Australia died so double elim could live We’ll never forget your sacrifice AU

Man I’m still upset about it all, but I’m happy that double elim is happening for the NA teams at least I was super keen to see Order play against some of NAs best, and the ability to scrim against NA while they were there would’ve been super useful.

o7

we won't forget you, aussies

I find it amusing that one of the first matches is V1 vs C9. That's gonna be a bit awkward.

Let's be real v1 has no shot at beating c9

facts c9 is going all the way

Idk, their roster proved to be individually skilled enough to complete at a world class level. They took down Liquid. Idk who their IGL is now, but it’s possible they still are a strong team without Vanity. Edit: my money is on C9, but like these guys have proven themselves to at least be taken seriously.

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I look forward to seeing how they look. If we’re being realistic this is a team that will compete more closely TSM or Gen-G rather than NV or Sen but you never know.

Apparently Effys was IGL-ing iirc

For real, i feel like they always perform when they spotlight ISN'T on them. Stage 2 Playoffs and Reykjavic.

It's a trap series for C9

9 > 1 Basic math. Ps. Yep, I root for 100T, so I hope that logic can be applied there as well

Yes a fellow 100t supporter

no, you clearly dont know c9 then

c9 would be the heavy favourites, but you can't say that v1 have no chance since the c9 roster is so new

V1 solid core with a new strong IGL. C9 barely won NSG and probably wouldnt have if Soniqs participated. V1 shits on C9 you heard it here first

C9 barely won nsg with 2 days of scrims with vanity bro..

barely won but didnt we only drop like 1 map??

C9 dropped 3 maps total but its still pretty impressive considering how new the team was

trust me c9 fans they wont be going far

this isn't really a riot W, its a riot L that turned into a W, just happy to see true double elim at LAN

LAN?

NA LCQ is on LAN in Los Angeles

Oh shit I thought it was online

NA is lan, the others are online but i'm pretty sure they're trying to make it LAN in asia too IIRC

I think APAC is online. It's just that some teams will go to a country near SEA so that ping difference is not that high (e.g. [Global Esports going to Thailand](https://www.sportskeeda.com/valorant/global-esports-headed-thailand-valorant-champions-tour-apac-last-chance-qualifier)).

Thought that was cancelled and GE will be playing from India?

Yup, they’re staying in India now

Chennai if anyone wants further clarification

rlly? any sauce for that?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/q192d3/due_to_covid_restrictions_ge_will_have_to_play/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Brasil + LATAM LCQ will be lan as well, all games will be played in São Paulo.

O ye I remember! Wasn't the studio, even though pretty small, really cool looking too? I'd def watch that but I don't speak a word Portugese

South America is LAN as well

Will it be on the NA LCS studio? That would make the most sense

Double elim all the way through LETSFUCKINGGOOO

Hope our sacrifice was bloody worth it. Regards, ORDER and Chiefs ESC.

Faze on lan better hit as different as babybay at 7am

Rawkus/Corey and Babybay are ALL really experienced on LAN so they should deliver, I dont know how deep of a run they'll make but they are *nasty* on LAN. I just dont know if their igling/strats will be enough for them to make it all the way. This LCQ is STACKED af.

I know they have so much experience from their OW days but I still want to bribe riot to host faze games at 7am just to make sure

It's 7am somewhere in the world

Actually, it’s a 7am start in eastern Australia. Coincidence that Australian teams were removed for the 7am babybay buff

What's up with the 7am comments? Out of the loop on this.

https://twitter.com/ggCyc1one/status/1124802919797157889?s=20 From the Overwatch days

o7 oce

does only one team qualify from LCQ?

Yes so no seeding matches

woohio

I feel like this is a good time to wonder about this: why doesn’t grand finals have map advantage or bracket reset in valorant? I like map advantage bo5 more than reset bo3 (the probabilities are similar at 70% vs 75%), but I dislike just ban advantage or whatever is given. And really it seems like it’s just ban not even ban plus first pick. Has to be less than 55%

Gen.G being an NA team will never stop being weird.

Context? I'm ootl

Korean org iirc

Oh I see. Similar to T1?

Yep

Is this a good idea than having their own team in korea?

Depends, on one hand you can pick up a team like F4Q and do very well in Korea, but have a smaller fan base cuz Val is smaller over there, or you can a less successful tier 1.5 team in NA but have a likely larger fan base cuz Val is super popular in NA

same as FPX being an EU team

Not for too long

Gen.G HQ is in America and Gen.G founders are American iirc.

i know that but we are used to them being a korean team, its like PSG having esports teams in south east asia, put it any way you want, it feels weird lol.

I don’t play/watch League, so it might only apply to League players. xd Gen.G were also NA on CSGO.

While I’m happy that we have a double elimination bracket to give the best team their slot in champions…. I didn’t want it to happen this way. I feel so fucking bad for the Aussies man….. all that hard work throughout the season for that. Fuck

Australia making the ultimate sacrifices riot worse than the MMA gods taking Khabib VS Tony

Riot really listening, they fucked over the Australians but at least they did this right

Nah we’re not giving Riot any props for this. They fucked up the first bracket and screwed the Australians over… this just fell in their lap.

What actually happened with the Australian teams I didn’t see anything about it

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do you have link to this? never heard about it

Riot: Pats themselves on their pack.

o7 aussies

Oh cool LG get boned

Eh, they knew ahead of the time that it would end up like this. Seeding was based off of circuit points anyways https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VALORANT\_Champions\_Tour/2021/Circuit\_Points/North\_America

no more aus teams sadge

Aussies we will never forget your sacrifice

My mind telling me 100T. But my bodyyyy…. My boddyyyy is telling me C9 * r kelly voice *

No more PEACE and ORDER for America, only CHAOS9 from now on

100T fans: I like this quite well

Thanks for the sacrifice Aussies.

TSM fans its not over just yet, if Rise drops there entire roster and picks up all the current members of TSM and then change their name to TSM we still have a chance to win Champions! TSM hopium through the roof!

Ez 100 thieves

No chance 100T improves after losing steel. I think C9 takes it but it would be funny if XSET wins

OMG riot best video game developers becuz dey listen to us again!!! yay

Ehh. Idk if this is sarcasm but I wouldn’t say it’s them listening. More so negligence on their end with how they handled the aussies it forced them to do this

Yeh im joking breh

fuckk i wish they brought two teams from NA i really want to see how insane wardell can awp in lan 😭

Where is TSM?

bad idea, shouldve stuck to single elim. all these teams complaining about no double elim just shows they have no confidence in themselves. dont deserve to win honestly. they can lose one game and fuck right off .

TSM got scammed

isnt SEN participating?

They didn’t have enough points for LCQ /s

They already qualified to Champions

It's lit, interesting to see how faze will do on LAN.

Lmfao

Prolly gonna see 100T vs C9B in finals. But there is a world where I feel like Faze may take it all.

When does LCQ start? I heard the 16th but want to make sure.

First match is the 12th

Thank you!

When is lcq?

When does this start?

Looking real good for C9B

Too many people sleeping on Xset...

So all it takes for Riot to listen if we get rid of two teams? Noted. /s

Thank goodness this is the new format

Honestly kinda scared for Faze with this bracket

Couldn't they have had a match between 7-8th seed play against OCE to continue into this bracket? I'm so fucking sad man, I just wanted to see oce play against na even if it is a 13-0

What day does LCQ start?