You better be looking into signing sScary right this fucking second

Though knowing him he's probably gonna try and sign like bOi or some shit

Small indie company rito took the 10K to drop Bleed

JitBoyS sentinel sScary smokes PTC flex igl primmie duelist foxz initiator please Talon u could cook and bring all the Thai fans back on ur side

They're finally gonna make him a UFA meaning EG won't have to pay the entire Singaporean defence budget for his buyout and he can have his spot in T1 to farm all of Americas on sentinel and deadlift EG to 5th/6th at Champs

U forgor big daddy Pujan for being the catalyst for ANGE1 to retire and become a costreamer after 2025 Champs win, becoming the number 1 most viewed twitch streamer of 2026 as he calls every EMEA player a fucking moron in the most Eastern European manner possible during his costreams

This is the truth of life

Citizenship/where they were raised

Oh fuck you're so right I am COOKED

Also gimme tier lists on how each team would do (Singapore is fucking cooked)

Updated version of the best team I could think of for each country notable enough to build a team for

Team UK

Lime (Duelist)
ardiis (Flex)
soulcas (Initiator)
Boaster (Controller + IGL)
benjyfishy (Sentinel)

Team France

natanK (Duelist)
Veqaj (Flex)
Enz0 (Initiator + IGL)
sh1n (Controller)
K4DAVRA (Sentinel)

Team Finland

Derke (Duelist)
Jamppi (Flex)
iluri (Initiator)
Famsii (Controller)
hoody (Sentinel)

Team Sweden

Sayf (Duelist)
zyppan (Flex)
Leo (Initiator)
ShadoW (Controller)
Meddo (Sentinel)

Team Russia

something (Duelist)
Chronicle (Flex)
Kr1stal (Initiator + IGL)
Shao (Controller)
nAts (Sentinel)

Team Turkey

cNed (Duelist)
Wo0t (Flex)
RieNs (Initiator)
MrFaliN (Controller)
Alfajer (Sentinel)

Team Lithuania

MiniBoo (Duelist)
nukkye (Flex)
Destrian (Initiator)
Boo (Controller + IGL)
ceNder (Sentinel)

Team Poland

kaajak (Duelist)
paTiTek (Flex)
Buld (Initiator + IGL)
grubinho (Controller)
westside (Sentinel)

Team US

Jawgemo (Duelist/Controller)
zekken (Flex)
trent (Initiator)
Demon1 (Controller/Jett + Chamber)
Boostio (Sentinel + IGL)

Team Canada

mada (Duelist)
JonahP (Flex)
eeiu (Initiator)
Marved (Controller)
FNS (Sentinel + IGL)

Team Brazil

aspas (Duelist)
heat (Flex)
zap (Initiator + IGL)
pANcada (Controller)
Less (Sentinel)

Team Chile

keznit (Duelist)
kiNgg (Flex + IGL)
Mazino (Initiator)
Melser (Controller)
Shyy (Sentinel)

Team Argentina

Dantedeu5 (Duelist)
Saadhak (Flex + IGL)
nzr (Initiator)
Cebando (Controller)
tinchoff (Sentinel)

Team Korea

t3xture (Duelist)
Munchkin (Flex + IGL)
Zest (Initiator)
Mako (Controller)
Meteor (Sentinel)

Team Japan

Meiy (Duelist)
Dep (Flex)
Xdll (Initiator)
SugarZ3ro (Controller + IGL)
SyouTa (Sentinel)

Team China

Zmjjkk (Duelist)
Smoggy (Flex)
nobody (Initiator + IGL)
CHICHOO (Controller)
Kai (Sentinel)

Team Thailand

primmie (Duelist)
PTC (Flex + IGL)
foxz (Initiator)
sScary (Controller)
JitBoyS (Sentinel)

Team Indonesia

Monyet (Duelist)
f0rsakeN (Flex + IGL)
Shiro (Initiator)
mindfreak (Controller)
xffero (Sentinel)

Team Philippines

Jremy (Duelist)
invy (Flex)
JessieVash (Initiator + IGL)
PapiChulo (Controller)
Yoshii (Sentinel)

Team Singapore

Jinggg (Duelist)
Juicy (Flex)
Benkai (Initiator + IGL)
Deryeon (Controller)
grumble (Sentinel)

Team Taiwan

Spring (Duelist)
YHchen (Flex)
S1mon (Initiator)
BerliN (Controller +IGL)
Yuicaw (Sentinel)

Team Australia

SWERL (Duelist)
Autumn (Flex)
IKANA (Initiator)
Maple (Controller + IGL)
RAMEN (Sentinel)

I've seen a ton of people say they'll fall off or keep choking so possibly

Heretics will only get better

Yk everyone clowns on NRG because of u but like deadass this is Pujan's last year I don't want them to fumble a 3rd super team

Would prefer a better player on smokes and keeping Keiko on Duelist for kamyk to hard bait

Lime is probably top 3 T2 duelists in EMEA from 2024, have there been any rumours about any teams looking to sign him? Surely NAVI would wanna go for him if their next best option is koalanoob

I feel like this was the last year for a lotta those players, like Jamppi on TL, TenZ on SEN, Klaus on KRU etc etc

What about 2nd at Shanghai?

