I’m just curious here, who actually believes a claim like this? Feels like Sentinels pulled off one of if not the greatest ad campaign for a player in esports history honestly if the majority believe something like this.
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“TenZ is the King of Valorant”
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What exactly is artificial about it? He's easily by and far the most recognizable pro in the wider Valorant community (probably globally but at the very least in the west) that doesn't pay attention or even know anything about valo esports. And he's been one of the best players in the world at several times in his career and as recently as last year. That's what an icon is.
If you're thinking he needs to have been hands down the best player in the world throughout his entire career for that to be true, well, you're just wrong.
Yeah he’s an icon, an artificially-made one whose career does not justify his title. Aspas has not been the best player in the world for every year, but give him the icon status TenZ has and I would say it makes sense. At the very least the “KING OF VALORANT” should at least win the C in VCT once in their career.
- First player to reach Radiant (Valorant rank)
- First case of a player hard carrying a pro-team (C9)
- Crazy clips from the get go, the first aim demon Valorant had
- Comes back from retirement to help Sentinels own NA and win their first trophy
- Remains consistent with Sen and wins one more trophy
- Still an aim demon with tons of crazy clips
- Aura
how does a player gain notoriety if not by accomplishments, being the first player to reach the highest rank of the game gave Tenz a spotlight right from the start, it is a real valid reason why he is so popular and considered the face of valorant.
"aura" is pretty much just saying that his personality also helped him stay popular, there's been lots of content creators and players who just get forgotten. Hell, just look at Curry 🤷♂️
1.Tenz is one of the most decorated valorant players in the world whose record is still unbroken today
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/TenZ ya dumbass act like he the guy never won something
2.he was the most popular valorant player in the world before he even came into contact with Sentinels
https://x.com/TenZOfficial/status/1349961859705708548
so no idea why you dumbass are now claiming that his popularity has something to do with Sentinels lol
like it or not, your favorite players will never reach what tenz has achieved even if Sentinels spent the next 100 years to promoting them
C9 and TenZ built a brand around himself during his (unsuccessful) CS days that carried on into Val in 2020. TenZ’s name was big but wasn’t nearly as big as it was after he joined SEN and won the first Masters, where SEN then go on to market an already popular name extensively into becoming the face of Valorant with incredible success even when he showed no results two and a half years straight. It’s really not that hard to comprehend this information
this is just confirmation bias, you think tenz is undeserving of the level of fame he has so you just assume he is some sort of industry plant and then use anachronisms to justify it
in reality, HE built his brand in CS and not only built his own brand in valorant but also was instrumental in creating the biggest female streamer in the scene and the most popular org, how could he have been pushed to popularity by an unknown org?
SEN was the best team in NA before picking up TenZ and you’re calling them unknown? stop the dick riding bro, SEN elevated his popularity and it worked in their favor to boost themselves as well. It’s not that hard to understand. You think he made himself popular back when he was playing CS? That’s cool bro, doesn’t change my point and in all honesty makes it feel like TenZ is only as big as he is due to content creation and not his competitive career because god knows his ass was doing nothing competitively in CS lol
Tenz won two trophy
1.https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/353/valorant-champions-tour-stage-2-masters-reykjav-k as rank 1 with a rating of 1.35
and 289.4 acs
2.https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1921/champions-tour-2024-masters-madrid?exclude=&min_rounds=&agent=all as rank 8(5) with a rating of 1.07
and 208.2 acs
aspas won one trophy
1 https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1015/valorant-champions-2022 as RANK 30 (20) with a rating of 0.99 and 215.1 acs lol
I think your misunderstanding something here, being the face of valorant doesnt mean you'll have to be the greatest at it nor win the biggest tournament ever, personality, popularity and other things help, sen did play a big part in making tenz the face of valorant simply because they were the most popular org in NA and he was the most popular player in the world, let me take two examples (from cs cuz im a cs frog), you agreed about s1mple but he didnt win a major before 2021, you ask anyone before 2021 and after 2016 who's the face of CSGO they all say s1mple, even if he hadnt won a major yet, another example, who's the GOAT rifler, the face of rifling for csgo ? NiKo is (even if donk is making a solid case in cs2), NiKo in his now 10th year of playing at tier 1 has never won a major and he's still the face of rifling in cs, TenZ had flashy clips, was the greatest player in the world when valorant's rise started, remained an insanely popular streamer in the 2 years he was dogwater and came back to win another title before retirement, was he the best player in the world from 2020 to 2025 ? fuck no, if we want to talk about consistency aspas was, aspas is undoubtedly the most consistent player oat (alongside derke) but they arent as popular nor marketable as tenz, like i said being the face of something doesnt mean you're the best at it, i mean look at it this way, when cs2 came out and s1mple refused to play it people were talking about him more than better players than him (people talked more about s1mple who was on Na'Vi's bench than w0nderful who was way better than s1mple in the first year of cs2 cuz s1mple was ass at cs2)
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