Basically the title, open to debate, of course, the reasons I think GE is a joke are the following:
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GE held an open tryout and selected Kohli, a young Indian talent who was left on the GE bench after they got into franchising and they didn't even keep him in the team afterwards and put him in a weird spot where they legit went - "He can leave or he can stay and learn". Now imagine yourself in this position when you're 18/19 years old, you're in the best org of your country and all of a sudden, the org doesn't want to help you, you have to settle for a worse team if you want to play, my whole problem with that is the amount of time Kohli had to waste because of GE cause they themselves were not sure about what they wanted to do with him
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VCT 2023 Shitshow - Won 2 games I believe - against GenG and DFM. The roster was great, an amazing IGL, Texture and Monyet, literal demons and Bazzi who was just a well-rounded good player, and then you had Rossi, I understand that they wanted to keep an Indian in the roster, but at some point, the org has to choose between winning and emotions. Its not like Rossi is bad, but he choked in EVERY SINGLE MATCH. I would also like to mention that GE benched texture for a map against PRX (Check pearl) - https://www.vlr.gg/184477/paper-rex-vs-global-esports-champions-tour-2023-pacific-league-w5/?game=119574&tab=overview
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VCT 2024 Roster and Kickoff shitshow (again) - Now they decided to kick SkRossi and keep Lightningfast, who was on the bench in 2023, and OH BOY, Its like 2023 all over again, once again my fellow countrymen are holding the team back from winning, LF has made an INSANE number of individual misplays in this one tournament, I don't even want to start talking about the macro stuff, but moving on. The roster this year feels insanely rushed. You have a good IGL in Russ and then you have... another IGL in Benkai..? okay I guess, and then you have blazeking... sure... and lastly POLVI... truly a star studded roster
What makes me even more puzzled is that after winning against Bleed, Polvi goes on to say in the interview - "Hopefully we have restored some faith of the fans". ABSOLUTELY NOT! IT WAS A SHITSHOW FROM BOTH TEAMS, IT WAS A QUESTION OF WHICH TEAM PLAYED LESS BAD INSTEAD OF WHICH TEAM PLAYED WELL -
Too cringe and no real direction - GE's owner went to harvard, which goes to show that going to harvard doesn't mean you are smart and will yield good results, it just means you are academically inclined, all he says is "GE Fighting" and now this whole thing has become a chant for when GE comes back into games, and they have painted this permanent underdog image of themselves. I remember, in an interview, he was asked to say something other than "GE Fighting" and you know what he said? Yep, you guessed it, he said "GE Fighting". As an Indian its infuriating to know that this team will never win, cause guess what, team building and changes are not decided by the coaches in this team but instead by the management which doesn't know even the 'V' of valorant. Overall its a pretty depressing situation and I can only hope and pray that someone knocks some sense into these fools