Hello india!

ORG OVERVIEW
-Global Esports is an Indian esports organization that was founded in 2017.
-They first entered esports with an Overwatch team, and later acquired teams in Fortnite, R6, CSGO, PUBG, and more
-Currently they host 9 rosters and have won over 40 titles as an organization across their many different divisions. They most recently entered VALORANT in 2020.

ROSTER HISTORY
-GE entered Valorant by picking up GodSquad in September 2020, just ahead of the SA ignition series wrapping up. The roster initially consisted of

-HellRangeR
-helfff
-Kappa
-skillZ
-SkRossi

-Shortly after being picked up by GE, helfff would leave the roster and be replaced by DEATHMAKER on a stand-in basis. LightningFast would replace him a month later.
-At the start of 2021, SA did not have a direct path into the VCT circuit. GE spent much of the first half of 2021 playing in various TEC and ESPL tournaments, and winning almost every tournament they entered
-In july 2021, Riot announced the VCC, which was a SA-only tournament that would grant the winner a slot in the APAC LCQ. This was also the first VCT affiliated tournament introduced in 2021 to the region
-GE would lose in the grand finals of the first qualifier to Velocity Gaming. They would return in qualifier 2, dropping only 1 map in the process and winning the second qualifier
-At the VCC Championship, they would be sent to the lower bracket by Velocity Gaming, but clawed their way to a rematch in the grand finals that would go to all 5 maps
-GE would win the final map after being down 3-9 at the half, and would now attend the APAC LCQ as South Asia’s sole representative
-They would win their opener at LCQ against Damwon gaming, before moving into a match against a red hot PRX, who would 13-0 them to send them to the lower bracket
-In the lower bracket they faced F4Q, who would eliminate them from the LCQ and end GE’s chances at Champions.
-In 2022 a similar format was ran with the Valorant Conquerors Championship, but this year they would fall in 2nd place to Velocity Gaming. However, due to the format change, they still qualified for APAC challengers playoffs, specifically the play-in stage
-GE would qualify as the 2nd place seed in the first split, and the 1st place seed in the second split. Both times they would suffer immediate losses in the play-in stage, ending their tournament run very early
-Throughout the offseason(s), GE have continued to play matches in TEC tournaments, getting many reps in across multiple events, including the GXR India invitational

ROSTER MOVES
-GE are the only SA team to make it into the pacific league. They’ve chosen to flesh out all 10 of their roster spots going into 2023.
-T3xture was signed from Damwon, and Bazzi from On Sla2ers. Wronksi was brought in from Order, and Monyet from ONIC G.
-AYRIN was brought in as IGL from XSET as the team's import. LightningFast and SkRossi have retained their spots on the roster, while the remainder of the old roster (KappA, HellRangeR and skillZ) all moved to sub roles.
-GE’s roster in 2023 is:

-AYRIN
-t3xture
-Bazzi
-WRONSKI
-Monyet
-SkRossi
-LightningFast
-HellRangeR (sub)
-skillZ (sub)
-KappA (sub)

https://twitter.com/purest/status/1601664436548182018?s=46&t=Phwu8jqeqXDkfzohS-qngA

<3

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

ORG OVERVIEW
-T1 is a South Korean esports org that was founded in 2003 as a venture between SK Telecom and Comcast
-They first entered into esports by signing a Starcraft team, previous Team Orion, and began their growth from there.
-Currently T1 compete in Valorant, League of Legends, Wild Rift, SSBU, and an Overwatch team that serves as an academy roster for the Philadelphia Fusion
-T1 are best known as being the most successful League of Legends organization of all time, with 3 world championships, and 5 finals appearances. They are also the home of Faker, who I don’t think I need to give background on.
-Despite being a South Korean org, all of their activity in VALORANT until now has been in North America

ROSTER HISTORY

2020
-T1 were the first organization in North America to sign a Valorant player with Brax (interestingly, he was signed over a month before the game entered Beta). AZK and Skadoodle would join shortly after, recreating the infamous IBP core from 2014.
-Crashies and Victor (then known as food) would round out the roster and enter the ignition series as one of the top prospective teams
-T1 would have a strong start in the ignition series, often making it out of groups, but would fall off throughout the summer. At Pop Flash, the final ignition series, they went 0-2 in groups, signaling the need for a change.
-Crashies and Food would both depart for NV, DaZeD, another ex-IBP player, would join as IGL. Sayaplayer, then known as Spyder, would round out the roster going into First Strike.
-At First Strike, T1 fought their way into playoffs, taking down Dignitas, Immortals, and Cloud9 in the process. They would lose to 100T in the quarterfinals, ending their playoff run.

