End of Year Awards

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Yuh_aye

This is my opinion

Best Initiator - Riens: A no brainer, clearly the initiator of the year. Best EMEA player of the year. Will battle with Leo for the EMEA init title next year, will be exciting to watch.
Best Smokes - Karon: Would unironically be Tenz if he played more than Omen. But Karon is very close performance wise and a beast. Crazy he was just a ranked player before this.
Best Duelist - Zekken: I know KangKang just lit up the world, but Texture and Zekken had better years. I have to give it to Zekken because he got the better of Texture when it mattered most.
Best IGL - Munchkin : Could have gone with Johnqt for good reason, but while John's firepower is better, Munchkin is also a shooter and I think his calling is better, especially defensive rotates. Also no deadlock incidents.
Best Senti - Meteor: He's a fucking god
Best Flex - Zellsis : Honestly I don't even wanna give it to him but he really stepped it up

Best Team - SEN: I know people are gonna say GENG, but SEN went 2-2 with them and bested them in the '2' that mattered most (GF and elim match)
Biggest Frauds - NRG: I don't need to explain this, honorable mention to NAVI management tho
Best Event - Shanghai: It's close between shanghai and madrid but i'm going shanghai. Champs had by far the best final but the rest was pretty meh
Best team to watch - Heretics: They had alot of gigabanger games, all throughout the year too. Internationally and regionally.

Now re-read the first line

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kalayav_n

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thank god your opinion is in the minority

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Yuh_aye

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what would you change?

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arin2016

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I would go back in time to change your mother's partner so you wouldn't be born

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Yuh_aye

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So my mother's partner was wrong but you wouldn't change anything in the list?

The list is perfect then!

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arin2016

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If there is no you then there won't be any list.

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Yuh_aye

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So once your done trying to be edgy, what do you think I got wrong on the list?

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kalayav_n

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disgusting comment, you should probably go rethink your life choices.

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kalayav_n

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saw zellsis and didnt even bother to read

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zhongZHI

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we should honestly bias champs. its champs and it has the most teams and pressure.

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Yuh_aye

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I know but you can't take away that EDG was straight up bad internationally until champs

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zhongZHI

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changes did occur and their comeback story from dog shit to gods is crazy

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Yuh_aye

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I know, and they fully deserve the title of World Champs, but they were literally really bad for the rest of the year. Like 5 rounds in 2 maps against a team that made 1 Lan this year bad.

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catNmouse

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what is it with loud destroying specific teams (eg, edg) and them coincidentally turning into world champions

i noticed that when you mentioned the 5-26 💀

https://www.vlr.gg/312803/loud-vs-edward-gaming-champions-tour-2024-masters-madrid-swiss-stage-r3

https://www.vlr.gg/183798/evil-geniuses-vs-loud-champions-tour-2023-americas-league-w4

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Yuh_aye

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The touch of greatness is infectious

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Best Flex - Zellsis

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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Yuh_aye

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Zellsis Bind + Icebox performance earned him that spot

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dort

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what do you have to say about his abyss performance though?

https://www.vlr.gg/378835/team-heretics-vs-sentinels-valorant-champions-2024-lr3/?game=180454&tab=overview

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Yuh_aye

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Very bad, but he subbed in for a Champs MVP and played a huge range of agents (KJ, Brim, Viper, Kayo, Breach) and was a big part of why they lifted that trophy

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dort

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W glaze man keep this up

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Yuh_aye

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who would you put as the best flex then? Keep in mind Woot at Shanghai was not playing flex

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dort

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mazino

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Yuh_aye

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Can you give a few sentence why. Cuz if anything Woot should be above mazino then right?

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dort

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both are better than zellsis thats for sure

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Yuh_aye

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better and better year are different things

continue thread →

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localkoolkid

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this take may be fineable

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jawn

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EDG are the best team

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localkoolkid

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of the year is borderline reeeetarded

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jawn

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champions exists for a reason, it crowns the best team of 2024

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SomeoneLikeU

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It isn't the best team in the world for the year, GenG is the best for the year and if you say otherwise you are delusinal

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jawn

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it is, champions is the most important event of the year and everything including masters is just the culmination for it

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SomeoneLikeU

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It's the biggest and most advertised but not the most challenging. Shanghai was more impressive and had a much better meta -breeze

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jawn

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shanghai was incredibly weak from a competition standpoint and even if it wasn't it wouldn't matter, champions will always be the twice as important as a masters by design

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More important and still 2x less impressive. Shanghai GenG would Smoke EDG, that doesn't mean EDG is bad but they simply are not the best team of the year and didn't have the highest peak

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jawn

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there is 0 evidence to support your argument btw, shanghai geng was in champs and they got smoked

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localkoolkid

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it crowns the best team at the end of the year, not of the year, EDG did fuck all until champs

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jawn

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madrid sen and shanghai geng get whooped by champs edg btw

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localkoolkid

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do you know what "of the year" means? Yes EDG current shits on them, but that is current, they have been good for like 2 weeks of the season. Other teams have been good all season therefore they were the better team "of the year"

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jawn

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that just means they were the most consistent teams, the best teams are the ones that won and the one team that stands out of them is the one that won the biggest and most important tournament

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the best team of the year deadass means the most consistent team of the year dumbass

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jawn

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it doesn't and never will, the best nba teams is the one that wins the end of season tournament, the best european football club is the one that wins the end of year champions league tournament, the best valorant team is the one that wins the end of season tournament

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I think the majority of this opinion is fine except for maybe the flex my only critique of this opinion would be that Wo0t deserves that flex spot and that GenG is over sen for me just off the basis that they have had a more consistent year than sen. Otherwise W list

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egann

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valid list but i'll replace z0llsis with woot

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Nice bait

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kk85

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even n4rrate would've been a more believable choice for best flex of the year and his team is shit
bring in curry

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Yuh_aye

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Bro N4rrate didn't win a single game internationally this year and KC was only good regionally during kickoff. This doesn't mean I think Zellsis is better individually than N4rrate, but that he had a better year. I don't understand why this concept is so hard for people to understand. I think Less is a better senti than Meteor, but obviously Meteor was the best Senti this year. This isn't that hard people.

