nah, youtube is DIFFERENT

you will see people asking to bench players because they didn't win a 50/50 duel or don't clutch a 5v1

at least twitch chat flames more obvious/reasonable mistakes

1. youtube
2. twitch
3. vlr (i count mid match posts as a chat)

every region looks weak this year...

there's only 2 really insane teams i'd say (heretics and g2)

xlg and blg look good, but idk how good they would do in the internationals

geng looks good enough, they could upset the better teams. prx is a wildcard rn, they could be insane, but they barely qualified to toronto

sen and mibr look great, but sen is inconsistent and their form depends on their momentum

fnc is great, they will beat other top 2s, and maybe top 1s, but i don't see them winning the event. and the third spot for emea will get eliminated in groups

OMG!!!

did boaster just molly backsite

title

bbl needs lar0k and loita in case profek underperforms in stage 2

bbl is really promising already

damn that's a nice pc bro congrats

alfajer is just taking a piss bro

a real igl and head coach and they might go far

i don't think that goked wants to sign him

especially after what happened with koi

you can't buy a good team

derke miniboo kaajak?

leo

Immo1, a red 3 inner line and 2 line thickness cross (benjyfishy's crosshair), leo/zander

bet

fnc leo
sen zekken
tl nats

this one pretty much tho i disagree w some of them

i'm talking more about french talent dominating the scene, i think that no full french roster would even reach top 4 in franchising yet

MaKo, RienS, and my hot take, Jamppi

i do think that heretics and fnc are a step ahead of every single team in emea rn (especially th)

i don't think that any top 3 or top 4 team from emea are going to make an insane run at champs (fut, kc, vit, maybe liquid could)

i do think unfake is kinda washed rn but sevire is a really good pickup for any team looking to rebuild

nataNk
Yohpa
CyvOph
izana
enzo (possible comeback?)

and also players from their vcl league
f4ngeer
sayonara

all looking promising

my top bet is on yohpa tho

i'd still give him the rest of the year, at the end of the day, he has worked really hard for 3 years in tier 2 to get a spot in franchising

adjusting is hard, i'm sure he will be a lot better by stage 2 (he is already a lot better than he was in kickoff)

m80 before they had chet (i miss the johnqt zander eeiu roster)

only player you could drop for demon1 is yay, because demon1 won't play full time duelist like icy (except on icebox)

demon1 should honestly learn sentinel too

pls🙏

idc if the buyout is a gazillion dollars

watching this team play attack is painful af

even if we qualify to toronto i hope we get a proper head coach for stage 2

heretics would lose to dfm if it meant playing a final

can we PLEASE, CAN WE PLEASE STOP PLANTING AT 0:21

nah man, i talked to him last week and he told me he wants to go to global esports, but fnc don't want to sell him

then i got my facts wrong there

still, the point and the cases of non-igls getting good at the role still stand

they should redo the map pool honestly

i don't hate on any player, but koi is not going anywhere if they keep flyuh

he has not been a leader for the team, and his calling has been mediocre at best

there has been a lot of rounds that an immortal player would set up better than flyuh

liquid didn't have a stable igl from 2021 to 2022. the igling was something it mostly rotated between jamppi, soulcas, and sometimes scream. emil said it on an interview sometime ago, i don't have a link though, i just remember hearing it during a match

and i'm pretty sure boo wasn't always the igl in heretics pre-2024, i think zeek was meant to be the igl but he got dropped, and weber took over the role. heretics in 2023 suffered from the same problem as g2 did back when they played in emea: they didn't have an igl

virtyy might be the rookie of the year for americas i'm not kidding

idk how you can be so sure about that when liquid has been succesful under soulcas' igling in the past

it was a different and simpler meta, sure, but currently in valorant, there's not good enough igls to compete in tier 1 (who are also good at shooting), so you have to make up igls from somewhere. that's pretty much what bbl did with jamppi, what heretics did with boo, or what liquid did with nats, and their micro is really impressive coming from "non-igls"

i think he's the best option for koi rn

'wtf is this role shitshow' and you proceed to say the exact same roster i said except u change guardy for grubi

soulcas would play smokes
zach duelist
guardy initiator
natank flex
olizera sentinel

really simple, only soulcas would have to adapt to a new role (thing he has done in the past)

zekken

he igled for liquid in the past, and you're not going to keep flyuh

leo
aspas
chronicle
tenz
derke
f0rsakeN
riens
ZmjjKK
buzz
nats

i think that

filu/zachkappa
guardy
olizera
soulcas (igl)
natank
yaba hc

looks viable no?

he's not even a top 10 flex in brazil

if he gets to loud bc of the visa then he just got lucky to born in the usa ig

stopped reading at miniboo > aspas

kiles

it'd be worth it if they got sato, but idk who they're getting atp

i mean maybe sayf was just taking a shit

map picking is normally for the igl but really any player can do it

even if they choke this he has proven to be a top 3 controller in americas

ever since v1 this guy deserved to get a spot on a tier 1 team

after 3 years of tier 2, he might finally qualify to an international event

my goat

keep leo's name out of YOUR FUCKING MOUTH...