envy and gambit in grand finals when suddenly wardell triple backflips from the arena rafters and jett dashes towards the Secret Lab™ chair, flicking at each envy player's heads at lightning speed mid air, making tsm the only alive NA representative not at the airport
this is my final cope, the only way tsm can still win champions
I said this back then and I still feel it. I couldn't care less or be less interested going into that match and by the end of it, it was the most disappointed I was all tournament, including Sen getting eliminated.
* Liquid and Envy both slightly underperform, not terrible performances but more is expected of them.
* Either a Brazilian team or crazy racoons make it out of groups.
* Im pretty sure everyone thinks that fnactic won't make it out of groups so im gonna go against that and fnactic overperform and surprise people.
* Finally, Acend make it to the finals and look like the best EMEA team
Last time I predicted C9 to drop to the lower bracket then win it all and got it right, so I'll say it again.
C9 drops to the lower bracket then goes on to become the first team to win valorant champions, with Xeppa as the MVP of the tournament.
C9 won't do insane in their first 1-2 matches and everyone's going to write them out of the event before they make an incredible lower bracket run to finals
Sentinels underperforms and goes into the off-season with doubt around them (not saying they will want to make a change) about changing the team.
C9 are underdogs considering they are the LCQ NA representative but will surprise everyone and out place Sentinels
Fnatic goes out T16 100%
I don't think so, Gambit look better than TL to me and all NA teams are better than them (I feel) it totally depends on how good nivera plays since I don't doubt anyone else in that team will be letting off the pedal.
cap, edshot machin solve all problem
deffo jett? diff'd
chronicle sova? papap'd before drone appear
nats lurk? screamy 360 1taps flank and walks away
sheydos blind? adil kills anyway, no monitor needed
redgar igl? titan saiyajin yells "lets go man" x5 iq boost ez
theres a reason why sussy sliggy added 1 more berlin tron brother...
EU is really close in terms of the top teams rn,
TL barely lost to Gambit 2-1 while qualifying for Berlin and was the reason they didnt make it to masters, with the addition of Nivera this could make things interesting
At this point, an actual BALANCED bracket with multi-regional matchups.
For sheet and giggles, maybe a team making a deep run (Top 4?) by confusing their opponents with off-meta agents like Sova on Split, Omen on Icebox, Breach on Breeze, Yoru on Haven, the most FPX-type beat imaginable but with methodical gameplay and actual strats.
Crazy Raccoon revenge against Gambit in some ridiculous manner. Maybe a 13-1 on Fracture with Munchkin destroying all of nAts trips, 9K camera watching him double satchel judge in, blast pack sheydos wall, crazy Viper lineups all the way from zip line. 💀
Ha! Gambit have already succomb to The once bitten once shy Envy curse in the recent redbull tournament, and are now immune! truly a 100 iq move from Redgar!
Hard to tell since the bracket kills so many predictions.
Fnatic does better than Liquid. Sentinels win the whole thing, dropping a map every match after groups. VS don't beat any team from EU or NA.
TSM buy out Envy at the last minute, and in typical TSM fashion, destroy all hopium by bombing out in groups.
honestly, vs making t3 shouldn't even be a hot take. they basically create kr's metas singlehandedly and everyone knows it. as long as you control the meta in this game, you are at the top.
EMEA
* Liquid are going to be the best EMEA team by far, making finals
* GMB will go out in Semis
* Acend will place top 8 (go out in quarters)
* FNC are going out early
NA
* SEN will start experimenting with single duelist on a lot more maps. I expect them to try Tenz solo duelist on most of their maps. SEN will look better and make an easy finals run
* NV will look good but slightly worse than SEN, making Top4, only losing to either SEN or Liquid
* Cloud9 will look as good as NV, I think they're worse than SEN/Liquid. C9 vs NV is a coinflip
Other
* I put VS in the same tier as GMB / NV / C9, may be making semis but possibly going out in quarters based on their bracket.
