zexy is Jett crutch and he is back on it imo he has better chance if match goes to atleast 13-10 or more

popular streamer still very good at game I think he is making more money that way and is happy

I know I know but tbh I would rather see those who haven't been given chance yet get their chance first otherwise I would have listed Nexi too even he is really good on Sentinels so can Jremy be considered for Duelist.
But for now I believe Secret needs to gamble on these 4-5 players let Kellys and tesseract igl or maybe let Emman IGL he does it decently for Xipto. Zeus will be 18 in april but he doesn't really have any big game experience so they can groom him on bench and scrims for a split. Obviously Azys and JA are long due their shot in VCT and I feel like Secret should give it to them atleast for one split.

New Coach someone good and experienced alongside aimix or rbtx as AC
then you simply go those who are atleast 18 year old already-

Azys
KellyS
Tesseract/HotSauz
Emman/Georgyy
JA/Parscofield
6th since they are underage- Zeus/Whitecat

tbh anyone other than kellys shouldnt even be considered keep him and pick Xipto core add Tess if you want go all PH

also in stage 2 play-in JP gets 1 slot which is equal to Korea who also get only 1 slot and whole SEA is getting 2 slots fixed and OCE, India and 3-4th seed from SEA will have to battle out for just a single slot and only criteria behind that distribution is also viewership .

viewership at the end of the day it's business if you can get viewership you will always have the slots nothing to do with performance

that bind map is the worst aim I have seen so far in any kickoff match across regions from both teams combined like wow are they nervous or something they definitely shoot better than this right ?

A team with DG in the name wins here

yeah lol we also have number_2_cned_fan on this site Cned only player who got 2 such accounts named after him on vlr

number 1 cned fan he just shortened it

They go to VCT pacific stage 2 playoffs if they win there then yess Champs they need to reach top 3 in VCT Pacific stage 2 playoffs whoever makes that happen goes to champs

tbh this is the guy I have no idea about he is very new to the scene not even been here for 6 months but his Neon is broken he shoots insane he can only play duelist but way he plays them he doesnt need to play anything else. He is very hyper aggressive but very sharp and XIP is first time he is on a good team so let's see him in LANs and all if he keeps this up he literally has Azys and JA off duelists bcz of him .

Georggy for 9-10 months back in 21-22 was like the best duelist in all of SEA he was terror on Jett he started flexing only last year when he played for RNTX where Azys was duelist but insane player probably the best player in this PH rejects at the moment in less than a year he now goes crazy on flex role too.
It's a good team but I think they will find it hard to beat Xipto and Oasis to qualify for SEA bcz those 2 teams have crazy firepower you can check their last match on yt absolute destruction on aim from all of their players especially Xipto was pulling 4k 5k every round.

Veqaj is better duelist than Alfa you just have never seen it watch Valiant play and Jett is Veqaj's best agent I am glad they are letting the world see his duelist that too on his best agent he will fry he is in form I am confident

maybe he was not Kru's but Keznit's fan all along notice how when Keznit was in KRU agency never messed up Visa for 4-5 years. /s

Duelist has to be Keznit has played great at every international he has qualified to yet has never had a team that even had a remote chance of winning always went there as underdog and was one of the main reason behind KRU's miracle run in 2021 Champions to 3rd place.
Also controller has to be Mako just like Keznit has great performances in Internationals plus been here since 2021 trying to make it happen. And I agree sentinel has to be Leaf rest 2 roles I can't directly think of someone who is like definitely deserving of it there are multiple names you can throw in here.

they clarified if more than 6 teams are willing to play then top 6 who don't qualify to masters will be invited but no. of teams have already said no that's why they have settled for 6 this situation mostly wont arise

Raz
Raziss
ANQ
Swagzor
If you consider all of CIS then you also have Sunflower and SimonD4rk

Yess someone should win and why not let bottom 3 play ? Is there a motivation that they don't want people to see 'VCT' teams losing at all ? I can't think of any other reason why you will remove bottom 3 teams they have lot of time before santiago so format wouldnt be an issue . Also as you pointed out losers swapping sides will just confuse viewers and we need a proper final between alpha and omega winners just add it man one bo5 won't change anything.

what the hell is this format and why ? People want to watch good valorant and you want to remove this tier division just let all 15-16 teams play in double elimination.
How will you choose which 6/9 VCT EMEA teams will qualify for this and which 3 will miss out and why ? Why do we need 2 winners ? Why will you send lowers from here to there confusing casuals ? and why would you schedule it in such a way that some matches wont even be on main broadcast what's the hurry ?

this was 13rd day also second map is just 4k ace clutch after clutch from Xipto somehow on every round

azys debuting 2 agents in pro play in one match lol first he played viper for first time now he is on yoru for first time.

Playing perma duelist over JA and Azys for a reason but seriously he is great at few duelists but cant flex to anything else

https://www.vlr.gg/team/11354/version-2 - I mean if you want to consider Version 1's time in VCT then you can include Version2

It's VCT EMEA's initiative others don't want to do it also there are some logistical issues in other regions. EMEA can do it online in short notice with zero issues only Levant Africa and MENA would have ping issues so they aren't invited to this tournament.
But Americas and Pacific won't really be able to do it online ; SEA India and OCE will have ping issues to Korea and similarly Latam and Brazil will have ping issues to US servers where VCT teams are playing.

