The Greatest Rivalry in Valorant History

[@Voltrick]

It’s such a shame that the Loud and Optic rosters split to different rosters , this rivalry was hands down one of the best in Valorant LAN history.

[@csblucas]

last major I believe LOUD only lose to Optic and Optic only lost to LOUD , both beat each other in finals with both teams being 1-1 in VCT finals🔥

[@headesthoncho]

@@csblucas optic looked the best for a long time but loud proved who was the best by winning the biggest and most important valorant tournament

[@uresfffff222]

@@headesthoncho bro this isnt csgo where major is biggest and most competent event

[@MebiManga]

@@uresfffff222 It is the biggest - LCQ winners were added to the list of teams for Champs compared to the Masters tournaments. I would argue it is also the most important in the sense that much more effort is put into the event - the game has a special bundle and a theme song for the event itself - and the trophy for winning is definitely better than the Masters ones. Heck, it's called Champions and not Masters for a reason.

[@EbtisamEnan]

New tales are gonna be made from here

[@yandhi2k]

It's funny that there's a clip of Sacy watching a play from aspas at a time that everyone accused aspas of cheating (obviously he's clean) and Sacy was in VKS. Sacy said: - Either this guy is hacking or is the best player in the world

[@CommendYT]

I didn't even know that haha that's great

[@yandhi2k]

@@CommendYT I know it's in portuguese but I found it kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGqUl5WVaKljprM

[@gabriela.mendes223]

@@CommendYT That's true, this story is famous here in Brazil. So much so that when sacy and saadhak set up the new team, aspas was the first to be called

[@viniciusrangel544]

sacy it self give to aspas a new mouse and watch him play behind aspas with this new mouse to make sure he wasn't cheat, and he wasn't indeed.

[@madlinksaga]

A few trivia about Loud: - Sacy is a former League of Legends pro (even won the local championship). Saadhack came from Paladins. Pancada came from Crossfire. Aspas came from CS:GO. Valorant is Less first professional game. - After champions 2021, Sacy and Saadhack wanted to create a roster capable of winning champions 2022. That's where "Pancada e Amigos" (Pancada and Friends) came from. They negotiated with a lot of orgs but Loud was the only one willing to sign the whole roster. - Onur (Kru's coach in 2021 and Leviathan's in 2022) was supposed to be their coach. That didn't work as Onur was forbidden to enter Brazil after refusing to be vaccinated for Covid. - Aspas was accused of hacking back in CS:GO (there is a whole drama around that) and Sacy even probed him before entering the roster. Afterwards everyone understood that the cheating situation was all BS and he was just that good. - Less was Onur's recomendation. - They didn't expect to get that far in Reykjavik. That masters was supposed to be an opportunity to gather experience (mainly for the younger players). - Loud's first loss was at Reykjavik grand finals. - Between masters Reykjavik and the next step of vct, they barely had any time to prepare for Copenhagen. They didn't really have many strategies (most of them were well known from Reykjavik) and they were struggling with the mental pressure. - Loud tought they had a pretty decent Pearl at Champions but after being beaten by Optic in Group Stage they realized that the map had to become their permaban. The issue was that Haven was their permaban at that time, so they made a last minute effort to improve their Haven basing most of it on Leviathan's. Afterwards they beat both Leviathan and DRX who were known to have pretty strong (arguably the best) Havens in the tournament. - Loud always had bad pistol rounds. They improved that for Champions with help from fRoD (a legend from NA's CS and an old friend of BzkA, Loud's ex-coach). - They had the strongest Ascent in the world (by numbers) with 95% winrate.

[@kelsanglhundup8465]

@@agldatabase all superheroes don’t need cape

[@aton.3574]

"basing most of it on Leviathan's" fun fact: Sacy literally told he COPIED all leviathan strategies, they didn't have time to adapt so they just got a strategy used it and adapted mid-round lol

[@xsethy7728]

Also after losing the Masters, Sacy was asked by the owner of Loud, Playhard if they weren't frustrated with leaving the championship second place, so Sacy calmly replied "Hey PH, we are sad, yes, we wanted to win of course. But relax man, the project is to win the Champions"

[@caiosantana6889]

you should add that saadhaks mom passed away during a tournament when he was playing in team vikings, and he dedicated the champions win to her also that Sacy was told by different fonts that Pancada was a difficult player to deal with, basically he had very bad feedback, so the first conversation he had with pancada was something like "do what is told or well kick you out the team"

[@seano1194]

before the reykjavik grand finals, loud were 21-1 on defense rounds on ascent

[@Kaploy8]

Another sadder bit of trivia that I don't see being mentioned often: During Champions 2021, Saadhak's mother passed away while he was in Berlin playing for Team Vikings. After their championship win in 2022, he dedicated his win to her.