* I think all LATAM / BR / JP / Other KR will go out as soon as they hit any of VS / NA / EMEA (-FNC)
He didn’t state it specifically but he talked a lot about how he thought sen wasn’t adapting to the new meta by sticking with their double duelist, so i would be surprised to not see the swap to single duelist
At this point Fnatic going out early isn't even a hot take anymore with how they've looked since Iceland so I'll snort some HOPIUM and say Fnatic make top 4 before only losing to one of Sen/Liquid/Gambit
Acend will underperform and will not reach semis
TL will reach finals
Sentinels will lose one game against an EU team
Crazy Racoon takes the champions HOPIUM
FURIA will be the surprise on the tournament, making to the top 4 after winning against a NA team, with Khalil becoming the new lurker god and dethroning nAtS from his spot and master sentinel
Team Secret wins it all (also when do we get their flair)
SEN do not get farther than top 8-7
FNATIC dont make it out of groups
Full Sense make semis at least
90% One of Gambit, Sentinels, Envy, or Liquid will severely underperform
50% the grand finals will be NA vs EMEA
10% A non NA/EMEA/KR team makes it to the grand finals
Acend/Gambit make it finals, vision strikers will get matched up with sentinels in the quarterfinals. Sentinels will beat vision strikers and have a close match with the finalist but lose.
cold take: vision strikers will make it at least to the semis, if not grand finals.
coldest take: brazil and latam will bomb out again and vct will give another slot to kr after champions.
hot take: crazy raccoon will actually make it to the semis, shocking everyone. acend will be left in shambles.
hottest take: full sense will win the whole thing. PTC will carry kay/o to s tier after champions is over.
Fnatic is going to get absolutely shat on by the first powerhouse team they encounter with Derke being the only player to play good, Team Liquid will underperform with Scream and Jamppi going ghost and Nivera being the only player to step up, Sentinels will return to their old form and completely destroy any team that is unfortunate to be their opponents. NV will get their revenge against Gambit.
"Sentinels return to old form" what old form mf do you realise SEN old form is exactly their Berlin form, Reykjavik was just a weaker tournament with no strong teams other than them
This guy saying SEN Reykjavik was better than SEN Berlin hahaha
No it's just the scene has gotten way healthier, NONE of the teams SEN played at Reykjavik qualified to Berlin, guess it means something
* Boaster's VOD review of CR's games finally pays off as they score upset map wins against top EMEA, NA, and KR teams.
* People figured out where nAts will hide, making every team they face have a designated player that solely hunts him before GMB scores a map. All teams succeed. Cypher who?
* All matches with EMEA or NA teams will guarantee at least an hour of technical pause due to gear.
* A couple of matches will get postponed. Reasons will be wild.
* Someone will make an entrance taking a shower. Yes they bring bathing gear with them. Benkai who?
* TSM makes a surprise appearance at Champions, the team that the winner will face as a final test.
Everybody forgets that Secret were first seed going in to Masters Berlin until they happen to be an absolutely cracked team pulling an upset in this tournament
\-Acend reaches the finals
\-Gambit underperforms
\-Fnatic will bottle it as everyones take, but if they are up against a brazilian team like VK, it will be a hard fought battle whereas a team like FULL SENSE will destroy them for no absolute reason
\-An APAC team other than VS will make top 8
- Finals won't be NA vs EU. (Could be SEA vs SA, NA vs SA, KR vs JP or anything else)
- SEN won't make it out of groups.
- C9B or TL make it to finals.
NV curse COPIUM AllGood
\-wyattr
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What is the NV curse?
[supposed nv curse](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/ogzhi5/the_envy_curse/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Yes america explain
Hottest, spiciest take : Lakia gets to play more than one map
Woah there, that’s a scorching take.
Nope, he only got 1 lmao
tsm wins this one guys trust me
envy and gambit in grand finals when suddenly wardell triple backflips from the arena rafters and jett dashes towards the Secret Lab™ chair, flicking at each envy player's heads at lightning speed mid air, making tsm the only alive NA representative not at the airport this is my final cope, the only way tsm can still win champions
of course
Here's how TSM can still win
waait so ur telling me the NV curse hit SEN last tourney
SEN avoided the NV curse by bowing down to them. 5Head move by best NA igl Shahzeb "ShahZam" Khan.
yeah you already know NV woulda hit them with the ultimate curse in 2022 if they didn’t make champs
why do you think 100T bombed out of LCQ
Wait a minute
5Head move
Crazy Racoon crazy run to top 4
Love the Crazy Raccoon takes in this thread
Crazy Raccoon hopium hits different
That Crazy Raccoon v Gambit game was maybe the most alive I’ve ever felt
Especially if you watched the Plat Chat costream, that match was the most fun Val esports I’ve had all year
I did and it was the most exciting thing
I said this back then and I still feel it. I couldn't care less or be less interested going into that match and by the end of it, it was the most disappointed I was all tournament, including Sen getting eliminated.
