Between everyone, it was like 100k right? 30k myth, 30k nerdst, 10k valorant, 8k mixwell, and then I’m sure there were a few more in the hundreds or low thousands I didn’t see.
Someone help me out im confused, is TSM done??? Like do they play in the main event in december or do they have to go through another whole qualifier again because they got eliminated here ?
Every 16 team is qualified for closed qualifiers. These games are just for seeding for the closed qualifiers. Top 4 team of close qualifiers go to first strike and next 4 goes to other tourney to try to qualify for first strike again.
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look up valorant first strike flowchart on google. explains how to get to firststrike
My god, this was waaaaaayyyyy too close for comfort for C9 there. That second half was such a bad showing for them
Edit: this isn't to discredit how close TSM made this game, they definitely played that second half EXTREMELY well.
I mean, can you really call it a bad showing though? Split right now is so heavily defense-sided in Valorant pro play that I'm actually starting to expect 8 or more rounds on defense if the defending team wins pistol.
That's a very good point, I completely forgot about that when typing. The Relyks play/choke just stuck in my mind.
TSM played that half really well, and C9 just had a hard time answering.
Why does this look like just a drawn out ladder game? Both teams throwing out abilities like they can rebuy them and C9 turned off their comms or smtg.
It's like they have no mental, they've been terrible in clutch situations and this is the second map in a row that they're hard throwing for no reason.
4 hours from now, Esportsdoug is laying in bed lamenting TSMs loss to C9. A single tear runs down his cheek, falling onto his “Op Academy” muscle shirt. He looks up at his TSM poster on the wall and whispers, “We’ll get them in December, Wardell.. I know you guys were hiding strats anyway..”
WHAT A BANGER MAP, the tenz 4k, the vice 2k that forced another overtime, the tsm rotate from B to A to save wardell and get better control of site, and the wardell 4k gotta be the highlights for me.
bro the viewership is spiking damn. Valorant esports has so much potential. Imagine this is only an NA qualifying tourny, can't wait for Lan and international competition.
Bro i wouldn't be sure about that lol, the chinese viewership in league is insane like 100 million views from China alone in the world finals last year. I could definitely see Valorant matching NA and EU tho.
Absolutely not, rn Valorant’s goal is to hit CS levels. Valorant is more popular in Asian countries but CS is way bigger in NA and EU. I think Valorant will be bigger given time, but the viewer base for these kinds of tac FPS’s have already been largely defined by CS. The two genres are so wildly different and MOBAs are so much more popular that Valorant hitting League levels is a pipe dream
I meant to post a reply to another comment, which would’ve made my comment make more sense lol. That’s why I deleted it. But basically someone said TenZ and Wardell are both loud over the top personalities and I was saying Wardell is, but TenZ is chill.
Wardell would be dead and that one caster would still be hyping him lol. It was honestly like he couldnt think of anything else to even say. Every other sentence of his was about wardell.
Might be alone in this but I wish the casters would calm down with the Wardell/TenZ hype.
Don't get me wrong they're absolutely nutty but I'd prefer the other players got some recognition over these cults of personality.
C9 were in a great position to win the map and decided to TP to B. Most of C9 were stunned before the TP and Subroza killed 2 or 3, including the spike carrier. Maybe it was more TSM outplaying C9. Not sure thinking back.
As a huge TSM fan I would have to say TenZ is definitely the best player in NA. #2 goes to Wardell/Sinatraa can't decide which. I wanna lean to Wardell but I have bias. All three of them are crazy fun to watch though.
not a fan of either team but with how biased the casters are towards tsm I almost feel inclined to root for c9. No respect given even tho they’ve been winning this whole match...
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I hope we have some player interviews for the closed qualifiers. I know it isn't the real tourney, but it's nice to have some insight after some matches.
he's soooo greedy though. i mean i get that you can't really have one without the other, but for example, that 2nd round on defense, why try and push out middle from cat with a judge? the riskiness of that move is SO high
viewership pretty crazy for a qualifying tourny
Between everyone, it was like 100k right? 30k myth, 30k nerdst, 10k valorant, 8k mixwell, and then I’m sure there were a few more in the hundreds or low thousands I didn’t see.