2021
-In the first VCT open qual of the year, T1 would go out in the Ro16 to Andbox. Going into the second qualifier, AZK retired, and Brax would join TSM as a 6th man. Autimatic and curry would be the placements. The roster for the majority of the 2021 season would be:

-autimatic
-curry
-skadoodle
-dazed
-spyder

-Unfortunately, the squad still would not have any luck, failing to qualify for masters. In the second challengers split, they found themselves in a lower bracket match against Sentinels, and were 4 rounds away from sending them home on Split (what a world that would've been)
-In the break ahead of Stage 3, T1 released DaZed and brought Brax back from TSM. Spyder was also taking time off to recover from an injury, so dawn was promoted from the academy roster.
-T1 still would not find any success in 2021, ending the season without accumulating any circuit points. At this point, a major rebuild was ahead for 2022
-Skadoodle, autimatic, and spyder were all released. Thwifo was brought in from XSET and Steel from T1, pwny from Divize, and seven from 100T’s sub spot.
-The squad played several NSG weeklies and offseason tournaments, with promising results. Going into 2022, T1’s roster would be:

-Steel
-Thwifo
-Seven
-Pwny
-Curry

2022
-In the first VCT challengers of the year, T1 would forfeit their match against TSM due to their coach communicating with players during the match (help sewers). They also failed to qualify in the next qualifier, putting T1 out of competition until May.
-During their break, seven would leave for TSM, and their coach would be formally released. Dynamic would be brought in as an unofficial 5th.
-The squad still played many offseason tournaments such as Knights monthlies, with fairly standard results, but no wins.
-In the second set of qualifiers, T1 again failed to make it into the group stage, ending their VCT season in May. It was around this point that the planned move to Korea began to develop
-curry was traded to C9 for Xeta and Autumn, both Korean natives. Munchkin was also signed from Crazy Raccoon.
-Ban would join from Knights in August 2021. The team would play two matches together, winning both convincingly.

ROSTER MOVES
-Shortly after Champions, it was announced T1 had made it into partnership for the pacific league. As a result, thwifo and pwny were both released. Thwifo has since gone on to join NRG as a 6th. Steel is currently listed as inactive, and has no place in the 2023 roster.
-Carpe and BeomJun were both signed straight from the Korean ranked leaderboards. Neither of them have any stats on VLR.
-Lastly, Sayaplayer has returned to T1 to round out their roster. Stunner was also brought in as a coach. The players are currently bootcamping in North America ahead of the VCT kickoff tournament
-T1’s roster for the 2023 pacific league is:

-ban
-xeta
-Munchkin
-Sayaplayer
-BeomJun
-Carpe

I apologize for the lack of org overviews lately, I’ve been slammed with finals and I just got the flu. However, I will be finishing out this project before the year is over, so stay tuned.
ALL OTHER ORGS
PRX: https://www.vlr.gg/159058/prx-org-overview
DRX: https://www.vlr.gg/159565/drx-org-overview
-https://www.vlr.gg/157308/franchised-orgs-megathread

any chance we can set this up in a bracket?

Agree, offseason has been a major let down in NA. Was nice to see some of the content tournaments like the FaZe all star weekend, but we haven't seen any real T1 matchups with partnered teams at all

we have our bad moments as c9 fans but at least we're not the sen fanbase

🍻

your time has come

https://www.vlr.gg/159565/drx-org-overview

just bcs of this comment im doing GE next for shits n giggles

https://www.vlr.gg/109189/dart-monkeys-vs-tsm-x-astral-clash-2022-sf

93 in a Bo3 but not in VCT

W user

drx are ballers and you should look forward to them in brazil

corrected it to reflect this, thanks for pointing it out!

Yall been waiting for this one

ORG HISTORY
-DRX, previously known as DragonX, are a South Korean esports team with roots going as far back as 2012. Currently, they compete in League of Legends, Tekken, Valorant, and Warcraft.
-The Org’s history extends from their original LoL team, known as Incredible Miracle which was founded in 2012. The stack changed hands several times before being sold to Kingzone DragonX in 2018, which would eventually become DRX.
-DRX’s Valorant division previously operated under the name Vision Strikers, who themselves were owned by eDreamwork Korea. In early 2022, DRX acquired eDreamwork, resulting in Vision Strikers being absorbed under the DRX name. They now market themselves as being a subsidiary of DRX.
-Notably, DRX’s League of Legends team won the 2022 League of Legends World Championship.

ROSTER HISTORY

2020
-Vision Striker’s core was formed from the MVP PK CSGO Roster, one of the top rosters from Korea. Although 7 total players were transferred, the squad that would play consisted of:

-k1ng
-stax
-glow
-Rb
-zest

-VS would make their presence immediately known, by absolutely tearing through the ignition series in Korea and First Strike, winning every event without a single loss.
-They would win WESL, ATV Asian Showdown, Royal SEA cup, the DBZ cup, AWEM Asia, all 3 Clan Masters, and First Strike in dominant fashion.

