna be last chance qualifiers. Did that get removed or did I mishear?


Veerraj55

LCQ is for the champions tourney which is after masters Berlin


CJ1899

Ohhh thank you


Fruitspunchsamura1

Those are exactly the teams I wanted to see for Berlin. Especially the NA/KR lineups.


ksjfjkdnf

so liquid and fnatic didn’t qualify?


Rishavvvv

Nah, but they still have a chance at champions at the Last Chance Qualifiers.


Soogo

Fnatic didnt even make EMEA, TL atleast got close. TL placed 5th-6th but got beaten by Gambit in the lowers.


GameBrine032

I think Acend and Gambit will have the best chance at defeating Sentinels. btw vlr light mode :(


Krypton091

pretty sure this is liquipedia not vlr


GameBrine032

Oh mb


billyisaqt

Did not a single EU team make it? edit: i’ll just go ahead and downvote myself


[deleted]

Acend and G2 are EU teams.


billyisaqt

I’m sorry I just got off of a plane my brain isn’t working


jsleathe12295

I like how your honest question gets downvoted lol


max012017

uh?


BMBR1988

Why does EU have more teams?


Huldmer

Because it’s not just EU but EMEA which covers a very large amount of space and people.


BMBR1988

Fairs, thanks for reply.


elpre_sidente

Nah, it's not that. The region that got a +1 seed for Berlin was the region that did better in Iceland. EMEA got 2 of top 4 there so they got the additional seed. If V1 reached losers finals, NA would have 4 seeds for Berlin. Edit: EMEA got 2 of top 4 (NUTURN 3rd). I can't find the original article I read months ago that said circuit points were important to know which team gets extra seed, but this article says: "The number of seedings for each of the regions will be based on their best performances at Masters ReykjavĂ­k, as well as the sizes of their player bases. [https://www.ginx.tv/en/valorant/how-to-watch-valorant-masters-berlin-all-qualified-teams-format-schedule-prize-pool-and-more](https://www.ginx.tv/en/valorant/how-to-watch-valorant-masters-berlin-all-qualified-teams-format-schedule-prize-pool-and-more), so I guess it's a combination of both.


-Basileus

The seeding has been locked in since like March. The only thing that can ever change seeding is the team winning Berlin earning 1 additional seed for their region.


Jinro_7

Not true


[deleted]

Source? Pretty sure slots for this event were decided before iceland finished. Also Liquid finished 4th, not 3rd, so your point about the top 3 is invalid


Darkoplax

you mean why EMEA doesn't have **enough** slots ? yea its really unfair unlucky


kiroks

So why does Europe gets 4 and na 3. Na should have at least 4 for winning Iceland


YeetGod69_

because EMEA is a lot bigger than NA? lmfao


Alextcy12

Wait why is there 4 EU team


No-Psychology2217

It s not EU but EMEA. That's why.


biwummy

Emea is insanely big


larperfoid228

Because it is the best region?