he is just chillin, healing his wrist

i smell bullshit. you "may" have watched them at internationals ONLY. You ain't even DRX/VS fan, move along

its off-season, lead addict. They probably want to play as many different maps on stage as possible, and probably is confident in their split.

mako literally said that he does not enjoy being the veteran in the team and only freeing is older than him but even freeing is igling for the first time. and yet people really be thinking its just "turn off your brain and shoot"

players perform better when surrounded by experienced peers compared to rookies. "he better frag out because he is with rookies" doesn't make sense. Look at Karon, he mentioned that Munchkin taught him a lot and other experienced players helped him on big stages. MF has been playing with the same 4 players since 2022, its obvious he will frag out from time to time, surrounded by players that are used to each other.

Mako not even close to the GOAT title is just pure delusion

karon this year compared to mf in past 3 years? sure
mako in 2022 pulled insane stat while having massive impact for team that finished 5-6th in both masters, while recording 1.14 ratings with 78% KAST over 400+ rounds? I am going to give it to mako for now. Unless Karon maintains his form in 2025, its still mako for me.

so by your logic,
starxo, zombs, redgar > mako???

I have stated in other replies that if Karon maintains his form in 2025, he should be in contention but i always like to wait and see for 2 years at least.

Jake's been feeding people with crazy sums of money left and right in boxing, you might be right.

that is why the OP was complaining about from the start? since people were putting him into the competition and saying mf > mako

GOAT = Greatest Of All Time.

You dont call Ali the GOAT of boxing because he is the best boxer now (rip) but due to his career as a whole.

panc - MIA in 2023
marved - MIA in 2023
both fell off in 2023.
zombs - no words needed
redgar - fell off

As for Karon, i stated that we need to wait for 2025. Can't you read that it was targeted to other controller players other than Karon?

winning 1 trophy and going MIA the following years isn't impressive. By your logic, starxo (who played astra and viper in 2021 champs) is in GOAT contention as well as redgar, and even zombs. It just doesn't make sense.

pancada - missing since 2023, was great in 2022.
marved - don't get me started
karon - Debut season in vct, if he continues his form throughout 2025, he is a strong contender since none of the other controllers had prime for more than 1 year except mako.

Karon's first year in VCT is already better than Mindfreak's entire career, but delusional people out here are slandering Mako. Yikes.

nothing wrong with glazing the undisputed controller GOAT in valorant.

neon wasnt their main weapon until it was meta. Dambi is a really good jett/raze player. He "was" crazy in challengers. Their scrims now is still really good , at least up until October

common danii1 W

would have had a better chance if they could rest and retouch their maps but rito wanted to cram everything together

afaik, the mods can do it.

The OP posted it under "general discussion" at first. I was about to tell him that its under a different category but the mods changed it. I guess that's why strify mentioned it too

still a very good player. hopefully he comes back fully healed.

your reasoning for Talon being top 5 might have been wrong in #9 but Talon seems to be a good contender alongside DFM and ZETA. I would put SPG/NS around there too but im only talking based on the off-season.

nah hes been igling since 2021 challengers korea stage 3. Zest only took over 1 stage of 2022 for a brief moment, and stax was igl in all international tournaments if im not wrong (could have been co-igl system in 1 of the masters)

iDFM and ZETA looked good and seemed to have a better understanding of what they want to do so i think there will be some sort of gap between 9-12 and 6-8 at least for Kick Off. But from stage 1 i guess things could change

OP is probably just yappin with the last place. We can't say for sure who will be the last.

im so happy to see buzz doing well, his awp is soooo clean

must have been a long ass day for T1.
o7

Breaks my heart that it is going out of the map pool.

and people downvoted me for saying sylvan is better than dos9. LOL.

it was painful to see him play initiator and getting subbed in and out with eko

ive been saying this for some time now that sylvan is really really good. Not just his fragging ability but his smoke sense too. 2022, 2023 he was solid on smokes.

Buzz with op has been so satisfying to watch lately

too clean

Where is that fraud Hynix

This guy needs to touch some grass or something

damn you changed your flag and flair just for this? LOL. I thought you had EU flag and the flair wasnt sen

nah they were still solid. had a bit of a slump in stage 2 and K1ng parted ways with ONS before the LCQ. ONS still made it to the final only to lose against EDG after losing their best player so i would say they were still solid.

KR having the WMF roster (termi, peri, solo, bail, glow) coming into val was HUGE

2021 KR had Nuturn and VS
2022 KR had DRX and ONS
you can't really say only DRX was good because KR only had 1 slot for Masters.

the only thing disgraceful here is your opinions against foxy9.

mans ranting in vlr and directing his hate towards foxy9 because his life is in ruins. Seek counselling.

leaving out foxy is a crime, mans doing his BEST to hate him but foxy gets pistol round ace. SUCK IT UPPPP.

Rei5 said it was hard to find teams but shouldn't have advertised it that way.
^this is what I was agreeing with but damn this shit blew up like I triggered a damn explosion

bro im just replying to u cos u keep replying to me. Ive watched a total of 1 map and I like the idea of this whole event but to me marketing like that is pretty low. you keep bringing up shit like "well they cant say ASS teams coming". Like mate they should have done a better job wit the slogan, THATS IT. you do you man I ain't replyin to this bs no more

well i stand by my words. people bringing in other points so things got out of hand but I literally said "why even say that when its not even true"

wdym crash out i am just pointing out that it was false advertisement. i meant no one cares now since GE's owner is pretty much 100ego 0 game knowledge.
They could have just said various teams from CN, PAC coming to face off GE or something, idk its their marketing.

you seem like you still don't understand how serious false advertising or "lying" is but what do I expect lmao.

"supposed to say"
well they SHOULD have said that then.

"its GE"
Whats wrong is wrong regardless of your expectation. you defending them just shows immaturity. Rei5 said it was hard to find teams but shouldn't have advertised it that way. Just admit it, its false advertisement and they were wrong for that (companies get sued irl). Low expectation? "Low" is an overstatement, no one cares.

"it was supposed to" the schedule of RBHG and Radiant were out weeks before. Saying that it don't matter cos no one paid to watch anyway is irresponsible. Then just don't market it that way? no way you are defending GE for falsely advertising the matches as "Best teams in asia". i have no problem with the event since I'm not really watching them but marketing it this way is pretty cheap.

"best teams in asia coming to play against get"

wdym you can't blame them, this is literally a false advertisement LOL