They should make it so if you buy one of the VCT team's bundle and you also have one of the champs skins (2021, 2022, or 2023) you can select a variant of it as the VCT team bundle that you bought. After you do this it can replace the yellow glowing thing in the finisher and add the team's logo to it and if they want to make it better they can add the team's color scheme to the finisher as well. They can also replace the glowing things like the side of champs 2021 vandal, the thing on the back of champs 2022 phantom, and the little heartbeat thing on the champs 2023 vandal as the logo of your respected team as well. Would give more incentive to buy both of the team bundle and the champs skin lines too.

SEN dephh was a W move for the long run, tricked zekken into joining SEN

How do we think this map is gonna turn out in pro play? Personally I think its gonna be pretty shit and if not many team's permaban just because of how bad the map is. The only excuse that people can muster up about this map is that it's "fun" for the normal player but since in pro play people are playing to win and not exactly only to have fun the map is gonna be pretty shit.

Examples
Mid - An op or even a normal person holding with a rifle on defense has 3 choke points they can play around with (4 if you include breakable). I don't know about you but if I'm an attacker I ain't pulling 4 smokes out my ass and I don't know if you can get much value out of double dome controller on this map either.
A Site - Plant bomb either default or bridge and just pray to RNG that you get kills when they tap.
Attacker spawn - what the fuck is the ledge doing that if you jump off it you take fall damage, I'm pretty sure pros aren't stupid enough to do that but why tf is it there.
B site - Once again plant default or near the ledge and pray to RNG that you get kills when they tap.

Also can we talk about how A heaven and B heaven are positioned in such a weird way that the defenders can find so much value?

Good things about the map:
The concept of being able to fall off the map is good, you can make plays with agents like yoru or omen to get away, but that does not make up for the shit ass map design that abyss is bro.

Shanks and Marved

https://www.vlr.gg/220294/natus-vincere-vs-edward-gaming-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-elim-a

1. Whzy's standup shot to knock NRG out of playoffs
2. Stax waving C9 home after they did the same to PRX
3. Kangkang OP shot after clutching an insane clutch
4. Zellsis screaming "sit down" in Korean to GenG
5. Suygetsu waving PRX home after his 4k

HM. Monyet "Keep my name out of your mouth" to TH

aspas
suygetsu
woot
bang
fns
jonahp
tex
realistically kingg
50/50 but jingg
forsaken
idk
keznit
david
yetujey

realistically with this team maps that require both a flash initiator and sova/fade like ascent will be their worst maps and they will get dog walked on them.

bro thinks its first strike all over again

nAts - Sentinel/Secondary Caller
paTiTek - Flex
ScreaM - Flash Initiator/Secondary Duelist
Sayf - Primary Duelist
sociablEE - IGL/Info Initiator

Emil and d00mbr0s brother combo

TL hire me don't do nAts dirty again next year

Yeah FNC def looking more and more scary but the falloff from major aura in 2023 to basically no aura now (shanghai) is just something I had to add

list of orgs that lost a lot to all of their aura

NRG
LOUD
FNC
EG
NAVI
TL
DRX
100T
EDG

Well I mean I have to fact check it because I know your ass is just pulling random shit out of it because I insulted your poor dear little GenG

It's about 200 since there are 50 posts per page on someone's profile and it gets to 3 weeks ago around the 5th page so nt 0/8

Well if you don't have anything else to say but nitpick everything I say and bring nothing useful into the argument then you can go back to shitting on FNS.

LMAO someone might be a little bit blind to think that I have 900 posts in 20 days, lets use some common sense and read next time might help.

I'm going to have to stfu on my own post? lmao you have nothing else to say just using recycled ass arguments while I bring in new ones. You seem to be the demented one in this situation only thing you're saying is how those teams didn't even have to play their best against GENG and still beat them while the only times SEN lost where when those teams were absolutely sweating their balls off.

I'm going to have to stfu on my own post? lmao you have nothing else to say just using recycled ass arguments while I bring in new ones. You seem to be the demented one in this situation only thing you're saying is how those teams didn't even have to play their best against GENG and still beat them while the only times SEN lost where when those teams were absolutely sweating their balls off.

LEV the game where aspas dropped a new fucking kill record? LOUD the team who after that game destroyed the 3rd place finishers at Shanghai? EG the team that is known for making miracles with potter as their head coach?

Now lets see the APAC teams, DRX the known chokers who can't make a LAN and have to keep swapping out their players, PRX the known chokers who always fumble under the pressure, and RRQ, idfk anything bout these guys except for after stage 2 when they added Monyet and became a decent team.

LOUD the same team that steamrolled through the 3rd place finishers at Shanghai? also yes I recognized the fact that SEN sold to EG but then again they got more rounds against EG than GENG did against RRQ (one being known for antistrating and having a good coach and the other being known for absolutely nothing except flip getting 0 kills).

whatever helps you sleep at night bro

Then tell me how GENG managed to get top seed with a 3-3 record and SEN didn't even qual with a 3-3 record, nice "shitty group" while SEN is facing against C9 and KRU (normal stage menaces) and G2 (3rd place at Shanghai and arguably the best in AMERICA at the time). Now lets look at GENG's group, GE (bunch of frauds), T1 (bunch of throwers), TS (throwers at the time), and bleed (I don't even need to explain this one).

I loved how people were saying that GENG and SEN were different because one qual'ed for playoffs and the other didn't despite having the same record, now you look at the playoff teams and see that 4/5 teams in SEN's bracket are already qual'ed. It was so much easier for GENG to qual with dog teams like GE, Bleed, and T1 in their bracket but was so difficult because SEN had actually good teams in their bracket and people thought that it was only because SEN fell off or had a fluke run. And yes SEN did throw against EG but then again RRQ beat GENG as well lmao and GENG still got top seed.

