NOEZ FOXX vs. DFM Academy | Challengers League 2025 Japan: Split 1 | Main Stage | Valorant match

1v1

1v2

1v3

1v4

1v5

ECON

Esperanza

NFX

eKo

NFX

thiefy

NFX

BlackWiz

NFX

YoWamu

NFX

taru

DFM.

Sota

DFM.

mimi

DFM.

Lucky

DFM.

kuro

DFM.

1v1

1v2

1v3

1v4

1v5

ECON

Esperanza

NFX

Round 16

kuro

Sota

Lucky

eKo

NFX

Round 6

Sota

mimi

Round 7

kuro

Lucky

Round 8

kuro

mimi

Round 11

Sota

taru

Round 24

mimi

taru

Round 9

kuro

Sota

mimi

Round 15

Lucky

kuro

taru

Round 3

Sota

taru

Lucky

mimi

thiefy

NFX

Round 9

taru

Lucky

Round 18

Lucky

mimi

Round 12

taru

Sota

mimi

Round 19

taru

mimi

Lucky

BlackWiz

NFX

Round 23

Lucky

kuro

Sota

Round 23

Sota

YoWamu

NFX

Round 5

Lucky

Sota

Round 18

kuro

taru

Round 20

mimi

taru

Round 23

mimi

taru

Round 24

Lucky

Sota

Round 6

kuro

Lucky

taru

Round 10

mimi

kuro

taru

Round 21

Lucky

kuro

taru

DFM.

Round 6

BlackWiz

thiefy

Round 8

YoWamu

thiefy

BlackWiz

Round 8

BlackWiz

thiefy

Sota

DFM.

Round 22

BlackWiz

YoWamu

Round 23

Esperanza

eKo

YoWamu

Round 7

eKo

mimi

DFM.

Round 2

YoWamu

thiefy

Round 4

thiefy

BlackWiz

Round 6

Esperanza

YoWamu

Round 9

thiefy

Esperanza

Round 6

eKo

YoWamu

Lucky

DFM.

Round 8

Esperanza

eKo

Round 13

thiefy

BlackWiz

Round 20

Esperanza

eKo

Round 1

thiefy

YoWamu

Esperanza

Round 14

YoWamu

BlackWiz

thiefy

Round 16

YoWamu

BlackWiz

thiefy

kuro

DFM.

Round 11

eKo

BlackWiz

Round 13

eKo

Esperanza

Round 17

BlackWiz

Esperanza

Round 7

Esperanza

thiefy

YoWamu

1v1

1v2

1v3

1v4

1v5

ECON

Esperanza

NFX

Round 2

mimi

Sota

Round 4

Lucky

mimi

Round 6

kuro

Sota

Round 11

Lucky

Sota

eKo

NFX

Round 12

mimi

taru

Round 3

kuro

taru

mimi

Round 17

taru

mimi

kuro

Round 12

taru

thiefy

NFX

Round 1

taru

Sota

Round 5

Sota

kuro

Round 7

taru

kuro

Round 9

Lucky

taru

Round 14

kuro

mimi

Round 18

taru

Lucky

kuro

Round 14

mimi

kuro

104

BlackWiz

NFX

Round 16

mimi

Sota

YoWamu

NFX

Round 5

mimi

Lucky

Round 11

mimi

kuro

Round 13

taru

Lucky

Round 10

mimi

taru

kuro

Sota

taru

DFM.

Round 2

eKo

BlackWiz

Round 9

BlackWiz

eKo

Round 12

BlackWiz

Esperanza

Round 14

eKo

Esperanza

Sota

DFM.

Round 13

Esperanza

YoWamu

mimi

DFM.

Round 4

eKo

thiefy

Round 13

BlackWiz

eKo

Round 14

BlackWiz

YoWamu

Lucky

DFM.

Round 2

Esperanza

thiefy

Round 12

YoWamu

thiefy

Round 16

thiefy

BlackWiz

Round 16

BlackWiz

thiefy

kuro

DFM.

