Asuna's still the 2nd best rated player on this team rn. He's been fine for them despite losing them several rounds from overpushing. After 8 weeks of play, they have much bigger problems like Stellar in the bottom 6 (he's barely a decent fragger for them), Stellar's poor mid-rounding, and their inadequate coaching staff (either replace Mikes or add more staff to help w/ the macro gameplans, map pool, and execs).

Asuna's still the 2nd best rated player on this team rn. He's been fine for them despite losing them several rounds from overpushing. After 8 weeks of play, they have much bigger problems like Stellar in the bottom 6 (he's barely a decent fragger for them), Stellar's poor mid-rounding, and their inadequate coaching staff (either replace Mikes or add more staff to help w/ the macro gameplans, map pool, and execs).

but we HAVE seen this team w/ sgares and how fluid their gameplay looked, even as Will struggled in regional games. They have looked the most disjointed w/ this on-the-fly shit that Stellar prefers for 8 straight weeks now. Redbull was using Sean's old strats and since the meta shift, their coaching hasn't fixed their issues w/ gameplans and execs. Either Mikes needs more staff to help him in this lacking department or Mikes needs to be replaced w/ someone who can do more..

In it's entire history, it seems like 100T has always had a problem with player development, scouting, and meta gameplans.

Stellar has literally said they did not have a similar vision. sgares was more exec, set play, gameplan focused, and stellar said he was more on-the-fly. One of these worked for the team in the past and one isn't anywhere near working currently. They need to either bring in an sgares level of coaching staff or replace stellar w/ a better IGL who can also frag at least as well.

yeah, the on-the-fly stuff look awful. They're too uncoordinated (forgetting to clear corners, not being aware of lurk gaps in their defense, overpushing when they're not a man down, etc.) and after this amount of time, it's clear the sgares method was better and Stellar's calling isn't good enough on its own.

Yeah, I wonder what would've happened if Asuna flexed to the double controller and let Derrek play initiator and stellar play the sentinel

the last time 100T looked fluid and played good-looking Valorant was back in redbull when they were still using Sean's strats. They are just such a different team without him and Mikes is all alone with no full-time staff to help him. Stellar and Derrek have also now shown that they're very upgradeable if better roles come on the market

Still so sad to see he never actually showed more potential than that. I thought 100T picked up a trent level initiator, and that's just not the case.

is johnqt a decent fragger? 100T needs a great IGL AND a decent fragger (Stellar is only the latter).

Boaster isn't a bad fragger. He's not a raid boss like his teammates, but he isn't a drag on the team and hits a lot of shots, similar to Benkai. Obviously you can upgrade Boastees, but he's a decent fragger with great IGLing (and in the case of PRX, they wanted less IGLing and more fragging haha). Stellar is under both of these guys in the frag department and also doesn't IGL well enough for them to be a title contender team.

yeah, if TGRD doesn't make it, they need Zander or Valyn. Even Derreck isn't pulling his weight, so Trent or another cracked initiator would be a very poignant pick up for 100T

No, that's not enough at the highest level anymore. We've seen how a non-fragging IGL can hold back a team w/ dephh and some of the emea teams like KC who has zeish, their assistant coach, IGLing as a permanent stand in. There are too many teams who will just shit on steel and put 100T at a disadvantage.

Dephh was worse since at least Stellar can sometimes shoot back. Unfortunately, Stellar's calling isn't good enough to be a title contender team, that's obvious now after 8 weeks of regular play.

except Steel. He was kicked cuz nitro wanted to play w/ his friend boi for LCQ instead.

100% true. they have never played "beautiful" and fluid Valorant like nrg or c9 or loud. It's ONLY always been pop off moments. Their IGLing is uninspiring and they consistently refuse to adopt to the meta until it's too late (cypher > kj early on, avoiding double controller maps, etc). They have good to great players. but they're not even a good team.

Map diff in the 4+-way tiebreakers

Fine each player and staff double their year's salary. Rito ban them a minimum of 3 years for gross incompetence. And 100T goes into the clothing retail business as their reputation slowly recovers.

o7

With 4+ way ties, h2h is not counted. It goes to map diff then round diff. Liquipedia has the deets. 100T need to win and also hope for a 3-way tie or less

Lmfaooooo hahahahahahahahahahahahhqhaahahahaha

Yeah, benching steel cuz he was playing Vanity who knows him doesn't even make sense to me... So... You instead yolo it for the rest of the split??

Yeah.. he had incredible stats on Jett while on ABX, but also never won anything significant on there either.. maybe it really was the Optic core that carried him and not the other way around 🤷🏿‍♂️

It wouldn't be as bad if Yay was able to continue looking like the statistical anomaly he was in 2021 playing only Jett.

Unfortunately, his team's coordination and his individual form looked so bad that the highest rated Jett player from Master Berlin looks like a significantly worse pickup for a Tier1 org than getting any cracked upcoming t2 t3 Jett player that you could get for 10% of the cost like Reddux or demon1.

