based on???

Saya: Entry(mostly Raze similar to Derke)
Munchkin: Skye KJ
Xeta: IGL Sova/Breach and Harbor/Viper
Mak0: Controller
Buzz: KJ, Kayo, secondary awper

Most fragging, flexibility and experience possible IMO, obviously rough to not have Rb or Stax but I think Xeta could be on Stax level if they had the same roster and this team was desperate for a skye play so I picked Munchkin as my final player since he could Skye but also go to KJ on Kayo maps.

Obviously this wouldn't happen but a fun experiment and a team I think would be top 5 ITW given the right scenarios.

Makes a little too much sense so T1 won't do it!

Hence why I said on paper, very different things. They're a top 3 team in the world and are the only team that "owns" this FNC roster. They're crazy good but the only thing is I'd say the other two teams are more individually talented. Pancada knows the system and is a better player than Tuyz, I'd rather them upgrade back to the MVP of last years champs and create a super team that doesn't have problems.

I don't think I am, I'm just saying in this scenario they have kind of a tough option because I say NRG picks the other duo, SEN doesn't need them unless they make some weird cuts and the other two teams are going budget. They still go to C9 and make a nasty squad IMO, them and Leaf is a crazy core.

According to flynn spreadsheet it's now between the two duos, apparently NRG is still in discussion with both.

Gonna be going over what I think would make the Americas region the most overall strongest while keeping in mind general trends from this offseason(personal opinion)

EG: Stays the same, you want the champions winner to stay together.

NRG: The big decision between crashies and victor or FNS and s0m, I think the best route is to keep the IGL and controller. Alongside this, they spend up to get Yay Nismo and Trent. Guard players are for sale, Yay is an F/A with crazy high ceiling and experience with chet/fns, and Nismo is crazy in a meta more centered around raze/kayo.

SEN: Re-add Zellsis, pick up JohnQT, part ways with BR core. I personally don't think that core is winning, and you have plenty of star power to make moves like this. Get an actual IGL alongside a vocal leader with chemistry to the ORG and Tenz. Marved will be unlocked, as will Zekken, and Tenz will have his best environment since 2021.

Loud: With Pancada on the open market they replace Tuyz with him, unlucky for Tuyz but I think it's the one thing keeping them from having a FNC/EG level team on paper, and he wouldn't mess up chemistry.

C9: With Crashies and Victor just needing a team, C9 can still budget a bit by signing them to cheaper contracts alongside Jakee, Flyuh as IGL(who has similar agent pools to FNS and could recreate the comps from 2023 NRG) and keeping leaf as he really doesn't have many options elsewhere(was thinking abt NRG)

TGRD/new org: With Trent gone, they replace him with one of EEIU or BcJ and remain strong but not favorites, still having Valyn and the rest of the core

100T: With less options on the board and also a budget team, they give Ayrin a shot to lead instead of Stellar and replace Derrek with either Xeppaa or the split of BCJ/EEIU able to come in. Probably my most neglected and weakest NA team.

Furia: Takes the opportunity of a F/A Sacy and Tuyz and build a roster of Mwzera, Sacy, Tuyz, Khalil and Havoc

LEV: Replace Tacolilla with Keznit(unlikely) and rubkkoide. Allow Kingg to play more Raze

MIBR/KRU: Stuck on these teams but I hope KRU do replace Nagz and of course Daveeys unfortunately (RIP) and I hope MIBR give the keys to Xand/ RGL and a bunch of T2 talent, maybe keeping Dgzin or jzz from T1.

In my eyes, this has 2 LAN winning level teams in Loud/EG, an NRG team with the ceiling of that, a solid rebuild for C9 Sen and LEV, and still some potential to be better/changes of weakspots in Furia and 100T. MIBR/KRU/TGRD is whatever but they're in very hard spots and MIBR sucks as an org anyway while TGRD isn't even a team rn. They'll be better for '25 IMO.

Sayf is by far the best as long as one of him or Zyppan can add literally one more agent to their pool over the break

klaus staying is wild lmfao

Kingg going to DFM???

Leaf would be the perfect fit but there's no way to get him unfortunately

Nagz and Klaus feel like obvious weaklinks on an otherwise strong roster that features one of the best duelists in Americas, a solid IGL controller, and a really flexible secondary fragger. In my opinion, the team would look much better with a new sova/skye/fade initiator and a viper/harbor/breach flex. In theory this team will need Spanish speakers at both of these roles, so I'd love to know who people think could help them most.