I also enjoyed watching something throw that post plant on icebox by peeking out first for no reason! Very entertaining gameplay from them against 100T I’m pretty sure they were having fun during that game too, no stress at all!

Based on antistrating stats

1. Warbirds
2. 2022 Chet 🐍
3. Potter
4. Solo
5. Kickoff Engh

bro thinks this site is hypixel

DRX and NAVI lost to both GENG and TH in elim and was the only reason they didn't qual to both events, both of them made massive roster changes and now the teams don't feel the same anymore. Sad that Rito makes the worst formats ever and completely screws over top tier teams when they still have the will and confidence to play the game and compete.

CGRS in tokyo had the most aura out of any apac player

They also only had good placements because they had to play other EMEA teams in elim... (except for TH)

Which team created the jett, sova, kayo, omen, and kj meta on ascent? I think it was OPTIC/ENVY but I could be wrong tho.

Is this the first time an org has f#cked over a team hard? dropping d00mbr0s dropped the team morale so much that all the players no longer want to even play the game anymore dawg L management and the stats show it.

I think that d00mbr0s probably got in trouble with the management as he tried to defend the players after not qualing to a single LAN this year, when he said that they only didn't qual because they lost to TH and didn't want to drop any of their members the manager probably thought he was being challenged for his power and power tripped and kicked d00mbr0s off the team. That could probably show why the team is so sad because d00mbr0s was defending them and their jobs and he got his cut because of it (also cuz of their relationship for the past 3 years).

oh damn was the second team just called team 2 or smth because that would be funny asf

T1 does not mean tier 1 it means telecom 1 😭 (or smth to do with telecom)

Boostio, Ethan, and Demon1 lost potter and now they be losing all the time kekw

The players deserve champs the org doesn't after dropping d00mbr0s

Yeah I think EDG is just testing shit right now since they just signed 2 new players especially since they have no fear of not qualing to champs

Then again they were never scared in regionals lets just see how they perform at champs

firepower wise yes but I feel like they were more disciplined with Benkai they only threw with him during Copenhagen but that was mostly because of the nerves on map 5

well i mean the year is still 2024 and the meta is still the same

If they all adapted to the meta none of this "plunder era" shit. Also in their respected regions not international.

2021 Iceland SEN - probably 6th-4th (Sick, Shahz, and TenZ were some of the most mechanically talented people of the era)
2021 Berlin GMB - 3rd (Has the most talented players in the region I would rank them lower than TH and a bit lower than FUT)
2021 Champs Acend - 8th-6th (back then was just cNed carry but they have potential to make playoffs idk bout a LAN)
2022 Iceland OPTIC - 3rd (if they adapted to the meta and let FNS cook they would've done really well especially since they would keep their form)
2022 Copenhagen FPX - n0vi kekw
2022 Champs LOUD - 2nd-1st (probably one of the best teams if the core still stuck together only might be lower than current SEN)
2023 LOCKIN/Tokyo FNC - 2nd (TH just look a bit better than they did back in 2023)
2023 Champ EG - 1st (legit no competition SEN would come close but they were just so much better)

https://www.vlr.gg/247094/nrg-esports-vs-bilibili-gaming-valorant-champions-2023-group-stage-opening-c
https://www.vlr.gg/247098/bilibili-gaming-vs-nrg-esports-valorant-champions-2023-group-stage-decider-c

whzyyyy 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

For GE I would personally say Benkai if he's not making small mistakes he's a really decent player and probably the best on GE

in purp0 we trust

LETSS GOO CLOUD FINALLY GOT A GOOD TEAM

anyways odds that GX make playoffs
GX beats TH and FUT
VIT beats BBL
M8 loses to FUT and TH and beats NAVI
NAVI loses to both KOI and M8 or one of them cuz GX has h2h
Lulquid loses the rest of games

map bans or previous game momentum?

We've seen teams get beaten in the upper finals and then they win the lower finals and then come back and absolutely smack the team in the grand finals. So do we think that map bans and picking maps that you're team is more comfortable on is more important or bringing the momentum from the previous game win into the grand finals?

since Americas is hella tense right now I'll make some updates on what every bottom team needs to qual.

100T - Beats remaining teams, can lose to one but needs to beat EG otherwise out, or lose to EG and hope EG loses to MIBR while 2-0'ing the rest of teams. Can also hope that C9 or G2/KRU do horrible and have a chance there.
NRG - Beats remaining teams, 100T beat EG, EG loses to MIBR, 100T loses to MIBR and LOUD, then LOUD loses to LEV
LOUD - Beats remaining teams, 100T beat EG, loses to MIBR, EG loses to MIBR. Can also hope that C9 or G2/KRU do horrible and have a chance there.
FURIA - Beats remaining teams 2-0, LOUD beats 100T 2-1 loses to LEV 2-0, 100T loses to MIBR and LOUD 2-0 and 2-1 beats EG 2-1, EG loses to MIBR 2-0, gets a better round diff

if I made a mistake say it

at least LOUD made playoffs with qck I don't see LOUD with pancada in any playoffs

they made a LAN and playoffs with him, now they won't even be making top 9

How about instead of flaming c0m 24/7 we just put Kingg as a site anchor on attack and let c0m do his thing on flank, he gets so much more value as a lurk and is 100% more comfortable on it. Maybe then we can get 2023 c0m and Lev can enter the superteam convos.

that "easy game" that navi has also smoked the team that smoked navi