Reason why 2024 is MID

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donkkomong

Nobody fears any teams or players this year. SEN? LEV? GENG? TH? G2? EDG? All beatable and its been shown already.

2022 and 2023 teams like LOUD, FNATIC, EG, Optic, DRX, PRX, FPX(NaVi) had AURA.

Players like Aspas, Derke, Demon1, Leo, Alfajer, Less, Yay, Shao, Suygetsu, etc were all FEARED and had AURA.

We don't got any of that shit this year in 2024 except maybe GENG but they already got exposed with Lakia.

Hopefully 2025 will be a lot better than this shit.
Anyways, TH vs SEN should be a banger of a series and should've been the Grand Finals.

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Statpas still has aura but ok

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donkkomong

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Yeah ofcourse but only him. We all know that.

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the Great Aura Depression

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Laundry

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aura recession went too hard this year 😔 we need some auraflation up in here

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Nef0r0

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Alfajer tried to inflate his aura but then every standing up he has done led to -aura and not +aura. Aura is supposed to be generated based on demand and not forcefully, sadly Lfajer only learned this during the Seoul - Istanbul flight :(

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Laundry

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+100 aura bro u deserve it in these tough times

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sentinelmain377

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Lmao W

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Nobody ever feared Lerke lol

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dort

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You were cooking until that very last sentence. No one wants sentidogs in the finals

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donkkomong

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NRG better pull their shit together for 2025 this year was disgraceful as hell

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they will and then fraudulent teams like sleeptinels will go back to watchpartying intls

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super team and didnt quaify for a singe international is disgraceful.

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KyLZi

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Just makes room for a real monster team to dominate

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welikefortniteandvalorant

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And thats how mibrs valorant era started...

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Is it not a good thing we dont have teams that are overwhelming favorites in every game they go into

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donkkomong

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it'd be better if there were more favorites that are really good, is the point

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kanyenum1fan

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i’d rather have 8 teams that all have a chance at winning a tournament than 4 and still have 8 teams but everyone is entitled to their opinion

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donkkomong

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we all do buddy, thats the point x2

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Nef0r0

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Team dominates -> its regional league becomes a cake walk, no one watches it because ''Oh why watch it when insert_OP_team_name will 10-0 it'' -> Regional league becomes irrelevant -> 2nd 3rd and 4th seed of this region become jokes -> weak region

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guys i think he might be talking about one specific instance of this happening something tells me

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Nef0r0

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similar things happened in other games, I don't know why val needs to experience the same when it already has a competitive scene

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KyLZi

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I prefer it when there is a clear number 1 or top 3 teams as it ads structure the competition. if they dominate for too long it can get boring but I doubt that will happen in val with how the meta changes.

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donkkomong

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and even having big upsets are exciting as well too

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KyLZi

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100%. also having teams like Astralis in CS are so exciting. we were almost there last year with FNC.

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donkkomong

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Exactly. Seems like Valorant won't have an Astralis for a really long time.

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Nef0r0

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it is exciting when you look back on it, but during that stretch, it was just ''oh, astralis just ass fucked mibr 16-0, yawn'' late 2019 was peak cs

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KyLZi

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yeah, I agree, if the dominance lasts too long its not good. but every match could be an upset, and when it finally does happen its hype and we get the legacy of a great team like Astralis

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Diebs

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it's better to have multiple teams who can win instead of 2-3 for the game
only shitty thing this year was this god awful map pool and this retake meta is so shit one of the worst ever

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donkkomong

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to be fair these are pro teams. all 8 should be at that level in playoffs smh

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Diebs

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no? this year is probably the first time the tournaments are so open for anyone to grab(the champs atleast) meanwhile in previous years in the top 8 half of the teams were fillers and not expected to win anything

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donkkomong

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its balanced I agree but I also think all the teams are quite mid. as in, none of these teams can beat the Prime teams I've mentioned earlier. or atleast have some aura.

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catNmouse

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facts

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Hades_Loves_Rb

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Sad when the player with the most aura (Rb) isnt there

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DuD5K1S

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true, and MxS were eliminated, and M0/8 will choke out of ascension again :(

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Anguibok

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As I always says
First strike was prehistory
Pre-franchised era was antiquity
franchised ERA is MIDdle ages

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donkkomong

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"a lack of rivalry this year has made it a bit boring. the optic/nrg loud rivalry or loud vs fnc games were nowhere to be found making games less hype. so many teams fell off this year making rivalry/revenge games mid."

Copied from another thread. We need this for 2025 please.

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ianceae

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F*ck that, I don't want the same thing to happen as in LoL where there were dynasties of several years winning almost everything or in CS the same with Astralis and Navi. You ask for rivalries when precisely the previous ones died because the orgs/players failed and others took their places and/or reinvented themselves , give time for new ones to be forged or the previous ones to return, not everything is cooked in less than 1 year....

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CanadianLegend

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Everyone hating but this the most popular Valorant has ever been

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donkkomong

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it gets more popular each year buddy.. the game is still kind of new compared to all the big games and Val is just keep growing like how League took over Dota.

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There was and it was geng. But they got dogged so the rest is all up in the air.

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donkkomong

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I honestly think TH and SEN are the best teams this year, and they took out GENG so its fair imo. The formatting sucked ass though, wish GENG was still in the Finals it would've been more entertaining to see.

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catNmouse

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facts, if they were in playoffs they’re definitely top 4, atleast sen didn’t go 0-2 after eliminating geng so that’s a good thing.

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probably

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pugz

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honestly kinda agree

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LordItachi

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Most Bandwagoners not getting a Super Team to support are calling the champs2024 mid. More reasons are that the most hated teams SEN n EDG cucking their haters. Also Pooperex, fraudnatics, G0 and GenG destroyed their bets and pickems and one genuine issue of production.

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catNmouse

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rise of edg, fnatic getting back to back trophies, egs cinderella run, jingggs final match (before he came back obviously) eg vs prx grand finals was the best we could get, loud looking to defend their champions title (id argue they would’ve won champs had they not tossed vs prx on lotus) eg’s legendary cinderella run after going from being the meme of vct americas and franchising to world champions then to being back to shit as the org always was LOL. 2024 meta and map pool also just suck ass imo

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Ullyr

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Kangkang smoggy and chichoo aura when they pop off ? Lol chichoo was farming sen on sunset

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Dybala21

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s1mon my new goat, infinite aura and doesn't show any emotion at all