TSM 2-1 Squirtle Squad maybe a reverse sweep where everyone freaks out after TSM drops map 1 or Squirtle Squad takes map 2 and everyone freaks out but TSM pull it off in the end.

Anbox 2-0 ZMM

Knights 2-1 SoaR

DarkZero 2-0 Big Frames but the maps should be pretty close

IMT 2-0 1337

FaZe 2-0 Brimstone Gaming

ez5 2-1 Ghost

Soniqs 2-0 Ookers

*Acend
Also Liquid shouldn't be on there, if anything Guild>Liquid and not to mention V1, Xset and 100T...

Yeah he was... the conversation was always between TenZ, ScreaM and mwzera... Ardiis was the greatest player cause he didn't lose and mixwell was also up there but they were the only 3 really in the mix for the best player in the world(greatest = achievements, best = talent). And usually most people said TenZ over mwzera and ScreaM

ez5, ex Noble, Benchwarmers, NoPoaching

when? Haven't seen any TSM games for like 5 months now so it's hard to even judge Wardell rn but I do know cNed is killing it with the awp right now and I don't need to point out anything from 5+ months ago to claim he's the best Awper... No one has seen Wardell in a pro game for 5 months so who tf knows if he can still pull off the shit he used to(mostly before the AWP nerf and before and during First Strike...

Watch cNed on Breeze vs Guild and tell me Wardell is a better Awper... I've never seen Wardell do anything nearly as good with the AWP(obviously I'm talking about 1 map but cNed is consistently a god), not since the AWP was nerfed at least.

Oh yeah cause nothing changes in 5 years... this is the first CS Lan since Covid started right? This should be almost as hyped up as the Valorant Lan since it's the first CS Lan in over a year but yet the viewership is lower... I love Valorant but still like CS but I'm just saying you have a poor argument. Obviously it was the first Lan ever for Valorant but the game is only getting bigger and bigger and I'm sure Masters Berlin will have even more viewers and that Champions might have double the viewership. CS is not dead and isn't going to die anytime soon but Valorant will likely soon overtake CS in terms of popularity and viewership if it hasn't done so already.

That doesn't make sense at all... Why would there need to be a rule? It's just the best possible team from each country battling it out... Restricting the teams would make it a lot less enjoyable especially for countries that don't have many players(like Portugal might just have SAW for a team)

It's just for fun

But split is my favorite map :( only because I am a God on split but that's besides the point

Ok here's the part where you actually say what's wrong with it instead of just saying there's a lot wrong with it...

The thing about your point about Korea is that in Brazil all the best players are on different teams like mwzera on Gamelanders and heat on vivo keyd ect. Russia has Gambit but with Shao and Cloud. Turkey has Blaze but with Cned and MOJJ and Sweden has Guild but with Zyppan. You could definitely argue Korea oveer Turkey and Brazil but imo Sweden and Russia's rosters are too good for Korea.

Yeah that's who I meant. I fixed it now

They fall into the category of me not knowing enough about the players(other than Mina).

Mb I was going to add Australia but forgot. Also do you think Australia's team would just be Soniqs or would there be other Australian players as well?