Agreed. Also, idk if 100T even has any other staff rn besides Mikes and I guess ddk as their gm?…. It’s no wonder they’re a little short on fresh ideas and good reads

Lmfaooo I understood this

Not playoffs, I think they’ll get better at Tokyo. Playoffs has no break from the regular season so I expect the same from them till they can rest and reset

Cryo has definitely been heating up, but yeah idk about “better”

She's a pro player, so I get why they brought her in. However, her expertise doesn't seem to be showing at all since she can't seem to speak much even when prompted by the host (nor is she displaying an engaging on-air personality). I hate to say it but while it was a good attempt, it's not working at all

Someone needs to be fired!!! It’s unacceptable still having this week 7 out of 8

Ok, I see: assuming we beat mibr, then if lev loses both of their games against LLL and C9, then we're guaranteed. If EG loses either against MIBR (unlikely) or NRG (likely), then we're also guaranteed. If NRG wins both their games, we'll also be good. Any way to avoid that 5-way tie = fantastic (as long as 100T goes 5-4 lol)

I think it goes to map diff after that then round diff to order everyone? Our map diff is -2 right now along with eg, so if that improves, we get 6th, eg gets 7th. If it stays the same, we go to round diff and we're the lowest there right now, so we maybe end 7th. If EG wins 2-0 2-0 and gets a better map diff, I think we also automatically go to 7th if it's a 5-way tie 😢. I gotta read these official tiebreaker rules at some point

That it's guaranteed? I think willminder said except 5-way tie

Yeah, looks like 5 teams are still able to go 5-4, not 4. So if they beat MIBR, they would be guaranteed playoffs due to head to head against everyone except NRG. So if NRG goes 5-4 as well, then I think they gotta go further in the tiebreaker bracket.

He didn't know 🤣

LETS GOOOO

Where tf is foxy9? He was clearly working for them

Oldest as in amount of time on the current team. I think tenured should have been used instead

"in this double duelist meta"

???

VLR rankings aren't reliable right now with the new system that almost completely separates VCT, VRL, and T3 teams. I'm sure vlr will change it eventually (hopefully around masters time where we might have a better idea of the top teams from them having competed more often)

Same way they keep losing to Xerxia or some other weaker team. They just start slow or have weird off days sometimes until the stakes are mad high

yeah... they don't have a world-caliber proven sentinel player and Dephh's apparent inflexibility and his hot and cold fragging seems to be holding them back from fitting all the right pieces together. They seem to have the firepower but their title players are getting shifted around and doing unproven new things when it's series #7 out of 9 in the season.... Huge yikes.

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"i used map diff as TB, but since SEN and 100T were tied i went to H2H"

I might be wrong, but I think you have to move past H2H completely for any tiebreakers that has 3+ teams. This is because 100T also beat Lev. So with your proposed results, it would go to map diff which would put Lev 1st. then between sen and 100T, if they tie there for map diff, it should move on to round diff right? Because if it reverts back to H2H for their tiebreaker, that seems to discount 100T's win vs Lev which was used to affect the first tie breaker. I'm just guessing at the game theory at this point tho because of that potential skew

The assistant coach meta is going kinda crazy huh? Soooo many teams have apparently tried to skirt the "minimum 6 active player" rules that were actually written with some prescience (nice job rito) to account for these types of issues.

All these teams deserve their upcoming losses and should also be fined the minimum 50k salary amount that accounts for the total amount of time in the season that a team didn't have an active 6th player (and visa issues don't count since that means they're reserved, not active) to disincentivize teams from taking the roster construction period this lightly again. If you're gonna get fined the salary for not having a real 6th, then might as well get a real one!

Kinda crazy to be having visa issues for your official sub when it's 6 weeks into competition season right? TL basically didn't have a real 6th/sub this whole time and didn't figure their stuff out until shit hit the fan. They deserve the loss for trying to skirt the rules (and all the other teams who are participating in the assistant coach meta too).

Harmii could've been added on an emergency basis. Since he's already a Team Liquid streamer, Riot probably allowed him to be a sub since he's already contracted w/ the org.

Didn't Keloqz drop arguably the worse rating in VLR history in his Ascent map vs Navi at an impressive 0.03?
The guy is just wayyyyy too hot and cold, and by cold, I mean the man is a fucking brilliant scientist when it comes to his ability to approach absolute 0. If that's their best player, disband the team and fire the management

Riot should have LAN isolation rooms ready for sick players who can play.. COVID didn't go away, so why did the preparation for it go away? Their rules are currently inconsistent because of this. If you can't field a full team for a scheduled match, normally, that means you get disqualified. FNC definitely got special treatment. And it's obvious if this happens to other teams, it'll look really awkward if they don't extend the same grace to that team. Which is why Riot needs to be better prepared (and teams need to have real subs).

Nivera plays his util like he's actually a double agent for the enemy team, it's insane

we didn't expect anything, but we hoped for more. Big yikes tho after today's performance