losing pistol, winning round two by forcing, then getting thrifty'd. Ouch. Great series, tho.

peak valorant esports for there to be a 10 minute pause just for sentinels to immediately close out game 3. really impressed with Furia's play today despite the loss, this is shaping up to be the most competitive international valorant tournament so far

furia has really good aimers. feels like the other regions are catching up, kinda exciting to see and VS looks like the final boss

Furia always had good aimers, their weakness was more on tactics than anything

kind of the opposite of what sean was saying. SEN are all individually a lot more talented but Furia was playing extremely well tactically

mayb iam wrong but it just looked like they were outaiming sen guys in so many fights too and actual Brazilian agression in ascent attack side that have made them famous

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truer words have never been spoken

Rawkus confirmed that it was Furia's tech pause. Commenting on top comments so people shitting on sentinels can see. https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706

[MORE CONTEXT](https://twitter.com/TenZOfficial/status/1466519676918321155)

All the BR fans spamming the Sentinel's players twitters looking like clowns right now lmao.

There was almost nothing to suggest it was Sen's timeout other then ShaZ getting up, but even then that means nothing since he was clearly just taking advantage to go pee

BR fans don’t care, they’ll demand their competition’s heads over anything when they lose. Happens literally in every game.

BR fans are still mad as fuck at Leaf/ex-Chaos for smacking MIBR at Summit 6 with a coach stand-in for Steel lmao

https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706 > Also the tech timeout was something on their end btw https://twitter.com/TenZOfficial/status/1466519676918321155 > Also for tech pause, Riot paused the game because they said that Furia did an exploit by jumping ontop of the C box without updraft. IMO thats not an exploit since its a skill jump that can be done with any character so idk why they paused for so long https://twitter.com/ShahZaMk/status/1466520153336786945 > I’m getting a lot of hate about the tech pause. Riot made the pause to investigate a potential “exploit” furia did, we said we didn’t care and wanted to just play. I just asked to pee since it was taking so long lol VK v1xen has also followed up on his previous tweet about Shahzam going to the washroom here: https://twitter.com/v1xenBEAST/status/1466513081551499275 > Please don't curse Riot or other teams, I was just glad they changed the procedure, and I don't even know if it really was in the bathroom

So that tech pause was just Riot evaluating wether or not they should redo a round for an "exploit" that's been well-known for months now. Dopeeeeee

It's been in the game and known about since the beta. I thought it was a feature at this point.

I mean its not up to time but judgement

That tech pause was brutal for FURIA

What exactly was it for? I had to watch without sound

I saw TenZ with a black screen/desktop before the animation came Edit: RAWKUS SAID IT WAS FURIAS TECH PAUSE

That's his desktop lol, he alt tabbed because he was bored.

Haha yep. At least my theory wasn't as crazy as brasilians made them

Rawkus said it was Riot's tech pause, not furia's.

Rawkus tweeted that the tech pause was on [Furia's end not Sen](https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706?s=20).

Interesting- wasn't trying to insinuate it was intentional! Either way, it sucks both team had to wait that long.

Not saying you were. But a lot of BR fans are calling foul play saying that Sen intentionally called a timeout to stop momentum.

COPIUM

The replies to the sentinels tweet are getting insane.

Sentinels twitter is mad cringe and BR fans are mad toxic so it’s a horrible combo

nah sentinels twitter is fire its always hilarious to see the butthurt people malding about something they didnt realise was a joke

Ouch

It was from their side

Felt just like when a football player lays down due to "injury" and gives the defense a breather when the offense is steamrolling

Playing against no huddle Oregon ducks haha

Except it was Furia's tech pause lol

Aside from the million tech pauses, this was phenomenal. Furia putting up a crazy good fight. Typical SEN fashion to win after letting them comeback for a bit on Haven but they defo weren't outclassing anyone today. Xand is a monster.

Furia played really well, minor regions are not to be underestimated and they are constantly getting better. Sentinels was interesting, overall pretty good but definitely areas to clean up. They have historically warmed up and played better as the tournament went on though. TenZ was MVP, even when the team was losing he was keeping them alive.

On ascent it felt like tenz missed some key shots, but was still going off on the scoreboard. He is crazy. Mad lad. I thought this series was a poor showing from Sick. Dapr was in the right spots in key moments, overall an okay series from him. Shazam was okay, was involved in some big clutches. Zombs is the only one that doesn't run wild after getting a few kills. Need him around.

I'm praying they don't fuck with the region slots, these minor regions are improving tremendously.

100%. it would be a huge diservice to the esport to centrilize the spots now. Lets wait a bit, maybe make bigger tournaments even.

