So true.

Turkish league produces the craziest talents. I bet for VCT 2026 ComeBack, Lar0k and s0pp (when he turns 18) will be part of the best players in EMEA. And for 2027 I'm sure wtex will be one of the names (kid is just 16 and already incredible).

Derke and Less seemed to have an actual friendship, but I understand that it's hard. Vitality massively failed after the first major (which was really nice) to stay strong. Sayf hat mental issues, so the IGLing and the team performance went downhill and of course Derke and Less were not happy with the player experiments afterwards.

I hope Less finds a strong team in Americas again and Vitality will be better in 2026 (which should be the case with Chronicle, Jamppi, PROFEK and Sayonara).

Derke and Less def. deserve better than 2025. Respect to both for always staying professional and chill. Other players would have been wayyy louder about the problems of the org in 2025.

Nice to see Fnatic trying stuff out with Veqaj, but there is def. still a lot of work to do. But in the end... that's what the offseason is there for. At least you have some nice opponents here.

Was a banger match.

Keiko fits NRG so well... can't wait to see what bonkar cooks up for 2026 when keiko played with them for a bit longer.

SEN also looks strong.

This team is fire despite what most people said in the beginning. N4RRATE on Duelist fits him as good as what he played on KC during that Meta beside of marteen - 2nd Duelist and a very aggressive Fade / Gekko (Gekko was insane that Meta) -> that fits him wayyy better than being just a roaming Initiator. And N4RRATE is a beast.

And Red Bull HG is trying out things anyways. Losing here a few games is not wild, teams try out stuff and have to work with better, worse or simply other players than before.

Sentinels will be very strong 2026, 100%!

Wow, didn't expect this. musashi is so good. I mean we're talking about ENVY here...

GGs!

wtex is INSANE. That kid is the next ComeBack / s0pp (okay, s0pp is also just 17).

That kid is 16 and is so brutally good - at least in the matches I've watched with him. Def. a big, big talent in the making.

If football, Frankfurt easily wins. If Valorant (which seems will be played xD) NV easy wins 13-1 or something like that (it's BO1 afaik).

How do you mean that? :) I didn't know it was considered so much far back.
I just meant the old bonkar as a team times:
https://www.vlr.gg/150473/bonk-vs-the-barbers-red-bull-home-ground-3-swiss-r1

Keiko before played with RieNs at WYLDE and then went to bonkar, where he played together with bonkar before going to Apeks and bonkar later then became the coach of Leo, trexx and Sayf at Guild - also the reason why Sayf said in an interview in the past year that bonkar is the smartest man in Valorant. :P

NRG Keiko will be insane, especially because bro knows bonkar already.

o7

Veqaj is such a chill guy and he played a nice Abyss. Would be cool if it works out for him... on Duelist he looked suuuuper crisp (and kaajak even said he was amazing on Duelist, so that is a big compliment).

Was a fun 3 mapper. Nice ace hoody!!!!

So Veqaj for the offseason def. a good solution. I wonder what will be the final solution for 2026... maybe Veqaj turns out to be the ideal man, who knows?!

What I find insane again and again (also when people downtalk Boaster like in the last weeks when he said he continues for 1 more year) is how important an IGL or i.g. caller is. GX without Cloud are not even looking like GX anymore - and Heretics without RieNs (who is calling big time for them) also looked totally off in Korea. Of course offseason mini tourneys don't mean anything and most teams are just trying out stuff, but still... you can see it.

Btw.: Boaster on Raze = W! :D

I know these test tournaments mean nothing crazy and Heretics are without their best player, but ComeBack seems to fit their style really well. But it's crazy how much you see RieNs is missing. Even though Boo is the IGL, RieNs is the 2nd caller / often even main caller.

But in the end it's fun to see teams trying out some new stuff. I wish there would be more offseason tourneys like that with more teams... just some small quick tourneys.

In the end it's like public scrimming on LAN.

Sentinels 2026 will be dangerous... alone to see Cortezia and N4RRATE being such a cool duo already and then the whole team fitting so well and Reduxx finally in the team. This team can reach old strength levels!

I know guys... xD Less is basically gone and Jamppi and PROFEK will join. I just meant this would be a crazy roster (if Sayf would pull out early season performances before he had Burnout).

