Yes Mwzera is a good deal for everyone involved. It's the effect that international tourneys have on these smaller regions. Especially with that Champions community pool. I expected it would work for X10 to keep Patiphan as well but sadge

goat

You cant keep comparing every buy out with TenZ. He was not just a pro player also already a big streamer, which is the real money maker. Has the buy out for Yay been leaked? Because thats much more interesting to compare it with, surely his transfer doesn't come close to a million.

You could be a VLR korea reporter. Good posts every time

Imagine caring about a bunch of CSGO fans if you're a pro. Just pick what's best for you competitively and money wise

V1 bout to be demon team. Zander, Wippie, Penny all in NA rank top 10 right now

*cryo & zander

Competition in CS is better sure, but not with EG. Felt like this would be the right moment to switch for him

He will stay. But why would you pick EG over 100T val. The money, the (international) competition are all better at 100T. Only reason not to go is the love of the game at this point

That second tweet lol. Yea, thats how it works everywhere. In real sports, in celeb news and in esports

gMd smokes, Shawn skye/second duelist, Nature jett, Koosta viper/sova, Rhyme flexible sentinel/sova/viper would be my guess. Hoped for a jett specialist

Koosta back sentinel would be nice, especially now since chamber is an OP agent. But I thought mCe said he didn't like that role

Obvious replacement, good choice. Looks like NIP boys getting some nice moves

it be your own people

Prod

Exactly, he has the most leverage on a deal he has ever had right now, would be stupid not to explore his options

It shows individual skills, you're not in high immortal consistently if you cant aim or don't know the game. They shouldn't lose against a random 5 man

The pros are not scrimming in ranked no, but they still show their skills and perform good consistently. So do the C9W players. Never said they all were radiant

Maybe, but they play tournaments every week. They have a lot of performing experience

But they are all high immortal/radiant, and perform well in ranked matches against good pros. So thats not a real excuse.

lol

Paid team losing to 5 randos, how? C9 scrims, they're all talented and radiant. Why do they struggle so much when its not a Gamchangers tournament

LATAM lost in the LCQ with Brazil, so what's the point giving them more slots. They just don't have enough teams to be competitive

The players perspective isnt the issue

Thats kinda cool

Thats what I've been saying from the beginning..

Teal Seam already plays every tier 2 tourney and participate in VCT. So by signing to an academy team they get the VCT removed even, so less options for the players

Still, getting money better then not getting it. So right now academy teams are just hoarding players and making it harder for other teams to pick up replacements and so making them more reluctant to let players go without asking big buy out

Whats the actual point of these academy teams? Promoting players is so rare. But good for them, get paid to play

MIBR coming for everyones throat

KOI Koldamenta?

Its region based. Fnatic have Boaster, Mistic, Derke from same Northern Europe region. Same with Liquid. Acend is depending on where they put Ukraine, my guess is East Europe so Zeek, Kiles, Starxo.

Seems like most will be fine. Only G2, Vitality & Alliance don't have 3 players from 1 region. Especially G2 have 4 from 4 different regions, others have 2 from 1 so they just need to sign someone or move someone to the country

Good news for viewership that Ibai will be involved in Valorant

+brax

Thats 3 in a row

Shawn is easy top 5 Skye in NA, he is not the issue right now. Him and gMd are set. But Nature, Koosta, Rhyme have some overlap but none of them is a real jett, real sova or real sentinel which is kinda off-meta

And let us filter the player profile stats by team and not only by 30/60/90 days, because sometimes a team doesn't play in those periods

His agent pool is super meta right now? Skye, Reyna and Raze is ideal flex pool. They just don't have the big name Jett to be the second duelist for

I feel like Fnatic are a big and serious enough org to not look at a small sample size before making judgement. Doma's time will come he is still young

Probably because he was just lacking fire power in the last months when playing support roles

I don't think they are

Hoped GenG would get him

Pretty strange signing then, his vct sova stats don't look better then Koosta and he already was the bare minimum. Raze would be nice if we didnt have 3 good raze players already and she is viable on 3/7 maps only

Isn't he pretty good? But he doesn't really add any new roles. Like we still miss a good jett and sova. Maybe Rhyme can fill the sentinel roll now since Koosta doesn't want to play it (or just drop him already)

Rank up first, but also try and get some people together on twitter/discord and compete in smaller tourneys like VCS or something.

Great streamer

bro tried to sneak in Hiko like we didn't notice

And JonahP gone. MIBR is happening

People in the scene complain about the Tier 1,5 / 2 teams asking too much for players is ruining the transfers. But aren’t the academy teams a big, underrated problem as well?

Teams like TSM, T1, C9, Knights are signing decent Tier 2 teams/players like Poiz or the EZ5 roster, which makes it harder for normal 1,5/2 teams to get those players since they have contracts now vs being an amateur team. And so they are more reluctant to let players go, if you cant replace them properly

There is not even an academy league in place, so whats the point of hoarding these players? Especially for orgs like Knights, BBG whose first team isn’t even that good, what value does a second team add.