Boaster BO5 Performances since 2025

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ChadMaxing

VCT 2025 EMEA Stage 1: 3-0 W vs TH
0.90, -1

Masters Toronto Lower Final: 3-1 W vs Wolves
1.04, +7

Masters Toronto Grand Final: 1-3 L vs PRX
0.74, -30

EWC Grand Final: 2-3 L vs TH
0.95, -8

Champs Lower Final: 3-1 W vs DRX
0.96, -3

Champs Grand Final: 2-3 L vs NRG
0.68, -35

VCT 2026 EMEA Kickoff Middle Final: 2-3 L vs M8s
0.76, -29

VCT 2026 EMEA Kickoff Lower Final: 0-3 vs TL
0.82, -16

Cumulative:
0.86, -115. Yes that's correct, minus one hundred fifteen.

He has a sub 1.0 rating in every game thats not vs a Chinese team. He is negative in every game thats not vs a Chinese team. He is a cumulative -73 in Grand Finals. His ceiling is slightly below average while his floor is an absolute dumpster fire. It has been 3 years since he's brought home any hardware. Everyone knows that Boaster is a staple of the game and is one of the better IGL's in VCT history. I'm not going to get into the goat igl discussion because british "people" make that conversation insufferable and the truth is Valorant is still in its plumber era. If you've convinced yourself that the only reason his team can perform so well is because of his micromanaging IGL style you're delusional and honestly thats incredibly insulting to the individual skill of his teammates. We just saw marteen set the kill record and completely dismantle FNC with an IGL with barely any Tier One experience. Nats just destroyed FNC and fragged out along the way. If FNC has any hope of winning hardware this season he needs to pull an FNS and step down.

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TLDR; FNS Clears

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NOT THE PROBLEM BTW XDDD

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I was seriously not expecting his only positive performance to be against Wolves but holy shit does that fit the agenda so good. And they call Sen the China farmers

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AINT NO WAY

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because s0n literally only beat chinese teams and even then couldnt beat xlg at champs
at least fnc gets international wins against teams that arent entirely rookies in the worst region

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completely agree with you. he has a brain of a master assistant coach which his next mission can be, like angel did. he drops his vandal to the teammates sometimes which is generous of him and has the good calling but isnt enough at all if you leave ur teammates 4v5

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Which is fine! I don't understand why FNC fans act like you just shot their baby when people point out he's washed. Celebrate the good times he gave you but live in reality. If he wants he'd probably be a top 5 coach instantly

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Mods come you made me double post somehow

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i mean karrigan definitely has better stats than him RIGHT? no way hes dropping stinkers on stinkers too

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Tbh karrigan is 35 but again apex is right there 32 years old monster igl.

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apex is genuinely an exception hes insane

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you're not gonnna find me defending karrigan anyway lol

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this stat is stupid because consistently making that many grand finals is impressive. there's plenty of other teams with 5 shooters, how many grand finals have they lost?

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See now you're doing the thing where we pretend that boaster alone is responsible for making the grand finals and not the 4 demons on FNC.

FNC loses and boaster stinks it up = "yeah well he's the one who get them there single handedly and his teammates should be on their knees for the honor of getting to play with him"

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"the 4 demons on fnatic" they've had 3 roster changes since the OG 2023 roster and two head coach changes. plenty of teams have collapsed off less, look at gen.g in 2024 and 2025. the people who left fnatic and went to vitality with players of equal calibre also ended up performing horribly as a team

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If you've convinced yourself that the only reason his teammates can perform so well is because of his micromanaging IGL style you're delusional and honestly thats incredibly insulting to the individual skill of his teammates.

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GenG is a bad example imo cause they got gutted by T1 stealing their core player then they did it again a year later. GenG is in the middle of rebuilding their roster and frankly the issue is that they are attempting to do it using new talent instead of what fnatic does by picking up relatively proven talent.

I'm not saying boaster contributes nothing. He's obviously an extremely important part of the fnatic system but the question is does any of his value require him to be a player? I think another igl could probably handle the job reasonably well as long as boaster trains him well and boaster off the server would be able to actually use his head to its fullest instead of having to waste time actually learning to play.