Sorry, I should have clearified that. :P

RieNs has military service, so he won't play.

I bet ComeBack will be so good with Heretics i.g. (especially when the Turkish trio is all live) and paTiTek back on TH as a stand-in will probably also go well.

So happy for cortezia that he found a great team (one of the best paying one as well).

So when Sayonara turns 18 (march 2026)...

Derke
Sayonara
Less
Sayf
Chronicle

That team is insane.

Edit: WOULD be is what I meant. ;)

Nbs is a big, big W as a coach. I feel he did similar stuff like mini and bonkar with his unique tatcical view. Could be the key with the new players.

GSR, rexxtoned, WanZeru and especially f4ngeer are going to become very, very interesting for VCT 2026!

eeiu and Zander are legit good. Especially eeiu is such an amazing Initiator. I bet many teams would love to sign him.

Get that man a nice team!

o7

Congrats, Sylvan! <3

alym, Jerrwin or renz for cane (renz literally can play every agent on a good level)
Notexxd or Spaz for ion (*Edit: bang is a good take from guy above)

Didn't flor say she wants to take a longer break from T1 because of family stuff?

GGs! Congrats to ENVY!

Both teams look strong as hell!

:P

In all honesty... ideal would have been to go all in for Sayonara because they had the chance already. But where is he now? Ah yeah, Vitality. And Keiko would have been the next ideal dude to sign but he prob. going to NRG now.

We will see. Sucks to lose Chronicle.

Btw.: Congrats for winning.

DNSTY are fighting like lions. This match is a true final.

I wish BCF all the best, but Lar0k... brother... can you maybe tell CoJo you are available for a season or so? :D Would be nice. Hahaha.

Oh wow... poor dude. Imagine you have THIS level of talent and nobody cares around you.
Of course family is more important and I guess his dad wants him to study. But it's sad because when he'd have continued like that we'd talk now about ComeBack, s0pp and Best.

s0pp will def. be signed by a VCT team in 2026!

I think he's the most talented Turkish Duelist after ComeBack at the moment. His entries are crazier than those of lovers rock and xeus.

Btw.: Does somebody know where Best is? That kid was iiincredible.

Yeah... awesome. xD

But I guess with upcoming family, wife etc. it makes sense to get the better paid contract. Wish him all the best.

Nice to see Xross again! Korean talents go crazy!

Wow, what a game. Very close on 2 maps. But I actually thought TSM could do this.

GGs!

Ryan Gosling!
Absolute W - insane talent!

Let's go! <3
And then Leo is fit and returns... xD

Honestly... slowly but surely I have the feeling Derke was right with trexx being not a very good team player and having not the best communication (even though it was lame to make that a public discussion like that - that's a thing for some childish streamers).

And also I've a heard a player from T2 in a stream mentioning it as well once.

Maybe it's the English language? I feel like we have so many crazy Russian speaking talents and players that Gambit could start another team under Serbian flag.

There have been several cups in T2-T3 this season with many Russian teams there... so many talents.

Neon and erde will be so crazy at LEV!

Big mistake in my eyes. Wish him all the best.
I'd never release N4RRATE or bang... both are so talented. Especially bang. I think he is easily a top 3 Controller in NA when it comes to talent... maybe even the most talented ones.Would prob. be a better idea to sign a performance coach that helps bang and other players.

But what do I know? Prob. not much about this.

renz <3

timotino
alym
canezerra
reduxx

TWS Rober makes the alecks!
https://www.twitch.tv/valorant_emea/clip/FragileSillyChoughSMOrc--0rHGIjCK5X0PSOF

:D

Sign Sylvan!

TSM and NV both look dangerous af.

Btw.: TSM could be the next insane story after NRG. Nbs is one of the best EU coaches, just like bonkar... and TSM is full of finest NA talent. Recipe is prepared.

vo0kashu = Sentinel master aimer!

-> GX would have been amazing!

Nbs is an insane coach and their last win against NV was brutal.

I still think this will be more exciting!

Ah, okay. Didn't know that. So he just swapped to umu7 for fun?

Yeah, I found out it's a music genre... xD I liked his previous name more (umu7).