1. Yay
2. ShahZaM
3. TenZ
4. Wardell
5. PureR
6. Asuna
7. autimatic
8. Babybay
9. Leaf
10. penny

fr they weren't even playing with food

I love how he fucking tweeted "playing the game with no sound was interesting LMAO" and all the Brazilian and HL fans got but hurt. Like bruh he's making a comment and they all had the same headsets so he's not using it to say that 100T were at a disadvantage either. He was mostly complaining about the situation provided by Riot ig and just making a comment saying it was interesting and the Brazilian fans send death threats smh

I get 40-50 FPS and even less on CS stfu

Np "GetsystheGr8" 👍

Envy vs VK is an exciting matchup. Heat vs Yay is going to be so fun to watch and overall VK have a very skilled roster from what I've heard and they could certainly keep it close or even upset Envy.

T1 is looking scary with autimatic, curry, spyder and thwifo. The market for sova mains in NA(and even the world) isn't great but there are some decent options if they want to move on from Brax. Sinatraa is an extremely unlikely candidate but he has to be mentioned because of how good he is. Pr0phie is probably the best FA Sova right now but if I were T1 and I wanted to move on from Brax, I would look to buy out a guy like Derrek. T1 is a much bigger org than Rise and Derrek is a top Sova in NA so that move would make sense. If they were to make that move, it would probably have to be after LCQ though because Rise is in LCQ and T1 is not so Rise wouldn't want to sell him until after LCQ. They could also try and buy out either Temperature from EG or Genghsta from IMT which would be good moves as well. It's hard for T1 to mess this up, and even though I'm a 100T fan, I hope T1 get a good 5th and can be successful.

We will see tomorrow

Also benched himself cause he thought he was a liability, knowing that if he did, he might not get any offers for CS. It's really hard not to respect this dude.

Yeah but tbf Rush isn't Ethan and wasn't at his level in CS(I'm talking recently). Ethan was a top 20ish player in CS while Rush stepped down since he thought he was hurting his team. Still, I expect Rush to be a great player after a good amount of time. Idk if this is the right move since LCQ is in a month but he is likely going to be a good Valorant player. I just hope he doesn't get too much hate if TSM sign him and he underperforms at LCQ cause you cannot expect him to be great after a month of playing the game but we'll just have to see.

Just have NaturE and koosta play sova(and cypher) instead of jett and slot mummAy on jett... The roles work especially since gMd is a good duelist as well. Like maybe on split they have him on raze and mummAy on omen. The move wouldn't effect Shawn's role at all unless they have him play some sova(which he was excellent on before GenG) and gMd would mostly still be on smokes. The best sova available imo is Pr0phie and he would be much less of an upgrade compared to mummAy. I really believe that NaturE and/or koosta could pick up sova and that adding mummAy would be the best move they could make.

I'm not a Liquid fan but holy shit this is an insane roster. Everyone has been saying how kryptix was the clear weak link in Liquid and now they get a 20 year old player who was a rising star in CS before his stint with Vitality. Now they have the brother dynamic, got rid of their weakest link and have a new young star on their team. Anything other than being a top 4 team in EMEA would be extremely disappointing. Great move by Liquid and good luck to kryptix.

+mummAy
He can play jett or smokes and when he plays smokes gMd could play duelist. NaturE and koosta aren't bad on jett but mummAy is a very good jett player and also a great smoke player. Then you have NaturE and/or koosta pick up sentinels and NaturE and/or koosta and shawn play sova. Makes sense to me and I've been saying -MkaeL +mummAy since Envy dropped him. MkaeL could definitely make a tier 2 roster and iirc he has IGL'd in the past so he's definitely a good FA and I wish him the best of luck.

Oh shit I thought I edited but I meant to edit clarifying that all 3 of them being above Dre, Wardell and Leaf is questionable not that I 100% thought all 3 of them were worse than Dre Wardell and Leaf

Reyna: Asuna
Sova: Crashies
Killjoy: pAura
Also omen is like 50/50 between nitr0 and AvovA in my eyes

That's a weird conclusion to an article about T1 building around Auti... He's just now getting to that top 10 duelist level in NA and you think he would leave now? Anyways, T1 has a great core with Curry, Autimatic and possibly Spyder(if he returns). Now they will need a sova and probably a sentinel/viper player. There's not too many great sovas available but Pr0phie is definitely an option as well as sinatraa, but that is unlikely. I like the genghsta idea from above as well and they could look to buy a sova out like Derek or someone like him. As for the 2nd player, I think thwifo is a good shout(even though he hasn't played viper) as well as(once again stated above) jammyz. However, T1 is probably going to take their time and find the right players and wait for more players to get dropped as well. They already have their star with Autimatic, their IGL with Curry and a great smokes player(when healthy) with Spyder. T1 could definitely contend with the top 4 teams if they make the right moves.

