If Loud beat 100T today, then the Brazilian teams have a chance to make champs...
But is that what you guys truly want? To make champs but no go far...
Listen to my proposition, root for 100T today. If they beat Loud, there will 100% be a Brazilian superteam made next year as a result of no brazilian orgs in playoffs. Just imagine:
Aspas
Sato Ghoul33
Saadhak
Pancada
Lukxo
I know, but the player having a long contract is not a guarantee that he will stay. Sato could get offers from other teams, especially now that he showed that he can communicate very well in english, and every team is always looking for a young star duelist player
If Sato gets a good offer from some other team that has a great competitive project, he could try to force his way out of LEV, just like aspas. Not saying that this will happen, but it is a possibility
thats true, i also think LEV would at the very least ask for a very decent chunk of money if he wants to leave for whatever reason. You don't just happen to sign the next aspas and let him go for free. So you would need sato to want to leave, a very competitive team looking to sign him (MIBR being the only realistic option), and then the team willing to pay his buyout, which mind you, most teams didn't even want to do that for aspas. MIBR being the only one last second.
Its not that they didnt want, the buyout was high and Aspas was almost set for BLEED. The reports said it would be the highest salary in Valorant's history. When BLEED got kicked out of VCT, most teams already had their rosters finished and it was too late.
Aspas had offers from multiple teams from all 4 regions. What complicated things was the buyout, since he was under contract. Im pretty sure LEV had to lower the buyout for MIBR, I dont think they paid the full initial price
Brazil has the most talented gifted players after South Korea for sure. Idk why a Brazilian powerhouse like LOUD back then isn't available or can be maintained to perform like they used to. Brazilian players are individually so fucking great. It's so fuckin sad to watch vct master or champion in 24 or 25 without the presence of any brazilian superteam
I would personally rate USA and China over Brazil for sure and honestly potentially Russia as well but yeah Brazil is definitely strong enough as a country that they should always have at least one team making internationals and doing well there. I guess right now they're just dealing with the fact that Brazilian players are more often choosing for non Brazilian orgs (Less, Sacy, Pancada, Sato, Aspas all have played for non Brazilian orgs in the past few seasons) + they have 4 teams in tier 1 with none of them being the clear dominant team which just spreads out all the talent + the Americas league is in LA which makes it harder to scout and incorporate tier 2 talents (and messes with prep time due to frequent visa issues) + whilst Brazil has great players they do seem to be lacking a little bit in terms of great IGLs.
Still I think if the Brazilian talents were all concentrated on 2 teams that would be 2 very high quality teams instead of the 4 okay/bad ones we have at the moment.
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