best looking team has to be Team Liquid 2024, they have the "boyband" aura on-lock and they are all incredibly charismatic. Nats is such a looker but he has that shy, reserved air about him that is more than made up for by Mistic's personality. Also Jamppi barking emanates so much pure rizz, and he has the cute skater boy look to him too. Emil also looks like he has been working out so he looks great as well. And Enzo and Keiko are just straight up good looking.

Definitely the best looking team in EMEA, but KC and Gentle M8s have some stunners as well.

not mentioning pa1nt here is insane

uber and wyatt are my fav caster duo, i appreciate their work in NA tier2 so much

i use it more on my phone than on my laptop tbh .. but both very often

"v1c is quietly becoming one of the best rookies in Americas" feeling sm nostalgia rn

moist moguls
when moist and shopify combined, they had to drop taniz, aproto and sym (taking flyuh, brawk, thief, and oderus with them)

• aproto: played for tsm in 2024, but is taking the year off/in hiatus due to health issues

• sym: also played for tsm in 2024, is still playing w them this year

• taniz: was assistant coach for nrg in 2024, is now watchpartying/LFT

after a few offseason tournaments, they dropped thief due to role issues, and ended up promoting oderus

• thief: played with yfp in 2024, and is playing them for 2025 as well

after the 2024 season, flyuh and oderus were picked up by tier 1

• flyuh plays for koi as the igl
• oderus is the 6th man/assistant coach for apeks (played a bit in kickoff)

in 2025, brawk played with shopify rebellion black (since sr bought moist esports), but a few weeks into VCL split one, he was picked up by nrg to play in t1 from split one and on, so that's where he is right now.

stars by jid or lauder too by jid

the legendary mxs ascent lives on in their players

Has to be 2024 Team Liquid, they have the "boyband" aura on-lock and they are all incredibly charismatic. Nats is such a looker but he has that shy, reserved air about him that is more than made up for by Mistic's personality. Also Jamppi barking emanates so much pure rizz, and he has the cute skater boy look to him too. Emil also looks like he has been working out so he looks great as well. And Enzo and Keiko are just straight up good looking.

Definitely the best looking team in EMEA, but 2024 KC and 2024 Gentle M8s have some stunners as well.

srb: monsi was hospitalized w a stomach bug
wu: ali subbed in for jerk during the actual split for a few games, but they've been winning ever since he subbed in so they decided to keep ali in for the time being

bump- i've been sad abt the removal of the mxm/mxs flair for so long T_T

mada wants the vlr frogs to tune in to his stream (he's adressing the verno leaks) .... so go to twitch.tv/madaa

shopify rebellion black

shopify as a whole means their esports division, shopify rebellion. moist and lud aren't co-owners of the larger ecommerce company, im p sure

mada was also statistically by FAR the best duelist in na t2 last year and was known for shutting down games by himself

don't necessarily agree with this but man i hope aproto has so much success after his surgery man .. he deserves it.

i was recently in a IB call and one of the analysts i was speaking to was actually also a physics major !! so if you'd like to think abt it this way, you'll be able to rlly stand out, and everything will be worth :)

no fr and it feels so easy to give up but you know that isn't rlly an option 😭 damn :/

we running back the oderus 1 v 9 from rbhg qualifiers

bro i feel you midterms season is rlly fucking me over too 😭😭 i've got my intermediate macro midterm in 13 hrs and i haven't slept in 2 days 😞😞 once exams are over it'll be so much better and we can go back to loving the subjects !!! 💪💪

nah i've seen him op kill sliding neons .... even they can't stop him

man you posted a thread just to call mada the most overrated player 3 weeks ago .....calling for respect now is CRAZY

andbox he played very well, however on shopify rebellion he was sentenced to flex (initiator + raze), so obviously his fragging suffered. on mxs, he was primary duelist, so he was able to just focus on fragging- thus, he was very consistent in his skill and really stood out.

bro i wish i screenshotted every single person who was disappointed nrg picked up mada instead of derke bc if u still think that way idk what to tell you 😭😭

man this is so funny to witness after seeing everyone complaining abt the mxs roster in 2023 (them dropping sym for mada 😭)

vic should not be senti. the reason mxs picked up oderus and dropped thief last year was because with thief on the team, vic was stuck on senti and couldn't frag to his full potential. vic is made for smokes.

idk abt verno, but mada def had maps (even before lbf) where he had trouble gaining steam (but obvs as a duelist it's much harder) whereas vic was 1st/2nd/3rd most maps.

this is the first match vic has botfragged since january of this year- that's 36 matches ago. that's insane. he was def the most consistent player in na t2

the game: https://www.vlr.gg/294184/moist-x-shopify-vs-oxygen-esports-ludwig-x-tarik-invitational-2-ubf

..... i was actually basing it off of me watching every single game he played during 2023! and you can't even say he "fell off" because then you would HAVE to bring up his game against yfp where he went 32/8 in fk/fd. sym has always be a very volatile player- he has crazy highs, but also frequent lows. you can crticise him for that, but you can't say he didn't step up in t2 lmao.

you can say smthg abt his performance this match .. but you CANT say he couldn't hang in t2, just admit u haven't watched t2 atp 😭😭

bdog erasure

https://valorantesports.com/en-GB/news/everything-you-need-to-know-off-season-2024

i have the same sentiment as a lot of ppl above- started watching breakthru because of lud, but their games, especially their undefeated run in 2023's split 2, really won me over. now, i'm a true mxs fan for life #let'sgetwet

tell me you don't watch tier 2 without telling me you don't watch tier 2 lmao

its the fact that this game really didn't matter, they've talked abt it in their streams and you can tell by how loose theyre playing

its the fact that this game really didn't matter, they've talked abt it in their streams and you can tell by how loose theyre playing

when thief was playing, vic was stuck on senti, even though he's a much better controller and that's what he played last year. with oderus, he has the freedom to play both senti and controller— that's what they meant by skillset not matching.

but he wants to stay far far away now 😭 bro misses being able to bait on flex

this isn't a split, it's the midseason cup— each split is played in a a group stage format. winner of the midseason cup gets a cash prize and circuit points towards playoffs, not ascension.

just wanted to say aproto and sym actually didn't leave breakthru to join moist moguls, rather breakthru was acquired by moist esports to become moist moguls. otherwise, great article :)