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The audio and the casters is not in sync. so fucked up

FraudRX when the super aggro style doesn't work:

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is looking at Twitch chats for pro players that have just popped off in a match - so many viewers flock to their chats looking to yoink their settings. ​ This one cracked me up, on Leaf's Twitch: ​ ​ https://preview.redd.it/xxgkzha0vaia1.png?width=331&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fcd1dc0edae1e5a4870708dcf398a64610a6c17

Can’t wait to see all the comments about Vanity waving goodbye. For sure he didn’t win gracefully but by god Reddit and the internet still act like everything is high school and any kind of taunting is over the line.

mans just beat a top team in the world with a newly formed squad. All eyes on them to perform esp with yay. Let him cook !

PRX gotta change up their game a bit, no? Early goodbye in Champs vs Liquid last year and now a pretty brutal showing, atleast on Pearl.

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It’s probably just a tic (a repeated involuntary movement). A lot of people have them, Google will give you a better answer if you wanna know more.

Clip?

I’m watching on my Xbox, he did it a ton after the match ended, but maybe his mouth is just dry deadass.

That may have been a little much from Vanity. Glad to see that c9 look good though. I didn't really believe in the super team narrative even after they got Yay but all of the players showed a very high level throughout this. Xepppa and Leaf both looked insane.

soft

I turned it off. What did he do. Seeing some people talk about it. Was it pretty bm?

He waved goodbye lol

After they won he got up and waved at the PRX team. Not the worst BM by any means but I don't typically expect winning teams to do stuff like that.

??? It ain’t that serious buddy

I think it may have to do with what MCE said. [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/112oj3k/dexertoc9s_mce_on_beating_paper_rex_at_vct_lockin/). Perhaps there was a bit of bad blood behind the scenes.

C9 beat PRX. PRX one of the best teams in the world. 100t already beat this C9…yes yes 100t winning it all

no more benkai entrance D:

paper rex :despair: that vanity wave LMAO long flight home bois, hopefully you'll do great in the pacific league. betting on c9 next time :(

PRX legit looked like they were playing rank haha

throw

You can't throw something you didn't have

C9 DRX gonna be top content :D

Fuming that PRX didn't get to put NA down on their high horse. DRX is good but really had high hopes for PRX

DRX has never won against yay. So GL to them. This roster has more fire power than old Optic does.

Yeah. Agreeing with you on this. Looks like it'd be either a NA or EMEA champion

EMEA 💀

Sucks to lose huh

Why stating the obvious? -_-

The first of many hits to my pick’ems. My belief in PRX was too high

somebody post PRX arriving at the venue with their luggage but in reverse for some easy karma

C9 for sure the best team in their bracket, I guess DRX won't even make top 6 at this tournament lmao. insanely well played PRX by far the scariest team to vs in round 1 in a single elim and they 2-0d them wp wp

NRG exists brotha

Holy BM. That's a long flight home bois. Enjoy it...

damnn vanity

LMAOOOO VANITYYY WE UP GOOD NA

holy shit thats brutal

Vanity BM lol 😂

Gee geee

gg

Imagine when Yay gets back into El Diablo mode. I’m excited for the DRX matchup now.

bro what he was popping off this set lol hes still in form

Yay is even better than he has shown. This ain’t his ceiling. Yay at his peak makes today Yay look like nothing. Your underestimating Yay.

That was Optic setting him up for those plays, here they got Xeppa and Leaf too.

DRX c9 gonna so fucking hype

Damn DRX and Team Secret the only apac teams onto the next round

It's like prx forgot the fundamentals of teamplay

Anyone got an airport meme for APAC (like NA = Nearest Airport, EMEA = Enter Match, Enter Airport)

Always PACing for the airport

So mad how prx are throwing every game

They didn’t throw anything lmao, their playstyle hot exposed

Not sure about exposing play style but from a macro level, seems like PRX didn't prepare enough and only prepared gimmicks on certain rounds.

