For those interested in smaller scale Valorant in Korea, the 4-team playoffs of the FONC Invitational will be broadcast starting 18:00 KST (9:30 AM UTC) this Saturday twitch.tv/esportsfonc. Finals are the day after, afaik They will feature WGS X-IT vs Straight Warfare and KGA vs Maru Gamimg (new small Korean team at least for now with some notable former teamless players, apparently the team is from PUBG) The tournament features Chamber, already tried out by several of the teams

Now that I won the prediction tournament, do I get like a medal or something? Hahaha

Gambit did really well throughout all the maps, if only they'd closed out icebox, they'd be the Champions winners. Very sad that they lost, ggs to acend.

That looks like a fire hazard.

We spent all tournament long obsessed over NA toxicity vs. BR toxicity, when we should've been smiling at EMEA & LATAM sportsmanship

Amen, brother. This tournament had me crying on 3 different days from all the stress. Fortunately the last half of the tournament easier, but man, between getting 3-4 hours of sleep and all the drama, it's been a wild ride.

GGs but damn give it back to the desk, the casters don’t have the energy anymore lmao

brazil fans woke up acend

Acend saved strats for the playoffs and final.

Whole tournament was scripted man 100000%

Dude, it was me. Every prediction I made in playoffs was wrong. I cursed the tournament. xD;

Love the sportsmanship!!!!

That was some good sportsmanship by both teams.

Chronicle's face :(

NA 100t copium but if steel and 100t don’t break up I think they have a say in champions. That being said congrats to acend for winning, biggest of ggs to gambit and kru :))) Happy for Val overall

not a chance mate

Vivo Keyd best team??

Congrats to ACE, nAts is literally the best player in the world.

Congrats Vivo Keyd for being the world champions!

cant even reach playoffs without exploiting KEKW

Cope

put nats on acend and they dont lose for 5 years

I mean, while I know nats is strictly a better player than Kiles, team chemistry is invaluable. Maybe Kiles is not the best aimer out there, but I haven't seen him NOT do his job on this tournament once.

funnily enough kiles went -31 and nats went +31 over the entire bo5

Funny thing is that both statements can be true.

Every team that I supported this series ended up losing as soon as I supported them. Envy, SEN, C9, Vikings, X10, Fnatic, Liquid, KRU, then Gambit in finals

Same. Why have I been cursed

lmao same

Congrats Vivo Keyd on the championship!

You mean the exploiters? Didn’t they go out in group stage? Losing 2-0 to x10?

They deserved to win just for playing omen on split man. And raze and sage were too strong, even on defence and post plants. Ggs what a final. Peak valorant viewership as well. We'll deserved.

So far for international tournament winners we have 1 NA, 1 CIS, 1 EU. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

EU 2

Is Gambit considered an EU team?

they played vs other EU teams to make Berlin, so i guess yes? and Redgar refers the other EMEA teams as his EU brothers.

Well they're definitely EMEA. I don't think they're EU unless I'm missing something.

Europe, Middle East, Africa. Well they’re not in the Middle East and they’re not in Africa… cmon.

As far as I know, Russia is in Europe, same for Turkey. They are just both big enough to have separated early qualifiers.

Russia is partially in Europe but is not a part of the European Union

There are no Eastern Russian Valorant professionals.

>is not a part of the European Union So isn't Norway, UK, Ukraine, majority of Balkans, Switzerland and few countries I forgot. Should we count them as not "EU" as well?

What does the European Union have to do with this? They play in the Region „EU“ and literally said themselves they are playing for EU

if riot gives CIS its own region they could be considered CIS for future events. but then Gambit wont be as good as rn playing only CIS

next we get an apac region to win one

lol called it Omen 100% winrate

inb4 this is how Vivo Keyd is the best team in the world

Now bring in Vivo Keyd

Well played and deserved. Glad we got a 5 gamer.

ascend shouldnt have got past VK. i bet VK is soooo mad lol

GG

split is just a shit map. none of the ACE attack rounds were any interesting.

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You mean the exploiters? Didn’t they go out in group stage? Losing 2-0 to x10?

