I don’t think TenZ is worth as much now as he was when SEN bought him. He is still cracked and his brand is super valuable, but he allegedly had around two years left on his C9 contract when SEN bought him. If he hasn’t extended that since joining SEN, then it should be a lot cheaper for an org like 100T to buy him out. I think TenZ fits Will’s role on 100T better anyway, so I’d prefer to see something like 100T TenZ, C9 yay, and SEN Cryocells.

Contract Wars, the web browser version

Here’s the source btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/xm7466/q4_tournaments_this_year_are_they_still_happening/ipn4vkp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

There are supposedly some unannounced tournaments coming soon, Fnatic said that they are planning to attend three as of now, so I guess we’ll find out what they are soon enough

4 players have to be from your general region (Americas/EMEA/Pacific) but there are no restrictions on how many are from your sub-region (NA/LATAM/BR) so yeah a Brazilian org could have five Canadian players if they wanted to

I don’t think C9 has to do a full rebuild, I would not be surprised at all if they only replaced mitch and curry, but even then yay could still fit nicely so it’s fine

he announced that he was leaving G2 about 14 hours ago

there’s a minimum salary requirement, so if you have to pick a sixth player you might as well choose someone who is worth at least that much in case you ever have to use them (due to another player’s prolonged injury/sickness maybe)

what if some of the players they want still have several months left on their contract? would they really pass up the opportunity to have those players for Kickoff or Masters to save money?

he was also making a lot of jokes about joining Sentinels and put up a poll and said “i’ll join the team that gets the most votes”

he’s streaming rn, probably something he said a few minutes ago

it definitely won’t be as high-quality, but it has the potential to even be much more competitive because of the stakes involved. you’re not just fighting for a championship title or prize money, you’re fighting to allow your team to compete internationally for two years which is absolutely massive

yeah, i’m just saying that it doesn’t hurt the small streamers either, the only purpose of this is to make twitch slightly more profitable so Amazon doesn’t shut it down

Small correction: the 50/50 split only applies after $100,000 of subscription revenue, and anything earned before that is still on the 70/30 split so this will only have an effect on the really big streamers

These are the official rules for the 2023 VCT Rostermania: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xfy0lbve0hdr0ju/AACzcHwykzeaVV2wF6RfvJIpa/Rules%20and%20Policies%202023?dl=0&preview=VCT23+Roster+Construction+Rules+(Revised+9.14)+(Clean).pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

If you have questions, please skim through this first before making a post about something that might already be well-defined.

they are required to have six players by October 15th, and can add/remove players after that but need to make sure the new players meet the travel/work requirements. it’s a pretty scummy move to sign someone if you plan to release them a month later so i assume most of the rosters that we see on october 15th will be very similar to the ones at the kickoff tournament

“The VCT 2023 pre-season transfer window will open on September 26, 2022” - Roster Construction Rules

i think we’ll start to get some actual news on the 26th since that’s when the transfer window officially begins

my guess would be that it’s very similar to the LoL format, so yeah each team plays every other team twice and the top teams move on to playoffs

is everyone ignoring the part where he says “to fill out maybe the last spot or two we might need trials” implying that they’re planning to get 3+ new players? i’m sure for players like trent/zekken it’s pretty obvious that they’d be good for the team

i think Gambit and LOUD are the only teams that didn’t have any “weak” players when they won their event

it’s certainly possible, and it’s part of my ideal SEN roster but we’ll have to see if he gets taken by EG or NRG. i don’t think C9 or 100T are as likely to go for him because leaf and Asuna already play Neon/Raze,

or maybe TenZ is ok with it? it has been two years and Marved apologized so maybe TenZ and Kyedae are over it. a lot can happen behind the scenes so i wouldn’t count it out so easily. that being said it is still bait

I’m not saying that. I’m saying that court cases can take a long time, and if someone were charged with murder or something you wouldn’t want to keep them around for months or years until they get sent to prison. If the allegations turn out to be true, then your company looks really bad for having supported that person during that time, but if you cut ties and the charges are dropped then you can always reopen that relationship and everything is relatively ok.

