Build a Roster for $15 3.0 + VCT Season Challenge

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Yuh_aye

New version with almost every player and justice for Enzo! (still not picking him tho).

Things to keep in mind:

I DON'T WATCH EVERY REGION AND MATCH
ITS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO PRICE/RANK SO MANY PLAYERS. I DID MY BEST TO BE FAIR.
"Where is __?" I DON'T KNOW AND DON'T CARE

Rules

Don't go above $15 (obviously)
5 players max
Assume no Language Barriers, they synergize normally, and an average, competent coach.

$5 Players {World Class}
Aspas/Texture/Less/Alfajer/JohnQT/Boostio/Saadhak/Leo/Mako/Munchkin/Meteor/Karon

$4 Players {Elite}
Cned/Lakia/N4rrate/Riens/Oxy/BenjyFishy/Forsaken/Jingg/Something/Keznit/Jawgemo/S0m/FNS/Sayf/Cryo/Zekken/Scream/Bang/Tenz/Chronicle/Derke/Boo/Woot/Davai/Shao/Leaf/Ethan/Sacy

$3 Players {Good T1 Players, The Very Best T2 Players}
BeYN/Tuyz/Monyet/Reduxx/Valyn/xccurate/Patitek/Stax/Rb/Zest/Autumn/Keiko/Nats/Mindfreak/Asuna/MrFalin/Atakaptan/Qraxs/KangKang/Yetujey/Suygetsu/Ange1/Ardiss/Verno/Zander/Nismo/Mwzera/Tex/Cloud/Caunzin/Jammpi/Foxy9/Izu/Marteen/Zyppan/Eeiu/Zellsis/Life/Trexx/Crashies/Victor/qw1/miniboo/JonahP/Kingg

$2 Players {Solid T1 Players, Really Good T2 Players}
Magnum/Trent/Sh1n/Ban/Mistic/Icy/Nature/Zeldris/Mazino/Enzo/Mada/Soulcas/Berlin/Skuba/Xeppa/Vanity/Derrek/Runi/Shyy/Moose/Havoc/Fit1nho/Tomaszy/Koalanoob/Flyuh/Carpe/Curry/V1c/Brawk/Stellar/Aproto/Will/Jakee/Corey/Net/Governor/Artzin/Purp0/Bcj/XXIF/Wippie/Qck/Rossy/Dapr

$1 Players {T2 Players and other Solid Prospects}
Okeanos/Screwface/Ange/Hazed/Drone/Mary/Trick/Scarn/Dark3st/Oderus/Mimi/Katsumi/Florescent/Sinatraa/Zexrow/Tdawgg/Lear/Nahsie/Seven/Aleksandar/Exalt/Subroza/Noia/Mel/Geeza/Paincakes/Shahzam/Dicey/CGRS/Sarah/

$0.5 Players {lmao}
Khunaa/Peppapiglunchbox/Zt0l/Tarik/Dasnerth/TheRacoone/Shanks/Mocking/Pablo/MexicanSova/IItzTimmy/Aceu/Poppin/Prod/A2Guapo/Woohoojin/Ethos/AverageJonas/Pokimane/

Free Players
Wardell - Condition: No Scoped Weapons
Dephh - Dephh
Xms - Xms
Newzera - Newzera

VCT Season Challenge: How far can you go?
Must win 2/3 in reg season to play in R4. R4-10 is single elim because I don't feel like making it more
complicated. It's also not necessarily easiest to hardest

R1 - Reg Season vs '24 Split 1 NRG
R2 - Reg Season vs Current KRU
R3 - Reg Season vs Shanghai T1
R4 - Qual Match vs Kickoff/Madrid KC
R5 - Group Stage vs Tokyo EDG
R6 - Group Stage vs '23 Champs Loud
R7 - Playoff vs Tokyo NRG
R8 - Playoff vs '23 Champs DRX
R9 - Playoff vs Madrid GENG
R10 - GF vs '23 Champs PRX

BONUS
Your season is over and a new season is upon us! You choose a team identity and go through it again! *IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU DID IT NORMALLY FIRST

SEN: "Clout Cash" - You now get $16 budget but you must keep 3 players from original roster.
Additionally, for R1-4 you have to replace a player with Shroud (has to be the the same player for all matches).