[@oranzbowl]

the fact that the 2 arguably best rosters in the world split up is crazy..

[@Rafael-pc3kc]

Money diff

[@abdul7462]

@@Rafael-pc3kc optic and envy had money, riot just dont like optic for what happened with league

[@hollow7285]

Sacy left Loud becuz he is now married and Loud isn't that rich (actually it is but Jean and PH, loud's owners are both cheapskates) and Sacy wanted a house to live with his wife and now he earn $40.000 dollar/month to it But Pancada made his worst decision in his carreer, from being the best player of the Champions and win it to moving to a America team who talks a language that he don't dominates and being smashed by fnatic.

[@darkdesge]

@@hollow7285 smashed by fnatic, tsm, the guard

[@juandavidrodriguezahumada1530]

@@hollow7285 he went to the team who talked shit about BR region

[@trutaboladao]

as a brazilian i had to say that i love the respect that both teams have each other, never underrating. Especially the declarations of yay about his rivals. Sorry my gamer english, im still learning😔

[@uwu.cynostic]

Don't apologize for your English bro; it's near spot on.

[@spencergrout6320]

very good english my friend!

[@weeeeeeee9498]

NEW rivalry has already emerged NRG vs LOUD it is 18-16 Ot final match at VCT 23

[@feliperoadtoglory25]

Arguably the best map i ever seen on valorant and for sure the best fracture

[@someadcstuff7670]

i hope that rivalry continues. I feel like Riot has no idea how to foment and keep this kind of hype tho

[@NunuMidLane]

@@feliperoadtoglory25 just before DRX x FPX ascent

[@feliperoadtoglory25]

@@NunuMidLane idk, i think yes if this map was ended after Ardiis clutch. Idk, for me Loud game was better cause im brazilian but i watch this ascent and yes, was arguably better (srry for bad english)

[@NunuMidLane]

​@@feliperoadtoglory25 primeiro olha meu nome, segundo que como o mapa acabou depois do clutch dele sendo que a DRX ganhou? 💀

[@rpolicarpo19]

Now VCT Lock In NRG X LOUD was one of the most exciting valorant matches we've ever seen

[@lucasxrey]

yes it loke like a grandfinal

[@mylizardprotectsmefrombugs2568]

Fr !! It was sooo exciting. Both teams were fighting. No one was giving up ! Crashies is a real god. Lot of fuckups from som and fns..fns still fragged but fucked up with the angle in fracture

[@tiagooliveiragouveia8740]

great video, as a brazilian I am very happy to see this rivalry being recognized by others

[@CommendYT]

So glad I'm reaching a Brazilian audience, I love the passion you guys have for esports!

[@twisty3613]

@@CommendYT Hey commend, I'm a viewer from Pakistan! Much love and keep up the good work!

[@CommendYT]

Hope you guys enjoyed this one! I won't keep making them this long haha

[@Voltrick]

Keep up the work Commend 👍

[@impulse9968]

Nahh as long as its well researched, long form content is great👍

[@dukedp5227]

hi commend. love the vids. do you think a good video idea would be notorious bracket demons/huge upsets like kru vs. sentinels?

[@differentfrommyself]

Came here to say that the rivalry is fucking alive hahaha

[@angeliqall]

IT IS!!!

[@Henras05]

Yk, i think that is really good to mention that this first masters was the first international class championship that LOUD played together, and the first one off Aspas and Less.

[@birdsarentrealbro]

Insane that this video popped onto my timeline after watching NRG vs LLL in Brazil. Insane game, both teams deserved to win. I've always been a fan of the og Envy guys so I was sad to see em lose but Loud definitely deserved it.