Regarding the sinatraa decision, I think it’s fine for Riot to say “you can’t play until the police investigation has been concluded and your court case has been settled,” because at that point he was still potentially guilty (and might still be guilty but it doesn’t matter now because officially it’s probably over). What happens after the investigation has concluded is more important, and as far as I know the only thing preventing sinatraa from playing now is his public image

280 ACS on Jett at Berlin, 243 ACS on Jett at Champions 2021. Yes he is probably rusty after playing 58 games straight of Chamber, but he’s not bad at Jett

you’re brazilian and you didn’t offer guaraná?

I bid a free dinner (with me) at Olive Garden twice a week.

they could also do lol.lol

https://twitter.com/JoshNissan/status/1572984060099854336?s=20&t=S8QJTA8f1E6Yt_kNswfIEA

maybe an org reached out to him before he could even tweet that he was a F/A and he just took it lol

This wasn’t cherry-picked. It’s literally just the primary duelist and IGL of each NA team to make LAN in the past four tournaments. The only thing I actually chose was leaf/vanity over TenZ/ShahZaM from Champions 2021 because C9 made it further.

even without the grandfather clause, you only have to be 18 by March 26th, so Less would be safe no matter what

Who would win in a Bo3:

• Team Jett: yay Cryocells Will Sayaplayer leaf
• Team IGL: FNS dephh stellar valyn vanity

They have two days to prepare.

this doesn’t even work because he streams like 2 hours per day, and uploads one video per week which is also just taken from one of his streams

If they’re requiring players to move to a different city for months, it makes sense that they’d want to be cautious when dealing with minors. That being said, I can’t find any top-tier players that would actually be affected by this rule

I don’t know trent’s exact birthday, but all of those players are still eligible (and so is Less)

My guess for leaf (using recent OpTic agent comps as reference) would be Viper on Bind/Breeze/Icebox/Pearl, Neon on Fracture, and Killjoy on Ascent/Haven. He has played Viper and Neon for C9 so it would probably work out.

https://www.vlr.gg/70081/xset-vs-luminosity-champions-tour-north-america-stage-1-challengers-w5

https://www.vlr.gg/77795/luminosity-vs-xset-champions-tour-north-america-stage-1-challengers-lr2

Cryo 18-9 bdog in kills, 5-4 in first kills, 7-2 in Op kills.

Is Cryo’s team better? Yes, but these are the stats anyway so do with it what you want.

he removed the Sentinels stuff from his twitter but it sounds like he’s open to playing with them again if they want him

IGLs that have led their team(s) to LAN:

• ShahZaM (SEN)
• vanity (V1 and C9)
• steel (100T)
• FNS (NV/OPTC)
• valyn (TGRD)
• dephh/AYRIN (XSET)
• stellar (100T)

Not sure if steel is actually staying with T1 or if that’s just a meme, but anyway do you think anyone outside of this list has a chance to IGL for a partnered team?

if we’re being technical, the head-to-heads are currently:

• TenZ 40-56 yay
• yay 8-7 cNed
• yay 55-70 Cryocells

i would be shocked if TenZ ends up anywhere other than SEN/100T

there was another thread talking about possibly having a six player requirement for each team? idk if it’s reliable

yeah i meant it more like “they probably won’t get rid of ShahZaM but I can still see them performing well with him on the team”

I half-agree. I think ShahZaM is good enough that he could be kept around (but I wouldn’t complain if they wanted to look at other options), but Rawkus is more of a problem and getting a better coach would have a much bigger effect than replacing ShahZaM… also dapr seems like a W to me behind the scenes

To the first point, would you prefer for them to just announce the teams in the middle of competition? That would cause a lot more problems than announcing it after Champs. At least now everyone has some time to work things out behind the scenes without worrying about competing.

FNC and TL already have Derke and Jamppi so I think they’re less likely to pay a large amount of money for a better (but not massively better) player on that role. If an EMEA team picks him up, it’ll probably be one of the newer or less successful teams

then they get a sixth player and swap between TenZ and yay depending on the map just so no one else can have yay

well most of the year will still consist of inter-league competition to see who qualifies for Masters/Champions so there will definitely be a lot of rivalry