Are you sure you follow NA? No PureR or Victor, Corey ShoT_UP and ShahZ above Dre, Wardell and Leaf...

Top 8 NA vs #1 in the world cause of 1 player... That shows you his worth. The fact that they are as good as they are without a coach, also goes to show just how valuable Shahz is. Just think about all of the comps that Sentinels have played with that other teams starting picking up after Sen played with that comp and the fact that Sen have stayed on top of NA for so long, despite the changing meta and even a roster change. Not to mention the fact that he's probably the most individually skilled, top tier IGL in the world. Not to mention the fact that, at Iceland, he was one of the best performers.

I mean on paper NRG should be a top 8 team competing for everything, but they are not. Plus Andbox was legitimately a top 5 level team but 1. they only played together for a few matches and 2. They should've beat TSM if Stani didn't have the worst map of his career. I'm not saying this team is as good as that ABX team, I'm saying that ABX got unlucky and were a brand new roster and that this roster, would be good enough to make LCQ and with luck on their side, they could qualify for Champions. Obviously this is all hypothetical and all but I just wanted to say that Thief and Stellar would fit like a glove on KCP. This team's strength would be it's team work, not it's firepower necessarily(even though they would have some good firepower), whereas Andbox was the other way around since they only had Stani for a bit and then just added thwifo in before Chal 2. I honestly think that if that Andbox team was given more time, that they would be a top 5 team in NA but now we'll never know since ABX gave them 1 tournament lmao.

Damn it won't let me reply but whatever

I think having jmoh instead of scourge would be better though. Personally, I think jmoh is the better player(I'm not 100% sure tho) and the roles work better if they have jmoh instead of scourge since jmoh is a jett main and because thief plays pretty much exclusively reyna with a bit of cypher and phoenix. Also I think that would be why they would have a shot at champions next year(It would still be unlikely), because I think they would have great chemistry and work well together. They would have some pretty good individual skill but them chemistry would be what would make them a good team.

The thing is that there isn't a clear top 8 and other than the top 4, the rest come in an out(with FaZe being a recurring team).

I was just thinking how KCP would be a perfect destination for these 2. With Oderus joining V1, KCP will need an IGL and a sentinel and, as far as secondary duelists go, scourge is definitely not the best in NA. Stellar is a sentinel main(I mean tbf he has played every agent other than yoru in pro games so he can play anything) IGL and thief is a great secondary duelist. Plus, they already have played with fiziq when he was on their Mixup/LG team in the early days of Valorant. Also, KCP are out of LCQ so they don't need to worry about the rest of this year anyways. I think if they add Thief and stellar that they could definitely qualify for LCQ next year and maybe if they replace skuba with a great sentinel or smoke main(maybe someone like Stani or thwifo), they could even have a shot at qualifying to Champions next year.

Ik you're a huge LG fan but come on, you know that ban is nowhere near ready to play for any tier 1-1.5 team. He's not even ready to play for the top tier 2 teams yet. He has a shit ton of potential but for an org as big as TSM, and for a team that could be in LCQ, signing ban would be a huge mistake. He would be a good signing for Cloud9's new academy team, but definitely not for TSM's main team(and they already have bdog on their academy team so signing Ban still wouldn't make sense).
Edit: Also, as for ShoT_UP, Subroza is a top 5 skye in NA so moving him onto smokes full time wouldn't make much sense. Idk where you are getting the idea that he is too inconsistent on skye but he's not. What they need is to get someone like Stani or Andersin and then, if they don't make LCQ, then they can decide whether they want to keep Levi and hazed or rebuild around Wardell and Subroza.

Would be a good fix but s0m and eeiu are apart of the core 3 in NRG and I don't see NRG letting go of them, especially eeiu

Well if they are letting a content creator have influence over their Valorant team then no wonder they are so shit

Why tf would a content creator have any influence over what decisions their eSports teams make?