EG: "The System" - Your team is coached by Potter and Zikz, but you only get $12 budget. Must Keep 1 player
from original roster.

Fnatic: "B0tster" - Your IGL or Controller gets a -60% performance debuff, the others get 5% buff.

Liquid: "Chokequid" - You bypass rounds 1-4 and autoqual (thanks to FNC), but every game you think you win
you have to flip a coin and if its tails it means you choked and lost.

C9: "Playoff Chokers + brokeboys" - Take your most expensive player and replace him with one from a tier below, the org couldn't afford
him anymore. Your team gets a 15% performance buff for reg season and group stage matches and a -5% debuff for all others.

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johnqt world class player? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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Yuh_aye

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https://www.vlr.gg/303088/nrg-esports-vs-sentinels-champions-tour-2024-americas-kickoff-sf/?game=160721&tab=overview

Yo what happened on map 3?

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ur a dummy

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hemmy

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Bro wrote a monologue

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CanadianLegend

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Fact that Zekken is not world class kinda baffles me

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Yuh_aye

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Idk if I can confidently put him a full tier above the other guys there. His raze is Sublime but there's (minor) questions about his jett, oping, and he currently has a limited agent pool (i know he's played sova and neon and stuff in the past but he would have to prove it again). Oxy for example is a better jett, close to him as a raze, is an excellent awper, and a really good yoru too. Jawgemo might be a better raze, is a good jett, but is also crazy on omen and even made deadlock work.

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kanyefan4238173

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nah i disagree with limited agent pool but yeah his jett isnt good

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kanyefan4238173

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kangkang: second duelist or gekko. goes to main duelist when single skye initiator
life: he takes kangkangs op and he goes main duelist except he plays skye when skye single initiator
purp0: full time initiator except when double controller + sentinel where he goes to sentinel
tenz: full time smokes
kingg: viper/sentinel

this team out aims probably any team you can build with an igl

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Yuh_aye

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I still think oxy, cloud, n4rrate, flyuh, and skuba is the best possible combo but I used that for the last two so imma make a new one

Less (Viper/Senti) - $5 - It's Less. He's a matchup problem.
Valyn (IGL/Controller) - $3 - Can frag hard and plays all the non-viper smokes (omen, brim, harbor, astra). Calling is solid and reliable.
Mwzera (Duelist) - $3 - Baby Aspas finally gets his time to shine on a real team. Coulda also went with Keiko or Marteen here.
Derrek (Init) - $2 - Lots of experience and good aim, he will pull his weight forsure.
Curry (flex) - $2 - Can put him on anything and he will pull his weight.

R1 : we clear EZ 2-0
R2 : Relatively EZ 2-0, second map goes 13-11
R3 : EZ 2-0 13-6 13-9
R4 : 2-1 we drop a map in OT but other two maps are relatively EZ
R5 : 2-0 Less and Curry topfrag
R6 : Extremely close 1-2 but we lose. Valyn goes nuclear to try to keep us alive but it isnt enough. Season ends here.

Might edit later for bonus

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lyprum

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sh1n life fns mazino f0rsaken with b0tster bonus

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Yuh_aye

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nerfing fns like that is crazy lmao bro's gonna be a spike rush player

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lyprum

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going from 10 kills per map to 4 kills per map is not that bad to be honest, the rest of the aimers on the team take care of the rest

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StutterSt3p

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Roster 1:
zekken - $4
Shahzam - $1
Nismo - $3
johnqt - $5
skuba - $2

Total: $15

Roster 2 (EG: "The System"):
Reduxx - $3
Verno - $3
flyuh - $2
v1c -$2
skuba - $2

Total: $12

idk how many games either team wins, but both are pretty good rosters imo.

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moatz

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Tenz
Average Jonas
Pokimane
Tarik
Wardell

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lordooohyeaa

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why the fuck is boostio🐷 in the "world class" category. LOOL.

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OkOkay

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He put 4 gen.g players there and your mad about a world champion igl

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lordooohyeaa

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boostio🐷 is NOWHERE NEAR the skill level of any of the other "world class" players...

