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What's the big update? We finally getting giant Briar feet?

This year* frick

I took a break from VCT I watched like 6 total games last year

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Portland* brainfart

I mean there's Miami, Ohio and Portlain, Maine.

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I actually agree with SugarZ3ro and CLZ singings being underwhelming but I get why they did, they're safe bets with high ceilings if coached right.

Makes sense, but doesn't change the fact they don't want to take big risks. QTD signed margaret and he slotted right in. Maybe it's just me that wanted to see DFM truly succeed back then.

But the KR players DFM have signed were about the same level as the JP players and didn't truly carry. Singing them just because they speak the language made little sense when the JP talent pool is decent. If they're going to sign a KR player, I always thought they should've made a big sigining to justify the roster spot.

Why does it seem that JP teams only sign KR players that are already in the JP ecosystem? Is it purely because these players speak the language, or that KR players that are in the KR ecosystem prefer KR teams? DFM could've made a splash if they signed Foxy9 or something.

First one would make a pro game so much more fun to watch, but analytics, it'll favor teams with high pistol round % too much.

Yes, I knew Fancy is really good, BOOM has a negative record against them iirc, but it's only them, there is little depth/regen to the scene. Can't they just poach 1 or 2 from Fancy now that they've got crazyguy?

This is the thing can't they just poach a couple from Fancy, they're the only truly good team in the scene for a while now right?

Yes, VN is cracked but afaik it's only a handful of players that's at that level since the rest of the scene lags behind TH especially, so I can't get myself to expect much out of them.

Will this team even compete? I remember the VN scene being equivalent to TH/ID tier 3 several years ago, and apparently with the new import rule there has to be 3 VN players or am I mistaken.

So apparently the roster is Meiy, Aace, SugarZ3ro, Akame, CLZ and coach Vorz.

From what I understand after watching a couple vods this is just a less dysfunctional DFM? With the only standout aside from Meiy being Aace? Since I watched a Riddle Order Ascension game a long while ago and he was very good. Will JP Valorant ever experience a breakout? This seems underwhelming especially CLZ, and I hope I am proven wrong.

You're right. I'll go with CR, I've always wanted them over DFM.

Why are there so many players what am I missing

I'm was primarily a 100T fan during the Will bang stellar era and BOOM for a couple of years. I don't follow 100T anymore and BOOM isn't partnered so which partnered team should I root for in case they don't make masters?

Or in a way, should I root for your favorite team and why?

Happy to see them partnered again then. Would've loved to see Vitality win Champions though so it's a different winner every year.

you can't import more than 2 killed SEA teams.

What does this mean?

Again thank you! Were LOUD and Vitality favorites coming into Champions? Also it's nice to see partnered teams don't get as much special treatment now.

How so?

I stopped watching VCT almost a year and a half ago. Can I get a TL;DR summary on what I've missed and how the tournament works now?

What were the good teams and players? They also cut the number of partners, so how do non-partners qualify? I'm assuming too that because of this there will be upcoming roster shuffles so what are the good teams next year?

Thank you in advance!

How can I watch?