[@thesimulator7]

Fr that was such an amazing game. I’m hoping that Loud win the whole tournament so the America’s league has 4 slots at Tokyo. I hope both NRG and Loud qualify so we can see more from both amazing teams. Also despite being new players to international LANs, I thought s0m from NRG and Cauanzin were both insane in this tournament.

[@vinijg]

Pancada e amigos was the greatest team we've seem in BR but they just dissapeared what a shame

[@madeofland1751]

hehe

[@jaozera99]

LOUD classificou fácil e agora falador? Cadê o "what a shame"?

[@vinijg]

@@jaozera99 r/woooosh

[@hollow7285]

@@jaozera99 que? ele ta elogiando o time e dizendo q é uma vergonha o time da loud ter se separado

[@jaozera99]

@@hollow7285 o time ficou melhor pô, vergonha pq?

[@Webdesigner_Alex]

Here in brazil we like OPTIC/NRG, but i feel sad for the high hate FNS received from our torcida

[@Sg190th]

The rivalry and love between both teams were amazing. The buyouts suck but oh well let's see how the new teams are. More interested in C9.

[@Algorithm62]

Loud saved Valorant in Istanbul by not letting NA win their first Champions🙏🏽

[@syuvamc2114]

NA was still better than EU or KR this year tho, they did very well

[@Algorithm62]

@@syuvamc2114 NA was only good enough to win the easiest tournament of the year meanwhile EU won the second hardest🤣 how is this even a debate

[@channelname2779]

@@syuvamc2114 did they win champs or not? This is the only question that matters

[@syuvamc2114]

@@Algorithm62 what? I'm talking about VCT, EU was 4# and NA was 2#

[@Algorithm62]

@@syuvamc2114 average placement of NA was 6.6 while for EU it was 6.0 soo

[@2121morais]

thanks for the amazing video man, very good editing and storytelling

[@jkahdjbek]

Well nrg vs loud was insane 🤧

[@Dark_CW]

pt-BR : Isso foi muito bem feito meu bom, Video muito massa e que faz uma recapitulação de uma rivalidade cravada na história do valorant mundial ! en : That was very well done my good! Very cool video that recaps a rivalry embedded in the history of world valorant!

[@IzabelaSSilva]

I loved this video so much and checked the channel... Can I recommend a video topic? I would love a video on Gambit/M3C and the era that was meant to be. If you're someone that follows EMEA, the story of the best team in 2021 crumbling down and 4x almost getting there this year is heartbreaking. And the most amazing thing is: they shaped what VALORANT's 2022 season would be more than any team, created a strategy standard that was ahead of its time. If it weren't for the war and it's consequences (that we will never 100% know what happened, but can assume: playing without support, without salaries etc) and had their mental put together, they would've dominated this year. Like Pujan said: "Most people forgot about them, but they're still one of the hardest to play against" A shame they're not together anymore, but can't wait for what 2023 will bring for them!

[@CommendYT]

Reading this comment brought back the Gambit era for me - this is a great video idea and I'll definitely make it at some point. nAts is probably my favourite player in Valorant so far, so I share your nostalgia for it! Thanks so much for the idea 🙏

[@IzabelaSSilva]

​@@CommendYT I will forever be a big M3C fan. Will never forget how I felt when Gambit won and how they lost Champs finals (let's be real, it was their title... Acend had no place being there). And this year, games like FNATIC vs M3C, that Split to me is the greatest map of all time, the match against Liquid on LCQ, their being 2-3 on VCT and almost qualifying on playoffs... It's a heartbreak, but a respectful one for their situation. One thing I didn't mention is how they shaped VALORANT sportsmanship and unity alongside amazing gameplay, in contrast to NA. If we have this peaceful Rivalry between LOUD and Optic, not too toxic and stuff, is because once the best team on the world decided to also be the kindest... Chronicle saying that Envy laughed at him picking Brim on Haven but that's the reason they won... I miss them so much

[@levy1851]

Best storyline in Valorant as of now Franchising really took away this rivalry Thank you for this well made video!

[@renato38o]

The last match NrG vs Laud was the best match in Valorant history

[@theyoungmd]

Your video gave me chills bro, keep up the good work!

