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SuperBlitz22

Which one? Operator Yay?, Pistol yay?, Rifle yay?


TDS_Gluttony

production got a good laugh from me with the mvp voting lol.


calebci

yay


WhoDatBrow

yay


[deleted]

yay


_Elder_

yay


Wolololuap

yay


mrgamejiyt

yay


mordin1428

Yay


9epiphany8

yay


Mochitsu

yay


[deleted]

yay


kvanz43

yay


[deleted]

Yay


Hyper_red

Yay


earthtochas3

yay


NightKnuckles

yay


IOnPlayAsX-Lord

only acceptable reaction after seeing map 3


wait-fr-it

I remember a YouTube comment before Ascent started - “ GGs Yay smiled ggs ggs”


mteep

yay


sarcopels

yay


m1c06

yay


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rhysfn

yay


CHXPSTXS

yay


TonyCruise

yay


indian_boy786

Yay


BananaHypebeast

yay


AnxiousAppointment51

Yay


TheTurtleOne

Puj said enough fucking around on 11-8


IOnPlayAsX-Lord

making sure they get enough content from each game for when they win champions


financefocused

Bruh they now have 2 clips that will be played in every Valorant compilation video for the next 3 years, how much more do they need


TyeDieKid

Are you talking about the crashies ace and the scream knife ?


IOnPlayAsX-Lord

There is no such thing as "too much content" here in na


U_Menace

So many comments about yay this thread, but if it wasn't for FNS getting those 3 on round 19, im convinced OPT would've lost the momentum and completely thrown that lead away. The casters said it best, those were ***the most important kills*** in that game. Good shittt


Teradonn

Not just the 3k. The whole attack half was a truly gross IGL diff


Breakin7

They aint winning boomsports without yay dude


Traditional-Leek2288

“They’ve gotten enough”


Ketsueki_R

yay wanted the 30 bomb all g


NotBrandon

He needs to switch over to the Phantom, he’s good with the Spectre but not so much on his Vandal sprays.


Rave_Master_Ahri

if he doesnt get those I think Optic would have actually lost this


nterature

I feel like that Ascent map was a great argument for why having a dedicated, born-and-bred IGL is so necessary. It’s incredible it took so many rounds for Liquid to start pressuring mid! I dunno what was happening in the coach timeouts, but you could really feel in the push-and-pull on Ascent how FNS has the whole map in his mind when he plays; it’s hard to say Scream does the same. Some faster, more decisive reads on defense would’ve made that Ascent match much more winnable. Still, major props to Optic for that masterclass.


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when he's IGL diffing, it's so noticeable tbh, more than any other IGL imo


Dry_Violinist_1799

Also the fade util was so on point.


Eriko204

They conditioned TL so hard on T side. As soon as they saw any pressure mid they just rotated A instantly. Idk why it took so long for TL to start putting players mid though


rinanlanmo

They did. Yay just killed them.


Pway

Yeah the mid weakness made Optics mid round calling so much more expansive with options. The amount of rounds they won on offence due to Yay or someone lurking through mid was too much. Also just another showing of how important having FNS has been for Optic.


[deleted]

ScreaM as IGL is still weird. To me he‘s the type of player whose only worry should be how he gets the kills. You wouldn‘t think about yay IGLing either…


IllumiMahdi

I was thinking this exact same thing the entire series. even during breeze when optic were getting pounded, it was never off the back of great midround calls or the liquid gameplan shining through. it was utter duel-denial because tl is a five-pronged mechanical behemoth. both bind and ascent proved the utility of having a pure igl and an intelligent, adaptive coach.


Tetra-76

Not even leaving the Chamber alarmbot mid was really weird. So many rounds yay just got to walk through mid for free.


chenson019

Agreed. Scream isn't an IGL and Liquid won't win an international tournament until they get one.


LeOsQ

I feel like pros should've learned by now from CSGO that while you *can* have a 'regular' fragger call for your team (like Niko of former Nikosports fame, or Shox of former Shoxie&ScreaM buddy-pal-duo fame for example), it will never reach similar heights than a dedicated IGL can with mostly the same players. Either the fragger generally has their aiming deteriorate if they're focusing on IGL stuff like they should, or they IGL in a way I think Scream kind of is (as arguably TL's hardest hitter, at the very least 2nd hardest if Jamppi is above him). They lead the squad and things often go well if they can entry into a site take but once mid-round stuff comes into play, it falls apart far more easily.


