People still whining about Boastie. His IGLing is so important. Alfa etc. can truly shine with a selfless IGL like Boaster. I hope that even the last haters will see this at some point.

Initiator naming himself after the legend? w

al0 beast!

Turkish Valorant ahead.

And M8 are cursed for real.

And so many crazyyy options in T2. Like not only alexiiik or what but so many insane options.

GSR, rexxtoned, Jamelinho, globeX, wtex, Spear, WanZeru, shinnok.... so many insane talents upcoming! GSR is prob. the biggest <18y Initiator talent in EMEA.

I mean... Spear is one of the biggest Turkish talents and Izzy and sterben (German for "dying" btw.) are great players, but still... this can't be the standard Vitality is aiming for. Especially when it comes to the stupid ass repeeking, lane holding and weird roaming (like how many times I saw someone sneaking and then suddenly close to a peek spot jumping or loud walking - like WTF?!). I know, BO1, offseaon, fresh team, ladida - but we're talking about the biggest project in EMEA when it comes to money involved and they def. didn't just start scrimming - Sayonara is prob. the least one to blame, dude played only ranked after 30% of a Tier 2 season but this is honestly embarassing for VIT. .

What a damn legend.

KC new team def. nice!

Good pickup. Korean T2 league is full of brutal talent.

Next: exa, benecia, pkm, SID!

It was clear at the second we saw Neon, erde and blowz dominating SA T2 for 2 seasons and LEV keeping them in their academy squad. Kinda sadge that the ydidn't also get erde to T1 instead of Spike, but I guess this works very well, too. erde will def. find another team - but he is def. insane as well.

This team will become brutally strong. Americas 2026 will be by far the craziest region. Almost every team is stacked.

LEV will go places. INSANE!

I don't watch GC but congrats to them! Competition is important. So boring when always the same team wins.

I loved to watch him farm T2. I hope his former mate "erde" will also join a VCT team at some time, that dude is also crazy.

I said it... Neon etc. will be insane! This team will go nuts 2026!

RRQ always feel like they play without comms. xD

https://www.huya.com/18524970

But I watch the weibo one now. Good quality but only Chinese. https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321325238258799083633

The audio stream quality is so bad. I hope they increase that for the mach.

Can't wait to see LEV. Sato, Neon and blowz together in one team feels crazy.

I honestly think they will be good.

Wow. Surprise. xD

But I still have high hopes for that roster. Even though I'd love to see Lar0k at Fnatic together with Alfajer (maybe in the future, tho).

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His smokes are on point, tho. Mechanically a bit off, yes... but still great util.

It's just a offseason tourney but CGN can be proud and FUT needs to work on a lot. Crazy to see yetujey and xeus like that.

BBL (former BCF) and ULF gonna be the new Turkish danger in EMEA.

Sato, Neon, blowz and kiNgg in one team... insane.

Americas got by FAR the strongest league in 2026.

lmao... xD

marteen and GLYPH should have carried them tbh... especially marteen (he tried).

Jesus... loads of work ahead of them.

But what are you gonna do when there is a globeX with Polish AND Russian roots? Only misses the Turkish roots than he'd be unbeatable.

marteen is def. a beast. Would have loved to see him at Liquid or NAVI. But I hope this works for him, too.

KUNDIKUNDI is a crazy good coach.

Sympathic and hard working players, wish them the best.

So true.

Turkish league produces the craziest talents. I bet for VCT 2026 ComeBack, Lar0k and s0pp (when he turns 18) will be part of the best players in EMEA. And for 2027 I'm sure wtex will be one of the names (kid is just 16 and already incredible).

Derke and Less seemed to have an actual friendship, but I understand that it's hard. Vitality massively failed after the first major (which was really nice) to stay strong. Sayf hat mental issues, so the IGLing and the team performance went downhill and of course Derke and Less were not happy with the player experiments afterwards.

I hope Less finds a strong team in Americas again and Vitality will be better in 2026 (which should be the case with Chronicle, Jamppi, PROFEK and Sayonara).

Derke and Less def. deserve better than 2025. Respect to both for always staying professional and chill. Other players would have been wayyy louder about the problems of the org in 2025.