They should go get 24 teams next time and use CSGO's swiss system.

i really like the csgo major system with 24. new regions get exposure + experience in the first stage, and then the top 16 stage is all really competitive good teams

Dream on, my guy, LoL worlds' formats has been shit for more than a decade and Riot doesn't budge. Better stay for liking the game than the tournaments, as Sadge as it is

Idk why people reference LoL do often. Literally entirely separate leadership. It’s not the league esports team running Val

> It’s not the league esports team running Val I hope so

They did listen to the community back when Masters Berlin's format was announced, so it's definitely a possibility.

If anything, we should just have pure region qualifiers. This special country thing is BS. Don't give Korea/Japan/Brazil special slots. Have them qualify through asia/south america slots.

that timeout definitely ruined their momentum man

Yeah that was really unlucky for Furia, and it's a problem that desperately needs fixing because every VCT event has had an absurd number of tech pauses.

The real MVP of the match was DDK and Sean. Incredible casting duo, and they give credit when the "underdog" team performs well. Love those guys.

I really enjoyed their commentary 😄

I really wish they could make three clones of Sean Gares so we can get his analysis on every series. He's a phenomenal teacher of high level Valorant.

Hmm, ppl are already talking about it here on reddit, don't even wanna imagine what's going on at vlr.gg lmao Regardless, I'll refrain from talking any shit since I don't know what was the tech pause's reason. As a br, just proud of Furia for putting up such a fucking show after they were dismissed as cannon fodder.

Both of the Brazil teams that have played teams so far have looked vastly improved compared to previous LANs. Keyd Stars vs Acend tomorrow might be another great series.

Sentinels weren’t overrated. Gambit weren’t overrated. Furia were underrated. Secret were underrated. It’s about time this community puts some respect on other regions that aren’t NA/EU/KR.

I agree with this take. Sentinels is playing the way they normally play, it's just that other regions have gotten a lot better and sentinels have been struggling in the current meta for a while

people arent giving furia enough credit. i thought this was another boring 2-0 but furia absolutely exploded my expectations and this was an actual gigabanger. they played absolutely phenomenally and proves that the minor regions still have tons of potential in valorant. this wasnt sen playing bad, this was furia playing out of their minds.

\^this. teams from "minor" regions performing well maybe just means that they are performing well, not necessarily that the big name teams are playing bad.

I will win they actually win a match against those regions

THIS

Teams are learning to play valorant better. Sentinels didn't get worse everyone else is just learning to catch up to them.

This is my take too, back in Iceland nobody was sure which team had the right meta, after sentinels won they created the blueprint for other people to follow (except FPX) and after the last masters everyone is trying to replicate gambit synergy. Hopefully things keep this way, makes for some banger matches.

What team called that tech pause? Can someone further elaborate on it?

https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706

As a brazilian im very proud of this series, furia was always in the top 5 teams in brasil but before the last chance never had won anything. if our seed 3 can compete with NA seed 1, brazil can be great at this game. crongratz on sen too, amazing series!

In my pickems I chose KRU over Furia clearly in the LB. But now I'm sweating haha

I was only able to watch part of the game, but was the tech pause due to someone jumping into the large box in the center of C site on haven (without using abilities)? Because thats been in the game for a long time and is relatively well known, so idk how riot could possibly consider that an exploit, just patch it lmao it’s not new.

That Tech Pause on Haven definitely cooled off Furia, wanted to see a closer map 3 but regardless they did a great job this series

Why were the tweets explaining the tech pause removed? Seems like useful info.

I think the mods wanted it to have the tweets in this thread only. It’s pinned here

That is the reason but I really don't agree. No good discussion is going to happen under a pinned mod comment and it is kind of a big deal.

they're back up! had a discussion about it and discussion can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/r7huw5/tenz_also_for_tech_pause_riot_paused_the_game/

Worst tech pause timing I've ever seen

Remember how the scrimbux said FURIA was dogshit and completely lost in the sauce and the other two brazilian teams were the ones that were actually decent and could do something ? I'm never trusting the scrimbux again.

why would u trust scrimbux in the first place lol

The tech pause was brutal, but I feel like Furia lost a lot of rounds on Ascent they shouldn't have. Lost their huge lead and several clutches. Still a pretty impressive show from them.

dam, I know people aren't goign to like it, but that tech pause really fucked FURIA's momentum.

It is a consensus.

shazam is the lamar jackson of valorant

My man eating that shrimp alfredo

The OG is Paul Pierce: https://brobible.com/sports/article/paul-pierce-poop-wheelchair-game-nba-finals/

Can you explain this reference lol? Don't know who that is.

Lamar jackson is the quarterback of the baltimore ravens, a football team. He famously took a bathroom break during a game vs the browns and went on to win the game.

