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Brooo, i just freaking hate this new schedule. Almost every team from Madrid Masters got no time to evolve or adapt and cook some new game plans, cause they got heavily anti strated, like this is so shit.

SEN have BY FAR the most vods on them so they're way more easier to read + counter strat. Plus no changes to the map pool and no meta shifting agents/patches also make it much more difficult.

Short answer, they barely had time after winning masters to come up with new things, be it strats, plays, ideas, team comps etc. While other teams that were eliminated had their eye on Sen, and had all the time and footage to review it. Most importantly is the time.

Honestly it wasn’t their fault that they lacked practice going into post masters matches

I think the schedule is way too tight, and so there isn't time for the top teams to cook, in the sense that there is not enough time for them to develop new strategies that can counter what counters the strategy that got them to the top. At the end of the day, Valorant, as a class based tactical shooter, has metas and strats that are a lot more random than your Counter Strike due to its nature with agents, so there will be agents that can hard counter other agent's ability and not just throw smokes, throw nades and shoot at the end of the day. Sentinels, being a top team that did really well, means everybody is wanting to strike them down, and learning their strategies that they used to win before they can make a new strategy to keep their opponents on their toes.

Its clear this is a scheduing problem. Kru being on top of the bracket with Sen on the bottom is absurd. GENG are losng games they shouldent, so are Loud, Sen, KC, Heritics, etc. All the masters teams got shafted

i thought this video is 4 months old and 300 views then i realized i need mfking sleep. not sleeping melting your brain -_-

The entire season is so confusing this time around, I just cba to do math to see who's making it to playoffs

this is why i love prx, their playstyle is just different and they are probably the most consistent pro team.

If sen do make it to shanghai itll be great butt i still feel like theyll be fatigued and wont have enough game plans to win shanghai. I think its best for them to drop off for now try out some new shit and just breathe and prepare for stage 2 and get ready to take champions

If APAC wins their first ever international event then SEN would get in champs no doubt

the groups are honestly embarrassing the fact that all three qualifiers from one group could be 4-2 and a 6-0 potentially if kru is playing again i didnt check the schedule and the other could have 2-4 qualifiers if im remembering the standings correct is just wild

The scheduling of the tournaments are way too tight especially for those who participated in Masters. It's no surprise some of the teams who participated Masters are burned out and aren't doing ok. We've seen in the past years of Valorant Esports, there has never been a single Masters winner that won the next big tournament. The main issue is how tight the schedule has become since franchising happened so teams who didn't make it to the first Masters has the opportunity to watch the other teams play. Overall, I wouldn't mind if Sentinels missed out Shanghai. They have enough points to make it to Champions and they can use the mid season break to recover before Stage 2.

the crowd sound like when i miss the throw in WII sports bowling

This prevents from teams forming multi-year dynasties. In terms of professional competition, this is good. This will only force teams and players to get better and better.

as a sen fan. hopium dont work this time, they should take a break and practice new comp. they are read so easily.

jawgemo clip at the start never fails to make my mouth wide open

Well we have to wait for another 1029 days for another trophy I guess

Since the update I haven’t been able to boot up the game 😢

this vid, its too soon 😭

Lots of teams took advantage of the time they got off during the rest of Americas and we're seeing that in teams like Leviatan. Sentinels isn't a bad team, they just didn't have lots of time to practice especially with JohnQT being stuck in Morroco right before the 100T match. Them also being the Madrid winners gives teams more vods to review. I will admit though they're a pretty sporadic team and can accidentally throw when they shouldn't. But I don't think that's the main problem at hand.

Tbh I think it’s just rough stretch, even they they probably won’t be at Shanghai I think they’ll be fine

When did you hire professor akali?

the most egregious thing is the viper hard nerf. i get it, she is a strong agent but theres maps where shes actually necessary and teams have built comps around the viper controller a lot of times. breeze being the biggest instance of that but icebox also. yes harbor is a solution to an extent but vipers biggest strength was defensive premeditation of utility which is not something harbor can do. i can see teams like LOUD suffering the most from this as Less pretty much has been viper only for the past few months.

And PRX being PRX always same

To be honest. With valorant devs constantly updating mid season is exhausting for the players. New updates means new strategies, new strategies basically means more work. Like tenz says, it's impossible to to have a run or dynasty for an ever changing game like valorant.

