they should change the location of americas stage 2 grand finals to a new location eg new york, but also combine it with the grand finals for stage 3 tier 2 na since they end at around the same time. americas and emea are the only regions that don't have playoff roadshows (china's top 6 teams are playing in a new city and pacific's final weekend is in tokyo instead of seoul). china also had an event this year where their game changers grand final and the grand final of an off season event occurred on the same day at the same arena

Zeus to ts rn

how is that crazy, like every brazilian person who is ethnically japanese can speak those 2 languages, just like how so many immigrants in the usa can speak their native languages lmao

i think it's so much worse for invy. meiy at the very least now has some decent teammates (akame) but for invy to always be the best when playing support agents that are so hard to carry on is just sad

they probably don't want him anymore with patmen there now, but yeah TS will have to do everything they can to keep their only hope

Forget OXY or Meiy, the most elohelled Valorant player in HISTORY is invy. This guy has played every role except duelist for his team, and as a support player, he has managed to maintain consistent form, heads and shoulders above the rest of his team every split.

2025 Stage 2 Regular Season: 1.02 rating, 25th highest rated player (still the best on his team)
2025 Stage 1 Regular Season: 1.26 rating, 2nd highest rated player
2024 Stage 2 Regular Season: 1.19 rating, 3rd highest rated player
2024 Stage 1 Regular Season: 1.12 rating, 8th highest rated player
2023 LCQ: 1.24 rating, 4th highest rated player
2023 Regular Season: 1.06 rating, 19th highest rated player

He is always the highest rated player from his team by FAR, even though TS gets destroyed basically every split.

How tragic is this LMAO

the best tier 2 players are players that have been playing for years, and whenever they get promoted to tier 1 they just don't do good
for a dying region, are there any decent tier 2 players? like even tho brazil is getting worse, they still have some decent rookies like spike lukxo and sato. but japan tier 2 has no promising new names

there are better tier 2 duelists than florescent (even tho she's good) like timotino. also boostio doesn't need to be there if flyuh is and he can igl

n0vi brought back the exact same fpx roster in 2024 and they didn't qualify for a single international event LOL

ban and estrella are mid at best and are not even on the same wavelength as the rest of the korean talents. everyone else is genuinely bad

i'll be throwing hands but mostly disappointed promising tier 2 players are not given a chance again

AMERICAS
neT
icy
supamen (shit this year)
Urango
Palla
C0M
tex (so many better latam players that could be on lev lmao)
gobera

EMEA
qRaxs
Filu
AvovA
OLIZERA
ANGE1 (guarantee you NAVI will be better when his liability ass is dropped)
batujnax

PACIFIC
Estrella
ban
ZesBeeW
kellyS
Wild0reoo
TenTen
Shiro
NcSlasher

why is there an emea stage 3 AND an emea ascension? both tournaments involve teams from all regions, does it not make more sense to merge the two so you have more funding and teams for ascension?

when are we gonna stop acting like flor was bad lmao? she was very capable in tier 1 and definitely deserved her spot

this player has 2 years of tier 1 experience in 2 separate regions btw

if nongshim retain their spot in franchising (which i think is very probable since there aren't many crazy tier 2 apac teams this year), then stew would be an insane replacement for dambi

why does palla even have defenders? he is so so bad - did so shit on mibr last year and this year so far he's been horrible. i know for a fact that he won't have any good performances this split too and he'll end the season once again playing like trash yet people will still say he has 'potential' and hasn't played enough. dgzin is wayyyyy better

c0m and cojo from fnatic 100%%%%%

literally the highest rated gen player this split by far, whenever l0kia plays he's always going -35 LMAO

ash is WAY better

they neutralise each other and become just mid

ge rebuilds from scratch every year, which is why i think they're always so bad. the top pacific teams have always had the same core. they also don't have an 'x-factor player' like every other team, a player who can HARD carry and save the shit outta them. most duelists in pacific are really insane x-factors

rebuild around kr1stal i guess. maybe udotan but as sentinel since there has gotta be better duelists in pacific

holy shit melser is 30???? bro looks 22 and definitely looks half of keznits age

yeah nah primmie has been good tho. hasn't been outstanding but he's legit the 2nd highest rated player in pacific rn lmao. but hasn't been lights out insane

disgustingly overhyped. so insanely inconsistent yet so insanely defended. one of the lowest rated players in emea this split so far yet every game is an 'off game'. had a couple of good series here and there in kickoff and split 1 but rn he NOT living up to the hype - i remember he got the same amount of praise as kaajak too. meanwhile kaajak is farming and this kid went -19 against g0ntle m0tes

