We remember Masters winners now because there's been very few events. But in the long run I feel like Masters will be seen kind of like an IEM and only champs as a Major

Both kicked out by the best team in the region for 2 out of the 3 events

Less than a game a month should be criminal

Being a runner doesn't imply he is currently running

I don't think that solves much

Sure but as I said that core needed to be split up, and it was probably either Sayf or the other 2, I don't think they would have worked together. And I don't blame them for the choice

Well I've heard many people from the scene call him toxic for sure. I don't fucking know him tho but he sure does give that vibe sometimes

Sayf has a very strong personality. They needed a fresh start and in order to do so the core probably needed to be split up

You get 1000 users that do the exact same cope for Americas on the site but when someone from EMEA does it.

He was actually extremely based before he started baiting

Don't think the 4th slot matters much this year

Shao was the MVP of that team on that tournament

Why?

Yeah but they still have to play through the bracket

Navi makes Playoffs just to be eliminated by TH for the 3rd time this year

no he was not

You just made it seem as if Giants was scamming UCAM and then continued by saying you would rather do something else if you were Giants

But I agree, only time will tell if it is truly functional. What I can tell you though is Academies aren't coming back for now

About fucking time, quit that smoker shit. His prime has always been on intiator

No, conditions clearly also benefit UCAM or else they wouldn't have agreed in the first place. UCAM has now more money and better pull since a player would rather sign with them knowing tier 1 is more likely there.

Anyway, Valorant is not in a Spot to consider academies, we have to roll with what we have

based

I'm confused. Do you not know what a partnered team is?

Instead of Academies every VCT team is allowed to have a partnered tier 2 team. For example Giantx and UCAM, this essentially means Giants has control over the UCAM players which are all 2 way players, allowing them to move between both teams freely, like famsii has been doing.

This is a way cheaper solution than fielding an entire team themselves since they only pay a little sum to UCAM, and pretty much have the same benefits as an academy

but why would you pay to have an academy when you can have a tier 2 team that does exactly that for you? It's literally what we already have

Doesn't matter if you allow it or not. No team would get one, it's expensive af and completely useless. It's not gonna give you money so what benefits could it possibly have? Develop talent? You can already do that through affiliated orgs like GX with UCAM or FNC with MDR

We’ll see tomorrow Ig

Not really who tf is better? VIT?

he did save one on the line

They've played 2 Havens bro chill out

I like it a lot but I actually think it’s time for a full revamp, and start from 0 or almost 0

Both MiniBoo and Woot aren’t at their peak rn. It’s not deeper than that

Why tf you comparing KOI to one of the best Americas teams.

Mf if you prefer watching GE or MIBR instead of KOI then say that, but what you said makes no fucking sense

So was the NBA in the 60s that doesn't mean Wilt didn't play against plumbers, game evolves. Not saying I necessarily agree but that argument just doesn't make sense

I think it changes depending on the league. Spain is winner of split 2 goes to ascension, most points goes to play in

It was a 6 man roster. It's not that rare there have been many, TLN this year

loosing both of those maps is crazy

Yota and Yoshii. Look at their irl names

Nah there has to be a place for those eastern Russia players

I have no clue what Sliggy said but I don’t get what you mean cause if it’s 2 halves you’re not really adding games at all

But now reading what I said it makes no sense. I meant 3 splits, not 2

Too bad doing it on Santos is not the same as doing it on Eurocup semis is it?

qw1 is apparently a very hard player to work with he already had issues on FUT if you add that to poor performance I'm not surprised he is bouncing around

Replace Kickoff with an actual split, and do 2 full splits instead of 1 spread into 2. Stretch everything so it ends later

Yeah but this year being ridiculously low doesn’t mean the other years haven’t aswell

they're all bald

Sheydos then, doesn’t really matter

Hope DRG improve then cause that roster is criminal

Mf said Asuna what is this blasphemy

Not really tho. I think Purpo flex would be just as good and bring much more to the team from what I’ve heard, and not afraid to be the secondary duelist

Cloud Purpo initiator/flex duo is one to keep 100%. Cloud IGL seems promising too but if you want Zeddy IGL smokes seems perfect. vookashu sentinel

But now comes the biggest problem they do not have a world class duelist other than something. I would go with Bisk, I think he’s the best option.

That being said I don’t think it’s a good idea at all. Why would you limit yourself, specially on the duelist when there are better options

LFGGG

I don’t think Trexx is very high priority amongst teams if you pay attention he’s always one of the last players to get picked up.

He’s one of the most talented players in EMEA but he doesn’t bring much else. He refuses to play duelist and apparently struggles with the comms. Or at least that’s the intel we have from his time on KOI

Delete this rn

Doesn’t sound too good tbh. Also I don’t think Purpo should be duelist. He is a much better flex and I think that’s his role long term

Kiles comms in Russian on his current team

yeah bro, fiti is match fixing to watch the game