Honestly bro... Especially their coach

https://twitter.com/G2kennyS/status/1368977164272623622?s=20

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I think that the seeding aspect of this game doesn't really matter because either way, they would have to go through Envy(likely) or Sen(likely) in the 2nd round and then the other in the Final so I think the prize pool is more valued than the seeding. Also Xset and IMT are both top 5 teams so, again, either way it's a tough road to Masters 2.

Still a BO5 so they can only win 3-1 or 3-2

tex can IGL? When did he IGL?

imo C9 should drop Vice, mitch and skyleR. They are all solid players but this roster just doesn't get good results so I think C9 needs a fresh start around Leaf and poiz and maybe xeta too. Leaf is one of the best omens in NA imo, poiz is a young jett/raze with a lot of potential and xeta is good on jett, sova and breach. If they were to make this move, they would need to add a sentinel and either a duelist(if xeta plays sova) or a sova(if xeta plays breach). Idk who they would add but I'm sure an org like C9 could buy out some amazing players from other teams. I can't think of 2 FA that would be good pickups together, especially since C9 would need a new IGL after dropping Vice but I think that tex would be a great pickup for the duelist/sova player since he can play both roles and is a great player(the best FA available imo). Maybe they only drop mitch and skyleR and keep Vice to be the IGL and to play killjoy while also adding a duelist like tex but idk. If I was making the decisions for C9, I would try to build a team that TenZ could easily fit back into once he returns while also trying to make the best roster I could and I just don't think that Vice, mitch and skyleR are the best options available. Just by having Leaf, TenZ won't have to carry as hard and if C9 can build a great roster, they could be a top team once TenZ returns.

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BO5 and FaZe has map advantage so that would be impossible

I honestly think that they should try to teach Subroza how to play cypher. Normally cypher's play the lurking role, as Subroza does but on omen, and hazed is much better on omen/brim than he is on killjoy. I know it is a crazy idea and that Subroza has never played cypher but I think it would be worth a try. Another alternative would be to drop reltuC and add Poach. He is about equally skilled with reltuC imo but is also a great IGL and plays sova and viper, which could be useful on icebox. Another alternative would be to drop reltuC, move Drone over to sova and to add a duelist like tex, who is the best FA available in my eyes, and is a very good duelist. By adding a duelist like tex and moving Drone to sova, TSM would add even more firepower whereas adding someone like shinobi or poach would bring in a proven, great IGL to the team to help them tactically. I think trying Subroza out on cypher and moving hazed onto the smokes, combined with 1 of the 2 options I have given would be a great move and even if trying Subroza out on cypher doesn't work, they can just move him back to omen. Of the 2 options I suggested, I personally would add tex and move Drone over to sova. hazed might not be as good of an IGL as fns, steel, shahz, poach or shinobi but I think he is good enough to get the job done and TSM would have so much more firepower.

Not sure that's how it works or else the orgs would make nothing from eSports. But if it is, I would much rather get $4,000 from my hard work than $2,000

If he stays consistent, than absolutely. Over the last 3 series, Asuna is 149-100 but if you look at the 5 series before that, he is 188-217 and if you look at the 5 series before that, he is 205-119. The 5 series stretch where he went 188-217 was probably the worst he's played during a multiple series stretch but it still concerns me. Also, I want to point out that I've never seen anyone better at Raze than Asuna. His satchels to destroy the Killjoy ult on ascent and his movement while using satchels is incredible and the only thing that he needs to work on is Raze's ult. I really hope Asuna and the rest of 100T can keep this up against FaZe and going into Masters, and if they do, I can absolutely see them heading to Iceland.

ASUNA!!!!!!!! He played bad during the main event of Challengers 2 but now he is going off. If he plays like this in Masters, 100T have a very good chance of winning. Also HiKo has been going off an has been clutching the rounds that he used to clutch back in First Strike. 100T is looking amazing rn!

I agree that Drone isn't the best phoenix or really that close but come on man SicK is obviously the best phoenix in NA right now, Asuna doesn't even play Phoenix anymore with the new 100T roster, Sinatraa has played 1 game on phoenix in the last 3 months and honestly hasn't played like a top 10 player in these last 3 months and when he has, he has been on Reyna on Icebox or on Sova.
So imo the top phoenix players in NA are:

1. SicK
2. Android
3. Food
   Then you have players like Drone, Shawn, tex, Will and NiSMO and ig you might be able to consider sinatraa and Asuna top phoenix players as well even if they don't play phoenix anymore but I won't.