Round 1

BlackWiz

Esperanza

Round 11

eKo

Esperanza

Round 8

eKo

BlackWiz

thiefy

Esperanza

YoWamu

Hewru

Frags

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NFX 2-0

IonlywatchvcjXD

Frags

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NFX 2 1

donkie

-2

Frags

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I just want to know why Japanese people are not as good at playing Valorant as other countries.

Poh1238

Frags

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Cuz nobody want to pay 1000 dollar pc for this corny ass game

1ucid

Frags

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esperanza washed

donkie

-1

Frags

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nah valorant japan washed

1ucid

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idk. mabye fl is only really good team in japan tier 2 now

Poh1238

Frags

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rid scarz exist

#12

1ucid

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tbh,i have watched the recent matches between these 2 teams and i feel they are still not consistent enough,mabye because of language issues.

#13

IonlywatchvcjXD

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Nowadays to get into t2 jp your japanese needs to be fluent, english just won't cut it anymore

#14

Poh1238

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There’s no way you’re saying fennel is consistent if you are talking about “consistent” team this team lost to scarz, lost one map and close game with Sengoku, fav
Igz is just weird and washed for no reason after performing decent in split3

1ucid

-1

Frags

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most of teams don't look like pro teams

#10

sklein

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any clue who is IGling for dfm academy?

#11

Poh1238

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Sota if I remember correctly

#15

IonlywatchvcjXD

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What's the point in getting imports if you still ended up with these kind of results...

DFM AC and Zeta AC prove that most of these orgs are short sighted af

NFX, let's start with esperanza, get rid of nostalgia and develop local players lol

#16

bubblecattxx

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just realized, if Riot didn't allow Academy into tier 2 this year the whole league would just be recycled players from last year LOL

#19

IonlywatchvcjXD

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Nah there are new faces around that's not AC teams so I'm not concerned about that. But NFX, SZ and RC are looking very complacent imo.

Hell, at least IGZIST looks way more respectable because they're actually using their academy players unlike SC0RZ who just import their way in

#20

Poh1238

Frags

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I agree with academy part cuz many org can’t make academy/ young player to make pro level player cuz they lack on coach and lots of things for education

#22

bubblecattxx

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Do these orgs academy teams actually put in resources and effort to help these players? It feels like they just sign the player just in case they become the "next big thing". ZETA Academy seems like the only one that bothers putting in effort for their academy players

#24

IonlywatchvcjXD

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They do, they assign different coach purely for academy teams, having them play premier, etc. I don't know if this is just basic or not but I think they definitely do something.

#26

TMosura

✔

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In terms of Japan, DFM is probably on the newer side and has less resources for now compared to what ZETA has done. But a good org will support its development of its players and constantly giving them opportunities where they needed it (ie Premier, maybe T3 tournaments)

Just look at the Korean academies.

#28

Poh1238

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I think they lack on experience, zeta academy had crazy good coach which is vorz who’s now riddles coach and caedye ace yatsuka was ex zeta academy they have model to make tier 1 worthy player and other does not

#17

1ucid

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i hear the salary in tier2 japan is very good

#18

IonlywatchvcjXD

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It's not as high as people make it out to be, only big orgs like scarz and fennel have the luxury to pay those salaries. Either way a lot of those salaries end up going to imports anyways, this does not help the scene at all.

#21

1ucid

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putting a lot of money into korean imports is really not worth it.player like esperanza do not deserve it.

#23

IonlywatchvcjXD

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I've been pointing that out from the moment this account was created and I was treated like a lunatic.

