"Sources with @arivalorantt: Satellite has reached a verbal agreement with Sentinels Cubert Academy ahead of Stage 2 Playoffs. He was star duelist for Ambrosia which secured the 2nd seed for playoffs, but will be playing the sentinel role in place for Skuba."

They're trying to turn a cracked duelist into a sentinel player.

In my best Marved voice: "Guy's clueless"

I mean if Satellite pulls this off, he's gonna be wanted by every T1 team except G2. Rob masterclass, trying to create the perfect replacement for Zellsis.

https://liquipedia.net/valorant/Esports_World_Cup/2025/Americas

So all the teams are participating? I thought it would just be the partnered teams, wouldn't it be in MIBR's best interest to field a temp roster for qualifiers and save strats for Toronto?

This is an insane take

Let in 3 Freshman year. Saved 1, let in 1 during my Sophomore year. Saved 1, let in 2 Junior year.

I was starting keeper in high school, only 2 goals let in all season, shout out my insane CB's

EWC Americas Qualifiers start in 4 days, where tf is the format info and surely teams gotta lock in and announce their rosters ASAP.

I wonder why more teams aren't being reported inquiring for Reduxx. Who do y'all think is better?

They have, in my opinion, the #1 18+ Duelist prospect from Tier 2 Americas sitting on the bench (Sato close behind tho). If they win Toronto, the roster deffo sticks together and Reduxx can come to another team (Please 100T). Also how will roles work out anyway if he replaces Zellsis? In my mind, JohnQT would have to go back to Senti with Zekken playing his XSET role and Reduxx being primary duelist, because Bang and N4RRATE are most likely not moving off their roles. That's a scary team with all of them shooting though, probably the highest potential team in the world tied with maybe Heretics.

Easily Heretics rn, they got the Brazilians and the Chinese hatewatching their every match

How soon do you think they make changes? After they lose 3 straight or before then because I for one am not a believer in the Ethan IGL.

Dude is 22 going on 23 and is crazy talented. He should give it one more year and try and join a contender for next year and try and get a trophy lowkey. Streaming pays the big bucks but he's so young that he should give it one more year imo.

I give it a 25% chance Zikz actually changes comps for Split 2 and EWC qualifiers.

I don’t believe MIBR is a partnered org

100T and C9 should qualify on paper, what do y'all think will actually happen?

Nah he still goated trust

I want reduxx

A turkish super team will always be missing Alfa bc FNATIC will never release him

nah we gotta believe

I didn’t watch any vid brother, just some honest preds based on what I watched

idk man, saying a top 5 player needs to prove himself again is kinda crazy

s0m in a 100T jersey would be insane aura icl

Reduxx can't play initi anyway, theyd need to pick someone else up no?

I believe in the goblin IGL

I hope not, he's so talented

Nah this is the year they make the change for sure

26 year old BabyJ being called a "wonderKID"

You think Potter pulls another Masterclass?

NRG:

• After their weak IGL plan with Skuba coming in fizzles out, they replace s0m and Ethan for Vora and Nismo.

Sen:

• Sen don't win champs but Bang has a monster tournament and the roster sticks together leaving Reduxx homeless.

100T:

• They make champs after a strong Stage 2, but fizzle out in Paris. They pick up s0m and Reduxx to replace Zander and Asuna.

Loud:

• They narrowly miss out on Champs but Lukxo shows that he is a superstar in the making. They sign Sato in the offseason, trusting in their new IGL RobbieBK to cook in the offseason.

C9:

• Immi rebuilds around Oxy and v1c, picking up Asuna, Recoil, and Flyuh comes home from KOI.

Lev:

• I can't even predict this trainwreck of a team. Save Kingg and Com no?

EG:

• Roster sticks together after also narrowly missing out on Champs.

Honorable Mentions:

• Leo comes back to FNATIC
• EDG replace Jieni7
• Heretics lose 2 grand finals but still stick together

Lmk your predictions below!

Trading away Pickens when every SB winning squad without Mahomes or Brady in the last 10 years has had minimum 2 insane WR/TE/RB. They don't even have a crazy good RB and 40 year old Aaron Rodgers is washed. I know DK bum ass regretting picking Pitt over NE or LA

Please leave that cursed org my goat s0m. Come join this hoodie org next season, we might not make internationals but you'll have the best drip. And every once in a while, we do luck our way into an international, but only when Boostio is not in the gym.

Who is one player or coach, forget about contracts or the fact that this person would never join realistically, that would instantly fix your team.

My pick is nAts to 100T, cracked sentinel player who can play Viper and can IGL.

If you include the fact that they have to be rivals and at the top of their game, I think the closest we got was Yay vs Aspas during 2022.

Zander, Demon1 can't play Viper. Also if Cryo ever has a bad map, all the comments are gonna be like "Put Demon1 on Jett", no need for that. Also playoff Zander was pretty good.

This offseason there is gonna be a bidding war for a bunch of players in Americas. Some that come to mind are:

• Reduxx
• Skuba
• Vora
• Kyu
• Sato
• Seven
• Pa1nt
• Florescent

Who do y'all think should target these players?

They fucked us. What are these groups man, NRG and 100T fans just felt the deepest despair within them. Aspas, Keznit, and Lukxo are gonna fucking farm.

Please Boostio, if you read this lets get back in the food court and die your hair green again

What did we do, our team is shit and we know it

Rather shoot myself than support Sen. It's like supporting Man City

Impossible, they pull through every year and I can't even enjoy hatewatching them this year bc my goat Bang is fragging out.

Surely her buyout can't be that crazy, it's EG after all

He's only played one match on Viper, we need a viper player because if we play that god awful Split comp again I'm going to stop watching Americas and only watch DFM matches as torture.

If 100T don't make champs its time to switch up the roster. I'm really high on Skuba rn, a cracked smokes/senti player is perfect for 100T rn. Boostio is interesting, bc he usually calls a blinder of a round but then gets taken over by the spirit of FNS when its time to shoot, but at the end of the day he is a Champs winning IGL. Hopefully 100T loosens the purse strings and they make some purchases.

Retain:
Cryo (Jett/Smokes)
Eeiu (Recon Initi)
Boostio (2nd Initi/Senti)

Add:
Skuba (Viper/Senti)
Reduxx (Raze, Neon/Smokes)
Potter (Goat Coach, can reel in this team's aggressive nature)

At this point, the best chance 100T has is to keep the roster heading into Stage 2 and aim for champs. There isn't a crazy cracked smokes player with experience available rn and even if there was, it seems like the 100T roster is hard to adjust to.

Come to 100T bro, we alr got hella role issues, what's a couple more

100T next year is gonna be some fucked up amalgamation of the current 100T and EG teams with the goat Potter coaching

I don't watch much Tier 2 Val, is Vora actually the next coming of JohnQT bc that's how it looks based on stats. Or is this a fluke run that will fizzle out in a couple months.

Lets just stick him on Sentinel, he can learn the role in these 2.5 months. If we can't reel him in from solo entrying on site, lets put him on a role where it's impossible to entry. Boostio can switch back to Initiator/2nd Smokes. We can just run Jett/Yoru every map with Cryo and allow Asuna to play Raze on Fracture and only Fracture bc Cryo plays Chamber. Who says no?

Respect that the players didn't make a big schtick out of it but man this sucks

Plenty of teams in Americas are looking to add people or switch up things going into either Stage 2 or for this offseason. In your opinion, who are the top 3 players at each role (Duelist, Initiator, Controller, Sentinel, IGL, Flex) from Tier 2, playing overseas as Imports (might want to come back home), or actual imports that might want to hop on over?