[@sxadsafafsdasdewwfefws7983]

South America has always been a region with a lot of talent for E-sports, it just needed more investment and over time that has been changing and more and more people see E-sports in the region and this will make it a more dominant region in the panorama as seen in Valorant, CS:GO, Rocket League, Rainbow six among others.

[@syuvamc2114]

when did south america win in rocket league?

[@sxadsafafsdasdewwfefws7983]

@@syuvamc2114 Well, not yet but Furia in the last champion reached to semi-finals.

[@Hobojoe47]

For me 2022: LOUD > FPX > Optic 1 Masters tourney won by Optic is not enough to be the best team i’m sorry

[@Ayou_bb]

loud and fpx both won 1 tourney so .....

[@dhruvmonsta4422]

Loud and fpx also has won only one title but optic has consistently been placed in top 3 in every tourney so...

[@Joe-vq4lm]

IMO OpTic = LOUD > FPX, FPX didn’t make it to top 3 in champs

[@Watburnt]

what? loud and optic were both equal and all three won 1 tourney youre just biased

[@Hobojoe47]

@@Watburnt loud won 3 tourney, fpx won 2 and optic only won 1💀

[@OllieBR]

Great video! Incredible editing and story telling. You're really good at this, man. Keep up with the good work!

[@gtcrespo]

The streets won't forget Sacy's Ascent 1hp clutch in OT at the final, LEGENDARY match!! Incredible display of professionalism by both teams! Thanks for the video, what an awesome rivalry!

[@superblitz2274]

Easily the most amazing rivalry pre franchising ,exactly the same no. of matches won by each team and both beat each other once in major finals

[@Headeermusic]

Good job! But you'll have to upgrade that rivalry, with the best match ever in Valorant. hahaha LOUD x NRG in São Paulo. 😍

[@bhargavgandavarapu3617]

The greatest Rivalry In valorant Is FNATIC and LOUD

[@rlphjqn]

Bro your commentary is TOP TIER holy smokes I love videos like this! Keep up the good work bro you just earned yourself a subscriber 🔥💯

[@katl8825]

I still can’t believe Loud came out of a team called “pancada and friends” it’s like Optic coming from “FNS and friends” or Sentinels coming from “Tenz and friends”

[@3ukn717]

Bro i thought it was new video lol

[@BEANOSYT]

Same tf.

[@MebiManga]

This rivalry was the highlight for the first phase of VCT, as we move on to the next stage with franchising, let's see what other stories the players can craft in this narrative.

[@impulse9968]

Another great vid dude, keep it up ❤️

[@raviolimatt]

Now watching loud amd Nrg om São Paulo they are still the 2 greatest teams im valorant

[@guilhermeganiprauskas8670]

the rivalry still de same! On vct lockin são paulo the energy against nrg was incredible. The best day ever, GO LOUD

[@frixz.3]

Anyone gonna talk about the image showing nrg instead of optic?

[@OfficialKman5625]

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[@sk-asriel]

Nrg and Loud’s game in Lock//in was literally the best valorant game i’ve ever seen. The rivalry still lives

[@Jinx-iw6zb]

It's not the same without marved vs pancada

[@PieRules7]

optic won me over with their ability to stay calm and pull off the unthinkable (and of course, seemingly making it a requirement to lose the first map) but loud really deserved the win at Istanbul. Such amazing games for the grand final

[@a.w_.]

How can you watch fns and victor and come away with the conclusion that they’re staying calm 😂

[@PieRules7]

@@a.w_. heh… controlled fury

[@kupopuffs420]

@@a.w_. well, relative to our silver asses

[@GabrielNascimento-kp9gj]

Seeing that after Loud x NRG is much more crazy

[@sofainspector7598]

after today i dont think this video is correct (just nrg instead)

[@stimdad8312]

For me the loud optic rivalry will translate into a loud vs nrg + loud vs c9 + sen vs nrg + sen vs c9 . Too bad it will be 4 times less hype I think

[@Rin-kuzo]

The actual brotherhood they had was insane!! But its good that sacy,saddhak will meet OPTIC members as NRG.