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t3xutre best duelist.
munchkin is a puppeteer that controls his opponents like barbie dolls performing for a childrens show
meteor was so good gen g was called freak g and freakeor freaked all over shanghai
karon is the acme of valorant

Do not downplay the golden generation for your meaningless argument

GEN G FIGHTING!
-GenG

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Yuh_aye

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100t missed Lans for years then he joins and they almost immediately win americas and make a deep run at shanghai (only lost to the finalists, also coulda beat heretics if they didnt throw bind). He was also the igl on one of/the greatest team ever, where he dropped 35 on fut (a team of turkish aimers) and beat LOUD and PRX (aced them) in bo5's.

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lordooohyeaa

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don't forget about the game vs TH
1-13
1 kill

where was his "genius" igl strats and aim there?

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Yuh_aye

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The recent evidence in favor of Boostio being world class:

Tokyo: Takes EG to Grand finals of Masters Tokyo, bodying every team in their way except for Fnatic (extremely close match vs them in upper finals that coulda gone either way).

Champs: Wins Champs, beating a white-hot Loud team and maybe the best PRX we ever saw in Bo5's.

Kickoff: Transforms 100T, but ultimately loses to Leviathan in a very close match that coulda gone either way(C0m at this point is still playing at a very high level), then runs into SEN (eventual madrid winners)

Split 1: 100T is now the best they've ever been and dominates Americas league, getting 1st.

Shanghai: Demolishes Fut, Loses close match to GenG (eventual tournament winner), beats the tournament favorite in PRX, loses to Heretics (Tournament finalist, had a decent chance to win if they close out bind).

The evidence you provided against all that:
Played really bad in 1 match on TH's best map.

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lordooohyeaa

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i could provide more, but im not too interested

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armadmeister1

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you have such shitty recency bias bro 1 bad game doesn't take away the fact that he's places 2nd in tokyo, WON CHAMPIONS, won americas and qualified and went top 4 with 100t who hasn't been in any LANS since lock in

shut the fuck up with your recency bias bro. Boostio literally aced vs loud with LESS and ASPAS, and aced vs 2023 prx.

such a shitty take. I clowned on him as well but he's obviously respected as an IGL

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7whanzussjwbsysbbejskaoao

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T3xture
RieNs
Patitek
Carpe
CGRS

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andriod1523

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Saadhak $5- goat igl since no language barriers - flex
N4rrate $4- just cracked - on initiator
s0m $4- cracked- smokes
florescent $1 - could prob shine with the quality of the support - duelist
Oderus - looks good from what i've watch him on Moist x Shopify - viper/sentinel

R1 - 1-2 because NRG always beats saadhak regular season
R2 - 2-1 banger going 17-15 last map
R3 - 2-0 with 13-3 and 13-2 score lines
R4 - 3-1 assuming bo5, most maps close but saadhak clears
R5 - 2-0 they weren't even that good just got well-timed matchups
R6 - 1-2 ends with a stomp - Saadhak breaks down at the concept of losing to himself and self-destructs

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Meatyscepter

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Aspas,Valyn,Trent,Sinatraa,forsaken

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silchas

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verno ($3) - He's going to be the Leo of NA
beyn ($3) - Personally I feel he could be the next Karon, we'll see; chuck him on flex and see what he can do
Berlin ($2) - Absolute steal, based on FPX's Shanghai run he seems to be a great IGL as long as he stops INTing
Woot ($4) - Honestly a toss up between him, Oxy and Something; I just went with recency bias
Foxy9 ($3) - He's been really impressive on sentinel
Total: $15

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Yuh_aye

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i fw the Foxy9 pick

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Magzion

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JonahP - $3 - Initiator/Flex
Jawgemo - $4 - Entry/Duelist
FNS - $4 - IGL/Sentinel
Zander - $3 - Smokes
Sinatraa- $1 - Initiator/Flex

The professor only being $3 is insane and is a huge bargain, Jawgemo is one of the best entry duelists in the world, FNS is a storied and talented igl who also fills the role of sentinel, zander has been the top smokes prospects in t2 for 2 years, and sinatraa because i had one dollar and needed a scan initiator.