100T 2-0. 100T looked amazing against TSM yesterday and should take Haven and either Bind or Ascent, whichever 1 GenG picks. 100T didn't look great against NRG on Bind or Ascent but I think they win because of individual skill.

1. Ok he played off and on or whatever but a lot of these other pros, like all 5 of the TSM guys, have been grinding for multiple hours every day since beta and he's still been playing great(but the numbers don't really back that up). The 100T-NRG game was kind of confusing. 100T looked like they were individually playing good(not as good as NRG ofc) but all of them went -9 or worse. I really don't think the stats reflect how damn good Ethan is playing and anyone who hasn't been watching wouldn't know how good he is.

They already do show who picked the map. There is an arrow next to the name of the map pointing to 1 of the 2 teams and it says map pick.

I would say leading every ignition series up until one of the last ones in ACS would be considered dominating. It's a team game so 1 player dominating doesn't mean the team is successful. So just because they didn't win anything doesn't mean he wasn't dominating.

So, as it has been pointed out by countless commenters(not necessarily on this thread), hazed is not very good on sentinels. Hazed is a good player and his aim has been on point but he just doesn't get much value out of killjoy's utility, whereas someone like steel has thought it out a lot more and uses killjoy and cypher utility extremely well. Subroza is the lurker for TSM, and a very good one at that. However, Subroza is the omen for TSM even though most other teams have their cypher play the lurking role. Since TSM needs to make some substantial changes but have some great players, I think that moving Roza over to cypher and hazed back on the brim/omen should be considered. I know that Roza has never played cypher(in a pro game at least) but I think hazed can get so much more value out of brim/omen than he gets on killjoy and that subroza's lurking tendencies are better suited for cypher than omen.
Another move that I think could be a good move would be to drop reltuC, and either add a sova or add a duelist and move Drone back on Sova, especially since he hasn't been doing great on the raze/phoenix recently. Maybe they could even do both of these moves or maybe, they go in a completely different direction.
If I made the decisions at TSM, I personally would drop reltuC, add tex, move Drone over to Sova and try moving Subroza over to cypher and hazed to Omen/Brim. Then again, the people in charge know a lot more than I do but I'm just saying what I think would be a good move, and the moves that I would like to see.

Masters is next week so I wouldn't say they have that much time but yeah I think Ethan has adapted the quickest from cs to Valorant of any former cs pros, or even former pros in general. I can't think of any players that were this good 1 week after switching over to Valorant. I mean you could make an argument for the guys that have played since beta like TenZ and Wardell but when they switched over, everyone else was also new.

I said this before the event started, meaning I thought NRG would lose to 100T and then beat TSM but 100T lost to NRG and beat TSM so yes it is how the bracket works.

Well he was on a top 3 team from Beta to First Strike... meanwhile TenZ dominated every event but his team could only get 3rd at best...

Well I was wrong. NRG completely just played better individually and won their duels.

Bruh they've only played 1 qualifier with this roster... Also Dfuse is a good team so why would they make changes so quickly?

KANPEKI. I've said it multiple times now but I still don't understand how this man isn't signed to 1 tier 2 org. Then you got Sharky, supamen, c4Lypso, Crashies(?), Will from BBG, corey from FaZe(?), nismo from Ghost and Aleksander from EG

GenG 2-1

2-0 LG but might be close

Honestly I think they should make it 16 teams with 4 NA teams, 3 EU, 2 BR, 1 JP, 1 KR, 1 SEA, 1 OCE, 1 LATAM, 1 TR, 1 CIS. Or Maybe you give 1 slot to OCE/SEA and give 2 to TR in this case but idk. The bigger the tournament is, the more likely an underdog wins, which are always the most memorable, but also the less inclusive or rewarding it is to make it there. 16 is a perfect number for a bracket and would allow for more regions to be better represented. Also maybe you could take away a NA slot and give another slot to TR in the scenario given but the NA scene is the biggest in terms of orgs and viewership and I have a bias towards more NA teams so idk. I'm assuming with 10 teams, they will have 2 groups of 5 play and then the top 2 teams from each group advance to a bracket which should be good as well.

