What we thought Cryo was going to be last year was a top 3 duelist in the Americas.

What we have now is a serious question…. If he just got diffed by reduxx, mada, and oxy….. does he even deserve to be in t1?

Biggest fall I have seen in Valorant so far.

Bleed doesn’t make an international tournament.
Loud doesn’t make an international tournament.
Apex win ascension

Almost lost to Ramboot 😂

Anyone saying FNC isn’t the best team on paper is someone who doesn’t know Valorant. Period

FNC has been, and still is, the team favored to win it all.

Verno is probably the top prospect in all of t2 Americas and would be an upgrade on a number of vct teams.

I have been a huge fan of reduxx for a long time, but I am honestly not willing to say he is better than cryo.

I feel like Sen is just waiting to send sacy home when Verno is old enough to shit with the big dawgs.

Pretty sure at least 2 of those players are to young for vct.

Watch the match and think “Asuna is playing pretty well.”

Look at stats and see he is the top rated player on his team, 9/3 first bloods, played 3 different roles.

VLR Thread: AsUnA iS tHe pRoBlEm

When I was in London they had a train line and it ended at Cockfosters.

I smiled every time I heard it.

True story 🍻

They see me Perthinnnnn…. They hatinnnnnn

They tryin to keep me white and nerdy

I dont watch him because I never thought he was good.

He was on of the worst t1 players during his stints in tier 1 and one good off season tournament isn’t going to change that for me.

The reason he isn’t on a t1 team in NA is because he isn’t good enough. He’s just a content creator so 37-16 is a pretty good record to me.

He’s a content creator from NA that’s 37w-16L

Looks like he is doing a pretty good job to me….

How many Brazilians will remain on this site when they fail to qualify for any international event.

Brazil looks weaker than the last two years and this is the strongest NA / Latam has ever looked.

Masters and champions have CRIMINALLY low amounts of teams. Madrid has 2 from Americas 😂.

Sen
NRG
LEV
Loud
+Whatever team is on a hot streak

That’s 5 legitimate teams fighting for 2-3 spots.

It’s a very real possibility that loud doesn’t make a tournament this year.

Out of the league

Aspas
Demon1
Something
Derke
-gap-
Everyone else

I looked at my cousins match history and It had people who were s1 last season and people who were diamond in the same match.

What’s your alt account?

Cause no way you spend your entire life for the past 2 years prowling these boards just to bait about ex-Faze players.

Demon1
Zekken
Ethan
S0m
FNS

Potter
Sgares

Derrek
Jawg
Apoth
Supaman
Nature?

Meh

Do you live in NA?

Having travels abroad gave me a completely different view on showering.

Some countries are hot all the time and most countries other than America don’t have AC in every building.

Imagine it’s blistering hot everywhere you go, even inside.

When I was in rome I showered twice a day. Once when I woke up and once when I got back to my air bnb to cool off and rinse the sweat.

LOL
😂

You know it’s 2 shots if they have heavy armor and it’s not as fast as you can pull the trigger… honestly in the 4 games I have played I haven’t seen anyone hit 2 shots back to back on the same target unless it’s up close.

The zoom makes the gun worse imho

Asuna was above average in a year when his team was dogshit.

He is like Tenz.

Some nerds just like to hate on good players.

Inb4 they make an EG style run to challenge for a top 3 slot in the Americas and everyone says “I knew they would be good with Boostio.”

Easily the most underrated team in the Americas right now.

Last year at this time they were thought by most people to be a top team. They have just made two big upgrades this offseason.

Downvoted for truth 😆

I know it’s mostly trolls from other regions…. But people keep rating MIBR above….. ANYONE and that’s insane.

Very good chance MIBR is the worst team in the world.

Put Sen up a tier and Furia up a tier.

Not a bad list.

They were not even considered the best team in t2 last year by many people.

Leaf is definitely an upgrade, but it’s hard to win in such a stacked region with only 2 stars.

Anything above 6th should be considered really good for them.

You forgot to say “after not making the finals of the only tournament that matters each year.”

;)

Odd move from the outside.

Maybe his English wasn’t great or he didn’t get along with someone?

Shhh bitch

Once you’re older than 13 you’ll realize numbers in your name are not cool.

They are data mined.

Riot knows they will be data mined and leaked so in essence riot leaks it’s own stuff.

I think m0g has a good future, but proj is just another t3 duelist.

This is true, but it’s always been this way in esports.

Only “rich” countries have representation. That’s why Africa and most of SA have little to no representation.

Even huge countries like India struggle because of a lack of money.

Esports are for the rich. If we think globally, anyone with a good computer and internet access is wealthy.

Does his name mean something?

Adams family on Netflix had a similar vibe.

Fate the Wynx saga

B main is okay, I just think it makes the game less dynamic / more boring.

I hate the other change, it DEFINITELY makes things more linear.

The tube change opens things up and makes it more dynamic.

The spawn box once again makes things less varied.

I’m tired of riot always changing maps to make them less interesting.

Love the change to tube.

Dislike every other change.

Dude is averaging 64% hs rate with a vandel and his last game was above 70%hs rate

It’s honestly pretty sus

100T had them rated the same and most people considered yay the best in the world.

Cryo was considered one of the best players in NA, which makes him one of the best in the world.

FNS isn’t born in 2000 bro

Him and yay were the hottest free agents last year….

Very good chance 100T bounce back.

They feel like the baseline Americas team.

People still ride pancadas dick after a disastrous season (hE PlAyEd SeNtInAl) but forget that Cryo was in the conversation for possible best player in the world when last season started.

And everyone overrating G2. Th we are going to be like bleed, and m8… a miracle if they finish in the top 6

So a bad team just lost their best player?

Yikes

Trexx makes a huge difference for VIT. They are gunning for a top 3 finish in EMEA 🍻

What do you suggest they do to buff him then instead?

You can’t just take away the only thing they added to make him relevant because “he makes me think before I run into site”

I have loved yay since he was on Andbox, but if he doesn’t perform this year, then he his statement is probably true.

https://esportsadvocate.net/2023/08/valorant-champions-bundle-40m/

“Riot already disclosed a huge revenue boon for teams that participated in this year’s final event. The Valorant Champions 2023 bundle, which consists of in-game decorations for various items and effects, raised over $20 million in revenue share for those teams, earning them $1.25 million apiece.“

Now I don’t know what player contracts look like, but I find it hard to believe that they make 200k a year and take a huge cut from the bundle. Unless the orgs are actually that dumb….

I thought I heard somewhere that EG tried to cut their players salary this year with the promise of a larger share of the skin revenue but the players didn’t want the deal.

Omen is honestly the only smokes that’s fun to watch.

Viper makes shit lame and slow
Harbor just looks like a confusing mess on screen
Astra is slow and excels at hiding during postplant
Brim is 2nd to omen but not as flashy