Lurker can't be igl. There's a reason why no other teams has the igl lurking.

S1mon midround for the team. No s1mon zeor midrounding and setting up for plays. Seem like nobody was a fraud after all.

To add, this is assuming Flex1ng still goes on his mercenary journey across BLG and DRG.

Purely a hypothetical scenario if Sword9 was never hired by Tyloo.

Splash would still be in rrq academy/or in other Tier 2 teams (Perhaps another Chinese team or a Pacific team picks him up. Unlikely to be on the main team since RRQ still has Jemkin, who probably have one/two years left in him.)
Siufatbb never joined Tyloo, since it appears, based on Sword9's own message, that both the head coach and the assistant coach thought Siufatbb was not the solution to the lack of IGLs in the team. (Wanting more firepower IGL, I guess?)
Slowly will continue as IGL, similar to the situation on AG Kira (0/16 incident aware), where he will soon or later probably leave the team to join either JDG or EDG, since, based on the messages, Slowly is already planning to trial with another team? (In other words, Slowly sees the team as having no chance of making any tournament.)

Since three of the players never join, this creates a scenario where neither Ninebody nor Waituu gets fired. And since Zjc is still picked up by EDG. I doubt coldfish, AAK, or Eren as IGLs will be replaced by either of the mentioned players here.

A hypothetical team of Tyloo in 2026 would be: Scale, Ninebody, Waituu, 5CM, Erv. (Slowly would ha most likely leave near the end of 2025)

Yeah, this roster ain't making it to champ.

s0m plz come back. You're the hero that NRG needs if Mada can't recover in time. The boys need you. Everyone misses you. You're the flex that NRG desperately needs and the mid-rounding in the team that gives it creativity in its plays.

Can we bring s0m back as a sub? NRG needs the kid to save this team. It will be a perfect fit, especially with s0m's role flexibility, and he's more than capable of playing duelist/double smokes meta.

They really need miniboo to come back. Maybe without boo this time. And maybe with different coaches.

Man drx without flashback really has been a total collapse.

Valyn not changing strats after 4 round loss in a row shows g2 inability to read envy never hit b strat.

FraudRT to step it up. Oh wait did he used all his pauses on attack or smth?

NATS AND LOWER BRACKET RUN WHERE HAVE I SEE THIS BEFORE?!?

The ending make it like splash got mvp, but Slowly got mvp no?

Kinda confusing the way it is phrased. Splash definitely got more consistent and escape the choker allegations. Thank god he didn't join the dumpster fire called rrq.

They just need one more superstar... Just need to follow Chronicle...

C9 exist

Bootcamped in Korea surely sounds like an insane improvement in terms of VALORANT gameplay. Wait, what game are we playing? League of Legends?

Crazy to think that both the BLG coach and the JDG coach used to be on each other's team. (Bail used to be BLG coach, and Anaks used to be JDG coach.)

He must had been frying in scrims. A shame visa issue got him tied up for an entire year.

Might be the first time 3-0 happened

Single elimination. Expand double swiss twice.

Imagine being G2. Rather than picking an acutal map they play, you pick ascent thats you barely played against xlg thinking they barely play it either. Then expose yourself for every team that you're crap on that map.

Karrigan type play. Still cant believe people are picking other people's weak map instead of their own strong map.

No miniboo no win I'm afraid.

G2 must have a humiliation kink because all I see is a golden shower.

Lowkey, i think they should get him off phx/raze duty and force waylay. He clearly is being force to take first gunfight wothout tool to escape. Neon jett and sato waylay sound like a pretty good attack side and defense side retakes to create space.

I just checked his match history, almost every game he played kj he had gone postive. Meanwhile his initator and deadlock has been too supportive of a role. Maybe they need to unleashe his firepower by perma kj.

Sooner or later, I feel like riot is gonna bend the knee to EWC and make it officially considered as past trophy. I mean it's a lot of money and with next few years tournament being more open in general. Regardless, I can see his point tho.