100T, LG, GenG and NRG

I'm assuming this mean the 3 of them get signed to another org because there's no way they would let go of tex right?

FaZe 2-0. I think FaZe will win 1 map like 13-6 and then they will win 14-12 in OT on the other map.

How can you anti-strat against FaZe when they don't have strats?

I think NRG is a great team and in eSports that 100T is not in, I root for NRG so I am definitely not sleeping on them but I just think that Asuna is better than or at least on the same level as Android and that nitr0, Ethan, HiKo and Steel bring more firepower to 100T than s0m, daps, eeiu and shanks. If you look at 100T, there isn't really a weak point. There could be an argument for steel or HiKo but when you look at NRG, daps is the clear cut weak point and is the weakest player individually in this matchup, which I think gives 100T the edge in terms of firepower

supamen, c4Lypso, sharky and poach are all also FAs btw. Honestly sharky is the best jett available(no hate to dicey). Idk how c4Lypso has not been signed to a team yet. Go look at his stats from the last 90 days and tell me that he doesn't deserve at least a trial with a team. I understand that he has played a lot of tier 3 teams but putting up a 1.51 K.D over about 300 rounds on Reyna is insane and he was also amazing against the tier 1 teams when he was on Envy. Supamen is a good omen and brimstone but was underperforming at the end of his time with Dig. However, he can be an amazing player and has been in the past. Poach is a good igl and sentinel and made Andbox a better team despite bottom fragging. At the very least sharky deserves to get signed immediately and c4Lypso deserves a trial. Dicey, Brax and AZK all also deserve to be signed and Poach and Shinobi should at least be considered for a coaching role at the very least. Also supamen is a very capable omen who should be a top candidate if a team needs an omen or brim.

What I was trying to imply was that if he joins EG, than they would've dropped Potter, Clawdia and osias and he would be one of the replacements, maybe even alongside AZK. I also think that if he joins Col they will build a new roster around Brax and JonahP.

Honestly I think they should make it 16 teams with 4 NA teams, 3 EU, 2 BR, 1 JP, 1 KR, 1 SEA, 1 OCE, 1 LATAM, 1 TR, 1 CIS. Or Maybe you give 1 slot to OCE/SEA and give 2 to TR in this case but idk. The bigger the tournament is, the more likely an underdog wins, which are always the most memorable, but also the less inclusive or rewarding it is to make it there. 16 is a perfect number for a bracket and would allow for more regions to be better represented. Also maybe you could take away a NA slot and give another slot to TR in the scenario given but the NA scene is the biggest in terms of orgs and viewership and I have a bias towards more NA teams so idk. I'm assuming with 10 teams, they will have 2 groups of 5 play and then the top 2 teams from each group advance to a bracket which should be good as well.

TenZ made C9 so much better... look at how much worse C9 has done since TenZ has been gone. Even though they have Leaf, who has played great, they have been so much worse and haven't won anything without TenZ. TenZ led every Ignition Series in ACS up until 1 of the final ones and C9 even placed top 3 in some of the Ignition Series tournaments with TenZ and also dominated the first First Strike open qualifier before falling off the face of the earth. Hell even look at how much worse relykS has been without TenZ. Don't try to push any narrative that TenZ didn't make his team better or that they were failing because TenZ wasn't a team player. If you surround a player with 4 mediocre players they aren't going to have much success against teams with 4 great players like Sen. I mean maybe I'm misinterpreting what you said and what you really meant to say was that TenZ wouldn't have made it if he was still competing because of his team so sorry I guess if that's what you meant.

ehh I don't really care about downfrags and upfrags. I would much rather have those people tell me what they disagree with or dislike about what I said but it doesn't matter.

