why is everybody overrating EG from 2023 so much? Even as far as calling Demon1 the best player of 2023 when he had a mid performance besides champs
if you dont agree with the following, I can give a lot of arguments.
top 12 teams of 2023 overall year performance:
top 20 players of 2023 overall year performance:
note: keep in mind Leo and Alfajer's consistency and stats were on Initiator and Sentinel. While Demon1's were on duelist (his stats would be higher because of this). Also Demon1 didnt exist in LOCK//IN, so that takes a toll on his ranking.
2023 EG is peak Valorant. No other team has yet exhibited the same level of coordination, explosiveness, flexibility, and clutch factor โ although GenG is likely the closest. Demon1โs performance from Champs is also unmatched and his stats prove that; no other player has been as dominant outside of 2021 Tenz when the scene was in its infancy.
Thereโs no inconsistency in what Iโm saying dude.
At Tokyo, EG was the only competitive team given PRX had a sub โ and yes, EG was expected to be much weaker. They only fixed their map pool and comps going into Champs. FNC was the overwhelming favorite going into Tokyo, while there were 4 teams at Champs that looked like winning contenders.
Teams get stronger and weaker over time relative to their competition. Champs 2023 is the most competitive tournament thus far and EG was the best team there, with Demon1 having the most dominant performance.
This isn't complicated.
They were dominant up until 2023 champions and they were easily the favorites to win and then you're team lost against loud twice, they had two chances to beat loud and failed both times meanwhile EG won against loud, FNATIC probably would not have won against EG if they couldn't even beat loud. Also I didn't mention anything about FNATIC's 2024 season, I was strictly talking about their 2023 season.
https://youtu.be/_rSJ57Ysi0Q?si=e85gKKC0YJT6T75A
Hey its the igl from your best team oat saying prime Fnatic 2023 was better than them! Yall are actually a bunch of pigs ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ญ
eg 2023 is looked back on fondly for a few reasons, personally I like them because they played extremely clean valorant that prioritised teamwork over individualism most of the time while still having room for innovation on maps like fracture and pearl. They also had undeniably the most insane underdog storyline in valorant history and completely imploded right after winning champs without even retaining a core so they never fell off as a team in the way 2021 sen, 2023 nrg or 2024 fnc and loud did
you're the one fucking slow, FNC didn't qual for madrid because they got ONE unlucky game against KC and do I need to explain why they went winless in shanghai (against FUT too) when Leo HAD to take a break from valorant because of his illness? Even then Fnatic had much more success than EG beating a full roster TH who would shit on the whole of americas