s0m could go to CC, just because his FA has been announced is because yeah he either stays or theyre moving him off.

Only time is really gonna tell. Because either way 1-2 players other than the Optic core are gonna be added (depending on if they decide to keep ethan/eeiu/hazed as theyre RFAs)

Stopped reading at matrix

Yessir

Average dogshit matrix post

Honestly would be cool to see these plus 6th men for either current roster players or people having ideas to add fo that
Regarding this list though

EG, Valyn would IGL not Mitch
NRG, i could see them dropping s0m for CC

Possible 6th men for each team
100T Will
C9 NeT
SEN Sick
NRG Eeiu
EG Jawgemo/Sayaplayee, maybe Boostio?

Honestly seeing teams implement a 6th man would be really cool to see. Good thought process behind this.

Will we see it, only time will tell

FNS
Crashies
Victor
Dicey
Ethan
-Chet Coach

OR

FNS
Zekken
S0m
Ethan
Eeiu
Still coach Chet

Just drop Tex, Hazed, move S0m potentially to CC

-who for Cryo tho?

Probably so that their population can defend itself or be called upon in the event of war.

Or just promoting people being active idk. breaking your leg wouldn't prevent it only delay it as many countries who have NS have it as a requirement to do atleast a year or two. Jingg already put it off for a year or so.

trialing doesnt always mean its 100% signing

Maybe not all right now or in the early signing period but between now and February, the only teams i can see not changing more than half their core (3+) realistically are.
LOUD
100T
C9
PRX
DRX
TL
FNC
ZETA

But outta specifically NA again, 100T would be most likely to field basically the same roster.

EG = solid team but youd be insane to keep them all if you expect to ever get out of NA purgatory from last 2 seasons. Theyd be basement dwellers of American League with this lineup, at most anyone of Jawgemo Aproto, Boostio. But everyone is upgradeable

NRG = would also be a bottom feeder with their currently standing roster, Eeiu and Ethan would be the only real keepers. Sure theyre coming off top 4-6 performances but Tex, Hazed and W streamer are all either inconsistent or consistently mediocre.

SEN = can say this just like the other 2, current roster would be sitting in mediocrity in America, TenZ is still good and i dont see them giving up on his buyout unless he falls off the face of the earth. SicK is a huge question mark coming off his time away. Everyone else expendable.

I list C9 as a team that wouldnt drop more than half their core, simply because why would they? The chaos core of Xeppaa, Vanity, Leaf. Are consistent enough in being a top 5~ in their roles in NA to where i feel like theyre safe.

The actual Teal Seam team is technically "FaZe academy" allegedly. Because they were signed to be an academy team for some org but it was never officially announced.

However the "Team Seal 1.0" team at Toronto LAN is likely just a buncha players that picked that name because 4/5 of them are ex-TS.

Not actually gonna be a team afterwards I'm pretty sure with Xeppaa being in C9 and players like NeT likely going to make franchsiing

oh yall down bad bad

doesnt surprise me with this being vlr.gg

They're good but its also super early in the season so I wouldn't jump out to saying that. Should be an easy NFC East title though.

I try my best to be one of the people here that isn't a consistent dumbass.

We are a rare vlr breed apparently.

Title.

Would be an upgrade for sure.

not in order but
FNS
Dephh
Vanity
Valyn
Poised

as of right now speaking
HM: Hazed, Zander, Boostio.

Would argue that all of them RIGHT NOW either beat shaz in calling or fragging, if not both. Their teams all do better with the exception of V1 and EG (arguable, they had the better 2022)

doesnt deserve hate but he's a mediocre player and IGL these days. SEN can do better.

0/8

not even top 5 IGLs in NA

we heckin love NRG

facts

cod on console
roblox paintball and tf2 on pc

as a member of the can't have shit club.

Yes, best city in America to travel to hands down.

Pretty much every large major city is a shithole in one way or another.

All still have good spots but the largest of cities LA, NYC, Miami, Chicago, all are pretty bad.

Americas: NRG
EMEA: NAVI
Pacific: GenG/Zeta

At the moment no announcements have been made and roster moves aren't immediate per NRG Seth and others via their discord.

The roster very likely is gonna get changed around by the time it comes around

Oh im aware its bait, it aint good im just saying watch me still be correct

Here before GE finish 10th for the next 2 years in Pacific League

Ascension Tourneys exist, adding +1 slot to each franchise league each year, maxing out at 14 as rach ascension winner is there for 2 years before being relegated back into Challengers

-shaz
-rawkus

Then we can take them seriously, maybe.