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DBStudios

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bro why the fuck did you do my boy lakia dirty like that 😭😭😭

team tho (if we talking about prime)

$0.5 Tarik (c9 days) - IGL/Second Initiator
$5 Meteor - Sentinel + Second Duelist
$5 Aspas - Main Duelist
$1 CGRS - Initiator
$3 Mindfreak - Smokes

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Yuh_aye

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Bro tarik was the worst player in a 10 man server with GC players and ranked players 😭😭😭

Also Lakia is in a tier full of world champs, multi-master winners, and superstars bro acting like I disrespected him, its just that the other geng players have something that stand out.
Munchkin - best defensive reads/rotates in the world currently, also a top tier shooter (especially with the guardian)
Texture - clearly the best duelist in the world currently (only other in the convo is aspas who is basically the only reason lev made a LAN)
Meteor - the best sheriff in the world currently, clearly the best senti in the world currently, and best yoru in the world currently
Karon - Already one of the best smokes players ever, 1 more deep run and he will be in the all-time convo with Pancada, Marved, and Mako

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if anything i would say lakia is too high
edit: munchkin, karon are also probably recency bias
I would only say texture and meteor should be in the 5$ tier

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DBStudios

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Bro why are you getting so offended for me pointing out Lakia? I was saying you did him dirty because all of GenG was in world class tier and he wasn't. Also for Tarik that's why I said "prime" because if you didn't know he was the IGL and match MVP back in the Boston Major who mounted a comeback that was never before seen in CS, plus in those 10 man servers and ranked you really think he's going to try his hardest? Like come on bro.

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Yuh_aye

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bro that's a different game and 6 years ago aint no way LMAO. Also he was trying his ass off in pro city that was the whole point of them and especially as by the end he was trying to not get embarrassed.

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DBStudios

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What about the time or the game? If someone mentioned someone in their prime who was the best in the world at one point it wouldn't matter. Its the same as if someone mentioned 2021 Iceland TenZ some people would probably think of one of the most dominate players the game has ever seen despite the time since and how the game has changed. Also bro pro city? dawg that shit did not last and even then Tarik wouldn't be as competitive in it as he would be in an actual tournament and it was mostly just content and fun for him since he didn't want to Q ranked with throwers.

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you know what ur right lemme get prime TSM_Myth on my team

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DBStudios

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fortnite is not the same as valorant lmao at least both CS and valorant have basically the same gameplay (also yeah Myth might unironically be good at Valorant if he put time into it look at Benjy kekw), plus this shit is supposed to be having fun when making a team why tf are you the OP making it seem so serious 💀

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Gummybears

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5$ leo - main inni
3$ miniboo - duelist
3$ cloud - flex
2$ mazino - smokes
2$ magnum - senti

ong my team beats every single one of these teams ^

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Yuh_aye

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Edit: this comment was meant to be a reply, ignore

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Ez

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EZ PZ Brawk 2 , Sinatra 1 , Rossy 2 , Aspas 5, Sadhakk 5 15 total clears every other team made

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RieNs
RieNs
RieNs
RieNs
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rynxe

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Zekken - $4 (Duelist)
Shao - $4 (Smokes)
Trent - $2 (Init)
Kingg - $3 (Igl, Flex)
Rossy - $2 (Senti, Hype guy)

Bonus: -Trent + Cloud

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Munchkin (5) — flex/IGL
Shyy (2) — sentinels
Patitek (3) — initiator (might be recency bias)
Florescent (1) — duelist (hot take: there arent any consistent duelists for $2)
Shao (4) — controller/can even flex to initiator in some comps too

Wins
Wins
Wins (unlucky T1)
Wins
Clears
Loses but a close game (5-1 in groups)
Wins but a close game
Wins but a close game
Loses

FNC identity

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Yuh_aye

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bro literally every single duelist at $2 (Icy/Zeldris/Mada/Fit1nho/Koalanoob/Corey/Artzin/Will/Qck/Governor) is better than Flor.