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luckypleb

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bro said zellsis

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DBStudios

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Best Senti - Benjy
Best Event - Shanghai/Seoul (both were good)
Biggest Frauds - bl00d

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Yuh_aye

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Benjy was not the better than Meteor this year bro. Meteor dunked on him in a finals and even when he lost to them he was frying

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Kirya

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S0n best team?
xd

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Yuh_aye

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EDG won the biggest one but was really bad the rest of the year.

Gen.G was more consistent, but SEN went 2-2 with them, winning the important '2'.

People acting like its some insane take. They can literally be bare minimum #3.

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Kirya

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EDG>>
(champs win is a huge achievement and sen only won 1 irrelevant tourney, only placed 4th in champs and didnt even qualify to shanghai)

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NA fans really trying to ignore that sen got grouped in stage 1 and only made champs by points when trying to justify putting them over Gen g who made more finals. Won a bigger lan and won their domestic competition.

Seems a bit like cope

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Yuh_aye

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What happened to GenG in those finals or at champs against that team that only made champs by points. You left that part out.

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PrinceCharming

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You can't be trying to say the best team of the year is one that got grouped domestically and missed 1/3 lans.

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genuine braindead take

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Yuh_aye

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WHY IS EVERYBODY SO MAD ABOUT THE LIST. IS IT PUTTING ZELLSIS AS THE #1 FLEX OVER WOOT? WOOT WAS NOT PLAYING FLEX AT SHANGHAI HE WAS JETT/RAZE ONLY DUELIST. THATS WHY THERES SO MANY THREADS ABOUT TAKING HIM OFF FLEX AND PUTTING HIM BACK ON DUELIST

ZELLSIS AS FLEX THIS YEAR (2 EVENTS)
0.98 + Trophy, 0.98

WOOT AS FLEX THIS YEAR (1 EVENT)
0.99

WHAT IS SO HARD TO FUCKING UNDERSTAND

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espeon

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good thing its your opinion only!

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ok,that last sentence is so true, that's your point of view, so who cares。

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best in role of all 2024:

initiator :: RieNs
controller :: Karon
duelist :: t3xture
flex :: Wo0t
sentinel :: Meteor

best team of 2024 :: GEN
biggest fraud :: NRG
best event :: Seoul
best team to watch :: TH

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SomeoneLikeU

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Best of 2024 (Trying to do without bias but there def is)
initiator: RieNs
controller: Valyn
duelist: t3xture
flex: TenZ
sentinel: Meteor

best team of 2024: GEN
biggest fraud: Bleed
best event: Shanghai
best team to watch: LEV

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Camden

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i'd say bleed was unlucky because they lost many of their players after winning ascension. I believe their best player wasn't 18 and couldn't play in the franchise league. Hopefully yay kept his chair warm for this next season.

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Biggest Frauds - NRG: I don't need to explain this, honorable mention to NAVI management tho

nrg wasnt that bad right... (plz nrg do something in 2025)

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best flex has to go to either woot or chronicle

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they should all be aspas

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Camden

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The only thing i would disagree with is best team and best duelist.

for duelist texture looks more consistent between raze and jett with the added factor that he's a better oper
I would also say that kangkang looks very consistent across all 3 duelist and can also op.
zekken is a very good neon and raze but lack luster jett and not the best oper. (neon and raze share similar map pools so I don't doc texture for not playing neon)

for best team you have to go with GENG or EDG because
EDG 2 regional titles and Champs
GENG 1 regional title and 1 masters plus every finals besides champs
Sen 1 regional title and 1 masters

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Biggest Baiter - Aspas

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I choked at seeing Zekken as best duelist. Don''t get me wrong his neon and raze is clean, but when he plays against a good jett he gets diffed so hard its insane. Aspas KangKang r def better.

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Just nothing about China or EDG at all?

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best team of the year is like

Gen.G > EDG = Heretics > Sentinels > everyone else are bums

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AVERAGE CHINESE HATER(IN EVERY ANGLE)

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Fine list, but I think w00t deserves best flex regardless of your reasons, and playing duelist while MiniBoo was out I think just improves his standing there.

Duelist of the year is tough, there wasn't a consistent dominating duelist through the year and texture, kangkang, and zekken all deserve some consideration. Same with team, I think you can make a case for SEN, GENG, EDG, and even TH which is pretty great for the international scene at large.

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KK had a better year than both t3xture and zekken lol. He swept his regional league and was the best player in every single one of them, actually qualified for Shanghai (Zekken did not), and won Champions the biggest event of the year. He currently has the highest ACS and KPR in VCT and if CN's ratings work, he would probably also have the highest rating over aspas.