I think in terms of teams that could win I see all 4 regions as equal so far. I think even in China there are some really good teams this year, FPX, XLG, BLG, NOVA and Trace all look capable of International event playoffs, I am bit disappointed with the level of gameplay I ve seen in Americas and APAC so far, but I havent seen all the teams yet, also they usually tend to perform better in big games. EMEA looked leagues above everyone else in last years kickoff, this years' kickoff also looks like that but I am not sure with their consistency yet.

Saying anything other than duelist is just trolling bro. Everybody knows about aspas, tenz (ex duelist), zekken, Derke, Jingg and something. If you just enter NA or APAC ranked even in radiant they dont know shit about Riens, s1mom, nobody and Trexx's of the world. Even in ranked, vct match or even interviews you can see how much duelists have by the way players peek them. You will rarely see a non-duelist player just dry peek aspas or zekken in a VCT match. They will always double swing or swing with flashes.

If they go for bit more experienced players they go for Net or Inspire. If they just want to pick up a straight up shooter, there are lots of options but I wont be shocked if they pick up random cracked ranked player out of nowhere. But at the end of the day we all know they will add vanity and runi back after kickoff, so honestly it doesnt matter who they pick up.

Did you guys just forget how good these 5 players are? They were getting good defense halves in attack sided maps but struggled on attack just because zekken wasnt having his best day and they werent getting entries. Just chill out, this team is gonna win tournaments this upcoming year, thinking about roster changes just becaude they had bad attacks half in an offseason tournament is stupid. We are not C9.

I wanted to make a best players list in a chained order according to time period since Masters Rejkavik 2021(it is too hard to identify the singular best player in the world before that). To what extent do you agree? (Regional playoffs and International success weighted heavily)

Tenz - Nats - Cned - yay - Shao - yay/Less - Leo - Alfajer - Demon1/Jingg - zekken - texture - aspas/Zmijkk.

If Zellsis played well Sen have always on against GENG. Lets see what happens, N4rrate and zekken might just 2v5 them but you never know. Sen should be a favourite in this match by like 60/40 considering the map pool as well. GENG is better than Sen only in Ascent I think and maybe Abyss, in any other map Sen should be a favourite. Bind might be a tossup, but still I would be surprised if GENG win Split or any neon maps like Haven, Sunset and Pearl against Sen.

If you have seen the zekken's recent APAC streams or took a look at his tracker of APAC account ( https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/SEN%20zekken%23eProd/overview?playlist=competitive&seasonId=dcde7346-4085-de4f-c463-2489ed47983b), he has been instalocking sova almost every game. I know zekken plays sova in NA ranked a lot as well, but usually he fills for initiator if the duelist is already taken. Is SEN role swapping again putting by N4rrate on duelist, johnqt on sentinel and zekken on initiator? If that is true what do you think will happen in a long run? I dont have any worries about zekken's performance, I think he lowkey might the best sova on the team but can N4rrate carry this team as zekken on duelist?