Hey everyone, hope yall are having a good night.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a website that showed agent pick rates across the entirety of VCT 2026 season.

Thanks!

Zoestol has 824 on Omen
https://www.vlr.gg/player/11696/zoestol/?timespan=all

Probably the most of anyone.

Dip also has 590 on Sova

https://www.vlr.gg/player/8397/dip/?timespan=all

https://www.vlr.gg/player/4387/neon/?timespan=all

This guy has 558 games on Jett.

ur right i forgor

Standings are locked and I don’t think the extra point would matter for EG… could we see something troll like 10 duelists?

I think his Raze/Jett/even Neon is better than his Phoenix

I like this a lot, thanks for the rec <3

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I feel like a fair mount Rushmore has one from each region.

TenZ is a good shout from americas but I think aspas might be up there as well. Ethan and Sacy I don't think so.

EMEA is hard but Boaster isn't a bad pick.

I don't even know who for pacific. MaKo? f0rsaken?

China has to be kangkang of course.

Ah you are right. I was thinking about something else and misread some of my notes, sorry for the confusion

For tiebreakers you look at H2H map diff and round diff before overall map diff and round diff.

yeah they mean h2h map diff.

SEN should be ahead as they 2-0'd LOUD and lost 1-2 to G2.

by the way, I remember last time you talked about how in a 3 way, only the winner is broken off and everyone else is decided after, where did u see that? I'd like to make sure cause I'm 99% sure that the 3-way is tiered off at once if everyone is different. So the G2-Sen-LOUD tiebreaker depends on the map-diff of 100T's win.

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Appreciated it man <3<3

As someone who just came off a really shitty interview yesterday, I want to congratulate u and wish you the best of luck. I also appreciate that you're trying to bring some sort of positivity here, it really is a good change.

All the love brother/sister.

Yep. Marved could IGL but I think the roster is going to be:

Sentinel/Controller (IGL) - zander
Controller/Sentinel/Duelist - koalanoob
Duelist/Initiator/Controller - TenZ
Duelist/Initiator - mada
Initiator - eeiu

This covers all the bases.
ex: for Lotus, koala Vyse, zander Viper, TenZ Omen, mada Raze, eeiu Fade
for Ascent, koala Killjoy, zander Omen, TenZ Jett, mada KAY/O, eeiu Sova
for Split, koala Jett, mada Raze, zander Viper, TenZ Omen, eeiu Skye

etc.

Jokes aside I'm confident that the team will figure something out, we have enough maturity on the team in Zander, TenZ, koala, etc. Wish we got effys tho.

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prefiring zmjjkk

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Favorite NA, APAC, and CN team?

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ah that might be the case. I've never seen that specifically before, all I remember is being specified "if one tiebreaker splits into subgroups, then further tiebreakers are applied to those groups in that order" or something similar.

If you've seen that in writing then it's probably correct.

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By my notes EG only gets third seed if they 2-0 NRG. If they win against FUR and NRG, and NRG loses to NV as well, then NRG, EG and the loser of LEV/MIBR are all tied for 2nd at 3 wins. Since NRG > LEV/MIBR > EG > NRG in this scenario, we go to map diff. LEV/MIBR both won 2-0 against EG and lost 1-2 to NRG. So, they are +1 in map diff. NRG went 2-1, so if they only lose 1-2 to EG they are +0 and EG are -1, so EG are still 4th seed. Thus EG needs to win 2-0 to secure 3rd seed.

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No. I don't watch too indepth but i can see Keiko is a better Phoenix than Ethan.
However considering everybody else's points I understand now.

Drop your guess. My guess is that Ethan is uncomfortable on Omen; he hasn't played controller since London when they lost to FUT on Haven. That or skuba probably doesn't feel comfortable on Chamber.

nah hes got a point tho

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Yeah no this is pretty fair, and great writeup btw. There's just not as much you can get out of a second scan init.

Additionally most teams don't have the personnel to run double scan. For example 100T: are you putting Asuna on Fade? Possible but he's definitely not being maximized there. for LEV there is probably zero way they make it work. etc.

cuz emmie can't play nothing but Sova

Run through 1000000 simulations. The code for tiebreakers was written by Claude and doesn't count rounds (so it skips directly from h2h map diff to overall map diff). Nonetheless it should be pretty accurate.

LEV: 1st 45.6%, 2nd 35.7%, 3rd 17.1%, 4th 1.6%
NRG: 1st 40.4%, 2nd 34.8%, 3rd 17.9%, 4th 5.4%, 5th 1.4%
MIBR: 1st 12.5%, 2nd 20.8%, 3rd 44.8%, 4th 21.8%, 5th 0.05%
FUR: 3rd 0.2%, 4th 32.3%, 5th 43.2%, 6th 24.2%
EG: 1st 1.4%, 2nd 8.7%, 3rd 20.0%, 4th 35.7%, 5th 32.3%, 6th 1.8%
NV: 4th 3.1%, 5th 23.0%, 6th 73.9%

This is based on the following probability estimates:
EG - MIBR: 35% EG, 65% MIBR
NV - FUR: 30% NV, 70% FUR
LEV - NRG: 55% LEV, 45% NRG
EG - FUR: 45% EG, 55% FUR
NV - NRG: 25% NV, 75% NRG
LEV - MIBR: 60% LEV, 40% MIBR
EG - nRG: 35% EG, 65% NRG

Those are kind of arbitary and just placeholders since I didn't set up any elo calculations for better estimates yet. If you guys think the probabilities would be better off modified, I can modify them and run it again.