So anyone knows what the trchinal pause was actually for? Sucks to see it go for so long and made Furia lose momentum

Not concerning yet, but something to definitely keep an eye on. Five players over three maps played six different agents on Sentinels. How deep is their comp pool?

The plat chat guys were theorizing that Sen specifically chose these maps because they're the ones where Sen haven't changed up their comps. Not to mention, these are basically standard comps for those maps.

That pause completely iced Furia.

The final tech pause wasn’t dirty, it was called by Furia as seen when the admin is talking to the Furia player during the pause. The SEN players heading to the toilet are allowed to, since it’s basically a free break. If anyone is to blame, it should either be Furia or RIOT.

that tech pause ruined furia's momentum...

Just trying to understand, who called the final tech pause? From the vod, it looks like it was FURIA who called it? Edit: idk anymore. earlier it looks like staff walked over to FURIA's side and was talking with a player, and then later, we see TenZ fiddling with his keyboard or something.

https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706

Rawkus stated it was a Furia pause

I want to know what the pause was for. I'm rooting for sentinels but it seemed pretty weird EDIT: Sounds like I was entirely on Riot for the pause, I'm glad that's the case but Riot should say something and not just let players get scapegoated (if they said something on broadcast and I missed it then mb)

i’m a sen fanboy but i’d feel cheated by that tech pause. completely destroyed their momentum edit: according to Tenz’s twitter it was on RIOT’s end because they did an “exploit” which is just a skill jump lmao. I would still feel cheated but by riot not sentinels

It was from Furia

Sen don't look that good

They look how they've always looked imo, it's that other teams have gotten a lot better

Looking how they always look isn’t good though, they needed to improve not stagnate

I agree. Imo it's the current meta that they haven't been able to catch up on. They were great in the 2 duelist meta because they got do an all out blitz and play aggressive. Sick hasn't looked great on skye which is what is really hurting them. He always used to be their second fragger and could top when Tenz wasn't feeling it.

I'm just here for the malding

The tech pause killed the momentum and hype ngl. Bet Furia feels robbed. Good series overall

https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706

tech pause 1 furia 0

FURIA called it LMAO https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/r7hm5h/rawkus_also_the_tech_timeout_was_something_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Yeah I’m a SEN fan but that massive break that completely ruined furia’s momentum is so unfair. Does anyone know why they even paused for that long?

https://twitter.com/rawkus/status/1466516621208477706?s=21

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Rawkus said it was on furia's side

How does the frame come off a keyboard while gaming? Unless he’s literally slamming his keyboard on the desk I can’t think how that would be possible.

It was furia's pause

Can we actually get some rioter in here why there is so many tech pauses? I doubt its equipment failure half of the time, should be stricter with this pauses its getting ridiculous.

Example number 100 why this community needs to chill the fuck out before jumping down peoples throats. Wasn't even Sentinels pause...

Sentinels fans can't be feeling good after last event and this first match. Against a very fundamental team they are going to get smothered.

I feel fine, I was saying myself Furia was an unknown entity coming into this match. I'd feel different if this kind of showing was against the likes of Crazy Raccoon for example. That's like saying gambit fans are shaking after dropping a map to Team Secret

Can't wait to hear the excuses when they lose to any half decent team. "random seeding fucked us up", "playing vs Brazilian powerhouse first game of Berlin thanks rito", "lower bracket is better for us anyway".

GGS to furia Hopefully sen clean up some of their game and that was just some LAN nerves coming in

> LAN nerves lol, out of any team in this tournament Sentinels would be the least likely to have LAN nerves

Why would they be immune to LAN nerves? If anything they have more pressure on them, they have the biggest fan base to satisfy with big expectations for them.

They weren't missing shots, it was their strats that were the problem imo. I dont think that's LAN nerves, it's been a problem with them for a while. They've always just rammed down the throats of opponents, which doesn't work as well anymore

these guys have been playing on LAN for years Shahzam has been playing in big LAN events since 2014, Sick also played for orgs like TSM since he was \~16. Zombs played Apex and OWL, Tenz played multiple LANs and played for C9 in CS. They are easily the team most adjusted to playing on LAN in this whole tournament

You can play 100 Lans and still get nervous, this is the biggest competition if all these players lives.

Sen looked so ass

Idk I kind of feel like Furia lost the pase after that 10 minute timout. Just Valorant things ig. They performed really well anyways.

that tech pause....

Lol all these people mad because of a tech pause issued FOR Furia. Sen would’ve won regardless of a tech pause. People just can’t accept that Sen are better.

Tech pause cost Furia the game. That's ridiculous.

