I don't think they do scouting because it's just so awful that there is no excuses for it. Yoshii has been killing it in the JP scene for years and it doesn't seem they even trialed him after all those years, also they signed Invy to such a long contract that he is pretty much jailed on Secret and will never have the chance to leave them for an actual good tier1 team. Anyways hopefully this team and org get last place both in VCT and Challengers so they eventually get kicked out of partnership.

They must be signing terrible players on purpose because their region is actually super talented. Xavi, slathom, tomix, zeus, patmen and obviously the GE players that could have been signed. They are actively hurting the Filipino scene with their nepotism.

wait actually even CR when they were still good, they can't catch a break lmao

GG, lost because NTH didn't play my goat Yumia.

look at the years before, they are insanely unlucky. Reject in split1 last year, Crest before that in 2022.

Fav is always unlucky with their brackets, good try tho almost beat Fennel.

Ask isn't a good pickup and it might be time to move Reita to coaching so they can get actual firepower on the team. It's really badly build and speaks about their scouting.

Aace is definitely a good duelist tho, he started out as one and was like averaging 260 acs on that role before JoXJo joined and adjusted the roles on Riddle.

gg 60k people watching a wall of text. Also how did Murash almost threw a 12-7 lead, actually awful

why don't they just make Neth do 2ndary calls or let him igl completely like he did on CR before? It feels like waste of firepower if GON is igling. Also it doesn't make sense to have Hals play duelist when they have Aace and Hals is actually a great flex player, they have to swap roles and maybe replace one of their players if they actually want to qual to Ascension this year.

They need an actual igl and better defined roles.

grandpa fell asleep again

my goat LOB should be better in tier1 next year

for the sake of viewership they should better win this shit. Also ngl Murash does terrible scouting, I think their coaching was actually good last year but some of the players are really not great.

they shouldn't have trolled the roles in the team. Almost seemed like the GM didn't know what he was doing aside from scouting good players

if they go full Thai in the next years, they should look at the z11 and current FS players. Feels like Laz and Endoist have been tier1 ready for a while. I don't dislike them developing duelist players into role players if they eventually become good.

ic, it's sad honestly. Still not sure how to feel about this particulary academy team

Sure but like there are way better other players they could have picked up and especially after MITH disbanded they could have tried out Kadoom. Xcool has been the highest rated player in Split2 last year with umaruchans in Thai Challengers, an unbelievable Sentinel player and flex player, Endoist has been around for ages before z11 picked them up. Like thailand has a lot of great players I just don't think the ones Talon picked up are great when you could have just picked better ones that are proven in tier2 already.

I swear to god every single Talon academy player are just nepo pickups and not good aside from Surf. Legit z11 is 10x better and more talented than those shitters.

people just forget about him lol. Realistically he should be rn on DFM instead of gyen so Art can play smokes instead.

he probably means for the next splits, just upcoming teams and players in general.
Popogachi should always get a shoutout since he got a super unfair treatment on DFM and wasn't given a chance despite having insane stats every year in tier2.

in Premier it was Yumia who actually showed tons of potential:
https://tracker.gg/valorant/premier/teams/6c869c96-d574-4c97-84d5-4d529ebc9ac0
just look at his stats compared to his teammates, he is by far the best player. Almost took a map singlehandedly against FENNEL in premier:
https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/a05c66e5-62e3-4935-b6b1-02a9247a0bea
Not sure why he is not playing and is only a sub rn, maybe one of the others orgs like Igzist already signed him.

rooting for RRX since my goat Yumia is not playing for NTH yet, he is by far their best player and hasn't played.

they are playing the game in hardmode. Just swap the roles, Marin on flex initiator, Flora on Sentinel, Ady on Smokes and Satoshi on duelist. It would be so much easier for them instead of making 3 players learn completely new roles lmao

Yay was averaging like 290 acs in like 100 scrims or some shit

nah Talon's academy is actually pretty bad, it's pretty much a nepotism squad. Z11 has way better talents.

their roles don't make a lot of sense. Satwoshi was averaging like 280acs on duelist before. Ady is one of the best smoke prospects, Marin is a good initiator flex and flora actually plays more sentinel in ranked than duelist. Ngl trolled that a good bit by just forcing those role changes

Eh they will have major issues once they face better teams, usually Zepher just gets hardcore duelist diffed in the later stages. I still don't think dropping Satwoshi will help them at all.

airy wasn't do well tbf. I still don't see the potential that rui is supposed to have, he has been pretty shit since he joined the main team, they really need a way better duelist if they ever want to make challengers again.

nah it's fine to hate on the org, since they didn't communicate it properly to the players. But the whole problem really is just SOOP, Mith and DSG are gone now. It will be interesting to see which teams survive this year in SEA.

It's Riot fault at the end of the day. DSG won't be the only org leaving the scene in SEA with how fucking stupid those exclusive streaming rights are, no watchparties outside of SOOP, there are less than 500 people watching the official english broadcasts on their website. For orgs that rely on content, co-streams and general viewership it's a no-brainer decision to do, it's late but what are they supposed to else to do? This SOOP partnership that made the regions merge in APAC and binded the scene to a dogshit platform where nobody is watching games is just accelerating the death of Tier2 immensely.

he was doing very well in premier, tf are they doing??? Also he was averaging 300acs in officials Scrims shouldn't matter at that point tf.

especially since crazyguy is winning

syouta is only better if he is allowed to play duelist. NGL don't have that much hope for Zeta just because of their roles

RiotJP really doesn't want their region to become good then lmao. Like this is all their decision if they wanted to they could just let them through. Because for every year teams should be able to make a lot of changes it's really bad if you have to stick to a core like this for no reason.

Ig RiotJP just doesn't want the region to be good.

damn would be terrible for the team, don't see that working out at all

nvm I forgot, it was anthem

he also igled last year in dfm

btw just compare it to the Korean circuit. DK and SLT both automatically qualified to the main stage and made more than 2 roster moves and still are playing in the main stage. If the rules are different it was decided by the TO and not Riot themselves.

not really since the requirements were only for split2 teams that were qualified to the advange stage like Scarz, Varrel, Reject and NTH

https://valorantesports.com/ja-JP/news/valorant-challengers-japan-2024-split-3-mainstage

nothing in this only official article indicates that orgs have to keep a core of 3 players.

I doubt this is the case the roster lock was at the 20th of October. They probably already sorted this out.

usually they take the top placed orgs from several acts to qualify to Challengers. Would be surprised if they only took the teams from EP9 Act3. There was also no announcement yet so I wouldn't come into a conclusion like this. The Orgs usually have the rights for the spot that they qualified for and not the players.

that last thing doesn't make sense Fennel lost the players because they got poached by Zeta. Also even then they would have time to qualify through premier they are directly in contenders and only would have to win twice in a row to get to Challenger qualifiers

1st-4th in Split3 automatically are qualified into next years's split1. It says so on Liquipedia https://liquipedia.net/valorant/VCL/2024/Japan/Split_3

he kinda has to play Sentinel imo, because having JoxJo on the initiator role is so important for his calling. So idk how they will manage this as a team. I also personally believe if Seoldam isn't performing it might a good move to eventually move him out of that roster and take chances with Satoshi.

I respect for you to have that opinion but he is objectively just a bad player lmao. I hope he stays a streamer for his career sake, I don't think he has it what it takes to be a good pro Valorant player anymore.

well that's a weird move just role wise. Would really dislike him to move onto smokes. Maybe Yatsuka and him just swap roles?

still don't get why you would want TENNN when he was by far the worst Fennel player. He just is quite shit as a player.