The first name that catches my eye is Mazino. He's already been a part of this team and could be a scapegoat for a really disappointing LEV team. He's obviously not most comfortable on the controller role but a reunion with KRU could revive his old fragging and put him on a more comfortable role like the flex or hard initiator.

Adverso, who was previously on LEV in 2022, fits the bill as well. Known for his sova and viper from before and had an odd 2023 but would likely thrive in a T1 system.

I'm very out of tune with the T2 LATAM scene but deigara seems like a player that was statistically good and can play a ton of agents.

Mocking someone for getting an education is crazy

Whenever someone gets mad at shit like this in Valorant or any other competitive Esport you can just tell they've never watched an actual sport in their life.

Missed both games today, what's the best sub 1-hour YT channel for rewatching full BO3's(like the Loud DRX one), commentary over it or not. I am watching the Tarik one that just posted which is entertaining but if you guys have good suggestions for the Navi game LMK.

D4V4i

Columbia will start looking like the comfortably third best LATAM country. Daveeys is already an extremely solid player, and Fusion has a core of 3 good Columbian players. They also had Xander so you could genuinely make a world cup Columbia side that isn't all that bad.

Maybe too reactionary after what most would call a good year but idk if Runi is safe on C9, whereas I think everyone else is. Runi was good but it's very well known that Zellsis and Xeppaa and Leaf help a LOT with calling (Zellsis specifically), and he really isn't that vocal compared to most other IGLs. If they're looking for a change, Flyuh makes a ton of sense. Better agent pool than Runi's and plays a much better Breach which could help their Haven and Fracture a lot. It could also see them playing more Harbor or Kayo with a new and more flexible player. It would also bring a bit extra fragging to a team that usually shouldn't need it but it can't hurt. He's not the only IGL I'd like to see promoted but he'd make a lot of sense role wise.

I get the Steel choice but I personally really don't take into account any tournament pre International LAN. I'm not putting Steel in the top 10 convo when he only went to one LAN, and though good in it, has never been close since. I think Boostio is perfect for that 10 spot because he's the last IGL that has played in a grand final and though it's really only one LAN there's a big difference between 2nd at a LAN and 4th. That's a huge accomplishment. I'd say Kolda would probably be my number 10 with 3 qualifications and top 4 top 6 and top 8 in them.

Nivera is better on Controller in a non chamber meta. memset or kada on sentinel and your team is solid though.

I'm basically counting every LAN as equal but slight up for champ wins and slight down for Lock In. That being said, if we're going by how successful they've been it goes

1. Boaster
   (He won 2 LANs and got 2nd in the first one ever, as well as being competitive in most others. He's the best even if it's mostly because of success this year)

2a. FNS
2b. Saadhak

4. Ange1

5. Redgar
   (Very similar in overall performance, Redgar had a higher peak but Ange1 has been more consistent)

6. Bonecold

7. Shahzam
   (same accomplishments both can be in the same tier)

8. Stax
   (most consistent to never win)

9. Benkai

10. Boostio

Main HM: Kingg, Klaus, Koldamenta

IDK how to phrase this but I feel like D3ffo for sure deserves another chance on a top team, but franchising might not be deserved after this past 2 years. Like if franchising wasn't around but someone like Sayf still got poached to TL, I would've loved to see him on Guild trying to qualify through to another LAN, but with franchised teams I just don't know if he should be on a top tier EMEA team rn. He for sure won't be signed to any of FUT NAVI FNC TL KC or BBL, and I don't think GIA will get him. So that leaves KOI TH and VIT for him which aren't the worst options but I feel like those teams probably will look elsewhere. I just don't know if we'll see him in T1 next year even though he deserves it from his '21 season.

Wow its almost like the player that plays more games in the tournament and goes farther against better competition will have lower ratings as he plays in harsher matches. Mak0 obviously plays good teams and does well but Optic played by far the most series of any teams in the world and had by far the toughest competition per match so of course Marved's numbers will be closer to 1 while Mak0 stands out since he's by far the best player on a good not elite team.

One stipulation is you can't take anyone from the current top 4 (APK ACE SAW or M8) and Max two players from one team

I'll go with
Duelist- Marteen
Flex: Kadavra/Wo0t(if he has good english)
Initiator: Unfake
Smokes IGL: Lowel
Sentinel: Afoxx

I'll also do one for Americas without any playoff players(Max 2 from one team)

Duelist: N4rrate
Flex IGL: Flyuh
Initiator: Verno
Controller: Skuba
Sentinel: Moose

Now do controllers

ya but it's not a superteam if it's not a team. No team will win without an IGL, it's like making a "superteam" in basketball that has no player over 6'6. Even if Marved exceeds expectation you can't have a superteam without a top 5 IGL itw.

