He’s been close to KC and some other teams, also from better ascension teams (Even tho NASR loos good). Idk tbh but he’s still young he’ll eventually make I think, it would be massive for Mena tbh

I truly don’t know how to rank KPI UCAM CASE and Barça. Any of them could win the league and I wouldn’t be surprised at all. But it’s hard for me to see any of them winning ascension.

Zeta and Ramboot had made very decent rosters as well. Tbf league is way more competitive than last year, we have 2 less teams so everything is more stacked. We only have 1 truly bad roster, everyone else seems to be well built

It’s alright tbh, Maniek and Kpzet are Ascension contendent material for sure. Vorwenn is an alright IGL, has some decent experience. Guardy and Saiz are 2 of the most promising upcoming Spanish players, but their still pretty raw. I don’t get why they have 4 regional players tho, they didn’t need that many

It’s gonna depend a lot on Lucas Rojo to see if they can make ascension and do decent, but yeah, not ascension contenders. At least not as of now

He was dropped kinda late

Well first of all NASR and FLC are very solid teams who have played a couple off season tournaments before, matter of fact FLC is mantaining most of the roster from last year.

Plus it’s their first tournament and off season I wouldn’t worry. Give them time. But if they’re gonna compete in East they’re gonna struggle at the begining

I don't think so if he counts as an import, there are many available ones better

What they had did not work, it was more than proven, it was time to shake it up

They’ve have already been without Zest for decently long periods of time

DRX has always a "really good chance"

Zeta has a good roster this year tho, Future is cooking

Talking about Chaadhack, not Loud

You’re right idk about that. Although when there are not 3 players from 1 country it’s the orgs country, so my best guess is that it’s not updated after they added Monyet and made it Indonesian, idk tho. It doesn’t seem to be automatic

Sure, if they picked him up was for a reason, but that doesn’t make it good outside of Germany. It’s the counter part to not maintaining much of last years teams, you don’t get to have other players count as Germans which helps the region contend

Click Bati and Meddo is a good tier 2 core, but the other 2 not so much, Murii is alright Felix not so much

KOI flag will become Poland in vlr most likely

There is not a CIS league for a reason

The vlr flag belongs to the core of the players. Has nothing to do with the org

So we're not gonna talk about Reykjavik and Champions Berlin xD

Plus mazino is an amazing flex too

sheydos and this is not a debate

With both since last week officially, but it’s been known for a while. They’re Movistar KOI in Valorant and CSGO, and Mad Lions KOI in LOL. Riot has restrictions on name changes, and because of the teams skins coming up they have to have separate names but yeah. KOI has VCT, MAD has LEC and MRS has CS, and now they’re all together. All three are originally Spanish orgs so it’s great

The process of splitting up with Rogue and merging again has been in the middle of the Valorant market which is what has prevented them from operating properly and that’s why the roster has been so messy, matter of fact is not officially announced yet

He's an amazing signing tbf

Any news on Vici and Kristal getting picked up?

I think Kpzet is also very underrated, he's insanely good. I do like the roster but I think they needed 1 more international really good player instead of 1 of the 3 spanish players

But they do have the potential and the pieces needed. Guardy and Saiz are 2 of the most if not the 2 most promising upcoming spanish players

It's very circumstantial

Maniek
Kpzet
Guardy
Saiz
Vorwenn
Lucas Rojo coach

Good roster, can definitely fight the league but they would have to improve a lot to be ascension material

Kristal better be signed soon

On a side note, forsaken not only learned Portuguese but he’s now an OW player

He’s English wasn’t great yes, but I don’t think that was the main reason. It doesn’t seem like it was personal issues either, just a sport decision

They probably should but I doubt they do. MIBR on the other hand should be at Nozwer's house by now

It says they know it's a bad timing but that it was an improvised decision by the team so they apologize to nzr who's benched now. Wish him the best and appreciate everything he has done for the team

Well it's great when the other team doesn't have full armor but on a regular buy is not much better than a Marshall, so very circumstantial

Falltw is the better Russian on this game

I thought he was already signed on tier 2, don’t remember much

He did own yay tbf

No, they decided for Zexrow instead

KOI will announce it today, even tho we don't know the final name, it might be just KOI for Valorant because of the team skins

I love vokashu but in what world is he even on the same tier as Suygetsu

Btw situation might be more clear this week. They have been splitting up from Rogue and merging with MAD and MRS, will be announced this week. Roster will be properly presented and stuff

Not really

Yes but that was when he was playing initiator, just that he played sage on sage maps

No no, I believe contract ended on January 1s if it wasn’t waived earlier. He’s free to sign, he was supposed to go to Case with Lowel and Onur, but not 100% up to day right now so idk

Unfake was the only one signed only for off season, and just as 6th, he didn’t play. Trexx is out for other reasons. But yes the roster is the one on the comment above as far as I know. Shadow, Sheydos, starxo, grubinho and kamo. Polish core technically

Mazino has never peaked as high on smokes as he did on initiator

I might be dumb, but it does not bother me at all that Spanish teams don’t have Spanish players. What actually bothers is if they suck, which they do

Polish gang apparently

Unfake was never in the roster, just a 6th
man for the off season tournament

Well I do think people are rating them way too high. But regardless of that, as you said, on paper, KOI was supposed to be top 3/4 last year “on paper”, that’s not how it works apparently, and even less with 4 rookies

Not fanbase wise

Tbf since that was announced all 3 of KOI TH and Giants have become LEC teams with very decent fan bases and solid structures (not koi). We don’t know the circumstances but no Russian orgs is what allowed it. Idk what happened with BIG, but clearly they didn’t like something about them internally, and it must had been big because they knew the whole thing was gonna be in Berlin