It's not even about having an inferiority complex
It's just what I have seen for these past years
Indian players don't care about the gameplay (not everyone but most part)
Give them salary and they are okay with being mediocre all their life
Look at the region stats
The best South Asian player is never an Indian
It's either Mongol or Kazakh or Pinoy
You have these players come in and just tear the region apart

Now you can definately say it is due to the lack of an eSports culture but for any player, no matter how bad they are, to bring them into tier 1, they need to be some amount of good.
A stat I have always liked is SkRossi in Ascensions. He was ranked top 10 in SA and there was a discrepancy of +20 or above in the rankings when he played against these top Ascensions teams which btw, get beaten away by most tier 1 teams in the season (not saying off season here)
So yea, you need to grow these players but you can't grow someone who doesn't want to grow. That is the main problem with Indian players. A lack of drive. They are okay with being in these big orgs and getting huge paychecks and being settled for life.
I hate GE as much as everyone else but I feel like people give them too much shit for things like these.

Also for instance, the GE trials. Open trials yes? They are asking you to come in and show them why you are worth it. How many people come? 10 + Lightningfast.
It's crazy how much drive these players actually lack.

Show up to open trials. People can't get in your home and log into your valorant account and make you appear for your trials.
More than 100 people appeared for closed trials and how many Indians? 10. Out of them only Venka and Techno made it a bit far that too got eliminated way before the last round.

Sure I would love an all Indian team, but just picking up randoms isn't it.

Lpl never will win until that ominous old man sitting in T1 headquarters retires

Showmaker :3

What did blud do other than dickriding GE and Rushindra Sinha?

Navi 3-1 Heretics

They have been teasing about it for a long time I mean

Hell naw
He will probably complain about how M80 aren't giving him Sen like facilities

Now? I think Buzz has always been overrated
He comes in every season as this guy who will fuck everyone else and leave and every season there are like 2 better players on his role from his region and this is in Pacific too where the gap between top teams and bottoms used to be huge
Still a great player tho
But better players in his team

Fine
Let me cook

Koalanoob gets sick of EU and remembers his family very much
He leaves NAVI and comes back to Americas
Recently after Stage 1, Nadeshot finally got sick of Asuna and Cryo and kicked them off to C9.
Koalanoob gets a call from Nadeshot
"I heard you are back in town."
"Sup"
"We need players"
"Fine... But under one circumstance."

In a family restaurant.
Nismo is working in his restaurant. He hasn't played Valorant in few months. He looks to the M80 group photo on his desk when the door chimes open. He looks and his eyes are shocked.
"Gianny..."
"Hey. I thought would meet some old friends."
"So...what do you need from an old guy like me?"
"It's time to get the gang back together"

They are coming back
Most probably

Koalanoob is gone man

I am
Coz Koalagoat

I thought he is going to Cubert?

Can I be honest with you
I just don't see the future with that team
They peaked in a time when every other team have already disbanded and players are just playing for fun
I don't see them repeating it when teams have actual coaches or strategies or chemistry.
I would love for them to prove me wrong tho.

Riot will do everything but a full round robin split for extending the season
All good tho.

Most of the big names are already off to tier 1. Who do they have left?
Skuba, Wedid are the ones that come to mind initially.
I haven't watched stage 3 that close, so any ideas of if any new talents are out there?

M80 Skuba don't worry

Different styles brother...
Bang plays classic controller
Zander plays a hybrid version of controller
Where while he isn't as aggressive as a Tenz Omen, he still is aggressive
Plus he does a lot of midrounding
Also he has that clutch gene

Yea
Hopefully Zander actually make something out of these..."distinguished gentlemen"

No way I actually have to support 100T this year...
This is torture.

Basically
It all started back in the days
SkRossi was just coming up. He was this "young prodigy" from India and Indians got so hyped watching him beat trash ass teams from the South Asia region they started shit talking
They beefed with a shit ton of pros about how SkRossi is better than them
They spammed how SkRossi is this insane level player
Then it all got away when they actually faced good teams
But SkRossi is gone, maybe they should stop hating on the team now right?
Nah
The CEO made unreasonable promises
And then the people just got sick of him
At the same time, Indians got sick of his bullshit too for not having Indian players
Also it's an Indian org
There will always be hate towards Indians online :)

Tldr:
No Indians
Indian org
Fake promises
Toxic fans

But this year, I think only Indians hate them for not having Indians on the team. Everyone else is probably just trolling and all. Which btw, I think is very valid to not have Indians on the team, since they held an open trial. You can't be on a team with open trials, you don't deserve to be there in the first place.