Nice to see Fnatic trying stuff out with Veqaj, but there is def. still a lot of work to do. But in the end... that's what the offseason is there for. At least you have some nice opponents here.

Was a banger match.

Keiko fits NRG so well... can't wait to see what bonkar cooks up for 2026 when keiko played with them for a bit longer.

SEN also looks strong.

This team is fire despite what most people said in the beginning. N4RRATE on Duelist fits him as good as what he played on KC during that Meta beside of marteen - 2nd Duelist and a very aggressive Fade / Gekko (Gekko was insane that Meta) -> that fits him wayyy better than being just a roaming Initiator. And N4RRATE is a beast.

And Red Bull HG is trying out things anyways. Losing here a few games is not wild, teams try out stuff and have to work with better, worse or simply other players than before.

Sentinels will be very strong 2026, 100%!

Wow, didn't expect this. musashi is so good. I mean we're talking about ENVY here...

GGs!

wtex is INSANE. That kid is the next ComeBack / s0pp (okay, s0pp is also just 17).

That kid is 16 and is so brutally good - at least in the matches I've watched with him. Def. a big, big talent in the making.

If football, Frankfurt easily wins. If Valorant (which seems will be played xD) NV easy wins 13-1 or something like that (it's BO1 afaik).

How do you mean that? :) I didn't know it was considered so much far back.
I just meant the old bonkar as a team times:
https://www.vlr.gg/150473/bonk-vs-the-barbers-red-bull-home-ground-3-swiss-r1

Keiko before played with RieNs at WYLDE and then went to bonkar, where he played together with bonkar before going to Apeks and bonkar later then became the coach of Leo, trexx and Sayf at Guild - also the reason why Sayf said in an interview in the past year that bonkar is the smartest man in Valorant. :P

NRG Keiko will be insane, especially because bro knows bonkar already.

o7

Veqaj is such a chill guy and he played a nice Abyss. Would be cool if it works out for him... on Duelist he looked suuuuper crisp (and kaajak even said he was amazing on Duelist, so that is a big compliment).

Was a fun 3 mapper. Nice ace hoody!!!!

So Veqaj for the offseason def. a good solution. I wonder what will be the final solution for 2026... maybe Veqaj turns out to be the ideal man, who knows?!

What I find insane again and again (also when people downtalk Boaster like in the last weeks when he said he continues for 1 more year) is how important an IGL or i.g. caller is. GX without Cloud are not even looking like GX anymore - and Heretics without RieNs (who is calling big time for them) also looked totally off in Korea. Of course offseason mini tourneys don't mean anything and most teams are just trying out stuff, but still... you can see it.

Btw.: Boaster on Raze = W! :D

I know these test tournaments mean nothing crazy and Heretics are without their best player, but ComeBack seems to fit their style really well. But it's crazy how much you see RieNs is missing. Even though Boo is the IGL, RieNs is the 2nd caller / often even main caller.

But in the end it's fun to see teams trying out some new stuff. I wish there would be more offseason tourneys like that with more teams... just some small quick tourneys.

In the end it's like public scrimming on LAN.

Sentinels 2026 will be dangerous... alone to see Cortezia and N4RRATE being such a cool duo already and then the whole team fitting so well and Reduxx finally in the team. This team can reach old strength levels!

I know guys... xD Less is basically gone and Jamppi and PROFEK will join. I just meant this would be a crazy roster (if Sayf would pull out early season performances before he had Burnout).

Sorry, I should have clearified that. :P

RieNs has military service, so he won't play.

I bet ComeBack will be so good with Heretics i.g. (especially when the Turkish trio is all live) and paTiTek back on TH as a stand-in will probably also go well.

So happy for cortezia that he found a great team (one of the best paying one as well).

So when Sayonara turns 18 (march 2026)...

Derke
Sayonara
Less
Sayf
Chronicle

That team is insane.

Edit: WOULD be is what I meant. ;)

Nbs is a big, big W as a coach. I feel he did similar stuff like mini and bonkar with his unique tatcical view. Could be the key with the new players.

GSR, rexxtoned, WanZeru and especially f4ngeer are going to become very, very interesting for VCT 2026!

eeiu and Zander are legit good. Especially eeiu is such an amazing Initiator. I bet many teams would love to sign him.

Get that man a nice team!