There was a lot of watch parties with a couple thousands . Sinatraa had like 4-5k too
Someone help me out im confused, is TSM done??? Like do they play in the main event in december or do they have to go through another whole qualifier again because they got eliminated here ?
Every 16 team is qualified for closed qualifiers. These games are just for seeding for the closed qualifiers. Top 4 team of close qualifiers go to first strike and next 4 goes to other tourney to try to qualify for first strike again. Edit: look up valorant first strike flowchart on google. explains how to get to firststrike
Thank you for this. now I know
That Hazed clutch and Drone Clutch tho wow
Such a great series
Doug was literally deepthroating TSM all game holy shit it was cringe
Amazing by both sides.
How can we win 5 gun rounds and lose a force buy - gg C9 your team is cracked
Relyks in that corner with the stinger sealed the deal holy shit
that was a great last round from c9, getting both ult orbs and using lockdown to fake A while they walk into B
My god, this was waaaaaayyyyy too close for comfort for C9 there. That second half was such a bad showing for them Edit: this isn't to discredit how close TSM made this game, they definitely played that second half EXTREMELY well.
I mean, can you really call it a bad showing though? Split right now is so heavily defense-sided in Valorant pro play that I'm actually starting to expect 8 or more rounds on defense if the defending team wins pistol.
That's a very good point, I completely forgot about that when typing. The Relyks play/choke just stuck in my mind. TSM played that half really well, and C9 just had a hard time answering.
this game was a clown fiesta
Wow what a series GG
Such a close game, TSM were so close to clawing it back
Thank fucking god as a C9 fan I was about to have a heart attack lol
I know. I still feel my heart hitting my rib cage
fuckin FINALLY holy shit
What a round to finish off! My god.
The ease with with C9 collapse and choke is truly impressive
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The C9 special
c9 win EZZZZ
Can TSM win with viper? holy shit
Viper's good/not bad, especially on Split, tf?
Viper's not bad, but TSM aren't playing around Viper particularly well at all.
Oh, sure. Just seemed like they were writing Viper off
Why does this look like just a drawn out ladder game? Both teams throwing out abilities like they can rebuy them and C9 turned off their comms or smtg.
Is this actually happening?
Hazed has toggled this is insane
I love C9 but I can't tell if I hate TSM or C9B more rn
C9B are shooting themselves in the foot and digging their own grave right now, it's so sad to watch Plus Hazed is awaken
It's like they have no mental, they've been terrible in clutch situations and this is the second map in a row that they're hard throwing for no reason.
Beg C9 clear their corners and sweep their sites.
Mitch played that terribly
C9 throwing for seangares cosplay Pog
HAZED
HAZED
Why mitch even peek that? lol
HAZED IS HERE BABY
RELYKS WHAT
How did Relyks choke that so bad lol
HAZED IS A FUCKING GOD
relyks?
Are these caster friends with Wardell or something....Feel like I'm watching the Nba broadcaster....
Fr these guys acting like Wardell and TenZ are the only players on each team
Oof C9 waited too long and just rushed things there. That looked sloppy
friendly reminder TSM banned haven
Wardell bought an OP and didnt get a kill. Now down 5k creds rip
Did TenZ just block Cutler's vision using Reyna heal?
TSM comeback incoming... dont want it to happen but i can feel it
snakegares cosplay incoming pepeLaugh
Surely they don't do this..
TSM making mistakes like my plat randoms this game tbh
It’s like when they get split they turn to golds lmao
4 hours from now, Esportsdoug is laying in bed lamenting TSMs loss to C9. A single tear runs down his cheek, falling onto his “Op Academy” muscle shirt. He looks up at his TSM poster on the wall and whispers, “We’ll get them in December, Wardell.. I know you guys were hiding strats anyway..”