Jp t2 rn doesn't need this many imports

#25

1ucid

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many import players don't play as well as they should,the really good import might be joxjo,can communicate fluently in japanese and serve as igl

#31

IonlywatchvcjXD

Frags

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I think:
Joxjo and Jan are good
Lob and Gwangboong are ok
Medusa have something to prove.
Sayaplayer is looking washed
Hate esperanza and Ken are unnecessary
Yoshii is complacent

#27

1ucid

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i like fl very much beacuse theyu are pure japanese lineup and seen to have the hightest ceiling

#34

IonlywatchvcjXD

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Fennel looked good in scrims so I think they definitely has something to show for.

#32

Poh1238

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The import Japan really need is coach and not player to be fair

#35

IonlywatchvcjXD

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I agree on this tbh, but they need to make sure the coaches don't do anything funny and ended upbactually importing players lol

#37

Poh1238

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Lots of org don’t feel like coach have full decisions and I would say with set of analyst and sub coach getting foreign coach is good I think

#29

IonlywatchvcjXD

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If there's one thing I'll praise nfx is yowamu is clearly elevated now.

#30

Poh1238

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Is This is the thiefy ionlywatchvcj talking about? Him and yowamu need to keep this kind of number against better team but they are good for now

#33

IonlywatchvcjXD

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Both of them joining northeption has always been a mistake lol.

Yowamu was turned to controller.
Thiefy was made to flex everything

#36

Poh1238

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I mean if you want to go to better team you need to adapt and able to convert other role but for a first 2-3 yowamu should stick with duelist and now thiefy is 20 and veteran he can play controller good.I would say experience in northeption was good
I really like northeption for experimenting like academy and cooking roster

#38

IonlywatchvcjXD

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I think now Northeption is great as well, it's just the change is very drastic lol especially on yowamu, it really made you think that northeption at that time made a huge mistake for mismanaging the roster.

	taru DFM.	Sota DFM.	Lucky DFM.	kuro DFM.	mimi DFM.
YoWamu NFX	13 2 +11	7 5 +2	9 6 +3	8 5 +3	7 6 +1
eKo NFX	7 6 +1	7 7 +0	4 3 +1	10 5 +5	12 6 +6
thiefy NFX	9 2 +7	6 1 +5	11 10 +1	10 3 +7	6 6 +0
BlackWiz NFX	5 7 -2	7 1 +6	2 8 -6	4 5 -1	3 4 -1
Esperanza NFX	1 3 -2	7 5 +2	6 7 -1	4 7 -3	4 7 -3

	taru DFM.	Sota DFM.	Lucky DFM.	kuro DFM.	mimi DFM.
YoWamu NFX	2 0 +2	0 1 -1	1 2 -1	3 0 +3	5 1 +4
eKo NFX	1 2 -1	2 1 +1	0 1 -1	2 0 +2	0 1 -1
thiefy NFX	2 0 +2			1 0 +1	1 0 +1
BlackWiz NFX	2 0 +2		0 1 -1	2 1 +1	0 2 -2
Esperanza NFX		1 0 +1		1 1 +0	2 0 +2

	taru DFM.	Sota DFM.	Lucky DFM.	kuro DFM.	mimi DFM.
YoWamu NFX	8 1 +7	4 2 +2	6 4 +2	5 2 +3	3 4 -1
eKo NFX	4 2 +2	6 7 -1	3 2 +1	7 3 +4	6 3 +3
thiefy NFX	4 2 +2	3 1 +2	6 5 +1	3 2 +1	4 4 +0
BlackWiz NFX	3 2 +1	3 1 +2	1 7 -6	2 3 -1	2 2 +0
Esperanza NFX	0 0	3 2 +1	2 6 -4	3 4 -1	2 5 -3

	taru DFM.	Sota DFM.	Lucky DFM.	kuro DFM.	mimi DFM.
YoWamu NFX	1 0 +1		1 1 +0	2 0 +2	2 0 +2
eKo NFX	0 1 -1	2 1 +1		1 0 +1	0 1 -1
thiefy NFX	2 0 +2			1 0 +1	1 0 +1
BlackWiz NFX	1 0 +1		0 1 -1	1 1 +0
Esperanza NFX	0 0	1 0 +1		0 1 -1	1 0 +1