Honestly, if fnatic took a cracked igl from tier 2 and coached him using boaster they'd probably look unbeatable but that's what we say about all "superteams" so you never know but boaster has definitely been the weakest link in his team for a while now.

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Ss this comment fnatic will end up worse without boaster

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I'm no pussy man. If they remove boaster and they fall of the earth I'll own up to it. Fuck I'll make an apology thread if they don't make top 3 at internationals after dropping him

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veqaj is not relatively proven talent

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Tbh this is a lot more difficult to prove. I'm not a professional and I'm not even that good at valorant so I have no idea how the scouting works. They might've seen potential in him that we didn't or just made a good offer and got way more than they thought.

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it's a team game lmao, he has arguably had the best mechanical players and coaches in EMEA since 2020

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uwukitten

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no one was saying this shit about hiro, kaajak (he was top tier but in tier 2 nonetheless), and vegaj. be serious

not to mention they've had elmapuddy as a head coach in 2024

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kaajak has been good, veqaj has been playing good (besides today). Hiro is the only legitimate one that was "bad," but wasnt he a last minute stand-in? Elmapuddy wasnt completely horrible either. Regardless he has had really good coaches, analysts, and players around him for 5 years

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it's not about how good they're playing, it's about how none of them were proven top tier talent until they got onto fnatic and this can't be a scouting thing because plenty of teams pick up top tier 2 players and proven tier 1 players and still end up being bad

and I wasn't throwing shade at hiro, he was performing very good at fnatic except in champs iirc

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ChadMaxing

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who is the common denominator bro? The simplest answer is usually the correct one. especially when he's -115 in best of 5's since 2025

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the common denominator in fnatic being the only org to attend 4 international grand finals (or 5 including EWC) is boaster, yes

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congrats on the participation trophies??????

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yeah say that to 95% of the players who dream of even making a final 😂

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veqaj was already in T1 boaster isnt gonna give you signed FNC 2023 jersey admit hes dogshit

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Brother if you think Kaajak wasnt a proven top tier talent coming out of tier 2 then I dont know what to tell you... Apeks won ascension and he almost went +20 in every single matchup. I agree with you FNC are good at slotting in players and making them feel comfortable, but that's not ONLY a Boaster thing. That's every single teammate and coach helping them feel comfortable

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that's a tier 2 performance, you can be playing like jesus in tier 2 and you'd still be "unproven" and he had a pretty bad kickoff. you keep saying "fnatic", who is fnatic? the only consistent thing is cojo and boaster, do you think cojo is the reason fnatic is consistently good?

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ChadMaxing

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Well Boaster is playing like shit in Tier 1 and has been for years so now what?

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kyo12

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Fnatic, the team. Every single player, coach, and analyst does their job. Makes Boaster's job a lot easier. I dont think Cojo is the reason fnatic has been consistently good, like I said it's a team game. Im not saying Boaster is bad at igling or anything, but I think he is certainly replaceable. Look at every team that has qualified to Santiago so far. You know what the common thing is between all these teams? They all have IGLs that can frag and are JUST good at calling (for the most part). NRG and MIBR are the last two teams in Americas to make Santiago, who also both have fragging IGLs. Again I'm not denying that Boaster contributes a lot for this team, but in this state of the game, they need more from him

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this argument made sense to me at the start of 2024 when similar things were being said but after 2025 it's a bit silly, making 3 grand finals was proof enough that he doesn't need to be replaced and is capable of hanging around at that level and I wouldn't single him out as the reason they lost either vct grand final. could fnatic replace boaster and succeed? possibly. does his performance warrant he get replaced? I wouldn't say so

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kyo12

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Well, I guess we will see by the end of the year. These last 2 matches for them felt like they hit their ceiling, which this obviously isnt their ceiling, but it feels that way. Very mechanical heavy meta this year. Congrats on TL qualifying btw

