I mean, that was kinda the whole point of the selection system. NRG also had a mid roster before franchising. Same for half the EMEA orgs (KOI, Giants, KC, Heretics, NAVI)

What's the point of inviting orgs like the Guard if their finances are so horrendous that they won't be able to sustain a good team?

They hated him because he told them the truth

Nothing happened really (except for maybe Taco underperforming), and that's exactly the problem. Lev have good ideas and game plans, but zero flexibility, and when their plans don't work they are clueless. It worked well early season, but once other team figured it out, it's very easy to counter.

KRÜ is not as bad as the 0-7 suggests, they've had some close games. Not beating C9 kinda good, but definitely not getting 13-0'd kinda bad either. Definitely been better than mibr lately

#Vfor(FUT's)Victory (please FUT)

The entire Americas league is in the US for five years, I think you'll survive one Tier 2 tournament in Brazil.

Bro worked really hard on those 💀

It's a bit different from Weber and Ze1sh because he actually has some competitive experience and in particular played some matches last year.

Doesn't matter if he brings down team morale to a point where the other players perform worse. Plus he was igling, and if his calls are shit, he still makes the team worse overall.

Without him, the whole team played better.

They say in their tweet that they realise Weber is nowhere near zeek's level as a player, and cite "personality mismatch", so yeah that's as close as it gets to openly admitting it.

keloqz, avova and zeek are just so damn inconsistent. they all have had insane international games, they just can't consistently replicate it.

Speak for yourself. The articles are interesting to some people and the writers don't get paid, showing appreciation is the least we can do.

First region to get 13-0d in franchising let's go

they should probably get ec1s and babyJ, i think that would improve the roster substantially

You got some nerve typing this

Or is it?

He did go 5-2 in the head to head

Potato tomato

Common eutalyx W

The mwzera of game changers

FUT is the perfect example of what you can achieve with maybe not 100% meta comps as long as your players are comfortable on their agents and the team have a clear idea of why the comp works and how to use it.

I mean you can call the players shit all you want but one of them won masters and one won champs, if those aren't achievements then literally nobody in Val has achieved anything.

I mean yeah, that's the whole point?

People made fun of Jack and mCe for saying releasing yay and vanity was about role issues, but the roles do look pretty sensible now (yay would not have played any of the agents jakee and runi played), and the new guys seem to be able to keep up pretty well so far. Even though money was likely still a factor, I think the scouting was good and they did build a solid team.

This might be the battle for the 6th playoffs spot

Ah yes, now of course he's on a much better team, the international trophies will soon be rolling in.

Vitality over BBL and Gen.G over T1 and we're cooking

You ok there bud?

I mean technically Kiles is half Spanish (he definitely had the Spanish and Ukrainian flag on his jersey when he won champs 2021), so you're wrong.

I think KC felt bad for Sideshow and wanted to make sure the French community stops bullying egg.

Soulcas is definitely one of the players in the world

Gwho

Which is super dumb because the different groups have different playing fields, makes no sense to compare one team's 2-3 to another team's 2-3 record when they played entirely different opponents.

TenZ also wasn't around in late 1945

After that game you gotta at least try a little bit, right?

Who tf has several vlr accounts 💀

FPX stomped on fracture without breach in Copenhagen

Are you okay? You seem a bit distressed

Boaster is one of the most popular Valorant players. I think in EU he is top 5 in terms of Twitter followers. And both Fnatic and boaster personally have a pretty solid brand in Japan as well. He is pretty close to a lot of JP Valorant players, the JP fans love him, why wouldn't they announce it like that?

I really don't understand that, there must have been something weird behind the scenes. Three Spanish orgs and no DACH org? BIG has a huge CS fanbase in Germany and I feel like including them could have absolutely pulled additional viewership.

Apparently they had their NA spot already secured and Riot changed their mind last second. G2 would definitely have had the money to potentially buy out the entire OpTic roster. They could have built a brand in NA with the best roster in VCT history. Carlos really fucked up big time.

Their current roster is only ask and cloud, the rest is already gone.

for real, how did they go from one of the worst teams in terms of mental to one of the best in like two months? i hope they keep it up, their teamplay is so good, i wanna see them actually go far for once

val has more currently active players than csgo, but csgo (i would assume) has more total players (as in, people who have played in the past but might not necessarily play any more).

generally a game (esports or conventional sports) tends to be more interesting to watch if you've played it yourself and understand some of the details. so i feel like just taking active playerbase as a metric is a bit sketchy.

additionally, cs has been around much longer as an esport. it takes time to accumulate a loyal viewerbase. up until now, val hasn't even had a consistent format yet. i reckon the new league system, plus crowds at LANs, will probably do their part to help val gain more viewers.

The only correct answer

For the beginning, to build the eSport and accumulate regular viewers it's probably good to have a consistent basis of high clout teams like SEN, TSM, G2, etc, even if they perform worse than other teams. Don't forget Val viewership is still much lower than league or cs. This will last for 5 years, then we will see where it goes.

In football, the first league in England also waited a few decades before introducing promotion and relegation.

How was their group in Copenhagen easy? They literally had the finalist from Reykjavik in there

Is it though?

Can't blame them tbh

Rogue perhaps. They don't have a val team yet, but they're in LEC, they might have a chance at Val franchising anyway. At least they're on the shortlist.