hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

Xeppaa is a better flasher than Crashies. Crashies is more flexible role wise, but I don't think that Cloud9 needs that rn

Corey plays the exact same things that Xeppaa, which is good. But I'm not really sure if it would be that much of an upgrade

And Add3r is consistent at tier 2. Maybe it's an upgrade, but I'm not sure it would make that much of a difference

I said people, I'm blaming Riot's format

The format, yes, why wouldn't I?

Are you making Crashies not play his best role? (recon) Just to make him play flash? I would understand Crashies for Moose, because his sentinel was kinda clean, but I don't think he fits in C9 at all (at least, role wise)

Then you could also blame yay for knocking at C9's door. Why wouldn't he think of it in such a volatile industry?

Blaming people here is useless, Cloud9 didn't fuck yay, it was Riot's format. The circumstanses were fucked, no matter the way you look at it

The best player in the world knocks at your door and you don't answer?

And they couldn't afford him because one of their sponsors were declared bankrupt after they signed him

It's not that easy

It was yay the one who reached Cloud9

I mean, they just couldn't afford him

I heard it was like half a million a year

And it was not really Cloud9 that fucked yay, it was the format, because Rito didn't allow teams to sign players mid way through the season

He's not signed with EG. Probably waiting for 2025 to sign him

He is not signed yet. Purest said that EG decided to not continue with sym, implying that yay is in EG's plans

But nothing set in stone

OXY as main duelist (keep at all cost)
Rossy as recon/flex (keep at all cost)
v1c as smokes
-Moose
-Xeppaa (depends on how well he does in the VCT 2025 season)
+yay as sentinel (only guaranteed sentinel upgrade that is currently LFT)
+bdog as flasher (not a guaranteed upgrade from Xeppaa, especially on this role. But this has the most potential out of any tier 2 player in NA)

content creator team will get in the top of NA

yay

Fumbled a "super team"

Choked against NRG in 2023 Americas for a spot at both Masters and Champs

Choked a 2-0 lead against LEV to qualify for the LCQ grand final

Failed to be consistent in playoffs after being dominant in the group stage

?? Then don't say he's been a weak link, because he hasn't been

Just say you think you are more qualified than vct staff professionals and you'd kick him

Decent and middle of the pack at most maybe, but definitely not heavy hitters

JonahP literally carried G2 in Shanghai

Because they only look like a competent team in the off-season

I just want 2025 to end fast

I mean, trophy wise, Fnatic

But I'd say Gambit, since Astralis pretty much changed the way CS is played to this day

And Gambit was the first team in Valorant to play "good"

ev0l gen0us0s

I'd rather lose now than losing in important matches in 2025

Put him in coach, easily. He is really good at forming strats and setups

I hope that Chron takes the IGL role as soon as possible

tough, man

And still lost

https://www.vlr.gg/170959/sengoku-gaming-vs-fennel-challengers-league-japan-split-1-lr2

FNC 13-10 C9

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/14126c61

I mean, SPG is by no means a "org" that could afford the expenses of moving to franchise

It's actually a streamer team from Overwatch that just had a Valorant division associated with them

So no, not a "real" org

I don't know why, I don't know how, but C9 will advance to the next stage

Trans men should be, they should count as a marginalized

You should probably take classes with a specialized professional

With that, you imply that transgender men are as privileged as cisgender men

Right? Man or woman, the fact of being trans should make you eligible for GC

But that's kinda weird, no? It should count as a marginalized gender

Maybe he feels more peaceful just streaming and creating content for his community

I'm sure that he could make it to french VCL if he wanted to

Are trans men able to compete?

I will NOT tolerate original flavor diss

I meah his Breach is good, but Sova has always been his pièce de résistance

CIS 1

CIS 2 has better names but I don't really see it with 2 recon players and 2 sentinel mains, and the lack of a pure IGL(I know SUYGETSU is playing smokes, but I think he still needs time to adapt)

You can't say that when this year in EMEA there's 17 new rookies. I feel like almost every player from VCL that deserved to play in tier 1, is playing in it right now

And who else are you going to sign? cNed? elllement? Izzy? I'd rather go all in and gamble on a new prospect like Flor

When you sign "safe picks" like Liquid or FURIA, you become a mediocre team. I think that it's awesome for a team to sign Flor only based on a hunch

Nah I'll stick to my word. If she does bad and I get flamed for it, it's fair

But I really believe in Flor

This was Demon1 in December 17th, 2022 https://www.vlr.gg/159759/stealing-lunch-money-vs-sqn-2-0-knights-monthly-gauntlet-2022-november-playoffs-qf

And this was Demon1 in August 26th, 2023 https://www.vlr.gg/248277/paper-rex-vs-evil-geniuses-valorant-champions-2023-playoffs-gf

And like I said, nothing you say matters, because Florescent will join APK either way

Now pull up the game that happened in 1994 where Florescent didn't perform in a game of open qualifiers to "prove your point", like it matters now. Florescent is in franchise, sonofcar isn't, really simple

If she does well she might be on a BBL Elite or GX Cloud situation, where she performs really well but struggles to win because of her team

But I think that her performing well should be good enough for her and GC. But yeah, at the end of the day, replacing kaajak is filling in huge shoes

I'm saying bro. When sonofcar did good in the Challenger qualifiers, people already wanted him in franchise

People are trying to play dumb with all this Flor hate

Why are you so against Flor getting a direct chance of playing in tier 1?

When Karon and Primmie got picked up from ranked, it was ok, it was hype for yall even. When Demon1 got picked up from tier 3, yall even gave Demon1 a chance

Why is it so different when the player is from GC? I get that the Shopify gets beaten up by pub teams, but the talent is there. The top players talk about how impressive Flor's mechanics are, and yes, she overheats, but even the best challenger players do that

I'm not asking you to rate her highly, at the end of the day, she's a rookie from tier 3, and she has to prove herself, but I'm asking for you to have a small portion of faith

I think it's fucked that in big 2024 people still judge a player's capacity based on their sexual orientation (because a lot of the hate is just blatant transphobia and misogyny)

Edit: I'd appreciate if you gave critical thinking instead of downvoting, because then, you're the one looking stupid here