1. Myth has nothing to do with the moves TSM's Valorant team makes
2. Player1 didn't get dropped from V1 because of his skill, it was because he has personal issues
3. Harmful is a jett 1 trick(sure he can play other agents but nowhere near as good as jett) and by picking him up TSM would be making the same mistake they made with bang
   Personally I think TSM needs to gamble on sinatraa. Sure the bad pr from it would be insane, but if they really care about making champions, they are gonna need more talent. Obviously I'm not saying they should pick up more duelists but, sinatraa would give them a huge boost and he would be a massive upgrade over Levi(not that Levi is bad or anything) and he could flex onto the duelist, like bang was doing on some maps. I am confident that sinatraa would be up with Crashies and Bcj when it comes to the best sovas in NA and he would just help TSM so much. If they were to do this, it would mean that they would drop Levi as well. I think the best option for their 2nd pickup would be thwifo if he learns viper. If not, then I think they should go with jammyz. Either thwifo or jammyz would be able to play viper when needed(once again, assuming thwifo learns viper) and would be the sentinel main of the team. With Wardell on jett(or sage), sinatraa mostly on sova, while also being able to flex onto a duelist, hazed could play smokes on every map and subroza could also play skye on every map. Or hazed could learn sova, which would allow sinatraa to play duelist on maps other than split, but it would mean subroza would have to play smokes on some maps still.

Why is everyone using Sen's consistency as an argument against them? Stop trying to use the fact that they can actually be an amazing team no matter what the meta is as an argument against them. Fnatic and Liquid were the best teams in EMEA during Reykjavik and now the scene has changed as well as the meta. Gambit lost to Fnatic in the Iceland qualifiers and now they are the 1st seed in EMEA and Acend couldn't even make it to the EMEA playoffs. The game is always changing and so is the eSports scene so your argument is just shit

KRU, Zeta and Vivo Keyd are all regional champs tho... Yes the top 2 teams in every group aren't equal among the 4 groups but Group B is definitely the most balanced group. Any combination of 2 teams can make it out of Group B with Envy being the only team that is really expected to make it.

Unfortunately for Thief, NA(and the entire Esports scene worldwide) is oversaturated with duelists so it might be hard for him to find a good team. I can see maybe like KCP, Complexity or Darkzero picking him up but he needs to learn skye if he wants to get signed. He would definitely be an upgrade over scourge, ohai or Koler and would be a great secondary duelist, but I doubt a team would pick him up as a secondary duelist if he isn't a good skye.

I have no clue why but tbf YaBoiDre is a top duelist in NA and now that Thief is gone, YaBoiDre has really been shining, now that he is the main duelist.

Maybe they deserved a better group but this will be such an exciting group to watch so why complain?

It would be amazing to see VS, Acend and SMB all in the same group, fighting just to make the playoffs. Why do you all want 2 clear top 2 teams in each group? If they change it, the groups will be pretty boring to watch and the only great matchups would be the 2 top teams for who gets #1 in the group(which doesn't really matter). Having the group of death will just give us more exciting matchups in the group stage and will allow us to see 3 of the top teams in the world trying their absolute hardest just to get out of the group. Plus Envy has 3 #1 seeds, including Vivo Keyd in their group. Obviously Envy are the favorite in that group but that group has some big upset potential as well.

Bro why do you guys not want group A? It would make the group stages 10 times more exciting...

VS Acend
Envy VK
Gambit 100T
Sen G2
Kinda boring Ik but I don't see Bren or F4Q beating G2, Maybe HL beats 100T or something but I don't see them beating Gambit if they do beat 100T or beating 100T a 2nd time. Envy should easily make it out of group B and so should Vivo Keyd but I can see Zeta Division or KRU maybe making it past VK. Lastly, my most exciting prediction is that SMB don't make it out of groups. SMB have 1 of the most individually talented teams in the world, but I think Acend is still the best team in EMEA(They only lost after the qualified in the last playoffs) and I think VS has a great team and a much more tactically sound team. Honestly I like the fact that we have a group of death because getting the 8 expected teams through groups with obvious top 2 teams is much less exciting and now we have a group that will have great matchups and we will see 3 great teams struggling just to make it out of the group stage .