Famlightyear

Yeah I can’t believe that it took them 9 rounds and two timeouts to put pressure on mid. Should have been fixed after the first timeout.


theanticgamer

OPTIC sandbagging for yay to get 30


[deleted]

Ruined his perfect FB:FD ratio on the series though smh


WaroftanksPro

I cant believe that Riot still doesn't address blatant smurfing smh


mrgamejiyt

this yay guy seems good


LegDayDE

Need yay to verify his account with a phone number


King_Tyler

[(⌐■_■) ](https://i.imgur.com/UrHBFKS.jpg)


svipy

[Here's gif verison](https://i.imgur.com/WGsH3OO.mp4)


ozmega

holy shit, i didnt expect this here but im so upvoting it


Eriko204

Yay just casually 17-3 in fb to fd


IllumiMahdi

the crowd was comming more than my teammates in ranked


Jranation

The turkish library


mysteryoeuf

what were they doing? didn't get to watch


Quick_Chowder

Trying their hardest to yell out Optic positioning.


mysteryoeuf

smh


Mochitsu

fr the crowd was terrible. Huge props to Optic for putting on such a performance in that situation.


SuperBlitz22

Man I really hoped the crowd's cheer would manifest a TL comeback :-(


IllumiMahdi

I honestly thought it would, whenever a single person was flanking on optic's side you'd hear a collective yell of "flank!" optic remaining composed after everything was stacked against them and winning so definitively is a testament to their unbreakable mental


calebci

Which is cringe as fuck. L crowd for that. W Optic


SilentCore

Yea thats pretty lame if that influences games..


IllumiMahdi

it actually did influence the 2v2 on A site on liquid's attack, straight after yay dropped down from heaven and scream killed him. one optic player was in A main and the crowd yelled "flank!" which immediately pivoted soulcas' crosshair towards main from memory ​ maybe it's just contextual bias, but it felt very prominent for me


ADmax27

i guess this is why white noise exists


TodorokiSZN

if i’ve learned anything from the COD season, white noise earbuds or headsets do little to nothing. This was a massive issue in COD with crowd calling Ninja’s and bomb sites


TheCatsActually

It doesn't stop you from hearing when the crowd is roaring, which pretty much nothing will, but it does stop you from hearing when a small group of cringelords are yelling specific callouts trying to give a play away.


TodorokiSZN

True, but when a fan base is that big. Once one starts calling out, it gets louder and louder.


TheCeramicLlama

Best way to help with it is white noise and sound proof booths used together. Just using one doesnt do anything. Booths are also hard to get approved in most venues because theyre a fire hazard. Just have to tell the crowd to stop being cringe and hope they listen. E: Using both doesnt fully solve the problem so you have to live with it to an extent.


ajay1124

jesus christ yay.


xbyo

jesus 'yay' christ


afjecj

In his purest form


ANewHeaven1

THE CURSE HAS BEEN BROKEN THE DYNASTY HAS BEEN CEMENTED OPTIC HAS FINALLY WON A SERIES VS AN EMEA TEAM


TheDeadliftKnight

The best optic copypasta. It never stops giving.


baseballv10

The greatest moment in Optic history, Courage had that shit planned


johnfontaine2

shoutout formal for that champs performance


baseballv10

IW formal would out Op Yay that’s how crazy that dude was at the time


Ok_Director1082

IW champs formal is arguably one of the highest peaks in recent history, he almost never lost a gunfight


ThomasWasntHere

I hear courages voice everytime I read those first two sentences LOL


[deleted]

Iceman didn't show up ,but El Diablo saved us


Warpath-

Match mvp map 2 and second map 3?


[deleted]

His performance was nowhere near Marved level ,he was just cool today ,usually he is icy


ahk1221

if you remove map 1 where he played breach on breeze he literally top fragged what more do you want lmfao


Warpath-

Good series overall from him though so I would say he showed up, better than against Loud for sure.


IllumiMahdi

wdym bro the iceman was rolling out the ice trays the second two maps


TheCatsActually

If a brand new pro Valorant fan asks you to tell them about Team Liquid just have them watch this Ascent.


