1) f0rsaken
2) yay
3) Shao
4) ardiis
5) jinggg
6) Mindfreak
7) Suygetsu
8) Sayf
9) Derke
10) tacolillah/Mako
dogshit list, this is not a worlds best player rankings, this is just a recency biased list of this tournament best performers, derke for example might have underperformed but he is still better than that, why do we do this in valorant? imagine s1mple or zywoo have a bad tournament and suddenly they wouldnt be top10 players itw according to valorant fans logic?
But it hasn't been 8 years since they played has it? You don't go from being called a top 3 player in the world to not even being in the top 10 just because you haven't been in the international stage in a few months. Being absent from 1 or 2 LANs doesn't discredit your overall skill. It goes the other way as well, playing great in 1 LAN doesn't automatically make you a top 5 player in the world.
yay and f0rsaken are top 3 for sure but Shao and ardiis are not top 3 and 4.
What is the criteria for best player? Is it abt consistency? (Yay)performance?(TenZ, Zeek) Clutch factor? (Shao, Marved, Mindfreak) Mechanical skill? (Cned, F0rsaken)Each one has a difference answer because the criteria matters a lot. Of lets not mention flexibility (chronicle) adaptability (Derke) and other factors too.