I feel like there's some tier 2 / tier 3 teams missing, which is kinda heartbreaking, I expected more than 2 known GC teams to at least try...

I've been glazing berryx for a year, glad it was all proven right, they win it next year trust

Am I misunderstanding it or is the last paragraph basically just "we don't know what we will do with them"?

Kinda crazy they picked up a whole GC team and they didn't even get the chance to play under their banner.

Because it was probably quote tweeted a lot for what's kind of an obvious reason (people clueless how GC works)

She choked her fair share of games in higher tiers. This is the least she could do to repay the favor

Heart says KRU mind says SRG

DANGGGGG

I believe they have to do some sort of verification / background check done by a third party? Used to be like that in the rulebook before.

You have no clue about T2 and T3 Valorant and are making comments so painfully out of touch.

can't even beat a random tier 2 team to qualify for tier 1

As if the tier 2 teams don't have to get enough points over 3 stages to qualify for ascenscion and then beat the other teams from different regions trying to do the same thing. And let's conveniently ignore the fact Tier 2 is full of people who were in Tier 1 at some point.

if they are at radiant level they wouldn't struggle

Take your time to check trackers before commenting on this. Most of them have been radiant at least once.

Congrats, your cheap ragebait worked.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f4a3244c M8 probably mops the floor with everyone in LB and fall to 2nd place curse yet again

Depends on what you're expecting from it and if you're already a GC enjoyer

I'm excited for M8 GC because they kinda swept EMEA GC

Team Liquid Brazil

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Correlation is

close enough for him to have realized

My best friend had 0 clue or at least claimed to not have any for 6 years until I told him, I did never discuss those topics with him though
Some people do not have a radar no matter how obvious you are, I will never understand it but oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

How close are you two? If it's someone really close I'd question if they got replaced

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/4796a70f probably a little undercooked this one because I haven't had the time to check CN games

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5abe8935 hopefully I can match perfect pickem from 2024

We already know what happens here.

Not that odd, T4 GC team vs T2.5 team

Probably the most longstanding woman in the FPS community besides potter, used to be on a team with mimi in CS:GO and then later in Valorant

Well yeah, what else can I compare it to besides the previous iteration of the team?
Time can tell and the matches in front of us if they'll be able to step it up. I'm excited nonetheless.

For GC, they're gonna end top 3 / top 2 in their own region and qualifying for for GCC is in the air.
For NACL, they are unlikely to qualify.
In comparison to their last year second place finish in GCC, they looked worse in their games through the current stage + pugs I managed to watch.

I hold them to a high standard and "no legs to stand on" is exaggerated, but again, they haven't glued together yet with this iteration to be as dominant as GC '25 and changing the coach right before GCC qual matches (unless it's effys) will be a net negative.

I'm open to hear what could be done better for this roster.

Fair point, but also this roster -mel -sarah has no legs to stand on so I don't know what he could've done better

What'd he do besides be mediocre 😭

being salaried and being bored might be the worst combo for any aspiring pro player ngl, but we'll see what they do this year in GCC

You see the good, I see the bad, which was her NA Challengers performance where she was lowest rating twice out of all players

Ouh you're overrating dodonut

Maestro Vania does it again

I don't really know what you expected from a team whose record is 30W 6L ever since they joined GC

He's with G2 Gozen until 2028 ends

G2G 2-0 ATN, they have showed incredible form in the last 3 games + they're about to have bootcamp buff

This just has to be ragebait lol

503 ACS is lethal 💀

Frankfurt personally was quite nice

One game isn't really a representative of the team state + I think highkey coaches and Tibault make more calls than players do in terms of roles and they made mimi flex ever since this roster exists

Alexis is on IGL duty I believe

fair enough lol, thank you

Yeah I figured now that I looked at transactions - but why?

I've been slightly out of the loop with VCT team formations, can someone clue me in?

I remember the whole roster looked promising under the Rankers banner, yet now they are both missing members that made the roster what it was and are fast tracking to being the weakest team in NA. What caused them to make such bad roster decisions? Was there an internal conflict or was there something else at play?

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I 100% agree. I think this is the way to go, by doing systematic integration into T2 -> they get reps -> they learn from actual competition -> they get better. Even if they lose, they gain experience.

There's highkey no point in these showmatches because they don't result in anything worth mentioning, if anything people will clown on GC even more.

G2G in its weakest iteration lost to TH 13-0 and even after both teams changed rosters 2.5 years later people keep on bringing it up as definitive proof they're "bad".

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Yes, they are, but I approximate them to the closest tier below Challengers as the level of play is lesser than in Challengers.
Riot has also released a few images where they tier the levels of play in a pyramid, and iirc they put GC below Challengers too.

Unsure about T1 but Noia really shouldn't be in T3, especially now that SRG kinda fell apart

😭💔 sonion she's been the bottom rating of 2 VCL NA splits, she can't shoot there what makes u think she can shoot in T1?

This seems to be a thing people that don't really talk about, but Riot set the rules for Game Changers, regardless if you like them or not. There's no rule not allowing from playing together like this in the league as Riot and AnyKey do verifcation. Only way to get this changed is to try and rally people for changes, but Riot is not opening that Pandora's box. This won't make any waves until a team like them wins GCC.

SRG has a different issue, that being dodonut is a heavy choker when it comes to VCL, both splits they participated she was the lowest rated player.

Skill plays a big part, given (AND TAKEN) opportunities also play a part, and lowkey I'm sure sexism has denied at least one of these players to progress further in their attempt at a career in Valorant outside of GC.

I can see Sarah, Noia, Daiki, Jelly, dods, doing well in a different roster in T2.
If we are talking about progress in the GC league, It's not about current players in GC, it's about the future ones and if they opt to elevate further. The change will need to be generation by generation, not year by year because of the pool of GC competitors, which is quite smaller if we look at it separately from the general talent pool.

In the grand scheme of things, the scene exists for 5ish years and just now they got more than 1 team to T2. It'll take a lot more time for anything more than that.

And its true AGAIN for another split. They need to reconsider their approach.