I mean I don't agree with your list but even so players like yay and demon1 had other players with extremely good support (victor/fns, literally all of EG) to enable them. Asuna is the one enabling his own team most of the time.

?? If your team is constantly mediocre and suddenly looks better at the same time your stats uptick that means you're a huge part of their success.

I'm no Asuna fanboy but he's definitely been playing extremely well, and is one of the reasons 100T have looked good (at EWC at least).

just going to step in here for a second, you have to draw the line between transphobia and criticizing someone who is also trans. for the record I also think that flor did not commit sexual assault and her relationship with the other girl probably just had lots of miscommunications, but we will never know the full details of the story, and thinking otherwise certainly isn't transphobic.

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You’re right. Thanks for the further info.

Fully understood. I'm just usually hesitant in any context to just namecall people towards a political extremum. But in this case you're probably right.

With this stupid SRB/2G match on hold, let's take a look at some other NA tier 2 prospects, NOT FROM SRB OR M80. Note I am just sorting by VLR rating and listing them.

sonofcar (Entry Duelist, 1.22 rating)
Probably the best performing prospect (non-SRB/M80) this split. Higher rating than everyone. I'm not sure what tier 1 team would want a Duelist replacement though. Possibly G2? FUR if they move koala back off entry (which I think they should)?

Derrek (Recon Init, 1.17)
Derrek put together a solid split. I still think he has clear tier 1 talent and a couple of teams (cough, c0m) could use a Recon replacement.

beeb (Recon Init/Viper, 1.17)
Joining D1 halfway through the split replacing dapr (i think), beeb actually put up solid numbers on a team with a lot of shooters (dynamic, Boomy, etc.) I think he is only this high from a small sample size, and it IS his first time in tier 2, so I don't think anything will come of this. But, he is someone to keep an eye out for.

Fair (Duelist/Flex, 1.15)
Highly touted about a year ago (iirc), Fair had quite a good split. I think it was him that was involved in Sean Gares's wintrading probe last year, or at least his team. With the ability to frag not only on Duelist but across other roles too (he has quite a couple games on Controller), he might be a sleeper pick for a roster change.

Zamal (Jett, 1.12)
Zamal has lots of games on Neon and Raze but in the last 90 days, has played 75 (!) games (95%) on Jett. I haven't really watched him and despite the numbers seeming solid, I can't imagine he's on many teams' radars.

jakee (Controller, 1.10)
Having a solid split, jakee was not spectacular statistically across the last 2 splits. Paincakes and zerona did leave halfway through the split, perhaps impacting his "usage rate" a bit in terms of impact. Despite him having tier 1 experience I don't see him really standing out to other teams.

florescent (Duelist, 1.09)
A sub for ADG, florescent only played 161 rounds (compared to 601 for SRB, for example), but still got decent impact. She clearly has the firepower to compete at this level. I'm not sure, however, that many teams will be looking for someone of her archetype here.

gMd (Controller, 1.08)
Joke's on him, he's never getting his chance in tier 1.

Now these are only stats for split 3. Over all 3 splits, are there any other players that stand out? I looked at VLR stats for VCL, Americas, and looked for players that fit the bill. Only two popped up: sorex and dark3st. Those 2, I think, should be favored over the bottom half of my list. However, dark3st is contracted to EG and I think I saw that FLY is building around sorex for 2027, so not too sure there.

Do you guys have any tier 2 players that I missed that you are keeping an eye on?

I did see someone on reddit say that their partner struggled with long COVID and doctors couldn't really help them as it was so specialized... maybe Leo went through a similar experience. I think there is more nuance behind just being a right wing lunatic.

That being said, the implications of the tweet combined with his recent comments on GC and his Tate history do not paint a very flattering picture.

Eh I don't think the roles are that bad. Satellite is "flex" but he basically only plays duelist now, his main role. Smoke has only played Jett and Chamber basically, and they suit him very well; he rarely has to play like a real entry duelist since Satellite can entry so much. And exa has way more rounds on Cypher/Killjoy than Brim/Astra, and more on Viper than Omen, so his comfort archetype is at the very least split between Controller and Sentinel, if not just a pure anchor player.

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senti has historically been a role with the best aimers bar maybe duelist. Less, Alfajer, SUYGETSU, etc. Initiator and Controller are usually roles that you can get away with being slightly worse aimers, if your util and support is better.

Verno has 40 games on Chamber, 36 on Sage, 14 on Killjoy, 6 on Cypher. That's more than enough to shift to senti if needed.

But then again, it's far more likely that they just keep t0x

eeiu for c0m was horrible
nerve for basic was good
alym for shyy was okay but I don't think it was necessary

Verno can play senti

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