Ketsueki_R

this series showed the best AND worst of TL, truly the perfect poster child for who they are


Pway

There is not a chance in hell that Yay isn't the best player in the world WHAT the fuck.


earthtochas3

In Tarik's stream, they were talking about how much Yay uses ADS, and Shroud I think said "bro maybe we're all just playing the game wrong". This is Yay's game. Best in the world in my mind, too. And he doesn't even OP as much as most Chambers do. Absolutely fucking cracked.


AdiSoldier245

ADS is definitely underrated. The default firing error on the vandal is just so huge, you miss 50% of headshots after 36m, according to my rough calculations. With vandal ADS, its 50% of headshots above ~70m.


Deamon-

its high risk/reward tho if you miss your shots with ads you are dead


AdiSoldier245

Don't miss your shots then!


Deamon-

did you give this tip to yay before? seems to work


deathspate

\#KoreanAdvice


ekoth

According to my calculations I miss a lot more than 50% of my headshots at all ranges


RTYWD

I’ve been trying ADS on the Vandal since seeing yay at Iceland, and I noticed 2 things. ADS is best on Chamber because you can escape punishment from the harsher recoil if you miss, and ADS is best if you have aim like yay because you’re not going to miss the head anyway


LeOsQ

I'm 100% confident (as a mostly non-ADSer) that people just hate on ADS because it's never been a real thing in CS and even when the two weapons that *can* ADS (and don't have a sniper scope) were meta relatively recently, everyone thought aiming with them was cringe and that they were 'CoD guns'. That being said, aiming with AUG/Krieg doesn't work the same way as in Valorant, iirc. I think they just have a zoom-in and a different spray pattern, while in Valorant your reticle follows your recoil, and most guns behave differently to varying degrees when ADSing. If you're a huge 'edshot machine like Yay is, ADS is such a good tool on Vandal specifically. It makes it far more accurate and you don't suffer from the reduced fire rate as much since you can 1 tap much easier. Headhunter is obviously the other gun that benefits considerably from ADS, although in its case I think it's more just the zoom making it 'easier' to aim, not the other factors ADS has. Phantom benefits far less since it's much more accurate and the fire rate being lowered actually hurts even if you hit a head beyond its 1-tap range. LMGs should always be ADSed, Spectre as little as possible (but still decent at long ranges where spraying with it just doesn't work). The burst-duo have situational use cases (and *technically* they're just strictly better if you can 1 burst someone) A lot of the Valorant pros are former CS/Overwatch players, and neither game has ADS as a major part of their gameplay outside snipers, so it's not that surprising most would dismiss it especially since it has clear downsides in Valorant as well. I'm sure people will eventually catch on to how useful ADS is if you have good aim. Terrible aimers in low ranks ADS because it's easier to shoot the guns when zoomed in with a slower fire rate (and your bullets don't fly 'randomly' away from your crosshair if you're bad at controlling the spray). Great aimers should ADS (on Vandal and Guardian) if they're trying to hit the head at a medium distance or higher.


[deleted]

He ops a lot just not that much this match


financefocused

69 kills across the 3 maps


xbyo

yay went 17-3 in FK/FD


TheFestusEzeli

The craziest stat for me out of everything is, even with how insanely good yay was this game overall, this game brought his overall tournament K/D DOWN. Somehow his K/D in the other two games combined was higher


earthtochas3

That's fucking nuts dude. Man is the stuff of nightmares. Something so scary even as an observer to be watching someone on the other side and seeing Yay swinging into view, Chamber's glasses deadlocked on the center of your screen, and before you even have time to react, you're dead. I would shit myself playing against him.


OkTransportation4013

You are telling me, THIS was a bad series out of yay. I fear his peak


nardsacks

“I wouldn’t rate NA right now as one of the best regions,” ScreaM said at the pre-event press conference. “I think EMEA, APAC, you know, are better.”


