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

I watched it far too closely let me tell you something they would hv qualified if they had 2-0 bonker last match lol

Trust me there are lot , all of them hv fake flags for whatever reason

I think we all obsess with stats a little too much but honestly Orangutan's ascension run wasn't as bad as 0-4 suggests.
They took maps off team which eventually ended top 3 and Bleed even won it all.
Also it must be noted Azys was ill and he never really could play to his potential that time.
Rvk was not the same back then ,he was in major slump.
I think after certain point of time their mental wasn't good enough and Rawfiul's consistency was big factor in them winning maps or getting rolled over.
I pretty firmly believe that if you put the same team in league with actual coach they will eventually become competitive.

Bro if they express discomfort we will translate for them plz.

He is good player but as long as he doesn't show up in big matches you can't trust him .
He has top fragged whole splits to drop absolute stinkers in playoffs , you may check yourself.
Also he has serious lack of discipline, constantly overpeeks and takes unfavourable fights.

There is nothing to appreciate about current roster unless you are fan of constant mediocrity

Tbh you guys realise only 2 Indians have got a chance till now , one of them is certified op crutch who chokes everytime he climbs on stage and stops hitting the most easiest shots.
The other plays with such high sensitivity and shaky aim that he has never been consistent in his life.
People don't like to hear this and it's GE which made franchising but on an individual level people like Deathmaker and Rawfiul were better players when GE was selected for franchising bcz they are better riflers which allows easy switch to flex roles

Bruh that's one of the biggest fumble 🙂.

Bro it's time India's calling.
Plz show them that Indians have aim all they need is a great coach who can make them compete at biggest stage.

Ig Polaris people like Bodork feel invested in team bcz of Polvi and Spin .
So they keep shielding them from criticism rest you can connect dots

But whom do you pick there??
It's pretty clear Rdeew is their best talent but his health problems prevent him from signing for big teams.
Others are pretty raw there too and will need time and I think it's better for GE then as Indian org to groom Indians instead of OCE players

I think it's popular opinion rn unfortunately GE's team management doesn't seem to understand that.
I don't think you need to sign 5 Indians even someone like Azys or Dos9 or Tesseract can be signed.
They play in Indian T2 and they are actually great aimers better than what GE has atm and I am sure fans do hv some connect with them too.
Wildoreoo looking so good out there and trust me Azys has always been a better player in Ph league and SA league.
Don't get me wrong Polvi is decent but he doesn't pop off big enough to win maps on his back and Azys can do that a lot.

Trinity's highs are insane, literally becomes the best player of India hope he brings more consistency.

Not their decision Anti decided to retire from competing 4 days before split started and no one else was available so ace.

You need to get picked no?? They don't hv any dedicated league so it hampers their development, there was a reddit post in Jan regarding this .
Now ig RNT has opened door for more pickups by their scouting since they have proven to be great players.

see it's GE customary 6th man and nothing else so I won't say much.
But knowing Rushi he won't want to spend much money so for ex if MLT drops roster he is more likely to pick Rawfiul, or if RGE drops roster he may pick RVK for free instead of buyout.
I mentioned these 2 bcz these were 2 names mentioned by him when he was asked who from India has potential of playing in T1

that's what was announced in the format explainer video and if my memory serves me right 3 teams from both grps were also supposed to qualify which is now changed too.
Also, Rawfiul mentioned it in post-winning speech of CUP2 that now that Split 2 is LAN MLT will be more dominant.
nvm rechecked the video they didn't mention anything for league stage but LAN was supposed to be 6 team event and grp stage was double round robin which is also changed ??
man I think they should go back to 3 team from grp otherwise 2 good LAN teams will miss out and I don't think MLT boys deserve this after all they hv gone through given they are the best Indian team atm. bcz if it's single round robin and MLT has lost to RGE ,I don't think they are beating TR in current situation and qualifying now....

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I mean it's been always obvious that other than the 3 OG jetts of India , nobody from OG era has good enough aim to be able to hang out with the best but we have such lack of talent well ..