Trace should be higher since they brought EDG to really close finals

of course, especially on haven. 2nd Half pistol + sentinels failed 4v2 retake with yoru ults etc, but if we talking in general imo both G2 and SEN had more playset. T1 rely on individual play, geng oh god that split attack was awful (15 second left exec and still cut noise?????) , i dont even remember anything about DRX game against t1 upper except every round was coin flip 50/50.

There are no weak teams, but the gameplay gap shown by americas finals compared to DRX T1 GENG game is horrendous

in addition, sentinels fixed their retake problem in only 1 days! They had horrible retake % stats against G2 on upper final while they win a lot today

why would u even surprised about BBL??

Redemption for yesterday performance

Sorry, I'm a bit late to the news, but was there any reason aspas chose MIBR over LOUD?

As far as I know (I watched Sean Gares and his guest talk about Brazilian rumors years ago), one of the reasons sacy and pancada left LOUD in 2022 and went to Sentinels was because they had beef with Less (?). Then, for the 2023 season, LOUD didn't do well because aspas also felt uncomfortable on the team at that time, so he left and joined Lev for 2024.

Now, for the 2025 season, LOUD has pancada, who is one of aspas homies (with sacy), so wouldn't it have made more sense for him to go back to LOUD?

You didn't see the T1 vs DRX game, did you?

That Fracture match was awful. Many of T1's players tried to make individual hero plays. Stax peeked out of the enemy smoke on his own while still having abilities, etc. Now you telling me a team that revolves around firepower and individual play against masterclass of discipline G2? ya even as pacific fan i won't cope that high

Remind me of champs 2022, they made whole ass song titled "Apac rising" then all of them just grouped T_T (BME, XIA, PRX)

Made a new account just to throw dirt on pacific is crazy

There are plenty of reasons why someone might choose to be vegan. The most common ones are:

1. Avoiding harm to animals.
2. Following a meatless diet (sometimes due to allergies, religious beliefs, health issues or other personal reasons).

So, regardless of your question, some vegans want to "replicate" the taste of meat because they enjoy it but choose not to eat real meat due to their own reasons for being vegan to begin with. I also agree with the transition phase theory, it align

AE nya yg gmw lepas, player mana yang ga mau main di franchise kalo ditawarin

aman aja es

God forbid people have preference

bait used to be belieavable

I think the real question is: which APAC team is willing to pay that much money or scout him?
Dont get me wrong, aspas deffinitelty huge value to any team, but pacific teams have their own problems.
Let’s exclude Korean teams.

RRQ? They have a max one-import rule, and Jemkin already fits in. Even so i don’t think they would spend that much.
BME? The CEO mentioned his buyout was within budget, but the salary is too high to maintain. For this to happen, BME might have to give up their other game divisions (mentioned Dota 2).
Talon? I could see them considering it, maybe -gov. But having both primmie and aspas on the same team? It doesn’t feel right role-wise or for other reasons.
GE? Honestly, I’d prefer the current roster over Aspas plus four unknown “cheap” players.
TS? Possibly, but TS seems focused on sticking to their Pinoy fanbase.
PRX? LOL, no.
DFM/ZETA? aspas mentioned learning Japanese, but I’m not sure if he’s fluent enough for in-game communication yet. Plus, he’d clash roles with Meiy on DFM.

allgood brother, take ur rest

I’m still confused about franchise teams' contracts with their players. Let’s say a player signs a contract for the 2025 season in 2024, with the contract ending after the 2026 season. What happens in the following scenarios:

A. The team decides not to play the player anymore at the end of the 2025 season (or even mid-season). Does the player just get dropped without any bonus since the team itself break the contract? (Understandable if yes).
B. The team decides not to partner with the player anymore, and/or another team wants to buy the player. Does the other team have to pay a huge buyout since the contract is still long? Is this what they call a contract jail, where the player can’t go anywhere because no team is willing to pay the large buyout for their contract? Is the contract buyout price determined by the contract duration?