Flor was eliminated by Mocking's pug team in challenger quals (Mocking played Reyna).
Mocking btw (still my goat tho) https://clips.twitch.tv/FineDrabPuppySoBayed-EaxpFaF1OlMlmVcT

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can't get my goats stew or life L game

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Yuh_aye

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life is there at $3

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Duelist: KangKang - $3
Flex: Woot - $4
Controller/IGL: Valyn - $3
Senti: Nats - $3
Initiator- Derrek - $2

Beats almost every team. Has a no mechanical weakness. If you get a top tier coach this team would win champs

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Yuh_aye

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pretty good team ngl (but if qck was there kangkang gets farmed LOL)

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what is all this bruh

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Ange1
Ange1
Ange1
Ange1
Ange1
(maybe yay if he was available)

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Reduxx
Derrek
Sinatraa
S0m
JohnathanCutie

R1 - 2 - 0 no questions asked
R2 - 2 - 1 close game kru put up a good fight
R3 - 2 - 1 xcurrate goes nuclear and takes map 1 but we bring it back
R4 - 3 - 2 kc loses to the superior igling of johnathanQT
R5 - 2 - 1 close game between 2 young teams
R6 - 0 - 2 nah theres no chance

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You fool, you took away Wardell's scoped weapons (his 2nd most powerful technique), but you failed to take away his most powerful snipe ability: stream snipe.

Team:

Wardell (0$)
Munchkin (5$)
Meteor (5$)
Monyet (3$)
Mada (2$)

With Wardell's information gathering abilities, Munchkin will always have 5 on site when the enemy hits.

This team shall win it all.

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Steel
Wardell
Tarik
MeL(with a megaphone)
Shroud

Manager: Ethos

My oh my. May god have mercy to the opposing team.

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Ain't no way bro forgot buzz 💀

Mako (controller)
Lakia (initiator + lakia of valorant)
Rb (duelist)
Magnum (flex/igl)
CGRS (sentinel)

R1 - 2 - 0 on paper i think they can beat them easily
R2 - 2 - 1 might go into overtime, but i think they can come out on top, banger match imo
R3 - 2 - 0 Mako and CGRS come in clutch
R4 - 2 - 1 KC would put up a fight, but they qualify regardless with Mako clutching up
R5 - 2 - 0 Even with EDG doing well this tournament, they are outclassed mechanically
R6 - 2 - 1 A real challenge here aye? Definitely would go the distance and would probably get into overtime, but a very close win at the end of the day
R7 - 2 - 1 Might have the possibility to lose, but I think Tokyo NRG did have a bit of flaws that the team could capitalize on
R8 - 1 - 2 We're gonna win but DRX pull off the comeback like they did against Bilibili and win Lotus (but I think if this team had momentum they'd win for sure)

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Keznit, Benjyfishy, Valyn, Curry, Derrek

I think this is a good roster.

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opcleaver0

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texture (5), meteor (5), zander (3), cgrs (1), flourescent (1)

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I feel like this lineup doesn't lack firepower. Could swap IGL to someone else who can frag, nothing just immediately caught my eye:
5 - Johnqt (IGL),
3 - Suygetsu (Sentinel),
3 - Monyet (Controller),
3 - Miniboo (Duelist),
1 - Sinatraa (Initiator)

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Aspas (5) - Duelist
ForsakeN (4) - Flex
Zander (3) - Smokes/Controller
Derrek (2) - Flex
Dapr (2) - Sentinel/IGL

Derrek being 2 is criminal imo

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4+2+2+3+5 = 16

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Aspas (5) for duelist
Leo (5) for initiator
Trent (2) for flex
Tomaszy (2) for sentinel
ScrewFace (1) for controller and IGL

Having Trent and Tomaszy at 2 dollars should be a crime

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Where is Demon1

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Duelist Miniboo 3
Sova/Skye: Verno 3
IGL/Smokes: Valyn 3
Cypher/Kj/Viper: Tomaszy 2
Flex: S0m 4
We clear

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Forsaken - 4 Flex
Life - 3 Main Duelist
Foxy9- 3 sentinel
Eeiu - 3 Initiator
Berlin - 2 controller/igl
gg