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"that's a tier 2 performance" is crazy. you looking down on tier 2 like that as if the skill gap is like the NBA and high school ball just destroys ur credibility LMAO BBL was a tier 2 team months ago and they're the #1 seed in EMEA, NS #1 seed in APAC was competing in tier 2 months ago and most of them came from tier 2, even gentle m8s mostly filled with tier 2 players, FURIA 2026? NRG w mada skuba and brawk straight from tier 2 into a champs win? tier 2 skill gap isnt that big LMAO kaajak was 100% a proven talent before joining FNC he was destined for greatness no matter what. to deny the fact that Boaster was blessed with stacked teams for most of his career is just ridiculous and pure historical revisionism, he has almost always been on stacked team, but there is always a common denominator in their historic losses

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plenty of tier 2 players make it to tier 1 and turn out to be dogshit that's why they're "unproven" dumbass. BBL qualifying just means their players now proved themselves at a tier 1 level and doesn't contradict anything I said. mistic and enzo were top tier players in tier 2, what happened to them? for every example of a successful tier 2 pick up there's plenty of top tier 2 talent that ends up being dogshit.

you must think the fnatic coaching staff are gods because otherwise what explanation is there for fnatic being the most consistent org by far of all time? they spend very little relative to other top teams btw. you think every player they pick up doing very well on the team just happens for no reason?

it's amazing how retarded people can be when they fail at the most basic pattern recognition. if we depended on you we'd still be living with sticks and stones

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actually guaranteed pisslow elo take, funny how u say "it's amazing how retarded people can be when they fail at the most basic pattern recognition." when u've been denying the fair patterns that don't fit ur narrative LMAO
looking forward to another quadruple negative performance year from boaster! FOR SURE u have exp competing in this level that's why u think boaster is 100% making these god level micromanagement and all the fnc players are just his pawns !

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there are others like xeus

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kyo12

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Like I said FNC are good at slotting in players to make them feel comfortable and confident, which is not just a Boaster thing

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who's thing is it then fnc has had like 10 different players and coaching staff members

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people were hyping up click, xeus & comeback btw

what have they done?

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kyo12

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Like I said FNC are good at slotting in players to make them feel comfortable and confident, which is not just a Boaster thing

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how is that not a boaster thing? theyve gone through 3 different HC and numerous coaching staff changes and theyve always remained a top team, if not boaster then who the fuck would be doing it?

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Maybe because every single coach they've gotten has been a very good coach? The one year they did not have a very good coach, was their worst year (2024). Granted though, Leo did get sick and they had hiro as stand-in

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do you really think ALL of fnc success is because of boaster? i refuse to believe youre a human being with a brain that can observe patterns

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Ok having 5 shooters is insanely useless. Proof is 2025 Vitality. Derke, less, sayf and they still sucked and lost to Navi

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Counter argument could be GX last year, PRX for most of their time has been 5 shooters, Full sense also not bad for being 5 shooters. Imo the newer patches have reduced the impact of util just straight up deciding rounds and it's exposing a lot of people who got away with goated util use and no aim (many tejo merchants for example).

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not really that relevant to the post but starxo has won champs not really sure what u mean by the gentle mates comparison

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I'm not counting shit from before franchising

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5 years ago bro

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and u never asked urself why he is still there?, or u think u are genius that can see what no one see?
do u ever asked urself why when any player leave or get replaced on fnc they stay the same? same play style, almost as good and sometime u feel like they didn't change anyone?
Booster not just igling bro, he is a igl, THE ONLY mid round caller after chron, and a coach for the team and his aim got so much better than last 2 years but he still not better shooter than alfa or kaajak and have so little util to help him get kills that why he always favor others upon himself in guns and positions that doesn't help him get any kills like u hope to see
but hey u ego let u think u know better than FNC org or ur ego might put in ur mind that u can do even 20% of booster work in this game

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If you've convinced yourself that the only reason his teammates can perform so well is because of his micromanaging IGL style you're delusional and honestly thats incredibly insulting to the individual skill of his teammates.

Anytime someone criticizes Boaster the alts come out of the woodwork with this. By this logic FNC should replace Boaster with Yay because Yay also clears me and apparently being better than a 9-5er is the criteria for deserving a VCT spot

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HE WAS OPING ON ASTRA IN OVERTIME LMFAO

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Honestly, it doesn't even matter as long as he lands the shots. Davai ops on weird ass agents all the time and no one gives him shit cause he's a demon when he needs to be.