[@yaxsuo]

5:54 nah, Marved just staring into your soul

[@Eliyahhs]

Now its NRG vs Loud in the Grand Final of 2023 VCT Americas

[@joseeduardoalves8690]

O jogo foi insano bro

[@anixben]

looking back at the reykjavik match and seeing both marved and pancada on Chamber is quite a sight to see. I completely forgot that OpTic had the same comp but across different players, and Loud just had a different agent comp altogether

[@DSKofe]

coming back after nrg v loud carrying the torch

[@Vykng]

that last match they played was hands down the best series ive watched

[@benjy9072]

OpTic not making franchising still to this day makes me so upset

[@duckffn6495]

I've had notifications on for the past month and every video has continued to be an absolute banger. Great job! Curious if you've had any channels before this, because great quality from the start is super impressive. Also, did you have any sort of video plan set out, or are you just coming up with ideas and making them as you go? Also small side note that's been bothering me: adding those tags to the description (loud sentinels tenz c9, ect) can actually get you a community guidelines strike I'm pretty sure. The way I've seen most bigger youtubers get around this is making it a slightly more logical jumble of words, so writing something along the lines of "Loud, Sentinels, and C9 all have all had some of the best moments of valorant roster franchising. Shroud, Tenz, and Zellsis have led the NA, APAC, and EMEA regions through iconic moments in the rivalry of valorant champions tour 2022." Just something I figured I'd mention, not really sure if it's actually a huge concern. Either way, excited to see future videos!

[@CommendYT]

Thanks so much for your kind words! I have had a few channels before this, but wasn't as invested in the topics of those as I am in Valorant esports. I'm mainly coming up with ideas on the fly, but as more people comment on videos with things they'd like to see, it gets easier to generate new videos. I hadn't seen the community guidelines thing, but I'll do that instead from now on - don't want to risk a strike!

[@gyd1714]

Now its tied again at 4-4

[@churrin02]

Well, that NRG vs LOUD was a banger of a match so the rivalry stills there

[@efranca1983]

as an brazillian I am really happy to see how much loud put brasil on the map for esports I know csgo has brazillian players like fallen,fnx and coldzera that won majors and other tournamnets but you dont usually see a full brazilian team dominate games like this

[@Swyrz]

Most underrated man alive i thought you had atleast 400k, subscribed instantly great video.

[@khoalinski]

This video is really well made ngl

[@bran5410]

Never again will there be another rivalry in valorant esports history like OpTic and LOUD

[@rafaelmayer4317]

Thank you for this amazing video, big hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@allanwilliansilva1478]

please legend in portugues

[@fernandorocha2590]

Great video man! I will def share to my brazilians friends, thank you and keep it up.

[@brokk8350]

bro put history in the title for a 3 year old scene

[@sycazz271]

2022 was the year of Drx the miracle run on valorant and on league

[@phm04]

amazing vid, loved the storytelling with this one

[@fliip4861]

One thing that most people forget about is that Pancada was a world class player in a less popular FPS called CrossFire, wich was pretty popular in Brazil during the late 2000s and early 2010s. He played in multiple international events while playing CF and even managed to finish 2nd in the 2019 CrossFire Stars tournament. That being said, really well made video, gj :)

[@leomdpaz]

Aspas > Yay

[@msmaam2040]

I didn't understand why a lot were glorifying optic until I saw them play against DRX. Experiencing this live, whilst not knowing much about their background, was something else. They kept facing each other at it was just revenge after revenge. Wished DRX made it but glad that Loud took the trophy. They definitely deserved it.

[@clemens7053]

funny marved and pancada on the same team

[@nicolasferraz579]

Are you planning on doing a part 2 talking about loud vs NRG greatest valorant match?

[@BEANOSYT]

You got me excited it thought I was a new video. 😢

[@enkels8330]

this video might be seen by either optic and loud players in the next generation, just to remember how lived a holywood script in valorant competitive scenario

[@CookiePire]

Beautiful video, thanks for your hard work

[@fish25290]

The fnatic and loud rivalry wasn’t even but one achieved higher peaks but the other consistently shut them down. (Idk if it can be considered a rivalry tho)

[@sleepking2565]

Fnatic just simply couldn’t figure out loud. Tbh it’s was simply disappointing

[@fish25290]

@@sleepking2565 yeah

[@marquinhodoido5]

coming back here after loud vs nrg insane match

[@anadino1233]

such a good video as always, love the music :]]]]]

[@alirezashahin2567]

oh but it was the same, my god that nrg vs loud!!!!