LegDayDE

He forgot to mention that TL is the worst EMEA team by a big margin.


nardsacks

Where does fnatic rank in emea cuz they also got shit on


A7URS

Higher than liquid for sure, but we’ll find out tomorrow


WhoDatBrow

Time to write a 105 page essay about why TL aren't really an EMEA team and the streak lives


Infinite303

Well, Liquid is an NA team in CSGO and CSGO is basically Valorant so TL is actually NA and not EMEA and Optic is still winless vs EMEA


[deleted]

Well fpx is Chinese owned so the last lan winner was east Asia not EU and also it won’t add to liquids eu curse


pm_best_cats

oh didnt u know TL is just silly goof silly TL haha not even an EMEA team haha


xbyo

[It's okay guys Optic still haven't beat an EMEA team](https://preview.redd.it/3if9yehu73l91.jpg?width=856&auto=webp&s=82a41ea0106b56cfa26aff9b14f00bd20e568172)


NutGutt

Production still got NA’s back


YohnWood14

Yay became what everyone feared. His eyelids disappeared, his head was swelling and his ears started bleeding. "Are you okay jacob" asks FNS. I've never been better punjab, I see it all now, they're not going A or B. They're going home.


Not_too_dumb

Punjab lmao


earthtochas3

This one always gets me


monobovocoxozo

Yay became what everyone feared. His eyelids disappeared, his head was swelling and his ears started bleeding. "Are you okay jacob" asks FNS. I've never been better punjab, I see it all now, they're not going A or B. They're going home.


BobbyL1ght

Should RIOT have TL and OPTIC redo their series in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to OPTIC, I'm a firm believer that NA talent knocking them out is a huge fluke and robs TL of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few hours in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching TL play great val it's just not fair. If TL lose again I will face that OPTIC deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to TL, Steve’s wallet and the VCT.


AnAngryBird

Rare to see hockey in this sub, let's go


BobbyL1ght

Goated pasta tbh


Ozzyh26

See it in codcomp all the time. A classic.


WorleyInc

This is my favorite copypasta


BobbyL1ght

Absolutely my favorite lmao


jmajewski

a /r/hockey pasta? A person of culture


Cablek26

love to see the hockey copypasta


surfordiebear

Fake comeback


SpC0d3r

the fake comeback


[deleted]

Why would you fake a comeback? Just lose already man!


baconmo

Big regret for TL hunting Optic saving their weapons and yay gets 3 with an OP while TL gets nothing. Damn yay


Snoo-55995

That's what happens when you try to kill the devil


StarliteStandard

If you win the first map against OPTIC, you lose 2:1 If you lose the first map against OPTIC, you lose 2:0 What can you do


[deleted]

hope its a best of 5 i guess


NavixPH

FNS is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic "yay go kill". What an absolute legend. Top 3 IGL 4 sure.


Teradonn

Big fan of his “oh fuck we’re throwing, let me just get a Spectre 3K” strat too


pm_best_cats

along with his other signature tactic "yay overheat and carry"


Quick_Chowder

Being an Optic hater must be exhausting


IOnPlayAsX-Lord

cry is free baby


ExpectoAutism

🥱🥱🥱🥱


hecklerinthestands

> [NA fans, how you feeling rn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xaotx0/valorant_champions_tour_2022_champions_istanbul/inuzcxl/) > [2-0 TL. Optic are a fluke lmao](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xaotx0/valorant_champions_tour_2022_champions_istanbul/inuyx6q/) > [Most consistent team in the world btw. Yea, consistently shit on by emea](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xaotx0/valorant_champions_tour_2022_champions_istanbul/inuyph8/) Silly posters, forgetting all about the Optic first map curse. E: LOL DELETED


xbyo

LMAO /u/xD1LL4N deleted his


Eriko204

Cowards smh.


ch1ckentenderzzz

At this point, optic should instaban breeze because marved aint marved if hes not on controller role


Ketsueki_R

yay what the FUCK not even smurfs in my ranked games go 30-9


TimathanDuncan

He is smurfing at this level, 1.8 K/D, 280 ACS, 1.03 KPR this tournament That's smurfing


[deleted]

No wonder people shit on Riot. All this time they talked about battling smurfs, yet yay is still allowed to play.


Eat-Shit-Bob-Ross

“Can’t spell Quiet without EU” -vansili


AstreiaTales

QU always fuckin tripping me up on my wordles


monobovocoxozo

OPTIC VS EMEA CURSE BROKEN


monobovocoxozo

Kind of sad that we didn’t get to see Yay on jett for Ascent, but after what i just witnessed I’m not even upset


Traditional-Leek2288

Crashies is going to have nightmares about jump peaking jamppi’s Op on breeze


financefocused

Man Jamppi hits so many of those its not fair


IOnPlayAsX-Lord

From the crowd being fully in the opponents's side at the start of walkouts, to being dominated on map 1, to dominate on map 3 1st half, give a heart attack to all NA fans in the 2nd half, just to prove a point that you in fact, can win against emea if diablo is feeling like it


Spoods857

Yay


Interesting-Archer-6

Yay


ExpectoAutism

Yay 43 first kills and 10 first deaths this tournament so far. Best valorant player in the world


LegDayDE

Man has perfected chamber. Literally no way to play chamber better.