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maybe cuz kaajak got owned like a bitch every time he got his hands op? and the fact that he is a good OPer+ the fact that they needed to secure a space with OP

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I agree that they should get a better fragging IGL, but oping on Astra in overtime isn't that crazy when you know history.

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Oping on Astra in overtime when your name is Boaster is about the craziest thing I can think of. We're gonna pretend Boaster is some op god now?

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just say you haven't watched enough games

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The point of the whole thread is that Boaster glazers are living in 2023 and you're proving my point right now

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I literally agreed that they should get a fragging IGL. Boaster has been a decent oper on controllers even as late as 2025

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your partial agreement doesn't make it wise for boaster to op on astra in a retake

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I never said it was the best choice for a retake. The round doesn't start in a retake. I only said it's 'not that crazy'. He had a couple op kills in the same map before that.

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Fragging igl meaning he is less of a complete igl so u need atleast 1 good mid round caller, and when u do that ur acual fraggers not gonna always get a better guns and have a big risky buys just to get out of disadvantage, and if booster did that he will frag more and be higher on the board (in this split cuz he got so much better) and ik the board is the only thing that matter for a VLR fan who only judge the team based on the result of the match and judge the player based on how high he is on the scoreboard

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I agree that Boaster has improved a lot mechanically with time and that it doesn't show on the scoreboard due to multiple reasons, but I can't help but wonder how Fnatic would be with an IGL like Valyn, who has called some beautiful games and can get kills and dominate maps when he gets going.

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the fact that u think is washed one trick old fuck can replace booster as igl and mid round caller make me laugh so damn hard
and anyone in tier 1 in any region clear u bro let me make that clear
u just hate on someone that u don't get to see all of his work u just see him shooting and that less than 30% of booster job on this team

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Please explain to me how Boaster being better than a 9-5er is relevant to this discussion

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cuz u are the one who bring ur 9-5er ass to the conversation like it's relevant
and i will say it again booster clears this one trick old fuck any day

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Yinsu is that you?

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Dawg the point is if less than 30% of his job is shooting then why is he playing in the roster? Why can't he coach them and actually have 5 people in the server for once? No one is calling him useless. It's just not what they need now. Good players can be benched for many perfectly valid reasons.

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bruh can u even read?, i just said in my comment he is the best igl in the world and he the only mid round caller on the team and sacrifice his position and gun for another teammate that why he get so little kills, and if u actually watch the games not watching from VLR u will see that he won us so many rounds last 2 days alone but yeah let's just check VLR and shit on the bottom frag of any losing team LOL

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Dawg I'm a prx fan I've seen your team play way more than you think. I'm not sure who's not reading here since I never said he's a bad igl. I'm just saying pure callers are not the "meta" anymore. There are like 5 rookie teams in santiago. Firepower matters way more in this patch than genius calls because it's so rare you'll actually have util to make plays. The cooldowns and increases to gun accuracy have made the game way more gunplay and raw aim oriented. Fullsense made a deep run off of basically raw mechanics (ofc they faltered when they weren't feeling it but that's a different conversation). He was the best igl in the world at some point but it's just not the case anymore. If you are getting beaten in rounds where you have the read then what does it even matter? They lost toronto not because of calling. They had all the right reads they just got out shot by a paper rex that wasn't even all that mechanical. There was a short period last year where it looked like boaster had some life left in him when he had a few good fragging matches.

Also no one in this thread wants him to drop 100 kills. He just needs to get the kills that he needs to. He can't be losing clutches or throwing rounds cause he's thinking instead of shooting. He can get as little as 10 kills and be fine as long as they are the right kills. No one is calling him a bot after seeing his stats.

