Which is why PRX will be the first team to get Three consecutive 2nd place finishes in a single year, topping both TH’s 2024 & FNC’s 2025 respective seasons.

0-2 man

Can’t believe people compared him to Xeppaa

Erde highkey

Y’know what, I take it back. They did well to not walk out after losing and sticking around for the trophy lift. Brazil biased but not the worst

Nah, they just make noise for timing and trap plays that would otherwise catch their players. They’re silent when the other team plays well and don’t care about good Valorant. Seeing how they treated FNC after Lock-In says it all.

Brazil has the worst crowds and its not even close

Not hard to be that good of a fragging IGL if you can pull out strats like “Erde go kill” and “Erde secure the round.”

Brazil crowd has always been shameless

If they manage to play only Americas teams then they could totally win. Kinda like Vitality at Master’s London.

If we assume that NRG, LEV, G2, and 100T will be attending, will this be the first time that all the teams a region is sending are genuine trophy contenders?

You can’t fit a N4rrate sized block in a Zekken sized hole. Not sure you could fit anyone in a Zekken sized hole tbh

Plenty of agents that purchase a bit of util and a ghost. Just run a classic pistol round instead with the same util.

Edit:
Did the math on it and Viper seems to work best.
Buys with no kills at all:

Pistol Round: Orb
2nd Force: Outlaw only
3rd after save: Operator and Orb

The wall is available every round and helps with entrenchment.

I know it’s common for pros on defense to have one player save 400 on pistol so that they can afford to buy op 3rd round. It’s missing something though.

Why not just save 500 and also have the option to have the team force 2nd round with an outlaw on one side of the map with a 3/4 stack on the other site? Even if you don’t force, seeing that player at 2400 creds will make the other team go for a more conservative buy with full shields second round and therefore kneecap their bonus.

I could see it being particularly strong on Chambers no?

I’d wager most T2 pros are 400rr+ peaks. The gap between low and high Immo is so great that nobody would want you in their team if you didn’t at least meet that mechanic floor.

We’re in a double duelist meta and your big idea is to kneecap controllers some more? Omen is the most flexible of the controllers but the entire class is already balanced relative to others. Right now, Harbor and the initiators need a minor buff

EMEA is short on callers. Americas is not

The one with a champs trophy who also dragged 100T out of hell

Seven (Duelist)
Chloric (Flex IGL)
Crashies (Recon)
neT (Smokes)
N4rrate (Sentinel/Secondary Duelist)

At worst his micro is inconsistent from map to map but his macro is definitely Tier 1.

Not really. He was a core part of 2023 TGRD and the 2024 M80 rosters. His stint on C9 destroyed his stocks but the role swap onto this GX roster seems to be very good for his growth.

neT just made the role swap. Give him a year on it and he’ll be compared to eeiu.

The nerf was highkey really extreme. Went from a laser beam to just worse than a bandit

Reminds me of Boostio. The Scene needs more players like this

If G2 had Oxy instead of Babybay for Santiago and London then they’d win back to back.

After demoting Immi, they’re about to go on a run.

Valyn has been IGLing since 2022

They’re going home lmao

Always have been

Nah, FNC just can’t adapt to the meta

This version of FNC loses to the Envy from yesterday

Imagine expecting a match on par with the reigning champions and the most recent Master’s winner, both in prime form.

Don’t forget how bad Ardiis was. Keiko was literally the best player in EMEA before we imported him over. Also, DaviH is cheeks.

Gotta be delusional to think Leo is at the top. Others have surpassed him in accolades and longevity. All he has is the claim to the longest unbroken hot streak as the premier initiator. Both Trent (2025) and Riens (2024) have had similar sustained peaks at the top but just didn’t manage to cinch their respective trophies.

It’s like saying Yay is still the best Chamber of all time.

One peaked during the games infancy when other pros were genuinely playing how Ascendants do now.

The other is currently in prime form. Think again bubba

Generational Upset incoming

Need Oxy to choose the Highway and leave Dictator Zellsis for a brighter future on G2

Too many roster changes means you don’t have time to fully develop your team micro

I agree that Jawg would be a better as a secondary entry kinda like how 100T run Asuna on Phoenix but it’s hard to think of him as a traditional secondary Initiator/Viper flex.

Holy Delulu. This G2 iteration is going out Top 8.

The Valyn + JoshRT duo has run its course and the team lost its core identity after dropping JonahP in a piss-poor gambit to adapt to double duelist Meta. Babybay is a decent player but he does nothing to elevate the core despite displacing Leaf while Jawgemo is wildly inconsistent and isn’t suited to be a primary entry. If SRB lose LCQ, I want G2 to pick up Smoke for Babybum ASAP because then it’s at least a firepower upgrade for the same role issues smh.

Hopefully next year they’ll drop JoshRT and get a coach that can actually give them a new vision and fix their shoddy map vetoes. Maybe something like:

Boni | Nismo | Trent | Valyn | Smoke | Mce

Either way, this current iteration is cooked and the only thing they deliver with any consistency is disappointment.

Holy fuck we’re ass. Even Boostio without a mouse would have won that for his team by at least jumping out.

Never believed in him

Nah we’re going home

Omen, Harbor, Kayo, Sova, Sage

C9 pick up Valyn after G2 implodes before going on a run

Below Bangkok, Toronto, Paris, Seoul, and LA. Maybe around Master’s Shanghai?

And all of EMEA’s trophies are from a Dinosaur Era

Mickey tournament without LEV. Swap out G2 for them

FPX missed out on Reykjavik but made Copenhagen only to be missing their star sentinel. Still they survived groups until he could arrive and close it out with that iconic 4K.

EG started the first villain narrative full of bluster despite coming off a 0-3 loss in Tokyo. Everyone wanted them to lose but they crushed every obstacle on home soil in LA.

NS were fresh out of Premier and stole the APAC crown from PRX, the third after GenG and T1 who both fell off. It set an example that even gifted amateurs could reach the biggest stages and take home a trophy.

LEV marks a new era for SA Valorant after practically 3 years of decline. Many will follow into their steps following the introduction of Open circuits and Cups in the region in 2027.