I mean there are 3 clearly visible of which 2 were supposed to happen last year too but somehow got cancelled.
For anyone wondering which of these are taking place in India-

1. Convergence 24
2. Penta Off season invitational
3. Limitless invitational(host-Galaxy racer India(unconfirmed))
   4.I am guessing the 4th one is Unstoppable 24 by maybe nodwin or sky or someone else I am not sure.

Yep that's JP event though not sure about who is hosting

A potential upset in the making but it may be blessing in disguise for some T1 teams as now it would surely mean FCY won't be able to hold onto players like YesICan and Gin.

That's once in a lifetime map from suka diffing someone of caliber of YesICan no less .

I think you should also consider that maybe ZOL peaks at very right time or maybe they hide strats in grps bcz if I am not mistaken ZOL also won split 1 over both favs NAOS and Oasis.

Time for KRU's obligatory run for champions !!

Ahh you could hv specificied winning what?? The latest tourney where MLT played on 100 ping with temporary 5th and w/o bootcamp??
By your logic in past 2 years here are Indian events and their winners -
MLT core- Split 1 and Split 2 2023 as OG, Tec gauntlet season 10(off season) as OG, Predator Pacific league India qualifier as NoSalaryPeek, Split 1 cup 2 2024 as MLT .
Meanwhile TR won only convergence India qualifier ( MLT core didn't participate as OG had released them).
Rnt roster won only split 2
VLT/GRY roster won only split 1 cup 1.
I can't go back in time since others didn't exist back then only MLT core has survived the test of time and trust me nobody will pick you all up together unless you hv proven you are better than others.
Also I don't want to drag this unnecessarily but your tone was confronting so let me tell you Ascent is MLT's strongest map traditionally and even top teams prefer scrimming with them for that map.
I agree recently TR/VLT had better ideas on ascent but uk still see this-
https://www.vlr.gg/349116/true-rippers-vs-mlt-esports-omen-challengers-league-2024-south-asia-split-1-gf/?game=171198
https://www.vlr.gg/349115/mlt-esports-vs-revenant-esports-omen-challengers-league-2024-south-asia-split-1-sf/?game=171196&tab=overview
https://www.vlr.gg/team/stats/8030/mlt-esports/
Even at their worst they keep winning on ascent, their losses are also very close.
Only MDL has better Ascent than them in India.

Esavgabin has already declared interest and if none with bigger cv comes in it will go to him.
But I can definitely see someone like Onur or Warbirds interested in this project as it gives them chance to keep proving themselves on T1 plus say in building a roster from scratch .
I didn't say doombros bcz let's be honest he is definitely getting picked in EMEA itself.

I would like to know from you Mr. Watcher according to you which is best Indian team and then I will show you if I watch Valorant or only stats page??

Doesn't matter anyways really this isn't even him in his best shape either.
And well he has peaked top 3 in past with 1014RR(highest by an Indian ig) when all pros were playing.
But pro play and ranked is always different nevertheless doing it on support agent is nice ig

Said it multiple times in past will say it here too - the only roster in India which can compete a tiny bit and won't win anything is the current MLT roster minus Antidote(where you can add good import IGL).
Other rosters even peak unfortunately is not good enough to finish higher than last in their current iteration.
I have never understood the hate that this Ex- EG , Ex- OG core receives compared to other SA teams when they are clearly the best in India not only by results but also by words of other pros and coaches. And honestly they also have the will to grind.
Before anyone comes with 0-4 in ascension, here is something from later dates-
https://www.vlr.gg/team/14418/no-salary-peek
This also was against SEA teams which won qualifiers in their region btw and Secret is obviously franchised.

Any roster formed on basis of recency bias will never succeed in long run.
It's a well known fact that consistency> high peaks when it comes to a league format T1 competition.
If you really want to make a good roster either hold trials or go around and pick 5 players who have been outfragging their peers in T2 for atleast 2 yrs preferably more.
Go around and look at stats section of South Asian valo tourneys from 2021 to 2024, you will find 3 names repeat over and over again while others keep coming and going with their peaks.
One of them has been top 5 in almost every stat in 8/10 tournaments he has played in India and yet it's laughable how he is never considered a first name to represent India in T1.

Idk maybe GE management believes 5 Indians would do even worse
They don't seem to realise we do hv decent enough aimers and with a good coach atleast we won't finish last but we'll hopefully they atleast build a good roster which can qualify for masters even if they don't take more Indian players

Moatz bro don't mind kingbass he is diehard GE management supporter both on twitter and here.
On twitter he is abused a lot still it doesn't deter him at all.

It's just depressing for fans, owners and players alike.
Fans have been proven right, players hv been hated and rendered helpless and owner has been made to take back his own words.
Idk how and why Rushi thinks 5 indians would hv hurt competitive integrity and he would get kicked out when his supposed world beaters are getting one round barely.
And tbh he can go 3/2 Indians with good import igl but no what do anyone except GE's management knows abt valo...
Hopefully this season gets over asap for everyone at GE and they begin fresh and actually hold trials or something that instead of signing by hype

We are respectfully sending him back over to you guys to his home EMEA region

I think he was initially igling which dented his stats and then he went into slump towards the end of season even though igling duties went to Hoax

Pacific- Gin, YesIcan, Famous, Papichulo, Nexi,JA, Kellys, Azys, Tesseract, Garnets,PTC, Venka, Techno, Rawfiul,Levi,Dos9,Yota,Yoshii,Dragon, Sinaway, Signed,Lew,Tomix, Styron,Xan,Juicy,Grumble, Vera.
These I can remember for now and I am sure a few of them will be in T1 next year depending on teams which have vacancies. I hv missed quite a few especially from regions I don't watch much

I think he has value in the hands of good oper but Jemkin is better off playing raze , if they wanted a chamber lmemore is the right player.