2021
-VS continued their rampage all the way through Masters 1 and into the middle of stage 2, where they would face their first loss to F4Q (excluding two ties to Nuturn and ZFGaming)
-This snapped Vision Strikers 102 match win streak, the longest of any Valorant team to date.
-Even with their loss, VS were in playoff contention to qualify for Masters 2, the first international tournament for Valornat at the time.
-However, they would fall to Nuturn in the semi-finals, resulting in VS watching from the sidelines while Nuturn went to Iceland and finished 3rd.
-Over the break, Lakia would be brought from Nuturn to Vision Strikers. Lakia had previously been on the roster, but never played any matches. He would be a dedicated 6th man.
-Also over the break, BuZz would join the roster as a young duelist player, and glow would retire and pursue a coaching role with VS. MaKo would also replace zest for a short time as zest recovered from an injury.
-Some were critical of the decision to sign Lakia as a 6th man, since some felt VS were trying to take talent away from other teams in Korea, which limited competition. This dissent was bolstered by the collapse of the Nuturn roster, and Lakia only playing 7 total matches with VS. Going into stage 3, the VS roster was:

-BuZz
-stax
-k1ng
-MaKo (sub)
-zest (temporarily inactive)
-Rb
-Lakia 

-VS would qualify for Masters Berlin with ease, and represented Korea alongside F4Q. They would win a surprisingly close opener to Paper Rex, and convincingly beat Acend in the winner’s match of groups.
-Despite their hot start, VS would bow out to Gambit in the quarterfinals, who would go on to win the entire event. It would also be Lakia’s first appearance at an international event with the team.
-VS were automatically qualified for Champions due to their high placement throughout the year. They would be seeded in a group with Fnatic, Cloud9, and Full Sense
-At Champions, they would win their opener against Full Sense, and lose their winner's match to a red-hot Fnatic.
-In the decider match, they would lose to Cloud9 1-2, ending their run at champions in 9th-12th. This would be the final event they played under the Vision Strikers name, and was the last event Lakia would play with the organization

2022
-Ahead of the new year, k1ng would depart the roster and be replaced by MaKo.
-Vision Strikers, now rebranded to DRX, started the year off strong with heavy victories in the group stage, and only a minor loss to On Sla2ers. They would qualify for Masters 1 with ease
-DRX demolished Zeta in their opener with a combined round score of 26-5, and beat NiP convincingly to qualify for playoffs. In the playoffs they would win their opener against PRX, before being sent to the lower bracket by OpTic.
-In the lower bracket they would have a rematch with Zeta, a team they had beaten earlier in the tournament, but lose 1-2, ending their tournament run in 5th-6th place.
-DRX would again tear through the Korean groups and earn a spot in Copenhagen, this time without dropping a single map
-At Copenhagen, they would beat Northeption and FPX to get out of groups, and beat Leviatan to get out of groups
-Again, they would be sent to the lower bracket by OpTic, and lose to FPX to again exit the tournament in 5th-6th place. Due to their consistent placings, they qualified for champions
-At Champions, they would beat Furia and 100T to make it out of groups (you get the point by now, right?). Their win against 100T was their first win against a North American team.
-They would beat FPX in the first round of playoffs before losing to Loud in the semifinals (it changes here I swear)
-From there, they would beat Fnatic and FPX to earn a rematch with OpTic in the lower final, where they would lose in a 5 map brawl that ended their year in a 3rd place finish.
-DRX have continued to play smaller regional tournaments and showmatchs in KR/JP despite the season being over.

ROSTER MOVES
-DRX have opted to retain their entire roster, and brought in Foxy9 as a 6th man/sub
-DRX in 2023 are:

-BuZz
-stax
-Rb
-zest
-MaKo
-Foxy9

EDIT
-As pointed out by various users, MaKo joined VS in Stage 3 of 2021 and replaced zest while he had an injury. I've edited the appropriate portion of the article to reflect this.

ALL OTHER ORGS
PRX: https://www.vlr.gg/159058/prx-org-overview
-https://www.vlr.gg/157308/franchised-orgs-megathread

drx next :o

I need to find the guy who asked me to do DRX way back when i was still writing like NRG

girlfriend for 2.5 years and we were long distance for most of it

F0rsaken =/= forsaken

ORG OVERVIEW
-Paper Rex was founded in January 2020 by Nikhil "nikH" Hathiramani, and entered with a CSGO team.
-The team initially played in SEA qualifiers in the online era of CSGO with moderate success, but never made it to any major or offline events due to CSGO’s small size in SEA and the suspension of offline tournaments due to the pandemic
-In July 2020 PRX announced their VALORANT division while still retaining their CSGO roster

ROSTER HISTORY
-The 2020 inaugural roster for PRX’s VALORANT team was:

-Brxndon
-Egoist
-Retla
-JdFaker
-pndmonia

-This initial roster struggled throughout the ignition series, frequently failing to make it out of groups.
-Headed into first strike, the team released JdFaker and pndmonia and began to trial a slew of players going into the qualifiers
-calel, Moosey, Shiba, benaf, and FANE all received trial periods, with Retla taking the place of Shiba for most of the qualifying matches. They would qualify for playoffs easily.
-However, ahead of playoffs, PRX would suspend their entire VALORANT roster, citing a “Breach of Integrity.” An official statement following the suspension would state:

