well his agent said there are issues with him playing other sponsored games while playing Val (which is not allowed). If he makes around 2x-3x playing val competitively, then he would need a pretty big compromise to come back.

give 1 country a region makes no sense. If you had like 2-3 chinese teams in pacific you would see A lot better teams cause teams right now are just heavily watered down.

T2 players deserve love too

I hate both G2 and NRG and hope Furia wins or any other team

https://x.com/RocketBullets/status/2029648920389775844

Not shocked but we assume the 5th is Tenz or we are baited

fck narrate if we had zekken instead of JonahP this team would be nasty.

tbh if china was forced to be in a pacific region and you only have like 3-4 chinese teams, your chinese teams would be sooo much better. when you got like 10 teams for 1 country your teams talents will be more diluted. I think they will bounce back in 2027 if they are part of another region where only the very best chinese players can be on the team.

He gives consistent average numbers but is dependable and does not make dumb choices. Lower ceiling but higher floor. Narrate was a higher ceiling but his floors are sooo much lower.

jonahP must be happy

we got a new white guy so its fine

they love diversity i guess cause 3/5 guys on their val team aint white

all the white guys are in valorant

Yeh just do JonahP and Boni as duelist and I got some hope.

yeh if they dont get Nightz id prefer boni as their main duelist.

na not really. he was a big reason they qualified to some of the internationals last year. They had a couple games where his clutches during key rounds legit won them the map. he is actually very underrated for his performance on G2.

I just need Rob to be more transparent and tell me who is trialling each day. He already exposed everything, so who the trial would be not be important at this point.

i read online that he is already 18 but i got no clue on how accurate this is. On google it said it birthday was in Jan

yeh im sorta hopeful for the new sen.

This dude has been seen in scrims with sen and he has turned 18. Low key this is great. If sen can get JonahP and Nightz I feel like their squad could be very very good.

Nightz - smokes/second entry
JonahP - should flex but probs intiator
Johnqt - intiator but probs flex
Cortezia - senti
Reduxx - Entry.

low key this is a great team.

https://x.com/VCTScrims

na cortezia would play smokes. I would not cut cortezia at all, bro is very good.

okay on reddit is saw that narrate may have had toxic behaviour so will not be on the team most likely?

he should trial at the very least. I hope he isnt completely off the team unless everyone agreed to it.

i agree narrate should trial at the very least.

we know for sure that reduxx, cortezia and johnqt are staying (johnqt said so). So 2 spots are open. Idk if narrate is gonna trial though so we shall see

if the players aka johnqt said they dont want him then sure. But i hope he gets trialed at the very least

Am i crazy but I dont think JP is an upgrade over narrate on intiator. You already have a world-class player for initiator, look at his stats in stage 2 when he was comfortable. Why take that guy off his best agents? I would just slot JP in as a senti player cause thats easiest to learn and he is also very flexible so you could run whatever comps you want.

Also, if you want double duelist, it's easier with narrate than with JP, unless you get another duelist, which again is really unnecessary unless it's a top-of-the-line player.

https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/2501/vct-2025-americas-stage-2

can he at least trial with sen? Why let this man leave, he is legit an insane intiator.

dog if he can speak english this team would legit be nasty. He is an insane player and I truly believe this team could compete

If shy could communicate well in english do you think this roster would look good?

Reduxx - entry
Narrate - intiator/second duelist
johnqt - flex
cortezia - smoke
shy - sent

I feel like this team would actually be very good now that everyone is playing their perfered roles right? I also think johnqt could just be the second intiator on maps you play single duelist.

Unless MIBR wins a tourney this year and goes to every international, then sure.

kap didnt even trial him for 3 weeks and had no contract talks. if zach was given a contract at the start and even trialed he probs doesnt leave.

actually rob was pretty nice when talking about kyu. He said it was unfair for him to have those expectations put on him coming in as a rookie when he has a established tourney winning igl on his team.

He also said Kyu can be great in the future and can be an IGL that wins internationals, but John brings in more experience now and will put the team in a more win-now position.

this is a very fair point imo.

probs goes back to T2 cause i dont see another T1 team droping their coaches for him. maybe an assistant coach.

Rob said he did not agree with zekken leaving, john moving off IGL and the tier 2 roster with kyu BUT gave kap the benefit of the doubt. You cant do all that then shit the bed.

could he have been nicer sure but he never said kap was a bad coach. just didnt agree with the choices.

he could have been nicer but you cant 1. replace zekken 2. remove johnqt off igl. 3 and then bomb the first qualifications. If they finished like 4-5th its probs fine but they looked legit terrible.

Rob said there will at least 2 changes to the roster. Who do we assume the changes will be? Kyu for sure and its probably narrate imo

yeh any good will i had sorta left after he caused zekken to leave and john to move off igl. Rob should have booted him after champs..

yeh but it should not have gotten to that point. was an easy resign. should have retired as a sen player

ROB MOORE JUST CONFIRMED TRIALS WILL START. WHO DO WE THINK.

okay to be fair if kap is responsible for zekken leaving I will be actually livid. cause why

tbh i hope nightz replaces kyu and you get this:

Reduxx entry
Narrate intiator
Johnqt - flex
senti - cortezia
smokes - nightz

I did not watch much pacific but i know RRQ was a decent enough squad last year. Is this dude actually good and does he come up with some creative things? Anyone got good insight on him? And is he an overall upgrade over kap.

Also I assume gunter will get the boot as well.

I assume gunter will be leaving as well.

Okay, I think having a new coach this early isn't bad, since there is a big break between when you play next, so it gives them time to implement a new game plan.

Also, he does not have any real attachment to players so he should have a pretty objective view on the agents everyone should be playing and the roles on the team.

tbh im excited to see how the new sen looks.

nrg are a super team with keiko. G2 are close enough to a super team.

yeh the only team i can not hate watch is Furia tbh. Maybe c9 but im happy they won.

the fact that the super teams (at least in america idk about the rest) are losing... puts a smile on my face. I cant hate im happy for them

all the good players are gone, also the only replacement you could do is JP. What would your roster be in a perfect world, with what is currently on the market?

tbh if nights turns 18 id kick kyu and have nightz play smokes, cortezia on senti and john can go back to his intiator/flex role. I think they need either a dedicated smokes or senti player.