are you living under a rock? they already dropped Runi, and zellsis, and xeppaaa, and Leaf, and Mce

1. That's irrelevant to the point of whether or not a GC player would be able to play well in said team

2. Bro he had worse stats than dephh at copenhagen. DEPHH. and he wasn't even Igling is the worst part.

3. Once again nobody has to get dropped in order for them to get signed, rosters still have open slots available.

Competent compared to the rest of the GC scene? yes

but we've already established that the GC scene is underdeveloped. While having success to back up your rep as one of the better GC coaches proves that you're a competent coach, it doesn't prove that your a great coach by challengers/VCT standards. You said it yourself, there's a disparity between random t3 pug teams and V1 as a whole. If you consider V1 among the top GC teams itw, then the accomplishment of coaching them to beat teams below that t3 pug team standard isn't really that telling of your skill as a coach, especially in terms of coaching to beat teams above said standards

Who's to say if you had Happy or Joshrtz coaching V1 instead of Effys they wouldn't also able to make it into challengers? There's a difference between good and great results imo.

I know V1 have decent support staff but I just don't think it's enough in terms of quality not quantity i mean

And? I'm saying #37 made a stupid point. that's not the crux of my argument regarding the question initially posed by the thread

Your argument is full of strawmans

-Why specifically NA tier 1? OP never said anything about NA and players aren't restricted to playing in their home region
-OP never said any tier 1 player should be dropped specifically to sign any one player. There's loads of players already being dropped for various reasons and rosters that are still undecided. Nobody needs to be dropped for a GC player to get signed to a roster in the process of being built.
-Why use specifically Sarah as an example? the argument isn't all GC players deserve tier 1, it's that a few among the top of GC are good enough to do so.

1. Imo the most blatant example of GC players who would probably do well in tier 1 if given the chance are mel and florescent.
2. GE unironically signed Russ, so yes they are better than certain players in T1 teams. And that's not me saying that "GE should drop Russ for mel and florescent!"

Source: your ass

Sorry your argument is void because my only retort to any meaningful discussion on this topic is posting games of Nigerian teams losing to literally anyone

What?? Certain groups of people have genuine, systemic reasons other than nationality or gender for why its members aren't represented at the highest level of play?? That's crazyyy

I never would've thought

Bro the third best team in GC last year was being coached by PureVNS . V1 isn't even being coached by a proven coach, just a former V1 player from 2022 who couldn't get picked up anywhere else and not even their former IGL.

No offense to either of them, but there's a clear difference between the quality of coaches in GC vs the quality of coaches in challengers/VCT (cheT, sgares, Potter, bonkar, tanizq, mini, enghh, d00mbros, etc)

You cannot tell me that GC has adequate enough coaching staff to question why they can't play at a high enough level yet

By your logic all Nigerians are equally bad at valorant because a 5-player Nigerian roster would not be able to beat a 5-player Egyptian roster, even if 1-2 players within the Nigerian team were better than any of the Egyptian players individually

No, florescent and Mary's stats were better

Hence why the stats don't mean anything at all; there's no argument to be made that jakee and runi were picked up because they had better stats (which they don't) than GC players. They were picked up for visible talent shown in their gameplay

Thats a vast generalization. There's gc players among the top 20 radiants you know

The people on this thread making 5 GC player teams vs 5 male challengers player team comparisons are actually so stupid and missing your point

That one was a gamble from a roles perspective though; I guess alecks had more insight but nobody could've predicted just how flexible f0rsaken's agent pool could be

Oh I'm ngl then I think they're probably gonna sign a sova main since nismo is on flash ini

Nitr0 is just a flex player at the end of the day

I can imagine that

To be fair nitr0 doesn't exclusively play sentinel but I feel like they'd build around him on kj for some reason idk

If be goes smokes or initiator I guess I could see aproto coming in

Whats your reasoning?

If pancc joins the team im more concerned about LEV's underage fans more than anything

My goat reporter

I'm ngl i actually believe it

I actually believe it.

I remember fns ardiis and s0m acting flabbergasted by the amount of zeros on yays contract when fns first announced his stepping down from NRG

Tanner ur smoking if you think Marved was a great IGL

Jinggg is one of the best entry players in the world

He was the crux of most of PRX's executes. Although you really shouldn't discount something either in that regard.

Something's Reyna was racking up so many first bloods against LOUD on attack that it was actually insane

+Demon1 and Boostio is the only good move they can do imo

Or potentially +Demon1 & Ethan as others have theorized

+Runi might work but it would mean putting Victor on Senti and crashies on viper but tbh I trust Boostio more in terms of IGLing

MY REPORTER

They signed the ex Guard roster for next VCT season

No, deadlock actually

yes, unfortunately I know babysasuke and nutab1e irl. they never leave their house though so I can't really consider them neighbors :/

good evening! you are the worst scum on earth good sir.

would you care for a swiftplay? :D

flag confused me for a second but when kids are learning their first language it's usually no real problem regardless; however, I can see how this would apply to someone older learning english and being taught aussie pronounciations vs other accents

ok LOUD objectively did,

but it was a good financial move

Still though, people said the same thing about Cryo for Will last year

we'll just have to see

Challengers is gonna be M80 and Oxygen next year

mr sasuke, first name baby. I hope you've had a wonderful day. How are you?

I have to please viscount babysasuke and earl nutab1e to be truly at peace tho

How's your day? :D

Sincerely, Nachtel

I'm unironically becoming a KOI and TH fan;

I wanna see wo0t and benjyfishy in action

where's my sports car >:(

Yume nikki

soulsborne games are always worth it

hot take: there's more buildings in new york nowadays

me to random french people in Paris servers

wardell was toxic as shit bro

yay is loveable even if he does have his toxic moments like everyone else

G2
SEN
LOUD
Leviatan
NRG (so far until I hear them sign Boostio and Demon1)
EG
100T
C9
KRU
FURIA (they let go of dgzin wtf)
MIBR (just lost havoc to LOUD)

¿pero van a quedarse con el resto de su roster? o van a reconstruir alrededor de aspas

my names not corny 🤬, its lucy

Realistically Leviatan will have a performance next year

At this point just sign the entire voltaic roster

morally confidential*

I don't care if he spreads info about org's finances or whos signing with who, thats the job of a leaker after all

but it's when individuals are personally affected as negatively as she has that it's wrong