Nah, literal countries as a val comp. As in, if China (the country) was actually some dude who played Valorant lol.

DUELIST: Russia
INITIATOR: Germany
CONTROLLER: USA (IGL)
SENTINEL: China
FLEX: India

• Don't take this too seriously. I am bored and have random thoughts.

I was obviously saying it in relation to his usual performance. The frags yay and .boaster get aren't comparable, nor should they be compared. They bring entirely different values to their teams.

Maybe it's the Valorant division that's not getting the biggest money bag? I wonder if that would change next year though, since TL is already showing very promising signs this year. (They should have a really solid run during Stage 2 already, in theory, with playing to win it all potentially.)

I mean, 100T is not even performing to their best version, I feel like. Asuna is not Jingg, but he's still a crazy Raze, so 100T could definitely do a lot of things PRX is doing. Cryo Yoru is improving. I mean, even something managed to learn playing it.

So, in theory, this roster can pop off. Their current limitations are the crazy coaching decisions, I feel like. And they sometimes get diffed, but the players themselves can't do something about that.

So, I don't really believe a roster change will improve much if the team macro and comps decisions don't improve. Just look at LOUD; they literally got a mini-GOAT but they still kept losing, even though many og those matches were close.

Supposedly TL has outperformed their budget, according to mini. Implying that they don't really have the bag other teams in EMEA throw around.

I suspect even this trexx move was somehow possible because VIT has been throwing the money bag around so much (they make even more roster changes than TL lol) that they couldn't afford to keep people in contract jail and accept reasonable offers.

This will be a non-issue once all matches are on one stage. Hopefully.

Boaster is dropping a stinker every once in a while, but usually he's average. He even top frags occasionally on his comfort role (Astra) and comfort map (Split).

Sliggy, Chobra, TMV, Sideshow, FNS

These 5 are my go-to costreamers for Valorant. I always watch Sliggy primarily and switch to others afterwards and rewatch if the match had interesting highlights.

Yes, the underdog story almost always wins hearts.

You could call it "China Snub" XD

Two pieces of the same puzzle. Though I somehow have more trust in Boo than Boostio lol

Fair, though AG, TEC and Tyloo were almost always a package deal.

When people used to mention TEC as the ultimate bad team of the league...

They are salty about missing out on making the hfmi name jokes.

Sliggy said that might change next year.

Nah he was also doing dirty against EDG during the qualifier tournaments too. BRo has gotten crazier a bit.

Your keyboard is malfunctioning, it got ">" and "<" confused.

Jokes aside, I think their mental is good but sometimes they are just not online AT ALL. Or the opponent team is just playing better.

I agree but our best IGL is apparently not good enough, so...

I mean, I love that he can frag well and he has cool util usage and individual positioning at times, but I was never like "wow, FUT really outcalled the opponent". He's okay as IGL but idk if he can win his team a tournament

Yeah but with FUT, they wouldn't even qualify, so...

Having the best players is only one part of the equation. You need good coaches and IGL too. That roster wouldn't win shit.

Yeah I guess. They were doing whacky Corrode comp too. They are just in experimentation mode

I want RieNs and wo0t on FUT

You could say you just want them to never enter a grandfinal again. At least they are consistently 2nd place now. Usually.

Their idea for Icebox was switching Tejo for Sova DURING the Tejo meta, just for preparing for Toronto and not prioritizing their seeding.

They are not serious people.

I love that my king is doing great again but PLEASE SAVE YOUR PEAK FOR CHAMPS

Maybe NRG and TEC TOP1 & 3 lol

Inbefore TEC finishes top 3 lol

You can copy comps but you can't copy the IGL, ideas and the players.

Well he won them the round at least --__--

EMEA brought it along

Nah it's better than playing a boring ahh old defauşt comp and lose. Play whacky and practice at the very least.

Is it the buffed patch for Waylay? I am not sure since it's on the old map pool

They would have won against EDG Lotus ngl. They are unpracticed on many maps

MAP POOL:

Who is that? We don't know her.

Have they all been on the second stream setup so far?

Well, maybe I am wrong, but I remember reading that he doesn't like playing dueslist (with all of its pressure) and would like flex roles like initiator/Omen more.

I heard he wanted to play initiators, isn't that true? If so, TH is already giving his own choices. Otherwise they are doing really well when they play double duelist.

Riens yes, Wo0t I am not sure. One of them is always doing the best he can, while the other one (seemingly) is digging his own grave with his agent preferences.

They might as well play Tejo+Breach then lol, if they are unwilling to fit into the new meta.

I am kinda disappointed.

Did they agree to play this uninspiring comp? xD

Risky bet. It's Ascent and they just switched to Defense.

No. Because I actually don't just look at the stats to judge the team. S1mon was crucial, but their success was so much more due to other individuals, don't get it twisted to run a reactionary narrative.

EDG's issue right now isn't about a player. They just need to learn together to play as a new team and the coaching staff actually needs to figure out how to bring the best out of the players, becuase they are making some weird decisions with comps etc.

It's not a take probably but a bait.

Holy reactionary.

EDG lost maps with S1mon too, you know. Especially Icebox, in which they wouldn't even be able to play this comp if S1mon were here.

Sick of this map. Seeing it so much, especially in Bo1s is kinda crazy.

If teams were looking at VLR to make roster moves, the brainrot would have melted the whole league. I am constantly amazed by the armchair analysts here.

Of course. I only object to the "meh" comment. The guy isn't even trying :/

Of course they weren't prepared. You are aware that nAts didn't have his visa, TL had to scrim with a sub from academy and signed penny last minute and ran comps with no prep time?

TL looked pretty meh even with nats

Uh, they didn't??? They clearly had no macro or practiced comp but otherwise they looked fine. Especially individual plays.

His stun was nerfed. Also his value without Tejo is very situational.