He's good but in 2023 he had a good team to get to masters or champs and he didn't, instead he got diffed that same year by teams like NRG(who got eliminated in champs by BLG) or KRU(who didn't win a single map in champs), he's obviously good but posting ranked highlights doesn't make him instantly top 5 of all time Americas duelists, not even top 8 imo

Putting Melser as the worst controller after how he performed in the year is crazy, when he was fragging KRU was unable to lose the map lol

If she wants to have a chance to get to a VCT team in the future that's the path she needs to follow but if she cares more about money(which is totally ok and understandable) she should just stay in GC and farm all the teams there

This happens every year, people think SR squad can beat any T2 team and get to VCT easily, and then they get 2-0'd by some random T2 team in qualifiers for VCL.
Just be happy because SR won GCC, and wish the best for Flor because she can get to a good Tier 2 team imo.

Dont get mad bro, i just realized after seeing this thread that i've been seeing u in every other thread in this forum for the past week and found it funny lol

Brother you talk a lot

There's some threads telling how good this KRU could be, literally there's 2 types of people in VLR typing in KRU's threads, the ones that doesn't know shit about the players and just like to trash talk and the ones that actually know how good this team could be, haven't seen a stronger KRU roster than this one

Yeah that record you mentioned has no value as they ended up being 4th best of Americas that year lol, I ain't saying that FURIA and MIBR are not able to win against KRU the next year but saying something like "FURIA and MIBR are much better than KRU", when they didn't even get to touch playoffs this year and KRU won against them the 2 times they faced each other + you havent even seen some of your players play in tier 1, it's kinda crazy. Remembers me the Havoc glaze and then the poor guy ended up 2 20 in a map and not being able to have a good map till stage 2

Because even tho KRU has a winning record against MIBR and FURIA with KRU having worse rosters those years you are too confident that those 2 are for sure better than KRU, so if you are too confident of that its better to say that brazil is winning it all this year just to glaze them a little more

Bases on your opinion brazil should win everything this year, good luck

I guess it depends on the roster and gameplan, because if you look at Kru's stage 1 with Klaus this year they had a lot of team play, so we'll see

Out of all America's teams you said KRU has no synergy, where all the players have been friends with each other for a long time

I'd like Atom to try different comps in 2025 as Mazino and Adverso are able to play agents like Deadlock, Harbor, Sage, etc.

Nah mta is all the day practicing duelists in ranked, while Melser has been scrimming in KRU's roster so atm Melser is the main option unless he gets an offer from KOI for 100k a month

Not the smartest move to make fun in an english forum of someone who doesnt speak your language lol, but i guess you are polyglot

I can even see 2G doing better than C9 or EG

Every team besides C9, EG and prob 2G are looking scary for this season, any team besides those 3 has the chance to win a trophy

NA fans overrating their teams in off-season isnt gonna change apparently lol, y'all even overrated M80 and then they lost against an org with 1k followers on X

Well for Melser at this point is either to play in tier 2 or stay in KRU with a good roster lol, we'll see. And I agree that Klaus had a good read in the games, i wish Melser had those reads while he was IGLing, but sadly for Klaus if you are not in the same page with the team and you are not getting frags its like being 4v5 all the time. I hope we see him in a tier 1 BR team like MIBR or FURIA as IGL as he also speaks portuguese.

MTA is not staying in the roster, he has been playing duelist on ranked and it has been leaked that KRU is practicing with Melser, Keznit has been always top fragging and Shyy has been doing his role very well this year, idk how you talk about consistency and then see a better team with Klaus. I like Klaus, but he was way too inconsistent, either fragging or being the player with less kills in the map + he left because he wasn't in the same page with the team, so if you can't be an IGL and you are not killing I think it's the right decision to get out of the team

It does look good if you compare them to 2024 & 2023 rosters lol, 2023 they had Melser(who didnt want to be an IGL) as IGL and a roster with less firepower, and 2024 they had a roster with again no clear IGL(Melser didnt want to, and Klaus hadn't been doing it for 2 years) + they had mta at the start who only knew how to play 1 agent(Kayo) decently and then got heat(who was a true duelist and never played initiator before) to then go back to Melser as IGL and mta as flex(who bottom fragged like 80% of the maps in stage 2). Now you can see they got a true IGL as Adverso is, and one of the best initiators/flex in the world, Mazino.