In light of recent information, we have reason to believe that certain individuals on our Valorant roster were involved with activities that go against the meaning of fair competition and integrity of an esports professional.```

-With the suspension of their entire roster, PRX would not play in first strike at all, and looked to enter the start of VCT with a new roster

2021
-Ahead of VCT, PRX would transfer their CSGO roster to VALORANT, starting with the core of:

-Tommy
-mindfreak
-f0rsaken
-Benkai
-d4v41

-In their first outing, PRX would get knocked out quickly after only 4 matches played, with losses to Timing Monster Gaming and Team SMG
-The roster would see greater success through the second set of challengers, but with some losses in the MY/SG bracket on their way to the Grand Finals, where they would get swept by Kingsmen
-In stage 2, they would make it all the way to SEA Challengers finals, but lose in the upper final to X10 and the lower final to Full Sense, which cut their chances of attending Masters 2 short. However, the team had proved themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the SEA region
-Over the break, Tommy would be swapped for Shiba, and would roll into the final challengers split of the year looking to attend Masters Berlin
-After some stumbles in the qualifier, PRX would cruise into playoffs in the final challengers of the year, and make it out of challengers finals groups with 2 wins and a draw
-In challengers finals they would secure a spot in the Grand Finals, and a spot in Berlin. They would finish second after losing to Bren in the Grand Finals
-Due to visa issues, Bren would be unable to attend Masters 3, making PRX the sole representative of SEA
-After an early loss where they pushed Vision Strikers to their limits, they would play a tight match against SMB in the elimination match, and would get sent home in 13th-16th place
-Due to their high placements throughout the year, they had earned a spot at APAC LCQ, and swapped Shiba for Jinggg
-In the APAC LCQ, They would win their opening match to GE, but lose consecutive matches to Northeption and Damwon gaming, ending their VCT season

2022
-PRX chose to retain their roster ahead of the 2022 season, and proved to be dominant in their run through the first challengers stage of the year
-The team beat Xerxia in the grand final of playoffs to secure the #1 seed of APAC, and a playoff bye at Iceland
-In Iceland, they would be sent to the lower bracket early by DRX, before beating Guard and G2 in the lower bracket to keep their run alive
-Interestingly, PRX began to be known for their crazy comps around this time, and beat G2 on Bind with f0rsaken on Yoru, which was the first time Yoru had won internationally
-Unfortunately, the teams run was cut short by Zeta Division, who were on a cinderella run of their own, ending in 4th place
-In the second challengers, PRX again cruised towards the #1 APAC seed, securing a spot at Masters Copenhagen alongside Xerxia, as well as another bye into playoffs
-In playoffs, they would beat Guild and Fnatic to make it to the upper final, and as one of the first teams to play in front of a live crowd in a VCT event
-In the upper final they would beat reigning champions OpTic, but would fall in the Grand Finals to FPX, a team that were on a legendary lower bracket run of their own. They finished 2nd at Masters Copenhagen, the highest international placement of any APAC team in VALORANT to date
-At Champions, they would win their opener against EDG, before losing to Leviatan and Liquid, ending their VCT season in 9th-12th place at Champions
-Last week, PRX played in the GXR India invitational, and beat Team Heretics in the Grand Finals to win the entire event

ROSTER MOVES
-PRX have chosen to retain their entire roster ahead of the VCT 2023 season
-JdFaker has been brought back as a manager, and Sleepy was signed as head of esports programming
-CigaretteS, a former Z11 player and Xerixa stand-in, was brought in as a 6th man
-PRX in 2023 will be:

-Jinggg
-mindfreak
-Benkai
-f0rsaken
-d4v41
-CigaretteS

ALL OTHER ORGS
-https://www.vlr.gg/157308/franchised-orgs-megathread

https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/100-thieves-to-debut-new-valorant-roster-at-red-bull-home-ground-1981627/

QUEEN BOBSTA

its 1pm kirk cousins I am ready to lose

jamal

jobs not finished

there were a lot of times where I came close to giving up and I took a few more breaks than I probably should have but we're one step closer

Attached below is a megathread linking to all of the org overviews I’ve done for the Americas and EMEA leagues. Pacific will be next. I’ve also provided an addendum since many of the rosters have been finalized since the time of writing.

EMEA
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
-TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
-KC: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
-KOI: https://www.vlr.gg/155867/koi-org-overview
-FUT: https://www.vlr.gg/156137/fut-org-overview
-BBL: https://www.vlr.gg/157189/bbl-org-overview
-GIA: https://www.vlr.gg/157304/giants-org-overview

EMEA ADDENDUM:

-FNATIC have confirmed the signing of Leo and Chronicle
-Liquid have confirmed the signings of nats, redgar, and sayf
-NaVi have confirmed the acquisition of the FPX roster and cNed in the place of ardiis
-Vitality have confirmed their signing of twisten, molsi, and destrian
-Heretics have confirmed the signing of mixwell, but opted to add avova and boo instead of l1nk and lowel
-KCORP have confirmed the roster stated in my overview
-KOI, FUT, and BBL have yet to announce their confirmed rosters
-The confirmed Giants roster is listed in my overview

