I like how active lg is trying to be ig just cuz it's working too but Bdog has great decision-making on when to stop and when to back off.

To be fair think we said that about guard early this year too. 100t fr got potential too with that new roster tho ngl

It's fair that people get criticism but people don't realize how much it piles up to the thousands. It's never okay in the eyes of the media for shahz to stab back but you can't blame him for being human. He probably reads some of the most digusting messages on the daily about his personal life/self and his gameplay in NA as the sentinels igl.
It's actually kinda fucked how people dig up the smallest things about his personality to make him look like a shit dude. He's obviously a chill dude but cringe fucks like us on vlr and shit go too far tbh. Literally just screams alot on his stream and just gets pissed at ranked that's it. He built his stream with that happy and loud personality theme, obviously he's gonna keep doing it if it works. Someone who get's the most criticism and just in general shit for anything he does is obviously gonna end up getting pissed too.
Doesn't matter if he was a rat before. It's in the past and people should have just not done stuff to get themselves ratted on in the first place.
Honestly compared to us average vlr users, he seems more human to me.

Until they are podium finishers, they are not back.

I literally just said with the top 8 from the first quals bro

nah rn
t1: c9, optic, guard and v1
t1.5 xset and nrg
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.gap
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faze, tsm, lg, 100t and pks
t2/t3 everyone else.
genuinely feel like 100t has the most potential to get into 1.5 or above just basing it off of how good/improved they look 3 weeks with a new team.
Any other team can have a hot streak tho. Especially tsm or faze

These are possible groups with the top 8 from the first opens.
Thoughts? Feels like no matter what you do the groups will be stacked.

Group A:
optic, xset, faze, v1, 100t and sen
Group B:
guard, c9, nrg, tsm, lg, and knights

Group A:
optic, xset, nrg, tsm, lg, and knights
Group B:
guard, c9, faze, v1, 100t and sen

Group A:
optic, xset, faze, lg, 100t and sen
Group B:
guard, c9, nrg, tsm, v1, and knights

Group A:
optic, xset, nrg, tsm, v1, and knights
Group B:
guard, c9, faze, lg, 100t and sen

stopped reading at gtn

Nah this is team is actually the best iteration of 100t so far. Just based on the fact that the old team was gonna die and had already hit their potential. They had 3 old players basically falling off and 1 player that wasn't even on his best role. This iteration has so many young players that are basically at the start of their careers and are already at challengers level 3 weeks into prac. The roles make the most sense since ever and the players are in environment where they are comfortable role-wise and have the best coaching staff they could ask for to develop. Basically any top t2 team in NA rn could have beaten 100t's first strike team with how much everyone's improved game-theory wise and skill wise.

It's more like he was the only one who abused things and started doing things in beta/early-val that just became normal for certain agents. Like watching the guy in early ignition series he was some fucking magician. Literally the only guy to get shock dart bounce kills months into the game. It was just cool at that moment in time. Basically started the frenzy/stinger metas lasted months and sova/raze shit that still exists. Doesn't seem like a long period of time but it was a pretty important period of time in val until recently. Was literally one of the only unique players that brought something special to early val that wasn't wardells op or tenz running it down basically.

You're not wrong and people who think you are are wrong. Literally built the roster around Wardell for 2 years and no matter what they did it didn't work and as soon as they take him out they look better than ever. There is that slight throw sm stuff that happens once in a while but they actually got some potential. Wardell isn't a bad player and can be a star player but he isn't going to be on a top team unless he literally makes himself perfect. Teams are not going to approach him again until he shows that he can improve his decision-making/flexibility and is willing to improve. Everyone knows he's great but the problem is everyone else is great now too. They're not gonna take the gamble until he can prove he's worth the risk. Hope he can show his potential with his short stint on v1.

please just time out faze before yall lose the lead
literally just chill the lurks don't have to go first, especially when it's the astra

it's nice to see that eg qualifying doesn't seem too much like a fluke anymore. Good to see c0m fragging too

take it back rn before its too late

nice. Babybay's decision-making seems to have gotten so much better. It's not just run it down smeaging it's like calculated chaos and smart decision making when taking fights and in repositioning.

bbg acad players have great names tho

bbg academy fr going crazy down here

nt. I couldn't watch fully but i'm guessing it was a throw?

literally t2 decision making for a whole half by him. Ego swing good players and he gets punished

no that's the point

theres a difference between a good player and just a player that shoots gun good.

although wardell is great individually tsm really died and suceeded from his decision making. He can be the carry against any nervous t2 team but against good teams that know how he plays and are good enough to counter him he needs to change his game and not literally just be hit or miss. He can't expect every team to play for him with op buys etc when he's in a team where most of the players have better decision making and are just are better players in general the dynamic is interesting to see .