Apparently Melser as he appeared on every KRU post where the 4 main players appeared and a few more posts when they were in the AGS

Idk I really don't think MTA could achieve Melser's impact as a smoker in the season, it'd be the same as this year where he was only able to play kayo and the time he started playing sova and others agents he bottom fragged all the maps, he for sure is a young talent but putting all your faith on him when it's a 50/50 that he makes a good year as a smoker, I believe keeping Melser as 5th and MTA as 6th player is more accurate

Adverso/IGL
Keznit
Shyy
Mazino
Melser/MTA

Most likely keeping Melser on the roster because he has been the main smoker of the team and one of the bests of LATAM with Kingg.

Nothing confirmed outside the Adverso IGL verbal agreement.

Keeping the core that did well the whole year, Keznit - Shyy - Melser and adding Mazino top 3 initiators/flex of 2024 and adding Adverso as IGL who did really well in Ascension, KRU looking really good

Forgot ab Palla, mb. LOUD Snwzin for sure then

Nah keznit isn't leaving, the manager of KRU already said things like "I believe keznit could become the best duelist in 2025" or when Lembo asked him about keznit staying "He still is under contract". Snw might be going to MIBR tbh, cuz LEV is trialing duelists like Demon1 or Mada in case Aspas leaves and LOUD idk i dont see him there

I don't believe that Melser's tweet was about KRU, there's literally no other better smokes in LATAM and putting MTA in smokes would be troll.

Keznit
Melser
Shyy
Adverso/Nzr
Mazino

This roster wins a trophy this year, make it happen KRU

I'd even say -mta +heat/Mazino/Adverso, heat is still under contract and Kru's manager said that they didn't told him that they wouldn't count with him, just that they were gonna try others and that he could get dropped so it's better for him to explore other options but he could be back in the team.

Your NA talent had 4 teams of 6 not qualifying for champs, now only 1 NA team in ascension playoffs and about to get 3rd place lol

Nah Atom was the first one saying how bad the team followed the strats they had planned for champs after they got eliminated lol, from what i could watch on the videos he likes to give them space to shoot but following a game plan every round, this is why I believe Saadhak could be the one bringing calm to the rounds and the one who puts them all in the same idea

Theres no money to pay Aspas's buyout in those orgs lol, hes prob going to pacific or staying in LEV

Cant count with Adverso on KRU since AK is winning Ascension so, -adverso +nzr

AK is winning ascension so don't count with Dante in KRU

Less doesnt play neither Omen nor Astra so in case Less joining KRU is happening, then i'd expect more:
Keznit - Duelist
Saadhak - Initiator/IGL
Shyy - Sentinel
Melser - Smokes(Omen, Astra, Harbor, Viper)
Less - Flex(Initiator+Viper)

or even Shyy going back to initiator as a flex playing initiator and viper in some maps and Less being the main sentinel of the team

Yeah it feels like any of these 4 teams(M80, RETA, 2G, AK) could win the tourney, its being very fun to watch when they play against each other

Reta def has the money to afford franchising, not sure about AK

If I had to decide rn, I'm more of an AK believer just for how much talent is there, but either them or RETA, the other teams in tier 2 sucks

Or getting 1 more LATAM org into tier 1 to give a chance to all this good players with massive potential

Leaving heat because of the language issue to now bring tomaszy it's such a troll move lol.
IMO
Keznit - Duelist
Saadhak - Initiator/IGL
Melser - Smokes
Shyy - Sentinel
Mazino - Flex

We don't know yet if MTA is still in the roster, because KRU could be interested in Mazino and that would mean -mta -heat

Keep the hard work bro!

Again Bob's #1 fan throwing shit at Keznit, no one cares about your trembo impersonation sadly

Prob more of a language issue, they had to do the comms in both languages(Spanish and Portuguese) just for one player, and sometimes you could hear them calling something in Spanish and heat doing something different

It's a term used in SA, for the rookies that have potential to become one of the best players

He had 3 days to adapt to the team and learn Klaus's agents before his first match after he got dropped, and then he did good in some maps and bad in the others + he is the " promise " of the team so its not a surprise that they kept him

He was insane at the game, but if you look at the comms you could imagine why he got dropped instead of MTA, when they had to make the calls in Portuguese in certain rounds so heat could understand it faster it's probably why, and MTA is the rookie that has all the org's faith so makes sense overall, could this mean that KRU Saadhak is happening?

This year the team had to change the main roster 3 times, and 2023 they were 0-9 in regular season, it'd be nice to see how they do with an actual roster that stays together the whole year

Who you dropping then? I think dropping shyy is such a bad decision just because of how good he is and also giving MTA or heat a new role to learn, now that they already have the experience of playing their roles against the best teams itw. Now if you put saadhak as a sentinel it would make sense ngl.

MTA should be the one going out but I believe in him, won't be disappointed for whoever the org decides that needs to stay(heat or MTA)