	2K	3K	4K	1v1	1v2	ECON	PL	DE
Esperanza NFX		1 Round 16 kuro Sota Lucky				26	0	1
eKo NFX	5 Round 6 Sota mimi Round 7 kuro Lucky Round 8 kuro mimi Round 11 Sota taru Round 24 mimi taru	2 Round 9 kuro Sota mimi Round 15 Lucky kuro taru	1 Round 3 Sota taru Lucky mimi			67	0	0
thiefy NFX	2 Round 9 taru Lucky Round 18 Lucky mimi	2 Round 12 taru Sota mimi Round 19 taru mimi Lucky				71	2	0
BlackWiz NFX		1 Round 23 Lucky kuro Sota		1 Round 23 Sota		37	5	0
YoWamu NFX	5 Round 5 Lucky Sota Round 18 kuro taru Round 20 mimi taru Round 23 mimi taru Round 24 Lucky Sota	3 Round 6 kuro Lucky taru Round 10 mimi kuro taru Round 21 Lucky kuro taru				99	1	1
taru DFM.	1 Round 6 BlackWiz thiefy	1 Round 8 YoWamu thiefy BlackWiz			1 Round 8 BlackWiz thiefy	34	1	0
Sota DFM.	1 Round 22 BlackWiz YoWamu	1 Round 23 Esperanza eKo YoWamu		1 Round 7 eKo		46	3	0
mimi DFM.	4 Round 2 YoWamu thiefy Round 4 thiefy BlackWiz Round 6 Esperanza YoWamu Round 9 thiefy Esperanza				1 Round 6 eKo YoWamu	54	3	1
Lucky DFM.	3 Round 8 Esperanza eKo Round 13 thiefy BlackWiz Round 20 Esperanza eKo	3 Round 1 thiefy YoWamu Esperanza Round 14 YoWamu BlackWiz thiefy Round 16 YoWamu BlackWiz thiefy				55	1	1
kuro DFM.	3 Round 11 eKo BlackWiz Round 13 eKo Esperanza Round 17 BlackWiz Esperanza	1 Round 7 Esperanza thiefy YoWamu				38	0	0

	2K	3K	4K	5K	1v1	1v2	ECON	PL	DE
Esperanza NFX	4 Round 2 mimi Sota Round 4 Lucky mimi Round 6 kuro Sota Round 11 Lucky Sota						67	0	0
eKo NFX	1 Round 12 mimi taru	2 Round 3 kuro taru mimi Round 17 taru mimi kuro			1 Round 12 taru		59	1	2
thiefy NFX	5 Round 1 taru Sota Round 5 Sota kuro Round 7 taru kuro Round 9 Lucky taru Round 14 kuro mimi	1 Round 18 taru Lucky kuro				1 Round 14 mimi kuro	104	3	1
BlackWiz NFX	1 Round 16 mimi Sota						51	2	1
YoWamu NFX	3 Round 5 mimi Lucky Round 11 mimi kuro Round 13 taru Lucky		1 Round 10 mimi taru kuro Sota				52	0	0
taru DFM.	4 Round 2 eKo BlackWiz Round 9 BlackWiz eKo Round 12 BlackWiz Esperanza Round 14 eKo Esperanza						51	3	0
Sota DFM.	1 Round 13 Esperanza YoWamu						37	3	1
mimi DFM.	3 Round 4 eKo thiefy Round 13 BlackWiz eKo Round 14 BlackWiz YoWamu						32	1	0
Lucky DFM.	3 Round 2 Esperanza thiefy Round 12 YoWamu thiefy Round 16 thiefy BlackWiz					1 Round 16 BlackWiz thiefy	42	0	1
kuro DFM.	2 Round 1 BlackWiz Esperanza Round 11 eKo Esperanza			1 Round 8 eKo BlackWiz thiefy Esperanza YoWamu			47	0	0