One of the big reasons tsm were successful at their peak was his firepower but one of the main reasons they were falling for a whole 2 years was tsm's decision making where wardell was literally one of the biggest contributors to that problem. Hope he can take this experience to try to get feedback from a good coach and players in the server and improve his decision making

Only thing i'm worried about is with zombs sentinels actually had a style and at their peak he was literally the rock of their team. Just worried if with kanpeki just because he's a decent player but whos only been in the t2 is if all he adds is firepower and it doesn't help with the fundamentals and just having an effective and unique style.

tsm has literally been irrelevant since first strike bro. They've qualed for 1 main event since and just bombed out last

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yall both suck

bro zmm would be best team na if they didn't throw every second round

bruh they were baiting like crazy the whole first half. Probably just nerves and being undecisive for their first game tho

i'm confused so the team chose a reyna player to be their main sentinel over a player that can play chamber, killjoy and viper.

100t players baiting? no way

I guess the question is if there is a higher risk/reward for staying in NA or going to Korea. Eventually, if they are trying to succeed in NA and the team is literally stuck in the t2/t3 scene they are going to need to make big moves either staff/player wise. Like if instead of trying to invest all this time and resources trying to rebuild and having the slightest chance to break into such a top-heavy NA scene is if it would be better to invest in another scene that has so much potential, lower salaries, and their org is literally based in Korea. They probably already have the connections, resources and everything set up that could help build a good in Korea. Like they already had a Korean val team before too. If viewership/brand exposure is a problem, how could they care about that if the NA team can't even get anywhere close to getting viewership? It's risky but a succeeding Korean t1 team in Korea under the brand of T1 is gonna attract more viewers than a team that can't compete. A spot in Korea's main event is literally free real estate for an org like T1 and with other Korean orgs supposedly finding interest in the scene wouldn't it be better for t1 as a top Korean org to be the front runner in entering the scene? It would validate the other orgs interest and they're probably gonna be guaranteed as a future partner in the region. If they invest while the number of teams are growing and names are popping up left and right they're probably going to be seen as a team that helped build the region's scene by riot too. Eh

ghost v1 winner of sen/lg knights

faze valorant content bout to be insane with dicey and shanks ngl

nice

technically not delusional until it becomes impossible so aight I support
Definitely have roster that can compete in vct closed but just depends if they show in quals or not

Only big question mark for me is how good is this new Gen. G. The core is good and the new players are good. They can go from an A tier team to just flopping again so hope they have a good showing at least if they don't make it early.

Uppers v1 and Lg
lowers ghost/sen and Nrg

Man players raze alot too. Just what they thought was better I guess

what else did he say i just got here

Bro I'm telling you rn m3c not making it to this master's is the biggest fluke in Valorant history. Next time it happens there will be a roster change.

1.m3c
2.current optic/fpx
3.fpx/current optic
4.old fnatic/ online guard
5.Drx when they are not choking or throwing could be higher but meh

6. loud
7. zeta
8. prx
9. guard
10. lulquid
11. c9

Edit: Reasonings
M3c are still the best in the world. You can hear from the players that scrim them and you can feel it from their last games. Literally the biggest fluke in the history of val that they didn't make it and players from other teams say it is too. They literally had half their team switch roles while looking the most burnt out they've ever been and they still looked like the best team in the world most of the time.
Only putting fpx and optic 2/3 because fpx is fpx they would still be heavy favorites for the tourney if it happened rn and optic just look hot and improved since the start of the tourney where I would have put them below fpx before but I don't know how improved maybe fpx have gotten since last we saw them so hard to compare.

