not saying theyre winning just saying hes mvp for tsm
cant win when sym is on pi watch :((

Im confused you make the point that he won a finals and then say its not about winning?

Your ascension finals MVP

Take karon off the list
He's the best itw rn but that doesn't mean he's second in a goat list
He played for one season
Part of being a goat is consistency and it's impossible to measure as of yet
But he definitely has the potential easily

snarly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare#/media/File:Thomas_C._Lea_III_-_That_Two-Thousand_Yard_Stare_-_Original.jpg

Who is your NA Ascension playoff all star team?

My Picks:

CON - Zander
INI - Seven
DUE - Mada
SEN - neT
FLE - Koalanoob

COA - Happy
HM - gMd

Note this is only based on playoff performance, NOT REGULAR SEASON.

Izzy better

bro is desperate for upvotes on VLR.gg

Added

read it fucktard I know that and stated it

If you weren't a moron you would realise

If VIT beat trace then they play LEV
If TH beat FPX then they play Sen/Geng

Ok so... Here me out... This is just a thought I've been having.

Before being discouraged by the length of this. Just take a quick look. I promise you'll find it interesting.

For context I want to remind you Sentinels have the largest valorant fanbase ITW and contribute to A LOT of their revenue whether its from ticket sales, to online, to watchparties (ahem tarik) to merch and everything else.

What's been happening in Valorant esports as of late? Masters Shanghai. (Geng 1st, TH 2nd). I think riot saw major decreases in revenue from NA. No teams in the finals will surely do that and a lack of support from the big fanbase of SENTINELS will surely contribute. After all, high expectations as before Shanghai, business was booming as SEN won Masters Madrid. The money was flowing for riot. Now, not so much. As said before they saw rev decreases during shanghai mostly because (as much as I hate to say it) sentinels does bring them a LOT of viewership and a LOT of money from NA and elsewhere.

So what does that mean? Simple. Because Sentinels failed to qualify, when asked who the best teams in the world are valorant fans would say names such as TH, Geng, PRX etc but no Sen. After all a team that cant qualify cant be the best. No more SEN at internationals meant riot lost a huge portion of their revenue from this massive contributor. Thus, SEN lost their identity as a major powerhouse. Riot thought: "well its fine... They will qualify for Seoul and shit on everyone" and we will be back to making lots of money from them and we will all be happy greedy pigs. Well, sorta.

Yes sen have qualified but what riot weren't expecting was the group draw. Oh. My. God. If Im riot im thinking holy shit now even if sen win first game against the best team itw (geng) they have to play TH???? Theyre doomed. Panic mode activated. If Im riot im thinking its too late to save them at seoul so I enter crisis management ASAP. What can we do to get this team (our primary moneymaker) back to the top where they can be most profitable? (after all, more matches played, more rev. Keep in mind it increases per match until GF)

That's where the map pool comes in.
Riot shocked the ENTIRE valorant esports scene by readding split and pearl, whilst removing icebox and lotus. Huh... Weird. Wasn't split just removed? And why pearl? They changed nothing to either map?

I guess it's a concidence a map like Lotus is very favourable to Fnatic... A coincidence that TH have an 80% win rate on a map like icebox... Huh.
Funny how Sen's best map is split but it's also geng's worst (50% WR) and pearl? The map that was known by everyone as JohnQT's best map on ghost gaming? ok....
It certainly looks to me like they just single handedly nerfed every other region's best teams whilst buffing one team in NA the minute they didn't qualify for grand finals.

You cannot deny the evidence is there.
Why would riot suddenly panic change the map pool in this way?
If they had it their way I bet it would be in effect for champs
But that would be wayyyyy too sus
So they set it up for after the tournament to dodge allegations.

Dear riot,
I see
Right.
Through.
You.

see you next time

TLDR:
Basically Sentinels make riot A LOT OF money and them doing bad hurts their econ. After they didnt qualify for Shanghai and got an unlucky draw in Seoul, they needed to act. So they want to nerf Geng And TH whilst buffing SEN with the new map pool changes for 9.08 after champs.

I heard someone say the patch is only happening after Champs so perhaps this was for nothing but idk. Still doesn't explain wtf they are doing with map rotations.

Real

Like don't get me wrong I am totally insane
but isn't there a 1% chance that like

riot brough back split to increase revenue?
Note that riot have never done anything out of the blue that didn't profit them directly.
We all know Sentinels are pretty much unbeatable on split
Realistically the better sentinels do the more money they will likely get.
It's no secret sentinels have the largest fanbase

The more matches we see Sentinels at, the more viewers, in person and online. That itself massively increases revenue.
+Tickets +food&drinks +merch +subs
It's also true that sentinels have a massive female following
And South Korea has one of the largest female gaming populations (W south korea)
So that further increases viewership, attendance and all the rest
It's also very likely that riot saw a massive rev increase when sentinels won a masters and thought, damn what if it were a champs?

idk there are a lot of factors that would benefit riot by doing this
But why, why, why do they reintroduce split a month after taking it out?
And why Pearl? Again with no changes? Feels like a side character to the main character that is split...

The only major thing occuring in riot's world is Champs. It 100% factually has to do with champs.
But is it because Sentinels qualified?
I don't fucking know its 5am I'm severely sleep deprived

Meiy has a officially signed a new contract
His contract end date has officially changed from 2024 to 2027

This means he's committed to DFM for another 3 years
What do we think about this?
Is he enjoying life there?
Maybe he got a lot more money?
Maybe a lack of other offers?

