They did make into playoffs but then lost to Trace during the single-elim knockout round. They've changed their roster by
-sword9
-monk
+K1ra
+x3b

Funnily, JDG have -YHchen + sword9 so sword9 will be going up against his ex-teammates this match!

Getting rid of LockM seems like a bad decision to me but maybe B1ack will be a good temp sub. Feels like TEC had a lot of potential last year but kept randomly switching players in and out with their 8 man roster. Ezeir impressed me and he helped NOVA massively improve during Split 2 so I'm excited to see him some more

SpiritZ1 is a good pick-up for DRG but I'm not sure whether TZH should have gone when I thought Shion7 was the weakest link. Who will play smokes for DRG now?

TYLOO getting rid of Scales is amazing, maybe they won't be shit anymore. Scales was one of the worst players across all 4 franchise leagues I've ever seen. Sad to see hfmi go though but having chiwa from EMEA and SORRYMYBAD back is goated. Also slowly returning to TYLOO is a great storyline and TYLOO might have an actual competitive roster in 2025

Happy that YOU gets a 2nd chance with Xi Lai but he was never the igl for Trace so whose igling for Xi Lai now? Not sure if YOU will be able to replace Krystal's shoes

rip aluba. thought he had potential but lysoar>

JDG wins this unless K1ra and x3b are insane rookies

Played against Faker at Worlds. GOAT meets GOAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS1smN02vzk

I also agree. Estrella igl pretty good too after flipz left too, no?

He's not bad but he's fortunate that he'll be 18 as Comeback is still too young and xeus is trapped by a paywall

Pride below Valliate and Venerated is crazy. At the time of that 100T roster, he was the clear 2nd best besides Hiko

He also has a cool name RiPabloEscobar

If you ever seen him interview before you can kinda tell his communication skills aren't the best

Why does muto intentionally buy a guardian???

https://x.com/hoodyVAL/status/1842581819126104411?t=rqA3cBqJA7ukuyQ810PSsg&s=19

AMA

Bleed did a giveaway where you had to purchase the bundle and then never announced a winner so now I'm their #1 hater

You can see that Ncslasher starts to heal Berserx but decides not to heal him to 100. I wonder if that would have made up the 0.05 difference

averageferret>

Honestly I thought similarly about lz but he has really heated up as the tournament has progressed and has constantly provided value to his team

If you filter out the group stage, he's actually one of the top performing players of playoffs

Has hiro really performed at a level where he deserves to be top 5 paid in EMEA?

Holy choke

DW Zap is fluent in English

Racist must lose

How you gonna let the racist win bruh

Nah UcC needs to go 😭 that whiff last round was ugly

what happened to thisisformygurl :(

LMAO

Is this dude the worst person to interview 😭

What da heck are Wolfen and dimasick doing in china

Who is noman replacing on RA?

Crazy that dsyre still have a chance

Nah, Mouz need to win enough rounds against JL so TU make it through by round differential since if MOUZ wins it technically becomes a 3-way tie. There's actually a scenario that mouz can qualify but they would have to 2-0 and like win 13-5, 13-5

It's the only time C9's -mitch +mitch would actually make sense. So, therefore, they will not be doing it

Oh we're including Lock In??

Jawgemo as well

Why does it say that G2 vs. Fnatic has never happened before??? That has to be a lie. I'm assuming it's based off the core of players but that's such a slippery slope bruh

Truly one of the most undertalked about players in the science + one of the original iconic "mitches bitches"

Is Chilean accent the equivalent of a Scottish English accent?

HAHAHA wait that's funny as fuck. But there's no actual bad bleed between the players then?

Can someone who speaks Spanish translate what the teams were saying to each other at the very end?? They looked like they were about to throw hands

I'm pretty sure it's Burzzy not pati on the poster guys

https://x.com/cakisfalakis/status/1817567534604030168?t=6K7zVxjx8c8V5EOJAUCscA&s=19

Holy what a game

Idk

It's fucked that if the 7 lose this, they don't make Ascension even though they've dominated this entire split

Whoever wins this game, guarantees Ascension no?

Ghoul33 is the new hope for Brazil. He has to be on a franchised team next year

Lol true. I just thought it was interesting because it's the first pro to have done it in Valorant and actually get caught

One of Trace's players, heybay, was banned by Riot for matchfixing in Valorant back in 2021 for a year before returning back to the pro scene. Don't think there's ever been a pro player that's done that and then qualified to Champions. Interesting storyline or nah?

Source: https://valo2asia.com/riot-games-issues-bans-to-13-chinese-players-in-valorant-match-fixing-scandal/

From 1st in Split 1 to dead last in split 2 holy fuck

It's aight