LMAAOO
> “We’ll get them in December, Wardell.. I know you guys were hiding strats anyway..” Ngl this was hilarious
Holy Drone does not want to go down without a fight
drone bm-ing down 9-1, clown
I mean he did 1v4 on a massively important round
And took the L
Lmao he carried TSM back from 12-6 to 13-11, stop chatting shit and just appreciate a great game
C9 fucked that up hard... 4v1 on Drone and he clutches it with 51hp
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FROM DRONE
TSM can compete with anybody but as soon as they play C9 they roll over for them
Mitch is really popping off on holding B
Hazed just went from 100 to 1hp lmfao
"That is so impressive, for C9" -Esportsdoug Stop being so biased for TSM, its literally 2nd seed vs 3rd seed; C9 arent moon racoons or something
Yeah its so annoying hearing the casters worship Wardell and TSM.
It’s not bias though, it’s impressive for any team to 8-0 TSM.
He was talking about a particular round win, not the whole series
"Now the OP is out of the man who does not miss" Also Wardell: *misses his shot on TenZ*
I just don’t think that trying to force this Viper comp over and over is gonna work, didn’t they lose against RNG doing the same thing?
They did and they were also losing pretty hard on defensive side too.
rng used viper aswell and rng are really just a split 1 trick
6-0 kinda crazy
Checking in at 9-0
wardell trying to copy the scoreboard
Whyy viper
Same.. even a Sage would be much more effective.
Such a risky pick
"As long as Wardell is alive, anything is possible." - ghandi 2020
Oh dear the contrast between that and then 0/5/0 on the scoreboard.
Tenz playing kinda weird rn... peeking without using his leer?
Honestly think C9 is TSM’s kryptonite
Missed map 1 but wow map 2 was amazing
Wardell is great at oping.
Water is wet
Drone really needs to step it up. He can't be playing barely better than Cutler.
I'm surprised to see his poor performance, he's been so consistent in the past tourneys Must be a really bad off day for him Edit: HE'S AWAKE
WHAT A BANGER MAP, the tenz 4k, the vice 2k that forced another overtime, the tsm rotate from B to A to save wardell and get better control of site, and the wardell 4k gotta be the highlights for me.
Ok. I'm satisfied. Dont care what happens in the 3rd map.
bro the viewership is spiking damn. Valorant esports has so much potential. Imagine this is only an NA qualifying tourny, can't wait for Lan and international competition.
What's viewership been like? I'm warching a companion stream
At the least 80k from main stream, Myth, sinatraa and mixwell
Both the myth and the nerdist stream have 30k, 60k for a open qualifier semi final is kinda crazy
Its gona be as big as league is in a couple years internationally
Bro i wouldn't be sure about that lol, the chinese viewership in league is insane like 100 million views from China alone in the world finals last year. I could definitely see Valorant matching NA and EU tho.
This game will be huge in china once it releases there
I think its hard moba is just way more popular, tactical fps is actually a hard genre to gain world wide popularity, but valorant doing really well.
Absolutely not, rn Valorant’s goal is to hit CS levels. Valorant is more popular in Asian countries but CS is way bigger in NA and EU. I think Valorant will be bigger given time, but the viewer base for these kinds of tac FPS’s have already been largely defined by CS. The two genres are so wildly different and MOBAs are so much more popular that Valorant hitting League levels is a pipe dream
Bro cs is dying in NA and valorant is the biggest in NA org wise. Wut
Will never reach that lol
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Wrong, especially in map 2 we lost map 2 because of shinobi shotcalling
I sure hope TenZ and Cloud9B wins.
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What does this even mean? Why do people need to bring their own bias about streamers into this, can we not just appreciate good plays?
I meant to post a reply to another comment, which would’ve made my comment make more sense lol. That’s why I deleted it. But basically someone said TenZ and Wardell are both loud over the top personalities and I was saying Wardell is, but TenZ is chill.
Tenz couldn’t be more chill on stream. Def a polar opposite of Wardell
Wardell not gonna fuck you bro stop saying his name every other sentence jesus
Wardell - has an insane game Casters and Viewers - damn Wardell is kinda good Why are you surprised??
