bro saw boaster throwing and went "fine I'll do it myself"

Last team they lost to (and only team to beat them at EWC) is NRG >:)

It really depends, if you have a calm aim-y style like yay then it would work really well.
It's been tried by a lot of players in the past with mixed results. ardiis and Victor would both play senti in 2023 (and Victor went full time senti in 2024) and the results were debatable.
Leaf and Meteor are examples of ones that worked out really well.
players like cNed also tried, with slightly less success.

sometimes the transition to smokes (tenz, koalanoob, jingg) or initiator (asuna, some others idk) works better. It's really dependent on the player.

Bro does not know ball (ange1 has literally played every role)

i too am a cgrs fan girl (please sub for them in tokyo)

are leaf, nats, or alfa also contenders for sentinel?

thank you!

Note: I set the filter to a minimum of 1000 rounds played in Challengers 2025 in order so that only players with a pretty high sample size will show up (and that I can run vlr without lagging)

AMERICAS:

1. NV canezerra (1.29) from NA
2. LEV.A Neon (1.24) from LATAM S
3. 6K Mephisto (1.21) from LATAM N
4. EXL Mited (1.21) from LATAM N
5. NV ion2x (1.18) from NA
6. LOS Qck (1.16) from Brazil
7. EXL Darker (1.16) from LATAM N
8. EXL Feniz (1.16) from LATAM N
9. LEV.A erde (1.15) from LATAM S
10. LEV.A blowz (1.15) from LATAM S

EMEA:

1. BCF ComeBack (1.25) from Turkey, he's already in Tier 1
2. RBT stonezy (1.19) from Spain
3. FMG WanZeru (1.19) from North Europe
4. BCF Lar0k (1.17) from Turkey
5. TL.AC GSR (1.17) from North Europe
6. DSY Famsii (1.17) from Spain
7. RAF Kaaru (1.17) from North Europe
8. UCAM Chadi (1.16) from Spain
9. BNK Chaza (1.15) from North Europe
10. MDR Enzo (1.14) from France

APAC:

1. VLT Lightningfast (1.26) from South Asia
2. KING Dragon (1.24) from Oceania
3. VLT SkRossi (1.22) from South Asia
4. RID Seoldam (1.20) from Japan
5. FH FETA (1.19) from Oceania
6. KING LEW (1.17) from Oceania
7. FS seph1roth (1.16) from SEA
8. KING KADIRI (1.16) from Oceania
9. NFX eKo (1.15) from Japan
10. SLT XuNa (1.14) from Korea

Thoughts? Any surprises? any prospects you have your eye on for Tier 1 next year?

On a side note, I feel like some regions (oceania and north europe for example) have disproportionately high percentages of players with high ratings, is this cause they have more games to play or what? or its just a weaker region in general?

what about Fragger from FLK? He seems to have really good stats this year

i really love my parents and how they’ve supported me growing up. i want to reciprocate the same support in the future towards my kids.

literally a couple months ago id seen posts about how marteen was a top 3 duelist in EMEA.

Elite wasn't necessarily the problem but at some point a change has to be made. Changes like these happen all the time.

wait waylay all four comps??

Fade, Harbor, Viper, Astra, Raze

yoru could go to f0rsaken (first used it in 2022), ardiis (used it most in 2024 that started yoru meta in 2025), or jawgemo (most played in the yoru meta of 2025)

Duelist/Chamber/secondary smokes
demon1 will probably play neon if they run him and yay can play yoru, raze is the only problem but you can definitely not play her in this meta (or even let NaturE play her)

E.g. for Sunset, Demon1 Neon, yay Cypher, supamen Omen, Derrek Fade, NaturE Breach

Or for Haven, Demon1 Iso, yay Yoru, supamen Omen, Derrek Fade NaturE Cypher

or for Corrode, Demon1 Chamber, yay Yoru, supamen Omen, Derrek Sova, NaturE Fade

or if they ever decided to run Demon1 on Brim, yay Yoru, supa Viper, Derrek Gekko, NaturE Fade for example

I think that theyll be flexible enough to deal with it.

Jremys ace on haven (idr against who)

great players definitely do not get 1.8 ratings on a daily basis
not saying victor is like an all time great great but he definitely had very high highs

bump

this is a giga troll comp.

