is wardell basically confirmed to join 100t?
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100t is going to be making a bunch of roster moves. They didn't bring in DDK/sgares to keep the same ranked players, switch up their roles, and remain mediocre. I think they rebuild around Ethan. Literally everyone else is expendable. There are far superior duelists, far superior Sovas, far superior awpers, far superior flex players. And 100T have the money to go get those players.
I think they ask Ethan what role he wants and give it to him (assumedly smokes/flex, because he's not a good Chamber/Sova relative to the other talent in NA). Then they bring in Wardell to awp on Chamber and go from there.
C9 is the second best team in NA behind OpTic. V1 and Guard haven't shown me enough to feel comfortable ranking them.
My main point is that all these borderline Tier 2 teams like XSET, LG, PKS, TSM, EG, FaZe, etc have at most 2 truly insane players on each roster. I think consolidation has to happen if NA wants to compete internationally. At least while they're working with CS rejects. If new talent grows up on Valorant and joins it instead of CS, I think that problem will eventually go away.
before losing the optic series, c9 won 12 series in row. Ever since vanity came in, c9 has been NA's best team, they dominated lcq and was easily NA's best team at champs. optic went 3-2 in groups while c9 went 5-0 asw. v1 and guard instantly qualified for challengers while 100t failed, that in it of itself makes them far more attractive than a team that will drop you after 2 OFFICIALS no less. I think that NA teams are good enough to compete internationally with new teams like v1 LG xset and the guard are challenging the more experienced teams like optic c9 sen and 100t. Teams just cant consolidate and create superteams, thats not how it works. There has to be chemistry and players have to like each other, ur cs rejects point makes no sense asw, Csgo is a really different game and has no correlation to valorant and I dont understand the problem you are talking about regarding that.
NA doesn't have any proven IGL's other than FNS. We also don't have any premium awpers, except for Wardell (as a side note, Valorant as a whole doesn't have any premium awpers - all the greatest awpers are still playing CS). I think 100T will be able to poach players from any team other than OpTic. That includes C9, V1, and Guard, depending on how the playoffs pan out. Basically, they would be building an NA superteam.
Wardell - awper that must play Chamber AND Jett, maybe even Sage, depending on the map.
Duelist - they have to be one of the best riflers NA, and able to play at least Jett AND Raze at a high level (no one-tricks). Reyna and Neon for bonus points, maybe even the occasional Kay/O.
Other than that, they need 3 ultra-flexible players with the perfect mix of calculated aggression and solid teamwork. The current "meta" is actually an anti-meta, because finally we aren't playing the same 5 agents over and over.
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