1. The progress of Vietnamese representatives
Compared to the weak performance of Fearus and Cerberus Esports in Stage 2, both Ego, Team Big Baam and Cerberus Esports themselves showed a completely different face in the Stage 3 this time. The confidence, the thick bravery has been shown by the Vietnamese teams, especially Baam. Even, the army of coach Shouta also led Group C, thereby eliminating the defending champion X10 Esports.
Entering the first match at the Thang branch, Baam played horizontally and twice consecutively forced Tan Vuong Bren Esports to enter the Over-Time series. The match between Baam and BRN was also voted by experts as the most attractive match Sea Play-off this year. As for CES, the shine of Kishi or Daicalem will be an important premise for CES to reach out in the upcoming tournaments.
2. Advanced competitiveness
Compared to Stage 3, this year's Sea Play-off is extremely dramatic and the competition format is completely different. Accordingly, up to 16 teams from the top 7 areas in Southeast Asia participated in the group stage and there were 2 representatives of Vietnam that were followed by Ces and Baam. The increase in the number of participating teams of the Organizing Committee has blown a new wind into the SEA Play-off.
Specifically, the teams will be rubbed more, and there are more opportunities to correct mistakes than when they have to play in the formula of the victory – branch. On the other hand, a series of surprises have appeared, typically the X10 Esports scenario was eliminated from the group stage or the No. 1 representative of the Indonesian region, the Onic Esports also soon parted with the tournament.
3. The sublimation of the gunmen confront
Similar to League of Legends, Valorant is a shooting strategy game and needs to have a very good coordination of the members. Each position competing such as guards, starting, controlling or confrontation must maximize their role if they want to help the team win. However, this year Sea Play-off has the imprint of the confrontation gunmen.
There are many impressive players with agent Jett in hand, especially F0rsaken. The young talent born in 2004 braces the Paper Rex collective in the Boom Esports 2-0 victory. In addition, the other three names also played or equally with Jett: Johnolsen of Full Sense, Bersex of Alter Ego and Bren Esports DubStep, who will join with F0RSaken with the opportunity to try with the top superstars at Masters 3 in Berlin, Germany.
4. The spirit of eSports is noble
In the match between Alter Ego and Team Big Baam at the losing branch, a rare incident happened when AE could not continue playing due to the transmission line in Indonesia. Finally, one of the most interesting events Valorant Champions Tour 2021 has appeared. Accordingly, Boom Esports, another Indonesian team accepted to lend AE Gaming House.
More significantly, before that, Ae and Boom were two teams confronting each other in the Branch and both had actually become an ally. In addition, the representative of Vietnam, Baam, is also praised by the Southeast Asian Valorant community and Riot Games. Because Baam has accepted to wait for AE to overcome the problem and also show the noble eSports spirit in the first time in the regional arena.
5. The agents disappear from the meta
According to statistics from the organizers of the Sea Play-off, the 5 most chosen agents in the last tournament are Jett (134 selected, accounting for 80%), Sova (118 chosen times, accounting for 71%), KillJoy (110 times to choose, accounting for 67%), Astra (89 selected, accounting for 54%) and Skye (78 times to choose, accounting for 47%). It is not too difficult to understand when they are all agents that create great influence in matches and almost suitable for all maps.
In the opposite direction, Yoru continued to suffer a gloomy fate when he was not chosen at any time in this year's tournament, regardless of whether he was a confrontation agent capable of creating mutations. In addition, the new Kay/O agents are only selected 10 times, thereby showing that the teams may not be familiar with the way the team has a robot. The remaining names on the list selected at least Brimstone (9 times), Phoenix (15 times) and Reyna (21 times).