why am i seeing pryze (and cortezia) in a 'superteam' post

every region has 4 teams going , 2 from playoffs and 2 from points

kai has always been locked in lmao its the rest of that trash team that chokes

i can see cl0ud9 pick up t0x after they drop n0t instead of scouting tier 2

pick up spikezin and silentzz from 2g since they're getting relegated 100% and those 2 are the only decent players
keep heat and maybe tuyz. palla and urango need to go asap. maybe get lz as igl or find a new one from latam
then you have a decent roster

double duelist won't be meta in 2026 is my guess, either sato or neon learn how to play sentinel or one of them (most likely sato) gets sold to another org. both players are insane but i have never seen a team with 2 crazy duelists work, one of them will always have to be forced onto a different role

not anymore, but back in 2023 he was THE next buzz. t3xture wasn't even on anyone's radar and i don't think hyunmin was even competing back then

he won them a championship lmaoo one of the 4 coaches in the world to ever do that

was one of the best korean prospects in 2023 yet he chose to waste 2 years of his prime on jdg lmao. sad thinking he used to be the next great thing

imagine the mental state of this team rn
0-3 in the split so far, relegation in sight and probably not even able to play ascension, even if they win the next 2 games they need to pray they qualify for playoffs

AND the games they lost were

against fut - map 3 they were up 12-6 before choking and losing 14-16, fut win series
against th - map 1 they were up 12-4 before choking and losing 12-14, would have won the whole series since they won map 2 (almost choked a 10-2 start tho)
against bbl - map 2 they were up 12-5 before choking and losing 12-14, lost series

its actually tragic

nongshim is decent. boom was crazy in split 1.
it's only memea where the ascension teams go 0-43 every split

lockin doesn't count

oxy
invy
meiy
who else

yoru for flashes + op + fast rotates
omen
astra / viper. omen astra was really popular but viper is also decent i feel like
sova
vyse /cypher / jett depending on if we go for double duelist or not

xeus is the most inconsistent player in franchising lmao, bro had that one good game and then has 1000 'off-games'

https://x.com/RocketBullets/status/1949634206239219894
seeing this guy post stuff that has been brought up nonstop just to farm interactions is shameless lmao, even more shameless then him pretending he knows stuff
didn't this guy have the greatest crashout of all time and delete everything? lmao why he back like nothing happened

boom is getting relegated bro lmao, plus dos9 is their best player
ts is shit but they can build a better team for sure around invy and mindfreak

my money is on team secret or an emea team willing to spend $$

i feel like most tier 2 na players will do fine in tier 1. kess was never even on my radar and i sort of followed the scene, yet he has been great on 100t on an off-role too

it's underrepresented that's for sure but virtyy is from that league and he's been fine
mited is definitely good tho, he is farming and he is igl

neon is 100% getting promoted. not sure if erde is even 18

100 kills and not even 5 maps. holy

he is the most inconsistent player in vct, like genuinely out of all 4 leagues

i doubt the meta in tier 1 will remain as double duelist but i think players like ghoul can learn how to play other roles like sentinel especially since they're so young. also if t0x stays then the management is braindead, this guy has never looked amazing

kaajak
t3xture
chronicle / alfajer

lmfao it's the same every year, you hype up a brazilian player because they do well in tier 2 but then they shit the bed in tier 1 and are instantly benched. why do you think 3/4 of the brazilian igls this year have already been benched

also wtf is there palla hype, this kid played 4 tier 1 games last year and his best performance was +3 against eg who weren't event trying LMAO

i feel for them, no matter how hard they try they just always look so bad because there aren't good enough brazilian players, especially igls. like everyone knows damn well they won't qualify for playoffs even if their players get their visas fixed and all that, they're destined to be mid.

they need to poach players from the rest of latam. get mited - igl for e-xolos lazer and has been fucking farming for so long. yes they'll be language barriers, but spanish and portuguese are similar enough, plus look at all these successful chinese teams that have players speaking different languages. get mephisto from tier 2, who was rivalling virtyy and always one-upping him, or get sato, since lev will most likely promote neon next year. or maybe even get dgzin to come back. and then keep tuyz and heat since they're good

brazil doesn't have any igls. the best igls failed miserably this year (zap, raafa and v1nny) and urango has been so bad in all those matches so far. even loud realised this and signed robbiebk all the way from emea