In theory, yes, everything is amazing in the incredible franchising system, but it's not like that in reality when you see orgs paying more for legal causes than their actual competitive side, players going around trying to cheat rulesets to abuse certain substances or doing whatever to boost their performances, etc...

Poor is the man that tries to thrive an org or even make a career purely based in following the rules and expecting to raise their earnings with actual hard work and competition...

Around that, but most orgs (specially in more poor regions like SA compared to NA) would just pay a lot less, except the real big ones like Liquid, C9, G2, Furia and maybe LOUD/SEN...

2G isn't G2, my brother LMAO

1k-2k USD. Take it or die getting a minimal wage in Bronzil, which is about 250 USD, in T2 (fortunatelly T2 is now PAYING anything).

You have a nice flair.

It's funny how people think that this weak bait works in the big 2025...

Imagine thinking that someone would send fictional death threats over a team that hasn't been relevant for the last few years (Furia doesn't even have real supporters besides some few followers of their influencers and maybe some CS newf "fans" that came from FalleN signing).

No one will ever top zombs' bait tbh

Too unpredictable, three maps on MIBR x LEV tho.

LEV bans Corrode
MIBR ALSO bans Corrode just to make sure we're not playing in this shitty wallbanging festival ass map

For Shanghai, G2 just performed well, while 100T faced FUT having a really bad day + classic PRX clown fiesta. They would lose to both teams 95/100 times.

For Champions, Swiss format inflation. fnatic would've won 2x0 against SEN in lowers if they didn't just throw Sunset and Leviatán winning in upper (later losing expressively to TH anyways, specially in the close maps they had in the first match (Lotus, Icebox I guess?))

I believe that Americas just lack organization in rosters tho, we have more talent than EMEA and most of APAC, just not a single clear top 1 stack and mediocre teams having some really questionable names shameless paycheck stealing out there.

Same as art situation, they have been testing sharing IGL duties between both silentzz and lz for 2nd split.

2G isn't a bad team, they have decent enough talent to fight for play-offs (spike, Askia and 3 bots is enough to win bottom teams like Furia, NRG or Leviatán). silentzz needs to stop IGLing (specially duelist IGLing, if artzin couldn't make it work, it's not like you're doing it LOL) and lzZzZz needs to wake up. I can't discuss gobera without being based, so I'm not having a take on him, but he needs to step up aswell.

Any asc ranked player would be better than cuanzin btw

Even though being around cuanzin can be a brainwash to turn actual good players into bots, no, he needs more experience.

We're seeing players like him and Askia in international rosters anyways, just be patient.

Americas has been the worst major region since Madrid.

Hi!

I don't know about winning the match, but they definetly have the talent to take a map if Zellsis underperforms or Zekken has another slow start...

He must have realized that ghoul wouldn't play against streamers or his win trading friends in immortal accounts to boost him in franchise and gave up supporting him... 🥀🥀

If you're not listening to the game plan tips of someone who made it to a Champions finals and won a Masters IGLing with platinum level mechanics, then I don't know who you should listen to...

I mean, I don't like FINESSE at all, but he gave a very reasonable fix and still gets hated for that? Kinda unfair with him in my humble opinion...

Masters não é Champions kkkkkkkk

BLG wins Paris tho, so you're kinda right anyways...

canezerra
Zellsis

Still the same amount of Champions than your whole region.

It's hard to criticize him for doing something that he didn't even want to at first.

I really doubt he's even trying to master the agent as he seems to consider it an another "3 months meta like Chamber", but it would be nice to see him being good with a new agent since his Waylay was a flop.

I believe it's all about mentality.

I don't blame most of those teams for not having the "I-want-to-win-everything" mentality, they're usually more focused on just keeping their jobs, specially when most of, atleast in SA, professional players from Valve/Riot games are so lazy and accommodated and satisfied with being mediocre, waking up just 10 minutes before scrims, neither the ranked players who are constantly forced to play against those same "pros" (tier 2-3 arrogant people who think that they're better than everyone when they're in this good position exclusively because franchising took the actual good pros from our everyday enviroment) who just troll their games by playing differently from what they would play in actual tournaments, people win trading, etc...

Most orgs just come here to gather fans and the region's overall level will stay the same as it's impossible to evolve here. The rare decent projects like the LG/SK lineup and world champion LOUD will just move to NA/EU anyways LOL

It's not COMPLETELY different, but you'll indeed play in a more selfish way if you're hard carrying and most of the times there'll be that one specific player that does some plays that he would never do on LAN.