Old fnatic would have been a favorite for this tourney too, they showed so much before coming to Iceland but just unfortunate circumstances. You could say they were third seed but holy fuck those seeding match games were the most useless matches I've ever seen. Really think fnatic would have been the team to win if not for the circumstances.
Pairing it up with online guard because I didn't want them to fully replace a team in the list just wanted to compare. Like did you see that run? They literally have the best fundamentals in the world when they are on. I'm guessing they underperformed compared to what they were showing in scrims but just have to shake it off and go next I guess.

Drx at times can be maybe even at the top of this list like right up there but also can look like they're playing ranked and inting mid lane every 5 seconds type of feel. Consistency and a playbook. You go from saying wow this seems like the best team in the tournament to thinking the fuck are they doing are they throwing? Yes, they are. They really seem to lose confidence for some reason when they're literally so cracked n jacked. I guess tho this is a good sign for them. They can compete with the best and they basically recently created a new foundation and igl direction to grow from so excited to see how they figure out consistency and just add to their repertoire. Just genuinely worried if they would have to make a roster move if this keeps happening. They've just shown such greats highs that I'm willing to just put them bang straight into the middle of the list.

Loud. They are great but that's not enough. They are great and even better when they are confident. That's it tho just seems like a team that's going to end up being a gatekeeper S tier team unless some major change and improvement happens where they become so special that they're just not 5 great players with decent ideas and become a championship team. The players are young and hopefully, develop well and they don't become like smb where the team starts imploding and sucking just because they lose confidence. Just not giving them the high yet because I feel like from my perspective that didn't seem like enough what they showed, meaning in the future I feel like they could show more and could do better. If they are consistently a podium finishers then I would be convinced and impressed that they were able to consistently improve. But in the end of the day it just feels like they're just the team out of the international a or low s tier teams that ended up in the higher place finish this time around. Feels just like the level of a champion's liquid where they won't win the championship but gets to playoffs and sometimes has a podium finish. Until they take a further step they are stuck in that cycle so many teams are currently in or were in. Genuinely think optics and louds destiny of being 2nd-6th was cut off by 3 better teams not attending.

zeta and prx are just there for placements
zeta actually seemed decent. Their gameplans and plays in general seemed to keep getting better. Dk what happened but I guess they just ended up crumbling in the end. They've shown they can improve and learn from mistakes just dk how high the ceiling is yet with those 5 cracked players.
Prx. Feels like a decent team that can make decent runs. Just feels like a team that going to be stuck in the playoffs cycle where they won't be championship level until they take a further step. Was thinking maybe they were close to their ceiling but I feel like were never gonna get to know now that jinggg has to leave.

Guard this event. Good team. They genuinely didn't even play badly the other teams were just better.

Liquid. Same thing as prx and loud just a playoff team for now. Better than anyone expected them to be but they got to figure something and I don't think anyone knows the answer or even what they're trying to fix with it. Nivera is goated. Him and Jamppi can become liquid most important 2 players to success in their coming years.

C9. cuz literally who else is there. Only putting them here to point out g2 is not even close to this top 10

yeah I think that too but you could genuinely get some nice lineups that people don't expect and stuff like sova darts and skye dogs that are easy to kill still get some good value to be fair. She's pretty nice for playmaking tho too idek think we need to people to play her more eitherway

Yeah feel like with people assuming jett is going to fall out the meta they're going to try to play more neon and raze, especially with how good optic made neon look. Genuinely think the approach to win stuff now if ur a good team is to literally try to force an off-meta newly released agent into your comps and either it works really well and other teams won't know how to counter it or you literally get fucked cuz it turns out it sucks or u were approaching her the wrong way.

Feel like fade is better than she initially looks. Her cats are genuinely really good for clearing corners and info and feel like you could have some good lineups and even have creative mid-round util with the rest of her basic kit. Like really high lineups for her recon and like maybe thrown over wall stuff with her roots. Feels like an agent you could set up with and at the same time try to be more free flowy like a phoenix or a skye.

I have no idea but they get 2 bans but didnt hear properly who picks first

damn loud get 2 bans and a first pick? thats actually nice damn

Bro you gave the users in this site some hope for a sec with that title and just ripped it back out

damn zeta do look better but just literally hero plays from marved n shit

zeta's reads to be pretty good now too

damn this is a really risky veto from zeta

3-1 zeta optic win first map