I've been a big fan of Shao but this stage 2 it seems like he hasn't been up to par.

NAVI have played 8 maps and he's only gone positive in two of them. (Ironically both on Corrode) The first one, map three of their series against APK, was a team stomp and he went 11/5. The second one was against TL, a 13-7 loss, and he was the only one on his team to go positive.

Outside of that he's been quite mid. In both the first and third series he was bottom of the leaderboard. His rating is amongst the lowest in EMEA in stage 2, 7th last.

Now I haven't watched any of the games but is Shao genuinely starting to decline or is this just a slump? Posting ratings similar to mammoth hunter ANGE1 isn't good when you're supposed to be at worst top 2 on your team.

as an nrg fan i wouldn’t say we look a cut above the rest yet

can anyone tell me just how good it is or are they just farming bad teams

theyre playing solo skye on bind (slightly better ig) and on haven which hasn’t been seen since 2023

hopefully they can get vlr ratings for games

nats or vookashu could pick up controller, and something plays other scan initiators
this team is low-key flexible enough
ex: jemkin raze, something fade, vookashu omen, chronicle vyse, nats viper

or jemkin iso, something yoru, chronicle sova, vookashu omen, nats cypher, etc

careful if you lift your expectations even by a tiny bit theyre going to disappoint you

roles make much more sense boaster is the smoked player chronicle is the flex. the role of viper as a primary smoker is different than the role of viper in a double controller comp (which is what chron is used to) and sage is usually a more frag-focused agent.

only real ball knowers know sibeastw0w

bump

davia was NOT putting these numbers up on kpi

they probably didn’t prep viper, yay was on clove (edit: nvm im really stupid)

He was pretty good in tier 2 in 2024 and was consistently near the top of the scoreboard for KOI in split 1 (usually that's harder for a duelist on a losing team to do). Been playing pretty shit today though.

yes, players like nukkye and zekken would play sova in double init and raze in double duelist comps (iirc). in the chamber meta those “flex” players would mainly play primary duelist, and the “flex” player would then be the old sentinel player.

point being “flex” is kinda hard to pin down as a role and is not necessarily just playing multiple roles.

ofc you can still have one player only vary roles (like chron) but that’s not too common. take prx, for example, f0rsaken is commonly seen as the flex but jinggg plays controller/duelist/senti, something also has scan init, patmen plays viper, are they all flex?

i feel like traditionally teams’ “flex” has just been whichever initiator plays viper (or senti or dome smokes) in a double controller comp. like saadhak on loud, c0m on eg, etc. nowadays due to the insane variety in comps it’s really hard to pin down what a flex player is. for NRG, for example, is brawk the flex (plays vyse)? is ethan (plays harbor)?

Legendary Demon1 Game

i don’t think anyone is calling his mvp undeserved, he clearly, like you said, had an incredibly high impact on PRX’s win.

it’s just that, by the optics, alfa had such an insane fragging performance that it seemed like he should have won.

G2 2-0

MIBR 2-1

https://www.vlr.gg/event/pickem/2501/vct-2025-americas-stage-2
what yall think of my pickem?????

prx aside cryo could pick up something’s role well as jett/yoru. he even played sova a shit ton.

roles could end up something like
Cryo yoru
jinggg raze
eeiu fade
boostio astra
zander viper

or for icebox:
cryo jett
jinggg omen
eeiu sova
boostio kj
zander viper

I think the only other teams that are in contention are LOUD, SEN, and OPTC/ENVY, and I would say PRX clears them overall.

Toronto just doesn't have that much people, so the venues are naturally smaller.
Toronto has like 5 million. Bangkok has 10 million, Paris has 10+ million.
For our relative population compared to the other countries I'd say Canada did decent as a host country.

played brim for gambit for a bit

Threads moving so fast no one is gonna see this
I might genuinely feel attracted to certain male people

i thought tl signed penny as part of a six-man?

what are roles gonna be?

chiwa sentinel
starxo duelist
purp0 flex
sh1n initiator/smokes
cyvoph smokes/flex

?

Got his ass

HE HEARD YOU

Also saw leo at Canada's Wonderland
source: FNS

Derke (Duelist)
Derrek (initiator)
D4v41 (Flex)
Demon1 (Sentinel)
dos9 (Controller)