In this whole team only Russ and Blazeking have what it takes to be competitive at high T1 level.
Lightningfast is fine but inconsistent but honestly I can name 5 players in India better than him so I don't see the justification in him being sole indian Representative.
Benkai is pretty much not it anymore aim wise and While Polvi is decent almost every other team in Pacific itself has a better duelist.
Blazeking will also get dropped due to obvious reason and if Rushindra is serious about competing nobody except maybe Russ is going to be retained in starting 5 of roster.

Stax did it on eco with guardian as last man standing after the plant .

absolute midfest is going on in terms of both aim and strats man

Yess so were Azys and Tesseract in SA VCL last year infact even more dominant but we need to realize that top SEA teams won't whiff as much as our players do. It's almost impossible in ascension to kill 2 double swinging guys of good team while it happens so frequently in SA league.

You never know but yess they are far down below in the list of favs to win ascension. The whole roster is player to player a slightly worse version of OG, our last reps.
But if they do play to their potential they can definitely make it to playoffs and I am pretty sure that's what every sane person is expecting of them in India.

It's less of a choke and more of an aim diff.
All love to Aryu and Disrupt they are great team players but when other imports are putting up huge numbers it's hard to win if you don't put up the same or better numbers.
Indian core is anyways more or less equal in all top teams of India and plays a bit better or worse depending on day and their form.

He is best player from your country or is there anyone better ??
Btw I read he is grinding hard bcz he wants to play at highest level and that's why he left everything behind and came to India so he gets some recognition.

RNT's util is good TR still has better reads, macro plays and positioning still TR loses the round solely on aim.
For example last round of sunset Helliff immediately double swung with techno but they couldn't land the shot before Dos9.

TR again getting aim diffed despite good macros.... Valorant is after all a shooting game, you click heads you win.
If only we could somehow combine aim of MLT guys with fundamentals of TR , we can make a great team.

Yep man tracker score can mean something if you know how to deduce important points from it but the way that twitter guy and bcz of him some others hv started comparing tracker scores to decide who the better player is so stupid.
Lot of things matter in getting a tracker score and i wish i could explain but it's too much work for me unfortunately.
By this tracker logic Jaggi is the best player from India and GE should sign him no when he has never even played T2- https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Jaggi%23rizz/overview

Nothing much there won't be many viewers on official English stream so you may join russ or Universe's english watchparty if you do want more interaction.
Other than that just have fun

Don't worry Dos9 is signed to a good agent, he should get offers from china I am pretty hopeful.

I never said he is bad but trust me he is most easily upgradable in that team with all the crazy duelists coming up.

It's fine they will be back. Ardiss may lose his job and doombros may get it back that's pretty much it.
Shao , Suy, Zyppan everyone is off their prime at the moment a bit of change in their fortune and NAVI will be good again.

Russ can hold the team and we pull up cracked players around him but let's see what GE feels and thinks about next year

Not true at all bro. He is a one of the top flex in Indonesia (he was selected to represent Team Indonesia in South East Asia games ig that's enough of proof).
Any Indo will confirm what I just stated.
He came to India bcz his team Bigetron Arctic disbanded(Frostmind also came for same reason).
Also Azys, Tesseract,Xan etc are all top players in their region

And he is not a random import ,he has been a great player in Indonesia

Those days are behind us I have accepted it. It was COVID time when everyone was kinda free.
Since then a lot has changed especially our own people's attitude towards our own region which has harmed us.
But yess our fans are fair weather fans, the day we win something in valorant they will all be back again.
Till then we need to support and keep it going.

The 2cold duo mann

Yep they are fair weather fans I remember when NRX Jeremiah 29:11 won Codm championship, their star player whoopie got a million views all of a sudden on his next YouTube highlight , I can't even imagine how big he must have gotten on Facebook

The best thing for Indian scene has been rise in viewership past few days owing to VLT and their CC.
Tbone is peaking almost 7k today which is good for him and also our scene.
That's why I have always maintained that if our content creators do watchparties it's great support for scene and they also earn more.

Yep just received confirmation it's bo5 now

Yet Tbone had his biggest livestream yesterday with 110K+ total views ...more than what he got when he watchpartied vct Pacific just saying

Why do we have a BO3 lower final ??

