Top 3, each team representing 1 region. This is the best Masters by far. The EMEA giants FNC, EG going on their Cinderella run and PRX the 5 players one heart hivemind playing with a sub and still dominating. What a time to be alive
when does stop being a Cinderella run ? maybe when they stomp every team they face and almost win against the best team in the world it stops being a Cinderella run and they're just very good
Jinng made the bronze play but PRX made the real Bronze play of “run the same strat over and over again and let your opponents defeat themselves with the thought ‘there’s no way they do the same thing again’ “
tmv doesn't know it's typical sg server playstyle. in every rank. even after the coming this event fnatic sub kamyk tweet about how he had not any read of rank play on japan servers. And even emea radiant rank was so readable for him.
Forsaken's B site Cove lineups repeatedly landing on top of a wall was hilarious, had the audience laughing when the spectating camera decided to focus on it
I really want Riot to do a feature story for PRX CGRS regardless they win or lose in the lower bracket finals. I think his competitive journey this tournament is really one remember for. Content creator sub filling in for Top 1 Ranked player in the starting roster, and reaching this deep into the brackets.
For context, CGRS played a couple matches at T2 when he was very briefly on Xerxia. But still going from T2, PRX’s 6-7th man, to being in a top 3 team in the world is INSANE. Also diffing other pros along the way
Honestly, as a Pacific and Paper Rex fan I am more than happy if this is it and they got beat by EG 3-0 in the Lower Finals. They have done an incredible run with CGRS and I am more than pumped to see what they will do with Smth in Champions. Fingers crossed he'll be there for them.
yah bro even they lose the next match.. still the big achievement for them with a sub still got the top 3... props to cgrs playin really well but somehow ppl expect him play like aspas and always blame him in anything🤣
Cgr is a pro player for a lot of game like pubg, apex legend, over watch and more. the VALORANT team he played for Thailand is just a meme thing where he just put his friend in the team and getting recked and if you watch the video they are just laughing and having fun😂
Yeah, unfortunately fnatic decided to win against PRX and send them down to lower bracket. Fnatic just had to exist, if Fnatic wasn't there (like put Navi in their place, or any other team not previously mentioned) we would've gotten PRX vs EG in upper finals.
@@liamn2030but it is good this way. FNATIC the big bad bully, EG the upcoming shiny eyed contender, PRX the old time injured rival of the bully. Rival gets defeated by the up and comer, he smiles proudly, and wishes well for him to take on the final boss.
@@liamn2030 Yes. Its sad that FNC are the best team in the world right now. FNC beat both PRX and EG. They deserve to be in the upper and grand finals. Since EG and PRX lost, they have to go to go to the lower bracket. If the matching wasn't bad, we would have gotten PRX vs EG and DRX vs LOUD in round one instead. Also NAVI didn't even deserve to be in Masters playoffs. They are so lucky its unbelievable. The only reason they made it to Tokyo was because FNC won Lock In and that is why EMEA had an extra slot. Even in LCQ, the EMEA bracket is a joke, especially when compared to the Americas bracket which has many teams stronger than Navi like C9, Furia, SEN, 100T etc. All of those teams deserve to be at champs more than NAVI, but NAVI will make it there because of the remaining teams which will compete in EMEA LCQ are not that good. While Americas LCQ is going to be a war to get to champs. Pacific will be not be as competitive as Americas, but still harder than EMEA. I wish they merged all 3 regions for LCQ and got the 3 overall best teams to champs.
@@yashtandon7460 americas has a lot of 7-8/10 teams and pacific has 2 8/10 teams and alot of trash and then emea has like 8 trash teams, one 7/10 and then that fucking monster
CGRS : "I am just a content creator... I can't do this again and again" PRX : "Yeah... make a good video titled 'Content creator destroying pro' by clutching left and right"
Jinng is basically their duelist, initiator, controller and sentinel. He initiates every fight, controls the map area and cut off rotation from spawn (Sentinel) even on attack
-All of that is just basically "taking a space" which every duelist no. 1 job in every match. Jinggg push in to their spawn and killed them is basically that. - He didn't initiate every fight , most of the time he just basically entrying as a follow up of Davai/CGRS's flash & info who are their actual initiator. - Mindfreak and CGRS made the most of cutting up rotation a d map area controll as their smokes and sentinels . - Forsaken is their flex player and fits your statement here as he play smokes , sentinel and duelist all in this series alone. Look i love Jinggg but he just play as he's designed to as a duelist and he did pretty good job. Saying he's basically every role is overreaching and made anyone who said that didn't watch the series or didn't understand the basic findemental of the game.