0.9 is ANGE1, 34 year old Ukrainian unc solo diffing VIT by himself was the definition of cinema

EMEA has an absurd amount of T2 talent, it's just CS/2021 players keep getting spots on T1 rosters over them despite being washed beyond belief

If every EMEA team was built like Heretics or FNC where it was one older experienced player + an experienced coach and then a bunch of rookies EMEA would probably be the best region

Zeta Division finally making moves, absolutely dutty. Can't wait for them to come top 3 in another LAN and then fall off for another 3 years

I haven't heard any rumours or anything about if Marved is joining a team or not, which is honestly insane to me. He was the only member of NRG shooting back during their Split 1 then he got dropped in favour of s0m, who wasn't even necessarily an upgrade, purely because he was a package deal with FNS

If I was C9 or EG I'd be looking to drop the absolute bag on Marved rn because he's still definitely got the talent to compete at a tier 1 level

FamouZ and Shiro can definitely lock in spots in T1, and I can especially see RRQ looking to get Shiro to replace Lmemore

BerserX was decent and I can see GE looking to grab him

ZesBeeW and NcSlasher I'm not too sure on

They ascend only to immediately have their best player by far poached by FNC

They are COOKED for next season

I've never seen a post by him that isn't at least -5 downfragged

Clearly benjyfishy is the face of Valorant because he has the most Twitter followers and more clout + entire Spanish fanbase + every time there's any kinda content around VCT Riot would pick TenZ, then pick benjyfishy as their second choice + the Fortnite goat + lovely hair + handsome young gentlemen + funny

I've been waiting to get Forsaken Vandal for months now

Or can BME at least make it close? (I have already given up hope of them winning)

What if Heretics didn't shit the bed and forget that they're the best Sunset team halfway through the year

KOI (grubinho will become the greatest player to ever touch the game in 2025)

https://youtu.be/f1SdjtDljOg?si=1H_gnlkakcriBk0z

Anyone know any songs similar to this one but a bit heavier?

Five Guys bacon cheeseburger

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/6d2c0506

Lemme cook

What's immoral about sucking dick?

Free (I like men)

I'm in silver, but in my unrated lobbies I regularly go against plats-ascendants and I can keep up and sometimes even out aim them, but as soon as I hop into ranked against other silver players I instantly lose all nerve signals to my hands and my aim gets noticeably worse. Wtf is wrong with me why is this?

Holy monka unrated KD

Average SEN fan

TH benjyfishy
NRG benjyfishy
EE benjyfishy
DRAG benjyfishy
CryptiK benjyfishy

dort goes into crippling debt

fart

After the results of this year, 2025 is set up to be the absolute best year of competitive Valorant we'll ever see. Here's why

EMEA

After Heretics became far and away the most successful EMEA team of the year and a literal Premier team came one map away from winning Ascension, I expect EMEA orgs to finally let go of the recycled 2021 or CS talent and go all in on young T2 players, and will finally give unproven IGL's a shot after seeing how successful Boo was despite being seen as mediocre at best before hand, and this'll work absolutely perfectly with the insane amount of coaching talent in EMEA to finally bring the region to the level it should be, as well as finally getting rid of the washed players riding on past achievements to keep themselves in the league.

Pacific

Pacific won it's first ever trophy, with Gen.G finally showing that Pacific teams could adopt a winning style, and interest in Valorant has skyrocketed, especially in Korea. Valorant's risen t the second most played game at LAN cafes in Korea, just behind LOL. This is an amazing sign for the talent development in the region on top of the fact that 2 of the most talked about players from Pacific this year were primmie and Karon, literal ranked players, showing that the scene is very much producing fresh talent as well as catching up in terms of FPS experience, which is what they lacked in comparison to EMEA and Americas at the start of Valorant. Pacific's Ascension is still going on but honestly the quality of play in Ascension is absurdly impressive, with BME, FS and SPG all looking absolutely tier 1 ready.

China

Not only did EDG prove that that China could win a trophy, the other Chinese teams that most people had probably brushed off proved that the region had multiple teams that could do damage internationally, especially FPX and TE, and interest in the scene has skyrocketed much like Korean interest in Valorant, with China drawing in the biggest viewership numbers and their ascension tournament being filled with insane levels of talent.

Americas

Americas continued on as the most complete region of the 4, with 2 teams in the top 4 of each tournament. SEN showed that NA was as strong as ever. KRU and LEV both had great showings and really demonstrated that LATAM is very much alive and can compete with NA. And while Brazil didn't have the best showing in T1, 2G just won Ascension, which paired with GLRS' excellent showing demonstrates that the Brazilian scene can still succeed, they just need to stop recycling talent and invest in fresh players, similar to EMEA.

And overall, the stranglehold that old cores from 2021 and 2022 had on the game seemed to finally disappear, with the old cores everyone expected to be successful like NAVI, DRX, FNC, NRG/OpTic core, DRX, Loud and (unfortunately) PRX fizzling out and losing to newly formed teams, finally showing that the scene is evolving from it's formative years.

VCT 2025 is gonna be insane, and I can't wait

Kinda a travesty that EDG got put ahead of Gen.G for the Valorant nomination

Also neilzinho and solo robbed for coach of the year nominations

If Kickoff is double elim next time then I wouldn't mind, but if Kickoff playoffs are single elim then wallahi it is finished

Don't worry trembo we all know your goat ain't washed (he was never good to begin with)

Yes and it is very funny

ScreaM

That's my birthday I wish for as much time between now and then getting older is terrifying

Pidyn

He'd be the unemployed 26 year old who hangs around outside smoking cigarettes all day

He's not letting you hit lil bro

I mean it's very sad and painful to watch

But I also find it REALLY funny that she calls neT "my goat^ in the final round instead of like, yk, his first name or some shit