1. If/When TenZ comes back, he will likely still be under contract with C9
2. If he isn't under contract with C9, an org already in Valorant will sign him immediately and he won't have to go through the process of playing with an Orgless roster. I guarantee you that teams like Complexity, EG, FaZe, NRG, T1, or even TSM would offer TenZ huge contracts if he was a Free Agent and he wouldn't have to prove his worth by joining a team of FAs.
   As for Brax, I can see him joining TSM, C9, SSG, Ghost, Beastcoast, EG or Col. If TSM continues to struggle, they should look to add a better sentinel player than Hazed and Brax is the best available. C9 should look to replace mitch, relykS and Vice. Let's be honest, they were only on the team because they were friends with TenZ. They're not bad but they're just mediocre and an org like C9 should look for better and Brax could be a candidate to replace Mitch/Vice as the team's cypher if they decide to drop the trio. SSG has failed to get results even with a solid trio of pr0phie, boostio and roca. Brax is a clear upgrade over sSef, would give a big boost to SSG's firepower and likely help them get some good results. I know Ghost's team is brand new and has been playing pretty good but Brax is once again a clear upgrade over payen, who I don't think is a very good player(for a pro at least). Brax would bring a lot of firepower to Ghost's team and would help out Nismo and wippie a lot. However, I think payen is the IGL so maybe it wouldn't be a good move. Beastcoast is trialing KOLER and has had some success but I think Brax is a better sentinel player than Koler and that Beastcoast could do even better with Brax. EG has been pretty bad. Aleksandar has definitely been the bright spot and Temperature has also been consistently good. Ohai, Potter and Clawdia have all played bad and should be replaced. Temperature can pretty much play every supportive agent pretty well so EG could sign Brax and move Temperature over to omen or sova. Complexity had a very strong duo of JonahP and Sharky but failed to put good pieces around them. Now Sharky is gone but at least they still have JonahP. Brax is a clear upgrade over agM and would give them another solid piece to build around. However, it is also very possible that Brax forms an Orgless roster and tries to find an Org that way.

Last time 100T kicked someone they signed a much better roster and won First Strike... I'm assuming you are talking about Dre but they only lost to him once and that was because Asuna thought it was nap time and he never really woke up after Ascent

I would agree with them being on par but Asuna was playing like a top 3 player in the qualifiers for Challengers 2 so if he can return to that form, he will be better than Android. However, the last time these 2 faced off, in the qualifiers for Challengers 2, they went 6-6 against each other so I'm definitely excited to see them face off again.

Not only is Steel the IGL like Cheasle said but he is also the sentinel... not to mention he is the best Killjoy in NA and still constantly was out fragging Dicey up until Challengers 2.

NRG does not have more firepower than 100T. What are you talking about? Asuna, if he returns to form, is a top 5 player and is better than Android. Ethan had insane aim in cs, much better than anyone else in NA that switched over and can be the best player in Valorant with time. nitr0 is another top 10 player and is the best omen in NA, steel is the best killjoy and HiKo is a top 5 sova player. Compare that to NRG who has 1 top 10 player(Android). eeiu is great and all but can not compare in terms of firepower to nitr0, same goes for s0m compared to Ethan. Steel is clearly better than daps but you can say Shanks brings more firepower than HiKo. If 100T lose this it will be because Ethan is likely still getting used to Valorant and that nitr0 is getting used to his new role but NOT because NRG has more firepower, because they don't.

As much as I think Dicey is a good player and has a lot of potential, he was clearly the weakest link. But, this move is not so much about dropping Dicey because he was bad but more so picking up Ethan because he was an insane cs pro that you cannot pass up on.

GenG vs NRG

100T vs LG

Great move by 100T. Can't pass up on a talent like Ethan even if Dicey has been performing well recently. The only question is what role will Ethan play and will anyone else have to switch their roles? nitr0 is the best omen in NA, Steel is the best Killjoy in NA, HiKo and Sova seem like they were made for each other and Asuna is amazing on Reyna/Phoenix/Raze. I hope that Ethan will mostly play Raze with Asuna sticking to Phoenix/Reyna or even Ethan playing Jett, but not awping. However, I can also see Ethan playing omen and nitr0 moving over to Jett or sage or Ethan playing sage himself. I really hope that 100T keep nitr0 on Omen and that they have Ethan playing Raze but we will just have to see.

I mean Leaf and Autimatic were both doing great in cs before they switched as well. Autimatic was past in his prime and maybe we never got to see Leaf's prime in cs but still they were both great cs players as well

I'm here. Dicey was amazing in Challengers 2 but this is a good move imo. I still think dicey has a lot of potential and is a great player but if someone of Ethan's caliber is available you can't pass up on the opportunity.

here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/100T_Esports/status/1366093321869746178?s=20