Is not a knock on Tomaszy, I love him. But Ibai doesn’t know many Valorant players so I seriously doubt he got excited about someone he doesn’t know xD

Neither fits the description

KOI could probably be able to get Xeus but is 100% not him. He literally said someone they tried to sign last year

You cannot judge him by his level 3 years ago. That's just not how it works, might aswell get dapr Bonecold and Shazham

Truth is he is not good enough rn. But that being said he has had tryouts, if he doesn't get picked up is because he doesn't deserve it

If you see him play in tier 2 and cover up his name you wouldn't see him standup

What makes you think that

I fucking wish xD

NRG and VIT seems like. People speculate the situation is stuck because he wants VIT but FNC doesn't want to sell him to EMEA

With more context there's 4 possibilities that would fit the situation

Impossible: Sayf keznit (No way)
Realistic: Fitinho (most likely)
He got overhyped for no reason: Tomaszy (Unlikely why tf would he be so excited)
It's someone we never discovered they were after last year. (Unlikely)

It’s not Sayf, I think Ibai just worded it wrong. Sergio says it’s not anyone people is mentioning, like with the coach

None of those names fit the description other than Sayf

Couple things. They said yesterday they had sent an offer for someone that wasn’t Minny or Flyuh, so I assume is this. That being said I assume the Minny and Flyuh things are very much real so he must be talking about a duelist.

And last year they basically could’ve sign anyone until the end of the summer so they didn’t really compete for any signings, ence doesn’t make sense that they tried to sign someone and couldn’t because everyone already had the teams made. The only signing they did try last year and we know of is Sayf, which Ig fits the duelist description, but there’s no way that happens

They already said Derke rejected, it’s not him

You’re really not understanding brother. He said you cannot announce any player that is currently on a VCT team, that includes players with and without contract

I'm aware, I'm saying if that was the case why would be type this "If a player is currently on a VCT roster"

I doubt that because then he wouldn't say any player on a VCT team, if you're gonna pay a buyout you don't have to wait for any contract

Making Ascension finals as the favorites, choking, reaching finals again to win in an epic way like Apeks. Could be the exact same script on all 3 regions

Is this related in any way to Maple loosing on Abyss?

doesn't sounds very reliable, we'll see

that's not a thing anymore , some sort of other deadline for announcing stuff I guess

Is this an Apeks situation 2.0? Even M80 might be in the same situation, only APAC might be different

Can keep both around for tryouts Ig, but I wouldn't guarantee a spot for either without exploring everything, a lot of talent in Brazil. wHat they actually need is an IGL. Build around adverso/Klaus/Nzr tbh

I mean they were terrible, not much of an option

Same man you had a point and tried to explain it. I'm glad we came to closer positions

Elbarco is somewhat reliable for EMEA, but for Americas they don't know as much. That being said MIBR is rebuilding from 0 yeah. Brazillians probably know who they're rumored to be after

Yes, but more orgs benefits them, more viewers etc. I think competition is good, if you can't beat those guys you can't beat everyone else

There's orgs interested in valorant, it's a big esport. But Riot needs to fix A LOT of things

I've heard Heroic NIP and Quadrant are joining Polaris next year for example

1. The 1 thing I do agree with. And it has its benefits, you have orgs that use that situation to improve like TH and orgs that don't like MIBR. But again, you can very much mitigate that without removing franchising by maybe having the contract revision every 2/3 years instead of 4 making orgs having to react faster, which benefits orgs like TH not MIBR. It wouldn't eliminate it but very much help, which is why as I said I do agree with this one
2. Out of all 58 players that competed in EMEA last year 23 were rookies, I believe that is a solid rate of young blood (could have miscounted slightly did it fast kekw)
3. OWL killing their tier 2 doesn't mean Valorant has. LOL has a function tier 2 while having franchises, which proves it is possible with the right format. Riot just isn't paying enough attention to it. But that is kinda my point it's really unfair to say they're not paying attention to it because of franchising

It's never been franchising in the first place, teams don't really own the spots. Just a way of calling it I suppose. And let me read the original problems and try to solve them

ascended teams always at a disadvantage

They will always have more pressure but I think they should guarantee them 2 years like before and only have the second year teams do the Playoff -> Ascension Champs -> retain spot thing

system which encourages losing games

Have the contract revision be every 2/3 years instead of 4

careers which last 2-3 years max

Make tier 2 more stable to give the players a place to fall back on. I would probably heavily reduce the amount of VCL's in EMEA to 3 or 4, condense the viewers and the quality orgs. create rivalries between countries and make each other play against one another more than fucking once a year. And most importantly extend their season

shitty formats

I would make none shitty formats xD

lack of events

I would add more events xD

Yeah Ig you're right, but being last it's just not a good idea. I'd very much rather move like TH did last year and literally just being faster than everyone else even if that means you have to keep an IGL that might have some doubts

Eh I personally like Nzr better but you might be right, I did not think about him. Br teams should def consider him

alright buddy, not doing this today

I actually love the Superliga tho lol. And now that you mention it the new format did have promotion and demotion very similarly to VCT. People hated it because they didn't bother to see the format had changed from the original one and had a bad impression

I don't know if you're not understanding my point or just don't want to. I agree with every single problem you mentioned, it's not about that. Imo you're simply blaming those problems on the wrong cause, franchising is just one more part of a system that is wrong, but the part is not necessarily wrong. Idk how else to explain it, a franchising system without all of those problems is definitely possible in my eyes. But let's just agree to disagree I suppose

Bro was top 15 in stats in Americas on a shit team while being the IGL . Tf else was bro supposed to do

He was literally the second best IGL in Brazil after Saadhack

That's what happened to KOI last year because of the merger, and turns out, there weren't xD

Doesn't really mean anything if all of the good players are already picked up

Not much, I recall they said it's kajaak's third option after FNC and Apeks and something else but I wasn't listening xD

Oh I thought you meant if you were FUT you would move on to Comeback or yetujey xD

I mean, sort of. Most accurate spreadsheet for EMEA there is for sure. Don't take anything for sure tho, but at least as a summary and to know what's going on is great. They've hit a lot lately M8 Goked, NAVI hiro etc. It's not necessarily always their info always it's a mix with general knowledge of the spanish community which is usually very high because of Lembo, anonimotum and SergioFerra

Tryouts might not be updated, because it's harder but yeah overall it's good

Yeah the IGL needs to be one of the first pieces and teams have been in tryouts for weeks. Not saying it’s not possible, saying it’s totally understandable they didn’t want to wait

It’s not cheaper. KC and KOI made an offer for Hiro and NAVI swoop in with a massive offer

Yetujey duelist???

Everyone is momentarily gone in M8, they’re building from 0, some players might be on the tryouts like natank but no one is staying for sure

No, if they make playoffs they get to defend their spot in Ascension which shouldn’t be too hard to win

It’s not sure he stays

Sure, but you need to try him out and see how he calls and it’s kinda late in the off season to wait this long for an IGL

Also it’s a big gamble and I’m not even sure man

There’s no IGLs in EMEA

Nah M8 can make a good roster this year

Wailers and beyaz are long gone bro

I said it like 1 min earlier kekw that’s crazy