No. Right now (for this match) they stand 8-8, but overall aspas has proven for the last 3 years that he is the best duelist. He played countless insane matches in several major playoffs.

I feel like people change their "rankings" after each single match, but that's not how it works. A MVP in Association Football leagues, NBA, NFL or whatever is also chosen after a full season and not after one weekend.

Wallhack in that bear hat.

I think this will be the most difficult match for LEV yet.

Boaster is super important, though. I also had my doubts and he indeed is missing fragpower, but he is a great IGL and a team leader - pushing his mates, cheering them always up. I think without Boaster it would not be the same.

Against Heretics, FUT and NAVI he got carried. He has crazy pop-offs but tomaszy had insane ++ matches as well in the last weeks... check the stats.

I think KC is missing consistency in general, but they have a lot of talent with N4RRATE, marteen, tomaszy... all very young dudes.

Leo still being Leo after all.

Leo <3

kiNgg is insane anyways and you clearly see that tex and Mazino slowly but surely showing what they're capable of. C0M still not fragging as crazy, but he delivers a lot of important info.

aspas <3
tex <3

aspas is sad that there is no one to make him play at 100% power anymore. He's probably learning Japanese in his head while playing.

aspas > VCT

So true. Even a 13-0 is not helping. That's an actual curse... :X

The king carried. <3

al0rante should maybe leave. I feel still so bad for him that the FOKUS team that beat Heretics got disbanded, just so FOKUS could play in DACH again. al0rante, Fizzy, Lime, Lewis and Seider was a crazy lineup.

In the future al0 def. needs to reconsider his options in my eyes. When there is a VCT playing team in Europe which has interest, he should take it. Click for sure will get offers soon for a new team.

Happy for Click and Felix, super sad for al0. He deserves so much more. Easily one of the best riflers in the game.

Elite is insane.

VCT 2024 is not the year to talk about goats in my eyes. Everyone beats everyone.

And even though I will always support FNC, aspas is the #1 duelist in my eyes. Derke is insane, though.

Someone casts his fishing rod.

VCT 2024: Big troll

Sayf is such an amazing player. W teamplayer, W Flex.

GG Vitality.

Even though you really have to say purp0 was a good sign for GX.

And they disbanded that FKS team... :(

NAVI so good. Love to see them with ardiis again. Such a OG team.

*Edit: Okay, BBL still deserved this win. Crazy momentum. GG.

When you would show someone who never watched Valorant E-Sports the Fnatic matches of Masters Tokyo 2023, LOCKIN 2023 and the regional season 2023 and then the matches of this year, he would say it's a different team.

tex on Breeze was crazy! He made 2 nice matches recently.

I don't give a sh*t about regions in a damn video game, because I'm not 12 years old. Valorant is literally the only videogame where people care about regions - which fits the community very well. Loads of kiddos.

I think that shows how insanely great potter is. When you look up Demon1s Tier 2 stats, Verno etc. were much better. Verno and N4RRATE are the true NA talents now (I exclude zekken, because he is playing T1 for years).

What is even happening?

• EMEA absolutely random wins and losses
• Fnatic struggling
• NRG with 2023 superstar Demon1 struggling heavily
• Sentinels won the major with confidence a few weeks ago and is now losing and losing
• DRX strong again with 2023 coughing baby Foxy9 becoming hydrogen bomb -> stomping GENG

Weirdest season since start of Valo E-Sports.

Happy for Asuna. He deserves it.

But holy... I thought C9 would do much better. They looked so strong recently.

What a game. LEV so good... most sympathetic team, too.

Let us be honest. No one REALLY ever stopped aspas. Maybe for one match or so, but he always came back strong af.

Best duelist in the world for years now.

This could go in any direction, tbh.
Overall I think NRG has the much more balanced team. On LEV you basically only have aspas and kiNgg being constantly good - and also aspas in the need to carry.

Even though I'd love to see aspas winning, since he is the best... I say NRG wins this by 2-1.

*Edit: Okay, maybe I'm wrong again... like in 90% of my predictions. xD

Racist???