Hope they can bounce back

No Lips as always forgetting to mention Loud consistency. Amazing

thats a strange spot for a door handle

The most Sentinels thing to do would be to miss masters, sign new talent, barely make next masters w/ miraculous play-in performance, get to finals and win again.

valorant crowd sounds like wii sports spectators

I honestly contemplating with that take, that riot should stop treat their game like is league, but if they don't balance agent it could impact to the audience. Because the same comp being used again and again could bored the audience. And whatever Sentinel has to say, a lose is a lose. But, in a game like this, where every info is a crucial, you also can't deny that a lack of practice is also take a part to their loses. And adapting ingame is not that easy, if every teams only have one strat, sure it might be easy to adapt in under 25 rounds, but that is not the case. This Top tier teams have different variations for every site. Sometimes the other team just have a good day, thats it.

two things I wanna point out: 1)Valorant is really really diffferent because each round due to the abilities and so on can be very random and hence consistency doesn't exist. 2)Exhaustion is not a reason to start losing so bad after just winning like 1 big event and 1 Mid event. For example in CS2 the current best team FaZe(I am a FaZe CS2 fan) in every single lan event which they have attended they have made it to the finals of each one (8 lans so far. grand finals in each of them, won 4 lost 4) and FaZe have made lower bracket runs in a lot of them but still they keep reaching the grand finals time and time again so that's consistency which the Valorant teams don't have. OFC maybe the format is trash and the game itself is like that but there's no excuse to lose that bad as sentinels are right now.

why does the lighting change at 5:52? :D

5:53 LATAM ON TOP :')

In valo I feel as if we call teams the best in the world too easily! I do not think one tournament makes you best team in the world! I do not deny them being great, but you have to put together multiple tournaments and duration to be the best imo! I feel as if we do it with individual players calling them best in world or the goat after one good tournament too! I cannot say anything about best teams or best players though since I am a liquid fan for all of their teams for longer than I can remember and have all of their jerseys but still haha

G2 PLEASE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY 😭🙏

"what's going on with sentinels?" Precedes to ramble about EG for the first quarter of the video.

Holy shit nothing will make valorant pro scene happy.

5:05 what monitor arm is this?

They already proved they can win, what they need is to prove they can contend consistently, same with before.

I DO BELIEVE SEN IS JUST TAKING A BREAK AND DO NOT CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT MASTER . THEY ARE PREPPING THEMSELVES FOR THE CHAMPIONS.

I won half a paycheck off that eg v nrg match

I'm pretty sure some pros complained last year because the schedule was too tight... Just for this year to make even more fucking tight. Good job Riot

I’m gonna be honest format/schedule and little practice or preparation for team after Madrid is sht. Riot seems to not give a damn and also making players feel like sht because not enough time to practice.

This comment section is the most peaceful/rational about the SEN situation I've seen. Others I usually see with top comments are, "SEN fans can't cry about not having enough time to adapt to avoid being counter-stratted because other teams have experienced this before and done way better!" That or, "Cope harder, 'insert Valorant Pro name' plays better than the entire SEN team."

Honestly, I knew that Sentinels would go down, but not because they became bad, but because the other teams would have caught up. However, unlike before that teams caught up because Sentinels didn't practice, teams will now catch up because they've built superteams. Superteams take time to build chemistry, and that is obviously the case with LEV and NRG and the others. If Sentinels would like to catch up again, they would have to work hard again. They were just ahead of the curve back then because they were amongst teams who reshuffled their players.

Good vid... But your shirt looks wrong side out with them seams.

Its not only Sentinels, Its practically every single team who has gone to Madrid and Zellsis really said the truth abt this thing. They havent got enough time...Give our bois some time to prep. This schedule is kinda coooked ngl

Yeah… it’s CSGOver for SEN.

pancada diff huh

But the Casters always says "WE live in SEN Era"

Tenz couldn’t play clove 😢

0:38 bro forgot Engh existed

Last performance was a fluke. Not a single team was playing as well as before.

Everyone have excuses for Sentinels, but forgot about Fnatic last year. They won EMEA, won Brazil against prime LOUD, went 2nd in EMEA, won Japan against prime EG, qualified for Champs, and still got in top 4 in Champs, all in 1 year. Now Sentinels can't even get to play off, let alone qualified for Shanghai. If you want to be on top of the world, you can't have excuses for your losses. I think Sentinels lacks the wow factor, like Aspas or Narrate, someone who can make opponents shit their pants just by hearing the name. None of Sentinels players got to top 5 Rating in Madrid. They look good as a whole team tho, but you need more than that to stay on top for a long time.

eg's on a gambit run, sen have more time than anyone else to practice should they not make playoffs, and nrg are getting stomped into the dirt honestly im happy for vct rn

Whats the need of such a long off season?? Use it to give larger gaps!

see you in 2 years sentinels

Man fuck the new format. In vct pacific we got t1 barely qualifying for playoffs while going 2-4 and RRQ missing out playoffs while going 3-2. This seems balanced I guess?