AMERICAS:

-C9: https://www.vlr.gg/148561/cloud9-org-overview
-100T: https://www.vlr.gg/148653/100t-org-overview
-EG: https://www.vlr.gg/148843/eg-org-overview
-SEN: https://www.vlr.gg/148889/sen-org-overview
-NRG: https://www.vlr.gg/149228/nrg-org-ovierview
-LOUD: https://www.vlr.gg/149252/loud-org-overview
-FURIA: https://www.vlr.gg/149494/furia-org-overview
-MIBR: https://www.vlr.gg/149566/mibr-org-overview
-KRU: https://www.vlr.gg/149897/kru-org-overview
-LEV: https://www.vlr.gg/150230/lev-org-overview

AMERICAS ADDENDUM:

-C9 have confirmed yay and zellsis, and added McE and qpert as coaching staff
-100T have retained bang, and mikesHD has taken the head coach role
-EG have announced their are retaining their core 5, and adding Ethan and BcJ. They plan on building a 10 man roster, with 3 spots still unannounced
-NRG have confirmed the acquisition of the OpTic core and ardiis
-SEN retained Tenz, and acquired zekken and dephh from XSET, and sacy and pancada from LOUD
-LOUD have retained Saadhak, Aspas, and Less. cauauzin and tuyz fill the gaps left.
-Furia have swapped nzr for mwzera
-KRU have acquire xand, melser, and DaveeyS
-Leviatan have acquired nzr, mazino, and keznit

All of these articles are also slowly being released on Medium, where I write under the name RyanG2B. All articles, both for Medium and VLR, are linked on my twitter below:
-Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanG2B

Thank you for your continued support!

I’m a giants (football) fan

ORG OVERVIEW
-Giants Gaming, previously known as Vodafone Giants, are a Spanish esports org founded in 2008. They operate out of the city of Malaga
-They’ve competed in CSGO, CoD, Fifa, Fortnite, R6, Valorant, and the EU LCS. However they are no longer in CSGO, and did not make into the LEC.
-Their Rainbow 6 Siege roster has seen some relative success, and their Valorant team has seen some relatively strong finishes and pulled off some upsets.
-Giants currently competes with many other spanish orgs that were accepted into the EMEA League, such as G2, Heretics, and KOI.

ROSTER HISTORY
2021
-Giants first picked up the orgless/ex-prodigy roster that had made a run in First Strike the previous year, and intended on entering the first season of VCT with the lineup of:

-happy
-hoody
-pipsoN
-meddo
-boo

-Going into the first stage of challengers, Giants would be denied a spot in the closed qualifier with a Ro16 loss to Fnatic, and would lose again in the next qualifier with a terrible upset against F/A roster animel. This ushered in a roster change that saw happy be replaced with Fit1nho.
-With this new roster they would claw into playoff qualification, but fall short with a tough loss to Dfuseteam, ending their chances of attending stage 1 masters
-In the second challengers stage following masters, Giants would again fail to qualify for playoffs, with losses to Acend and Vitality in the Ro16 of the open bracket, ending their chances of qualifying for Iceland and international competition.
-With this loss, pipsoN would move to a coaching role, and MOLSi would be brought in as a new 5th. Giants would have one more opportunity to qualify for a masters event in stage 3
-Entering stage 3, Giants again faced a Ro16 loss to Rixgg, causing the org to make the drastic decision to bench boo and MOLSi, and bring in Davidp and Ambi as stand-ins.
-With this roster, Giants would make a deep run. They went all the way from Ro128 to closed upper semis without dropping a map, and continued all the way to the Grand Finals of Challengers 3 where they would lose 1-3 to Liquid. Their high placement had secured them a spot in EMEA Challenger playoffs
-Giants would lose to Oxygen in their opening match, and send home Navi and Guild in the lower bracket, before losing to G2, ending their chances of qualification to Berlin. Due to their lack of circuit points, Giants would be unable to attend LCQ and ended their VCT season in August.
-Giants played some offseason tournaments with their new roster, but would end up releasing all of their players with the exception of Fit1nho at the start of 2022.
2022
-Giants would build a new roster around Fit1nho, and the new lineup would be:

-Fit1nho
-russ
-Jesse
-Quick
-MONSTEERR

-With this new roster, Giants played in the VCT open qualifier, but lost in the Ro32 both times, ending their chances of competing in the main group stage of the 2022 VCT. Instead, they opted to play in the spanish VRL.
-In the VRL, Giants secured the #1 seed with a 7-2 record and qualified for playoffs. They would go out in semifinals after being swept by Case Esports
-During the break between splits, Kiles would replace MONSTEERR, and ShadoW would replace Quick. In the second season, Giants would end in second with a 12-6 record, again qualifying for playoffs, but would again lose in Semis to UCAM Tokiers, ending their VRL season and effectively ending their 2022 VCT-sponsored season

ROSTER MOVES
-After it was announced they made franchising, Giants benched ShadoW, and released the rest of their players except for Fit1nho.
-To build a new core, Giants picked up nukkye and hoody from G2, rhyme who was returning from a stint in NA, and Cloud who had been released from Navi. pipsoN would also make his return as head coach. The VCT database says Russz is their 6th player.

