let them be villains, way better if they are honest about what they think than just repeating the same lines that every player and team do trying to be politically correct in order to not piss off fans from other teams

his yoru is mid I will give you that but he is better on every other duelist, lewn has way higher potential and more proven, but ur flair is literally All Gamers so u are biased

I think its just lack of experience ngl, EMEA last 2 years is just rookies getting promoted to t1. It has revived the league together with new IGLs like Jamppi, Rose, starxo, nats or even cloud but they still need experience before they can win. The G2 core got destroyed in their first international, PRX was shit for a whole year and lost many times before winning, NRG and Ethan lost a lot before winning etc, u need to lose in order to learn how to win imo

u might not like them but they are villain this scene needs, so many boring teams

bruh, u need to watch the games and not just stats, rating isnt good to judge duelists because it punishses them hard, just look at every BBL game in stage 2, ewc or stage 1, they guy was consistently good and the eye test was insane but he just had a bad kickoff + a couple very bad series that bring the average down a lot

lewn wasnt mid at all on BBL wtf, f4nger doesnt clear him

this team wouldnt work, both nats and marteen need to be played around to get the most of out of them

lewn > f4nger, Engh and Zeish are just terrorists and they have no IGL. As someone who has been watching vokashu since he was in rebels, he is good but veqaj is comfortably better, its easy to look good in china where any decent t2 emea player gets insane stats there

pretty much, thats why experience is important in internationals, u can see how BBL or M8 were feeling the pressure when things didnt instantly go their way against teams they should beat 9/10 times, BBL have been together for 3 years so at least they have that going for them unlike M8 so they are more used to feeling pressure together even if not at this level

0/8 bait but lets be honest, how crazy is it that we make every final just to lose? we are generational chokers, I swear to God every EMEA team chokes like crazy in internationals, I dont see this from any other region, we throw leads like indians throw poop in their festivals

I would be careful with removing bipo, he is basically marteens best friend forever so it would ruin the chemistry with your best player and the guy is doing an acceptable job at his role, I think most of their problems will be fixed with a better smokes player + the experience starxo/coaches will gain from this event, their fundamentals and macro are solid overall and they are actually good at finding solutions on the fly unlike most EU teams so they will be fine, also must consider that this is a team that was formed from scratch so they only really have a few months together

thats fair but 163 acs is not acceptable, playing astra on ct side should be pretty good, also u can just tell from eye test that his mechanics are not great and there are many situations in which someone with better mechanics would have been able to get more impact in terms of fragging, he just doesnt have the mechanics to be impactful even in the few moments he is in a position to be impactful

u are obviously baiting but yeah his calling was questionable last two maps, big learning experience since he is still unexperienced as an IGL

if u have eyes he clearly is, no player even comes close from eye test + made the final of every international in his rookie year, was widely considered the best player of 2025 and he always performed in the finals fnatic lost

starxo is a great igl, bipo is a good role player, glyph is just straight ass and even if this was a generational choke and had more to do with the mental side of it this guy just doesnt help at all, he went 4-15 in that last map without being the IGL and playing bait roles, needs to get dropped regardless even if he wasnt the only reason they lost today, 0 impact. btw u should stay quiet because ur only good team is getting carried by a EMEA coach, literal dogs before bonkar was brought back into the team

no way, alfa and kaajak are better, if they were getting enabled like he is they would kill 30 every game too, kaajak still the best player itw imo

I think bipo is a good fit to get the most out of marteen, I think he is fine even if he is not crazy, good mechanics and he runs it down no fear but this glyph guy is crazy, so many deserving players like fizzy who have been grinding t2 for years and this bot who wasnt even good in NA t2 gets a chance before him LOL

agree, his util was crazy good in EMEA but he was just embarassing internationally, also u need to be able to shoot if u arent an IGL, having good util is important but u cant afford to have a player going negative every game without being the IGL at this level, literally 0 impact from him

respect starxo, my goat

at least they guy is actually hard entrying and creating space, glyph is just shit for no reason, u can easily tell his mechanics are not tier 1 level

banger

anyone with hands and a functioning brain to understand how to properly use smokes will do, this glyph guy isnt even a big voice in terms of calling, most of the calling its literally starxo and minny

money is really not a problem for Gentlemates bro

this bot needs to go back to NA ngl, negative every game without even being the IGL. Sevire, al0rante, proxh, fizzy etc clear him, cant understand why he is on the roster

he is just trolling, he knows they just got stomped and its gg go next, gotta shoot some bodies to keep the morale up and laugh a bit

kozzy is the kind of player u can make an exception for ngl, unbelievable prospect

true, thought he played for fokus for some reason, u still need to get him in the north east superteam, one of the EU talents ngl, wtex for turkey and darxcio for mena could be good too

kozzy

my bad, wasnt aware of the fact that marteen was the donk valorant and Engh was holding him back like that, I will respect the turkish goat

thats just tac fps games for u, its about being the most consistent at getting opening kills, getting the first kill in a round specially if u do it cleanly is the most important aspect of the game and every strat is just a way to maximize the success % of your aim duels, its very fundamental but some idiots dont understand it. get openings while not giving a chance to be traded and then play the man advantage or get the first kill in an exec where both teams have the same players and trade efficiently

btw u think they will change VCT China from China to Taiwan, whoever owns Tencent gets sent to reeducation camp next morning