Jemkin and Monyet win the aim battle against the more famed duo to take RRQ home.

I think Rdeew having chronic pain today played a big role in his and Bonker's loss .
He is just at unlucky man

Why removed the country flag bro ??

I just worry about Skrossi situation repeating all over again nothing else. Bcz my countrymen love flashiness a little too much over other factors like consistency,gamesense and util usage.
But I am all in for Techno to GE, he looks ready really but not so much for Venka as of now

Yep he is back in Ranked, literally putting mvp performances in top lobbies so yeah everything is fine all of a sudden lol he got his aim back.

Definite blow up Bleed is too rich to settle for anything but the best on paper , you will see them go all out with the roster next year to retain their position in franchising

There are but he is an OG GE member so obviously staff and owners prefer him and Skrossi over other Indians.
Rushi did say that he likes RVK and Rawfiul as players too let's see if he goes for them now that they are available even though both are in bit of slump recently

Lol no it's recency bias Venka isn't new to the scene and these two have cleared him time and again

Something has happened to Rawfiul man he is unable to aim at all struggling in both ranked and T2.
I don't think this is the right time to take him unless he gets back to his level

In this whole team only Russ and Blazeking have what it takes to be competitive at high T1 level.
Lightningfast is fine but inconsistent but honestly I can name 5 players in India better than him so I don't see the justification in him being sole indian Representative.
Benkai is pretty much not it anymore aim wise and While Polvi is decent almost every other team in Pacific itself has a better duelist.
Blazeking will also get dropped due to obvious reason and if Rushindra is serious about competing nobody except maybe Russ is going to be retained in starting 5 of roster.

Stax did it on eco with guardian as last man standing after the plant .

absolute midfest is going on in terms of both aim and strats man

Yess so were Azys and Tesseract in SA VCL last year infact even more dominant but we need to realize that top SEA teams won't whiff as much as our players do. It's almost impossible in ascension to kill 2 double swinging guys of good team while it happens so frequently in SA league.

You never know but yess they are far down below in the list of favs to win ascension. The whole roster is player to player a slightly worse version of OG, our last reps.
But if they do play to their potential they can definitely make it to playoffs and I am pretty sure that's what every sane person is expecting of them in India.

It's less of a choke and more of an aim diff.
All love to Aryu and Disrupt they are great team players but when other imports are putting up huge numbers it's hard to win if you don't put up the same or better numbers.
Indian core is anyways more or less equal in all top teams of India and plays a bit better or worse depending on day and their form.

He is best player from your country or is there anyone better ??
Btw I read he is grinding hard bcz he wants to play at highest level and that's why he left everything behind and came to India so he gets some recognition.

RNT's util is good TR still has better reads, macro plays and positioning still TR loses the round solely on aim.
For example last round of sunset Helliff immediately double swung with techno but they couldn't land the shot before Dos9.

TR again getting aim diffed despite good macros.... Valorant is after all a shooting game, you click heads you win.
If only we could somehow combine aim of MLT guys with fundamentals of TR , we can make a great team.

Yep man tracker score can mean something if you know how to deduce important points from it but the way that twitter guy and bcz of him some others hv started comparing tracker scores to decide who the better player is so stupid.
Lot of things matter in getting a tracker score and i wish i could explain but it's too much work for me unfortunately.
By this tracker logic Jaggi is the best player from India and GE should sign him no when he has never even played T2- https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Jaggi%23rizz/overview

Nothing much there won't be many viewers on official English stream so you may join russ or Universe's english watchparty if you do want more interaction.
Other than that just have fun

Don't worry Dos9 is signed to a good agent, he should get offers from china I am pretty hopeful.

I never said he is bad but trust me he is most easily upgradable in that team with all the crazy duelists coming up.

It's fine they will be back. Ardiss may lose his job and doombros may get it back that's pretty much it.
Shao , Suy, Zyppan everyone is off their prime at the moment a bit of change in their fortune and NAVI will be good again.

Russ can hold the team and we pull up cracked players around him but let's see what GE feels and thinks about next year

Not true at all bro. He is a one of the top flex in Indonesia (he was selected to represent Team Indonesia in South East Asia games ig that's enough of proof).
Any Indo will confirm what I just stated.
He came to India bcz his team Bigetron Arctic disbanded(Frostmind also came for same reason).
Also Azys, Tesseract,Xan etc are all top players in their region

And he is not a random import ,he has been a great player in Indonesia

Those days are behind us I have accepted it. It was COVID time when everyone was kinda free.
Since then a lot has changed especially our own people's attitude towards our own region which has harmed us.
But yess our fans are fair weather fans, the day we win something in valorant they will all be back again.
Till then we need to support and keep it going.

The 2cold duo mann

Yep they are fair weather fans I remember when NRX Jeremiah 29:11 won Codm championship, their star player whoopie got a million views all of a sudden on his next YouTube highlight , I can't even imagine how big he must have gotten on Facebook

The best thing for Indian scene has been rise in viewership past few days owing to VLT and their CC.
Tbone is peaking almost 7k today which is good for him and also our scene.
That's why I have always maintained that if our content creators do watchparties it's great support for scene and they also earn more.

Yep just received confirmation it's bo5 now