There's no such thing as a super team without an IGL, and you can't call it a superteam when their IGL was good before franchsiing but never really great, and their current team literally doesn't have an IGL so how could they be a "super team"

They've brought in 1, maybe 2 star level players since he has been signed. Like literally how many guys have become great that 100T has brought. They have one of the most overrated scouting departments. Since Asuna came in, I'm gonna do a hit rate criteria to show how good a player is, scaling from Superstar Potential, Good potential/player, Great but only for a short time, mediocre, Bad. They'll scale from Superstar as Tier 1 to Bad as Tier 5

All pickups
Dicey: Tier 3, Definition of a one trick pony
Hiko: Tier 4
Nitr0: T2 but knocked down to T3 because of his switch
Steel: Tier 3(I know he took them to LAN but since then he has not even been a top 15 NA IGL, it's time to face that it was a one off thing)
Ethan: Tier 1, first really really good signing but not even on the team anymore
Ec1s: Tier 5
Babyj: Tier 5
Jcstani: Tier 4
Bang: Tier 2, I don't think he'll ever be a superstar but his potential on smokes is high
Will: Tier 4(Had maybe 2-3 total good games with them as a star duelist I'm sorry guys)
Stellar: Tier 4(just a mediocre IGL at this point)
Derrek: Tier 3-4, not awful or anything but we know what Derrek is, a good not great initiator, you can likely find better but he's too good to just randomly replace
Cryo: Tier 1, superstar potential

He has played with or had 13 players picked up since joining 100T, only 15% have T1 talent, only 23% are even high potential players, and of those three players only 2 have played with each other at the same time. He hasn't had a really good IGL in what, a year and 3/4? In every iteration he's been a top 1-3 player on the team but he hasn't had a stable, good IGL, and his best player isn't even on the team anymore. If they had a roster of
Cryo
Ethan
Asuna
Bang
Insert Good IGL to play sentinel here

There would be no excuses for Asuna, but realistically every NA team has eclipsed 100T in finding superstar talent. Like EG has already built a championship contender, NRG has the greatest core of all time, SEN has 4 players that have at one point been the best at their role or just plain out best in the world and Zekken who may have the highest potential in all of NA. Hell even C9 with randoms from T2 is better because Runi is a better IGL than Stellar and they still have Leaf Xeppaa Zellsis who are world class players. 100T just struggles to make rosters that are amazing. If they really wanna win next year they need to give asuna one last chance with a team that has Trent or Verno and Valyn/Flyuh/Johnqt IGLing them, alongside literally any coaching staff at all. Asuna has never once been a problem for their team.

https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1189/champions-tour-2023-americas-league
dawg it takes two seconds to find this he was the definition of average and we know his potential is insanely high.

He was average, don't act like he was shit. He was an average player on a mediocre team. Like he literally has a 1.0 rating. He was player 26/50 in the Americas league in rating of players >300 matches. His Viper is still the top rated in Americas and top 5 in all of VCT. On Omen he's looked bad because on maps they play Omen they have a 40% win percentage with 3/4 wins coming on Haven. Now compare that to Supamen who was worse than Bang all last year, and since Stage 2 was the 2nd lowest rated controller of the top 8 teams. This is just an awful take lol.

supamen over bang dawg what is wrong with u

breach has been meta in only like 3 international events and FNS was the first person to make him look really good at a LAN. If this is all time Stax trumps him but DRX didn't even play Breach that much in 2021 and when they did they were losing. Skye isn't Crashies most played and he still gets it, same with Marved's brim and astra, Shao's fade, s0m's Harbor, Victor's neon, zyppan's Kayo. Most of these players on here aren't on their most played agents.

Completely forgot about that that's probably a good call

This is for VCT ERA so since 2021

Astra: Marved
Breach: FNS or Stax
Brim: Marved
Chamber: Yay
Cypher: Nats
Fade: Shao
Gekko: Cgrs
Harbor: s0m
Jett: Aspas or Cned
Kayo: Zyppan
KJ: Alfajer
Neon: Victor
Omen: Marved/Pancada/Mak0
Phoenix: Sick
Raze: Jingg
Reyna: Scream
Sage: Starxo(IDK who else you'd put)
Skye: Crashies
Sova: Crashies
Viper: Suygetsu
Yoru: Forsaken

https://www.vlr.gg/112601/m3-champions-vs-acend-champions-tour-emea-last-chance-qualifier-ubqf/?game=90915&tab=overview

Chronicle diffing Cned on Jett less than a year ago

s0m or marved over jawgemo for sure but otherwise pretty much perfect

I'm sorry I'm not gonna argue with someone who doesn't know how to use a period good lord dawg

If they won this tourney they'd have as many top 2 finishes as Chronicle has tournaments played at. Obviously they'd have to win and the odds aren't in their favor but those three would be far more decorated than any player in history, not even close.

