My Predictions for VCT Americas 2024

After watching the first three days of Americas kickoff, I'd say I've watched enough to confidently rank teams for the season.

1. NRG
   one of the best NA fraggers in Demon1, reigning champion IGL in Ethan and the cracked core of Marved, Victor and crashies. they showed out against Furia and are my confident #1
2. Loud
   there isn't much to say about Loud, they're a dominant force, and even though they lost aspas to Lev, watching their match against Sen was telling about the kind of season they are set up for.
3. C9 (interchangeable)
   three words; oxy. is. cracked. nuff said.
4. Leviatan
   aspas, kingg, and com are all incredibly cracked players in their own right, but i didnt see enough of them as a team to say weather they can go any higher. regardless they are easily top 4
5. mibr
   im gonna get hate for this, im aware, and i can accept that, but they definitely had the most solid performance of any of the 5 teams who lost this weekend. and ill stand on that hill
6. sentinels (interchangeable)
   the thing that concerns me about sen is that i could see them being anywhere from 1st this season to 11th, im making this placement purely off their dominant performance at afreecatv.
7. Furia
   originally had them at 11 prior to my first edit, and honestly i have no clue what i was thinking. mwzera is a dog and the team looks super coordinated, originally had g2 in this spot as well, which was silly.
8. 100T
   i really enjoyed watching this team play, something about them. its unfortunate they came across a budding super team in their first match, they could def make a play-in run at kickoff tho.
9. G2
   i feel almost obligated to put G2 this high because they won their first match. as someone who followed NA challengers last season, I've been around this team a while, and can't say i'm wholly confident in them, especially without oxy. we'll see what happens.
10. KRU
    i'm going with my gut on this pick, hate me if you want, but i can never doubt them again after LCQ. its important to remember that it was CLOSE vs G2, had they taken a few more rounds they'd be at 7 right now.
11. EG
    this hurts. i love EG, but as an organization they ruined all their credibility, lost the players that made them so amazing in the first place, and its looking more and more like that championship run was a cinderalla tale.

open to some friendly debate :)

edit 1: okay, okay, ive come to my senses about furia and decided to bump them up quite a bit, hopefully this looks a bit more fair from my previous list. i also swapped g2 and 100T.

Swap NRG and Furia then list is perfect

i disagree on the NRG number 1 pick, they had some issues on attack especially and it felt like they weren't on the same page all the time, unlike LOUD. i would swap those two and swap C9 with SEN, but otherwise list is valid tbh

Not a bad list but I disagree on some takes:

1. Loud>NRG rn but I think that's just because they had more time to prepare and look more coordinated as a team. I do think that NRG will probably be the best Americas team by the end of the year.
2. C9 and MIBR are way too high. I think that C9 should be around 8/9 and MIBR 10/11. They just don't really look as good compared to other teams and although they had a close match that's because they are both just equally bad. And even though Oxy is good, he was pretty inconsistent in challengers so I don't think he'll be able to save C9.
3. Furia should be somewhere in the middle maybe 6/7 just based on how you rated NRG. I can't really rate them higher than that because their only good player is mwzera and they often fall behind strategically when compared to Loud and NA teams.

terrible list, who let this guy cook

C9 being 3rd is crazy how can they be 3rd when they barely slid by against mibr which was a pretty mid team line up. Their match looked scrappy and had lots of mistakes, oxy was definitely c9's saving grace though he singlehandedly won them hella round but it can't be him just frying to bring them above lev, sen or even g2. i'd say teamwork> individual play.

this is a scorching hot take, bro prob bet his life savings on furia

oh how the mighty furia have fallen...

100t behind mibr furia c9 :skull:

what if we confidently ranked EG for the season in 2023 after 2 matches?