he's unironically probably better than FNS was in his last season. he's got one more 8th place left in him.

NRG 2-1 NS

NRG are winning Santiago and becoming the second ever team to win back-to-back major tournaments in VCT history. Ethan enters serious GOAT convos, skuba wins tournament MVP.

Ethan still calls macro in game. It's not like Bonkar can talk to the team every round, it is still the job of the IGL to make decisions like that during a match. And micro decisions are typically made by the individual, not the IGL. One of NRG's best qualities is their ability to fake a site and great map positioning, drawing out rotates from their opponents or being in the correct position on defense. Those qualities are not from Bonkar creating good anti-strats, but from Ethan directing the team at a high level.

Ethan is literally one of the best IGL's in the world right now and one of the main reasons why NRG is such an incredible team. And IDK why you are using 2023 EG and 2024 NRG as examples. 2023 EG Boostio did the calling and IGLing. Ethan may have midrounded or called rotates but he wasn't the IGL, and EG literally won Champions that year. 2024 NRG is a bad example too because Ethan literally IGL'd for like less than 10 games and with an entirely different system of players.

Not really sure the point you are trying to make about Bonkar, but Ethan is an incredible IGL and Bonkar's contribution has definitely supported that but at the end of the day Bonkar can't play the game and make decisions for him lmao. I feel like you are slightly overrating the amount of impact a coach has on a team and their decisions in game.

speed face

I hard agree. People don't understand how serious Champions is, or underestimate the difference between Masters and Champions. Masters are still incredibly high level, but there needs to be a great distinction between the two IMO.

And yeah, it might've been good to include aspas on this post as well but I just cba LMAO.

We are in the midst of the 6th season of VCT and 7th year of professional VALORANT. Finally we can start having dignified discussions about who the GOAT is. Right now I think Chronicle has the best case for the title of GOAT, but if NRG wins Santiago, Ethan will have a great case. To entertain the debate, let's compare Chronicle and Ethan's achievements. I'm not going to include individual statistical performance, since that would take way too long to compile, but I think most fans are at a consensus that both players have been consistently good across their careers. You can definitely argue one is above the other, but most people can agree that team achievements and tournament wins are far more important anyway.

Chronicle has:

• 5x EMEA/CIS Challengers winner
• 3x VCT EMEA winner
• 1x VCT EMEA runner-up
• Masters Berlin winner
• Champions Berlin runner-up
• LOCK//IN winner
• Masters Tokyo winner
• Champions 2023 4th place
• Masters Toronto runner-up
• Champions 2025 runner-up

Ethan has:

• 1x NA Challengers winner
• 2x VCT Americas 3rd place
• 1x VCT Americas runner-up
• Masters Berlin 4th place
• Masters Tokyo runner-up
• Champions 2023 winner
• Champions 2025 winner
• Masters Santiago top 3

Who do you think has the better case? If NRG wins Santiago, Ethan will have the same number of major tournament wins as Chronicle.

weird as hell to talk about a 16 year old like that