C9 looked deadly af today. Especially OXY gets better and better.

He is going to get signed by some VCT team in the future anyways is my guess.

al0rante on Astra so damn nice.

FOKUS on Split was awesome to watch, especially on Attack.

Icebox good, Defence on Bind nc.
Leo on Gekko = n1

Sayf easily the best Flex player in the region.

Hahahaha. Last season: Everyone was crying because only one team was winning, now there is no "consistency". That moment when you just hate because you want to hate.

People calling Elite the next Alfajer might not be wrong after all. In T2 he was insane. BBL might just needed a bit more time... and they showed in the offseason their potential against FUT already.

He owned zekken and TenZ, so he can't be that bad.

That was actually a beautiful series of NAVI.
Nice 1v5 Ace of N4RRATE, though.

GG.

I think FNC looked really good in some situations, but Gentle Mates also looked really, really bad. In the end you def. need confidence boosts like this to get back on track, so it will probably help Fnatic anyways. Derke used Yoru really well in my eyes... especially on Breeze during retakes. The agent is so insanely powerful when you use it with confidence - like TenZ or marteen. MiniBoo also shows how strong Neon can be when you are good with her. I like the "new" variety for duelists much more than only seeing Jett and Raze in every match.

Recent matches of Sentinels, Fnatic and DRX showed how much the mood of the players has an effect on the matches. I mean in CS you can see it all the time and in Apex you could see it perfectly during the last TSM matches.

So I guess a happy and confident bunch of Leos, Alfajers etc. will def. play for major titles again. Sentinels showed and proved that it's never joever.

aspas is simply the best.

N4RRATE is currently the best Gekko in the world probably... his inventiveness with that agent is insane.

Alfajer still the best rifler and Leo first time on Gekko was cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement. Especially with Derke on Yoru...

But (!) at least they introduced new strats and comps now. As the first match with this heavy change it was okay I guess.

As Boaster recently said: "We just need to keep on grinding."

That is actually the right attitude.

Ehm... lol?!

al0rante MVP. I'm glad he is fit again after his illness... he's the best player in DACH beside of Click and Fizzy. His rifling skills are even better than most Tier 1 players.

Less is so damn good. 11-7 on Demon1 (who had a great game) is actually crazy.

I feel like when LOUD and aspas will reconnect, they will be the best team again. All they are missing is a player like aspas - who does the necessary entries, who can anchor 3 people and still is able to win the duels and who is always able to suppress the opponents. Exactly like aspas did it before or like zekken for Sentinels, marteen for KC, Jinggg for PRX, MiniBoo for Heretics or Click for SK.

aspas still the best duelist in the world, but his team is simply at least one level below him mechanically.
If LEV won't change drastically by tactics, the year won't be fun for them.

marteen and N4RRATE are currently the most exciting new players to watch beside of MiniBoo in EU, imo.

French always were great E-Sport players tbh.

I'm actually angry as a longtime FNC supporter. Always defended Boaster because I thought he was only joking, but they play so damn lazy (except Leo). Boaster got destroyed and he keeps laughing as if he doesn't care. He is one of the best earners in VCT Europe and kept mocking Madrid teams and instead of doing everything to show the world that Fnatic still belongs under the best teams, they keep to 2022/2023 comps and playing much worse than last year - they are not even including Yoru or Gekko. I mean Elmapuddys losing-streak is one of the worst of all VCT coaches (incl. his time before Fnatic at GENG), but that can't be an excuse. As an IGL Boaster should be part of creating new comps and motivating his team.

Also - the difference between Fnatic now and Sentinels at their downfall was that Sentinels actually started in an instant to create new ideas, most didn't work in the beginning, but they changed comps, they played around with agents and stuff - TenZ was humble and never mocked any team (no one of Sentinels did). They watched other majors and payed respect. Boaster is just arrogant and keeps smiling - and especially on Lotus you could see that they stopped playing this 101% Valorant which made them so damn good. They don't even peek every corner anymore. Lazy af.