VCT Stage 1 Group Predictions

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Americas

G2 & NRG
MIBR & 100 Theives
Leviatan & Furia
Cloud 9 & Sentinels
ENVY & KRU
LOUD & Evil Geniuses

Americas Notes:

I seriously don't know where to place KRU. Whether it's glaze or people rooting for the underdog, they are the hardest to place
ENVY could move up simply because the egg has to hatch and the King of Hell on Chamber (Haven and Breeze) Although they have the harder groups in America's imo
SEN is also hard because of their changes, but I think they fall off in Playoffs but barely scrape by in Groups

EMEA

Team Heretics & Fnatic
Team Liquid & Vitality
Gentle M8's & BBL
NAVI & GiantX
Karmine Corp & Eternal Fire
FUT & Pcific

EMEA Notes

Vitality over BBL because they have been riding the double duelist/yoru meta since their ascension. It'll be a hard realization
Fnatic benefit from the meta the most, they can go back to being the slowest executing team ever
Liquid and Heretics can be swapped, I think they are very equal in terms of firepower and mechanics. Meta now suits them both
FUT and Pcific are gonna be major upsetters

APAC

Paper Rex & RRQ
Nongshim & Full Sense
DRX & T1
Global & DFM
Gen.G & Varrel
Team Secret and Zeta Div

APAC Notes:

Paper Rex 2-1 Nongshim. Revenge.
RRQ losing 3 BO5's. Revenge.
DRX and Global can be swapped
Gen.G can be a crazy underdog. Texture deserves an international.

China

All Gamers
(I don't watch China)

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FS over T1 and DRX is crazy
They are the leviatan of APAC

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Primmie.

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Gets shit on hyunmin, meteor, t3xture, karon, mako, and buzz

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https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/2683/vct-2026-pacific-kickoff

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And now that yoru is dead who does he play?
Free eats for the entry duelists and awpers

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Chamber. Waylay. Neon. Jett even. Just because he excels on one agent for a single act where that speicifc agent is performing well, doesn't mean he just magically falls off tf

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Im saying his fragging isnt going to be the same since he isnt going to be able to take fights with a get out of free card.

He is not playing any entry duelist since he is a baiter type player that excels when he has a meat shield, like aspas.
And he is best at rifling so chamber would just be wasted with no scopes.

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What you Mean like aspas?

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Aspas likes to play behind people most of the time and is a safer player. He isnt a hard entry like Dambi, jawgemo, buzz, t3xture and others.

Primmie plays similar to aspas, a baiter type player with great mechanics

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What are you talking about LFMAO aspas and primmie are not baiter

continue thread →

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best comparison i have seen so far lmao

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wild how accurate you are with this comparison

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APAC ALPHA

Kiwoom DRX
GENG
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PRX
NS
TS

APAC OMEGA

DFM
RRQ
T1
VL
FS
Zeta

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I do love the Gen.Glaze, however, in what universe bro

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I like the way you think

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China Alpha

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TYLOO
Bilibili Gaming
Titan Esports Club
JD Gaming
FunPlus Phoenix

China Omega

Dragon Ranger Gaming
XLG Esports
EDward Gaming
Wolves Esports
Trace Esports
Nova Esports

Lowk group alpha is way harder, I think it's possible that 3 teams from that group make the international genuinely

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I agree on Alpha but I'm not convinced about DRG being #1, I'd see them more 3rd or 4th based on my prior knowledge of them.

Wolves were so fun to watch in Toronto and I would love to see them at London

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DRG being at #1 is more of a condemnation of XLG and EDG than anything else, I'm very low on those teams (EDG especially, I could see XLG being at 1). (Also TEC at 4 is fanboy cope, JDG objectively is the 4th best team in that group lol)

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tec and tyloo too high

swap drg w xlg

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I agree w tec, im just coping lol. I think tyloo is really good though and could see them, blg, and ag making the tourney. I see xlg and drg as a 50/50 for top of omega

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Tyloo is pretty overhyped. They’re in that C9-ish limbo state where they stomp the shit teams but can’t touch the good teams.

As for DRG, they aren’t going to be good if NathanDih continues his comp terrorism.

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I said it in a different comment, DRG being #1 is more of a condemnation of XLG and EDG more than anything good theyre doing. But yeah I see ur point with TYLOO. I guess my counterpoint to that would just be that the Chinese teams are more liable to feed and drop games randomly

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Texture deserves an international

yea he already got one

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to GO to an international lol

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My hope with KC has gone up really, I can see them as the top 3 in their group

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They definitely have the easier group in EMEA, but the top 3 (TH, TL, M8) are going to be so difficult to go against. I could see Navi falling asleep at the wheel again, or Heretics throwing. They could fit pretty cozy in 4th

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I have a feeling one of those 3 will crack in stage 1

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M8's for sure because Yoru is no longer meta, I'm interested to see how they adapt.

I would say I the complete opposite for TH and TL because Yoru is no longer meta, they can start using their traditional comps that do have a dive Duelist and proper Initiators

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TH would benefit from these changes, b00t can just bait on tejo and go kill + the team peaked in double initiator meta anyways

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THATS WHAT IM SAYING. I'm excited to see their Lotus comp but I'll be disappointed if it's just a single agent change from NRG's Champs Comp. That ones already being tossed around in VCL NA and it's NICE