No s0m tho

we already got verno punching fns

he realized magnum had a better chance of getting to another LAN than he did

I think Derke needs to go, his crashout against Trexx shows his true mentality and him haven't the 4th lowest stats on VIT and the highest FDPR in the league doesn't make anything better. The Derke fans are probably going to downvote this but that's just the truth. Cyv0ph is also a very decent secondary duelist, just make Sayf full time duelist again and bring in an actual IGL and they will probably start seeing results again.

Ngl Trexx is in the right here. I'm a fan of both players and think that they are extremely good, sure if Trexx was being a dick it's not a good thing for the team but Derke getting fired up over a meme that Trexx posted is kind of childish ngl. Saying things like "you were impossible to work with" and "We didn't want to damage your reputation" AFTER apologizing and asking Trexx to come back to the team is a crazy fucking statement.

I also don't know how much to trust Derke's "he didn't change" tweet, the team looked so much better with Nikita "Toxic ass man and never changed according to derke" Cherednichenko and looks like a shit can without him. And if we are talking about Sayf's shit midrounding, this is the same IGL who brought them to top 4 at Bangkok so just remember that too.

Btw this team has the same amount of coaching staff as the amount of players on it, you can't blame Sayf only for not keeping this team together when there are literal people whose job is to do that.

If NRG decided to bring back Verno what do you think Verno would do? go back to the same shitty team that dropped him in the first place?

Maybe, but T1 also had an extra week of break and also didn't need to adapt to another timezone, SEN would've made playoffs had they not sold that EG game.

Wouldn't it be more beneficial for teams to qualify for EWC over masters? Bigger prize pool + easier to qual + probably a bigger crowd just in terms of exposure. Also teams that qualify to both are lowk cooked ngl the schedules are gonna be so ass for them.

Mada is the only question mark on this list, maybe just because his team is kind of ass, but other wise 10/10 list.

lowk riot should dedicate an entire year just to making/fixing agents, they are doing a lot of map changes which I feel are unnecessary, just find the top 7 maps that people enjoy or are the most balanced and then just hyper focus on agents and then figure out the map stuff after.

dawg why does my chat just randomly start breaking in valorant????? lmk riot cuz this ain't it

Just imagine taking a college course but you're in high school, if you do good on the AP test then you don't have to pay and retake the course in college.

Top 3 in every pacific stage has ALWAYS had at least 2 KR teams.

Uh T1 in 2024 was a mixed roster and they have an advantage over other regions since they always started out with 3 KR teams.

"I don't think any team that won a trophy fell off as hard during the same year as the Korean teams." pls read gng

SEN 2021 made Berlin playoffs
Gambit 2021 made top 2 champs

OPTIC 2022 made top 3 copenhagen
FPX 2022 made top 4 champs

FNC 2023 made top 4 champs

Your argument for SEN is true that they didn't qualify for Shanghai, but then again comparing it to T1 who had an extra week of downtime + barely any time zone changes is crazy.

????? 1/3 of my posts since the g2 one are related to those

hating on drx and prx for their fanbases https://www.vlr.gg/484945/prx-vs-drx/#1

Where tf did you get that I was hating on either DRX or PRX?????? LMAOOO. I'm just saying that the fan bases are going to be annoying from whoever wins that match not even relating to the orgs.

hating on drx and geng for getting kills through smoke (this is actually funny as fuck) https://www.vlr.gg/483890/drx-and-geng/#1

How tf did you get the idea of me hating on either team for this?? All I'm saying is that DRX is getting hella lucky ig that's just considered hating now.

I don't think any team that won a trophy fell off as hard during the same year as the Korean teams. I lowk think that it has something to do with ego and overconfidence over winning a trophy.

GENG looked like the best team in the world during Shanghai and then fumbled the bag to both TH and SEN during champs. Realistically you can't say that teams "anti-strated" them so hard because GENG smoked SEN and then SEN smoked them back the second time.

T1 on the other hand won Bangkok and then imploded so hard. Some people argued that the maps changing was a reason behind that (abyss was one of T1's worst maps so that can't be right). Sure the PRX game could've been due to Meteor on tejo (honestly such a bad idea), but then again they were doing bad even with Meteor on sentinel.

I mean I don't know, they lost pretty badly to both RRQ and Talon when Meteor was off tejo so we don't really know what would've happened.

I mean sentinels would've made playoffs if they didn't throw against EG so it was more unlucky than other teams being prepared for them at least for group stage

What reason do you think was behind T1 imploding? Out of the 4 playoff teams from Bangkok, T1 is the only one that doesn't really have a reason for dropping the ball. G2 made it to Canada and also won Americas, EDG had internal issues with s1mon and a new addition to their roster, and VIT replaced trexx with their new player + sayf's midrounding isn't the best.

• Reduce RR loss when someone on your team who wasn't q'ed with you disconnects for more than 5 rounds.
• Either RP or cosmetics for every rank you obtain above gold
• Role Q
• Being able to ban a single map (never q into it)

"report to Riot" alexRr @alexrr_official · May 4
"You think frost didn’t try? He had more evidences than I do 😂" WOL Fayde @FaydeVLR · May 4

Now why would Fayde be supporting frost on the matter of scrim sharing 🤔🤔?

