vanity? like c9 vanity?

yeah youre right. without sacy's insane utility johnqt probably wants to rely on his own decisions and util for executes.

i said his stats were better and he looked more confident playing sentinel. i never said stats is why he looks lost.

compared to last year he looked a lot better playing sentinel, stats cant deny that. never said he is sens problem but I don't understand why he would switch from a role where he was much better on

I honestly dont understand the n4rrate and johnqt role switch. n4rrate is doing well but johnqt is looking kinda lost on initiator

just wait for eg bind

n4rrate is probably an upgrade in terms of firepower. bang has a LOT to prove to take the place of tenz, especially last year when he was one of if not sen's best player. the team has the potential to be a really good upgrade but it depends on how the players mesh

bang was one of the first t2 players to be recruited to t1 in NA back in early 2021 after farming in t2 on smokes. This was when the best teams in the world were made of ex cs/overwatch pros, which he was not one of. he put up crazy numbers back then and is a really good replacement for tenz as a pure smokes player, but people prefer zander because most 100t rosters have never gotten good results.

i see it now. -tenz = sen lose clout and popularity. +curry +reduxx for indian representation, sen gains their popularity back

sen sign aspas and the team win both masters and champs because other team is too busy looking at them instead of the game

bang and n4rrate most likely

bang in peak form is a really good pickup for sen, just needs to be more consistent as of recently

sen wins champs if this happens

+curry +n4rrate almost 100% sure at this point

-zellsis
-sacy

+verno
+curry

only good answer

what's at 0:53?

fire again's melody is rather repetitive and i literally can only remember the "caught inside the fire again" chorus portion. It's just not catchy when listening to the other champion songs.

I agree. Deadlock-cypher double sentinel on essentially every map is trolling. Zekken also needs to expand his duelist portfolio, which has been kinda hindering the team recently.

1. Ticking Away
2. Die for You
3. Superpower
4. Fire Again

stellar aspas

if they really dont make it deep into champs then

• sacy + verno
• zellsis + curry

The last time somebody on Sen got subbed out for personal reasons, the sub completely replaced them. all I'm sayin

What happened to Frosty?

typical vlr degen behavior

Bro these casters may be the biggest nrg glazers Ive ever seen

sub is for players who can't physically play. hundreds of pros have been sick and still participated in pro matches. nothing different here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_match_fixing_scandal sums it up pretty well

Shahzam confirmed rumors of matchfixing. i believe his dms were leaked, and some people blame him to this day for ruining the csgo careers of steel/dazed/brax/AZK, especially brax who was very young at that time. but they honestly got what they deserved + shahzam was only a minor player in the entire affair.

keep core until shanghai. if they don't qualify or get very close to qualifying to shanghai, consider rebuilding around boostio. 100t have the curse where excellent players become mid when they get on the team, and then become amazing once they leave. rebuild around t2 talent so that the curse is reversed and mid players become amazing. consider mce.

nt aspas mom

LMFAO

TSM is trying to reenter Valorant, and they're signing the players they trialed with right before they left the scene + parts of their old roster. I think this includes seven + gmd + poised (old trial) and 1-2 new people. I believe TSM told many trialed players, including screwface/lear/clear that they were set to be on the team, but changed their minds last minute. There could have been even more trials but these three players were confirmed to be dropped right before challengers. Many people think the abrupt decisions were made by poised + gmd and were going ham on twitter, but it could also be decisions made by the TSM coaching staff.

What's worse is players like screwface and lear were already on qualified challengers team trying to make it to ascension and left their teams after tsm promised them spots. now that tsm dropped them last minute, they can't go back to their old teams because their spots have already been filled, leaving them teamless this event.

scream, shahzam, saadhak on some maps

1. they already qualified, so losing isn't as punishing, which is why they seem very positive after losing.
2. they tried to antistrat sen HARD on sunset. first it was loud's map pick. notice the bomb plant next to halls. not a single person on loud on-site for post-plant, almost ever on A. sen's retake floods site with layered flashes and mollies for every corner, so loud tried to save as much util (mollies) as possible and deny the post plant. it worked for a few rounds but sentinels just started smoking halls off and tapping the bomb until loud burned their util. and the phoenix comp just doesn't work when his ult really gets as much info as a sova drone if sen always maximizes retakes and plays offsite.

if they keep playing like this they are literally the best team in the world

Look who's laughing now

https://www.vlr.gg/154982/warm-take

I foresaw this moment a year ago. He's not trash, but pretty overrated.

i agree. sentinels should've won 13-5 on split. 100t showed a few good rounds and won 3 unwinnable clutch rounds where sentinels were completely lost, but sentinels just look so much more coordinated overall.

https://www.vlr.gg/228065/ban-hate
one of the few threads i could find
some inside joke on vlr that evolved from matchfixing allegations

i think people on vlr hate him and accuse him of throwing or something idk. it's obscure and no one explains.

Their attack rounds are 90% of the time take some control of one map area and immediately transition to slow mid-rounding that reacts to noise. They do the same reactive defaults, hoping for different results each time, and MIBR takes a nap until C9 does something. Half of the time, MIBR has perfect reads because of this. The few times C9 takes a site, MIBR plays a full retake, and they almost always win. C9 lacks communication and awareness in the late rounds/post-plant, where everything falls apart if MIBR has an ounce of an idea about their setup.

Mibr just keeps reading them HARD - on Split, there's just no ingenuity. I think the methodical and slow defaults are what Sentinel's Split suffered from half a year ago, except that Sentinels could at least out-aim and win unwinnable rounds.

There is some lack of awareness and pretty bad midrounding, especially on attack. multiple impatient peeks without Skye util, giving up ideal space to play slow default with the team. Also, very boring 4-1 defaults, and the few times they went mid, either there are not enough people to contest or Mibr hard reads and picks off the entire team.

oh so thats why raze calls brimstone "brimstone-zinho"

deserved 100%. bg3 might even be on par with rdr2 depending on who you ask.

Last time I saw Less in champions he looked so young with his innocent baby face and messy haircut. Just went on his stream and now he looks like a 35 year old married man with a kid on the way, a full time construction job, and probably drinks with his friends at the bar every friday night.

he also said that he wanted to learn towards content creation because it was more financially secure than going full pro, especially in the terrible franchising environment that has been killing off the tier two scene. but he also explicitly said that he was completely open to and in fact willing to play pro whenever there was a chance. being the sixth man was just a more secure position, and now that he's proven what value he can bring to the team, he has proven he definitely belongs in the professional scene.

i remember tsm tried to get him years ago and i think it was hazed back then who said the buyout was the most insane amount hed ever seen. skubas been in contract jail for a while now

edit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/10s9lhz/hazed_on_skuba_buyout_situation/?rdt=43469

they could make a 6th man roster like drx did but that didnt work out too well. so we cant definitively say who gets dropped. i also doubt sen will immediately drop one of their starting roster players unless performances drop drastically throughout the season. we will have to see

no one said this was a roster selection process. but looking at how sen is doing WITH him highlights how insane of a player he is. even if he doesnt end up on sen later on any team will be 100 times better if they sign him