America's team's core have always been good while EMEA's team's cores fall off after the year they play good in. LOUD, OPTIC, and GUARD core have all done pretty decent over the years in 2023 and 2024 while EMEA on the other hand teams like ACEND, GMB, FPX, and FNC all fall off the year after they do well in. Only exception is SEN but they fell off after the first event.

LOUD - 2nd at LOCK//IN, 3rd at Champs LA
OPTIC - 4th at Tokyo, billy billy 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
GUARD - 3rd at Shanghai

ACEND - failed to attend any LANs and also got cooked in EMEA challengers despite having the same roster after 2021
GMB - failed to attend any LANs and also got cooked in EMEA challengers despite having the same roster after 2021 (only excuse is no more org support)
FPX - navi kekw also only qual'ing to LANs because emea got more slots in 2023 + look shit rn
FNC - fnc kekw failed to do anything at Shanghai and missed Madrid

yeah GMB had the exact same roster after becoming M3C and couldn't qual to Iceland 2022, only excuse EMEA fans can muster up about that one is they lost their org's support.

bro did rito fucking up the chances of getting this shit map???? I've gotten it like 4/6 maps I've seen bro this shit is not good. Did they do this because they know its a horrible fucking map and they want to force people to play it or smth bro like MAKE A GOOD MAP WITHOUT SOME RANDOM ASS MECHANIC AND SOME PEARL B BOMB SITE BRO.

can rito not make a map that isn't just run it down B and spam bomb like bro Abyss and Sunset are just pearl B site 2.0 lmao

• leo + patitek fnatic can have hiro

also don't wanna be that guy but its replaced not repeated

where was any of this stated lmao only thing you said was

but PRX did beat them in one BO3 and one BO5 in stage 1

wtf is bro whaffling on about their strats being better as well you think a better strat team would end up 5th-6th at a LAN and the other being 2nd at Madrid and winners of Shanghai? lmao.

so like i said before how can G2 claim to be the best in AMER if they have a 0/3 against 100T

recency bias at its peak LMAO wouldn't expect anything less from a SEN fan tho ranking their team to be the best after one series

your facts are dumb lmao how is the first trophy holder of APAC not going to be the BEST team in APAC lmao

so how is G2 the best AMER team then if 100T has beaten them 3 times already? list doesn't make any sense lmao he is stating what the best team from each region is not comparing them to each other. He said that EDG were bad because of their LAN performance but doesn't apply to other regions???

I come back to this site to check the game and who the fuck let runneR back onto duelist bro I thought they already exiled him from the role dawg

k1Ng was top 1 at Lock//IN yet I don't recall seeing GenG in the top 4 lmao. Is he considered the GOAT then because he did good? According to your statement yes he should then.

AMER: NA
EMEA: Turkey
PAC: KR/SEA
CN: CN 🗿 (and OCE my goat autumn)

I feel like the addition of Foxy9 and BeYn was a good choice for DRX since they started to perform much better and with young talent there is a much larger area of improvement as well. Only thing that I don't understand is why tf would they drop Stax like atp just keep him for the rest of the year and they did so well and he could help Foxy9 and BeYn improve even more.

See the problem with DRX is they are trying to be like TH where they try and import as much young talent as they can and remove the older talent. Even though this is a very good option for DRX to change how they are setup and could in the long run improve how they play is also really bad. The only reason why TH works so well is because Boo has a long experience of IGL and is also an older brother of Miniboo who is also on the team, with this it sets up a really well respect connection and understanding between all the players where Boo can teach the young players how to achieve their best. Unlike DRX on the other hand where Mako has no experience with IGL and cannot bring the best out of their players simply because he doesn't know how too, it worked well with Stax as IGL as Foxy9 and BeYn came in and did really well but now Stax is gone and Mako is all that's left.

sadly there's no IGL and if Cender continues to perform to the level he did against TL then they are in pretty good hands, bro was single handedly keeping them in the game second half and OT.

What happens if a team signs 24 players who are one tricks on a certain agent and when they are needed for a map they get to play. (some agents won't need to be signed as some are pretty useless/off meta). I mean it would be pretty easy to antistrat but like agent-wise no need for flex players and everyone can play the agent they are the most comfortable with.

VIT
Cender (depending if he keeps his form against TL), Leo, Sayf, Patitek, Trexx

lightning mcqueen?

mb typed the wrong thing

All 5 players coming from the same country

AMER:
MIBR (excluding Shahz and Paint rn)

EMEA:
BBL
FUT
M8

PAC:
DRX
GEN.G
TS
ZETA

CN:
EDG (excluding S1mon)
Tyloo

not even trying to defend SEN but GENG had the same record as SEN did, made playoffs first seed, lost to t1, and could still qual for shanghai cuz DRX choked.