This came to my attention because I’ve seen some names with contracts due to 2026-2027 season. However, knowing how this industry goes, I wouldn’t be surprised if that doesn’t matter and they end up being dropped after just a season or so. Thanks good people

I know, I just brought it up because Kxtqqh mentioned Estrella is "still learning it." So I said Xcc learned basic Korean communication in just a couple of months. Are you telling me Estrella has been with the English-speaking team for over a year and is still learning? Sure, I wouldn’t expect a non-native speaker, let alone a Korean person, to speak fluent English. But it’s been years there’s no way "learning English comms" is still a valid excuse. If Estrella felt uncomfortable and the whole team thought "Yeah, Estrella communicating wouldn’t work," then Estrella wouldn’t be on the team right now.

TL;DR: I agree that Estrella might perform better on a full Korean roster, but using "learning English" as an excuse for his underwhelming performance doesn’t hold up.

it's his 2nd year man, i mean xcc willingly to took korean language course and somehow decently worked for full korean comms, IN JUST COUPLE MONTHS.

Duelist to sentinel is perfect sense imo

They knew which setup best to counter enemy duelist since they knew duelist habit. However, there's some problem they need to handle as sentinel such as fighting enemy on their own (they used to entry/fight enemy with util support)

i think it came to perspective, go to boom esport replay live chat, when the match over many people types "Thats it? wowwww". Even in crazy moment not a single chat says anything

The international LAN showmatch with an unknown VAL influencer felt more serious than this BOOM vs TS game. At least make it entertaining for audience?! no? just4fun for players? ok :(

Different metas and teams are getting stronger over time, so prx w gaming playstyle isn't really that special anymore

RRQ has higher chance upset top team than boom, boom had slow start/slow to figure out how their opponent play (look recent match,many 0-4 / 2-4 start)

but peak boom vs peak rrq, boom win

Based on my experiences

Iron : Bunch of newbies/unserious competitive, mostly chill vibe. When u hear someone toxic or blaming, it must be because he thinks he knew better at the game just because seen some pros/streamer play.
Bronze : Same as above
Silver : The majority of player base, so it can range from people having fun or deranked gold player thinks they're the best or smurf. Literally what you would expect from average of valorant players.
Gold : big ego few skill, just because they're better than average player, not much a toxic tho, just mute them it's not like they giving coms or something.
Plat : same as gold, just bigger ego, at least from my experienced unless we getting destroyed 0-7 or something, we won't even initiate surrender in the first place. Beware of plat reyna demon tho.
Diamond : oh boy, so one of indo val influencer once made a podcast with rank booster as them guest for the topic, and he said diamond is the most asked rank to achieved by boosting. So the skill range can vary, not to mention sometimes the e-boy dating e-girl smurf here to accompany his gf, but for the most part it's chill tho everyone knew what they're doin and if they blamin or toxic it for valid reason (not justifying it).
Ascendant : .................., bunch of people think they deserves immortal and would yell out of their lung for every clutch mistake.
Immortal : So my peak was 70 rr immo 1, and from my experience it's somehow chill, like if someone botfragging hard (<5 kill) they just told them to uninstall, or stop using boosting service, and still typing gg.

So my answer is ascendant, they played like their life on the line, if they dont make it to immortal their career would be over.

yup yup, wasnt the worst. Just very questionable

Agree, isnt foxy9 fault tho. Poor foxy9 has to fill that gigantic shoe

BME -meow. Dude was asked to coach tier 1 teams on 2024, but he chooses to stay (i forgot, either the higher up ask him to stay or it's his own decision, it was on podcast with GLHFSON if u want to look it up, it's on english).