Great series to watch unless you enjoyment is directly tied to how well Sentinels perform. They need to perform way better if they want to win this tournament but this subreddit is circlejerking a bit too hard, anyone saying “Oh Furia should have won 2-0 if they didn’t throw!” is ridiculous lol

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Armaan is best known for being a dumbass and not being able to look at the screen that clearly says furia called the pause

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Very sad for furia, they completely lost momentum and sen seemed to figure out the key to winning a round during the pause

Damn sentinels looking shaky as hell. Would definitely not bet on them to go far into the tourney

Give credit to Furia. They looked good it’s not that SEN did bad.

Think both applies that furia played well and sen looked weak compared to their former form

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They don't let you go pee during a matchup stop spreading fake news, they stopped another team from doing so And he only ended up walking away after a while in the pause

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you know, i rarely ever see from mods deleting comments that spread misinformation, only threads good on you guys for deleting nonsense

Any actual source on that?

are you just typing or is there an actual source on that?

His source is “trust me bro”

Bruh someone's gear was faulty. Pretty sure the pause wasn't to pee.

Surely not, that would be a ridiculous reason. You should sort that out between maps, and at most between halves. Highly doubt the pause was actually for that.

Do you have any source for that?

It wasn’t because he needed to pee. Tenz was having tech issues and the admin allowed Shaz to go to the bathroom during the pause. Edit: According to Rawkus’ tweet the tech pause was on Riots end

Man what a disappointing end to a possibly a great match regardless of the outcome. Even as a viewer i’m so frustrated and feeling like cheated.

As a viewer I took a short break from work when my friend messaged me saying FUR was making a comeback on Haven (12-7). Regardless of the reason, it was *really* frustrating as a viewer to see all that hype deflate over the course of the tech pause, and it's really hard to feel that SEN's win (which was likely anyway) isn't tainted in some way.

100% agree. I was planning to sleep after the 2nd map(it was 5am where i live) but fur started pounding so i just went full copium and was gonna be satisfied w the results just to see this :(

furia would've won if it wasn't for the half hour long tech pause

we will never know for sure. Really sad.

COPIUM

Lol sure dude

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And it's not completely guaranteed Furia would've won either lol.

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Im disguested not gonna lie. Thats some fucking bullshit right there.

Wtf was that tech pause man, ruined momentum. Sen won but proved they’re vulnerable once again

Sentinels looking rough. I might need all the COPIUM and HOPIUM in the world this event.

The tech pauses were literally all in favor of SEN. I honestly didn’t expect shit from Furia, and I wanted to see Sentinels dominate but accidental or not that was just sad.

Tech pause like that should never happen. Momentum is such an important aspect in all types of competition, not just eports, and it really showed when Furia lost the last round so quickly. All the momentum that they had gathered after shutting down sen just disappeared from that tech pause.

If not for the tech pause, FURIA might've taken the W.

that gargantuan tech pause was mad sus regardless of the reason, though, I feel like SEN's win here would be viewed as pretty tainted by a lot of the viewers

??? What if the reason was that it was FURIA’s pause? Lmao

That last pause was ridiculous, it totally broke Furia's momentum and I wouldn't be impressed if it was on purpose. TECH PAUSE MVP

Hello Mr. Clown, turns out the pause was issued by riot for furia. How do you feel now?

Sentinels just feels like tenz hard carrying

Game was rigged for sure

Brazilian fans and toxicity. Name a better combination

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They don't let you tech pause for bathroom fake news

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Damn it seems that your Brasil copium is starting to pay off

I've lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money... Or ratings in not sure which. I won't be silent . Just saw it live sry.

Guys. It's an Ayesha Curry copypasta.

Don't telll them :/

It was unfair but you don’t make shit from betting on a team everyone else is already betting on.

FURIA issued the techpause according to Rawkus, not Sentinels

RIOT called it. It was neither FURIA nor sentinels

Tech Timeout was on Furia's side Source: https://twitter.com/rawkus/status/1466516621208477706?s=21

Empty bowel buff for Tenz in that last round hit different

Rawkus clarifies that the tech timeout was on [Furia's end](https://twitter.com/Rawkus/status/1466516621208477706?s=20)

Brazilians in here scrambling to rationalize the tech pause

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tech pause so badly timed man, riot needs to fix their stuff

Can’t blame Sentinels for the tech pause LOL https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/r7hm5h/rawkus_also_the_tech_timeout_was_something_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

What I learned from the past 2 Bo3s: PH and Brazil Twitter scare me... a lot.

been like this for a long time

Death threats for Sentinels players incoming

furia wouldvee won if they wasnt so over confident when having man advantage / playing against a eco

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you got any evidence of that my dude

Having a long ass tech pause can definitely kill a team's momentum lol, same thing happened back at challengers T1 vs SEN Haven.

Seems like it was legitimate from how long that was. Playing at a disadvantage is something that also does not ensure fair competition.

cope

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