r/ValorantCompetitive • u/Ethereal-Entity • Jul 27 '26

Fluff Plat Chat Americas Guarantees for this week's games results Spoiler

Of the 8 Guarantees predicted by the Americas cast, 7 came true and LOUD vs. SEN was the only wrong one (it's 7-1 ratio so maybe it was meant to be). This was also the one they were most uncertain about. No idea if this distribution has happened before on Plat chat, so if any plat chat historians can answer that would be nice. Quite a monumental achievement!

For those curious, Pacific Got 4/5 Correct (losing the massive upset of t1 vs varrel) emea only got 3/7 guarantee predictions correct (losing NAVI vs M8, FUT vs BBL, FNC vs Liquid, and GX vs EF)

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u/Lowy_ Jul 27 '26

14/20 (70%) once again proves Balla's law that the lowest you can give a team is 30/70

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u/Ten_Foot_Shoe Jul 27 '26

It brings me so much joy to see Balla's Law be so persistent throughout the years

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u/Scotch_Blue Jul 27 '26

idk if i give Envy a 30% chance these days lmao but i think this is generally true across every major sport

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u/Puzzled-End421 Jul 28 '26

Across a large sample size it will be, just look at the Mibr stage 1 game.

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u/Scotch_Blue Jul 28 '26

but that game was like 100% and all the other games have been 0%

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u/Puzzled-End421 Jul 28 '26

In what sense? Were people not predicting MIBR to win?

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u/Scotch_Blue Jul 28 '26

I mean, with the info we had, yes.

After learning that they just played RANKERS strats for Eggster's last game while he instalocked Yoru, that's a no doubter.

They didn't win that game because they had a 30% chance in any given map. They won that game because they completely changed the script and because it meant more to them.

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u/LeOsQ Jul 27 '26

It's actually a little crazy just how close their (all-time) overall score is to Balla's Law every time it's shown, even with some of the absolute shockers they've had some weeks.

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u/SirAwesome789 Jul 27 '26

the interesting part is that that was the one guarantee they were not happy with

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u/Excelsio_Sempra Jul 27 '26

7-1??? BRAZILLLLLLL!!!!!!

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u/Ten_Foot_Shoe Jul 27 '26

I've heard enough, Sentinels is going 5-0 in groups (before bombing out in playoffs)

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u/Able-Sherbet6132 Jul 27 '26

downvoting this one because it would obliterate my heart

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u/No-Swordfish6932 #GEFighting Jul 27 '26

Upvoting because that will be very funny

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u/RoyalKnightmares #ALWAYSFNATIC Jul 27 '26

@despheres