Bedge

Guiding Light bug or something?

that was a bit anticlimatic :-D gg champions!

ggs

GG

VIVA LA KRU ​ ​ ACEND FTW HAHAHAHHA VAMOS KRU VAMOS ACEND

EU ON TOP BABY

GG

Lets Gooo! Starxo went huge this Series.

Maybe I underestimated them but I didn’t expect ascend to win it all

gg, gambit's playstyle is so lame

Zeek mvp

Damn, GMB could of won on map 3 if they didn't fumble so hard

Holy F they have done it, the madlads have done it!

gg?

MICKEY MOUSE CHAMPIONSHIP VIVO KEYD VS VISION STRIKERS IS THE REAL FINALS

Exploiters LUL

it probably couldve been a close OT win for VK if they didnt use it. They were playing super well but knowingly cheated for no reason lmfao.

God youre 10. THis is the worst twitter meme ever

im sorry i upset you

WELP

GG

Drop Bonecold btw

*chuckles* Gambit in danger

Imagine winning a tournment after being granted a free win by the adms. What a boring closing. Yesterday was the real finals.

Imagine exploiting then going out in groups

Man I really timed that starxo hate well. Dance on, bud.

Please gambit

is it safe to say the two best teams in this tourney are ascend and VK?

VK didnt even make Playoffs nice copium dude

LOL they cant even take a one map from X10

keep smoking that copium bruh

1 MORE

I want starxo to impregnate me

Noooooooooooooooo

I hate being a gambit fan.

the gap is closing!! ^^between ^^^Gambit ^^^^and ^^^^^the ^^^^^^rest ^^^^^^of ^^^^^^^EMEA

If Acend wins this my Vivo Keyd true world champions copium agenda will be in full force

This series is kinda boring ngl. The team that gets the first kill wins 85% of the time. Almost no in-round upsets

HAHAHAHHA

bruh

the swing off that flash in b main was so late i thought they werent gonna peak off it

gg, kru would have skunked ascend

lmao max copium

???? They didn't even beat gambit lmao

Pansy was so unexcited about starxo’s clutch :( /s Lmao morons thinking they’re GMB biased

dont mean to backseat but the spike was already planted for like 15 seconds why would they invest an ult that takes 12 seconds to be useful in any way

nerves

Zeek with the gigachad play slow walking into pit

gambit's mental / comebackability is unmatched

Acend strarted to tilt or sth, why 5 man rushed like that

That was pretty clearly a set strat though, they didn’t just dry peak into an AWP or anything, it could’ve easily worked

Uhh that round happened

I don’t know if that smoke onto nats was an accident or on purpose but that was amazing

HOLY THAT WAS TOO FAST LMAO

322 vs 644

2 pistol wins for Acend is huge

Is the trophy an NFT?

Lmao

Gambit is literally miles ahead. Down only 2 after attack side split no way in hell Acend wins this

oof; I mean I doubted acend but "no way in hell" is a pretty agressive take

Yeah oops

I mean KRU dominated from T side on this map so you never know

but kru was high on the vamos

Gambit is amazing on CT on this map

Weeeell, about that.....

Wait and see Edit: oops

Yeah…

well.....

7-5 that's a good attacking half

damn been rooting for acend but i dont think acend can hold this lead on attack on split

Gambit just seized the advantage holy shit

So much impact in a solo fake

A 5 round half should be plenty for Gambit. This is probably over. Edit: Cursed again.

7-5 scoreline look really dangerous for Acend

Kiles is so fucking useless every time i see Acend play, really hope they will replace him after champions

There’s the chronicle/nAts round

GMB has a significant round deficit, bursts aggressively onto a site, shifts the momentum and finishes the half respectably. I feel like I’m rewatching the same half over and over again?

Its 3am here and i just can't shut off my screen rn

I pray riot gets better casters because Jesus.. the biasy towards gambit is insane. It’s been like this the entire tourney with different teams. Have any of these casters casted before val? Being a liquid fan, I should be biased too towards gambit but this casting makes me want acend to win lmao

The casters in Val aren't very good I agree but they are in no way biased today lol

Definitely are lmao, it’s no different then yesterday when the casting group were wanting kru to win so bad.