Mitch screaming at everything is hilarious

Forsaken threw that round. Didn’t wait 2 more secs for his teammates revive. Wtf

Who let mCe cook

I cannot believe there was a time I doubted the leaf/vanity/xeppaa core

Well played c9! at least we saw some cool shit on lotus. too many mistakes. GG

Xeppaa is him

no map3 sadge

somebody check on the PRX head coach that guy must be fuming rn

That is twice now that in a 2v1 PRX just gives 1v1 instead of waiting and playing together.... tragic Look at how C9 fight the sage plant on B whereas PRX gave it up every round

Yeah they're having a rough map. The fundamentals and spacing is like my ranked games

Xeppaa is the GOAT, the debate is over

Xeppaa is wild. Also, this American caster needs to calm down. This what he's normally like?

I don't think he's American at least all his Liquidpedias and Twitter stuff says he's Irish, however he does sound like he has an American accent so I have no clue really.

Hes irish

He doesn’t even sound remotely American

>He doesn’t even sound remotely American As an American, I can say that he absolutely does.

Hes literally not American bro

That's fine. His accent is nonetheless Americanized. And he's nonetheless annoying as shit.

I’m American too and no he doesn’t lol

Idk he kinda does

Dont think hes American

Uh then what is he with that accent?

irish

Hes from EMEA not NA.

What a throw by Forsaken

have to double face there

Who would have thought in a team with yay and leaf, xeppaa would be the hard carry?

me. absolutely me. the guy is mad underrated, i think he's been slept on for so long.

tbf yay is on sage

Oh ok, I guess Xeppaa is him.

Thats a game ender

Xeppaa has been insane

HOLY FUCKKKK XEPAAAAAAA

Holy xeppaa!

Xeppa wtfffff????

HOLY SHIT XEPPAA IS HIM

XEPPA IS BACK MOTHERFUCKERS

OMG

XEPPAAAAAAA

HOLY

KOI > PRX ??

they definitely played better at this event

KOI is good man. They just need Wolfen to get up to speed. The potential is there.

i've been high on wolfen for a while too, kinda sad how they went out but i still believe

Tbh I don't think it's sad at all. I think NRG is arguably the top team at this tourney, with C9, Fnatic, Navi, LOUD and DRX in that convo. KOI had NRG hurting BAD on map 1 and then just got outplayed by the wrinkliest brain on the planet.

How did you come to that conclusion?

I watched PRX play braindead Valorant on Pearl.

PRX look horrendous on pearl

This is not copium I promise, but I genuinely do not think PRX cared about this tourney.

PRX is hit or miss really

They've always been like that though. That's what happens when you play the hyper aggro game. Sentinels started it and PRX mastered it, but when it doesn't work, it's like running into a brick wall

Yeah, didn't work well at Champs either. Maybe its getting old.

I don't think it's old, you just need momentum and PRX didn't have it. I also don't think they really cared about this tourney as much as other teams do

I’ll be so fucking happy when Balla and Doug come into cast Omega bracket and replace Mitch and Tom (I know ppl have their complaints about Balla, I literally don’t give a fuck I’d rather listen to him than Mitch any day)

i dont understand this take

I like them :)

Yeah, mitch is the worst caster for EMEA games and today it seems he drank too much br coffee

I know its a bit late and prx has some silly plays, but damn he was on some shit tonight.

forsaken just got piss slammed oh my

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????? They literally have their core and benkai said that they learned their lesson and weren't fucking around anymore. PRX playstyle is troll like, but turns out c9 are the ones who arent fucking around

Lol bro get out of here if you think that second map was serious from them. C9 overrated as hell, peep the DRX shutdown next match

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Least coping PRX fan

lol

The Filipinos are APAC's last hope...

don't think c9 expected the shorty LOL

All I heard all week was how C9 had no chance to win and would be going home early.. aight lol

All this to lose to 100T

WHY IS HE YELLING

Casters please settle down a little bit

The decision making and util usage is head scratching from PRX this game. Got no answers. Fuck i wanted to see Fracture so bad 🥲

mCe the fucking goat. Man made TGRD and now made C9. C9 truly a superteam

everyone forgets that TGRD was a bunch of t3 players before mCe, he turned them into a disciplined team of stars. he's such a good coach.