[@thvilan5667]

Great work brother. Keep it up. 🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@fallowz8880]

We win NRG, GO LOUD.

[@iammadman1852]

And now NRG go against LOUD tomorrow in Brazil

[@SniffersCreepers]

justice for yay

[@beneathradar]

no, the first reverse sweep in Valorant was NIP vs VK

[@genioestrelesurvivor]

É A LOUD MEU FILHO TEM NINGUEM PERDIDO NAO ESQUEÇA TUDO PAPAI

[@yenneetan5330]

13:57 reverse sweep has happened in the CIS region where NAVI were winning 2-0 in grand finals and fpx won 3-2 after

[@shawnbhesh4107]

Bro less is 17????

[@kingedits9724]

Yes

[@lucasncasabi4880]

HISTORY? THE GAME HAVE 2 YEARS

[@justinegutierrez486]

It says valorant history

[@Monoxrhome]

Paper rex and DRX >>>>

[@Pipoy_99]

Was so disappointed that optic didn't make it to franchising.

[@minelandy]

I liked this type of content. Could you bring more like this with the female league? One tip: You need to use the silent on your phrases. When telling an history, the great part is the entonation and silence. With entonation and silence, you can make a suspense, tragedy or even preparing a scenario to a wonderful ending. Make more content like this. This was really cool to watch, and I would like to see if there's more teams like gambit, or even the future champion of female champions(probably Liquid, C9 or G2)

[@akariishihara3137]

marved said he is not done competing, not sure if that really counts as retirement, but overall amazing video

[@D3L3T3]

The split of Optics is tragic. Terrible terrible terrible

[@suryaram1642]

Glad I found this channel,Nice content Keep It Up!

[@sidhantjasrotia7079]

Valorant history lol

[@danieltan9543]

Great vids dude super engaging

[@flipmonke]

13:58 the first reverse sweep in international* vct

[@kasperillas1444]

Nice vid! If u want some viewer opinion i think your profile pic is a bit boring and could use a remake.

[@ethannorth8914]

Anyone miss this?

[@Kodiah-]

I think a vandal 1 tap is more satisfying then an op kill

[@TzPae8055]

6:45 the pokemon black and white theme omg < 3

[@fastyzxn]

actually it is pokemon sun & moon red's theme lol

[@DAWNT0WN]

im a diehard optic / nrg fan and i fully respect loud, i even think that they're the best team right now. they're dominating NA and im really proud of them. even though i want nrg to win, i wouldnt even mind seeing loud win. plus aspas is such a player, scary guy

[@OfficialKman5625]

Which org do you like better NRG or OpTic?

[@DAWNT0WN]

@@OfficialKman5625 i prefer nrg as an org, but i prefer optic as a valorant roster

[@OfficialKman5625]

@@DAWNT0WN that’s fair. I personally fanboy more over NRG since NRG are my favorite org and I love all of their players. FNS and Ardiis are too funny together. If you seen the vid where pros react to new agent Deadlock, FiNESSE and Ardiis are too funny together

[@DAWNT0WN]

@@OfficialKman5625 yeah i saw that video, its really wholesome. i understand why u love nrg as a team, they have more bond and more wholesome moments together, though optic is a stronger team which is why i prefer them

[@OfficialKman5625]

@@DAWNT0WN I think Marved and Yay as a whole were better but Ardiis and s0m both look promising. They just need time. Hope they do better at Champs

[@fander6237]

Recently found your channel I’m enjoying it allot A good topic for a future video is KRü Vs Brazilian to my knowledge could possibly be wrong but KRÜ hasn’t lost to a Brazilian team ever

[@gabriela.mendes223]

That's true. Of the eight matches that kru had with Brazilian orgs (repeated or not), kru won all of them. The funny thing is that here in Brazil we usually support the latam orgs after the brazilian orgs but due to this fact, some brazilian fans started to feed an anger towards latam and mainly kru, but that should pass with the first victory.

[@l.lawliet4268]

@@gabriela.mendes223 Brazilians doesn't like just KRU because Keznit is a racist and he was on KRU a time ago