Hm maybe. I wasn't really sure who to put as sentinel for India tbh

I'll try to tweak things 👍

https://i.imgur.com/IkNKzGs.png

I got peer pressured into adding him since he subbed for Cubert LMAO

Hobby

This is a project I've been working on for a while, and with the prerequisite stuff for it being wrapped up, I feel like now's a pretty good time to share what I've got.

There's been a ton of conversation over the past couple years about what a potential VALORANT world cup could look like, especially with EWC around the corner (I even made a thread about the idea myself back in October). But who would actually win a hypothetical tournament?

To find the answer to this question, I've created 32 teams (with help from many of the active users of VLR, in two different Discord servers) that I feel best represent their nations at this tournament. The rules for these teams are simple:

1. The roles must make sense (every team has at least 1 player for each role, plus an igl)
2. All players should be participants of either tier 1 or tier 2 (no retired players, but it's fine if they're a sub or something like that)
3. All players must use that country's flag on VLR (e.g. I can't use jawgemo for Cambodia, nor ardiis for the UK... I will allow international flags to play for their previously used flag, though, such as SUYGETSU)
4. Maximum 3 players who currently play for the same org can be on the same team (e.g. I can't simply use EDG for China... nor can I use DRX for Korea Republic)

With that out of the way, here are the teams I've created (igls are noted with asterisks):

🇦🇷 Dantedeu5, nzr, rubkkoide, Cebando, Saadhak*
🇦🇺 SWERL, Maple, pl1xx, Minimise, Autumn*
🇧🇾 SimonD4rk, zeddy*, 7ssk7, Winteryrook, diseased
🇧🇷 aspas, cauanzin, artziN*, pANcada, Less
🇨🇦 mada, eeiu, TenZ, Zander*, JonahP
🇨🇳 ZmjjKK, Kai, slowly*, Smoggy, CHICHOO
🇨🇱 keznit, suther, Mazino, kiNgg*, Shyy
🇨🇿 marteen, Ambi, MAGNUM, Jesse, Minny*
🇫🇷 TakaS, nataNk, CyvOph, sh1n, K4DAVRA*
🇫🇮 Derke, Famsii, H1ber, Jamppi*, hoody
🇩🇪 Click, tex, xanarchy, Felix*, al0rante
🇭🇰 riyabtw, coconut, SiuFatBB*, YOU, heybay
🇮🇳 Jerrwin, Venka, Lightningfast*, sacred, Paradox
🇮🇩 Famouz, Kushy, f0rsakeN*, Monyet, Lmemore
🇮🇹 bipo, N A I S, Z3RO, caydeN*, Tag
🇯🇵 Meiy, Xdll, CLZ*, gyen, SyouTa
🇰🇷 t3xture, stax, Munchkin*, MaKo, Meteor
🇱🇹 MiniBoo, Destrian, Boo*, ceNder, vakk
🇲🇽 Mephisto, Peloncito*, otaQ, solution, seven
🇲🇳 consz, MnFeaR*, SkyIsBlue, nex1SphiX, CXIX666
🇵🇭 Jremy, JessieVash*, PatMen, Papi, invy
🇵🇱 kaajak, kamyk, MOLSI*, PROFEK, westside
🇵🇹 tomaszy, Addicted*, Fragger, starkk, Fizzy
🇷🇺 Jemkin, Shao, Chronicle, vo0kashu, nAts*
🇸🇦 ExiT, KHaaLiD*, Moh, Fighter, Elixllo
🇸🇬 Jinggg, nephh*, STYRON, Juicy, Deryeon
🇸🇪 Zyppan, Leo, Creamydreamy, Sayf*, Meddo
🇹🇼 Spring, Nicc*, S1Mon, BerLIN, happywei
🇹🇭 Primmie, cgrs*, Killua, JitBoyS, Laz
🇹🇷 Wo0t, MrFaliN*, RieNs, Ruxic, yetujey
🇬🇧 Keiko, Lime, aNguiSt, Boaster*, benjyfishy
🇺🇸 zekken, trent, N4RRATE, valyn*, leaf

That's not the interesting part, though... this much has been done many times over. What I'm going to do is sort these teams based on projected strength, sort them into groups, and run a 32 team tournament to decide who the best team is. I will be using Valorant Simulator (thanks juni!) to simulate all matches, and the tournament will use a FIFA World Cup / VALORANT Champions hybrid format, with 8 groups of 4 teams feeding into a two-sided double elimination knockout bracket.