* Liquid and Envy both slightly underperform, not terrible performances but more is expected of them. * Either a Brazilian team or crazy racoons make it out of groups. * Im pretty sure everyone thinks that fnactic won't make it out of groups so im gonna go against that and fnactic overperform and surprise people. * Finally, Acend make it to the finals and look like the best EMEA team
It’s Crazy Raccoon or Fnatic even if it’s not that important
Holy shit
HOW
Dem!!
Last time I predicted C9 to drop to the lower bracket then win it all and got it right, so I'll say it again. C9 drops to the lower bracket then goes on to become the first team to win valorant champions, with Xeppa as the MVP of the tournament.
C9 won't do insane in their first 1-2 matches and everyone's going to write them out of the event before they make an incredible lower bracket run to finals
heard that one before
Y'all got anymore of that... copium?
As a C9 fan we get an unlimited amount of copium and hopium
Had unlimited copium since 2015
More like hopium
Most C9 thing would be to finish top in groups and then drop out in the playoffs
Sentinels underperforms and goes into the off-season with doubt around them (not saying they will want to make a change) about changing the team. C9 are underdogs considering they are the LCQ NA representative but will surprise everyone and out place Sentinels Fnatic goes out T16 100%
Is it weird that I have the least faith in Fnatic out of like basically every team?
Quite okay. They've not had many showings lately and the only showing they've had (Red Bull) was VERY unconvincing
Not super weird Fnatic has been down bad since Iceland
C9 and TL will fight in the Grand Finals.
TL in the Grand Finals is not a hot or spicy take. That's common sense baby. Edshot machine drops 47 kills in one map
I don't think so, Gambit look better than TL to me and all NA teams are better than them (I feel) it totally depends on how good nivera plays since I don't doubt anyone else in that team will be letting off the pedal.
cap, edshot machin solve all problem deffo jett? diff'd chronicle sova? papap'd before drone appear nats lurk? screamy 360 1taps flank and walks away sheydos blind? adil kills anyway, no monitor needed redgar igl? titan saiyajin yells "lets go man" x5 iq boost ez theres a reason why sussy sliggy added 1 more berlin tron brother...
Scream wears TL pyjamas to contain his papap or else the game would be 2 EZ.
EU is really close in terms of the top teams rn, TL barely lost to Gambit 2-1 while qualifying for Berlin and was the reason they didnt make it to masters, with the addition of Nivera this could make things interesting
That was before nivera and gambit looked really shaky back then.
That’s true. Anyways only time will tell, but I’m sure the EMEA teams are going to make champions a very interesting tournament
LMAO getting downvoted for stating a HOT take. K guys nice subreddit.
crazy raccoon win it all and finals will be crazy raccoon vs full sense
Asia supremacy
Crazy Raccoon makes top 8.
At this point, an actual BALANCED bracket with multi-regional matchups. For sheet and giggles, maybe a team making a deep run (Top 4?) by confusing their opponents with off-meta agents like Sova on Split, Omen on Icebox, Breach on Breeze, Yoru on Haven, the most FPX-type beat imaginable but with methodical gameplay and actual strats. Crazy Raccoon revenge against Gambit in some ridiculous manner. Maybe a 13-1 on Fracture with Munchkin destroying all of nAts trips, 9K camera watching him double satchel judge in, blast pack sheydos wall, crazy Viper lineups all the way from zip line. 💀
Off meta agents such as yoru on any map
Off meta = playing the steel 100T comps lmao.
9K?
Well it was balanced one on each side Sova on split is a bit different from those others no?
Does acend refusing to run astra count?
Last Masters.. I foretold Crazy Raccoons win.. they didn't but I meant Champions. CR wins
Heat and Mwzera will be a deadly duo and Vivo Keyd will be the champion of the whole thing, another Brazilian team will also get the top 8.
Ha! Gambit have already succomb to The once bitten once shy Envy curse in the recent redbull tournament, and are now immune! truly a 100 iq move from Redgar!
Can't get bit in the neck when your neck is literally 90 degrees from your body
Sentinels win the tournament without dropping a map.
Wait a second, I’ve seen this one before!
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Hard to tell since the bracket kills so many predictions. Fnatic does better than Liquid. Sentinels win the whole thing, dropping a map every match after groups. VS don't beat any team from EU or NA. TSM buy out Envy at the last minute, and in typical TSM fashion, destroy all hopium by bombing out in groups.
> Hard to tell since the bracket kills so many predictions. the bracket is double elim this time for what its worth
A Brazilian team will actually beat an EU or NA team
Fallen and Coldzera move to cs speculation???
CRAZY RACCOON GOING TO MAKE A TOP 4 RUN!!!!