Nope they don't afaik I could be wrong though

I think there should be a definition for what exactly you mean by prospect.
But taking it as up and coming young players for now by eye test -
SA- Levi / Kibo
Oce- Dragon

Umm map picks still make it seem like 2-1 for TR but these guys need to stop whiffing easiest shots.

Banger matchup but I think TR takes it home marginally.

yess

He meant the OG Engima.
Prime Engima is this - https://www.vlr.gg/team/14418/no-salary-peek

Happy memories man when everyone supported VLT and GE I was Engima supporter since they were underdogs in every sense.
Without a permanent bootcamp and all the way they kept rising was insane. Rawfiul's raw aim and RVK's sherrif man.
Also God particles beating GE as a free agent team and then waving please sign us on camera was one of the most hyped moments of our scene. Things only went downhill since then for both God Particles and our scene...
https://www.vlr.gg/69123/global-esports-vs-god-particles-valorant-conquerors-championship-in-qualifier-2-sf

Trust me if ever the org changes it will go to Orangutan but high probability it stays with GE

Nah not really choking TR just loses a bit of coordination sort of run out of steam.
Also last LAN it was fully activated MLT which just aim diffs every SA team player for player on every role so I won't consider that .
I think this finals will decide it all if TR are chokers or they can finally show up

What in the world is this random DM hate guys ?? He is definitely one of the best rifler in India and has been so since the first day he switched over to valorant

TR looks a level above other 3 atm. I love that they rely on strats and cordination more than aim.

Guys stop with misinformation please Riot APAC head has already confirmed SEA is getting most slots so they will definitely have more than 2 slots probably 4.

That's what I meant too that both of them are isolated examples and we can't look too much into them.
I hope and I feel this year Korean team will make playoffs but they haven't got what it takes to win it against some of those heavy hitting SEA teams. Would be happy to be proven wrong though

But they also went down to Bonkers with no disrespect for them they were clearly having logistical issues and hence were a 5-6th rank type team. So isolated examples don't really prove much.

SEA is getting more slots prob 4 but I don't think anyone gets less than 2 slots for ascension either.
Think logically man now that every league will have 16 teams, how will it make sense that 16 teams would battle for only 1 slot ??
Nobody will invest unless everyone gets minimum 2 slots

They are all in T1 now bro , I am talking abt current T2, people overrated Korea last year and you saw what happened to Damwon Kia.
They are good region but no way they win ascension, SEA teams are just mechanically better.

But it doesn't make sense in our case SEA clearly had best teams in the whole region .
Most of the times top 4 here would be better than all other teams from SA,JP,Korea and Oce

I am sure YesICan will be in franchising this year. Bleed has far too much money they will pay the buyout

Unfortunately 2 per region but it's weird I believe they should make it 12 teams ascension with 4 for SEA and letting others have 2 bcz afterall 14/16 teams can't fight for 1 slot .

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It's a banger but at this moment obviously TR takes it home unless Godspeed has cooked something on new patch

I am hopeful they won't do this insanity and would go 4 for SEA and 2 each for everyone else

It's got a bit to do with neon movement buff and dysfunctional bleed team but still props to him ,heis actually really good at Neon

I agree with you that whoever qualifies will get 5-6th this year its just that its my personal opinion that if any team in VCSA is capable of placing higher its that EG OG MLT core.
Regarding CUP 1 same issue they were bootcamped at dubai so were at disadvantage with no fixed 5th again. They played with Doxxer, Tranz and Whimp a match each since they couldnt secure excali back then.
I would agree abt them being better just for a day if I hadn't seen them do it every LAN time and again for years now. The MLT that played LAN was much more cleaner fundamentally than the grp stage MLT while both RNT and TR only bought new comps but no new strats to playoffs from grp stage. And as you must have noticed Paradox and Skrossi forget to aim whenever they reach LAN but were still ego fighting MLT which led to such destructive loss. If RNT played with discpline I am sure match would hv been closer since they had good firepower too.

yeah mb I meant if they had one last map against DIA they could hv 2-0 Bonkers and qualified
bcz then both DIA and Bonkers would hv been 1-4

They are getting kicked around bcz their org messed them over. No 5th , Anti leaving, players on 100 ping, Rawfiul having worst time in his career.
When they were able to hv proper bootcamp in split 2 , they rawdogged every team on LAN.
Whoever will qualify for ascension from our country can't even take 15 rounds from them when they all play on equal footing