1.USA: ShahZaM, SicK, dapr, nitr0, Asuna
2.Canada: TenZ, gMd, steel, effys, penny
3.Russia: nAts, Chronicle, Shao, Cloud, sheydos(I know the roles are really weird but you throw Shao on jett and raze than the others can fill everything else)
4.Sweden: Zyppan, Sayf, Leo, Yacine, Bonkar
5.Turkey: cNed, russ, MOJJ, Brave, Turko(cNed and russ are no doubters the last 3 are questionable and I don't watch enough Turkish val to know the best 3 to fill out the rest of the team)
6.Brazil: mwzera, sacy, qck, heat, sutecas(I don't watch much Brazilian Valorant at all but from what I've heard and based on some stats this seems like at least one of the best Brazilian rosters that could be made)
7.Korea: solo, Lakia, xeta, t3xture, peri
8.France: kAdavraa, logaN, rodeN, AKUMAAAAA, Newzera
9.Lithuania: nukkye, Destrian, vakk, ceNder, hype
10.Finland: derke, Jamppi, BONECOLD, shed, JESMUND
11.U.K: Boaster, soulcas, L1nk, Luzuh, Mistic
12.Spain: Mixwell, Koldamenta, eXerZ, Fit1nho, Yurii
13.Belgium: ScreaM, kinguyen, iDex, Aegis, DavidP
14.Thailand: Patiphan, Sushiboys, sScary, foxz, Kadoom
15.Germany: AslaN, Obnoks, murii, nico, luckeRRR
16.Poland: zeek, starxo, Mickebwoy, maniek, UNFAKE
17.Ukraine: Ange1, Arch, Kiles, AnjK, Sparkle
18.Denmark: AvovA, Zik, SEIDER, matti, Davud
19.Belarus: zeddy, Coffee, 7ssk7, SimonD4rk, diseased
20.Japan: Laz, Reita, takej, Feez, neth
21.Hungary: szimpli, specimen, Haxtrax, bzt, DeadFox
22.Czech Republic: MAGNUM, Elysium, Ambi, Jesse, bobys
23.Argentina: Nozwerr, Klaus, saadhak, franzera, katax(again haven't watched any of these guys play other than a bit of saadhak)

There's some more like India that I just don't know anything about(I know SkRossi but that's it) so I didn't include them.

I mean nitr0 is obviously the best smoke main in NA but zombs, Vanity, gMd and wippie are all up there as well.

I mean also their last 2 series have been really close against the 2 other top 3 teams in NA rn. Against XSET they lost 1-2 and the 2 maps they lost, they lost by less than 4 rounds. Against Sen, they lost Haven in OT and I think if 100T won that OT, than they would've taken the series but obviously they didn't. Also I just want to say that Asuna is hands down the best Icebox player in the world and 100T are now looking really good on Icebox, partly because of his recent performances so I just hope he can keep popping off.

First off johnqt is 22 years old and secondly, I promise you that getting johnqt or any other "star" duelist would be a worse move than this. You already have mada and Yay to put on duelists. It really doesn't make sense to add a 3rd duelist player with the current meta. The only reason why a triple duelist comp was viable months ago was because everybody's utility usage was so shit. Unless ABX snatched someone like dapr there was no way they could seriously compete with Sen for the best team in NA. Obviously Sen would never give away dapr to a top team at this time so there really wasn't anyway to really seriously challenge Sen... ABX should be a top 5 team in NA with this move and again you should be EXTREMELY happy with this move and with how great your team has been despite losing Android.

Edit: look at NRG. They have tex, s0m, Android and Wedid. They ignored role issues by signing Wedid, leaving s0m to play kayo/skye instead of putting him on the smokes. They also have Android on viper which makes 0 sense. Unlike NRG, Andbox are making moves that keeps their players on the roles they are best on and just look at how teams like NRG and TSM just sign the best players instead of the best fits are doing right now. Both are losing to tier 2 teams like ez5, Virtuoso and Noble.

You say one of Xsets worst players but 1: Xset is a great team so their worst player is still really good, 2: Xset was a really balanced team and never really had a consistent weakest link and 3: thwifo was dropped because they picked up an IGL and a cracked 16 year old, not because he was a weak player(he wasn't a bad player on xset whatsoever). This is a really good pickup from Andbox and you should be thrilled as a fan. I would much rather take a player that has been consistently great against tier 1 teams and fits perfectly into the team rather than a player who hasn't proved anything against tier 1 teams and doesn't fit at all into your team. Again you can't just throw 5 duelists on a team and succeed. You need support players and thwifo is one of the best support players in NA.

You would rather take the TSM approach and get a bunch of stars than great players who fit the team? Thwifo is a big upgrade from Seb, and a great role player, and exactly the player you should've been hoping for...

stellar?

nitr0>zombs

Why Leaf over Asuna, SicK and Victor?

Cause he's Canadian...

So if an American learns to speak mandarin does he become Chinese?