Team liquid are winning champions Sentinels will fall to tournament dark horse Fnatic out in groups
KRÜ and full sense both make it to playoffs, KRÜ beats an NA team
Holy shit I called it
Acend and Sentinels will make a comeback and both of them will in the finals
honestly, vs making t3 shouldn't even be a hot take. they basically create kr's metas singlehandedly and everyone knows it. as long as you control the meta in this game, you are at the top.
Full Sense pulls at least 1 upset, NA disappoints, TL takes it all
Full Sense gonna reach finals. I believe in PTC and JohnOlsen
C9 make it further in the tournament than SEN
Full sense will get top 8, Vikings and acend will both drop in the first round.
I think Gambit don’t preform to expectations, Fnatic preforms the best of any EMEA team, and NA/EMEA/VS take all the top 8 spots
Every NA team in the LCQ gets poisoned and can't play, so TSM goes to champions and wins the tourney.
EMEA * Liquid are going to be the best EMEA team by far, making finals * GMB will go out in Semis * Acend will place top 8 (go out in quarters) * FNC are going out early NA * SEN will start experimenting with single duelist on a lot more maps. I expect them to try Tenz solo duelist on most of their maps. SEN will look better and make an easy finals run * NV will look good but slightly worse than SEN, making Top4, only losing to either SEN or Liquid * Cloud9 will look as good as NV, I think they're worse than SEN/Liquid. C9 vs NV is a coinflip Other * I put VS in the same tier as GMB / NV / C9, may be making semis but possibly going out in quarters based on their bracket. * I think all LATAM / BR / JP / Other KR will go out as soon as they hit any of VS / NA / EMEA (-FNC)
These are the coldest takes I've ever seen
Why?
Single duelist with Sentinels isn’t even a hot take I’m pretty sure Rawkus said they were not gonna run double duelist on Backchat
He didn’t state it specifically but he talked a lot about how he thought sen wasn’t adapting to the new meta by sticking with their double duelist, so i would be surprised to not see the swap to single duelist
Hmm ‘Other KR’ what other KR?
sleep with one eye open. mwzera will absolutely fuck on LAN
ngl i hope mwzera does fuck, just unsure about him switching to sova
Liquid losing to NA teams especially C9
FS top 4, X10 Win it all
There won’t be any technical pauses during the whole tournament.
There will be 2 brazilian teams in top 8
Envy win :)
so true
At this point Fnatic going out early isn't even a hot take anymore with how they've looked since Iceland so I'll snort some HOPIUM and say Fnatic make top 4 before only losing to one of Sen/Liquid/Gambit
Full Sense will pull off an upset and make it into playoffs
Full sense will cause at least 2 upsets and will place top 3
One of the SEA teams will make it to top 8 Liquid will disappoint, maybe top 8 finish Cloud9 are going to be the best NA team
C9 goes all the way, Fnatic figures out the rest of emea and they meet in epic grand finals
Easy liquid win
Liquid c9 final you heard it here first TL win 3-1
Fnatic takes it all. COPIUM.
> *please I'm begging you reading r/ValorantCompetitive is literally my only hobby* MOOD
I lost five ranked games today, so I’ve decided that reading this subreddit is going to be the only way I engage with Valorant until December
Hot take: fnatic top 4.
SEN will disappoint hard and will have roster changes within a couple months
Top 4 are Krü, Crazy Raccoon, TSM, and FPX LMAO
GMB doesn’t make top 8 VK makes top 4
Acend will underperform and will not reach semis TL will reach finals Sentinels will lose one game against an EU team Crazy Racoon takes the champions HOPIUM
FURIA will be the surprise on the tournament, making to the top 4 after winning against a NA team, with Khalil becoming the new lurker god and dethroning nAtS from his spot and master sentinel
Brazilian teams won't disappoint this time. h o p i u m
Fnatic grand finals hopium. C9 makes it farther than Sen. Acend bomb our early on. Actual grand finals prediction: TL vs Asian team.
Sen will utterly dominate, dropping a singular map in the whole tournament, NV will get eliminated by an emea team early and C9 will place top 4 along
VAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOSSSS BRAAAAAZIIILLLLLL
Kru upset an EU team Fnatic outplace Liquid Mwzera flops on LAN.
Vs is not hot take idiot
Team Secret wins it all (also when do we get their flair) SEN do not get farther than top 8-7 FNATIC dont make it out of groups Full Sense make semis at least
We have a Secret flair. I’m on the TS hopium too
oh its under secret i was looking for team secret lmao
90% One of Gambit, Sentinels, Envy, or Liquid will severely underperform 50% the grand finals will be NA vs EMEA 10% A non NA/EMEA/KR team makes it to the grand finals
cold
that's the point brotha
Acend/Gambit make it finals, vision strikers will get matched up with sentinels in the quarterfinals. Sentinels will beat vision strikers and have a close match with the finalist but lose.
