thank you for the translation, very cool to hear their thoughts

good bait 👍

I think the role changes are strange to look at right now just because of how good those two players were at there respective roles of pANcada on smokes and sacy on initiator and thats why people are reacting in the way they are right now.
I think the changes could actually be good for the team and the players in the long run. Because it lets pANcada do more of his own thing and hard lurk and I think sacy is more than a good enough of a player to pick up main smokes. My guess as to why the team made the changes is that maybe dephh feels more comfortable as IGL on initiator (a much more active role that gives more info) instead of the sentinel/lurking smokes role that he was playing before.
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Overall I think it could be a pretty good change for the team just they will need more time to iron out the mistakes and let the players feel more comfortable on their roles before we can really get a full review on the decision.

dephh, the world's greatest tactician lured them into the mental warfare just so they would fear his power and overwhelming strength so he could frag out and win on Ascent. It was all a setup for later, all these haters calling him a "fraud" and saying SEN should cut dephh could just simply not grasp this level of strategic mind games.
When Sun Tzu was writing "The Art of War" he consulted dephh in order to make sure that what he was writing down were the best tactics possible, and even then dephh scoffed at the teachings for how simplistic they were in comparison to his strategic mind that came up with the plan of not buying with max money on a 12-11 scoreline... what a genius!!!

it has happened multiple times to people, boaster is pretty notable for doing in a few high pressure situations to the point where Derke apparently checks to make sure boaster has bought

guess its just a British IGL thing...

Even as someone who watched carpe in owl and knew that he had god tier mechanics (there are tales of him doing sub 100 reaction time shit on human benchmark type insane levels of mechanics), it was more just uncertainty surrounding the pickup.
They decided to pick up a player who has no real experience in the game that may or may not pan out, when you have other options available to you that are like proven to be able to close to that level I would think.
It was just a really big risk from T1 to sign him because his potential is higher but at the same time he could bust through the floor and mess us their season if he doesn't turn out to be the player you expect. But it's seeming to work out pretty well for them as he has clearly improved to becoming a player that can play at that level rather than just a liability.

the concept 6 one in the comments is actually really sick

Thank you!
Any smart math people can you figure out if M80 even need to play (so anything other than the minimum 1 point) to finish top 8 or are they already locked in to make it to Challengers Playoffs at the end of the season? Would be really cool to see. (im too lazy to do the numbers my self)

Its top 8 go to the challenger playoffs tourney and then the top 2 from that (so who ever makes it to the finals) goes to the Ascension tournament to play for a spot in franchising against the other regions.

So do M80 need anything other than dead last to finish top 8 in overall points?

Hades is another phenomenal rougelike game like ror2, would highly recommend

this clip is so goated...
encapsulates what KC appear to be doing wrong with just all the seemingly basic things, just making loads of unforced errors all over the place it feels

I know M80 was already a favorite for being one of the two teams that make it to Ascension from NA, but does getting the +10 from here along with the +20 points from Split 1 auto qualify them for the end of season playoff to go to Ascension already?

"Do they even need to play Split 2 at all because of the points they have already?" is what I'm asking, any smart math people this would be cool to know.

KC got challenged more than they did in the BBL match and they showed even more of the cracks that were apparent from both LOCK//IN and the BBL game. It was both TH playing just alright (nothing spectacular), but mostly KC playing really really bad.

Put simply KC started to hard troll the moment the game became slightly tough.

100Throws 😔

Here is my totally wild tinfoil hat crackpipe smoking theory. If SEN do change something (I really don't think they should make a change just because of time to practice and haven't really tested the squad in any real way, unless scrims are just going poorly but I have heard they are going well)

https://twitter.com/Sentinels/status/1628149937757204483 at the end of this clip dephh says "one day I think he (referring to zekken) could be an IGL himself" and a good portion of the clip is just the members of SEN talking about zekken's good ideas and decision making, so with this and the pANcada spamming sentinel agents in ranked theory in mind... here is the wildness SEN could do (not that they should)

zekken- flex & IGL
sacy- initiator & midrounder/second IGL (which he apparently already is and was on LOUD)
pANcada- sentinel
marved- smokes
tenz- duelist
dephh- benched

Realistically this lineup makes very little sense because of zekken has like no tier 1 IGL experience (to my knowledge at least) and also just the lack of time they would have to practice because of they just signed marved to the team and just overall it would make less about as much sense as this lineup to make a switch after the amount of gameplay we have seen from this current SEN lineup. I don't think they should make this change but its my crazed thought that I want to write down.