ADDITIONAL THREADS
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
-TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
-KC: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
-KOI: https://www.vlr.gg/155867/koi-org-overview
-FUT: https://www.vlr.gg/156137/fut-org-overview
-BBL: https://www.vlr.gg/157189/bbl-org-overview
-Americas: https://www.vlr.gg/151389/americas-orgs-megathread
-My twitter: twitter.com/RyanG2B

All of the EMEA teams have been completed and I’ll be providing an addendum and megathread shortly with all updated rosters and changes made for the Americas and EMEA Leagues. I’ll be doing Pacific next. EMEA has taken a lot longer than I would have liked it to, and I hope Pacific will not take as long. Thank you for your continued patience and support.

betting odds

if you bet 100 dollars on KRU and they win, you'll get 700 back (i think)

Probably bigger than 10 bucks

it should have said Big Boss Layf it was a mistake I made im sorry

BBL fans finding out BBL isnt actually an esports org thats all big booty latinas

I knew BBL stood for big boss layf yup yes didnt think of anything else

ORG HISTORY
-Big Boss Layf esports, frequently abbreviated to BBL esports, is a Turkish organization founded in July 2020, and was created by a trio of Turkish founders
-In addition to VALORANT, BBL also compete in PUBG, although that roster has struggled at the international level
-BBL are, without a doubt, the largest Turkish esports organization currently competing in VALORANT. They also have a sizeable fanbase, which is best shown by the massive viewership drawn in from their matches
-BBL are also home to a fairly competitive game changers roster, BBL Queens

ROSTER HISTORY

2020
-BBL first entered VALORANT in July 2020 and started with the roster of:

-cned
-legoo
-wtcn
-rogu
-kero

-Several others players would also be on the active roster, including russ, and AslanM4shadoW.
-The squad would play their first match in the Vitality European open but would fail to get out of their group.
-After some fairly mediocre results throughout the summer of 2020, cned would leave the roster for nolpenki, the roster that would eventually become Acend
-Going into first strike, Russ and AsLanm4shadoW were both promoted to the main roster, and aimDLL would join them. Wtcn and rogu would both step down.
-The roster would comfortably climb into First Strike playoffs, and would make their way to the Grand Finals and topple Futbolist esports, winning 3-0, making BBL Valorant’s First Strike Turkey champions.

2021
-BBL would opt to not make any roster moves going into 2021 and the first season of VCT. The inaugural season has Turkey in its own separate circuit, largely due to the pandemic.
-BBL again cruised through the qualifier, earning themselves a spot at Turkey’s masters. They would lose to Futbolist and groups but still make it to playoffs, but again lose to FUT in the Grand Finals, getting swept 0-3.
-Going into the second split and coming off a runners up spot in Masters 1, BBL would tumble in the first challengers of stage 2, but recover and qualify for EMEA Challengers playoffs, the first time BBL would be playing against EU teams, and were in contention for a spot at Masters 2, the first international Valorant lan.
-Unfortunately, BBL were knocked out immediately with back to back losses to Team Liquid and Gambit.
-Over the summer, BBL swapped Muj for russ, and fred would step up into the roster. At this point, BBL were

-aimDLL
-AsLanM4shadoW
-fred
-Muj
-kero

-Unfortunately, BBL would play very poorly throughout stage 3, and exited challengers without qualifying for playoffs. Due to their poor performance compared to the rest of EMEA (which can kind of be blamed as a fault of the 2021 format), BBL were unable to attend EMEA LCQ, ending their VCT season in July.
-Over the winter break, BBL would add paura, turko, and QutionerX, while retaining AsLan and aimDLL, and would begin 2022 with this roster.

2022
-BBL would have a hot start in 2022 by qualifying for the VCT as one of Turkey’s representative.
-They would stagger in the group stage with consecutive losses to Guild and FNATIC. Following week 2 of VCT, the EMEA VCT was put on hold due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Competition would not resume until 3 weeks later
-In the week 3 (4?) match, BBL would be put against SuperMassiveBlaze, the other Turkish representative, and acquire their first win. With a week 4 (3?) loss against G2, BBL were out of playoff contention, but a win against Acend in week 5 secured them a spot in the next split with a 2-3 record.
-In the following split, BBL would win their opener against Navi, and lose their next 3 matches. They would again squeak out a week 5 against BIG, but would not be able to attend playoffs with a 2-3 record. However, with enough circuit points accrued, they would be able to attend EMEA LCQ
-At LCQ, BBL bombed out with losses to Guild and Liquid, not winning a single map, and ending their VCT season.

RUMORED ROSTER MOVES
-BBL have confirmed Brave and Elite as part of their roster for 2023. QutionerX, AsLan, and Turko are rumored to be the ones rounding out the roster.