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i agree with the meta rn is more mechanics, but do u drop a player who been on the roaster from the start and being one of the best in his role just after 1 split without giving him the chance to adapt with the team as he always do and see how it turn out to be?
and btw he already got better and won us so many rounds by himself (shooting) not just igling and i think it will only get better for him through the year but i don't get how fast some of these fans turn on players like only one map can change how u think a player doing rn almost always based on the result not the WHOLE game itself

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"but do u drop a player who been on the roaster from the start and being one of the best in his role JUST AFTER 1 SPLIT without giving him the chance to adapt with the team as he always do and see how it turn out to be?'" just after 1 split is crazy btw when OP gave a WHOLE ASS YEAR of negative performances hahahahahah

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Negative performances and 3 grand finals made, worth it if u ask me

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Go ask yourself why is fnatic useless for years and never won shit after lock/in
yeah maybe the answer is on the table

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i can't help but notice how funny u changing the team u support insta after losing 1 game
and if u see 2 finals in the same season is being useless u are a legit RTRD
it's not a success but not being useless

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Jesus christ another kid thinking that I change the team I support XD
I said it like 1000 times already, I just support POLISH PLAYERS (and mostly starxo, but you can't put up player as flair on this site, like on hltv)
I had TH earlier, NaVi, TL and M8 recently too
My flair doesnt matter, FNC is not on santiago so idc about their flair as I can't support kaajak there, hope it helps
Yes I see it as useless, because boaster is literally dragged by his superstars putting insane numbers, while he is constantly 0,5 rating bot missing every easiest shot

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But but but he won twice in 2023!!! You have to let the player with the worst mechanics in tier 1 buy an op on astra he's the goat IGL!!

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BUT WHO IS THE ONE AND ONLY GOD OF TWERKING?
YEAH THATS WHAT I THOUGHT SO

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If Boaster changes his in game name to Twerkenator69_67 they instantly win the rest of the INTLs this year #PureCinema

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ive seen enough. Give him another 3 year contract on FNATIC

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just look at naats look at rose look at other igls like forsaken. they are also player when igling. that igl cannot play good sh"t said by people for only boaster. they always wants someone to carry alfa or chron go carry. now chron leave them they look hopeless. i wish alfa goes to americas or apac tho he has insane value anywhere as a player. he is wasting in fnc

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if u watched this game and think fnc was hopeless u watching the games from VLR tbh, they look solid asf and they were 1 round away from being the 2nd seed and no one will think they are bad, but some of u just look at the result as it explain it all no matter how close they were and no matter what actually happened

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"if you ignore reality/actual outcomes and live in a fantasy land of what could've happened Boaster is actual the goat IGL of 2026"

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yeah he is the best igl in the world rn and that not even a debate, the only one that beat him in the igl game was nats and that's i will say it again that happened only cuz booster had hard time being the only mid round caller and that new to him comparing to having chron or leo as a mid callers but ofc u don't see that cuz u are only see the game on VLR

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had me at look at rose, hes another of those IGLS that cant shoot, do you not remember how he was playing at ascension?

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i don't think u can use forsaken as an example i think valyn is better example hes the primary caller and also can shoot... if u watch vct now it shown prx comm sometimes u can hear davai calling what to do next round and also something mid rounding sometimes in voice comm video shown by prx

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i am looking at nats, he got grouped 3 times last year while boaster made 2 grand finals in a row

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So who do you think would do better than him?

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Throw a handful of pebbles in Turkey and sign the first 18 year old they hit. Keep Boaster on as Ast. Coach

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Jessievash of memea except fnatic have the money to buy cracked t2 player

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Maybe its time for him to consider becoming FNC's coach

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I’m 99% sure he’s retiring after this year so just let him play this year out tbh

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dont gaf, goatster clears ur fav player

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Zellsis >>>

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literally does not matter lol, hes the only player to be making consistent finals like that
if u had a brain that looks beyond stats for the igl you'd know that boaster has more credentials for the goat debate than asspass and botnicle

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If you've convinced yourself that the only reason his team can perform so well is because of his micromanaging IGL style you're delusional and honestly thats incredibly insulting to the individual skill of his teammates.

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hes the only player to be making consistent finals like that
if u had a brain that looks beyond stats for the igl you'd know that boaster has more credentials for the goat debate than asspass and botnicle

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breaking news, boaster has comparable credentials to two other players who also peaked several years ago. What a blow to my viewpoint that Boaster is washed in 2026 and FNC should move on.

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hes the only player to be making consistent finals like that

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if I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, congratulations on the participation trophies. do you think TH was the best team of 2024?

