The FINAL WEEK of VCT Stage 1 - Plat Chat VALORANT Ep. 176 

I'm really loving Steven Liggy as a regular on plat chat especially because he is the one person that watches everything

Ah yes. Sean “Kurt pull this clip up” Gares

clint "never swallows" paperthin

Plat Chat Demonetizing Moment of the Stream Timer (Episode 176): 5:20 (NEW RECORD for closest call) (Paperthin real sus at 4:58) *SUCCESS* Record for 2024: 6-11 (.353) (Thank you for all you do Kurt!) Culprit - Kurt (Successes will NOT be posted on the leaderboard) Leaderboard: 1. Bren (3) 2. Balla (2) 3. Kurt (1) 4. mCe (1) 5. Mimi (1) 6. Sean Gares (1) 7. Sideshow (1) 8. Wyatt (1) HM: 3D Gooning (1) (F, gone but never forgotten)

WE WANT STEVEN LIGGY ON PLAT CHAT EVERY EPISODE MY GOAT

4 HOURS OF PLATCHAT MY PANTS CANNOT BE MORE SOILED

Sometimes Ill get cocky and be like "I know quite a bit about strats and pro play valorant" and then I'll watch sliggy live breakdown how a random pistol strat is a revamp of a specific coaches strat from CS in 2017. And I give up all hope while Stephen liggy exists, his brain is too big

I dont understand how sliggy can be so dry yet so funny at the same time💀 Is this like a british person thing?

the funniest thing sliggy does is when platchat hits a gurantee he tries to get bren to change a pred. like consistently. he just wants the curse to be broken, but doesn't want to be wrong.

so cool to see kaquka on the pod!

Goated nearly 4 hour episode might be the episode of the year contender

I’m so glad that Sean agrees about the jawg clip being the greatest clip in valorant history. I felt that way as it was happening and have only felt stronger in that conviction everytime after I’ve watched it. It truly is so perfect in every way

sliggy is too funny oml we need him on every episode

3:25:06 another TMV rant on NRG (brainrot adhd version)

sliggy is actually so funny I'm loving him on more platchats

The only person who carries plat chat more than Sliggy is KURT, THANK YOU KURT!

Im glad that sliggy and Sean were here to glaze Kru as they deserved recognizing the hard things they do well, as it sometimes gets simplified as aggressiveness and good fundamentals/teamplay, and although that in itself isn't easy to accomplish there's a lot more than that to this teams success right now. Also love Sean's breakdown of rounds. Great episode as usual

Immaculate explanations of anti stratting with clips and stuff guys, particularly with Sean and sliggy going back and forth on kru and eg clips. Sick ep

4:55 I would never... 42:50 muted 1:06:36 The men are greasy 1:48:11 Sliggy French lore while Bren dies 2:13:25 Ive decided to ignore last week -Sliggy 3:18:14 Sus Mimi 2:27:30 Sean "SUS" Gares 2:32:35 Stiff 3:25:06 TMV

Mimi: Alleged foamer and FUT enjoyer

Sean's tea confirms a lot about what I always suspected about Ethan. The lack of self awareness he has as being the weakest IGL we've ever seen in valorant can only come from a fundamental unapreciation of the hard strategic work Potter, or on his previous team Steel and Frost do. NRG's attack rounds look like a ranked game of high level randoms, and WE KNOW that Victor, Crashies, and Marved know how to play valorant. But the calls from Ethan always seem to be "lets shift walk and hold angles hoping someone presents themselves to us." You have to be so naive to think calls like that will win games

The ending to group alpha in emea was actually CRAZY! The fact that any team could’ve topped the group and in hindsight Vitality or BBL probably should’ve pulled it off but they lost to both GiantX and KOI which led to them both finishing in last is wild. If Fnatic qualify for Shanghai they are SOO LUCKY that BBL and Vitality threw so hard. Genuinely the hypest region rn for all of the wrong reasons.

Mimi masterclass episode!

The first five minutes managed to be so unhinged without any swearing

On the topic heat and keznit being hotheaded, they've been friends for a long time now. They used to play CSGO together.

the episodes keep getting longer and im here for it!

SEN THREW SHANGHAI BECUASE THEY KNEW A VIPER CHANGE WAS COMING AND NOW THEY HAVE MORE TIME TO PREP. (copium)

The team that is owning their league (according to plat chat) PACIFIC-DRX (ELIMINATED) EMEA-BBL (ELIMINATED) AMERICA-KRU (just lost to Lev) Plat chat cursing teams once again

sliggy and mimi wohoo

wasn’t looking at my screen and thought wyatt was doing the intro 😭 spot on impression by mimi

cat in the car banger.

Btw Mimi is right about League MSI normally but MSI is starting to gain traction as its format has gotten better and better (now better than worlds lowk)

Actually longest plat chat ever

3:51:00 Never before has such amazing coaching staff been squandered on this bad of a team

steven liggy predicting NRG against 100t truly had me belly laughing

1:41:21 didn't go well xd unless BBL were saving strats for playoffs but damn purpo and hoody had one hell of a game