This guy is the definition of sometimes may be good sometimes may be shit

Right now, it really do be looking like all the other three teams are far superior to them. I do trust on Pancada but there is only so much one can do. What a fall off man...

Never ever talk about my goat aayan like that

I trust in dos9

Nah man y'all are so cooked
It's actually crazy

Good luck big brother

They go up against a T1 side which is looking like a real threat in the first match.
Oh it's alright, they will just thug it out and make a lower bracket run. Guess who they face off in the first round of lowers😀
ZETA, Nongshim or DRX, most likely, Nongshim or DRX. If they win that one, guess who they face up against. The winner of the DFM vs RRQ match or worse, GenG.
They might be cooked.
They go through the entire Korean gauntlet

Pinoy derby

Yea but with Kr1stal, this team would be like competing with EDG for the trophy
Kr1stal on Sova is crazy man

Man, if this team still had Kr1stal along with Rarga and the rest of the boys, it would be insane. Like legit a top 3 teams in China if that was the case.

Where does he go? Surely not Spirit since if I remember correctly, he plays the same role as Donk
Where are spirit academy finding these broken children anyways.

I can understand why

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
DONK IS NOT HUMAN

You need to keep your eyes open

no way in HELL are these two players champs worthy

What does that even mean? They won champs because they were worthy in Tokyo and then in Champs.
You can say they fell off or are system players but you are a moron if you think they weren't frying in that year

0/8
You had all these options as reasons to call them fraud and you chose the worst one

We don't celebrate Christmas

Mazino was asked to choose between Demon1 and D.va. He chose the later.

Well fuck them then
If you hate on underdogs, you are weird
The Faze storyline is crazy

Riens

Yea but these teams beat those teams to be here
Calling it a bad final is kinda sad no?

Some sections of esports fans are very weird and I mean it in the most offensive way possible. These insanely brain-dead mfers will argue that a major international tournament is fraudulent just because the "big teams" got knocked out early on and underdogs reached the finals.

I have seen so many posts from this morning saying that the FAZE vs Spirit final makes the Shanghai Major a bad tournament and the final a boring final that it is insane. Ask your favourite "big teams" to not lose and then maybe we wouldn't have these "boring finals"

It's disrespectful to the scene and the teams who have btw beaten these big teams this tournament only. Maybe if the "big teams" were good enough, they would have reached this final. But no, everything needs to be a conspiracy theory. Disgraceful.

Boy oh boy where do I even begin... Aspas my king, my pookiebear...

No no
Valorant players here I meant the pros only
Reyna is played in Ranked so

Lothar cried like a child when G2 jumped off the cliff in Abyss
Is it not a strategy to deny opponents the alts
Also he isn't aggressive
He types out without thinking most of the time, deadass

"You wanna hear something funny?
In patch 9.10, at Immortal+ level, Phantom had a 9.36% pickrate.

In patch 9.11, Phantom GOT PUSHED to insane levels and you know whats the pickrate at Imm+ now?
8.64%

This lack of critical thinking and stubbornes from players is what makes riot make those WILD BALANCE CHANGES. Because even if they do something outrageous people might not use it.
Iso, Neon, Phoenix were all already playable but got PUSHED to ''overpowered'' territory because valorant players wont recognise whats good unless its shoved into their faces and they are force fed like a duck.

Incredible stuff, really."

https://x.com/LotharHS/status/1867588613157888498?t=kFDcPXZ1dub9gbLtqL8AUQ&s=19

Honestly, true. Valorant players would rather leave the game than try something out of their favourite agents even if the other agents are good. How many times has Raze been nerfed and how many times has Yoru been buffed. Yet, we are still stuck with Raze Jett because no one likes to try actual meta agents or actually experiment with shit, until the thing is a fucking God.

S3xture in 4

Betting sponsors are here to save the day (not really)
Be patient

Sliggy?
Is he streaming?

Would be stupid to not re-sign the best player on the roster