TheyвЂ™ve gone 1-4 at Masters with their lone win coming against Brazilian team Havan Liberty. Crazy RaccoonД¬razy Raccoon are one of three teams to have qualified for both international Masters tournaments and now Champions. Given BrazilвЂ™s 2-8 record against teams from other regions, expectations are fairly low for Team Vikings this time around. Those arenвЂ™t bad losses, but then they failed to qualify for Masters: Berlin. They beat Southeast AsiaвЂ™s X10 CRIT - who also qualified for Champions - but then lost to Sentinels and Team Liquid in Iceland. Team Vikings were one of those two teams that beat out FURIA to qualify for Masters: ReykajvГk. Brazil has been arguably the weakest region at international VALORANT competitions, so thereвЂ™s very little reason to believe theyвЂ™re any better than the other two Brazilian teams at Champions. Two Brazilian teams qualified for both, but FURIA finished third in both BrazilвЂ™s Stage 2 and Stage 3 qualifying tournaments. They were actually on the cusp of reaching both ReykjavГk and Berlin. They have not qualified for any of the previous Masters tournaments and are going to Champions after winning the South America Last Chance Qualifier involving teams from Brazil and Latin America. FURIA EsportsДЇURIA ranked 15th or 16th on all of our analystsвЂ™ lists. None ranked higher than 13-16 on any of our expertsвЂ™ rankings except in one case. The three teams at the bottom of our rankings either have not appeared on the international stage or have done very little when they have.

We also have broken up the teams into tiers with teams that achieved similar rankings being grouped together. The rankings are based on the average ranking for each team from our editorial team and the Press 4 to Defuse crew. We know you have opinions, and so do we, which is why weвЂ™ve put together these Power Rankings.

Part of the fun of these big international events is all the pre-tournament debates about who is the best team in the world. They both can claim to be international champions, but the Champions tournament is the culmination of this yearвЂ™s VALORANT Champions Tour and the winner will be able to definitively claim to be best VALORANT team in 2021. WeвЂ™ve already seen two international VALORANT tournaments where Sentinels won Masters: ReykajvГk and Gambit Esports came out on top at Masters: Berlin.

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