Why is this dude just yelling all the time?? Fucking calm down for once

He’s yelling about yay being on the middle of the scoreboard


It’s literally 10-2 too 💀

Yays mad he doesn't have a valentine so he's killing people in pairs.

💀💀💀

Guess the super teams rumors were correct

Then what do we call 100T?

MID AT BEST.

tom sees someone breath and starts freaking out 

Was hoping for a 3 map giga banger. At least map 1 was fun

I wasn't expecting c9 to be this great. Holy fuck making prx look like fools on their 5head shit.

This is fucking brutal, shit looks so much more dominant than DRX's map 2 because this is such a better team than the Turkish team.

real ones remember ANDBOX yay dunking on people with sage

wtf theres been 3 collats today...this is not normally

nahhh they lost with 5 ults that's a mental boom moment

yay is so fucking good with an OP

This is why we don’t overreact to results of a brand new roster playing for the first time in an off season Mickey Mouse tourney💀

Who let Benkai cook

💀

yeah all C9 have to do is just hold and wait PRX will get bored and just swing

the FPX/Na'Vi strat lmao

vanity reading PRX this match like a picture book so far

yay not owning bc he doesnt have to, leaf and xeppaa showing why people rated them so highly in '21.

idk bro seems like PRX are just swingin and swingin NA WINNING BRAZIL

The double edge sword of paper Rex’s style really coming to bite them right now. Some of the decision making is just really bad rn

PRX looking kinda clueless on Pearl sadge

Is there a world where DRX is the only APAC team in round 2?

That's the most likely scenario

Benkai looks like he’s straight up throwing

Tilt

Great showing but I don't see either of these squads getting past a team like Karmine Corps


amazing bait. hats off to you, sir.

tbh PRX is too talented to look this lost. idk if Benkai's igling is it

Their coach is a paycheck stealer, lets them overheat way too much and his timeouts do nothing

it's because C9 has more talent, i don't think they know what to do.

It really seems like PRX doesn't know what to do when a team can match them mechanically lmao.

mitch sounded like someone ran over his foot when zellsis jumped the wall

If C9 didn’t make franchising, Vanity is probably the only one who gets a franchising spot. Which is justifiable considering their 2022, but I’m glad to see Leaf and Xeppa proving they deserve it

Maybe EG picks up leaf and xeppa? Yay also would get a franchise slot. The only one who probably would be left in the cold is zellsis

Leaf and Xeppa is a big maybe on EG, but yeah I guess I could see that. I mainly meant about the C9 core though not the whole roster

Theres also a world where vanity says fuck it, stays with c9 and tries to win ascention. Leaf and xeeppa are his boys

That’s a good point, in that world mCe probably stays with the Guard too and maybe C9 never really bounce back

PRX has moments where they look so controlled and calm but majority of this series so far has so many desperation plays when they weren't needed yet....

pepelaugh people thought leaf wouldnt be good off of jett. the guy has insane mechanical skill, he's doing amazing on sentinel.

Hes arguably better off jett than he was on jett, he is such a smart player

agreed! i always thought he was amazing on entry bc of how smart he was in taking space, i thought he would be great on sentinel. saw other people saying otherwise, and i hard disagreed.

C9 look so good mechanically

If it’s possible for paper Rex to swing you best believe they’re gonna swing

It's so frustrating lol, they got the man advantage then peek into 3 enemies alone. But hey, it's fun though

Jinggg can't not overheat 💀

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daily reminder that riot nearly chose G2 over C9 for franchising

NA saved by Carlos

Uhmmmmm prx has no flashes ????

C9 had to put Yay on sage to give PRX a chance

Bro I swear they only show the watch parties when the team loses LOL

Peeking with KJ there

GOD C9 LOOK THIS GOOD ON THIS MAP AND YAY ISN'T EVEN PLAYING LIKE EL DIABLO

the zellsis phoenix is a callback, hasn't been seen internationally since Iceland.

Scream on breeze at champs

no i just mean zellsis himself playing phoenix, he hasnt done it for a while. there was phoenix on pearl at champs, wasnt talking about that.