tysm goat

im cheering for dfm

Ours showed the hacked message for like thirty minutes, now it says down for maintenance

ShinyHunters be crazy
what university is yours?

ive been on the receiving end of your chamber, play that

c0m has got to go. supamen, bao, and Okeanos are all debatable; personally, I would keep Oke and drop the other two, but I don't hate keeping bao, or even supamen. In this hypothetical, though, we are dropping both.

Duelist/Chamber: dgzin
Controller, Flex/Duelist, or Recon: Okeanos

So we need an IGL, a Sentinel, and either a smokes, flex, or initiator player to round it out.

IGLs:

• Dark3st
• zander
• NiSMO
• Kyu
• ducq
• welyy

Sentinels:

• alvinboy
• FireBallOps
• XxiF
• Shondex
• sorex
• dynamic

Others:

• Spaz
• paincakes
• Zerona
• stallion

My personal picks would be NiSMO, Spaz/zerona, and FireBallOps. I just like these players over the others. So the final roster is:

Dgzin - Primary Duelist + Chamber
Okeanos - Recon/Second Duelist
NiSMO - Flex: Second Controller, Second Initiator
Spaz - Controller
FireballOps - Sentinel

OR:

Dgzin - Duelist + Chamber
Okeanos - Controller/Recon
NiSMO - Flex: Second Controller, Second Initiator
zerona - Recon/Viper
FireballOps - Sentinel

The roles end up working a bit better with Zerona, and he IS on the academy, but I would love Spaz on the team, to be honest...

initiator: 2023 EG c0m
Duelist: aspas
Sentinel/Controller 2023 EG Demon1
Controller/Sentinel 2026 LEV Neon
Flex: kiNgg

<3

good preds tho, fracture is definitely just a curveball, hard to pred

BRUH WHY ARE WE STILL PICKING PEARL
AND EG PICKS FRACTURE DAMNNN THEY COMING TO FIGHT

c0m is definitely playing sova LMAO

it first goes through head-to-head map diff. VIT 2-0 GX, GX 2-1 BBL, BBL 2-1 VIT. So VIT are +1, GX are -1, BBL are 0

Thus the seeding is VIT/BBL/GX. correct me if i misunderstood this.

i like the background leaves

Sentinels: FireBallOps, sorex, exa, XxiF, kumi
Controllers: Spaz, stallion
Flex: zerona, satellite, sacred
Duelists: Boni, sonofcar, Smoke
Initiators: ducq, welyy

Vets: NiSMO, Inspire, yay, zander, Derrek

Potential roster turnovers:

EG -c0m -supamen -bao +zerona +Spaz +Inspire (IGL)
100T -Asuna +satellite
NV -p0ppin -Rossy -Eggster (-keznit +Cane) +stallion/ion +Derrek +welyy (IGL)
c9 -idk +FireballOps
G2 -idk +kumi

true
maybe keiko raze, mada kay/o, ethan skye, brawk brim, skuba viper
that would be very interesting

i think, because EG went 0-3 on Bind so far this year, NRG wouldn't mind floating it. Haven is the only map EG have won at least twice on, and we banned it against FUR in week 1

EG bans Breeze, NRG bans Haven
EG picks Pearl, NRG picks Lotus
EG bans Bind, NRG bans Split
Fracture remains

i mean i like the idea, its just hard to put someone like boaster as THE goat when his individual numbers arent the best. top 5 is reasonable

bump

was that actually a 5v4 T_T

that makes sense

I feel like Ethan would have been picked top 4 minimum if this were before stage 1

1. aspas
2. Alfajer
3. Chronicle
4. f0rsaken
5. Boaster
6. TenZ (32% of votes)

https://strawpoll.com/2ayLQ0DLvn4 <- VOTE HERE

fine

Tenz is currently in first

he is pretty influential all time, most grand finals, consistent IGLing at the top level, etc

yeah he has been to the finals a lot

2021 with envy once
2022 with optic twice
2025 with fnc twice

plus a 3rd place in 2022, a 4th place in 2023, he has a lot of results

hes good enough to be in top 10 convo, ill add him next poll

ah sorry, thanks

self aware

Omen

1. aspas
2. Alfajer
3. Chronicle
4. f0rsaken
5. Boaster

https://strawpoll.com/GPgVY0ok3na <- VOTE HERE

guess he has a lot of fanboys

https://strawpoll.com/GPgVY0o8Mna

there was a tie for 5th place. so we're gonna do a quick tiebreaker poll for like an hour.

FINAL BUMP

tenz/boaster tied

new poll soon

well he's currently leading
probably cause i bumped it when Europe is awake

like 2 thirds were open looks as well

Raptors first playoff winner shooting under 32% from the field since... 1969 Boston Celtics

Historic game and great grit from the Raptors, Cleveland played good D as well but shooting was horrific from both sides.

Here, for 2023:

LOCK IN - Killjoy 70%, Jett 60%
Tokyo - Jett 59%, Skye 59%, Killjoy 59%
LA - Killjoy 63%, Skye 56%, Raze 55%, Viper 55%, Jett 55%

damn i didnt remember the chronicle case starting that early, makes sense tho ig cause he was the only 2 then 3 time winner

off the top of my head peak chamber was around 70%.
i think killjoy/jett/skye also had pretty high peaks in 2023, but it was like 50% or 60%.

Bump
Currently TenZ leads

i’ll add him for the next one

i mean yeah, yay was probably the goat in 2022 then leo in 2023 then maybe aspas/chron in 2024 and 2025, it’s always changing and the games too young for anything definitive

honestly this kind of stuff is super recency biased

vlr try not to overreact challenge

this is actually a cook
keiko gets to frag out like crazy and mada will have some crazy tech cooked up
(cope)

nadeshot is active on the r34 valorant community

if we get 3-2 it should be a pretty good chance to playoffs right?

it doesnt show but i get the feeling over the last couple matches hes been kinda tilted. this map he was pretty solid, hopefully he can keep it up.

yeah if were trying to qual we def should be thinking about the 0-6 scenario last