surely stellar is a better pickup for igl?

fr? I didn't know that

Wait, this is impossible, no? Flor is already an import

Bait or real?

https://x.com/RossyUA/status/1863703920029405248

Are we just lying now? He really struggled against mid teams

I mean the players are good, but I think the problem with this roster is that they lack the presence of a pure duelist

If they had someone like Click, polvi, elllement, famsii, xuss, or even bipo, I'd be more convinced

Maybe in a tier 1 scale he is less terrible, but I think that having him as a sentinel or the duelist makes more sense

Yeah you could swap those too, but having runneR as Skye isn't that much greater. And purp0 is mediocre as a duelist as well

Don't they look... Weird?

I think that runneR as a duelist, cloud as recon, tomaszy as sentinel, westside as controller, and purp0 as a flex/flasher makes more sense no?

please don't be bait

idc, still a fraud, getting all your kills in one round doesn't make you better than others

I'ves seen enough

Kick this racist fraud out of VCT

they are the worst fucking chokers I've seen in my life

EDG at the top is funny

pacific

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sScary, Zander, MaKo, SugarZ3ro, Karon (honorable mention to Demon1)

hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

Xeppaa is a better flasher than Crashies. Crashies is more flexible role wise, but I don't think that Cloud9 needs that rn

Corey plays the exact same things that Xeppaa, which is good. But I'm not really sure if it would be that much of an upgrade

And Add3r is consistent at tier 2. Maybe it's an upgrade, but I'm not sure it would make that much of a difference

I said people, I'm blaming Riot's format

The format, yes, why wouldn't I?

Are you making Crashies not play his best role? (recon) Just to make him play flash? I would understand Crashies for Moose, because his sentinel was kinda clean, but I don't think he fits in C9 at all (at least, role wise)

Then you could also blame yay for knocking at C9's door. Why wouldn't he think of it in such a volatile industry?

Blaming people here is useless, Cloud9 didn't fuck yay, it was Riot's format. The circumstanses were fucked, no matter the way you look at it

The best player in the world knocks at your door and you don't answer?

And they couldn't afford him because one of their sponsors were declared bankrupt after they signed him

It's not that easy

It was yay the one who reached Cloud9

I mean, they just couldn't afford him

I heard it was like half a million a year

And it was not really Cloud9 that fucked yay, it was the format, because Rito didn't allow teams to sign players mid way through the season

He's not signed with EG. Probably waiting for 2025 to sign him

He is not signed yet. Purest said that EG decided to not continue with sym, implying that yay is in EG's plans

But nothing set in stone

OXY as main duelist (keep at all cost)
Rossy as recon/flex (keep at all cost)
v1c as smokes
-Moose
-Xeppaa (depends on how well he does in the VCT 2025 season)
+yay as sentinel (only guaranteed sentinel upgrade that is currently LFT)
+bdog as flasher (not a guaranteed upgrade from Xeppaa, especially on this role. But this has the most potential out of any tier 2 player in NA)

content creator team will get in the top of NA

yay

Fumbled a "super team"

Choked against NRG in 2023 Americas for a spot at both Masters and Champs

Choked a 2-0 lead against LEV to qualify for the LCQ grand final

Failed to be consistent in playoffs after being dominant in the group stage

?? Then don't say he's been a weak link, because he hasn't been

Just say you think you are more qualified than vct staff professionals and you'd kick him

Decent and middle of the pack at most maybe, but definitely not heavy hitters

JonahP literally carried G2 in Shanghai

Because they only look like a competent team in the off-season

I just want 2025 to end fast

I mean, trophy wise, Fnatic

But I'd say Gambit, since Astralis pretty much changed the way CS is played to this day

And Gambit was the first team in Valorant to play "good"

ev0l gen0us0s

I'd rather lose now than losing in important matches in 2025

Put him in coach, easily. He is really good at forming strats and setups

I hope that Chron takes the IGL role as soon as possible

tough, man

And still lost

https://www.vlr.gg/170959/sengoku-gaming-vs-fennel-challengers-league-japan-split-1-lr2

FNC 13-10 C9

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/14126c61

I mean, SPG is by no means a "org" that could afford the expenses of moving to franchise

It's actually a streamer team from Overwatch that just had a Valorant division associated with them

So no, not a "real" org

I don't know why, I don't know how, but C9 will advance to the next stage