Disclaimer: I disregard franchising status/chance since that shit is too hard to guess
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Optic
A pretty obvious choice, no one seems even close to leaving the team and they're easily the best team in NA as of now -
100T
Talented players, great coaching staff, and an org that is passionate about their valorant team. What isn't there to like? -
TGRD
mce is an underrated coach, the synergy seems rock solid, and this team has shown the resilience to meta changes required of a top team. Also Guard got the Kroenke money -
XSET
Cryo and zekken are amazing and will be the face of the team for a long time. The other players are where it gets kinda tricky. dephh isn't the flashiest but is experienced and the leader, so I feel like he's really important to the team's success. BCJ is unironically a good player but his agent pool kinda lacks for a flex player (I've only seen him play well on omen and sova). Ayrin gets a lot of flack for being shit and while I think a lot of it is undeserved I also do think that he is very average compared to others in his role in NA. Overall, some question marks, but not enough to not be optimistic about their future -
Sentinels
If they can acquire Zellsis from V1 and get SicK back, this is unironically the best lineup they will have ever had. They were arguably a top 4 team in LCQ while having a 60 year old csgo pro stand in. I think next year we will see Sentinels rise back to the upper echelon of NA teams, as long as they don't stream too much -
Faze
It feels like they're just one piece away, something is just missing. Once they find out what it is they can become a top 3 NA team. I feel like maybe the jury is still out on flyuh, he's definitely had some great plays but idk if he was necessarily an upgrade over someone like Poach. supamen and poised are great players but also inconsistent as hell -
Cloud9
This is a good team. This team also has also regressed from last VCT. Unfortunately, the trade for curry didn't pan out like they'd hoped. C9 definitely will at the very least keep the Chaos core together (and they should) but who knows what will happen with mitch and curry. I think getting curry just ended up being a step to the side rather than a step up, and mitch is in a weird position where he is a jack of all trades type of guy on a team that could use a cracked chamber specialist. maybe with more chamber nerfs in the future this team will do better -
NRG
hazed is solid but a boomer, s0m kinda only played well on raze, tex is a good chamber I don't really have anything to say about him, eeiu is really good but is kinda a sova one trick, and ethan is solid. Idk I just don't feel like this is a team that can be the best in NA one day, even though they're really fun to watch both in steams and in matches
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