Only reason people trash on sentinels is because their god awful fanbase and mediocrity since post-Berlin

Best i can do then is be a gold 2 igl with 250 ping at that point

OWs game killed itself, valorant has a very active community and in terms of esports is not only popular rn but the franchise partner league isnt entirely closed off like say CDL or OWL are. So tier 2 still has a chance to live and thrive

we are infact going to brazil

gotta be the worst suggestion I've heard for them yet 💀

JonahP and Zellsis are both better players yes on paper, But both play a Flex role for their team, not an initiator primarily (Sova, Fade, Breach?? regularly. In TGRD and V1 I'd moreso look at Wippie and Trent as those)

LCQ Eeiu || 3rd best player in LCQ for NRG
ACS 3rd
KD 4th with 0.94
KAST T-2
ADR 2nd
APR T-3
Clutch % 1st

Stage 2 Eeiu || Easily best player
ACS 1st
K:D 2nd, .01 behind Tex
KAST% 2nd, 1% behind Ethan
ADR 1st
APR 3rd
Clutch% 2nd

Stage 1 Eeiu || 2nd best player after S0m
ACS 2nd
K:D 2nd
KAST% 1st
ADR 2nd
APR 1st
Clutch% 3rd (2nd if you subtract Android)

So statistically speaking he's been consistent on their roster, whereas Tex improved greatly, and S0m had an up and down year, but he was statistically better than Ethan/Android, Tex, and Hazed for the entire year. Just arguable between him and S0m for team MVP in 2022. If we wanna go back into 2021 we can as well.

what region is this for?

Him and Eeiu are the only 2 I can see even being on the roster let alone in partnership, not to say the NRG roster is bad but theres better FA's

Why I mention Eeiu is in your own thread about NRG.

NRG 2023

Duelist/Chamber Op - Yay
Entry/Flex Duelist - Zekken
IGL Smokes - Zander
Primary Initiator - Trent
Flex - BCJ

HM: Valyn, FNS, Crashies, Bdog, Ethan, Eeiu
Really hard to decide on these guys, being put inna GM spot like this is hard

Honestly we've heard nothing from them regarding roster moves. In their discord they said as far as they know (right now) there hasn't been any moves but it'll very likely happen.

-S0m, move to CC
-Jamalesh "Hazed" Cobbanath mega boomer. (still a good IGL, but mediocre fragging even by IGL standards)
-Tex too inconsistent, better chamber ops out there
-Ethan maybe??? still a strong flex player and he's definitely still good enough to hang in the partner league
Keep Eeiu unless an upgrade is found/signed.

Honestly picking up any of the Guard, Faze, XSET, or Optics rosters. Even in FULL would be great for the org.

Tex isn't better than either of those guys I'm sorry but please pass what you're smoking.

While he arguably came into form in Stage 2 and LCQ after a horrendous bottom 10 performance in stage 1 (where ANDROID was a better player than him and still got dropped) he atleast saved himself from a benching but with the F/A talent out there, Tex would be LUCKY to stay on NRG.

If we're ranking chambers/opers in NA

Yay
Cryo
Dicey
Bdog
Sayaplayer (his chambers mediocre though, despite being an amazing duelist)
Will = Tex
Mitch

Because Eeiu has consistently been their best player. Yes Trent, BCJ, Crashies > him but I feel like NRG might still keep some of their core together, him and Ethan maybe??? Depends on how F/A goes for the top league tbh.

I dont consider Zekken or Zellsis primary initiator players, the others however are.

Plus we heckin love Dan

being a sentinels fan =/= being a tenz tier 3 sub

upgrade but C9 dropping the core of leaf vanity xeppaa feels unlikely.

Yay - Chamber every map
other 4 rotate between duelists so that its unpredictable who plays who.
Just take the GE playbook and then they win.

Even though team IGLs agent pool is definitely more in their favor to make balanced comps, prob can't really antistrat unpredictable W keying and aim diffs

lotta talk for lack of results.

yea and he was wanted for it, idk if he ever got arrested though.

hell yeah, I don't think it'll happen right away but down the line mixed rosters in the Americas is a given.
EMEA has been doing it for awhile and makes it work
Pacific I feel like will be more mixed off the get go due to the sheer amount of JP, KR, and SEA talent out there.

The real trick right now is just the language barriers for everyone but that'll get better with time. I feel like the LATAM and BR teams are gonna benefit from having better access to NA staffing. (No offense to them but outside of Onur and Bzka I can't think of any standout LATAM/BR staff)

Players ofc theres alot of dream super team potential.

#3^ this

plus other sources

Bren Esports owner got in deep water recently.

X10 prob have really shitty management as well.