The plan is to simulate these games over the course of the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to give frequent updates on how this tournament is playing out.

If all goes according to plan, the next thread will be the group stage draw! I'll be power leveling these teams and sorting them into groups in a FIFA-style draw.

That's all for now! If you have any suggestions or concerns, please let me know. 🫡

The map count on Nanners is insane. 1353 if I added right

It's listed as "bribery in sporting contests," for a bit of added context

Matchfixing is a federal crime in the United States as well. I think it's something like 5 years in prison

The comp is good but if you really want them to change then they could theoretically go KC comp with Boostio on Astra

Thank you :)

I think they're good at the game or something idk

he single handedly turned edg from a bomb out of every international team into winning champs + 3rd place back to back

That wasn't S1Mon, that was Muggle

Karmine Corp is my favourite team but since they didn't make Masters Toronto I'm repping my favourite team that did make it for the time being (I did a similar thing with Champions and GC Champions last year)

One of my best friends died in February and he's from the Seychelles so I used the flag for 3 months to represent him

Same patch as Split 1 playoffs

That's like saying BCF don't need ComeBack or SUP didn't need hiro

Didn't 100 Thieves get 4th at Shanghai?

There's also that going to jail thing that tends to happen... 😅

Best answer

So your arguments are:

1. He'd need multiple streamer accounts
   seangares already said he has access to multiple streamer accounts
2. The rich have no reason to get richer
   Are you daft? Have you seen rich people?

Yeah idk your arguments don't make any sense

Nothing happened to SEN, EXL just happen to be by far the best tier 2 team in Americas right now (at least until Virtyy goes to LOUD)

Also yeah what #2 said

That's on a per account basis, right? Cmiiw but you could easily circumvent that by just betting on multiple accounts

u cant bet more than ~10k or so on t2 no matter what sports book ur on

That explains why in seangares' video it shows several times that multiple concurring 10K bets were placed

OP btw: https://www.vlr.gg/427082/ive-lost-a-million-usd-sports-betting-on-valorant

Clip? Screenshot?

Why not? Because it's illegal. Same logic as "why work a 9-to-5 when I can make thousands a day selling drugs on the black market?"

Someone didn't watch today's game

A lot of them are from that one pistolroundVyseUlt thread as well lmao

If you ignore that I'm at 50-60

Based, honestly

Not sure, but it shouldn't really matter because the point is that T and Thieves is the same number of syllables (man, I love English)

You comparison doesn't really make sense because it's the same number of syllables

"One-hun-dred-tee" and "one-hun-dred-thieves" are both 4 syllables
"M-I-B-R" and "Made-in-Bra-zil" are both 4 syllables

It makes more sense when it's "D-F-M" instead of "De-te-na-tion-Fo-cus-Me", for example

EDG can attest to that

Ask me if I care about Brazil

Brother you are Brazilian 😭

Yes, and that's the entire issue. If you have a solid igl AND there are no good alternatives, why would you want him gone?

Fake fan, artziN's the best igl in Brazil right now

You could probably do something with that.

Maybe reduce to Angry to just A and replace the i with the 1. Boom, Aer1c. I think that's a pretty cool alias :)

Definitely try to experiment with it kinda like that. I find you get better and more unique aliases that way than if you start from scratch ^^

What was your old one?

Unlucky, they can still get there through lowers

This was fun to work on with you :)

I'll save you the hassle. Here's my card, for those who wanna see it: https://i.imgur.com/IWSd5qo.png

You're not getting downvoted for calling it soccer. You're getting downvoted for:

cuz everyone sucks no one can change my mind, thank god that stupid game was not popular in my country boring ahh sport

Immersion broken, thread is unreadable 😔💔

Have you heard they're hosting a Masters in Reykjavík next season? What a lovely city that is

Bro does NOT value his limbs

Jokes aside, super glad that both Kane and his former club were able to crown themselves this year, one way or another :)

How ironic is it that their trophy drought ends the year after Harry Kane leaves?

'Preciate that

Bro immediately gave up the bait attempt 😭

I'm Canadian and my favourite team at Masters Toronto is G2

For reference, my flair during Champs last year was Trace Esports, and during GC Champs I was using ZETA DIVISION GC

Who're you rooting for?

Oh I'm dumb, I didn't even realize it was MKOI he was playing for 💀💀💀

Yeah I honestly agree with what someone (I think you) said a bit ago... promote the entire academy team with how well they've been doing

It's crazy how they got one of their better players poached mid-season and still managed to find an upgrade in form