I get that they might not have the biggest budget, but surely Polvi was just a nepotism hire, he was on Tenstar (?) under coach Spin back in the day. Russ was also in at least one team coached by Spin (can't be bothered to look up what team that was), but at least he's always had great util, even when everyone pointed to him as the weakest link in Guild; plus IGLs are hard to come by and he's definitely not the problem in this team.

But if Spin can't manage to make a team with T3xture and Monyet work, then I feel like there's just no justification for keeping him. Polvi is a flop and that's 100% Spin's fault, the team as a whole just doesn't work that well, even though they have improved.

Feels like the solution should be to get a new coach and rebuild a new team around Lightningfast and maybe Russ. LF has been looking extremely solid so far, can hold his own mechanically and makes good decisions. Having an Indian player on the team is a good idea as long as he's up to the task, and LF is definitely good enough for a mid-table team that has a chance to shoot for playoffs.

It's not like they looked completely awful, there were some good signs, but it's just not enough.

Lightninfast is actually a beast man

I mean he was in tier 1 for 3 years and just couldn't prove that he can perform under pressure. We all know he had very high peaks and great aim, but that's just not good enough.

Maybe this year in Apeks gives him the confidence to come back to tier 1 and succeed, but it's not like he never had the chance.

Veto advantage lol and why is that?

My premier team in plat/diamond deserves him

Is Tex actually German though? I thought he was American.

🫵🏻😂

Damn EU carrying NA (or however you spell his name)

the correct response would have been "holy hell", i'm confused

Google "johnqt home country"

Bold statement coming from a SEN flair

True holy shit I forgot for a second how much Lev sucks. As GM I hereby fire mw from the team, sorry pal

Imagine a roster with

Mwzera
Cloud
nAts
Rb*
sScary

Could go hard (assuming sScary can IGL)

*I do want to say no disrespect to TEC, China as a whole just obviously still needs more time to develop as a region, and I wouldn't call TEC a "shit team". Rb is clearly so much better than all of his teammates though that I thought he fit this list, plus to make the team work I really needed a flex player.

This ain't even mid, literally the two worst teams in the league

They'll somehow manage to both lose, but it'll be close

Why the fuck would I, this was a month ago.

Congrats, your favourite player managed to learn a second duelist agent after like what, 15 months of getting paid to play for tier 1 Valorant teams? Aspas still clears

Don't forget about the 2022 Europa League winners

Retla twice as good as zombs on Icebox

apinaorkesteri vs NXT, hope this helps

https://www.vlr.gg/team/4663/tenstar

This is all you need to know

The fuck are the fans supposed to do? Kidnap the players and play in their stead?

Seems like neT's value to the team was primarily that of a second caller/midrounder. His fragging has often been towards the bottom of the leaderboard (not saying he didn't have his moments, but overall probably the weakest player on the team mechanically, although his recent performances were quite good). Now that they have leaf, who is also a very vocal player and did a lot of midround calls for C9 last year, maybe they feel like that role just isn't as needed anymore. We'll see how it goes. I definitely think neT could be a huge upgrade to any tier 2 team and maybe even some tier 1 teams who are in need of a secondary caller.

If you thought the performance at Madrid was "shameful", you're actually just not watching the game

After Sen won it has become very convenient for Americans to slowly stop considering Africa apart (sic) of EMEA after using Africa's population as an argument to say that EMEA has low talent density

Jesus Christ, not being supportive is one thing but this is some insane shit

Just a small jar of [REDACTED], nothing unusual

I mean he's still played more maps on duelist than all other roles combined. He has 107 maps on record as Jett, that's more than his next 4 most played agents combined. I know metas change and stuff, but it's not like Jett is played fundamentally differently now than she used to.

But he's "your" player, so you're the only one who can judge, unlucky really

It should, once purp0 is offically added to the roster in vlr

Honestly the people who refuse to accept that TenZ is still an amazing player are legit more annoying than the delusional TenZ fans who thought Sen was gonna win stuff in 2022/2023.

At least the guy is likable, so being a delusional TenZ fan is a lot more reasonable than being a delusional TenZ hater.

I mean TH is also playing without MiniBoo, I feel like the odds are reasonable.

:(

Chinese Ange1

This is peak trembo, love you bro

Given his demeanor on stream, that wouldn't really surprise me. He definitely seems like the kind of guy who could be toxic.

But I mean, we've seen Sentinels, we know vibes are extremely important, and it's really hard to see from the outside just how much a player's behaviour and attitude contributes to a team's performance.

https://www.vlr.gg/220450/edward-gaming-vs-loud-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-lr1

It says that in the article, or am I tripping? They also linked this Tweet.

This is not a long article brother, I believe in your ability to read it

It's absolutely insane to me how many obvious jokes are taken at face value on this website considering like 90% of comments on here are either bait or jokes.

All of vlr dot gg collectively has like 3 brain cells

Actually it was EG Demon1 who won Champions mvp

NRG Demon1's biggest achievement is a 3rd-4th place finish at VCT Kickoff.

Who the fuck is NA

Are you denying that they changed their executes...? Lol

2-1 SEN unfortunately

Goated username

No, GenG gets two map bans as compensation instead

Calling N4rrate T2 at this point is like calling Demon1 T3 talent. Blud has been on a T1 team for half a year now, time to move on

SEN fans never learn, they always overhype their team.

They're good and have a chance at winning this event still for sure, but besides the series against KC, none of their wins were all that decisive, neither at kickoff nor in Madrid.

Fnatic played the exact same way all of last year and they made top 4 at every event and won two titles

If Gen.G win the upper final, Gen.G 3 - 1 SEN
If SEN win the upper final, SEN 3 - 2 Gen.G

SEN looking far from unbeatable, but somehow always manage to close out those close games. (This is not meant to be a criticism, I think the ability to close out close games against good opponents is what separates great teams from good teams)

If they beat Gen.G I'm convinced they will also win the grand final, but if they have to go through the lower bracket, I worry a bit about their map pool in a BO5 with the opponent having two bans.

Crazy how EMEA and MENA have three letters in common, I wonder why that is