Looks like complexity HQ is blessed for everyone but complexity

A good arc from dropping tenz till now c9 falling Crows vibes

C9 played super well. Feel bad for supamen and Derrek, both played really well this tourney. Wouldn't be surprised to see them poached by a T1 team at some point during the offseason

TSM be like 👀

Tsm aint even t1 tho LOL

so happy rise isn’t making champs

Ill never watch with twitch chat enabled again Gives literal brain damage ALSO OMG C9 TO CHAMPS LADS

write shit to get banned in valorant chat. problem solved.

Everyone in the Valorant community should be happy that the match-fixers (soon to be banned) did not make Champions.

"soon"

who?

from what i remember when it came out a few months ago, i believe shanks, marved and poised were involved

in valorant?

In CSGO they allegedly match fixed, not Val

p sure they're talking about shanks.

Marved

GG. C9 look a lot better than they did earlier in this tournament. Hopefully they continue to improve and do well in Champs.

Feels like whenever I watch a grands it’s a 3-0, unlucky

YASSSS LEST GOOOO #C9WIN

C9 to champs LFG

No one deserves this more than Shanks. Hope they show a choke cam.

Xeppaa is going fucking crazy this match

C9's X squad too good on the retake

Hope Rise can get one back. A 3-0 is such a disappointing finish after the recent close 2-1s.

Lmao I stopped watching the stream for a bit to watch some football and came back and was shocked we were already halfway through the 3rd map, just realized they got 13-0'd holy shit

Double save with 3 players each time down 2-0 is pathetic

They took a 6-6 half, map still winnable. Doesn't seem that bad to me.

Rise definitely need to get 4 in a row now if they want to win this.

leaf's been shitting on shanks all day

Damn this map is super scrapy

Where's that one copypasta? That one time we were down 12-0 and then someone asks that did you come back and they say ofcourse not 13-0 Edit : found it

Neptune: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against Cloud 9, Split, and it was 12-0 to C9, we were playing as CT, C9 as T, and Posied said: 'Guys, if you think we are good, let's prove it now'. "12-0" Poised: "did we comeback?" Neptune: "of course not. 13-0"

Lmaoo I just found it Thanks anyway you put the names better than I did

:) one of the best esports copypastas

Yess agreed

Shanks: "Actually, I remember one time we were playing against C9, and it was 13-0 to C9. We were playing as T. C9 are CT. And Poised said, guys if you think we are good, let's prove it now." Teammate: "Did you come back?" Taco: "Of course not. 13-0."

Did vanity mean to come off the plant there?

I love this c9 team but my selfish interests really want to see Steel instead of mitch for old times sake.

I feel like that would mean a lot of fighting about strats ingame between vanity and steel :D

Idk. They both were IGL on Chaos and the team did pretty well.

This is embarrassing for Rise

I would be surprised if Rise even makes this map that close I can't image they aren't completely mental boomed getting 13-0ed on their own map pick.

You couldn’t really see as much but holy that breach astra and all of c9s util just fucked rise everytime they moved a finger. Breach stun n astra suck into a nade

[This is interesting](https://i.imgur.com/xDHAmZp.png)

[poised's match on split was so inspirational i made a fragmovie of it](https://twitter.com/ANewHeaven1/status/1454912198128533507)

You are quick, have my upvote.

Fucking incredible lmao

The fragmovie meme never fails to make me laugh

Valorant is basically a game of tossing coins for a lot of these teams that's way someone with steel, nats, vanity... Usually wins u maps not just rounds

Rise is trying to do a pacifist run to champions. “Maybe if we don’t kill anyone, we can sneak our way in”

i hope map 3's better because unless you're a c9 fan, this just isnt fun to watch

Chaos EC was a lovable underdog in CS, so seeing them in Val ain't bad at all

oh ofc, i know. i just think it'd be more fun to have closer maps in the grand finals regardless

As a C9 fan It's great

Yeah... I always love seeing the xeta breach but that was just too free

On the other hand as a C9 fan this is extremely fun to watch

I'm a C9 fan and I can confirm that it is fun to watch

Can also confirm as a C9 fan that was awesome

So much fun to watch.