Wait how come group B has no team from Pool 1? Did they forget Vivo Keyd is the 1st seed from Brazil or did they just not do it the way it says at the bottom? As of right now Group B has 1 Pool 2 team, 2 Pool 3 teams and a Pool 4 team but no Pool 1 team. It is also by far the easiest group for the top team to go through. Envy got lucky AF that they, not only didn't get a team from Pool 1, but also they got the best draw from the other pools as well.

I'm definitely a 100T fan lmao, I'm just not delusional like you. Reality is that TenZ is the best duelist in NA, SicK is the best flex and Zombs is a great Astra.

If you don't think Zombs is good on astra then your opinion is already invalid... I think it's more obvious that TenZ is the best duelist and SicK is the best Flex player than it is that nitr0 is the best controller. Even though I think that he is, Marved and Zombs are both in the discussion as well whereas I feel like TenZ and SicK are pretty clearly the top at their roles.

Neither team was ever really a superteam tho. They were just 2 strong French teams. The best French speaking players are very split up right now, but with kAdavraa being available, Vitality having Bramz, the switch over of nbk(and possibly kennyS) as well as the size of Vitality(which would allow them to buy out players from BDS and other teams) means Vitality could make the 1st real French superteam. The only thing that could possibly make the hypothetical French speaking superteam better would be if ScreaM was available(I know he's Belgian but he speaks French).

Read his twitlonger before asking questions... He's looking for other opportunities. He basically benched himself.

I'm really hoping this is a sign that Vitality is going to build the first Valorant French superteam. kAdavraa is the best French player in the world and alongside bramz, maybe some of the BDS guys like logaN or even some of the guys from CS like NBK or maybe kennyS(I doubt he'll switch over but still) we could see an amazing French superteam get built.

Who tf would pay a million for either of them lmao

I don't think he officially retired so I reworded it, but he hasn't played in a while and I don't think he has much of a future in Valorant, at least as a pro player.

The real question is why they have RB playing sova on some maps instead of Lakia. RB is a great duelist and all but Lakia's sova is just so much better. Playing RB on sova instead of Lakia is like playing Yao Ming in a small ball lineup in basketball instead of a guard or something like that. Sure, RB is one of the best players on VS but Lakia would work better on Sova on these maps than RB imo.

