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Best rookies?

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The term rookie is hard to define for the inaugural VCT season.
For clarity sake, I will be defining a rookie as "Someone who had yet to appear at a VCT international event prior to franchising".

Pacific: Something
The catalyst for the re-emergence of Paper Rex.
Picked up from Japan during the Mid season transfer window and has transformed paper rex into a title contender.
The highest rated player in the Pacific regular season.

Honourable mentions:

  • Invy: A player that has breathed life into this aging team secret roster, almost helping them to qualify to Champions.
  • garnetS: A player who had a brilliant lock//in though had a quiet rest of the season.

Americas: s0m
A player many people doubted coming into the season, boy were they wrong.
s0m has cemented himself as the best controller in americas and has successfully qualified for his first two lan events.

Honourable mentions:

  • Demon1: This is a true rookie to hero story. A player who came from t3 who came in with instant impact and helped propel EG onto this miracle run.
  • DaveeyS: The first player from Latin America North in VCT. An important piece of the kru puzzle which shocked the world to qualify to champions through the Americas LCQ.

EMEA: qw1
FUT came into the season flying under everyone's radar, yet they still managed to qualify for Masters Tokyo.
An exciting player to watch and a pivotal part of the FUT machine.

Honourable mentions:

  • Fit1nho: A player who had a quiet start to the season but came into the LCQ with a bang with a 1.31 rating.
  • Cloud: The second Giants player on this list. He has emerged as a top initiator player in emea.

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Are there any players you think have been snubbed?
What would you change?

#2
Staticle
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s0m is not a rookie he has been competing since year 1 i think a rookie is someone like demon1 like its their first year competing to me that's a rookie but please provide your explanation on why s0m is a rookie

edit: didnt even read first sentence downvote me

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TrialRunnr
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bro didnt even read the first sentence

#7
Simp4S0m
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Shoulda just commented “allat” instead 💀

#4
dezzo
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Great list tbf, but I don’t think s0m is a rookie
cauanzin is a good honourable mention too

#6
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Cauanzin would've been on the list but he had played at VCT masters reykjavik in 2022.

It does feel weird having s0m as a rookie but I think the criteria I used was a good way to narrow down the competition.

VCT 2024 will be alot easier as a rookie would be the players first year in the VCT league.

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LycheeBlade
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i think your definition was most reasonable. i do find the term "rookie" right now to be pretty silly though, since franchising itself is in its "rookie" stage. next year the term can be more concrete -- someone joining the franchised league for the first time (so by that metric, The Guard/Bleed/M8 are rookies). good list nevertheless, i have no disagreements tbh

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Pengu12
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He clarifies that a rookie is someone who has not been to an international event prior to 2023

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Lucy chen and Nolan clear ngl

#10
ortuh
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I agree with something and qw1 for pacific and emea respectively, however I would personally put demon1 over s0m just due to the larger increase in performance due to his addition.

#12
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Demon1/s0m was the pick I was debating for a while.

Demon1 coming into the team was huge, it elevated the whole team.
Though part of me felt that his tokyo performance was a bit quiet compared to what he was doing in the Americas (which might be unfair because the level he was playing at during the americas was astronomical)

I had s0m taking it based on lock//in and s0m being slightly more influential individually for his team during tokyo.

I think Champions Los Angeles will help paint a clearer picture, with it being so close.

#11
KyLZi
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For Americas, I would give it to Boostio, cauanzin, or demon1

#13
Pengu12
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Cauazin was at Iceland 2022

#14
FDWC-
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tryna snuck in Fit1nho

#15
P1ngP0ng
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Read allat and mind explaining to me how Cloud is the 2nd KOI player on your list😶

#16
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classic capital_d_colon typo

#17
Er3ngenes1s
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Cloud is from Giants, not koi

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