Where does Aspas go now?

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I mean i’m sure any of the SA orgs will take him obviously but does he even want to join them? Or will we see something crazy like ZETA Aspas or GE Aspas

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Zeta has Syouta, no thanks

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Syouta over aspas?????

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Can aspas speak Japanese?? Because Syouta can.

I think we are crazy if we think all aspas needs to do is just fragging without any proper comms, this is a team game dammit

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he can! his games been in Japanese since 2021 and iirc he’s almost fluent in the language

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Put your goddamn source, and no, putting your games in Japanese doesn't mean you can speak Japanese.

If I put my game setting in Spanish, that doesn't mean I can speak spanish

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He knows Japanese as much as I have learnt from watching anime

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snowconedeity

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https://x.com/valo2asia/status/1695339269743903026?s=46&t=5owx1Q387xHhOjPeHflFFA

I thought he had been fluent but that’s my bad, here he states clearly he’s taking lessons though (although the duration is unknown)

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I mean I'm aware of him using Japanese as his default game language for quite some time now, I watched jp vtubers for almost 1 year now and I can't even form 1 proper sentence, he needs to speak them if he really wants to join Zeta

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he said in a post-game interview that he's taking japanese lessons (he was still at LOUD, so obviously he must have improved since then)

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What kind of lessons? Duolingo or any online language learning app? Does he have a conversation with Japanese speaker? Even that doesn't guarantee how much he actually improved, ultimately you need to comm in Japanese which needs much more time to prepare, I would argue Comming in Japanese requires another skillset just like any language.

There's no guaranntee that Zeta are willing to afford his price tag anyways..

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i mean... idk lol. here's the source tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU_2QyKBy4Q

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also, the roster could go international and speak english

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derptz

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He doesn’t need to study or speak japanese.
He can carry those zeta bums to international.

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id prefer having aspas being quiet all year on duelist than syouta comming like saadhak

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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Saadhak won you your champions by comming in Portuguese and not in Spanish. You should know better about comms and winning

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these people think speaking basic japanese is enough to communicate in Japanese in pro play. There is a reason why so few Koreans who are very 'successful' in jp scene, and ALL of the ones who succeed speak very good Japanese (joxjo, seoldam, astell, etc). This is sad man, ppl don't realise language is a HUGE barrier

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This is one of the consequences of letting too many imports into the region, everyone thinks jp is an easy region to play.
I mentioned this in one of my post talking about how "value" and "percieved value" are essentialy 2 different things

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exactlyy

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snowconedeity

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I mean i agree Syouta deserves the chance but if Apsas says he wants to join a team he’s joining that team simple as that.

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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Are we seriouslly forgetting that aspas needs to comm? You don't expect him to not comming the whole season, do you?

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T1 used to comm in english soooo

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They tried it for 1 year, tossed the project and are now opting full Korean.

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Well they got into tokyo and LA didnt they?

Though that didnt work out smoothly….. same the next year after that

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DRG

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DRG

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DRG

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snowconedeity

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we all clowned Rocket for this but he might’ve been 5 steps ahead…

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GE and Zeta are the only teams who might be interested idk if ge has the money tho.

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Fnatic

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Team Liquid , aspas and nAts would go hard ngl

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Stay in LEV with Demon1 now

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I'm guessing Lev will probably lower the buyout eventually

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why? they will tell aspas that no teams can afford him, (which is true, even if a org can pay the buyout, his salary is so high) he will be in contract jail. the best option for all parties is pretend nothing happened and continue with -Mazino +Demon1, assuming that LEV have not signed replacement for aspas yet. If they have then aspas will probably be in contract jail

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lev was already building a roster without aspas, they probably have it locked by now. they will probably need the money to pay for demon1, and if they don't lower it no offer will come. they will essentially be losing money every month paying aspas on the bench (and his wage will be big even if its cut because of the bench), so its more worth it to lower it and still win money to at least cover for demon1 costs.

im guessing theres a small chance again now aspas stays but i dont think anyone wants that anymore there

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siphonval

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if they have it locked then this is a really fked scenario for aspas lol

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foythvlr

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even if they didn't, i don't think they want aspas there anymore after he basically forced his way out of the team lol

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Navi ditching Koalanoob for baitpas

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Probably still APAC

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Retirement home hopefully

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deflinger

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Lil bros about to be downvoted lmao you don't trash talk one of the two faces of valorant

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Can none of the Brazilian orgs afford to buyout aspas??
2G needs a replacement for spike or even loud doesn't have a dualist..

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He has a reportedly $250k buyout, so yeah I don't think brazilian org except FURIA (mibr and loud are cheap orgs and 2g ain't got that money especially for a stand-in) can pay that and FURIA already has settled(?) on Mwzera