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he played kayo for the longest time he can easily learn the lineups just give him time cuz he like just got signed lol

boaster getting hate for an event he didnt even play in 🥀

repeater from pvz

well they won 2 titles so i honestly wouldnt argue with that lmao

honestly good list, i think jawg deserves a spot if ethan has one tho cause even tho 1 less trophy, i feel like jawg has more personal impact whereas ethan is more a role player (other than map 5 sunset, and ofc ethan is still incredible but just not the same x-factor as some other players imo)

also if riens makes it surely some of the other geng players like t3xture make it, both have 1 title and are monsters

other than that tho good list

meiy

im pretty sure kicks is still signed and he plays similar roles to sayonara so it would make sense if he was playing in kickoff

well derke and chron should go without saying
sayonara is a REALLY hot prospect, obviously time will tell how he performs in t1 but expectations are high for a reason
jampii and profek, even though they didnt get to any internationals, performed very well last year and there is also a lack of igls in emea so to find one that can call at a good level is a good thing + jampii has a lot of experience in general

but i would say that just derke and chron alone make it almost a superteam, and then all of the other players are very good and so it for sure warrants the title of a superteam, it is a team made to win trophies and dominate

white forsaken op - aspas

no because they also have tournament wins
not many people would call prx chokers since they won toronto even though they were the original poster team for choking before heretics

10/10

the only possible worry with alfa is that we have only see him do well on one team, being fnatic. while yes he has done extremely well in that team, we have seen chronicle and aspas do what they do across multiple teams and keep that consistent performance throughout. idk how much that matters in peoples eyes but it is still an interesting talking point surrounding the goat conversation imo

definitley japan, i had been learning japanese for abt 4 years before going and it had always been a dream of mine to actually go to japan and so that made it even better than it otherwise would have been. absolutely awesome place 10/10 would recommend

aspas
one hundred million dollars to aspas for him to get whatever players/coaches he wants

minus: xenom
plus: tuyz

plus: any performance coach

xenom is good but if the rest of the team want to stay together and do better at internationals then xenom just isnt gonna cut it, tuyz while having not won a tournament has gone deep in multiple tournaments and has played with aspas before. performance coach is to help the whole team but mostly artzin as when he was playing well he was insane but when he didn't play well it look quite bad

madoka magica, bocchi the rock, or takopi's original sin

idk they're all too good

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so close to perfect ;-;

leaf and valyn, must see valorant tv

o7

team liquid 3 - 1 dragon ranger gaming

what the hell were u smoking when doing group B 😭😭

good pickems but unfortunately gonna lose to the perfect pickems right here -> https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/9f7567a5

macro is big idea, micro is smaller details. thats abt it. for example, a macro idea is walk up cat and a-split through tree, a micro idea in that same round is double swinging tree with a kayo flash

pro play vs casual play bring such a big difference in experience, such as many people hate playing breeze and fracture but lwk they are awesome maps in pro play.

imo riot should change the current map system so that in ranked there is no rotating map pool as it really doesnt affect ranked players, or add something like a map queue system and then have the map rotation system only in pro play because i believe the reason maps like breeze and fracture have been gone for so long is because of the ranked players.

we've all seen tenz in a maid dress... maybe it goes further 🤔

wait nvm i thought it was worst chokers every year 🥀🥀

all geng need are a therapist or smth so they stop tilting and throwing games, especially for munchkin. like munchkin will legit get caught out one round then just giga-tilt and rage call the rest of the game and then they choke :/

just put 2025 as m8s and geng bruh they both deserve it lmao

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in ranked its like 85% aim and 15% comp (as in like 5 duelists should always lose yk) but in pro play, the comps are more related to game plan, as in a team with a comp with a stong gameplan should be winning more than a team with a different or even the same comp but with a worse gameplan. obv aim still matters but at a pro level everyone can aim well so it isnt as important

where was it said that he's igl-ing?!

all of g2 (other than jawg ofc)

nAts
Less
Alfajer
Meteor
leaf

i think that alfajer, and meteor are better than nats all time, but in terms of just sentinal, nats has to be the goat. leaf could go up this list very easy if he wins a trophy but without one the case is hard-ish to make

cashing in on this early 🤑🤑🤑

as people have already said, jp t2 is in a very good state and it leaves people comfortable just staying there and not moving up to t1. another possible problem tho could come from their culture, now i am not japanese but from what i understand of the culture there are big expectations from people to do well in school and get quote unquote real job. i could be wrong abt the second part tho but the first point is also a big part

while i do believe that aspas should still be atleast top 5, i do agree that he is definitely not the goat anymore, at his peak he can play insane, but the current meta is not that great for his playstyle and agent pool

acend should be 1 on the list bruh, they won a game after they lost it from a cypher cam that did shit all against them, and then ran through the playoffs in a bo1 bracket. even t1 were less fraudulent

Demon1; Duelist + Smokes
Jawgemo; Duelist + Smokes (g2 choke at champs and 2g places higher than them, they then bomb out of ascension losing jaw to eg)
C0m; Scan Init + Viper (he gets dropped from lev as lev field a full sa roster)
Ethan; Flash Init + Flex (nrg dissolves as as an organisation and americas loses a team)
Boostio; IGL, Senti + Flex (already benched by 100t 😭)

idk i lowkey think this team could win champs, what abt yall

last three years, 1st is in top 3 lol

ewc for saudi isnt about the money though because as you said, they have more than enough money. instead the ewc is a sportwashing campain to boost their own image, especially in the eyes of gamers who are typically younger people who dont know about saudis politics, and try sweep their atrocities under the rug. ontop of that, they boycotting aspect is more a call for riot than it is for saudi, asking them to stop giving into and endorsing the ewc,

https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?si=An3W2n6zn7LDVuZ_
https://youtu.be/fBZjFYU-OX8?si=--9KyKBWuciOpXrN
these 2 videos from sideshow explain a lot of the political quelms people have with the tournament. other than that its because it isnt an official riot event, same thing happens with red bull homeground where people call it a mickeymouse event even tho it is still a wide range of good teams competing at a high level

the saudi government have litterally slaughtered innocent people at their boarder trying to migrate and seek asylum from other countries. i know the world isn't great at the moment but this is a war crime

i would say its similar to redbull homeground where yeah its super cool if u win it and definitley a good indicator of skill and such, but not as prestigious as a masters/champs just for the unnoficial feel/status of the event

it's one of fnatics best maps, if not their best, against prx's second worse map... classic vlr overreact

im posting this largely in response to srg against envy, but also srg in general as they are the only game changers team in a full t2 circuit as far as i believe, but why are they so much worse than other teams?

in traditional sports i understand why male and female competitions are split as males have a biological advantage just because of biology, it is what it is. however in esports i feel like there shouldnt be a real difference as those differences in biology largely wouldnt affect esports ability i would assume?

(also i feel like this should go without saying but i am making this thread in good faith and if u want to comment on it pls dont say anything sexist or transphobic because it somehow always seems to be brought up when gc is mentioned)

fire

he for sure deserves it. he is in a very similar situation to haodong in edg and i would count him also because even if they weren't playing when the teams ran into their big successes, they were very instrumental in bringing the team to where they were at that point and they also did some coaching stuff as a good bridge between players and coaches.

in a vacuum its probably primmie or verno, however in a match setting its probably alfa

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