I’ll be doing Giants as the last EMEA org, and then I’ll begin writing for Pacific. I also plan on posting an addendum for Americas and some of the earlier EMEA orgs that have now confirmed their rosters after I finished Giants. Thank you everyone for your continued support.

ADDITIONAL THREADS
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
KC: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
KOI: https://www.vlr.gg/155867/koi-org-overview
FUT: https://www.vlr.gg/156137/fut-org-overview
-Americas: https://www.vlr.gg/151389/americas-orgs-megathread
-My twitter: twitter.com/RyanG2B

i intervened

FUTBOL!!!!!!!

ORG OVERVIEW

-Futbolist is a Turkish esports org founded in 2016, branching off from a pre-existing sports news app. They currently host teams in PUBG, Hearthstone, Wild Rift, FIFA, and Valorant
-Futbolist is one of the two Turkish organizations that will be representing Turkey in the EMEA 2023 League.

ROSTER HISTORY

2020
-Futbolist first entered VALORANT right before first strike qualifiers with the pre-existing 5 of LOL, consisting of

-MOJJ
-SasuKe
-marqnue
-sterben
-mag0o

-At first strike, they lost their opening match to OXG, but went on a tear through the lower bracket, beating Random 5, Anatolia, Sangal, and BBL to secure their spot in playoffs.
-In playoffs, they rode all the way to the upper final, but would lose to BBL. After defeating OXG in the lower final to make it to Grands, they would get swept 3-0, ending First Strike in second place

2021
-Ahead of VCT, marqnue would move to a coaching role, and be replaced by qRaxs. The Turkish circuit for VCT was kept separate all the way through the end of Stage 2.
-In the first stage, FUT would take down Blame, Aurora, and Wildcats before a loss to Otherside sent them to the third challengers, where they would take down Anatolia to secure a spot at Turkish masters.
-At Masters 1, FUT tore through OtherSide, Rare, and BBL Twice to win the event, dropping only 1 map in the process. They beat BBL in Semis and Grands 5-0.
-Entering stage 2, they would again tear through the Turkish bracket and win the grand final to enter EMEA Challengers Finals as Turkey’s number one seed. However, they would face consecutive losses to Guild and OXG, ending their chances of attending Masters 2.
-Unfortunately in Stage 3, FUT wouldn’t even make it to Challengers Finals and fizzled out in Turkish playoffs. However, they squeaked by into LCQ
-At LCQ, FUT opted to bring in qw1, and exited in LR3 with a loss to Guild. Heading into 2022, they would drastically shake up their roster

2022
-Entering the 2022 season, FUT would field:

-qw1
-MrFalin
-MOJJ
-p0wa77
-qRaxs

-The squad would make it all the way to the finals of the Turkish qualifier for the VCT stages, but fell short to BBL 1-3 in the Grand Finals, denying them a chance to play in the main group stage.
-Instead, FUT continued to play through the Turkish VRLs. They finished the first season 5-2 and earned a spot in playoffs, but would exit in the play-in stage with a loss to Team Lixa. After this p0wa77 was swapped for MUJ
-In the second season FUT would finish 4-3, still qualifying for playoffs. This time they would take down FFX in the Grand Finals to secure a spot at the VRL finals, where all the winners of each VRL would compete against each other
-At VRL finals, they would take down Vitality 3-2 in the grand finals with a reverse sweep, and were crowned 2022 VRL Champions.
-The team has since qualified for Red Bull Home Ground set to take place in December, as the sole Turkish representative

RUMORED ROSTER MOVES
-FUT have added AtaKaptan as a 6th player, and are said to be retaining their core 5 of players, which has led to some doubt their competitiveness in the EMEA League where there are already 3 super teams. Nonetheless, the roster for FUT Esports in 2023 is set to be:

-MrFalin
-qw1
-MUJ
-qRaxs
-MOJJ
-AtaKaptan

The remaining orgs for EMEA are Giants and BBL

ADDITIONAL THREADS
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
KC: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
KOI: https://www.vlr.gg/155867/koi-org-overview
-Americas: https://www.vlr.gg/151389/americas-orgs-megathread
-My twitter: twitter.com/RyanG2B

avg of 24 a day

back when shadowisbad wasnt banned i think his average was in the 40s

average of 15 posts a day

my people

KRU smm getting a raise or getting fired

I think people were expecting more from the offseason/independent tournament organizer series following Champions and its been a bit of a letdown. While the faze all-star weekend and spike nations were fun it was more content oriented than competition

Redbull HG and Knights freezeout are in the horizon but I'd rather see actual Ascension or even partnered teams attend rather than some pugs

theres this match not sure what tourney https://twitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1539321533784416259

also the last 3 days of M2 Copenhagen

editted to reflect this, thanks for pointing it out

I think the gap between FNC/TL/KOI is super small but navi has an edge rn
I also don't know as much about EMEA val so my opinion doesnt have a ton of weight