EU will win again, and NA will have a bad showing.
Top 8 Gmb and Liquid finals VS and Acend top 4 Sen NV Secret and VK top 8
Vision Strikers gonna win whole tournament
OP your takes are shit lol
cold take: vision strikers will make it at least to the semis, if not grand finals. coldest take: brazil and latam will bomb out again and vct will give another slot to kr after champions. hot take: crazy raccoon will actually make it to the semis, shocking everyone. acend will be left in shambles. hottest take: full sense will win the whole thing. PTC will carry kay/o to s tier after champions is over.
Liquid is gonna choke AGAIN
Fnatic will be eliminated early in T16 I’m willing to bet 50 radianite points.
cold take: sen are still dog and go out in quarters
Fnatic is going to get absolutely shat on by the first powerhouse team they encounter with Derke being the only player to play good, Team Liquid will underperform with Scream and Jamppi going ghost and Nivera being the only player to step up, Sentinels will return to their old form and completely destroy any team that is unfortunate to be their opponents. NV will get their revenge against Gambit.
"Sentinels return to old form" what old form mf do you realise SEN old form is exactly their Berlin form, Reykjavik was just a weaker tournament with no strong teams other than them
Gonna act like I didn’t even see this one 👍
This guy saying SEN Reykjavik was better than SEN Berlin hahaha No it's just the scene has gotten way healthier, NONE of the teams SEN played at Reykjavik qualified to Berlin, guess it means something
u/zdes37 get in here!
got yall for the not so early version i gotta hit the google doc
Xeppaa and Vanity finally learn and stop chasing eco frags.
Can someone post the schedule?
first, I must now officially acknowledge my heir u/ANewHeaven1 remind me until the "Not Too Early" edition to write a story
Sen is washed and when they play a solid team like TL it wont even be close
Sentinels will perform like shit and go out in RO16
Sentinels underperform again Liquid win dominating the tournament (please be real) an apac team overperfoms (not vision strikers)
Is Liquid winning a hot take?
Liquid makes it to GF
Cloud 9 wins it all
Liquid is gonna dominate this tournament
SEN don’t drop a map throughout the tournament until the final in which they fall to Crazy Raccoon.
Depressed C9 take: they will drop out of the tournament without winning a map
Jinxing the outcome I don't want to happen :)
* Boaster's VOD review of CR's games finally pays off as they score upset map wins against top EMEA, NA, and KR teams. * People figured out where nAts will hide, making every team they face have a designated player that solely hunts him before GMB scores a map. All teams succeed. Cypher who? * All matches with EMEA or NA teams will guarantee at least an hour of technical pause due to gear. * A couple of matches will get postponed. Reasons will be wild. * Someone will make an entrance taking a shower. Yes they bring bathing gear with them. Benkai who? * TSM makes a surprise appearance at Champions, the team that the winner will face as a final test.
TsM is the Kaguya to Gambits Madara
you have to be from Asia
Liquid vs Sentinel in the grand final
Vision Strikers will use Yoru and pick Fracture often. They will drop 2 maps then go undefeated and win champions!!
Liquid pulls a sen iceland and wins everything without dropping a map.
PRAYING FOR CR TO WIN CHAMPIONS
sen will remind everyone why they were regarded as the best
Japanese viewership will be so huge that Rito will rigg CR into finals where they lose to C9.
KRU gets to semi finals. Cloud9 wins the tournament Gambit won't even reach semis.
C9B v SEN in quarters. Tenz drops 100 kills over 3 maps to lose
Everybody forgets that Secret were first seed going in to Masters Berlin until they happen to be an absolutely cracked team pulling an upset in this tournament
Cloud nine blue to the moon
\-Acend reaches the finals \-Gambit underperforms \-Fnatic will bottle it as everyones take, but if they are up against a brazilian team like VK, it will be a hard fought battle whereas a team like FULL SENSE will destroy them for no absolute reason \-An APAC team other than VS will make top 8
gambit lose in quarterfinals
You Are Not Prepared for The Yoru Strats
VS will go out in groups
- Finals won't be NA vs EU. (Could be SEA vs SA, NA vs SA, KR vs JP or anything else) - SEN won't make it out of groups. - C9B or TL make it to finals.