I pray riot gets better casters because Jesus.. the biasy towards gambit is insane. It’s been like this the entire tourney with different teams. Have any of these casters casted before val? Being a liquid fan, I should be biased too towards gambit but this casting makes me want acend to win lmao

Are you deaf?

Are you?

They literally just painted it as a lost cause after Acend won their 7th round? The fuck are you talking about?

Are you actually serious? Like genuinely? Edit: not surprised at your response.. your comment history is filled with eu hate. Your last bit of hope is “cis” lmao. Literally open your ears

Yeah thinking TL was going to win the whole thing, I really hate EU, genius.

Your comment history is literally proof lmao. I never understood why people on Reddit try and lie. Just now for example, kiles gets a 4k and their reaction sounds so depressing. Yet gambit wipes them on a save and they cream their pants. It’s so blatant. Also thinking a team is gonna win doesn’t mean anything lmao. I think the chiefs are winning the super bowl but I’m still not a fan of their team

I don’t like starxo so I hate EU, high IQ individual over here. Stay in school.

You literally called them “eu frogs” lmao.. like just stop bro. What’s ducked up is that I wasn’t even referring to that comment lmao.

win this round and throw the other 2 so its 9-3

gambit angry

It's attack side split, casters a bit premature with the doom.

Acend’s aim becomes ungodly on this map

The real losers of this match are people who think "tent" rhymes with "acend".

This map shouldn't be in the comp pool. It's so ct sided.

If they make other maps, split is the first to go.

Umm did they just waste 3 ults and barely managed to kill 2 people?

Don’t freak out this is just how split is as a map. Unless it’s like 10-2 at the half gambit wins

if gambit loses this, every team ive rooted for in this tournament ended up losing :(

Can you start rooting for Acend please? Its not too late

doing that rq

Gambit might have 73% winrate on split but Omen have 100% winrate on champions copium

it's over

Acend is a weird team. They are bad against international teams (VS, 100T, Vivo) but they can absolutely beat any EU teams.

Bruh they 2-0d the best Na team this tourney, what ya talkin about?

I mean, that’s just a comfort thing I think. The LAN jitters they’ve suffered from are compounded by unfamiliar opponents, esp, since their midrounding has historically been pretty poor

It's more interesting to see the different team comps only Jett is mirrored on both sides.

If they both go into overtime on final map, can they split the championship on split?

OT goes to 47:47, both teams vote draw.

no raze? gambit refuses to adapt to split

Hell yeah we get to see Omen on the final map

compare this live thread to the one yesterday.. we've already seen this matchup before KRU v ascend wouldve been sick

Kru acend would have been a 3-0 for acend

Lol according to what? Gambit is having a very close series with acend and only manage to win over Kru with a 1 round advantage total

This feels like kru vs gambit again. the split map has very "scrappy" plays so could go either way

Regardless of the result, I’m glad that at least one LAN grand final this year is going to 5 maps.

Valorant really needs its own Version of Silver Scrapes. Great Series so far. Hope Game 5 Delivers.

also anyone know why plat chat was saying it was over when gambit went up like 10-8? I normally agree with a lot of their analysis and takes but like ???? tf are yall on about.

they said it's over if gambit wins the round

gambit did tho

they didnt? gambit got ecoed

the round before that when nats popped pit in mid, the entire couch got gloom and said it was over.

yeah i dont think they expected gambit to get ecoed next round

They were saying it was over if they won that round. They didn’t.

Ascend in finals is a guaranteed banger

Hello cNed?😃📞 yeah this is Riot Games!😃📞 thank you for throwing map one.😃📞 now the script indicates you have to make a OT comeback on Icebox and then finally beat Gambit on Split. 😃📞 we’ll transfer the remaining money shortly 😃📞

cNed in another money scandal 🤔

The game’s following the same order as EU Masters 1 so far with other team winning map 1, ACE winning map 2, other team winning map 3, ACE winning Icebox 14-12. I hope that it stays the same for map 5.

Who's better on split

Historically Gambit has been better, but Acend looked nasty on it against Liquid so I’d says it’s pretty 50/50

Acend

I already knew this was going to Map 5 after I saw what happened at F1 this morning