Just two teams on different levels, I ranked the players isolatedly.

Team for team, the list would just be leaf 1st, Zellsis 2nd and everything rest as irrelevant... :/

I mean, it's really situational, most of pro fundamentals can be taken into your game (isolating 1x1 duels, crossfiring, off-angling, angle clearing, etc), but most more advanced things like comps, 70% of their playbook and other things that rely on team collaboration might just be a trap tbh as your team will most likely not even listen to you, fuck your entire calling throught the match and just tilt you (Premier could work as you usually play with friends and they're more prone to listen to you tho).

I agree, it's an insane take, but he's just that promising.

I can guarantee you that Askia, Sato and specially luk xo will be on either G2/SEN or EMEA teams by 2 years from now (obviouslly, if their shit orgs don't completely brainwash them by keeping them around shit players like cauanzin, for example).

You can bookmark this if you want...

Seems like an interesting comp for sure, thanks for this insight!

Bronzil speaking...

I don't know if you're allowed to elaborate further for us, but any specific reason behind Chamber + Vyse on Ascent ibstead of more traditional comps? Is it a more "pug" style they are more comfortable playing with?

The starts next to users' names have any use other than showing how someone usually is voted? I'm new to this forum.

I just read the last post. Heavily appreciate the efforts of you guys!

Keep it up! Hope to see this project going further.

Zap said yes to KOI, but KOI didn't ask anything.

Yes and no.

You need to understand the basics of Valorant and overall FPS fundamentals in order to absorb the knowledge from professional matches the right way, it's not like you're climbing 5 elos just because you started picking Jett on Lotus because X player did that when you don't even know how to dash + updraft in A, so don't just copy what other people are doing, follow their steps, but try to understand why are they seeking that path or approach to those situations.

Read my thoughts... LOL

luk xo
leaf
Zellsis
Shyy
cortezia
skuba
Kess
heat
tex
yay
neT?
silentzz

NRG off
TSM in

I believe.

nAts
Alfajer
Meteor
Leaf

Less (also known for social benefit money farming in Team Exility).

They are both compromised.

The literal coldzera of Valorant being kept under a fat huge paycheck? Sounds like wet dreams to my little G.O.A.T. 🐐😫💧💰

He performed actually pretty well for tier 1, he just didn't have a decent team...

They could have won Sentinels or just not choked against KRÜ in lowers, but v1nny-cauanzin-tuyz bottom fragging blunt rotation single-handedly lost them Kickoff. 1st stage started decently well (despite choking again against KRÜ, they played equally to them), but after the 2G incident and just hype-adding luk xo because LOUD doesn't have absolutely any management, the already fragile team just fell apart and I don't blame him or paNcada for anything afterwards.

This situation is also just repeating once again if Solid somehow win Ascension, but now with a way worse clown fiesta with fucking havoc, kon4n and raafa... LMAO

We won't see his full potential until a team like MIBR picks him up and surround him with other also talented players.

He is a fake one for not using 0.666 and 666 DPI...

How do you even aim precisely in long distances with such a high sensivity?

It wasn't because of mental exhaustion, and definetly not because of his so assumed bad english; I'd securely say that LOUD just snaked him, specially after his announcement stating that he didn't even expect to be cut off from the team and specially the bullshit that whatever the fuck is that one LOUD CEO named said to trash talk him (he basically said that someone hypothetically felt for the pressure for playing for "such a big organization", something that is definetly questionable when dgzin is literally a 2 times world champion in an other FPS game).

Bench your best player (considerably one of the best duelists of your region), fail to sign 2 out of 3 of the best talents of the new generation and end up with cauanzin after all this shit... Just Brazilian things.

Clicked their account to see if if was real and ended up seeing multiple homophobic and racist posts...

Bunch of scumbags.

gen g
edg
paper rex / fnatic

titan

Siuuuuuuu!

We won't have a Faker level of dominance player until Valorant adds enough agents to draft like MOBAs to get over the constant meta changes as Valorant, opposing to Counter-Strike, has different comps and proposals for each rotation map (or we can Summoner's Rift this mf and make every game take place at Ascent lol).

Both are S tier events, but winning Champions is a statement.

Closest comparison we can make is football, where Champions equals World Cup and Masters equals Champions League.

1 Champions > 1 Master
2 Masters > 1 Champion, but you still don't have the "supreme achievement"...

close enough

what do you consider obvious?