(Apologies if I'm late on this the contract updated about 1 hour ago)

Yeah agreed but I'm just saying if you could choose
So like regardless of what you think it would be I am asking what you would like

If you could pick the locations for 2 masters and 1 champions event next year, what would they be?
The rule is you have to pick one city in Asia, one in Europe and one in Americas.

(credit to nobody__100 for giving me the idea for the post so go show him so love if you haven't already!)
https://www.vlr.gg/381829/2025-schedule-leaked

For me I would choose:
Masters Atlanta
Masters Osaka
Champions Paris

Speaking from experience, the fan atmosphere in Paris is something truly spectacular

Interesting for sure...
Didnt expect so see Mindfreak or Nobody in a 'dream team' so points for uniqueness

Yeah I struggled with this the most :l ty for help

Shower

I meant to change this ages ago and forgot ty

I said im picking based off roles

good shout, done

Tenz, Flo > Tenz, marved
Cned isnt good enough
simple

Nothing gets past you Mr. Inspector

ofc bro you would probably know better than me, shoot!

Ty for the help bro will do :))

hes latvian you knob
doesnt matter if he moved im going off their registered nationalities
Bro tells me Ardis Svaranieks is english
+he had a horrible split

The update I made most recently I think is the best one
yes riens is in it

Meiy I agree

IGL = vibes

Updated but turkey is so hard because IGLs are all flex i swear

Jitboys is NOT better than leviathan lil bro

I just thought its boring putting a whole team in, but fair (ik i did the same with ts but like who else)

Fine I just didnt want to be boring

bro im so tired hahahaha lemme fix ts

WELCOME TO THE VALORANT WORLD CUP
Who wins in an all out 'Everyone Plays Everyone' style World Cup tournament?

---EUROPE---

TURKEY
DUE - Wo0t
SEN - Alfajer
CON - Brave
INI - Riens
FLE - MrFalin (IGL)

RUSSIA
DUE - Something
SEN - nAts
CON - Redgar (IGL)
INI - Trexx
FLE - Chronicle

UK
DUE - Keiko
SEN - BenjyFishy
CON - Boaster (IGL)
INI - Soulcas
FLE - L1nk

POLAND
DUE - Kaajak
SEN - westside
CON - Grubinho
INI - Starxo (IGL)
FLE - Patitek

Lithuania
DUE - Miniboo
INI - Destrian
SEN - Cender
CON - Boo (IGL)
FLE - Nukkye

Finland
DUE - Derke
SEN - Hoody
FLE - Jamppi
CON - Bonecold (IGL) - but he is retired so idk if it counts
INI - Iluri

SWEDEN
DUE - Zyppan
SEN - Meddo
CON - Bonkar (oxygen lost so might aswell)
INI - Leo
FLE - Sayf (IGL - I decided for him)

---AMERICAS---

BRAZIL
DUE - Aspas
SEN - Less
CON - Mazin (IGL)
INI - Cauanzin
FLEX - Heat

USA
DUE - Oxy (dont hate)
SEN - Leaf
CON - Valyn (IGL)
INI - Trent
FLE - Ethan

CANADA
DUE - Mada
SEN - FNS (IGL)
CON - Tenz
INI - Eeiu
FLE - JonahP

Chile
DUE - Keznit
SEN - Shyy
CON - Kingg (IGL)
INI - mta
FLE - Mazino

---ASIA---

INDONESIA
DUE - Monyet
SEN - Lmemore
CON - Mindfreaky
INI - Kush
FLE - Forsaken (IGL)

SOUTH KOREA
DUE - Texture
SEN - Meteor
CON - Karon
INI - Lakia
FLE - Munchkin

CHINA
DUE - KK
SEN - CHICHOO
CON - Smoggy
INI - Biank
FLE - Nobody (IGL)

JAPAN
DUE - Meiy
SEN - TENNN
CON - SugarZ3ro
INI - Laz (IGL)
FLE - CLZ

THAILAND
DUE - Primmie
SEN - Seph1roth
CON - Leviathan
INI - Crws (IGL)
FLE - PTC

Philippines
DUE - Jremy
SEN - Wil0reoo
CON - 2ge
INI - JessieVash (IGL)
FLE - Invyy

Who comes out on top?

NOTES
-I didnt want to take anyone out of their current roles so I made do
-Feel free to suggest any amendments to the teams, this took a while to make so probably forgot a bunch of ppl
-Wanted to clarify this is mostly based on current form
-This took a while so show some love if you enjoyed! If not totally cool. :))
-Allat

you picked the 3 most dogshit fastfood places on earth
choose canes, chikfila, anything other and youre fine
just cope

bruh

who is their IGL? cant find it anywhere...

but heat just plays initiator...

guys who is the best Brazilian flex player
Im finding it extremely hard to come to a conclusion

nah generally i feel ok

facts forgot didnt use NRG

nah

https://www.yelp.com/brands/arbys
Ok bro xD

Tbh don't think I'd change a thing.

I agree Ozil playmaking is superior
But hot take I prefer Fabregas for pass vision (hence why recon)

Fabregas robbed for recon imo
(the roles make so much sense it kind of hurts my brain)