Masters Bangkok predictions

Masters Bangkok

EMEA
Team Heretics - This is an auto lock for the masters they were the most consistent team last year and have no reason to think they will fall off and not make it
Vitality - to be honest its a 50/50 between FUT and Vitality for making it ask I believe Vitality may start off slow but FUT isn't a team that I believe can push to the very top of EMEA so im going to go with Vitality to qualify
Extra notes - Fanatic don't have Leo so I doubt they'll be able to do much and with Derke gone I think Kaajak will struggle to fill his shoes and play up to the same level he was in T2 and the rest of EMEA have got promising players but they will take time to develop and won't be able to make it to the first masters

Americas
NRG - Have looked dominant all off-season they're all motivated to win and they've picked up 2 of the best NA T2 players I don't see how they don't make it as the top seed from Americas
G2 - They are a solid team however adapting to the new style that Jawgemo brings is going to get the to start slow but they will best Sen in the lower finals to make it to Bangkok
Extra notes - Sen don't live up to the hype and get 3rd leading to zellsis getting benched for stage 1 to make room for Reduxx

Pacific
DFM - Yes DFM they are winning it all it will be an absolute shock to most people but they will come out of the gates with crazy new ideas and ways of playing to get a strait qualification to Bangkok
T1 - They will lose to DFM in the uppers in a close game then drop to the lowers final to easily clean up whichever team they face to get to Bangkok and beat DFM for revenge in the grand final
Extra notes - PRX gets 4th after losing to GEN.G who gets 3rd

China
EDG - EDG wins it what a shocker
Wolves - Wolves go on a run of a lifetime
Extra notes - I don't know too much about China so it's hard to make any crazy predictions of what's going to happen

Predictions for the Swiss Stage

Team Heretics 2 - 0 Heretics clean sweep with ease
T1 2 - 0 T1 will get some favourable matchups such as Wolves and we go strait through
NRG 2 - 1 NRG will get very difficult matchups and will have a banger game 3 to beat EDG
G2 2 - 1 G2 will just play boring Valorant and barely make a top 4 by beating Vitality
Vitality 1 - 2 Vitality will have a decent tournament but will fall to G2
EDG 1 - 2 Start off a bit slow with an early loss to then claw back to 1 - 1 but lose the close game to NRG
DFM 0 - 2 The pressure of a masters will get too much and they will have some close games but won't close any out
Wolves 0 - 2 The magic of Wolves will run out and they will get destroyed

Extra notes - Vitality vs G2 is a bit of a 50/50 as I think either of them can win

Playoffs

I don't know what the exact matchups would be so I'm going to go under the assumption of G2 vs Heretics and T1 vs NRG

Heretics vs G2 Heretics 2-0 as they know how G2 play so will be able to over come them
T1 vs NRG T1 2-1 Banger of a game but T1 close it out in OT with A big fumble from NRG either an individual or as a team they will lose like a 1 v 4 or something

Heretics vs T1 Heretics win 2-0 with ease to get to the grand final
G2 vs NRG NRG clears G2 2-0 to go to the lower final to face T1

T1 vs NRG NRG 3-0 to get revenge and go to the grand final

Heretics vs NRG Heretics 3-2 NRG to finally overcome not being able to close out a grand final and lift the Bangkok trophy

Final thoughts

All these predictions could be wrong but it would be cool if I look back in a couple months and I'm correct

If this post does well Ill make another one for Toronto in a couple months o/

hereshits will fall off because the region got better

also i dont think sen are good enough to get top 3, and i dont think theyd add reduxx for zellsis, especially not so soon

Zellsis is NOT going to be benched for a fucking duelist player no matter how bad they playing

SEN are not good enough to get top 3 and Zellsis is not getting replaced for at least this VCT season.

The DFM copium is getting too high now
Probably Meiy himself doesn't even believe in what you just said

kc is winning bangkok

i think apac s gonna be T1 and GenG/PRX in my opinion. DFM look good but i think the rest would lock in and perform at kickoff

funny you’re assuming g2 will play boring valorant when joshrt literally admitted to saying that he got jawgemo because he’s been wanting an explosive entry player like him since 2023, and if you’ve watched the offseason games then you’d realize that they played the exact opposite of boring valorant

my preds:

emea
th - as ive said, th still looks good, so theyre making it
fnc - they look pretty good, crashies is good and can help boaster with calling
vit - good players, though there is slight language barrier for less

amer
g2 - look good, same players with jawg
mibr - aspas and cortezia are crazy, dont know too much about the others
eg - yay is back. enough said

apac
t1 - look very good, good players
geng - still good, maybe slightly worse
drx - slight sleeper pick, this spot could go to prx

cn
edg - though they dont look as good, still very solid team
xlg - look good in offseason
wol - again, good offseason

placements:
1st - th (finally)
2nd - t1
3rd - g2
4th - xlg jumpscare
5th - eg/fnc

Heretics would give an international to all the other regions xdd

Prx, NRG or heretics

reduxx wont replace zellsis unfortunately,

roles wouldnt make sense.
reduxx only ever played duelist, so zekken would have to switch to initiator
then john would have to go back to senti or sum shit and everything is messy and too late to change

I completely agree with this post, one of the best vlr posts I've ever seen. type shi

ok let me clear up the Zellsis thing with my prediction. I believe that if Sen perform poorly they will definitely consider switching Zellsis and Reduxx because in the past when they switched Pancada there weren't any role issues despite them not filling the same role with Pancada being a smokes player and Zellsis mainly playing flex. the second reason is that I believe that Reduxx will be able to fill in for what roles are needed he played exceptionally in T2 on duellist but there must be a reason Sen chose someone like Reduxx to be their 6th instead of someone else who is more suited to playing a variety of roles for example keeping Curry, so he must be able to play more than just duellist because they're not replacing Zekken and he also played Omen and Gekko in the Red bull qualifiers. BUT this doesn't mean they're definitely making a change its just my prediction.