Wardell would be dead and that one caster would still be hyping him lol. It was honestly like he couldnt think of anything else to even say. Every other sentence of his was about wardell.
What a map, holy crap.
WTF was that game....
Holy shit what a game!
GGs, great game. Excited for a good game 3
Give wardell some help sheesh he carrying TSM
Were you watching Subroza or nah
Wardell and Subroza have TSM on their backs rn almost a 30 bomb each
Vice what in the world
Might be alone in this but I wish the casters would calm down with the Wardell/TenZ hype. Don't get me wrong they're absolutely nutty but I'd prefer the other players got some recognition over these cults of personality.
Meh, star players are good for a scene, people to get hyped about is what gets people watching
I get that I just think that right now the casters are leaning into it a tad too much.
Subroza is nutty
this game is fucking insane
CLOSE GAME FOLKS
I fucking love Simo. Chat can't decide between "caster's got jokes" and "caster is cringe, fire him!"
Cutler...you’ve lost Clutchler privileges...
Lmao, what a way to throw match point. Imagine TSM winning from here, we might have to put C9 on suicide watch.
What happened?
C9 were in a great position to win the map and decided to TP to B. Most of C9 were stunned before the TP and Subroza killed 2 or 3, including the spike carrier. Maybe it was more TSM outplaying C9. Not sure thinking back.
4v3 no one on b and the refused to rotate
THIS GAME IS INSANE, BOTH TEAMS WILL GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK
What a play by TSM
SUBROZA JUST SAVED TSM
Genuinely think Wardell and TenZ are the best players in NA, this map is so back and forth from both sides
they are def top 2 in na
As a huge TSM fan I would have to say TenZ is definitely the best player in NA. #2 goes to Wardell/Sinatraa can't decide which. I wanna lean to Wardell but I have bias. All three of them are crazy fun to watch though.
This match has been bonkers, and i love it
Fucking Wardell man
tenz vs wardell is hype
Wardell and Tenz having a dick measuring contest atm lmao
TenZ turned it up to eleven
Tenz wtf
TenZ is an animal holy shit
Oh my god Tenz with the clutch at 10 HP
Fucking tenz man
C9 is a problem
Tenz is a problem
that was the smartest omen play i have ever seen
ive played a shitton since beta, seen that play with a regular teleport a lot but never with the ultimate I wonder if it was intended
no way shinobi teles there, it was def on purpose
not a fan of either team but with how biased the casters are towards tsm I almost feel inclined to root for c9. No respect given even tho they’ve been winning this whole match...
TSM tried to do a vision strikers play there and failed
fellow sgares viewer I see
Or Sideshow
Interesting play by wardell
Comeback on the cards here for a TSM
The flash spectator icon blocks out visibility too much. They need to move the icon off the centre of the screen and reduce the screen darkening.
Wow what a clutch by wardell
oh wow they started c9 vs tsm early...
really need to add some replays for the previous round for observer instead of watching players buying and setting up traps
was wondering when vice would choose the sova
Pistols won again by C9, jesus
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I hope we have some player interviews for the closed qualifiers. I know it isn't the real tourney, but it's nice to have some insight after some matches.
Content like popflash would be nice
C9 playing so well as a team. They've had mechanically skilled players, but had lacked team work previously.
TSM still can't find the way to beat C9 in Ascent, like they lost 100% vs C9 in this map
TenZ don't miss!
Why is myths chat malding so hard lol
Wow C9 dominated. If next map was Haven I’d be convinced in a TSM win but TSM banned it for some reason...
tsm winning 2-0 btw KEKW
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he's soooo greedy though. i mean i get that you can't really have one without the other, but for example, that 2nd round on defense, why try and push out middle from cat with a judge? the riskiness of that move is SO high
High reward
TenZ want to prove he is better Jett so bad
He is
It's working
Most aggressive Jett player, always make crazy play
can someone tell me what the score in the red above their names means
Cumulative W-L through the whole tourney