New Delhi? I would crash the fuck out if I was a player, aint no way I am going to India

bait or mental retardation?

Mibr overrated af imo. Vitality depends on how fast they can unlock Sayonara, in Project Blender he had maps where he literally won the game singlehandedly but then in the rest of games he was doing his job but not getting into positions to actually show he is one of the best fraggers itw

u wont always pull off magical comebacks from 11-1 down, they should have gotten destroyed 3-0 at worlds finals but u wont always get away with it

literally the same exact result as with Boaster with a sub

Literally most teams dont even have a sporting director and rely completely on their head coach to do all of this, thats incompetence. Cojo and the Fnatic coaching are always scouting the t2 scene and ready for any situation with possible replacements thats why they are so good but that should be standard at this level and they would probably agree with me.
If you actually know how the european scene works then you would know its mostly head coaches doing all the scouting without the help of a sporting director who supervises all of it and then many of them just sign players from their same agency to "thank" their agents for getting them a t1 job, literally the only reason someone like wayne got signed to a team like Liquid instead of someone like Sevire, look at the Gentlemates roster and explain to me why 70% of the roster including coaching staff are from the same agency lmfao

Because they always sign well known t2 talents that everyone in the scene knows they are generational lmfao, its like saying Real Madrid have good scouting because they signed Vinicius, Guler and Rodrygo as kids. I have been in this game since it came out and I have been right about players 90% of times, if I can identify future top players in t2 so can they.
"your opinion on how easy it is to be better means nothing because you dont know how hard it is" I literally know how it is, I actually have experience in the european scene and know plenty of people in t2 and t1 its really not that difficult to come up to the conclusion that NaVi and Gentlemates have worse scouting than Manchester United.
"you only have hindsight and stats to go off of" literally not true, u have plenty of tape from individual POV, games, etc for most t2 players, if u work for a t1 org u could literally ask for tape and feedback to coaches or the players themselves, its really not that difficult, there is no excuses for t1 orgs in EMEA constantly making bad decisions and not even trying to follow the t2 scene at all

"fnatic is better at scouting the other teams" its not like I disagree but its not saying much, its not hard to be better at something when ur competition is severely incompetent

because signing the best t2 player that everyone in the scene knows is not scouting, it should be standard and its one of the reasons EMEA has been shit for a while, orgs have 0 scouting

its good but its not like they are exploring the depths of t2 for underrated talent, I am concerned as to how teams cant even have base level scouting like fnatic. In football terms Fnatic are basically signing every hyped up academy wonder kid that every club in Europe has on their radar, scouting for me is actually exploring the market for overlooked talent or players from exotic places

I feel like they were all among the best t2 players at the time, Veqaj is probably their best piece of scouting since it was easy to overlook him but if u have watched pro 10 mans from champs or his streams its easy to know that he is a beast. Riens is an example of good scouting for me, signing the most hyped t2 players isnt scouting imo. Their scouting is good but its what should be the standard for a t1 org, then u have orgs signing filu

dos9 is goat ngl

call me crazy but their scouting is not that special, its more so that the other teams have 0 scouting ability and are too slow to make moves so they make them look good, cant believe Sevire was trialed by multiple VCT teams and no1 picked him up considering the dogshit players that got a t1 spot this year, took me 2 minutes of watching KC academy last season to understand that this guy was a t1 level player

Dear VCT EMEA teams, pick him up, ty.

huge, so deserved honestly, PCFIC can easily build a midtable team if they arent idiots, just pick up someone like thinki who knows how to improve young talent and get exit, any decent t2 igl, sevire and some other underrated t2 players

they will dominate the scene with crashies as IGL and Boaster HC in 2027

surprised pakko didnt bring Sevire to M8 with him

the moment boaster retires he will move on to making his boyfriend the best IGL

I see Sevire as a smokes player ngl, his initiators aint bad but I think smokes where he can use his mechanics on omen are best for him, Lime is another one that makes no sense didnt get picked up, he is all you need in a flex/smokes/initiator player