group b and group d are both groups of death imo

they roll a dice every couple of months then put the teams in those positions

all ive heard are darkzero are the truth and that ascent comp won me over

are my pickems cooked?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/eb58ad53

coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb, every year the level of valorant gets much, much higher the top team from the current year beats any top team from previous years

and victor cant play a high level jett because his oping is bad, they need someone new and fresh if they wanted to shake up their team not a player who isnt and hasnt been performing for a LONG time

americas have the best tier 2 in the world, why would you want a duelist who hasnt performed up to standard since 2022 rather than taking some of that insane talent?

also G2 shouldnt replace icy imo

yeah they made champs and it really wasnt expected but I feel like thats quite a lot due to other teams failing to close out the season, for example TS went from looking incredible to falling off abyss 3 times in the same game

also dont see them winning a game in their group

but yeah i dont hate the idea of moving them up, they have dont great this year even if i do feel bad for surf

S1Mon

then raze got nerfed and he has shown he is insanely inflexible, thats everyones main issue

MIBR, Zeta and Bleed being above anyone is criminal

edit: nvm i see its ordered by region

wolves very accurate

mb 💀

SEN lost to 100t and scraped their way into champs

Mix of overall year, current form, expectations from last year and a little bit of bias

https://i.imgur.com/5XAwPDl.png

i mean he was already the tekken goat after evo last year but his comeback from the start of tekken 8 when he looked super shaky on azucena has been insane to watch

sayf to KC is crazy, pretty sure sayf had a pretty big say in who vitality signed so why wouldnt he stay in the project?

gen.g x sen is gonna be a wash, excited for that g2 x prx game tho

ok

TenZ isnt a flex player

99% of them dont even play the game, super fucking stupid

because theyre fragile and he isnt on their team

why are there so many good players there?
looking at other regions thats always the super supportive role and dont really frag out that much but with EMEA you have leo, cloud, trexx, riens, shao, hiro who all frag heavy on scans

TenZ can play op but cant entry, I would rather have the subpar op than the subpar entry

everyone wanted changes, drx makes changes and people get mad they made changes

DRX look better without stax, you have to seperate nostalgia from how bad DRX looked right before they made the changes

looking at the actual players:

chronicle has been a consistent top player in a top team for almost 4 years

sacy has been inconsistent although great in 2022 and at the start of 2024, but also considered pretty weak in his team

they had the people who designed the olympic trophy designing the chinese one and they had a sewing company do the EMEA one

pretty good but I think

Gen.G > G2 = FNC > EDG
Drx >= VIT > LEV >= FPX
TH > PRX > Kru > Trace
FUT>= SEN > Talon = BLG

FNC look incredible and G2 look unstoppable, you can at least add those 2

plus if TH find form again, then thats 4 teams + SEN if they find form again

LEV have aspas and VIT have Sayf and Trexx so yeah

EDG and FPX both look strong but maybe thats because china is still a little behind

PRX and DRX are also underdogs rn

at least 6 teams have a shot at winning the event and the level of play is 20x higher than last year

TH, FNC, GEN.G, G2, LEV, EDG

could also add VIT, FPX, SEN (depending on if they go back to start of year form), PRX, DRX

ok?

demon1 would ruin the roster with his playstyle

it works but not ascent, ascent meta has just been figured out you cant really deviate that much other than the cypher + deadlock comp

jinggg needs more characters, having just raze/neon/sage doesnt work especially when sage is not it right now

how has noone said aspas LOL

genuinely the best haven I have seen and thats not even coming from bias

flair

maybe you shouldve beat KRU then?

jinggg CAN carry games but they build comps around him so when he doesnt carry, the game is gg

honestly keeping monyet would have been so good for this roster

lol

forcing the raze just doesnt work as well after the raze nerfs, my biggest issue with prx is jingg's inflexibility tbh

Hugely underrated

its their map pool really when they get the maps they want theyre unstoppable

mwzera was supposed to be one of the best players to ever come out of brazil

before today g2 because people didnt have them as the best team in americas which is absurd to me

brother if you think fnatic looked better split 1 you may want to get your eyes checked

i still have sen coming 4th in that group

hes been consistently getting better each map, genuinely super excited to see how good his cypher gets

made the list with a random wheel picker