Koi are actually sick im glad i wrote this also im back hello

ORG OVERVIEW

-KOI are a Spanish organization that were founded in 2021, founded by streamer Ibai Llanos Garatea and former footballer Gerard Piqué Bernabéu. They are also known as Finetwork KOI in League of Legends.
-They currently compete in Valorant, League of Legends, and TFT. They also host a slew of content creators.
-In October earlier this year, KOI announced a merger with pre-existing organization, Rogue, resulting in Rogue’s rosters competing under the KOI name in 2023. This adds a Rocket League team, an R6 team, a CoD team, and an LEC slot.
-In League of Legends specifically, KOI’s owner has brought in massive viewership, having an all-time peak of 212,000 viewers (which is more than Tarik’s peak for reference)

ROSTER HISTORY

-KOI chose to pick up the core of UCAM Tokiers after they released their roster at the end of 2021, and added some of their own players. PHYRN, Shrew, Sacake, and keeping ThoR as a sub. Joining would be starkk and H1ber. The roster going into 2022 would be:

-starkk
-H1ber
-PHYRN
-Shrew
-Sacake

-Entering the first qualifier, KOI would make it into the closed qualifier, but would fall to Vitality in the quarter finals. In their second attempt at qualifying for the group stages, they would get eliminated by free agent team need more DM
-With their hopes of making VCT now squashed, KOI opted to play through the Spain: Rising VRL. They would have relative success, ending the season in second place with a 6-3 record, and a seed in playoffs
-In playoffs, they would fall in the semifinals to Rebels Gaming in a grueling 5 map series, where H1ber dropped 96 kills. Rebels would go on to win the entire Spanish VRL.
-After playoffs ended, H1ber would stand-in for FNATIC at Masters 1 before leaving the organization entirely, with Famsii taking his place.
-In the second season of VRL Spain, KOI would start 1-4 and change their roster after round 6, adding neptuNo and benching starkk. Shrew would also be benched later in the split and be replaced by MAGNUM.
-KOI would end the season with an abysmal 5-13 record, which put them into the demotion tournament. They would beat Real Betis to stave off demotion.
-During the offseason, KOI played in the Redbull HG qualifier, and would exit in the Grand Final with a loss to BIG. They would also play show matches against KRU and Leviatan, which to my knowledge is the first non-VCT inter-regional match

RUMORED ROSTER MOVES
-KOI have benched their entire roster and are looking to build a new squad for the 2023 EMEA League. Currently, they are rumored to be picking up:

-trexx
-Koldamenta
-starxo
-Sheydos
-Wolfen

Comment any mistakes or misconceptions I made, I’m not particularly familiar with KOI but I do look forward to seeing them in 2023 with this roster. Most of the information regarding Org History was also in Spanish, so there may be mistranslated information. The remaining EU orgs are Futbolist, BBL, and Giants. Comment if there's any one in particular you want me to do next.

ADDITIONAL THREADS
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
KC: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
-Americas: https://www.vlr.gg/151389/americas-orgs-megathread
-My twitter: twitter.com/RyanG2B

flor is undoubtly the best individual talent in GC and even though its a content tournament shes shown she can stand toe to toe with other pros

https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview

zeek is actually a really good answer

stax is still out there swinging

I'm taking a short break from writing these org overviews since I am a bit burnt out and I have some personal stuff going on. I plan on returning eventually I just need some time to myself
I've been posting all of these writeups on medium as well, and they are all linked through my twitter

-C9: https://www.vlr.gg/148561/cloud9-org-overview
-100T: https://www.vlr.gg/148653/100t-org-overview
-EG: https://www.vlr.gg/148843/eg-org-overview
-SEN: https://www.vlr.gg/148889/sen-org-overview
-NRG: https://www.vlr.gg/149228/nrg-org-ovierview
-LOUD: https://www.vlr.gg/149252/loud-org-overview
-FURIA: https://www.vlr.gg/149494/furia-org-overview
-MIBR: https://www.vlr.gg/149566/mibr-org-overview
-KRU: https://www.vlr.gg/149897/kru-org-overview
-LEV: https://www.vlr.gg/150230/lev-org-overview
-FNC: https://www.vlr.gg/151396/fnatic-org-overview
-TL: https://www.vlr.gg/151617/liquid-org-analysis
-NAVI: https://www.vlr.gg/151763/navi-org-overview
-VIT: https://www.vlr.gg/152799/vitalty-org-overview
-TH: https://www.vlr.gg/152972/heretics-org-overview
-KCORP: https://www.vlr.gg/153985/org-overview-kcorp
-my twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanG2B

nuturn v V1
V1 v 100T
OPTC v DRX
PRX v FPX
M3C v FNC (the one where split went to 40 rounds)
100T v GMB
C9 v VS
X10 v NV

theres no doubt he was one of, if not the best jett op in the ignition series era. He was also one of the biggest faces of valo during its rise

I don't know if skrossi is past his prime if hes putting up 98 kills in 3 maps...

However I do think he is easily one of if not the most influential player in South Asian valorant

did curry even have a prime