Best possible outcome(more competitive teams in pacific)

T1 :
-Rossy
-XCC
+K1ng
+RB

Unless T1 somehow qualify to Shanghai, it is likely their roster will be change. They might go full Korean due to availability of world class korean player in the market, dropping Xcc and Rossy even though both are great players. Rossy will then go to EG if they dont qualify. Their replacement if should be K1ng and RB(its T1, they can buy his buyout) , alternatively they exchange Xcc for Estrella.

RRQ
-Flip
-Estrella
+Monyet
+Xcc

There are rumours that Monyet might join Boom, but he would love to stay in franchising. If T1 goes full korean Xcc is in the market which means you no longer needs Flip which is only there because there is no good Indonesian IGL

Bleed
-Yay
-Deryeon
+S0m
+Benkai?

Sscary is not an IGL, that much is clear. With the removal of yay, Bleed have an import slot and money to throw. They need an actual world class duelist/flex and s0m is right there(he used to play duelist pre franchising). Benkai is there to IGL, mostly because there's not alot of igl in the market rn and he's still better than flip

Talon
-Lenne
+Garnets

They are fine but lenne is meh and Garnet should be in franchising

Ts
-Borkum
+some smoke dude for ph t2

They are fine though

Zeta
-Hiroron
+Meiy

Zeta now play double duelist PRX style with Dep and Meiy flying over every site.

GE
-Polvi
-Benkai
+skrossi
+deathmaker

Unfortunately they dont have bleed's money, RRQ strong domestic scene or T1 which have both. So this team is not going to be competitive anyway so might as well play some indians and farm clout.

Dfm probably is a lost cause too, so just train some Japanese youngsters

Prx drx geng are fine

Now 9 of the 11 teams in pacific are competitive with some massive roster changes, things should get better from now on.

Why don't u get that opportunity then? Oh right you lost against teams like RRQ and Talon

Once again, i agree with Americas. LEV , NRG and maybe Sen are still top tier.

Emea though? Which team do you see competing to win a tourney? Maybe Navi? Thats it? I dont think FUT coms will work against adaptive Americas team or Pacific who will just tap heads and Vit just lost to bottom tier Gentlemated

Then again there are only two top teams who are consistent rn (Lev and DRX). NRG looks like a joke v LEV, PRX trolled the TS game, GenG and Sen lost twice....

Americas? Maybe but we will never know since none of the mid teams from Pacific and americas will meet. And Americas arguably have the worst team in the world Rn in Furia(which must i remind you lost to Ge with a sub)

Emea? Do they even have a top 4 team rn? Have u seen how bad Koi or giantx is?

I have been saying this for a while. Everytime a decent team plays them they seems to get a brain aneurysm. Its just miniboo dashing in with paranoia and benjyfishy having the exact same setup every round and somehow some idiot fell for it 4 times in a row. When someone finally figured that out even BBL can take a map off them.

Ps i don't mean they are bad(mostly because of miniboo) , but they are nowhere near top 2 emea

Americas probably
They only have one absolutely bad team(Furia)

Emea also only have one in KOI but the rest of the bottom four are generally worse than americas one

Its definitely not Pacific with their two free wins team(Bleed and GE)

1 MIBR

2 JDG
What are they doing here? Jdg is ok and MIBR made it to playoffs.

Tier break
bad teams

3 GE (honestly dont look that bad, they just cant shoot)
4 Gx (Mediocre, but just bad , not dfm or kc bad)

Tier break
Meme teams
5 Tyloo: the team looks like 5 cracked ranked player ngl
6 Bleed : If you show this roster to anyone from 2022 they would thought this team is a contender to win Pacific. Yay is not it, retla not tier 1 ready and zest can't speak english
7 Furia : are ok aimer, thats the only positive here.
8 KOi : cant aim, cant use util, bad macro, probably the worst vct team alongside dfm and kc

How? Monyet was the smoker, who will u replace? Bazzi? Skrossi should not have played but thats the player u want. He lurks on duelist and buy op as solo entry Jett.

Resident talon bro already coping lmao. Win or lose 13-4 by GE is already a disgrace

At this rate there's only going to be one.

There is no free win in group omega, even the weakest team(Talon) is a decent team capable of upset.

The question becomes which of the group Alpha teams can beat two out of the three beatable teams in Zeta, DFM and Talon? Probably secret but i wont bet on it.

Team omega gets two free win vs GE and Bleed, so they all at least will have 2 wins

So Pacific playoffs will be

PRX
Geng
Drx
RRQ
DFM
ZETA

Pacific have 5 good team competing to win Geng PRX DFM RRQ and DRX.

Emea have KC, Fut, Vit and Navi (Th is fraudulent i swear to god they just kept falling to success, everyteam that plays them just run to the same fking trip for 5 rounds in a row, it gotta be match fixing at this point)

Americas is weird, especially after today's match it might looks like NRG on top, but top teams are NRG, Lev, Sen, Loud?

Didnt lulquid lose to a 0-3 t1?

Make it to playoff? Sure.

Make it to Shanghai? Very unlikely as they cant beat the top teams

K1ng wins that

B0nkai PRX on its last legs almost lost to DFM. Thats the PRX secret beat, not the something one.

It really depends on which map comes out and which map comes back

If pearl comes back and breeze goes out its gg , prx winning everything

If fracture comes back in then maybe, but i'll bet on NRG

If haven comes back then PRX aint winning a bo5. Probably sen or some team with a great igl wins

Dont watch Pacific, ur going to see them in international playoff anyway unlike a certain region

Lmao L

No, prx just got better. Finally we have an interesting rivalry in APAC instead of DRX owning PRXfor a season and then PRX owning DRX for a season. If prx win this it will be 2-2 prx v geng

PRX lotus with JIng was pretty strong, they can win that.