100 Thieves
Original: HiKo, Venerated, Valliate, YaBoiDre, Pride(Venerated, Pride and Valliate all retired and YaBoiDre is on LG)
Current: HiKo, Asuna, Steel, nitr0, Ethan
Andbox
Original: Yay, ANDORID, seb, b0i, Poach(Poach is on BBG, b0i is a reserve for 100T, seb is a FA, ANDROID is on NRG and Yay is on Envy)
Other Players: rebo, JcStani, thwifo(rebo plays for Good Fellas, JcStani is a FA and thwifo was returned to XSET's inactive roster)
Current: Vice, mada, Aleksandar(played last with Cooper and neT)
Built By Gamers
Original: Nicolas, robwiz, Tork, payen, pho(Nicolas, robwiz and Tork are all retired, payen is on TSM Academy and pho is on EG)
Current: Poach, Will, bjor, rarkar, Trill, Critical
C9B
Original: Mitch, TenZ, Relyks, Vice, shinobi(shinobi last played with Benchwarmers, Vice is on Andbox, TenZ is on Sentinels and Relyks most recently played with Shroud's team)
Current: Mitch, Vanity, leaf, Xeppaa, xeta, poiz
Complexity
Original: agM, ohai, C0M, frisco, Xp3(Xp3 is the coach of Dignitas, frisco hasn't played recently and C0M is on ez5)
Current: agM, ohai, valyn, jcrueL, brawk
Envy
Originial: fns, c4Lypso, kaboose, aKis, mummAy(mummAy and c4Lypso are both FAs, kaboose retired and aKis hasn't played recently)
Current: fns, Crashies, Victor, Marved, Yay
Evil Geniuses
Original: Temperature, Aleksandar, potter, clawdia, osias(osias last played for Synergy, clawida is on CLG Red, potted is the coach of EG and Aleksandar is on Andbox)
Current: Temperature, pho, roca, Boostio, Branted
FaZe Clan
Original(not all of them were signed but this was their first team): corey, Marved, ZachaREEE, psalm, depph(dephh is on XSET, psalm is on squirtle squad and Marved is on Envy)
Current: corey, ZachaREEE, BABYBAY, rawkus, BabyJ
Gen.G
Original: gMd, MkaeL, effys, Player1, huynh(huynh is now on Ghost, Player1 is presumably retired and effys is on V1)
Current: gMd, MkaeL, Shawn, koosta, NaturE
Ghost
Original: NiSMO, chase, dazzLe, zecK, payen(dazzLe is on LG, zecK is coaching TSM Female and payen is on TSM Academy)
Current: NiSMO, chase, huynh, ryann, koalanoob
Immortals
Original: Genghsta, Asuna, bjor, JcStani, KOLER(Koler is on DarkZero, JcStani last played for Andbox, bjor is on BBG and Asuna is on 100T)
Other players: Dicey, neptune Jmoh, NaturE(Dicey last played for 100T, neptune is on Rise, Jmoh is on KCP and NaturE is on Gen.G)
Current: Genghsta, ShoT_UP, Rossy, JonahP, EmilShe1n, Kehmicals
Luminosity
Original: aproto, Thief, Stellar, hoppin, fiziq(fiziq is on KCP, hoppin hasn't played recently, Stellar is a FA and Thief is on the inactive roster)
Current: aproto, YaBoiDre, TiGG, Moose, dazzLe
NRG
Original: eeiu, s0m, daps, KOLER, Shanks(daps is now coaching EG's csgo team, KOLER is on DarkZero and Shanks is on Rise)
Current: eeiu, s0m, Android, Wedid, tex
Pittsburgh Knights
Original: XXiF, ZK, ronaldo, dsr, Dawn(Dawn is on T1, ZK is on TSM Academy and ronaldo has only played 1 game recently for ez5)
Current: XXiF, dsr, MAKKA, Exalt, silenx, creeperonthebeat
Renegades
Original: Winsum, randyySavage, cp2, Nurfed, berghy(berghy is on Basilisk, Nurfed is on flickbaiters and cp2 hasn't played since RNG)
Current: Winsum, randyySavage, RetrQ, Stronglegs, Jerk
Rise
Original: Ksiaze, Spirit, anger, ChurmZ, ShoukR(Ksiaze played for LG but hasn't played recently, Spirit last played for Resonate but hasn't played recently, anger is now the coach of Rise, ChurmZ is on Divize and ShoukR is on 303)
Other Players: ange, riku, Showtime, c4Lypso(ange is on DarkZero, riku is on FYB, Showtime last played for Rise but hasn't played recently and c4Lpso is a FA)
Current: neptune, Shanks, supamen, Derrek, POISED
Sentinels
Original: ShahZaM, sinatraa, Zombs, SicK, dizzy(dizzy never really went pro and sinatraa hasn't played recently due to the accusation against him and his ban)
Current: ShahZaM, TenZ, Zombs, SicK, dapr
TSM
Original: Wardell, Subroza, hazed, reltuC, Drone
Current: Wardell, Subroza, hazed, LeviathanAG, bang
Version1
Original: Zellsis, effys, penny, Vanity, Player1(Player1 is presumably retired and Vanity joined C9B)
Current: Zellsis, effys, penny, Wippie, Oderus
T1
Original: Brax, Skadoodle, AZK, food, Crashies(AZK hasn't played recently and food and crashies joined Envy)
Current: Brax, Skadoodle, autimatic, Curry, Dawn, Spyder
XSET
Originial: Ayrin, PureR, WeDid, thwifo, Brando(Brando last played for Goofy Goobers, WeDid is now on NRG and thwifo last played with Andbox)
Current: Ayrin, PureR, zekken, depph, Bcj

Moose wasn't from mixup... Thief and aproto are the only 2 remaining from the Mixup/Original LG roster

Tex didn't even play jett on Equinox. He was a raze/phoenix/reyna main. He's definitely not a 1 trick lmao

I mean first off it was a 5-0 and secondly, 2 or 3 of the maps were only close because Sen almost threw. Getting 5 rounds while being down 12-6(just a random example) or something like that doesn't mean the game was close, it just means that Sen almost threw.

Honestly, if FPX were to completely rebuild their roster, I would love to see Ange1 and Shao go to Navi in place of arch and Duno. Shao could play Sage on the maps arch plays sage and sova on the maps duno plays sova while Ange1 plays viper on the maps Arch plays viper and smokes on the maps where duno plays smokes. I love CIS teams in Valorant and CS so I would love to see that happen but I also really want to see what FPX does with this roster.