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.

Aace probably, he was a main duelist before. Disappointed that Minty wasn't picked up, at least they didn't get someone as bad as TENNN

SEIBI kinda managed to build a good team with the existing core beforehand, adding Serment and MeatPieN was huge both are really good underrated players in the scene.

merem kinda looked okay. Igzist kinda just 2-0ed AD with their old roster, not really impressed by any of the teams that qualified through this 2nd qualifier.

Found one of his accs: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/1243152431%230o0/overview?playlist=competitive

Why the fuck am I hearing a German song in his clips compilation??? I genuinely thought I was tripping for a second there lmao. I will try to find his tracker account later

Actual clown org, disbanded their Valorant team before trying to create an actual Japanese team.

I think Jinboong and Akame should swap roles on some maps and they would really do well. Akame isn't comfortable at all on the breach, he is missing a lot of the basic setups and util when he plays on Haven. If they got Jinboong playing the breach and Akame playing a Sentinel they probably could do way better role wise on Haven.

roles wise this roster without Xavi has such a major role issue. I watched a lot of games of KellyS and ngl he is pretty bad on support agents if they aren't Kayo or Astra. Also not sure who would play the Sentinel role

He isn't??? NOOOOOO
Sadge he would fix all their role issues. They need a good flash initiator and a Sentinel

nvm

wdym mid, Xavi is part American RAHHHH , can igl and has by far the best agent pool in this whole roster. Look up his stats they are fucking absurd, he can literally play any agent and frag out while calling on them.

nah just kick Governor instead, I know people somehow like it more when Primmie isn't on duelist but Governor rn isn't tier1 lvl when he plays duelist.

when the fuck was Yuran ever praised? Wasn't he seen as like by far the worst Zeta academy player before???

like Fennel played so many no-duelist comps and just swapped Tennn and syouta's roles that didn't really make sense. Just in general it felt so weird that Syouta was forced to play non-duelist agents again on some maps but had to play Jett on other maps like Ascent then again. The players really didn't seem comfortable on the roles which reflected on their individual performances.

ngl Johnta's coaching wasn't that great in Split2

would be better to not, language issues and obviously he has more opportunities than the other players anyways. If he gets signed by GenG because HSK already likes him he won't be moving to GE anyways.

Their spot in vct is also on the line, Zeta probably wouldn't get replaced so easily because of their popularity but DFM should be sweating with the amount of good orgs in JP

Gyen is an 18year old prospect who was always a top ranked player in games like Fortnite and Overwatch at a very young age. A lot of tier2 Japanese teams and the Zeta academy wanted him because of his insane mechanical skills, he also trialed for some but didn't want to sign a contract until he was 18. A lot of pros like GON in the Japanese scene rate him extremely high.

He also has some cool ranked highlights https://youtu.be/RG2vWKbwMmY

Very high risk, high reward type of pickup from DFM. He got picked over a lot of other different players in their trials like Gwangboong, Tenzou and Neth to name a few.

Wdym by wasn't good? He had to igl for the team in Japanese and made grandfinals in split1 dropping over 100 kills in that LAN bo5. He also had to flex every role from duelist to Sentinel, smokes and a bit of initiator. In my books that's a great individual season even when the team fell off in Split2.

they played in the b-team of the Zeta academy, rn they are trying to find the right five players roster for their main team. Also both are just 15year and 16 year old kids rn.

There is none if you don't even try. Reusing the same old washed players won't achieve anything long term. At this point look out for ranked/premier players and just try to recruit them at least that will get them somewhere even if it takes years, If you don't do anything at all nothing happens.

aim training really isn't that hard to get into, they are a lot of good guides from people in the aim community to get better in aiming fast. Maybe they also have a really bad problem with work ethic if they can't get those basics done.

The biggest problem is obviously lack of good coaching, like even if players like Paradox and Skrossi have "okay-ish" mechanics they have really bad fundamentals: they take too many solo fights, don't set themselves up with util, do enough basic crossfires and sometimes completely don't understand how to play in situations with an advantage or disadvantage. It's not even strats a lot of the times it's just about how you should play in a tac-fps in general.

Either way it's a lot of issues that are lined up and dealing with them takes years even if they start to build academy rosters next year, results will take a lot of time and the playerbase needs to start grinding hard to make finding talent easier.

wait till Valorant mobile comes out and have them kids swap over to PC one day. It will just take a decade till they are catching up smh.

Realistically the orgs in the scene just need to take more risks and just take young ranked players with good mechanical talent and start building academy rosters with the goal of developing young talent. Imo you can't have players with bad mechanics in your team unless they are the igl, a lot of those older Indian pros just are genuinely bad at aiming compared to other regions players.

Part of the problem is that orgs don't take enough risks and try new players out and only rely on old players most of the time, also feels like only Venka and maybe Techno are the legit only real talent for the Indian scene in the last 4years.

They need to be harsh on their regional talents and swap old players out with more younger people in the scene. A lot of those olds players like Skillz don't even have good enough mechanical skill to survive against the average radiant apac player, they are so far behind just in the mechanics it's actually insane, especially this Ascension just showed how much worse the "best" Indians players were in aiming than most other regions.

it's was over a month ago, that's why DFM picked Gyen over him. He couldn't play well in trials while being injured badly. Altho it is possible that he recovered enough to trial for GenG

Minty probably got picked by Fennel, it's the only org that has possible slots open for him. He is too good to not actually get a place in a tier2 team.

it doesn't help that the players that left were by far their best two players in the team

It's a worse team in general tho, Bazz and Minty were by far their best players

Crest win gg

doubt it

Xavi would be a really interesting pick have heard a lot of good things of orgs that trialed with him, his agent pool is insane and his stats are absurd if you look them up. He is very fluent in English also has US citizenship lol and is a very good fragging igl if needed. He was actually rumored to be the 4th on Bleed behind Aspas with how well he was supposedly doing in trials.
Foxy9 is also just a great individual player it's just probably harder for him since he isn't that fluent in English.

his buyout was like 800k last year, there is no way anybody can afford him after he extended

also I just don't think it's true the 2023 roster was just better with Sayf being on the team and them reaching Internationals.

that's not a hard accomplishment