"i have nothing to gain now from saying this but last year on TLN we had proof of some teams scrim sharing and showed it but ya riot just didnt rlly care and told us they couldnt enforce anything from what I understood. just to shed some light. idk whats going on there now or if the problem still exists but in my experiences last year it definitely was a thing. i do think it should be enforced as a rule tho." Governor @Governor_Val · May 4

TDLR: Governor said that TLN did have proof of teams scrim sharing yet riot didn't do anything.

Maybe writing stuff on this website without a brain isn't the best thing to do with your time. And what does the Chinese community have to do with any of this lmao trying to act cool being a racist ain't it gang.

He quite literally tweeted something about the matter and then it was deleted later, matter of fact if you scroll down in the replies you will see screenshots of his tweet.

More and more coaches are coming out into the open and agreeing with frost on the Korean scrim sharing drama, so far frost and elevated have both made statements about it and Fayde has also agreed with frost saying he has much more evidence on the scrim sharing than he does. Apparently, frost sent the "evidence" to Jake Sin (head of APAC/pacific department) and he has yet to reply about the matter or ignoring it entirely. Not only that but the only people who are defending the Korean scrim sharing allegations are the Koreans themselves, even coaches from other regions (Fayde being on Wolves) are agreeing on this matter and not only from SEA (since koreans loved to say that SEA teams were just salty). Yet it is still so funny on how hell bent the players, the fans, and the coaches, are on defending this matter where the Korean people know that the "evidence" cannot be publicly released due to the law.

If I missed anything/got anything wrong lmk

You do realize that Fayde was a APAC coach before he came to the Chinese region right? He never mentioned who scrim shared or anything but if he's agreeing with frost and the only people who are defending the Koreans are the Koreans themselves then you see the dots lining up.

I think it was pretty high, even with a perfect frq you can only really get 5 wrong in the mcq which just worries me if I miss something up.

Heard and saw that the curve was hella high, anyone that took it before knows if it's hard to get a 5 on it?

flor most util supported duelist in all of vct btw

M8 lost to KOI probably the worst team in the league, calling Robbie the worst player on that roster is just rage bait lmao especially with cl0ck

Lmao that's what I thought since I was just scrolling through the NAs ranking back in 2022 and saw LEV there for some reason

Have they always been considered a north american team on vlr? lmao

Also EDG literally uses HK/TW to scrim with PRX.

Proof of this?

And the ping difference from JP to KR is also around 40.

Please tell me how you think JP to KR is the same as KR to HK when HK is hundreds of miles further away than Tokyo is

dawg what the fuck does daft mean you've replied using it twice to me.

You literally said "40 ping to HK is pretty playable." and no SEA/T1 team is going to do that. Playing on 40 ping is a hella big difference than playing on 5-10

Name me one good HK team

You've never seen PRX fans back in 2023-2024 then I suppose

Really whoever wins this is just going to be hella annoying to people who are not fans of any of the teams.

If DRX wins then I'm gonna see nonstop tweets and threads about Korea vs SEA + Korea being the best region in the world yap yap yap
If PRX wins then I'm gonna see nonstop tweets and threads about baby jingjing from their kpop stans

Idk man I don't think I can deal with PRX stans anymore I might want DRX to win this one even if it requires me to sit through more Korea vs SEA yap.

Excluding plumber year, every single winner of the second masters has never appeared in the top 3 of champs.

Prime EG was the best team ever created, so no g2 doesn’t even come close

You never watched jawgemo’s bs kills then or Trent playing back the entire round ig

Wtf are you quoting lmao I never even said that, are you schizo?

Are you writing this behind tears of another year of c9 once again bombing out of playoffs?

“G2 isnt carried by tejo, any team can use him too!!”
Trent is the only player in VCT who has played only tejo in the past 60 days.

“SEN relies on zekken being drugged to win any games!!”
Sentinels beat G2 while zekken was near the bottom of the leaderboard. And G2 wins 60% of their rounds due to Trent playing post.

“Valyn is the best IGL oat!! IGLs like johnqt cannot compete with his calling!!”
Valyn has had 4 years in VCT and has never won an international trophy, johnqt gets added to the sentinels roster and in less than 6 months wins them a trophy. Valyn might be a good aimer but getting out called by other IGLs and struggling from pretty mid teams doesn’t make him the best in the world.

No first seed from group alpha has made it to Canada, rip to them

DRX getting so many lucky/spam kills through smokes, ofc there's some very good aiming from the players but it reminds me of the BOOM vs GENG game where GENG was just getting insane first bullet accuracy and spam kills. Something going on here?

What brand risk does he bring??

Kamo was a brand risk yet TL one of the biggest orgs signed him and he's been pretty good

Bring back Tejo's and skye's recharge ability, Tejo only gets one rocket instead of two. Buff the other initiators so if teams aren't playing one of them they miss out on an ability that could turn the game around. That way these initiators don't overlap each other and gives teams a reason to be different.

Will this be the least amount of Korean teams that we've seen at an international since franchising started (excluding madrid just for the sake of it)?

They stopped because EDG and PRX are better friends than them now.

Uhh idk if making a post titled "T2 players with most potential" and just listing players without a question is a good way to do that, but alright I see.

Canezerra not on this list is crazy