PRX vs NRG was the perfect example of Aggressive vs Passive. Aim vs Brains. But PRX was playing with a sub who had finally gotten his flow of things after a few games and had gained some confidence in himself. Honestly, I’m a massive PRX fan, but even I didn’t think they’d get this far with a sub. Truly amazed and blown away.
I think it’s worth noting that ardis with the op was basically useless most of the time. The habor cascades and double flash from skye and gekko were too good. As I saw it, whenever nrg had an op, they were basically only running 4 players.
Ardiis with the OP on A was alright decision. The grave mistake was not putting Victor as Raze on A defense. Putting him in Hookah trapped him in that position, whereas if he just played the TP from A he could easily defend both points and help whoever is getting pushed Hookah. This happened for multiple rounds and I'm surprised FNS didn't make changes.
PRX probably got great practice countering an OP in their game vs EDG and kangkang, arguably the GOAT op player. Compared to KK, ardiis' op'ing is just mediocre.
Ardiis with or without op Is pretty useless they really need a better duelist with good fire power, he has almost 0 impact even tho the team set him up for so many plays
Op is fine howver i think Chamber is the problem. Ardis' positions are very passive, i.e. oping on heaven, triple, where he was always blocked off by Harbor's walls. If he was jett, he can take more aggressive takes.
paper rex feels like the team who doesnt play to win they just play for fun and do the most goofy ah strats you will ever see just for fun and somehow it kinda works
i have a feeling that when PRX is making a strat they didn't include jinggg because jinggg is playing an entirely different game. His role is playing freely and pushing enemy spawn🤣🤣 Alecks is cooking strat for 4 players
You can see from the mic checks vid against DRX finals that he dgaf 😂. Something made the call for him to clear Bind u-hall, but after they killed one person around that area (iirc) he just satchels all the way to backsite and push their own CT smoke to catch rotates off guard.
The chamber pick was bizarre. In many rounds Ardiss was just absent from the fight. Chamber's util didn't help stall any push, hold any angle, heck it didn't even give enough info. A second duelist or even his KJ would have been so much help.
KJ wouldn't have been better tbh, given how explosive their utlity is and even if the Molly denies plant briefly, using Wingman to plant means they don't have get chip damage or are out of position. They just got countered hard. Sage may have been better with her slow utility but even then I don't know if it would've mattered lol
I noticed the way forsaken play Harbor is a bit unique and aggressive. his cove placement is mostly offensive pair with his cracked aim is just soo fun to watch
That guy is living the fantasy of all players of being chosen in the direst moment to be a sub for their favourite team. It is obviously impossible, nobody could do it, and why would that happen? Unless SOMETHING were not to happen.
i swear at 5-8, their comms were prolly jing: whats the plan guys CGRS: we rush b til we make them tech pause davai and forsaken: lmao anjayy mindfreak: ............
CGRS is the true utility king. Slayer of joy, god among men. but forreal tho, he did his damned hardest to fill the gaps that 'something' left and his efforts was rewarded. wp PRX wp CGRS
@@woahbiethey will have more plan to play in everymap they really lost eg bc they didnt have a plan for everymap they only have some real plan for bind or other map i didnt remember but yea they only have 1 map with confident that they gonna win i can say if they have more time to pratice eg lost it for sure or if they play bo3 prx alredy win it
Honestly, even if Fnatic wins the whole tourney (Highly likely to win), all the regions will be pretty happy with that, EG going from being called the worst team in the world to pushing Fnatic to their limits on the last two maps, PRX getting Top 3 with a Content Creator Sub, and Fnatic just being Fnatic is just amazing.
