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| Registered: | June 16, 2022 |
| Last post: | December 3, 2024 at 2:25 PM |
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Something that had me confused for a while was a tidbit from mCe's watchparty for EG vs NRG where he stated something along the lines of (The vod is deleted so I'm paraphrasing here): "EG are winning tokyo, they are touched by god to make the cinderella run that we were supposed to have on the Guard. None of you know about the absolute monster that they're hiding. Every org had to wait 2 years to sign this guy because of his age"
My confusion comes from the fact that a franchised roster can keep a secret player in the first place, if he were signed already, surely his name would show up on the contract database.
During the latest platchat episode, mCe further mentioned that EG was scrimming with Reformed on Jett and this secret 10th man. He said, "I will pull up the screenshot of Reformed shitting on us with jett. I can't actually show it, he was on jett, were memeing it, and he actually did really well. Cus like, their 10th player who can't be named, i was like 'oh this must be fun' why aren't you on this and then screwface why aren't YOU on jett? They're picking the one guy, they have like 7 jett mains and they're like YEAH THAT GUY"
Now, if you remember the whole Turtle Troops drama with EG, for the longest time, it almost felt confirmed to TTR that Add3r was going to become EG's 10th man until they pulled out at the last moment.
Assuming this is true, it would make the situation perfectly clear: EG is unofficially playing with this secret 10th man without officially signing him for whatever reason.
The secret 10th man must fit these criteria, therefore:
-Young
-Insanely talented
-Not signed by an org, otherwise wouldn't be able to scrim with EG
-Since they were originally trialing add3r, they were probably looking for a sentinel, so we're looking for someone who's cracked on both Sentinel and Jett given mces praise
So I cross referenced the tracker.gg profiles of all the known EG players for common duos, and I found a match.
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/icy%234444/matches
Notice how the EG players he duos with are almost exclusively from the second roster, which would make sense if he's their teammate. He also has a pretty high winrate with all of them, which is abnormally high compared to all of their other duos, meaning he is actually pretty cracked.
And sure enough, his VLR page shows that he's no longer part of any team as of right now, and he plays KJ and Jett.
EG's 10th man is Icy.
100T roster is already stacked, all of them are capable of being world class players, and Enghh would be able to make that happen
If 100T sign enghhh then it might be them instead of Sentinels ngl
I always thought EG deserved the spot (they won fair and square after all), but that it was a waste that they go instead of C9 since they wouldn't have Demon1.
I no longer thing it's a waste now that they're at full strength
shao, suygetsu, redgar, nats, something, and chronicle are all russian citizens, demon1 is a US citizen. so that's how the process was faster for demon1
and I don't think something ever played on LAN in japan, I think he was playing from vlaivostok (eastern Russia). EDIT: incorrect
the process for the above mentioned russian players probably took just as long, but since they were signed during the off-season they had a lot more time to get their paperwork taken care of.
Something was barely signed in late march, so there's really only 3 months of leeway for him
Welcome to the world of immigration beauracracy, this shit usually takes months. Once a work visa expires or you lose the work that you justified under that visa, the only thing that becomes easier is your odds of getting another visa accepted again in the future (it can be rejected), but it will still take just as long.
Sayf - 8
Ange1 - 6
suygetsu - 7
Sheydos - 3
monyet - 3
undisputed is a stretch ngl lol but i get what you mean
valorant awp is perfect the way it is rn ngl
well I can't speak for team heretics, but I think it's fair to assume no pro player would openly admit that they had a lot of conflicts with their old teammates, it's career suicide
no this is what i listen to when i play yoru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plu8_rCyaG4
La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQ_3TCnAyw)
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen9ou-1879050822
Our battle will get more viewership than VCT finals
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i think he meant Something as in the player
i have never heard a welsh person say cuh before
EG also surprised everyone, they retained the majority of their losing roster from last year, but with one or two adjustments and a shit ton of practice they managed to become a top 3 team
they replaced the guy regarded as the best player in the world and their IGL and signed two completely unknown tier 3 players, so everyone expected them to go 0-9 in groups. Nobody expected them to absolutely rawdog every team in the Americas besides for the top 3
I don't think it's fair to say the Chinese teams are horrible.
In fact, I don't think they've ever been as bad as people make them out to be:
-Last year EDG almost 2-0d Paper Rex at a time when people considered them the 2nd best team in the world.
-Both EDG and ASE consistently scrim franchised APAC teams.
-Even though EDG lost to 100T at lock-in, 100T was looking stronger back then (beat FUT, which ironically enough is competing this time around as EMEA #3 seed).
This is not to say that I think 100T is better than FUT right now (No, FUT has 100% improved tremendously since Lock-In) But that's exactly why I don't think it's fair to dismiss ASE and especially EDG based on their past performances when they've had an equal window of opportunity to improve themselves.
It's a common argument to say that their region is uncompetitive, but if you really think about it: the fact that FGC is a separate league from APAC means that teams like DRX and T1 can scrim against them without holding back any strats--at least until now (they're definitely a great scrim partner given that APAC's challengers scene isn't as developed as EMEA's or NA's).
T1's coach Autumn has even said some really good things about ASE specifically, like how "When Life is activated, ASE are unstoppable" in their scrims.
I genuinely predict that either EDG or ASE are going to make a deeper run at Tokyo than many of you realize, they're going to pull an upset or two and you'll feel the same way you did when you underrated Cloud9.
like does the carrot have tiddies or are you fucking the carrot with your own tiddies
every situation requires an appopriate aiming style. If you're flicking to someone, try to flick a head tap and strafe once before comitting to a 3 bullet spray to their head.
You should always be able to hit headshots but don't be so hard on yourself if you punish people with bodyshots
If teams started playing yoru they'd be winning more and more. He's meta but teams don't realize it yet
again, my issue is with his branding, not the actual impact of his wealth.
The guy bought a mansion in HOLLYWOOD dude, he could've bought a house anywhere but he buys a mansion in fucking Hollywood.
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