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What a horrible argument LMAO
Th werent the best in 2024 cause geng made a final and won another one
However fnc were indeed the best team of 2025

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Pleeeeaaaase keep thinking this way and make sure your support for FNC is as loud as possible. Soldiers like you making sure the hardware will stay out of EMEA for years to come

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Whatever helps you sleep at night bro, your "arguments" are horrible

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you: boaster is on the same level as aspas and chron
me: aspas and chron also peaked 3 years ago whats your point
you: you're retarded

continue thread →

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anything above 0.9 rating is fine for an igl like him, only champs gf and toronto gf did he sell the game

oh yeah and the game vs m8

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What about being -115

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over 8 games? that's average -14 per bo5, overall each bo5 went about 4 maps, so he went about -3 or -4 per map. oooh that's so terrible oh no

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so you agree that he's mediocre now

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mediocre fragger...... thats very good for a top tier macro igl........

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yeah the macro mastermind was really on display vs TL huh

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boaster is a known great caller, im not interacting with this ragebait past this point 0/8

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oh wow he had 1 game where he got really out called that means his entire history doesnt matter

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IGLs make or break a team. if a team replaces an IGL that never frags out with someone that does but is a worse igl, they could lose games that they wouldn't normally lose with the old IGL. UNLESS the rest of the team plays a big part in calling/midrounding too but that depends on how the team wants their system. maybe boaster calls a shit ton of macro stuff so the rest of the team can hyper-focus on microplays and get way more kills than him. not every team is the same.

you can say he goes negative almost every series but i dont think its fair to quantify his skill with his career +/-. if your team gets shit on, your least best fraggers and non-fragging IGLs are probably going to have the worse KD every time that happens.

also no one would be talking about this if they qualified. the teams that qualified all look pretty good and the rest of the region looks a lot more competitive now, no?

now i havent really watched much fnatic games lately, but is he actually playing terrible or is he just not getting kills or is he not insane enough to squeeze out extra kills to the degree of his mechanically insane teammates (like getting 2 kills when he was supposed to only get 1).

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This isn’t his career stats, this is only best of 5’s since 2025. He’s a choke artist the past couple years dawg

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nrg dropped fns for a makeshit ethan igl and immediately won champs ✌️

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#TRUTHNUKE #HOLYCINEMA

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all these dumbasses trying so hard to convince themselves that boaster isn’t replaceable is so funny because this thought was the exact reason why NRG couldn’t let go of FNS until he left himself

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They have truly elevated Boaster to some demigod of Valorant in their minds that just has this hidden knowledge no other player could ever possibly hope to obtain. I don’t think they realize how small the gap is between him and other top igls in terms of “gamesense”

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yea that's why no other igl in history has been as accomplished as him right

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we're talking about 2026, please keep living in the past

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he made 2 grand finals last year lmao, thats still insanely good and consistent

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Replacing Boaster would mean changing how FNC has functioned for the past 5 years. I understand the "FNS step down" comparison but with 3 back to back finals last year why would any team with a brain want to reset the culture and calling and strategy of their team? Boaster will HAVE to step down eventually but just giving his personal K/D stats is so absurd. 3 finals appearances is significant.

TLDR this is the most VLR stats Steven take ever

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You would not have to reset the culture or strategy if you kept him on as a coach, which I suggested

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Yeah that is true. The strategy could definitely stay the same with him on as a coach

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It's just that we would need a IGL as good as boaster or close to the way boaster thinks which FNC(Cojo) and Boaster as a Coach might have to find to replace

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your math comes to him averaging -3 or -4 per map across the 8 bo5s. that doesnt sound like a big deal at all lol

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considering how many 2-3s there are here going positive would help a lot

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yeah sure if you ignore the -30 vs against PRX the -35 game vs NRG the -29 game against M8s and the -16 game against TL that probably wouldve been -35 had it not been a 0-3 domination

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In a way there's no 'winning' when it comes to arguing about Boaster. His fragging is objectively shit, and at the same time he is undoubtedly an excellent IGL and not replaceable. You could credit Boaster for getting FNC to all of these internationals, but you can also blame him for not getting them across the finishing line.

For some reason I was downvoted on Reddit for saying that Boaster threw Toronto hard. You need all 5 players online to win a Grand Final like that.

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reddit is a bunch of 35 year old virgins who live vicariously through their idols I'm not shocked