i feel like FNS' sometimes just doesn't compute when people do suboptimal stuff and get away with it. Like, he is correct, that 5 man hookah exec into a strong side should never work, but if it does, well, tough luck. Also funny how they abused the Chamber pick perfectly; Chamber on Bind gets value from shutting down the extremities, so the just didn't go there
PRX CGRS content creator with lot of pro play games (pubg, dead by daylight, apex, csgo and just started valorant as sub) btw prx didn't sign him as 6th man or whatever in pro league. they sign him for content idea, most of recently prx vids are from his opinion and ideas. imagine practice 10 days with team and performed againts top of the world who considered as one of the best team in the world (DRX/NRG and EDG who beats LOUD).
5:42 I think it’s cause pros are used to people playing the “correct” way or the optimal way so when someone does something objectively sup-optimal, it catches them off guard
yep absolutely agree, FNS thinks how to play correctly while other's don't give a sh8t about it, they jst wanted to play in the pace they wanted to and that makes FNS to overthink himself thinking "there's no way they will gonna hit B on the same strat" but surprise surprise! haha
I am honestly very surprised with NRG’s decision to move off of the Harbor Viper combo on this map, which they have been consistently good on. Especially at this stage of the tournament, Ardiis to Chamber I understand, he hadn’t been performing super well on Sage, but S0m was consistently performing on Harbor and they had some great team utility sets on Attack, particularly towards A, and this comp switch just removed a lot of that.
Tehy just werent prepared for rush B. you can see they did have a setup in defense that just isnt working. the tempo of prx was too fast that they couldnt adjust in time
I wish they magnified the minimap during broadcast, I also watch a lot of the game on the minimap when there's no fighting. I'm not talking about changing the size in-game, but for the spectators, as a bigger and easier to understand minimap would improve viewer experience.
Would be awesome, but I think something stated on twitter that he's 100% not gonna make it to Tokyo for this event. Honestly a shame since that would have been crazy.
I swear that missed lineups. At first i thought it was a mistake. But then i kept seeing it on the next rounds. And i wad like “what kind of one way was that? “
Now we still have teams from each region, PRX from Pacific, EG from Americas, and FNC from EMEA🤩 I hope PRX can beat EG because I want to see FNC vs PRX again🔥
fckin love prx playstyle man, The first vid in this channel that i watch prx was when they trashed the guard back when they are deemed as the savior of Na lol. At that time the pace that prx brings to the game was too much for them and always left them baffled on how fast prx was, now its still the same same story, na team getting shaken by the pace of prx and prx knowing when to be aggressive and when to play smart gg.
5:00 ppl pushing smokes with no util is not just a bronce thing. for some reason, in my asc/immo lobbies ppl start doing this all the time. this can be good to surprise your enemies, but won't work very often in higher elo where you'll get punished for that. there are exceptionse but it's more like a 1/10 chance of gaining an advantage (if you r not smurfing)
Well CGRS has a lot of Experience from playing competitive CSGO, Pubg and what not before he turned full time streamer... I'm not defending NRG here... But CGRS is not a complete competitive ameture by any sense... Don't berate NRG like that, saying they lost to a streamer lol... Just my thoughts though
I doubt that at 7:08 Forsaken Missed his cove 3-4 time in a row lmao, its a mindgames he learn from Liquid Nats a few days ago when Forsaken and Nats played rank in JP server together and nats teach forsaken about a 200IQ misplaced smoke/cove to confused their enemy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pZR-jFXYyvQ.html
In hindsight the vipers pit down B long seems a bit weird considering theyd been spamming hookah all half. Maybe shouldve gone for a pit in hookah instead even if its technically a little worse
@@n1nfy lmfao true!! and PRX be like u surely know if u block long we would still haven't any issue lmao we will bombard our way out of hookah and let u explore your pit
NA play more pre planned way...like -the meta comp, best alt , best map to spray and pray cheese whole VCT tournament(pearl)-thats not his fault.he is just a meta hogg
cgrs might not have been a sub, but a secret weapon for prx srsly, if something were to play, i felt like they will be read repeatedly and get counterstrated. cool that with cgrs, there's a difference with composition and probably ways of doing things. though either way, it's the prx we know and love, ensuing chaos and w gaming.