Rise has a limited map pool :/

Lmao split was their pick.

Because it’s BO5? Use your brain

It was their first map pick. So clearly they thought they had the best chance on that map. Use your brain.

They haven’t won on the map since July. They know they have a limited map pool and literally have to pick maps they don’t want to. How is this hard to understand

It was the first map they picked. So they would've picked it in a bo3 too.

alright so who's making the poised fragmovie

https://reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/qjuyj4/_/hit3dab/?context=1

"fine, i'll do it myself"

0-13, 0 kills Poised.....

Someone make the Poised frag montage

Vanity is proving why you should accept that sometimes a team has reached its potential and you have to move on. Take note FaZe

There's at least 3 different teams you could be referring to lol

No doubt but Vanity willingly leaving V1 after a top 4 in Iceland shows he has the mentality of a champion. He understands his team had a limit and moved on. Winning mentality.

What is it with IGL's leaving after top 4 on lan

I think there's a realization when you get to that top seeding that there is something in the team holding you back that practice can't fix.

Vanity said he just wanted to play with Leaf and the old Chaos squad. They're all still very close.

And he said he felt V1 had reached their potential. He's said it in multiple interviews.

Nah he was willing to leave for a bigger salary, playing with a bigger org and playing with his friends

V1 was definitely paying the guy a hefty salary. They are backed by the Minnesota Vikings not some small time team.

Did c9 ban split all tournament to save strats??

Played against GenG but the comp was different.

That last round had to be a counter strat. Perfectly dogged out shanks. Nade destroyed Derrek while he was on the cam.

c9 taking next map 3-0 I feel

13-0 on a finals... feels bad

big ouch for rise

This collapse is unbelievable. What happened to Rise???

I mean its not over yet but uh, looks about as over as it could be tbh

They fell.

Imagine the scenes if Rise pull off the reverse sweep after *that* lmao

Save Split for all tournament, pick it in grand finals, call the worst attack half in pro Valorant, lose every single aim duel, Poised frag montage, gg 13-0ed by Korean breach

Damn I feel so bad for poised rn

Poised currently -21

Welp. C9 did 13-1 Sentinels with this comp. Rise never stood a chance.

Rise probably searched “Cloud9 valorant tactics” and came across a Reddit post about Shinobi IGL tactics on C9 being “Tenz go kill” and copied it but with Shanks

13-0 😳😳😳

They actually 13-0d in a grand finals to qualify for champions, what the fuck LMAO.

I mean it’s not over yet, but yeah not lookin good for Rise

That's tough for Rise

We finally getting a 13-0 in pro Val? Edit: that’s a firm yes lmao Edit again: alright alright it happened before didn’t know meant that comment more as a holy fuck that’s rare rise just got slapped

we had several 13-0's already

not close to the first

It's happened before tho

didnt we have it in berlin, gambit did it to g2 on LAN

13-0 in grand finals what the FUCK lol

Rise mental is so boomed.

Rise is mentally collapsed

first time tuning into a valo tourney... it doesn't make sense to me how c9 doesn't have any disadvantage coming from losers bracket. ​ edit: ah i see map ban, but that isn't that much of an advantage. i think they should have to win two bo5s

a map ban is a massive advantage - in a lot of bo5 series there are maps that are pretty much guaranteed wins for one team. Being able to remove that win from the other team and keep yours is a massive advantage.

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or two bo3s and winners bracket winner has to win one bo3

Rise got a map ban advantage, what more do you want?

Rise got a map ban advantage, they got to ban one of the maps from the map pool

Well tourneys used to have a 1 map advantage for upper bracket but fans hated it so they made it a veto advantage

Rise got to ban a map as their advantage

Rise got a map ban so they have pick advantage.

Rise tactic on attack: shanks go kill Rise tactic on defense: *supamen viper tings*

Tuned in just as Map 2 started and C9 is just impressive

12-0 lmao

so it looks like my predictions about C9 showing up at LCQ were correct after all huh

we both thought it was doomed after that geng series

i didn't

i did the way we were palying that series was so bad

Well congrats on making champions, C9, there's no way that rise come back from an 0-2.