I dont even care lol if rrq succeed or not, i was boom diehard fans and they dissapointed me, so i changed to other indo orgs. If im being honest my favorite org rn probably sentinels

Dambi and the rest of the team are a perfect pair. Like I said (and as some Indonesian pros mentioned during Ascension watch parties), SPG was the best at playing a fast, flashy Neon game. Their teammates could keep up with the pace while still doing their jobs effectively. Without either Dambi or the rest of the team, SPG likely wouldn’t make it far back then.

I've noticed a pattern: many people rank SPG (NRF) highly on tier list when:

1. They haven't played in any offseason tournament (ya they probably wasnt invited by any TO, or they declined it).
2. Neon is their main weapon. Yes, they're a great team that can follow Dambi's pace, but it's not like Dambi is just running around using movement to get one kill while his team far behind. And as we know, Neon is getting nerfed in the next patch.
3. I would say every good team has adapted to the Neon meta. IF SPG somehow still makes it work post-nerf, then that's impressive.
4. As far as I know, we still have no clear information about the current team's performance during the offseason (scrims included). And being a "scrim demon" doesn't mean much right now—look at GE. They destroyed everyone in scrims (I've never seen them lose, at least leading in-game).

Well once dambi mastered traditional duelist or atleast jett (his wasnt bad, it just nothing crazy), it would be the refined PRX (coordinated chaos)

Pacific > Americas > Emea > China

2025 would be most competitive year for pacific, u literally could put DFM vs GENG and bet on DFM winning and i won't even doubt u

Persia
Trent
Sliggy (bias, no clue about doombros vision but sliggy shares every thought he has which i agree with)
Flor
Life
Boo
Patitek
Bang
Nobody
Valyn
Meiy

say again

The hype around RRQ fandom itself from indo fans, they have the biggest number of fans and DIE-HARD EXTREME FANS (to certain unhealthy level, i won't explain it any further). Not to mention, almost all of indonesian valo influencer endorsed by RRQ to support and host a watchparty every game RRQ Played. Ok thats why , because they're the team that many fans believe on their peak could beat top pacific team, but their normal game is decent and below talon normal game (which i call middle pack team).

VIVARRQ

I would change my flair back to BME if they decide to play neon OR atleast adapt to it and destroy enemy neon comp(if TS played it)

In his prime, he was almost at Chronicle regular level (yeah, call me crazy). But current Shao is inconsistent as hell. I wouldn’t mind if he gets replaced by some wonderkid initiator from Europe, nor would I mind if they decide to keep him

6.6/10

Since NA Challenger started, there have been no leaked scrimbux anymore (as far as I know), so we have no idea about the current roster of certain teams that haven't been finalized.

I take fluke champs winner any day of the week rather than trophyless, at least got something to flex

From my understanding, this isnt champs 2024 edg play. Either they're so lost and made a lot of mistakes, or they weren't expecting DFM to be so aggressive (many rounds EDG just play contact with no util, and they surprised by how much DFM had taken spaces, so EDG lost). Props to DFM, they're the underdogs but that might be the reason they took the initiative to play aggressive because they got nothing to lose anyway.

reputation

Yeah, I know. I was just quoting the local community, which I’m part of. Personally, I’d love to see Dos9 succeed and prove the doubters wrong. But for now, I only see him as a decent player that has same vision with the team.

Okay-decent, nothing crazy, might need some time to adapt. However, I understand the disappointment from Indonesian fans—sacrificing Indonesian comms they’re comfortable with and an import slot for a mid/decent player (at the moment). But yeah, in my opinion, the bigger issue with Boom is how they still don’t seem prepared for the Neon meta (u could say they saving strats, but from my POV they still act surprised by opponent neon outplay).

+40 and losing holy, wtf his teammate doin , must be lost a lot of number advantage

you goddamn right

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rare baiter truth

I'll quit supporting BOOM until they actually try to follow the meta or at least cook meta of their own. Wtf was that split map, they still haven’t figured out how to counter Neon for two months ever since their loss to SPG???? It's not a bait, i actually disappointed.

flair + losing to naos (without papichulo who carried them through ascension) and boom destroyed them