There seems to be a trend of every year some player from NA just takes over the entire game and takes the spot of best player in the world for a year, before kinda falling off. In 2021 it was TenZ, in 2022 it was yay and in 2023 it was Demon1. After 2021 TenZ was really struggling for 2 years. After the C9 debacle yay had a terrible 2023 and seems to still be struggling this year. Now Demon1 seems to have lost some of his consistency and has only really performed against weaker teams so far this year. Now 2024 has been TenZ's redemption arc after kinda reinventing himself as a player. Does this mean next year is yay's return to the top of Valorant?
Also who is this year's NA takeover player? Zekken? Probably not, he was consistently performing before this year. OXY? C9 look like they're on a run and are probably locked for playoffs at this point, and could definitely make Shanghai
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