brazilian valorant

there's no doubt that brazilian Valorant seems to be having a crisis, with the rumours that LOUD are currently imploding, along with FURIA and MIBR both looking terrible so far this season. this has got me thinking about some things: why is this happening, and how can it be fixed?

i wouldn't be surprised of homesickness was a major factor, similarly to last year. but given that the LATAM teams haven't had this issue, there must be more to it. lack of firepower has also been brought up before (especially when talking about MIBR), but Brazil has a huge T2 talent pool (i assume), and yet, barely anyone seems from T2 seems to make it through. this brings me to what i think is the biggest problem with Brazil rn: bad roster management. instead of letting talent come and go, we're mostly just watching the same ~15 players get shuffled around among the orgs; chemistry is super low or even nonexistent (looking at you, FURIA), and even the coaching feels like it's not being done to fit the team, if at all.

with this in mind, i have a few questions to ask for those of you who know more about this situation: is this a valid assessment? what do you think are the problems? and how do you think they can be solved?

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the problem is brazil orgs

look at LEV and KRU

No pancada, sacy, or aspas in brazil

Mwzera is hard tanking a team because his style is so heavy around him that its not Furia its just set Mwzera up and lose anyways

Mibr never invested in shit this offseason

Saadhak having to account for Loud not picking up an Aspas replacement (Askia could gave learned imo) and their comps and style hard suffered for that.

bronzil taking more Ls as usual. sad to see loud imploding but tbh, expected. they have no igls, low firepower and shit orgs. LESS should come to EMEA if he wants to continue his career.

this brings me to what i think is the biggest problem with Brazil rn: bad roster management. instead of letting talent come and go, we're mostly just watching the same ~15 players get shuffled around among the orgs; chemistry is super low or even nonexistent (looking at you, FURIA), and even the coaching feels like it's not being done to fit the team, if at all.

You've hit the bullseye with that one. Brazillian orgs are constantly recycling the same players over and over again instead of searching for new talent.
Brazillian Valorant lack both the balls to actually go for new talent and also leadership to shape those new talents into world-class players.

Loud 2022 was the great team that it was because it solved both of these issues. Aspas and Less were basically pulled from ranked and then shaped by Sacy and Saadhak. Both are now among the best players Valorant has ever seen.

Sadly, not only no teams seem willing to pick new talent, but there is still no one else even remotely close to Sacy and Saadhak in being able to properly shape them. Most recent example of this being Havoc. I actually feel for the poor kid. Anyone who watched BR T2 last year knows how good that kid is, but how tf is he supposed to perform in a system like Furia's, where the biggest example of leadership this guy has is Mwzera, the guy who is basically the embodiment of "recycled" (has been playing in Tier 1 literally since the game's launch, never achieved anything relevant for BR scene and has a history of drama and inflated ego in almost every roster he's been to. Dude's peak is literally the infamous "-7 rounds" game against Acend lol).

I swear, if Loud had picked Havoc and he had Saadhak as his captain/leader we could be living in a completely different timeline.

Point is: Brazil DESPERATELY needs to do some heavy headhunting work in search for new talent and also work on its teams systems in a way to have proper leaders to harness said talent to its fullest.

I believe brazil will bounce back with pancada

After witnessing LOUD's disappointing upset loss at the lock-in, the Brazilian youth were in despair.
Then the Brazilian team achieved a Grand Slam in Rainbow Six Siege and exploded in popularity.
In short, FNATIC's lock-in win was the cause of the decline of the Brazilian VALORANT scene. It was their fault.

Leo Faria's franchise system ended Brazilian Valorant, if the franchise scheme was like LOL, where each continent/country has its own franchise, LOUD would still have the same Line as in 2022