Xeppaa is a beast, but I don't think the initiator role is as fragger friendly as it used to be in the current meta. Moose is a beast though. We'll see how runi is without having to IGL.

Harsh take, but for a star duelist trying to replace the Yay we saw from Chamber meta, hard shoes to fill. Crashies and Victor were both inconsistent as fuck.

I feel like the old optic core will be the players who have to prove if the new squad has potential or not. Hopefully marved can show some good form again.

Ange1 is literally the fns of NA. I do agree that they needed more firepower, which I think s0m could have maybe shown more consistently if he got more experience on controller. The only team that's had more firepower than Na'Vi is fnatic. Hard to top.

What was the Tarik stuff?

Idk how people don't take masters events seriously when there is only 3 or 4 international Lans a year. You're sounding a little region locked. Everyone knows a majority of the old gambit roster, most are still in franchising except d3ffo.

Jokes aside, I'm excited to see how QcK performs on duelist. I think he's a good player, but we'll see how things go.

I'd take kingg over any other IGL in terms of ability to frag. Could be better flex players in Americas, but mazino would be up there with the best of them. I think c0m is pretty mediocre, would have kept nzr instead of signing c0m tbh.

Ultimately, any 'stacked' roster always seems to get jinxed. Only exception I can really think of is the current iteration of fnatic, and all their players are at least top 3 in their respective roles (except for maybe boaster).

Imo, if comms aren't a huge problem, and the org/team put in the work to develop a good team culture, LEV could be fantastic.

Either way, pre-season speculation is fucking pointless. Find some other shit to do instead of theorizing about this, especially when you base that speculation on individual tournament placings. That kind of logic would have resulted in demon1 not getting picked up by EG. Imagine that?

Not even the best team in the Qual tbh. YFP will be fun to watch over the season.

Can't wait til we get more jjk!

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Lots of talent on 100T, but I think it really depends if he can call well. Between cryo eeiu bang and asuna, they have plenty of skill

This their year for ascension. No cap.

EMEA has a genuinely deep talent pool, but I always end up getting disappointed when it comes to play-offs. At least for 2023, besides fnatic, that was how it felt. EMEA will probably dominate tbh. Will depend on how all the almost entirely different rosters in the Americas develop.

I think jawg will just play jett when they need him to. Apoth is pretty mid tbh, not worst player in VCT History ig. He'll do what they want him to do though, will probably cycle the roles by map, but if this were ranked, he'd be the dude who says ill fill in pre-game. They're definitely lacking someone capable of being a second duelist when they need, hopefully derrek gets back in form after his 100T stint.

I would have figured it'd be like that due to there being such a high density of players, many of whom probably don't have the best PCs. It's insanely easy to breeze through plat/diamond, even lower ascendant in NA, if you're playing properly & are using the same agents consistently.

Hell no. He's the only leaf, man. That's why he's 1leaf.

imo buzz is really consistent at making space and getting impact. Depends on what DRX we see this year. W/ zest I always felt like they were more structured than with stax as igl.

How tf u gonna blame the two best performing players? Not a huge C9 fan, but id say the problems last season were the other three players not performing well. Zellsis brings a lot of experience, but (in hindsight) runi and Jake were already dead-weights.

Probably related to salary. Way easier to go with an average player with no previous signings in terms of leverage in negotiating pay. Signing gMd and Corey would definitely cost the failing EG lots of money. The org is going to be defunct by the end of the year.

Think he's referring to the regular VCT season from last year. C9 looked poised for booking a ticket to Tokyo before play-offs. Just crumbled under the pressure.

They didn't sell anyone. They were released from their contracts.

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What if, someday, cNed's valorant skills will determine the fate of humanity.

And the agent he must do so on is....raze

Way too many pros get gassed up by their twitch chat. It's honestly hard for me to say as a fan that I can think of most esports players as being anywhere as close to professional athletes.

I actually think buzz is more consistent than foxy9 was on duelist. I'd say he had a solid year as far as actual impact goes for making space. I think they have some great pieces in this team, but I don't know how things will fare w/ stax presumably on the IGL role

I think it's more dependent on orgs tho, yeah? Not sure what the African valorant scene is like with a lack of developed infrastructure compared to Europe, north-america, and Asia.

Eeiu is way better than derrek mechanically. Not sure about cryo yet, he's a great duelist, but we'll see if he can flex on more agents in the future.

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Haven't watched enough LEV games if u think c0m is a better player.

I feel like nzr is better than c0m mechanically, but c0m is a much smarter player.

That being said, I don't know if sova will continue to be as dominate in the meta outside of breeze, ascent, and maybe icebox. C0m made him work on fracture tho, so we shall see. I also don't know what map is being subbed for icebox tho.

Ur gonna Ross'd (from friends) if u think raze is even top 3 here mate.

I'd say it's 50/50. Solo q'ing sucks, and it's even worse if you get the instalock duo who only com to each other. That being said, most of the immortal games im in generally have microphones.

That being said, the big issue, even with comms, is people actually listening. Only really started playing again after I finished exams last semester, and the amount of calls I made repeatedly, only to have a team mate die and say it wasn't called out, absolutely baffles me.

Thought they got dropped (again)?

Now im sitting here wondering if current NA shrinkflation portions are just normal asian portions

Pancada didn't play w/ frod on loud

The dog just wants to play, he doesn't dislike you because he jumps. If he didn't like you, he'd just growl, yeah?

Also, breed is not as much of a factor as actually training the damn dog. Any large breeds, from shepards, to bulldogs, to Rottweilers can be as playful as your toy breed without training.

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TakaS, Yaboidre, zeldris, and dgzin are some examples. It's all arbitrary tho. Isn't a huge scene for esports in Africa due to poor infrastructure, political instability, etc cetera (if that's what u meant)

I mean, fnatic broke the bank to buy players for each role. Like, best in the world in every role. Hard to compare.

I do agree, however, that most franchised teams seem to find mechanically gifted players, independent of their roles, and try to mould them into different players. The new KC roster, the new vitality roster, and the KOI roster from last season are all examples of this IMO.

Flexibility is great and all, but a lot of adaption is req'd if everyone did this. It's just not very often that you can sign actually 5 players w/ good agent map pools that compliment each other.

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Wippie is a good senti player though. Not too many better options that weren't already signed to teams already.

After getting rossy, though.

Honestly tho, I feel like it's easiest to transition from duelist to any other role. As long as the coaching is there to help the player change their playstyle. Plus we back to the double duelist meta on a lot of maps, so hopefully it's not too big of a change.

Grinding ranked = grinding w/ a team

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Lul, don't watch the NHL.

Imo, nitr0 is pretty washed. I don't think he's a bad player by any means, but I kinda doubt this roster goes as far as they did last season. No GRD/G2 to deal with this upcoming season, but I see MXS going way farther. Far better all around roster, roles make more sense, and they'll have been practicing way longer by the time the season starts.

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Marved is a great player, but bang has more potential imo. One of the few highlights from 100T's roster this year.