I mean it's happening from 16th feb in EMEA titled EMEA Clash; all VCT teams that don't qualify to Santiago will participate and yess we have 5 winners of their VCLs also participating.
VCL teams that have qualified already- Enterprise(Magnum,proxh and co coached by Itopata); Fokus( The German powerhouse) ; from VCL Spain only final is left between UCam and All CIS roster of coachless practicless NOVO; Winner of VCL turkiye, winner of VCL France.
Whoever gets eliminated today from VCT will also join them for EMEA Clash.

And you can't have it run alongside masters this is the perfect time to do it in the gap between the masters and end of kickoff where EMEA is putting it 9 VCT teams and 5 VCL teams is pretty good tournament I am expecting a double elimination bracket but lets wait for official details.

Damn it's like 2021 all over again PH's deadliest duo of Azys and JA are back together 4 years later and it's homecoming for Azys too. Expecting domination from them in PH qualifiers

Anq always shows up when it matters ggs Novo one more match nd we have all CIS team playing VCT teams just like old times

Demon1 can't entry at all man idk why everyone wants to replace entry duelist with him ; i saw his Jett on attacking half of Breeze Keznit ran circles around him he simply failed to get any impact or kill as entry put him in defensive side and he starts fragging off. He is Cryo type player you need a Zekken/Jawgemo type of entry to truly activate him and on top of that you need to deal with ego of the player who sits there and believes he is better than rest of the team that is playing with him.

NOVO will summon the power of all CIS roster to win it all

you literally need ultimate super team of India to even dream of it(2-3 contenders of that team havent touched the game in months) and 2 world class imports including a top tier IGL and it may still not that's where we stand

mods map scores got repeated

I mean nobody watches official channels also avg viewership is pretty low just like other VCLs Riot has to make VCL relevant again by opening up their VCT otherwise nobody will watch something Riot themselves treats as inferior product

Well India is different wont say much but if you sponsor our league you get to sponsor top leagues of Valo due to some 'reasons' ; HP OMEN was VCL SA sponsor before getting pacific so was Acer Predator , we have also had Phillips and Hyundai as sponsors in the past most leagues have never gotten one sponsor this big. Also we have highest prizepool in all of VCL every year

62K peak S8ul vs VLT finals last year highest ever for VCL SA

PH Veterans still got it I have faith in them

idk how to feel about this new roster of Naos I feel like Oasis and Xipto both have stronger roster on paper this year

I mean snappy was like full time duo of Primmie what happened though ? Was Snappy cheating or just throwing games and streamsniping

Oh Thanks for that info brother even I originally thought that how is he playing 2 quals at once then I saw highlights on twitter feed where he was playing with GXR boys so thought he played for both .

I had to edit the funfact bcz its not so fun anymore after Tmosura's correction ;)

Jemkin he is the best player in Pacific consistency wise

https://www.vlr.gg/team/17634/gopal-esports (GE)

https://www.vlr.gg/team/16255/made-in-brampton(MIBR)

https://www.vlr.gg/team/12380/rambutan-ni-tatay(RNT)

https://www.vlr.gg/team/8264/nearest-airport(Wordplay on NA region)

https://www.vlr.gg/team/11354/version-2

https://x.com/ChainsSoul/status/1940085895358566629?s=20 -have a look here
Also another one joined the list in VN qualifier this weak MIVN(Made in Vietnam)

Bro tyloo is lucky that they won't get to find out just how much better Xlg is bcz Xlg will qualify after beating AG next match itself or you would have seen who shits the bed

you forgot to switch accounts bro

12 in a row absolute domination let's go boys

I never claimed anything contrary brother you are tangled in your own discussion now that's all I have been saying we aren't good enough just like JP players aren't either none of them has ever been singed by Non-JP team btw just like our guys yet they have slowly been improving have produced a talent like Meiy due to great VCL and both JP teams playing with alteast 3 of them every year even if they go 0-12 or things like that. When your region is weak that's the only way to improve play and lose against the best until you catch up. With VCT Indian players have been denied that chance I hope you get my point I never said they are world class and aren't gettin chances but yess surely if an org was picked to represent my region and everyone else got shut out of the system I expect them to give chance to 4-5 of our guys before giving up on us but no they played a 4 import +1 indian roster right away in 2023. And everyone knows old GE core wouldn't do much but surely GE could have given Rawfiul, RVK, Deathmaker etc one shot before giving up on them instead of just playing Skrossi and LF who were their own players and everyone knows are perennial chokers in International high pressure situations and whole region is judged bcz of that one player forever.

brother I wasn't talking about Indians getting picked anyways but still your argument here is wrong so I will just put that out. GE already had LF and rest of the roster was just former Mad Lions players mixed with VCT players without trials. RRQ and PRX had no space , Talon wasnt going to import Indian players Secret was playing full PH and Bleed had won ascension and imported Yay. Idk where 24 slots were available for Indians or anyone here.

XLG will show levels of this game to EDG