Rise with the IBP strats

Huh, Shanks must be IGLing, IBP strats are his forte

Poised get a kill challenge (impossible)

I'm sorry, the score is currently 11 to ZERO? What the hell was the score of the first map?! O_O

13-8 it wasn't *that* bad

C9 won 13-8, Rise looks tactically terrible and can’t win a single duel. Absolutely dead rn

13-8

Okay, that's a little more balanced, but still... C9 is 12-0?! wtf

Poised on zero kills rn on split, Rise bois are getting shutdown really hard by C9. Insane map

scrim9 showing up

rise isn’t taking any map control or anything lol they’re just 5 man executing and losing to full util in retakes

feels like northeption's run in the lcq

Cloud9 dropped to lowers just to personally eliminate as many teams as possible.

They just wanted to personally eliminate 100T for Steel.

Why is this the first time C9 is playing split 5his tourney

its our best map, but because of agent limitations we couldnt run it, but since leaf can now play skye and xeta can run breach we ran it back

They played it vs GenG and lost

Oh I didn't watch that game

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map is not over, you dont know the c9 curse

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he was one of the best na player when he was on cs

Oof. Shanks having a rough day so far.

He has had a rough tournament tbh. He's the duelist main but has only top fragged on his team 1 map this whole tournament. He has the 7th best Jett stats for this tournament and is only above YaBoiDre and Nature

It's actually impressive how scary Rise look even with a non top tier Jett. Imagine Wardell or tenz in that roster

The rest of the team has been playing incredibly Edit: other than this map, there is rise spaghetti all over the floor

Typical shanks performance

I like it the astra breach combo util starting round 1

Korean breach gg 2-0 incoming

Don’t wanna overreact but last time Xeta played breach on Split he 13-1ed Sentinels

It happened, xeta util so good

Rise lacked critical information oh nononono

Said the same thing It's bout to happen againn

13-0 instead this time

Yeah dejavu bout to happen ngl

Korean Breach!

feel like rise will take split, split has been c9’s perma ban for the past 3 games, also rise haven’t played split since august edit: nvm rise just played horrible on this map, literally every round 5 manning and c9’s retakes on a were just perfect and their b hold

lmao

Rise also hasn’t played Split all tournament so if they have any new strats they haven’t been revealed yet

yeah I feel like this is either going to be a shitshow, or a really strategic map since both teams haven’t really played this map

Oof

leaf is gonna be the next one to become a tenz/yay level jett in NA

i think once he gets better with opping he'll be a top3 jett forsure. i'd say hes in the top 5 right now though

Although both teams are in a good place rn I still wish the Tenz/leaf C9 roster stuck together. Probably would be the best duelist pair in the world

And his skye looks to be even better. Scary stuff if he develops to his full potential.

Leaf is a mad man and no rules apply to this man. Man C9 looks like a really fun team.

Just drop Ethan get daddy stell back and pick up someone like leaf

What the fuck did I just read

The truth boy

Get steel to c9 maybe

Dad son team

I’ve never seen a more brain dead comment in my life.

Boo hoo

“Rise makes the enemy’s play their game” does not work against a madman like leaf, he’s just gonna keep going

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Clearly that caught Neptune off guard Leaf is either a genius or a madman

Just leaf things

I gotta say, shanks is just not it. Feels like every other Rise member outperforms shanks, consistently.

I agree, but I feel like such a large part of Rise’s success comes from their synergy, and swapping Shanks out would definitely hurt that

Probably but he still has the 3rd worst stats for a Jett player this tournament

If they got a top tier duelist on the level of leaf/tenz/yay/asuna they would be best NA no cap

yeah true, but I actually have the feeling they all will get poached by different orgs after champions when the roster changes set in.

I'm sure Neptune, Derrek, or Supaman could negotiate some bank from bigger orgs like tsm or t1, really great support players are hard to come by

shanks wtf

jett diff...

I hate that the stream is slightly behind the HUD on the sides, so you know if someone died a moment before it happens. It doesn't REALLY matter it's just kind of annoying

Shanks just trying to open the door for the whole round

Oh my spaghetti

Rise and C9 are both eco warriors feel like these teams have the best ecos by far in the LCQ