It matters for the ascension teams. Right now for example Boom is top 8 in champs points for Pacific thanks to winning 5 games in split 1 and this would allow them to go to Ascension to defend their spot in tier 1. Atm there's 4 teams that don't look super likely to overtake them in champs points namely: GE, TS (virtually on 2 points) and DFM, Zeta (virtually on 3 points) with one game to play in groups. However DFM have qualified for playoffs so if they manage to go on a run there and win, they'll get champs points for that which would bump Boom out of top 8 and eliminate them from tier 1 (any finish in top 4 from DFM or any of the other teams mentioned if they somehow qual for playoffs would also bump Boom out of top 8).

Current 2G are not 2 moves away from being a good tier 1 team though. On top of that I don't even get the reasoning on replacing Pryze and Gobera specifically? Spike hasn't been amazing in his first couple of games, silentzz has been straight up bad in noth kickoff and stage 1 and lz has shown nothing to indicate to me that he has a higher ceiling than Tuyz who at times has been one of the best controllers in the world.

2G are a team that fluked their way into tier 1 and are now logically on their way back to tier 2.

They adding nats from Temu

Ah yes poach the other bottom of the barrel Americas team that will turn things around

WEDIH WEHNSDAY!!!!

qw1 and mojj getting dropped to tier 2 after a very good season with FUT was rough

But he was T1's carry and dragging them to internationals even at times when they didn't deserve it. At the very least good enough to be in tier 1 no? Though I do think with Jett becoming less strong, Pacific becoming a lot stronger as a region and Saya now somewhat struggling in tier 2 it's looking like we might not see him in tier 1 again which would be a shame.

SUYGETSUUUUUUUU

Nongshim could still secure top seed btw. Could've included that in the scenarios.

Tbf EDG has been struggling for a while now whilst BLG are like top 3 in China easily so I think it's not that unexpected and ahead of the game I think BLG was probably slightly favored based on the past few weeks.

I was hesitant about adding Suygetsu to the Russian superteam since he switched to non-representing after the war in Ukraine broke out but yeah definitely works better with him on the team (+ he's my favourite player)

if Jemkin drops another 0 kill game he'll replace him on the team dw

Jemkin - Duelist
Something - Opping Gekko
Chronicle - whatever the team needs him to be
nats - perma Viper
Vookashu - Sentinel

I don't see any flaws in this team composition tbh

He wasn't even the best player on his team last year how on earth was he the goat? But yeah he fell off this year.

On a Russian super team consisting of:
Jemkin
Something
Chronicle
Nats
Vookashu

They were a decent midfield team and then decided to mess it all up by making mid season changes.

I hope 🙏

I feel like you can justify replacing any of the EG players, even yay.

Personally I would go -supa, -icy but I think none of them have been bad and none of them have been that good that they're completely beyond replacement especially if a great talent is available.

Look at the names, one of the people Meiy "killed" was himself. The real question is why the 6k doesnt show up on vlr.

They gave you the wrong script brother

Westside isn't even the best player on his team

Let's go Belgian tier 1 representation. You've got this Flickless! <3

Bro literally did not show up for this one.

Patrick WHO??? I only know Deryeon.

Man plays better drunk

definitely worse than TS, I would say better than AG still though

only cuz I counter jinxed (I gotchu fam)

You jinxed him 😒

Only idiots bet

true crashies woke tf up, probs didn't have much time to get used to the team before kick off or smth

anyways my bad crashies much apologies

Damn, thats a pretty impressive prediction

and somehow -2 kills

I think Waylay is good but these players are delusional if they think they can play her to the same level they're playing Jett, Raze, Yoru after just a couple of weeks. I think to pop off on Waylay you need way more time to get used to the agent.

Avova went demon mode and Molsi was solid as well (I know its only one game but idk why everyone hates on these guys when they were pretty good in 2023 and shouldnt have been dropped)

nah he'll get transferred to NRG after FNS tragically dies of old age (trust I've got the script)

Nah Autumn is the IGL goat trust

Nobody matches S1mon's util usage though. Monstrous assist numbers.

He's not a good replacement for S1mon though unless they're planning on changing all their team comps and only play 1 initiator everwhere

• C9 + EG so top 8 at least (yay playoffs)

Tbf being the best player on one of (if not the) worst teams in franchising history doesn't mean that much. Still excited to see what he can do though.

Ah yes because BLG or XLG or DRG would've surely gone on to beat G2 and T1 and win the entire tournament right? Also Trace have been at two major tournaments and made it through the group/swiss stage once. 50% success rate ain't too bad imo.

Not guaranteed, new groups are drawn for stage 2 and you're not guaranteed to play every team in your league across the two stages.

nah it's their academy team I think: https://www.vlr.gg/team/17094/furia-academy

Historically EMEA has still been pretty good in Valorant though.

EMEA: 5 titles (Gambit, Acend, FPX, Fnatic (x2))
Americas: 5 titles (Sen (x2), Optic, Loud, EG)
Pacific: 2 titles (GenG, T1)
China: 1 title (EDG)

It's not that EMEA is bad, just that the regions are at the most balanced they have been in a while and the EMEA teams have just fallen short at some finals/play offs stages. I mean this last event we had all 4 regions represented in the top 4 and with Vitality and EDG beating T1 and G2 respecitvely earlier on in the tournament (before losing to them in the playoffs) I would say these 4 teams are all very close in skill to eachother.

Is there a cap on the amount of players a team can have? If there's not there's only one way froward from here: 35 player roster, 5 different players for each map.

He has to get carried by DRX rejects

I think they were very good at their peak but they didn't have a better 2023 than Fnatic. You're conveniently leaving out that they were pretty mediocre for like the first 3-4 months and only barely even made it to Tokyo in the first place.

They weren't extremely close to beating Fnatic at Tokyo, that was one of the most dominant tournament performances by any team in Valorant history. Comparatively EG did actually lose a match against Paper Rex on their run to becoming champions and came close to losing against LOUD (3-2 victory including needing overtime on Ascent). Those two tournament runs are not comparable.

Fnatic only lost to 2 teams that entire season, Team Liquid (once, after beating them twice before that series) and LOUD (twice at champs, after beating them before in the LOCK//IN Final). They also only lost 13 maps all season: 6 against LOUD, 3 against Liquid, 1 against BBL, 1 against FUT, 1 against DRX and 1 against EG). Just as a comparison: EG lost 14 maps already before they got to the play offs for the Americas League, and ended the season losing 33 maps total and 11 series total.

The only thing EG has over Fnatic in 2023 is that they had a better record against LOUD (still not a winning record being 2-2 overall though) and the fact that they won Champs which is the biggest tournament (though again, I would say LOCK//IN + Masters is more impressive than just Champs).

I like EG, the run was a true fairytale moment, I loved their playstyle and they proved that they were one of the best teams in the world in 2023 by having two incredible performances back to back at the two biggest tournaments. I also think that the continued succes for most of the EG 2023 players (Boostio improved 100T a lot, Jawgemo was still frying on a heavily weakened EG, C0M made a deep run at Champs again) proves how much individual talent that squad had. However, saying Fnatic was better is not disrespect towards EG, it's just facts.

Verno is rumoured to go to MIBR in place of nzr

Consistently towards the bottom of the scoreboard unfortunately. Tbf he's got amazing util usage and seems like a proper vibes guy so idk if cutting him would be the right move.

I would love to see Sen Skuba (I don't think Bang is bad btw I just love Skuba ❤️)