Zekken is fantastic raze and jett player, if tenz decides to leave they would be silly not to put him on duelist. Also sidenote what on God's green earth is yay playing, SEN already has role problems with it probably being a good idea to put zekken on duelist, then you add in yay.Then you might think ooooh put yay on sentinel it fits his playstyle but your other -1000000iq pickup is the best sentinel in the world with a probably insane buyout.

This entire squad idea makes no sense. Sen should pickup an igl, PRX no igl makes sense given how long the players have played together and how well they know each other. SEN however can't seem to play 3 games together before changing something.

Allat+rant over

Initiators are apparently overated as well as igls lol

What on earth do vlr rankings even represent

Go on tinder

Wardell is a bit of a weird one, this guy didn't even play in tier 2 this year and the year before didn't do well either, pick another try again

Well navi have been pretty off form this year, koi underperformed given some of their players as well(by tonnes),kc won't have scream idling and a coach on their team so they will improve. EMEA is having a year where they figure out is good and who is good on paper.

This is not to say that americas won't improve as well, with more of the squads having more time together, more of the teams will improve

He's 18 since June 10 (source: liquipedia)

Koi won't get rid of koldamenta as he's the only spanish player

Lol apac just consolidates having all the best controller players by bringing in s0m as well

I mean, EDG are a good team and blg has beaten them before, so BLG is would be maybe be mid table of most leagues. Stop with calling the Chinese teams bad, you're being like the EG players lol

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Neither of these games are upset games lol

I'm not in love,
Now don't forget it.
It's just a silly phase, I'm gooooooing through,
I'm not in love,
no nooooooo.
It's becaaaauuuse

This guy said from what you've seen, kru haven't played yet so you must be blind

DRX vs LOUD had no favourite given both have been having internal issues, FUT vs T1 most definitely had no favourite. The only upset is Liquid vs Navi given navi's lcq performance

The honest take is who knows, both 3rd place teams from two regions respectively, I've predicted fut though

Guess I'm not that kind of guy, my camera has been half broken for a year and I haven't caref

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Why has no-one said DFM as the biggest failure, they didn't win a single game, that's bad

Zeta or t1 can't be called failures given they made champs, that's some modicum of success

They do not need another duelist, they have tenz and zekken, even if tenz leaves if they added aspas they would still have role problems

Tenz! Batchest Batchest Batchest

Tier 1 team vs tier 3 team, who wins, obviously navi wins just based on players alone
Wait hang on, faze doesn't even have a roster at the moment, navi play a 5 v 0 lol

Boostio does indeed exist. Even if in this imaginary world it is a good idea for them to go full prx and not properly have an igl, they will definitely change things because they had their chances and it didn't work. The boss is an irrational human being who fired their coach halfway through the season after they looked better, you think he's not gonna change a squad that can't attack?

Marved is a good player, but he wasn't a good igl. They should bring in an igl. EG have an igl....

Well which is it make up your mind, it isn't lukewarm, liquid is probably favourite in group d and fut has a good chance in their group against t1. If this was a 90 50 10 I'd put no-one EMEA getting out of groups other than fnatic a 10

Both getting through groups

You could argue the opposite, if a player can do well in a bad system then it's more impressive.

It does make sense as the entire point of franchising is that some organisations stay in tier 1 so they have stability in their position and investors aren't scared to put money in. Adding a relegation system would lose that and mean franchising has no point and they should go back to the pre-2023 system.

If they were to do the us again, it would be best to switch to East Coast masters miami or something

You may not like it, but the idea of franchising is that teams with financial stability and clout get in. Because of this however, I can soooooo see riot replacing some other org for bleed just due to how much money they have. The franchising system is due to a normal league system being unstable as if too many financially unstable teams get into tier 1, tier1 could just implode as esports isn't as lucrative as a sport like football that will stand many years after valorant dies. They have tried to make things more competitive by adding ascension so teams can be in tier 1 for 2 years, this is so tier 1 doesn't just become washed

The way I figured out was math debating was was in y7 humanities where I shouted out proudly I am the math debaiter and me getting in to trouble and people laughing at me and a small few calling me a legend as they left

Believe in EDG bro, people are only super high on kru due to recentcy bias.

No it makes sense because you can have different reasons for putting in different people, it's like creating a recipe for a piece of art, it doesn't work that way. Not that this is art in any way shape or form

To be fair the timeline where liquid somehow loses to navi is the same one where they get grouped cause navi ain't making it out

People can have different reasons to putting different people on a list, when something is about feeling it doesn't have to meet some consistent criteria

I remember him saying he has loud players in as insurance in case they absolutely pop off and he looks like an idiot

Group D to quote platchat is the group of disappointments

Canada and Argentina left the chat.
Americas is quite literally two continents

Also instead of talking about countries just talk about overall player base. The regions are fairly even in player base though apac is much larger which is why eventually they will beat the other regions

Florescent could probably play in normal tier 1 and not look out of place

Bro I play astra am silver 1 and feel braindead playing the game. I think if you play valo or are on this website there is something wrong

All the double elim cringers about to call the World Cup worthless

Bro is gatekeeping being a controller

Yeah you're right Fut should be above Navi, they went 1-2 at Tokyo and navi went 0-2

Gimme the 16 what's the regions

Talking about their future take is probably more about them being an unknown team as they did get to play that much at Tokyo due to being grouped. I was more surprised that NAVI were above FUT. Navi in recent form are a bottom feeder team, until they fix their co-ordination it will stay that way.
Navi are the team in my opinion is the team with the most potential to place literally anywhere I the tournament because given the caliber of their player they should be winning convincingly and not making so many mistakes, but they are. Navi are the SEN of EMEA(allat)

The headhunter is worst piece of utility in chamber's kit for pro play, information is really important at a high level so the trip is better and the teleport is so obviously better it's the whole reason chamber is played at all. The headhunter is a great ability and is fantastic for ecos im not saying it is bad but it isn't the best of his toolkit.

Chamber is fine as he is at the moment no buffs needed

That's a big time leap, less than a week ago vs year ago( not sure didn't watch the game at that point)

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