Say they win this event, who between Crashies and Victor is called the best player of all time? I think FNS is obviously called GOAT IGL(probably already is) but it would be between those two, for sure overtaking chronicle or Yay in my mind.

Because Loud are and have been a much better team than DRX for a year now.

Navi has lost 5/6 how could u possibly still be making these lazy excuses for them

IGL isn't everything, they have some role and agent pool problems. Ange1 refused to have any player become good at skye and breach and now they're the 2 best initiators(or at least 2/3) in this meta. zyppan isn't good on skye, no one plays breach, and their duelist usually isn't great at Raze. Maybe if they added sayf and had Shao on skye more they'd be much better.

that's just how sports work dawg, literally this year an 8 seed made the NBA and NHL finals, a 7th round pick qb took a team to top 4 in the NFL, and a wildcard MLB team made the championship. Not to mention a team like Inter Milan making it to the champions league final. If you don't like this you don't like sports whether there's an E in front of it or not.

I think realistically you could put Sheydos or Nukkye in at sentinel instead of Alfa and be fine, and Suygetsu is still probably the better individual on the role. After that I really think the only one I'll give you is Sayf for Derke. Leo and Chronicle are so far ahead of the rest, and Ange1 and Redgar are fine but rn Boaster is out calling and more importantly performing at a far higher individual level that I don't think any of them are replaceable. Cloud is great, redgar and ange1 are great minds, but those 3 don't have anyone close, and IDEK who in emea has the closest agent pool to chronicle, maybe Atakaptan?

For sure
M80(I just don't see them not winning ascension)
Trent and Valyn and Flyuh should almost be assured
After that it gets really weird, how many spots in NA '24 are open? SEN and 100T IGL for sure IMO but that's Valyn and Flyuh. After that I feel like NRG and EG stay the exact same, and C9 probably isn't changing anything knowing how MCE runs teams.
From there SEN's roster looks set as long as they have an IGl, but if pancada and sacy leave it would just be Trent and Valyn. I also doubt Tenz or Marved are moved even if they had their struggles(Tenz at the start and Marved after he had to IGL)

Maybe Verno comes in for Derrek at 100T, but apart from that Asuna Cryo and Bang probably are and should be untouchable, even if Bang and Asuna had some lowlights at the end.

So of non M80 players? My bet is really on four players. Now if guys like Ardiis or Tenz get moved on from I can for sure see Yay or Tex back up into the big leagues, and maybe if Jakee isn't seen as the answer C9 can actually get Skuba this time, or if Marved wants to go back to content and stay in Canada Thief could get a shot, but either way I think 4 is the number we see with potential of maybe 2 more given random leaving players.

The ones to look out for most at each position I'd say (not gonna add m80 players)

IGL: Valyn Flyuh
Duelist: Tex Yay(back in T1 he can be a star)
Initiator: Trent Verno
Smokes: Skuba Thief
Sentinel: neT Aproto
Flex: JonahP Nature

The closest we'd get to a super team is
Tenz Duelist
Zekken Flex
Trent Sova
Valyn IGL
Marved
with one on smokes other spending literally all offseason learning kj and the new sentinel.

Atleast Denmark has Avova, look at the best german player lol. Luckerr? Musashi?

It's a great meta for them lol

Jett is the best duelist and Neon is relevant, they don't have a star chamber or raze
Skye and breach are the most played initiators, both Stax's best characters
Info initiators are weaker than usual, they don't have a high level sova/fade
Controllers are absurdly meta, they have the best ITW
KJ is the only good sentinel, Buzz is great on KJ

There hasn't been a better meta for them in ages.

Stax and Mak0 are the only ones whose roles really makes sense. Buzz I'm confident can play both duelist and KJ and even kay/o but he will eventually need to commit. From there, they don't have a star star jett player/awper and no one is proficient on info initiators. Just seems like even though Rb plays a lot of agents he isn't particularly special on any aside from Neon. He's the teams third best duelist, initiator, and second choice sentinel. It's cool that he can go from neon to astra to kj in a game but if that's not winning them matches and sometimes it's hurting them why force it?

no meddo yes Wedid

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yay
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