CGRS sure is surprise element from PRX. but Something is in another level, don't know you watch PRX vid or not, but something always giving a great impact to team by making team not to overheating also he often make some good call for the team, also forsaken in flex >> forsaken in duelist
Not much changed, at least on bind with prx. Cgrs is playing gekko because it's flash needs breaking, similar to reyna, which something played on bind and ascent. Their fracture, split, lotus and pearl look dodgy where they actually change reyna(which something played) to a comp change or straight cgrs replacement.
If you knew anything at all about the pro FPS scene, you would know that he isn't just a steamer, he played professional CSGO for many years before this.
@@ThinkingMansValorantah we thai proud of him first step for our cig god 🎉🎉 i used to watch apex legend cgrs and his teammate 3 person vs 27 thailand player
could you rethink the title? he was SIGNED as a substitute. as a 6th man. as a PRO PLAYER, NOT a content creator. he IS a pro player, it's just that we don't know how he would perform
everyone was doubting prx this year, saying they fell off and that their playstyle no longer works. well clearly it still does except against fnc i guess
Let's be honest here, no one expected PRX to defeat NRG or EDG"EDG defeat LOUD" but they did...cus PRX gameplay make opponent to force mistakes...it is not a fluke and if they diid the same to EG they might have a shot at this.
i just think of this, well, the probability of forsaken just missing his line up is like 95%, but maybe he does not miss the line up, or rather it work well with their plan, because jing is flying through spawn, and if the cove is up in the sky, enemy cannot shoot jingg while his is flying, and provide some protection from spawn, and if the enemy isnt where jingg predicted, his raze is skilled enough to turn around mid air
@@bigmegas well yes and no, I doubt that jinggg satchel through until the cove because the cove was so high and if he satchels that high, he's not going to go far. It probably just caught the NRG players offguard though
I dont know man, people (including PRX players themself) thought PRX gonna lost again DRX and be the first team got eliminated. but here they are now on the top 3.
Would be lit if they beat EG with a sub but in honesty, i prefer EG-FNC rematch so we dont have a boring Grand Finals. PRX can't beat FNC without their VCT Pacific MVP to stand a chance otherwise they gonna get sweep. Whatever the case maybe, still gonna give major props to PRX secured Top 3 in the World with a sub player. Already big achievement in their books
as big of a prx fan myself, i have to agree here. Im already very happy for them making top 3 with a sub this tournament, surpassing expectations. i dont mind if they lose to EG, EG looks insane with their form rn. And i dont wanna see a grand finals with fnc straight up destroying prx. The EG FNC series was way closer and i hope to see the same thing in the grand finals
Coz he is the IGL in split map need to do much thing when you are the IGL , forsaken said it in post match vs drx conference, idk if what he said is tru tho lmao
true, the fact that he's prx sub, playing 4 games striaght, and being the crucial part of the team. He IS a pro-player. If anyone not agree, come and fight with me 🤛
ur predict about PRX absolutely false. first will lose in the upper bracket against DRX and now against NRG it will also lose in the lower bracket which in fact it is not 😂
I feel like nrg just forgot ppaper rex plays like this. idk why but I dont think they were doing strats like this with something. This is like old W gaming paper rex before the other teams started countering it.
just makes you think how bad were the role issues for prx that they would rather have a content creator who only played in tier 3 valorant before rather than Benkai...
i seen from interview that they have some role issues with benkai and they had been prep cgrs with gekko for a long time act. Dont worry, Alecks said that benkai is currently learning new agents to diversify the roster.
relax man even ceo prx call him "content creator" and his fans doest mad.and reporter always make news for click what make more interesting streamer or ex pro cs/pubg/ow man hes collecting battlepass in liquipedia i know he good.