Yeah, that's why I said it was all in hindsight. You sure can read the sentence that I had repeated three times now.

Because any other agent would have been more useful than a chamber that can't shoot. Almost every pro had said this before. If you're having a bad day, there's nothing wrong with that. But try to at least pick things that are useful and bait for the team. He just had a blind confidence to pick the chamber at that exact moment and it turned out badly for him. (I'm sure it was the team's decision to put him on chamber. It's not saying it's he's at fault.)

Saying he should play Vyse is me being in hindsight. Because pushing Johnap onto Vyse while he played Chamber sounded good on paper, but it fell flat when Leaf was already having a bad game that day in the previous four maps. Kinda reminds me of what every pro had said. If you're having a bad day, let your teammate bait you.

I'm going to repeat myself, leaf picking the chamber in that exact moment was him showing confidence. That's why I said the confidence vanished after the game. NOT before the game. All of this is in hindsight, but there were cracks already showing in the previous four maps. He was clearly having a rough series.

A KJ turret and alarmbot would have been more useful in terms of map control. A sova with Tejo and him playing Vyse would have had more impact than a chamber. But hey, there's no need to be mad over spilled milk.

flex looks inside, its alll smoke+phx. He can still be 100% better than before, there's no denying that. Oh and im talking about vyse during bangkok. Not now anymore since they got babybay on senti.

Edit: Im not saying he's a bad controller. Quite frankly, the role fits him better given the roster. But the argument still stands. You can see demon1 or davai goes double negative rating on chamber and they both still have the confidence to pick it again. Leaf probably never gets the chance to do it again unless there's a roster change.

Leaf lost confidence. The bangkok loss haunt him too much to the point that babybay had to be the chamber player instead. Davai never lost that confident and picks chamber regardless if its a bad day or a good day.

Tbh, he should had play vyse. Ego got to him and he never been the same since. Or maybe because the illness he got. Its probably that more than anything. No one is the same when they leave the hospital.

Look like its time to release the ethanfiles. /s

How old is flicker? How has he still not on the team?

If Nova somehow qualifies for Shanghai, it truly would be a miracle.

Am i the only one who think they are gonna buff yoru by the time champ rolls around? Might be a chance eggster keep his job.

No flash lotus is criminal lmao. I understand yoru is turbo nerfed. But surely we pick vyse or skye over fade and chamber.

Feel like a few month later someone gonna find some old post of him doing smth crazy.

zikz is the best assistant coach in the market. I don't care what argument people have. Look at his innovation in the old gekko fade combos. Look at all the site hits they had developed that made them the 1st seed in America. He at least got actual strategy books that work. It's a shame potter and zikz reunion would probably never happen again.

Hopefully this teaches Ion a reminder. He's been just as toxic, if not worse base on some of the clips people shown.

Holy shit they added the VCT toggle to show only t1 matches. Thank you for creating this!

Kinda crazy how hard woot fell off

I'm not sure where the "storied organization" part of c9 in valorant. Maybe it's finally time for c9 in LANs?

The forbidden game that shall not be named. All I will say is NRG, Main Event: Upper Round 2.

Almost made the forbidden 0.01 rating. But not close enough.

Good or bad? I think it seems pretty good. Didn't really watch fracture, so I don't know how well he played it there.

how the hell did NS win 1v1 6 times for map 1? Winning every single 1v1 is kinda crazy

The glacier had finally melted. Spring will bring us to the promised lan call LANS.

Kinda felt bad for you, I almost never upvote on this site. But have an upvote.

Imagine how much of a banger it would be for both team to actually get experience facing each other. Rather than having to face each other for the first time. Kinda crazy neither of them faced each other.

"Its a fps game," as if people play Valorant for its gunplay. Brother, why aren't you playing cs?

Renya gekko habor omen veto. Who say yes on abyss?

Guess who else got top 3 as reigning world champion?

Literally said this yesterday. They need the kid. They need come on man!