Already Qual'ed
TS
DRX
PRX

Already Out
Bleed

Other Teams
T1 (basically already out would need to beat the rest of the teams and also have GENG most likely not win another one.)
GENG (determined by the GE match and if GE beat t1 or not and if GENG beat TS, highly likely as GE isn't rated that high)
DFM (needs to beat all the other teams in their bracket and hope other teams lose)
ZETA (same case as DFM except they need DFM to lose due to h2h)
Talon (needs to win remaining games or hope other teams like DFM and ZETA don't catch up)
RRQ (same as Talon)

He's not wrong tho they play similar to FPX back in copenhagen except less flashy and FPX back in copenhagen was one of the most boring teams to watch even though they won because they would just play so damn slow.

I think its also because of the sheer amount of big Chinese orgs and rito wants all of those orgs in valorant as it provides a lot of viewership and on rito's part they get more and more money because of it.

Why didn't he bring this up when he lost to TH back in shanghai? Didn't seem like it was a problem when they dominated Americas only now when they lose to a pretty horrible team did he bring it up and use it as an excuse.

EDG is locked in because no matter what 2nd place does (FPX) they can't catch up to them so they are guaranteed champs. Other regions on the other hand need to have 2nd place not win any games so they cannot catch up but they still have a chance to do so.

oh mb then

I'm not insulting 100T lmao, you said those would be easy wins and that 100T would place over SEN, now it doesn't seem to be so true. Don't auto assume im insulting 100T and get overly defensive about it.

rito wanted to be different and make it so teams had a hard time qualifying

why is EG champs so low? they had to play against some of the most dominate teams that we have ever seen before to this date (except FNC but they were already crumbling apart).

Pretty sure he was only sad because he was getting shit on by NA fans bout C9's performance in 2023 and not being able to qual for any LANs despite being a hella good team. Atp I don't think he cares that much anymore since he won a trophy which was the only thing that he really wanted to do and was why he was sad since they could've had a major run at both tokyo and LA.

13-1 on sunset broke 100t dawg no shot they losing this to Furia out of all teams.

How are yall gonna be scared to push B site by a dude who hasn't been relevant since 2022 lmao. Khalil got aura now dude.

what bout those easy wins again?

I think you meant NA, cuz Americas got MIBR and Furia

IGLing comes with years of experience lmao, you think Boostio was so good with IGL because he picked it up one day and decided to call? no lmao look at how Ethan turned out.

new player and role swap that's why I said we will need to see them play to make assumptions but I have high hopes for LOUD that's why I'm putting them over 100T for now.

well if 100T loses to LOUD then SEN will have 14 points if they win the rest of their games and 100T with 13, then in playoffs if sen bombs out they get 0 and if 100T wins one they will have 14, if they win the next they already qual so points don't matter and its given to the next team with the most points and if they don't SEN gets the spot because of h2h.

idk how good pancada will be as an addition to the team but I'm ranking them over 100T for now tho, we will see when LOUD play.

If SEN wins the next games they will basically automatically qual to champs due to points since 100T is likely to lose to LOUD, they could completely bomb out of playoffs and still make it even if 100T get one win in playoffs too (pretty sure because of h2h).

true and then runi could move back to sentinel as well since he played sentinel during 2023

I know one map shouldn't be enough evidence but damn shahz is looking clean, if he joined C9 instead of Vanity that would be insane. Runi and him duo calling with him being able to play jett while Oxy starts playing other duelists with the new buffs would just be crazy. Only problem is that they would need a smokes player and none of the current roster has a history of playing them (I would say runi could pick up smokes since he already plays viper but we don't know)

why is bro ulting when he didn't activate shield thats just a horrible 1v1 for him

zombs is probably the richest member of sen outside of TenZ

They already qualified for champs lmao even if FPX wins the rest of their games it wouldn't matter because theres a 2 point difference and if FPX wins 2 more they qual for champs anyways giving the spot to the next highest which would be EDG and if FPX don't do that then well they don't get to qual and EDG would qual anyways.

i may need to pay another skin to rito to please them they haven't been too happy with me

i repeat i just got out of that game and got 3 duelists (im asc elo as well i cannot make this shit up)

so i get into a good game right? team is comming good team comp, then BAM someone on the enemy team dodges. All good right? I'll just q into another one, one dodge won't do any harm, then BAM I get placed into the WORST team ever bro, its either a shit ass comp or just a shit team in general, they ff after 4 rounds or dc because they are just that shit. Like come on rito PLS STOP TRYNA TKAE MY RR BRO. Just because I haven't paid any money on this game for like a year doesn't mean you can just take my rr like that cuh. (also this isn't some schizo thing or any bro this has happened to me all the time to the point where like its not funny anymore).

Yeah and I said how's his IGLing going now lmao, didn't make madrid and bombed out of shanghai with some of the best players of all time. You gonna start reading what I'm writing or not? Why are you blinded by his past accomplishments and not looking at his more recent records.