ShahZam(sova/jett)
Asuna(reyna/jett)
dapr(cypher/killjoy/viper/sage/sova)
nitr0(omen/viper)
SicK(phoenix/sage/raze/skye/sova)
Basically sentinels but nitr0 replaces Zombs and Asuna replaces TenZ. Both can pretty easily replace them role wise except Asuna plays more Reyna than Jett but overall it would be a talent upgrade over the current sentinels roster. You could also put in players like Zellsis, Vanity, BcJ, Crashies, Victor, Leaf, Shawn, corey and others but this is the best lineup imo.

Wait what does match fixing have to do with a team using an unregistered player?

eeiu might be the best player on their team why tf would they drop him for someone who would hurt their brand?

I will always support the players but I will also call them out. Steel is so impactful to this team which btw is a clear top 3 team in NA rn. The way I see it is that there is no much better option than Steel and 100T is succeeding rn so why would they change anything? You cannot only look at stats and determine a player's worth to their team. Most players in Steel's shoes would be much less impactful and there's only a few players that can site anchor, lurk and IGL the way steel does. Is he the best site anchor, lurker or IGL? No but he does have a lot of pressure on him to hold sites, get good timings on his solo lurks and to IGL and he gets the job done. Individually, he is the weakest link but he is incredibly impactful to the team.

Envy beat Sen multiple times in one of the Challengers and the era wasn't over stfu

Watch. The. Game. Zombs has shit stats but is a great player because of how he plays. Same applies to Steel.

Acend, Gambit, Fnatic, FPX
I know G2 and Guild looked great but things are gonna change. Also I don't think Blaze or any Turkish team will make Berlin but I can see Navi making it.

When did I say he could only play sova? He is a top 3 sova player in the world though so putting him on smokes a duelist or on killjoy/cypher wouldn't make sense. I can definitely see him playing some kayo, skye and maybe breach though.

Right now RB is on sova/skye so does Lakia replace RB? RB has been one of the best Korean players though so do you bench BuZz and put RB back on Jett? Do you move BuZz or someone else to smokes and bench MaKo? Obviously Lakia has to play(eventually) when they get their real starting 5 as well as stax since they are probably the 2 best players in the region. K1ng is the only real cypher/killjoy main on the team so I'm pretty sure he'll start as well but who would be the other 2 starters? Also they could try someone else like RB on cypher/killjpy or something but idk. Honestly, I think Rb would be the one Vision Strikers should bench but then again I haven't really been watching and I've only been looking at stats.

G2's biggest problem forever now has been the lack of an IGL. Now they have one with Koldamenta. Even though he has been consistently on the bottom and individually hasn't been great, he helps this team out much more than ardiis did(at least in 2021) and also Ardiis isn't even that good. He's decent but everyone else caught up to the level players like ardiis were playing at and now ardiis is just a decent player.

Yo Imagine if TSM signed zekken, dephh and Leviathan and kept Wardell and Subroza. They'd be looking real good rn but they didn't so it sucks for them.

Considering the fact that teams like V1, C9B and Gen.G all could qual from the next challengers and that other teams like Rise, KCP, DarkZero ect can all improve with more time, seeding doesn't really matter too much. Either way Sen will have Envy or 100T on their side of the bracket and both of those teams have a month to improve and, with kayo being added to the agent pool, the meta will change as well. Either way Sen already qualified for Champions so making Berlin isn't as big of a deal for Sen as it is for every other NA team.

I'm saying imagine if they signed him before Xset did also TSM is a much bigger org, which would bring more views and probably money but Xset definitely have the better Valorant team by far.

hate to break it to you but I didn't make this thread for you bud also nice ratio dumbass

TSM might actually be a decent team if they decided to sign dephh or NaturE when they were available, especially since they decided to make roster changes. TSM has always had an issue with getting a good IGL but they never try to address it. They just try and sign some good player to fix it when the problem isn't really their talent, but it is their IGL situation. I think hazed is a good player but signing 1 of these 2 players and dropping hazed would've been such a good move. A TSM lineup of Wardell, Subroza, dephh/NaturE, bang and Leviathan looks so good but I guess we'll never know.

Kanpeki

When did Wardell do this like a year ago... Back before they nerfed the AWP? Cned is doing this now against a team that's looking like the #2 team in EU. Wardell used to be the best Awper in the World but that's in the past. Now Cned is the best awper in the world on one of the best teams in the world while Wardell can't make a main event of a challengers qualifier...