Because stuff like this does change the way a map is played even in just little ways. I don't think they want to fully rework a map to change the way a map is played. But stuff like making a door wider or moving a wall slightly changes sightlines/angle you can hold and can make it harder to hold or push from for one team.

what is the guy saying wrong? hes saying it would be concerning if franchised was getting more hype than challegers, but hes not saying that it is getting more hype... or am I going crazy here???

its wild you can be both lowkey racist and and stupid by some how say asian americans when referring to canadians.

https://twitter.com/willminder/status/1606460557569265670

maybe the best flex player in the world last year and hes not good... that makes total sense.

yeah they would have to change up their comps and play style too much. zekken might be able to fill tenz's spot as duelist, but no one can fill zekken's spot as flex with the same strength and agent pool.

dephh is sentinel/lurking smokes, pANcada - smokes (if we take that silly ranked theory, he could also be sentinel), sacy - initiator, marved -smokes

With the current meta, I think not having tenz would be pretty detrimental for the structure of the team comp. (also marved has said he doesn't even want to play and that's why he wasn't on a team until being SEN's sixth, unless that has changed without him saying anything)

its a stadium for 150~ people apparently, the crowd is never going to be great

bro doesn't realize every na gc player is radiant

marved himself has said he wants to take a break from playing... he would not just sign to a team with a clear starting five at this point in time especially with how good he is. He is most likely just going to be a signed streamer there because teams are required to have a sixth man, and for SEN having both a big streamer and a very competent player to sub IF needed is a great option. That's why they had Sick and now with what is going on there, they are just using marved in the exact same way.

Also the theory about pancada switching to sentinel because of ranked games is so absurdly silly.

don't get me wrong I think he's a really good player, but there is a difference between the flex role and playing different smokes agents.

Flex role you play a bunch of different roles like initiator, smokes, duelist, sentinel... tuyz was just playing smokes (brim, harbor, astra, omen)

tuyz was playing smokes the entire tourney, I would not consider him to be a flex player by any means (at least in that LOUD system)

don't hate on runi and jakee. they got signed because of the wacky circumstances of the org just being very not good... the two of them aren't frauds, your expectation of this team should be low (maybe 0-6 start to season looking at schedule) just because c9 fucked up

this tweet sums it up pretty perfectly: https://twitter.com/seangares/status/1636045420781768704

I think its fine to give the region two teams because the region has pretty solid talent in the scene (or so I have heard). Just both Zeta and ESPECIALLY DFM did not make very good roster moves to actually compete in the franchise league. Basically, the region as a whole has players that can compete, just those teams are probably not the best show of talent the Japan region can produce.

add3r and governor on ttr are both 19 on I think and both look really promising.

this is a totally very smart take, if you have watch zekken's streams from this current act you can totally tell that he is going to be the new smokes player for SEN. If you look at his valorant tracker (im too lazy to figure out how to upload a picture but his name is 'sen z' rn look up yourself) from a week ago he was dropping 25+ a game on viper. This entire act he has been playing mostly omen and viper.... very strong evidence perhaps?????

This is very big, very real speculation, totally matters and has effects on their pro play 100000%%%%% of the time!!!!!!!! Please keep looking at ranked games and scrim results to form full opinions on how teams will play and perform in real matches!!! IT ALWAYS WORKS!!!!!

Did you even watch anything other than that one clip? Even if you only saw that one clip of Tarik saying that if Brazil wanted more events in the future that the crowd emptying when LOUD lost and FNATIC were doing their interview type of behavior wasn't acceptable. It is not an insult. It is just a critique on ONE THING. Pretty much every other moment of his stream he was talking about how much he enjoyed the environment of the crowd, even when people in his chat were spamming "L CROWD" he was talking about how it was cool that the fans in the arena were so passionate. And that the people online should understand just how harsh the conditions in the arena were, especially the heat.

Just the simple idea that Tarik was "disrespecting the crowd" is kind of wild because as someone who was actually watching the stream he was always talking about how good the atmosphere was. You are just trying to fan the flames on nothing. He said he loved the crowd just wished it showed more love for other teams as well (which he did acknowledge that they did, it was just not in that clip)

I think a lot of people on this site just look at the stats of "oh dephh bottom frag = he bad" and don't seem to think much about the bigger picture of the team structure and how all the pieces of a valorant team fit together. Dephh tends to play the very heavy lurk roles (kj, cypher, astra etc...) so of course his stats aren't going to look very good. He does what he is asked to do. He may not be a flashy star player but he will get you wins.

Another thing people seem to not talk about, that this BcJ tweet points out wonderfully https://twitter.com/BcJFPS/status/1635762319358844928 is that dephh has worked with the entire coaching staff of SEN before when he was on XSET and clearly those coaches value his skills as an IGL and player enough to bring him over to work with him on this new roster as well.

I just think it's kind of crazy for people to talk about replacing him when they are a brand new team who haven't been practicing for very long time (a month or so) when we saw them play ONE game against maybe the best team in the world...