good first impression for heat as sentinel and raafa. mwzera seems uncomfortable. havoc, well...

galorys on the other hand looks very good

hes underage for franchising, maybe will subbed in during 2025

lukxo is loud 6th

lmaoooo what is happening with havoc

GG, kru looked fine, a bit shaky sometimes (offseason normal) but overall solid, good to watch out for this team

kru looked a bit shaky at the start but made a good defense, its offseason so its okay

reta disbanded and got out of valorant

Starting now. Kru x Shinden soon and Furia x Galorys after

https://www.twitch.tv/tixinhadois

Sacy and other streamers also doing watch party. Dont know if it has english language, tho

we'il have to see how the team will play and how the players will fit into it, but i think it's a good sign that they hired players based on what the staff wanted (aspas had a huge role obviously but thats because he and frod think alike)

sadly theres not many orgs on t2and t1 scene and the ones who are rarely give opportunities to new talent, always sticking with the same names. they never actually scout and build a team with professional vision and pre-determined characteristics, only going with internal recommendations or "this guy had the biggest rating on vcb so we must hire him"

yeah that's the thing i like him but he really needs to be consistent with the three lifetime games he has yearly

C9 is too limited to me. Feels like every team got better or was already good on the first place, but C9, even changing players, didn't really got an upgrade and just made overall bad decisions. I feel the same with EG. one player can't carry them to greatness if everyone is just bad, and they just kept a terrible 2024 core who never really did anything interesting

as for brazil: mibr will be shaky at first but probably the best BR team by the end of the season, furia is making the union 2.0 bringing raafa and peu, and if havoc goes full potential on duelist and khalil maintains a bit of a consistency they'il be really deadly, loud will be the best team at the start but will quickly stall on their tactical limitations (with IGL and coaching staff), maybe they'il eventually bounce back with lukxo on the team and cauanzin igling, and 2G is the obvious worse one rn but we'il have to see how well they'il do on tier 1

i've been saying that americas next year will be stacked and is pretty hard to predict anyone outside of the clear top 2 (nrg and g2). imma say, to me, c9 and eg are the bottom feeders. top 4 is fine. rest is interchangeable fighting for playoffs

i feel like not having a dedicated duelist and controller is going to be their downfall. eg was a very unique case and i dont think they'il suceed replicating it

doomed team

the union 2.0 but with much better players

im not sure about khalil but im rooting that he finally lives for the hype

C9 esse ano foi a mesma coisa, tiveram uma lucky run e pegaram time que tava na merda sucessivamente (LEV do começo do ano, EG, loud do qck, Furia do kon4n e MIBR pré-palla, perderam justamente pro time mais arrumado que era a 100t campeã). so tu ver que no split 2 saíram de um 5-1 pra um 6-5, quase não classificaram pros playoffs de bobeira. sempre que pegaram um time minimamente arrumado, tomaram pica, só ganharam daquela nrg capenga. 2025 ngm vai dar esse mole

essa fé na eg de 2025 é bizarra pq esse ano eles só ganharam na sorte de time que tava fudido na época e eles mantiveram o msm core
era pra eles terem ficado 0-12 na temporada, sempre que pegavam um time que tava minimamente arrumado tomavam um sapeco

eg em 2024 nao chegou a um playoff, salvo o kickoff que jogaram um jogo

manteve o mesmo core, perdeu o melhor jogador do time, e o substituto não chega nem perto dele. icy? tá de sacanagem?

trocou tambem o pior jogador do time, substituiu por um acima, mas que também não compensa a perda do jawgemo

no MÁXIMO esse time tá no mesmo nível do desse ano. potter não faz milagre nenhum. já não é 2023

game will be 2-1 for one of them but i dont know which one honestly

2-0 galorys

rgl masterclass

2-0 furia

2-1 kru

2-0 kru

2-1 pra furia

good but i do not think mibr will be top 3 and beat loud (i said why in #10) and i think furia will beat at least 2game (for the same reasons, experience will play a part)

i think lev will have difficulties at least on the start of the season. i dont trust this team at all from a number of reasons, but they might be good by the end of the year. for kickoff, tho, i dont think they will go very far

furia is being severely underrated and will surprise a lot of people

20 years of fps esports and people somehow still dont understand that it doesnt matter a team is the best in the world name by name if it can't be an actual aligned team with synergy (something that loud clearly wasn't this year)

yes because loud was worse this year than what it will be in 2025. saadhak and less leaving was actually very good if you can read between the lines

"world champion" somehow is a point for the 2023 world champion but not for the current one

not 2023 anymore buddy

jawgemo is great but he hasn't played a single international you can't say he's the best in the world with offseason results lol

jawgemo best duelist in the world without playing a single international tournament in the year? lol

funniest thing is that there's people who actually have faith on a team who has derrek as their best player

aspas e frod sozinhos nao carregam nada. loud pode fazer um antitatico inteiro em cima do proprio aspas e a outra rapaziada não vai segurar o tranco por agora. que nem eu disse, lá pra frente é outra história, mas agora vai pesar muito a loud ser mais time

e eu botei a furia só ganhando da lev pq eu nao confio nada nessa propria lev e acho inacreditavel que tem gente que realmente nao enxerga os problemas que essa line vai ter (pelo menos no kickoff). os outros times ela não ganha agora mesmo não.

wrong. nrg not losing a single map

yeah. its called loud

mibr tem um time recém-formado e com pouca experiência internacional. loud tem cachorro velho e isso vai pesar na hora. mas mibr vai ser melhor a longo termo

e entendo gringo não botar fé na fúria, mas br não enxergar o potencial do time é ser leigo

arent you happy i put nrg winning it all?

my reason for that is because loud is more experienced and has a core with more synergy than mibr.

mibr just got formed, they will have less time of practice, and they also have two very inexperienced players, while loud has a lot of experience on their backs and have been practicing for a long time. also most of the team have played together before and have a lot of synergy already. i think this will make the difference on kickoff.

long-term i see mibr being better than loud

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure

disagree. i think its close but loud has a better overall team

agree with eg, tho

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/da1f74eb

• Loud is not a top 3 team by any means but got a "lucky" bracket which might change the course of the entire season for them
• MIBR will not be great at the first event but will get better at later ones
• Lev and 100T should go farther but got a unlucky bracket

sen is not getting to finals

Furia 2-1

nrg 2-0

MIBR 2-1 100t

LOUD 2-0 EG

inacreditavel que o shion levou a the7 sem estrutura pra duas finais seguidas com duas lines diferentes e a loud deu chance pro V1NNY

journalism

i wouldn't go as far to say that as the 2022 teams would be at least a bit different and we don't know how they would deal with optic or vice-versa (it just wouldn't be the same championship at all) but yeah maybe they would