Viper is not an insta win button, especially against PRX. They were the best team in pearl, an extremely viper dominated map even though they dont use Viper.

Benjy is match fixing at this point. Even silvers wouldn't fall for the same trip that many times

Phoenix is Jing, Clove will be tenz or karon, Kayo is ethan, rn Chamber is Xccurate since yay is washed af

His smokes was pretty good. I think he should steer clear of sentinels

4 Indians + s1mple or Shroud.

That was with the old roster. Im a zest believer and yay looks better now. Imo the talent in this team looks too good not to atleast win a match.

However yes, i can see GE and Bleed switching place if Bleed dissapoints again.

Tiers with team in order

S tier PRX, GENG
A tier T1, DRX
B tier RRQ, TS , Zeta, Talon
C tier Bleed
D tier GE, DFM

S tier teams should expect another top 4 finish or they would consider this season a failure . They can win an international tourney.

A tier teams should expect to make it to an international event and make it to playoff, they would consider the season a success if they get a top 4 finish

B tier teams should make regional playoff and would be happy to not get grouped in international

C tier teams would be happy if they make it to regional play off

D tier teams would be happy if they get a win and are not bottom of the league.

Ts just lost twice lmao.

An average Indonesian makes twice as much money as an average Indian....

No, while not all pro cs players that go to valo actually understand the game(looking at you Scream) the top level CS players by virtue of mechanic alone wont be a bot. They will be cracked aimers atleast

Drx is 100% better rn, but TS sometimes have miracle games and they only need two of them to qualify in playoffs. Thats certainly possible

Then again they also have miraculously bad games(opener against Talon) so they might lose the 6th spot to zeta

Right now the Korean teams are looking good, with all 3 making it to playoff and DRX just convincingly beat TS. And yes i agree, RRQ and TS might challenge for Shanghai, i was thinking if its possible to create a competitive (not a super team, this is at best a international playoff level team) with purely non active PRX players from SEA.

Imo your best bet would be

Monyet(smokes/second duelist)
Invy(initiator)
Jremy(Duelist)
Xffero(smokes/second initator)
Xccurate (Sentinel igl) /Benkai

S1mple + 4 cracked but extremely unstructured and undisciplined indian rank demons. That sounds like a movie. Arguably the most experienced FPS player in the world leading 4 rookies to an impossible goal.

(They will lose to DFM)

Skrossi is the indian tenz though. He has clout. If you are going to kick him out atleast replace him with a world class duelist, not someone that is only slightly better than him, especially when its the import slot.

They should sign S1mple since he's dropped from navi.

I don't get why of all imports you get polvi. Since they aint going to any internationals, they should have kept skrossi so at least the indian fans would be happy.

Or import shroud, it will be funny.

Bro this is VLR. Tier 1 players are called bots all the time.

And xip dominating is again not a surprise. Smg did not lost a single game last year and they did not win the championship.

Im not questioning if this team will win Apac(seems very likely but then again RRQ. Kaguya was dominated by smg early on but was starting to catch up by the end) im questioning whether Tara can replace Kohaibi considering the numbers she put up as an IGL while Tara is at the bottom of the scoreboard 6/9 times smg played this year. She might improve sure, but right now she's the clear weak link

You said it yourself. Tara is a good player that is improving, but she's not at the same level as the rest of her team, Kohaibi is. It was pretty clear that except maybe ayumii, the top 5 GC players in APAC was last years SMG.

And yeah no shit they are dominant, the top 4 player in the league are in the same team.

Idk about the drama enough to comment whose in the wrong. But all that matters is it ended any APAC GC hope of winning anything international.

Tara is a bot, SMG lost with Kohaibi who was playing on such a high level, they aint winning with a permanent bot frag that is basically a pocket sage.

Kohaibi is relatable. I am losing to my trauma too

Fut might not be as good as i hope they are but they aint losing to lulquid

Most of it were instantly traded. Geng have the best fundamental

Geng also threw as many rounds. Stop the copium.

1. Texture
2. Karon
3. Zekken
4. Meteor
5. Tenz
6. Munchkin
7. Johnqt
8. Sacy
9. Zelsis
10. Lakia

How many people are actually fans of EG instead of NA Bandwagon.

They still won

We might have 0 trophy but this is more commercially lucrative than any trophy!

Its not monyet or foreskin or something or mindfreak or even choking
The issue is the lack of coaching staff. This is why their map pool is weak and they kept losing bo5s.

While everyone else is busy strating and counter strating, The PRX strat book is entirely based on stuff revealed in Jason Susanto's dream (when he is not having a wet dream about kissing Jing after winning champions 2023 by beating evil fanatic).

What is the org doing? Assistant coach is not the expensive, especially if you hire someone from non Singapore SEA. This is a consistent roaster that have performed time and time again? Why don't the org invest more?

Yep, was wrong

Prx dont do anti strats though. Maybe their split is hard countered by apac double dives?

But top tier cs players like scream and nitro is in valorant(yes both washed, but they have a better career than forsaken or boaster ever did) and after early success they both fail to deliver. If valorant is actually easier, wouldn't they both be goated?

??? You wouldn't expect faker to be the best in Dota or some top age of empires player to be the best in StarCraft? It might be a surprise but valorant is different game than CS.

Whats next? Are you expecting messi to win the NBA if he switches? Its the same genre of game after all, balls.

Bro almost everyone in valorant is a CS reject. Boaster was in tier 4 EMEA CS, tenz was kicked out of c9.