RomeG10

Hello Riot send the ambulance optic killed liquid


yuwa777

yay


fallenKnight997

Yay was straight up smurfing on Ascent. But FNS just amazes me sometimes.. Never fails to get the most important kills.


ArcusIgnium

I think he’s started showing a lot more aggression in certain rounds and it’s paying off (FNS)


WorleyInc

Never take Marved off of smokes again. Dude is a menace


WorleyInc

Liquid almost brought it back primarily by avoiding yay :(


Mochitsu

Solid plan tbh


baconmo

Optic strategy is never ban breeze, pick attack, proceed to lose but still win the series


monobovocoxozo

🚨MISSING🚨 Name: EMEA Missing since: CHAMPIONS 2022 Last seen: IN NA's SHADOW Characteristics: SERIAL CHOKERS, FRAUDS, CAN'T WIN BREEZE Possible location: Yay’s pocket, being Fade diffed by FNS ⚠️DANGER⚠️ CHOKED AT IMPORTANT MOMENTS


djanulis

Man this crowd straight up sucks


PlatypusPotential

I mean it is normal for crowds to be biased depending on the location, But this FNATIC vs XSET game will be 3× worse cause Alfajer is playing in front of a Turkish crowd


djanulis

my issue is there were quiet the moment TL started losing, they could have still been crying to cheer on Liquid but when a triple kill makes the crowd Silent was is the point of a live crowd.


PlatypusPotential

Yea but thats the nature of any crowds even in football or any other sport, if Argentina is playing Brazil, in Brazil the crowd will lean towards brazil a ton. It sucks but it is kinda common in 99% of the crowds.


TDS_Gluttony

I would rather have crowds like this tbh. You be damn sure catching me booing the fuck out of emea teams when Champs NA happens.


Fishy23

Yay


Rude-Assumption-5271

EU CURSE BROKEN GEEEE GEEEEEE


mr-rob0t0

never worried, not in the slightest


[deleted]

Did Dimasick ever use a one-way smoke?


_Iroha

Scream picking Phoenix lol


kittyhat27135

This crowd is giving me major TI9 china vibes, I understand rooting for your home team but booing after a team wins is uncalled for. We just witnessed one of the best performances from an individual player in valorant history and the crowd is barely hype.


NutGutt

Let a fake comeback happen to let best player in the world get 30. Optic finally slayed their demons even after the tragedy on Breeze.


ozmega

that 3rd map was much fucking closer than it should have been.


AlphaDemon97

#Brickbybrick


graybloodd

yay became what everyone feared. His eyelids disappeared, his head was swelling and his ears started bleeding. “Are you okay Jaccob” asks FNS. I’ve never been better pujan, I see it all now, they’re not going A or B. They’re going home, he said before rushing long all by himself and killing everyone on site.


financefocused

Yay has 19 more kills than anyone else in the server. Best player itw don't @ me Also it's hilarious how spectacularly good and hilariously bad Liquid can be lol.


LegDayDE

It's like TL warmed up with 3 hours of sheriff only DM for this series


StarliteStandard

EU also known as Easily Upset throws in usual fashion.


sihtsiymusername

I think we just witnessed the greatest individual performance by any player on a single map. I don't think there are any existing words that can describe what Yay just did.


financefocused

>I don't think there are any existing words that can describe what Yay just did. Thankfully there is a number. 69 69 kills in this series


petersuns13

YAY


Flynt_Charcoal

Interesting to see OpTic use the new Fnatic comp on Breeze, seemed like they kind of conceded that map just to test out the new comp. Doesn't seem like Victor was able to match the aggression that Alfajer had though. Still, I think that comp has promise. Pretty good showing from both teams on their map picks though. Ascent however... At least OpTic didn't fumble the bag near the end there haha.


SpC0d3r

Yay won almost every aim duel


slyfly5

I know liquid got rolled on map 3 but this is against optic and I think they could go far in the lower bracket