that's hindsight talking. AG was good last year because of EGO and Sword9's system. let's not pretend like they were actually decent before stage 1 was nearing playoffs. i would say the individual player quality has actually gotten better because they have k1ra. the coaching took a nosedive because their head coach literally resigned after only a month. hanche was dogshit and player + bai were meh but K1ra's inclusion is a massive asset

i mean spitfires was sent to the academy and is only back because no one took the buyout. he's gotten much better mechanically since then. deLb is a fluent mandarin speaking import with extensive indonesian tier 2 experience so yeah they're not letting him go unless he drops consistent mediocre numbers

0/8
i can't even goon to this

k1ra with one hand, blind, and chronic diarrhea still has more value than that omen tping terrorist on GX last year

roster will be xiyiji k1ra deLb spitfires and shr1mp.
holy upgrade

either him or haodong idr

you're not ready for lucas

yo you crazy for that gurt 🤣

you'd be surprised with how much faith scrim merchants get. Hanche is the biggest example in cn with AG 💀

they are a hyper budget org that mainly invests in extremely good coaching talent in other games. they're giants in mobile esports and crossfire so they are extremely rich anyways on top of selling their extensive list of academy players for big profits. there are like 3 different academy teams operating in crossfire at one time

"Berlin now trying to go for a tp plAAAAY! WHAT HE HITS THE HEADSHOT ONTO LAKIA! Karon DEAD! Berlin, he's just annihilating them. Has to go for the reload, the rightclicks not really connecting. Meteor, still relatively healthy but now may be the last man standing. And Berlin will get it done--WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT!? WHO DOES THAT WHO TP'S UP THERE!?"

just 1 win will be a success for this year with all the shit that's happened tbh

cs unc who's been around the block. i assume he's been on academy staff with Q9. maybe he is good maybe he isn't. he IS experienced in tac shooters though

NEVERMIND MY SECOND GUT FEELING WAS RIGHT https://x.com/AG_VALORANT/status/1938854880673964062

afaik EDG were trying to negotiate with teams to transfer him to, but that was before the whole drama happened so he's prolly on contract jail with his career completely stopped until they figure out what to do with him

yeah that's why I said if they do then that means that have a decent amount of trust to just let the season ride out with the two of them

biggest question is who's gonna be the head coach atp. staying with septem and oi when they have an entire split left in the season + champs quals either means they have a lot of trust or they're bringing someone else along
their talent development is obviously doing some really good stuff if reserve players training in the academy get picked up by tier 1 teams. be weird if they didn't dedicate to investing into good coaching for their main lineup on the stage

5cm was extremely inconsistent. hfmi's gonna be a weird one

AG Tyloo or JDG could honestly skyrocket to being mid-table depending on how their roster moves go

ragebaiting an AG fan is crazy work

shr1mp deLb k1ra spitfires +1 that's not entirely confirmed yet. considering Hanche's more recent performance and player's consistent demotion to academy i doubt they would be repromoted. probably Bai but cxyy being brought in wouldn't be a big surprise. there's also the possibility of another signing directly from their academy or other free agents not in tier 1

they expect them to get magically competent 💔

Monk got bought out by NOVA. interested to see how that goes

He transferred to NOVA btw. they bought him out @congobat

players tell casters how to pronounce their igns so he could possibly still make it extremely scuffed

the things people aren't thinking about is that valorant is still a very young esport. the top tier pro skill level is still raising dramatically with every passing year. the shit Optic did with yay and LOUD in general back in the day was ahead of its time, but nowadays every contending top team has more or less figured out how to progress their macro, micro, and pure individual play

they don't even make playoffs

their performance this year is par for the course if you've watched them in any esport ngl. they always do absolutely shit until they make a top tier talent development system

personally in regards to anxiety i just remember that the whole world revolves around me and that other people are only variables that i manipulate to push towards my success. works everytime!

Juujika no rokunin and it's not close

All Gamers did NOT do bad last season

so delusional i fw it heavy

they had a whole slew of problems that were just unfortunate. hopefully a reinvigorated berlin will give them energy

i'm worried for muggle considering century's been looking for another team. he's legit competent but if they don't get results then there's a real possibility he'll get cut

they got an actual initiator player now so they're chilling 🙏

he wasn't playing when they qualified anyways

yes, the national league started games a few weeks ago.
vods of Temperature X (blg academy basically) as well as other teams https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1bGEtz9EVY/?spm_id_from=333.788.videopod.sections&vd_source=da9cdccff467d1bd2ffe44da633c8c1c

edit: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12v7az8E8k/?spm_id_from=333.1387.homepage.video_card.click&vd_source=da9cdccff467d1bd2ffe44da633c8c1c actual vods from broadcaster

you ain't ready for TEC lucas

G2 hate is extremely forced but they are THE biggest letdowns purely by how they lose ngl

one of the best aimers in the region whenever he's not being put on hyper flex duty

Trace's shortcomings are more on the back of them not being able to properly adapt to the recent map pool and meta changes appropriately compared to the other high level cn teams. It's not a player quality difference and they're very much a current work in progress. BLG is also actively trying to fill in the firepower gaps. Fucks sakes they signed Rushia from their academy. Levius is kinda a dud but this is his first long-term stint in tier 1 and he hasn't even done that terrible

anything goes

y'all better not gatekeep

the nooticer
#nooticing

it's so good you both convinced yourself and have me agreeing with it. you might be the 🐐

8/8
impeccable form and execution on this one i gotta say

i was immersed and loving the bait until "ewc"
0/8

anxiety is a crazy drug

they just GOATed like that

they should be proud but holy shit this is probably the worst way to go out