It's nice to see an actually peaceful comment section about Sen for a change

All sen fans like this and breathe in the hopium

Sentinels are good without a doubt, its just the fact that their honeymoon phase is over now. On top of that too, Sentinels have played the most matches/maps out of everyone in VCT, meaning they're at more of a disadvantage for counter strating. Yeah SEN won Madrid but at the same time, but you gotta keep in mind they're playing with a massive disadvantage and who knows how many strats they have left.

Not a huge fan of sentinels but I agree that SEN play a lot of pro matches which make their opponent has a lot of material to study their strat and position. Everything sen got had bring out to table so the struggle to make to playoff is normal. But if sen is not cooking in next vct event then there is no more excuses.

Americas is a warzone. Every damn team is strong as fvck.

video about kru please

bro ngl cs's schedule is way more packed

04:05 it works for one of the big 3 e-sports in the world, dota2, I think Valorant will be okay.. lol :P

Is it me or does he look like Clark Kent

tenz wife has cancer relax its stressful for him

I mean genG still secured 1st seed in there group right? And they played as many official matches as sen did

i blame the format

dont sleep on EG, they got supa and derek

loud eg and lev were just the better teams that day tbh

Nothing happened. Na is a top tier region in this game. End of story. I wouldn’t be surprised if we send different teams to every single national event. It’s just like that

Plus dude there so much anti strat that team have on them

I swear valorant trend pro players change every month 😂

I want SEN to lose out on Shanghai, take rest, grind and dominate everyone in Champions

Just imagine the monstrous GENG got defeated in APAC thrice and one of them is RRQ, A FRICKING NOBODY. There's indeed something wrong.

Honestly the format is just ass, it shouldn't be so complicated as this and winning Masters just doesnt seem worth it if you can't get a definite spot for Champions. It would be fair to at least make it so that you can get to play ins after winning Masters no?

This will sound like a major cope, but i hope SEN trolls the furia game so they lose any chance for playoff, get their deserved rest and get ready for stage 2 and champs. Let's be honest their odds for playoffs are the same as 2023 and fun fact the deciding factor also involves Furia again!

Bad format, this split loud had a 2-3 run, geng had a 3-3 run, g2 were only better than sen by 3 rounds. 3-3 run for sen should have been enough to qualify

Stop making excuses, they are just playing bad and thats all there is to it

Meta shifts sucks, overnerfed characters sucks, new characters sucks, map pools sucks, skin prices sucks, range map outdated, smurfs sucks, valorant is a perfect example of the worst possible game for tactical 5v5 shooter... Heavily shows us game devs how to not to make a 5v5 shooter

The format bro, is just fucking dogshit, if a valorant calendar could have: KICKOFF Masters 1 Split 1 Masters 2 Split 2 Masters 3 LCQ Champions and both splits have an 8 week round robin and 2 weeks playoffs, the VCT could be just perfect, but once again, Riot can't have a long-ass calendar like this anymore mainly because the length of a calendar like this could overlap with League events, Worlds included, and that's just too much for riot to handle.

we all know the real reason is their individual ego, im not a hater of sen btw*

What is bro yapping best team rn is leviathan the gifted that win to c9

EG Cooking??? Where??

4:26 stopped watching after this.

i mean they won some tourneys this year already. let them cook some strats during shanghai for champions. Sen fans, yall need to stop putting so much pressure on your own team. look what happen to em after reykjavik. calm down n go support another team for a bit.

no time to make new strats yet iron randoms are acting tough

Sentinels fanbase try not to cope challenge:impossible

this sentinels shit has nothing toi do with valorant and everything to do with members content schedule

if your win masters champion you get free pass to next tournaments how can you not include champions in the next tournament. It’s like kick boxer needs to clime back up after becoming the champion. That’s why esport never will lift off the rules are Stupid way it function is stupid people not making it with there visums is the worse riot games need to ask country free travel visum for all there participants

a lost is a lost, get over it.

All the people saying that SEN didnt have time to make strats are coping. They had 3 weeks to make strats while playing. The only loss that is excusable is the LEV one. Saving strats vs FURIA and mibr (who look kinda ass, sorry artzin) and then playing against EG (who didnt look ass) and still trying to save strats after the first map lost them the game and everything afterward. Completly their fault.

Ohh another Valorant news video. Imagine if u had more esports in the world except for LoL, cs2 and Valorant :o what a great world it would be

valo devs on riot are actually snorting crap through their nostrils atp PLUS league is higher prio than valo so the entire season is squeezed to start aft league regular season and end before worlds. its so sad considering how they wanna release new games but keep (forgive lack of a better word) CUCKING THEM.

Go back to strangers

LATAM is just too good.