Congrats platchat you blessed the other team

2:09:52 bookmarking this cause u know gurantee Navi win

The schedule is just AWFUL period. I really do agree with KCs coach in that if you don't think you have an actual good chance at winning a master's event, its almost better to just go out early to prepare for the next stage/champs. Its stupid that there arent champs qualifying points based on how you place at champs to make the incentive higher.. OR better yet, don't have the schedule so ridiculously cramped. Im glad theres more valorant games overall than last year which felt so short, but idk why it cant be spread over the year better so that teams at least have like 3-4 weeks after a big major event to figure things out, especially if theres a big patch changing things. I also think they need to take some of the analysts and pros advice on the map pool, right now its just awful with how many post-plant heavy maps we have which definitely exacerbated the viper issue.. and honestly I just think sunset is a terrible map that just devolves into B site always being defenders smoke off choke and molly it while attackers spam thru the smokr and molly site. Its just a very boring map because 1 of its 2 sites is attacked the exact same way round after round I feel like platchat kinda underestimates strength of schedule sometimes.. like the big example in this episode is when talking about DRX, I think DRX looks reallllly good. But its so hard to know when theyve just been beating on shitty teams but they had no hesitation being all-in on DRX despite not really having been tested other than a close 3 map series against a super struggling gen.g. I think in a tac fps like valorant its easy to make your strats look genius if the teams youre playing are just bad and dont have tbe systems worked out against your style and just cant work it out on the fly. Sometimes too when a team runs thru teams for a while they get over confident and think their strats are perfect but then they face a tough team and everything comes crashing down bc they havent had to work things out on the fly in the current meta. But in general, it seems like every region theres a strog group and a weaker group. And thats really throwing things off and hard to reallt figure out how good these teams really are

God I love sliggy lmao

It's crazy how almost all of VALORANT's biggest problems can be solved by not having an ultra compressed schedule and half the entire year off of a sport.

What are the chances they rotate out a second map to put Haven back in, alongside the new map? I want Haven back

I heckin love Plat Chat.

The start of this episode is actually unhinged oh my god

Them talking about how good Mako is on viper just to see that viper just got obliterated is very funny

Honestly the mudfests in Valorant are so entertaining, like for example EG vs NRG was awful but the muddyness allows crazy hero plays

Is this the most unhinged beginning to an episode ever? I dont know but it has got to be up there

1:31:40 that's also wrong, I used to think this way "reactive" means things that do react to what happens in genral like a "reactive" chemical element, not the result of a reaction, or a specific reaction - "reactionary" has both the political meanings and another one, as used by Brenwhich you can check in the dictionary

Looking at the form frok the top teams in each region, leviathan or DRX might win shanghai

Damn, 2 mins short to reach 4 hrs o7

PLEASE DO THE EDIBLE EPISODE

Kaquka is stunning and so intelligent. Love her presence on the panel. Her voice makes me want to one tap.

4 hours?!?! Damn they cooked.

Just for the record, obviously if Lev win or 100T lose then Lev are locked. In order for 100T to take first, they need to win 2-0 and either Lev have to lose 0-2 or, if Lev lose 1-2, it goes to round diff, and Lev have +23 on 100T in current round diff. Lev are virtually locked as you probably expect them to at least win 1 map or at win enough rounds to not lose the advantage they have over 100T

It's almost like taking 7 months off of a sport every year reduces the quality of competition.

you guys should shoot longer episodes

2 more minutes😢

This episode is so fucking funny😭

I play a lot of viper because she is so strong. I think these nerfs will take her out of the game completely, at least in rank it will be pointless to pick her. Before that I was on skye. I may have to be a cypher now 😢

1:42:06 i mean it is a completely new style from DRX, it is a very un-DRX un-VS style

Steven "Those games aren't real they didn't happen" Liggy

dang did they jinx drx and kru

1:29:37 being 'capable' doesn't mean anything- the issue is capable and willing

It currently feels like the outcome of matches are random. That is imo a big problem for a competitive game.

57:48 well current american, in the past this was not korean valorant

Nrg were blowing out the worst teams, they literally faced no real opposition till leviathan and they got served the moment they did. Nrg have players but it doesn't matter when no one can put them all together or lead them

Can we have fns back as one of the NA guests for one of the future episodes pleaseeeee??????

Can anyone tell me what the Team Secret players said about Talon at kickoff? I’m curious but I get why Paperthin couldn’t say exactly what they said

Sliggy is lowkey hilarious

ISTG IF NAVI LOSE NOW

Mimi is the chaos we need

Give us more sliggyyyyyyyy

so many great sliggy jokes getting no laughs 😒🫣😦

where's match of the week TwT

BBL ended up losing plat chat curse activate

Sen will qualify by one round and win Shanghai

The randomness in vct this year has been so off putting, just effs up the watching quality

Sliggy and Mimi every episode forever

STEVEN LIGGY!!!!!!!

2:24:29 for NA

BBL platchat guaranteed

Can mimi pls get a real mic!!

wheres fnatic when it comes to simple valorant :(

Nais BBL Curse

Let Mimi cook the more podcast the better in my books

Get kaqua more often she has the numbers

i know you don't want the episodes to be long but please stop cutting the americas sections short 😞

I’m so pissed that Potter is in EG jail 😭 I love rooting for her but EG is such a trash org

next time can we have a permanent close up of kaquka she’s so pretty

Mimi my goat

MIMI WHAT THE FAWK 😂

Mimi talking about CS and not mentioning Kato or Cologne being at the same level of majors is crazy.

Bring back fns pleaase

how is it possible to fire half the people working at riot but not firing the people in charge of the formats ? The valorant competitions formats are an absolute shame

can we get Shaz on again PLEASE

I'd watch the fuck out of high plat chat. Use my comment as a petition.

TS WILL GO TO SHANGHAI

every time that girl starts talking I have to just skip ahead. so annoying.

2:06:50 Rip Vitality lol